Comments on: Mustache!

Mustache!

mathowie — Mon, 28 Mar 2005 13:47:15 -0800

Mustache March is a silly little idea/project where every guy at a company grows a mustache during March, they take photos, then at the end of the month a BBQ fundraiser is thrown with proceeds going to a charity. A side benefit is that the month of ridiculous facial hair leads to questions from strangers which leads to awareness of the charity. I only wish I had heard of this in February.

By: jonmc

jonmc — Mon, 28 Mar 2005 13:51:16 -0800

month of ridiculous facial hair What's ridiculous about mustaches? I used to have one back around age 20. Staches just take a special panache to pull off.

By: Peter H

Peter H — Mon, 28 Mar 2005 13:56:30 -0800

M-M-M-M-M-M Moustache M-M-M-M-M-M Moustache M-M-M-M-M-M Moustache One hundred hairs make a man I tried a handlebar design My Fu Manchu was real fine My Ronald Colman made 'em blink My Pancho Villa made 'em think But when I trimmed 'em real small My Jewish friends would never call -- The Sparks, "Moustache" Also, that's it, it's a national trend!

By: etaoin

etaoin — Mon, 28 Mar 2005 14:04:05 -0800

how about us women?

By: Peter H

Peter H — Mon, 28 Mar 2005 14:05:26 -0800

One hundred hairs makes a man, etaoin, ;)

By: caddis

caddis — Mon, 28 Mar 2005 14:09:20 -0800

Next, we bring back the cape.

By: Mayor Curley

Mayor Curley — Mon, 28 Mar 2005 14:09:41 -0800

Can you hear the drums, Fernando?

By: shoepal

shoepal — Mon, 28 Mar 2005 14:21:52 -0800

The Mustache Diaries

By: zenzizi

zenzizi — Mon, 28 Mar 2005 14:22:00 -0800

every real canadian man grows facial hair during the hockey playoffs until their team loses.. last year the montreal habs were displaying nice fumanchus..

By: Stan Chin

Stan Chin — Mon, 28 Mar 2005 14:23:32 -0800

I've been growing my asianstache since last March. And nobody has noticed.

By: Shane

Shane — Mon, 28 Mar 2005 14:24:57 -0800

A mustache is defined as an island of hair that is at least 1cm (root to root) from the nearest body of facial hair. A mustache is an island. Get it? No isthmuses or peninsulas allowed. I think they used to phrase this by saying that no ironic mustaches were allowed, no eccentric handlebars or waxed curly-cues or 'staches attached to long sideburns, meaning that you couldn't go purposely geeky or funny or anything that might lessen the humiliation factor. It needed to be a standard mustache, the kind you might expect to see on your least favorite, most stereotypically conservative yet macho cop.

By: thedevildancedlightly

thedevildancedlightly — Mon, 28 Mar 2005 14:25:17 -0800

What happened to the November Beard Club?

By: drfu

drfu — Mon, 28 Mar 2005 14:54:26 -0800

It appears to be a growing trend <ducks />. I work with these clowns, though I refuse to take part.

No kisses from the gf if my face is furry -- she trumps.

By: aine42

aine42 — Mon, 28 Mar 2005 14:56:37 -0800

Damn -- I was toying with the idea of posting this a few weeks ago, but since I work for said company, I thought it might be a bit too self-linky. Matt -- Even though you didn't hear about it in February, it's never too late to donate. We're taking donations right up through the Chili party on the 31st. (Helpful insider info: The MM site was created by MeFi's own danherwig.)

By: steelbuddha

steelbuddha — Mon, 28 Mar 2005 15:06:05 -0800

I work there, as well. Since I entered the pre-existing category, I don't have any recent photos up, but my mustache now stretches down my cheek, up to my temples, all the way to the strip I shaved in the back of my head. I'm going on the 1 cm island technicality.

By: jonmc

jonmc — Mon, 28 Mar 2005 15:45:45 -0800

I think they used to phrase this by saying that no ironic mustaches were allowed, no eccentric handlebars or waxed curly-cues or 'staches attached to long sideburns, meaning that you couldn't go purposely geeky or funny or anything that might lessen the humiliation factor. Mine was a completely standard cop-style stache. I was a kid in the 70's when it seemed like every adult american male was sporting one, so it says "I'm a man," to me, still. and at the time I grew mine I was dating a girl from Flushing, Queens and in the outer boroughs' far reaches the stash still reigns. Screw you naysayers.

By: Ethereal Bligh

Ethereal Bligh — Mon, 28 Mar 2005 15:52:30 -0800

Yep, also had a mustache in my late teens, early twenties. Every male member of my extended family did at that time. Looking at photos now, it looks pretty silly to me.

By: zardoz

zardoz — Mon, 28 Mar 2005 16:39:25 -0800

You always want what you can't have, even though mustaches (without the full goatee) are a bit silly nowadays, I'd still like to have a decent one. My mustache is a little pathetic, I'm sorry to say. Takes a long time to look respectable, longer than a month, more like two. And there's a kind of bald patch on my philtrum. Actually there's blonde hair there, but it's pretty faint unless you're close up. Sorry for the whining, just had to vent a bit.

By: melissa may

melissa may — Mon, 28 Mar 2005 17:09:30 -0800

how about us women? etaoin, I'm fairly certain that some of us women could grow a fairly respectable mustache in a month's time. If anyone cares to donate $1,000,000 to the charity of my choice, I shall endeavor to prove it conclusively.

By: Freen

Freen — Mon, 28 Mar 2005 17:42:46 -0800

Jonmc: You wonder, what is ridiculous about moustaches? Well, in rebuttal, I would like to present The World Beard and Mustache Championships.

By: jonmc

jonmc — Mon, 28 Mar 2005 18:12:31 -0800

Freen, I had a perfectly reasonable Thurman Munson/Harry Reems style stash of the first order. Those are freaky "ironic" stashes. Do not sully the art of facial foliage. I may have to grow it back just to buck trends.

By: Freen

Freen — Mon, 28 Mar 2005 18:31:15 -0800

Right on. But some 'stashes are quite ridiculous. Others are quite dignified. I think your comment about panache sums up the difference quite nicely. But damn, those pictures of the world beard championship, they crack me up every time.

By: It's Raining Florence Henderson

It's Raining Florence Henderson — Mon, 28 Mar 2005 18:36:28 -0800

For those who missed out, Merkin May is almost upon us!

By: Suparnova

Suparnova — Mon, 28 Mar 2005 19:11:25 -0800

My 'stache is where I keep my, well, stash. A 'stache is nothing without a nice scruffy beard though (see the many different natalie dee articles and pictures on the subject.)

By: rfordh

rfordh — Mon, 28 Mar 2005 20:57:12 -0800

My friends were doing this for kicks under the "Ides of Mustache" label, sans-charity. If only I had made the connection, we could be internet celebs (and, you know, decent human beings).

By: shoepal

shoepal — Mon, 28 Mar 2005 21:14:22 -0800

IRFH, isn't it a little hot for Merkins in May?

By: lowgfr

lowgfr — Tue, 29 Mar 2005 04:18:41 -0800

"month of ridiculous facial hair" What's so ridiculous about facial hair?

By: troutfishing

troutfishing — Tue, 29 Mar 2005 04:48:36 -0800

They should have done this stunt by, instead, growing out nose hair and toenails.

By: bigbadem

bigbadem — Tue, 29 Mar 2005 12:15:47 -0800

This one is still my favorite.

By: m39

m39 — Tue, 29 Mar 2005 13:41:48 -0800

methinks the moustaches befit the Asian moustache men. except for that guy on the far right. He might need a paper bag over his head or something.

By: ancientgower

ancientgower — Tue, 29 Mar 2005 16:13:56 -0800

I had a moustache for years, mostly to make me look older. I finally shaved it off when my theatre did a drag ball murder mystery—I was truly lovely—and the resulting younger look was refreshing. There's something in there about women growing moustaches, but I can't figure it out.