Tacheback time again

September 1, 2006 8:02 AM

Tacheback '06starts today. If, like me, you need a charitable reason to cultivate some face furniture without your wife withdrawing the conjugals, then this is our lucky day
posted by handybitesize (17 comments total)

do i really have to investigate what a tache is now? it would have been most convenient for me if you had included definition, pictures, uses, and context, but then, i guess you don't care about me, do you? i'm going to lunch, and i expect some more information posted here by the time i'm back. good day sir.
posted by poppo at 8:20 AM on September 1, 2006

Richard McBeath, south west, has been removed.
Good job too. it was the lamest mo EVER.
posted by tellurian at 8:24 AM on September 1, 2006

"do i really have to investigate what a tache is now?"

It's right under your nose, dude.
posted by edheil at 8:30 AM on September 1, 2006

TacheBack gives all men throughout the UK the opportunity to join our Fan-tache-tic 4, grow a tache AND raise vital cash to fight male cancer.
posted by caddis at 8:45 AM on September 1, 2006

poppo, i was just so excited about being given the go-ahead. I want one of these. I'd settle for a, or even a, but i'll probably end up with a
posted by handybitesize at 8:46 AM on September 1, 2006

It's right under your nose, dude.

You are assuming poppo is a "dude" (or an iranian woman?).
posted by spock at 8:48 AM on September 1, 2006

If a 'tache is anything like a 'stache, you can count me out.
posted by prostyle at 8:51 AM on September 1, 2006

handybitesize, you can have any kind of tache you want.
posted by owhydididoit at 8:54 AM on September 1, 2006

i am now sated in both stomach and mind, ladies and gentlemen. i thank you. like prostyle i would have understood stache, but not tache.
posted by poppo at 9:18 AM on September 1, 2006

and for the record i am an un-tached dude.
posted by poppo at 9:19 AM on September 1, 2006

and yet, being married, i am in fact an at-tached dude as well.
posted by poppo at 9:20 AM on September 1, 2006

If, like me, you need a charitable reason to cultivate some face furniture without your wife withdrawing the conjugals

This, along with the word "tache," was so cryptic to me I had to click on the link. Mustaches. OK. Much ado about nothing.

While some guys look better with them (Tom Sellack, Burt Reynolds and Sam Elliot) if I am being kissed, facial hair is right out. My husband looks smoking-hot-sexy with a Dave Navarro type mustache and beard but he knows my rule and abides by it.
posted by Secret Life of Gravy at 9:27 AM on September 1, 2006

I'd settle for a, or

That link deserves to be shot, maybe this is what I was looking for
posted by handybitesize at 9:30 AM on September 1, 2006

I had one for 30 years. Then I shaved it off and I won't grow it back, thanks. I realize now I lived for 30 years under the mistaken impression I looked better with it.
posted by tommasz at 10:09 AM on September 1, 2006 [1 favorite]

As others have already noted, the correct abbreviation of "moustache" is "stache", not "tache". "Tache" is French for "stain".

As greater minds than mine have noted, one can't force a meme.

This has been midt, posting a comment on Ilter.
posted by gramschmidt at 11:04 AM on September 1, 2006

"Hey, guys, let's all look like gay porn stars for men's health! Whattya say!"
posted by Mental Wimp at 11:28 AM on September 1, 2006 [1 favorite]

Mustaches = woman repellants. Handy for some, but not for most.
posted by watsondog at 1:42 AM on September 2, 2006