No need to get lippy I am doing this for charity
Around 2 weeks ago I was asked to participate in a sponsored moustache growing event for charity. After I stopped laughing (and if you know me, you’ll know why) I carefully thought about it. Yes, that’s right I carefully thought about it.
The event known as Movember occurs once a year and it was originally started several as a game between friends. Since then it has become somewhat of a global phenomenon and one, where Men get to put down the shaving blade and raise money for Men’s cancer charities.
For the last 10 years I have participated in events for cancer research and my biggest personal aim was to really raise awareness amongst my friends, and there friends in tow etc etc. What really pleases me about this particular event though, is that I have several friends doing it with me - well, actually they roped me into it. I love the thought of a bunch of moustached folk doing something good for charity, making it fun and not taking themselves too serious with it at the same time. Something like the 4 musketeers only no one is protecting a king, none of us are french, and undoubtedly we will not have as good a mustache by the end of November.
If you could sponsor me or the team just a few pounds we would be more than grateful. The link can be found here.
To celebrate some of the great moustached men of time please see below;
Tom Selleck
He was a legend in the De Blasio household, and yes I am not ashamed to admit that I too wanted to be Magnum PI as a child.
Let’s think about this for a moment. He lived in Hawaii, he drove a Ferrari, he got all the women, he had a best friend that owned a bar and his boss was an English dude that could kill with his thumb.
Charlie Chaplin
Ok, he may scare some people, but in a time of true austerity (the great depression) and pure darkness looming the world, one man stood to challenge all of that.
Charlie Chaplin did not actually grow his own mustache, it was a fake :( But he did make over 80 films in a few short years, and created the iconic symbol of the “matchstick” mustache. It’s no longer commonly groomed due to it’s association with Hitler.
Gennaro Gattuso
The epitomy of “hard man of football”. You would think twice before tackling him, staring at him in the eye and taking any food from him.
His mustached antics during the 2006 world cup made him Italy’s most loved player and quite honestly the funniest person in the country as well.
