Very nice, very nice indeed! Did you get much flack when you started to shape your “Friendly Mutton Chops”? I’m growing the usual boring short boxed beard.
When I was on leave for any extended period of time while in the service, I always grew a fu-manchu type moustache. But, when I retired and I decided to grow my military-approved moustache out, my wife told me that it just made me look mean. So, that wasn't an option.
So, one day, while watching the movie "Gettysburg", I noted the full Burnside-style muttonchops worn by the COL Chamberlain's brother and asked my wife what she thought of that. She loved it and so, in 1995, I started to grow it out and it's been there ever since.
People stop me on the street and in stores to compliment me on it. It's definitely an ice-breaker.