For example, 2008 Upper Deck Documentary would come in somewhere between Crosby and Affleck, where as something like 2009 Allen & Ginter's would score itself a solid Grizzly Adams.This new ranking system will be taken for it's first test run this week, as I post box breaks of 2009 Topps 206, and 2008 Upper Deck Masterpieces. If anyone has any suggestions of how to improve the Beard-O-Meter, and truly make it the world's foremost ranking system, I am all ears.
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I will pronounce it "beardometer" like thermometer or barometer. Beer-dah-meh-ter. Love it!
ReplyDeleteAmazing. I especially like the Kristofferson and Affleck additions to your beardometer.
ReplyDeleteWhere would Billy Gibbons and Dusty Hill fall on the beardometer?
ReplyDeleteCrosby=shame. Let's hope he's not the face of NHL playoff bears forever.
ReplyDeleteMattR beat me to the ZZ Top reference.
ReplyDeletemaybe give a product that has truly fallen or is just that terrible "The Bearded Lady"
ReplyDeleteThe ultimate in raspberries...
I thought it was perfect. That is until I read the comments and Matt mentioned Billy Gibbons. I don't know how you work him in but he has to be ther, right?
ReplyDeleteMaybe (and I know this might be sacreligious), just maybe you replace Burke Kenny with Billy Gibbons. The reason is you really can't have anyone about Kenny. After all, he is the champ. But at the same time, his fame is fleeting. He won't win that competition every year. In all honesty, he's probably not much better than any number of winners, past and future. We wouldn't have any idea who he was if someone at Topps didn't have the genius idea of adding him to A&G.
But, Billy Gibbons. Billy Gibbons is forever.
I don't know. Either way it's fantastic.
I would also like to second PRP's pronunciation. I konw it's your thing but on this I must insist.
Strangely, and completely off topic, I've always thought that it would be cool to change the pronunciation of thermometer. I'd like to get everyone to start pronouncing it thermo-meter. Just like the 2 words are pronounced seperately.
I'll shut up now.
This is great.
ReplyDeleteRasputin would be a nice edition as well.
Will you be encouraging the use of the Beardometer throughout the baseball card blog community or will it be legally trademarked to keep exclusivity?
You are probably meeting with a legal team as we speak.
nice work indeed
ReplyDeletePerhaps Frank Beard (the beardless member of ZZTop) should be included also
ReplyDeleteWhoa...Rod's comment is pure genius. Frank Beard would rank as the worst box ever. Although it's a bit confusing, it's a brilliant idea.
ReplyDeleteLove the Crosby. :)
ReplyDeleteVery cool... damn it now I have the grizzly adams theme song stuck in my head! I loved that show as a kid did the bear die? Oh no I'm getting sad grizzly adams is dead and for some reason when I think of Grizzly Adams I think of John Denver and I still haven't gotten over that. Great my days ruined!
ReplyDeleteyet somehow I'm taken back to a much simpler time 3 channels on TV if you had one then later some weird fuzzy station called fox came along on UHF interrupting my sorting thousands of 1980's cards all three companies ( no pun intended) what I thought for sure was going to be my fortune and college fund. boy was I right.. : (
ReplyDeleteWhere would the Abe Lincoln or Fidel Castro beard fall on the beardometer?
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