The evidence is overwhelming .

I can't believe we even need to have this debate. I mean, just look at this guy.

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And this guy.

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And this guy.

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But OK, let's build our argument. Throughout history, beards have conferred prestige.

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These slightly embarrassing pics are the earliest cast photos ever taken. They also appear to have been taken at a Sears Portrait Studio.

Yikes... this photo looks comfortable.

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Rachel is clearly not feeling it.

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Chandler, Ross, and Joey.

Ross is clearly the third wheel in this photo.

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Joey giving a classic high school senior picture pose.

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Next year, the Michael Jordan–owned Charlotte NBA team will be reassuming the Hornets mantle. Here’s the story behind the original Hornets’ early ’90s sports merchandise juggernaut.

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By 1988, Carolina native Alexander Julian had established himself in New York as a fashion designer known for incorporating bright colors into upscale men's clothing. Twenty-five years later, his company is still going strong, and his most popular contribution to menswear is remembered for its bold combination of teal and purple — but it's not an item of high fashion. Julian's signature work is a basketball jersey, the one worn by the erstwhile Charlotte Hornets, perhaps the most unlikely sports-business success story of the last half-century. It was an item that became a national sales phenomenon despite being affiliated with an expansion team that never advanced beyond the second round of the playoffs during their 15 seasons in North Carolina. By 1995, just seven seasons into the franchise's existence, more Hornets jerseys were sold than any other team's in the NBA. And it wasn't only jerseys that sold; Starter jackets featuring the bold Hornets teal continue to top twentysomethings' lists of favorite childhood wardrobe items.

The Hornets eventually moved to New Orleans — where they've now renamed themselves the New Orleans Pelicans — because their owner couldn't get along with city officials or fans, but the Hornets' mystique has proven so enduring that the team's NBA successors in Carolina, the Michael Jordan–owned Charlotte Bobcats, are now announcing that they're going to be reassuming the Hornets name. Crucially, the Bobcats haven't yet commented on whether they'll be bringing back the original Hornets uniforms and color scheme. But they'd be crazy not to take advantage of a design that was such a phenomenon.

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"When it came out, I felt like I had dropped a teal bomb on Charlotte," Julian said. "There was a new housing development that changed its name to 'Teal Acres.' The Park Hotel, which was the best hotel in town, changed its logo to teal. The towels were embroidered in teal. I felt a little like Doctor Frankenstein. I had created a monster. It took off like crazy." Julian grew up the son of a men's clothing store owner in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. In terms of passion for basketball, few places rival the hometown of the Tar Heels, and Julian was always a fan. He graduated from the school in 1969 and has since sent four of his children to UNC. He never took to following the NBA with anything more than cursory interest until the late 1980s, when talk of a professional basketball team in Charlotte began circulating. George Shinn, the businessman who ultimately brought the Hornets to Charlotte (and took them to New Orleans), happened to share a banker with Julian. That banker introduced Julian to Shinn, who included him in a jersey-design process that had gotten into some early PR trouble.

"Way before there was any talk about involving me in the design, the fashion editor of the Charlotte Observer asked George if they knew what kind of colors they were going to use," Julian said. "He said he didn't know but that they'd try to use the same ones chosen by the architect of the stadium, and when they mentioned that pink was one of them, she jumped. She had an artist design a pink uniform and ran it in the newspaper, and the reaction from radio shock jocks was horrific. I wasn't there, but what I can tell you is when we had the press conference to announce that I was going to design the uniforms, the first 14 questions I took from the press were about whether or not I was going to use pink."

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He was born just a week ago in a zoo in Australia.

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You may think that you know how to juggle, but you’re probably doing it wrong — because you’re doing it without the COMBAT. No joke, this is a fun-looking game.

So says Jason Garfield, founder of the World Juggling Federation and impresario of the sport of "Combat Juggling," a combination of dodgeball, tag, juggling and blunt-force assault. Per Garfield — a Seattle resident and performer who's kind of a juggling professor-slash-standup comedian; see some of his entertaining riffs here — "Combat" games have been a part of the juggling community for years, and his launch of Major League Combat in 2010, after what he says was three years of planning and preparation, turned the pastime into a formal sport.

The basic goal of MLC is simple enough: try to prevent your opponent from juggling (by knocking down their clubs) while maintaining control of your own three-club juggle. In other words, the last juggler standing wins. There are several strategies used to accomplish this, but players typically toss one of their clubs high in the air to give themselves an opening for an attack.

A competitor is out when they stop juggling, when one of their clubs hits the floor, or when one or more of their clubs is stolen by another competitor. Light bumping and arm-to-arm altercations are permitted. This is COMBAT!

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When you’re a business mogul who owns Virgin Atlantic, life is ridiculously fun.

Here is a photo of Austin Powers in 1969. Just kidding, it's a photo of Richard Branson in 1969. (He's 19.)

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Here's a photo of Richard Branson in a pilot costume at the launch of Virgin Atlantic Airways in 1984.

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Here is Richard Branson dressed as a pilot and having it all.

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Here is a photo of Richard Branson making it rain champagne at the launch of his airline.

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Tony Allen gathering the hardware on this one.

During the fourth quarter of tonight's Spurs-Grizzlies game, Memphis erased a double-digit deficit steadily over the last eight minutes. But the pivotal moment came here:

Down by four, Tony Allen goes for a layup and is fouled hard on the arm by Manu Ginobili. He writhes on the ground, clutching his head. A flagrant foul is called, seemingly owed as much to Allen's reaction as the foul itself.

But it turns out upon further review that Allen's head never even touched the hardwood. Not that it didn't look like the fall hurt — it did. It's just that Allen's reaction didn't make a lot of sense.

He continued to sell it to the officials as they reviewed the flagrant, and sure enough, the ruling was upheld. Allen made both free throws, the Grizzlies kept the ball, and Mike Conley hit the game-tying jumper.

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Show off your green thumb with one of these clever cork, cement, or cardboard homes for your plants.

These shimmery planters were created by Laurel at A Bubbly Life.

What you'll need: concrete, water, gloves, a container for mixing, oil (vegetable or olive will do), one large container for the mold and one smaller container to fit inside the larger, a heavy rock (or other heavy item), a drill, spray paint, and painter's tape.

Directions:

Generously coat the parts of the containers with oil that will be in contact with the concrete: the inside of the large container and the outside of small container.

Wearing your gloves, mix concrete and water according to directions on the package. The amount of water varies on the type you purchase. Pour concrete into large container. Place the small container in and place a heavy rock on top so that the container stays inside. Let dry for 24-48 hours. Discard the containers and drill holes into the bottom of the concrete for drainage.

Using painter’s tape, mark off your design. The ones shown have stripes, gold color blocking, and all gold with some hot pink on top. Spray paint your design and let it dry.

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