Movember Moustaches

Again this year, this month has been renamed "Movember," the "Mo" standing for "Moustache." The idea behind this is that by growing a moustache, men will draw attention to the need for research/treatment/prevention of prostate cancer.  Okay, you figure out the connection.

When the moustache had a resurgence of popularity, in the late 1960s and early 1970s, the most common style was the Pancho Villa (or the Emiliano Zapata, depending on one's choice of Mexican revolutionary). Today, most tyro moustache growers seem to favor either the Hulk Hogan, which makes the wearer look as though he had been eating linguine con vongole or coconut cream pie, or the Sydney Crosby, a style not seen since Charlie Chaplin's in "Monsieur Verdoux" and which resembles a small insect crawling across the upper lip.

So far as we know, no one has essayed the Salvador Dali, and no one is likely to beat the record for length of Birger Pellas of Malmo, Sweden, whose moustache had grown, by the mid-1990s, to ten feet. If he has not trimmed it since then, he can wrap himself in it on cold winter nights. 

Where is respect for the noble moustache?  Why are we not emulating the great moustache wearers of yesteryear--Ronald Colman..Errol Flynn..Cesar Romero..Alice B. Toklas?

Good luck cultivating your facial foliage this Movember.  As for us--please pass the moustache wax.