MUSTACHE AND BEARD WEARERS WON'T BE CUT OFF
Wikistashenberdia allows you to properly play a game of name that 'stache or ("Mo", as they apparently say down under).
Check it out.
Something called a "ball-buffer", even - no doubt an obscure billiards reference. Pandering pogonologists will be delighted.
Meanwhile, a prodigious blog, "Mustaches of the Nineteenth Century" has been at it for a long while now.
Of note:
In fact, a man without a mustache is no longer a man. I do not care much for a beard; it almost always makes a man look untidy. But a mustache, oh, a mustache is indispensable to a manly face. .. I have thought over the matter a great deal but hardly dare to write my thoughts. Words look so different on paper and the subject is so difficult, so delicate, so dangerous that it requires infinite skill to tackle it.
-Mr. spare-no-details, Guy de Maupassant
-Mr. spare-no-details, Guy de Maupassant
Comes complete with a glossary, including something called "beardism", i.e. "The vile preference of raggedy beards over the clean and sublime mustache."
Last, a goochie-goochie-coo from a blogger who asks, "Who are the men who look like Graham Gooch?", and comes up with this, most recently, a.k.a. Nigell Mansell:
My Goochalike vote? It has to go to 'stach-from-the-past, Mark Spitz, posing here before it was fashionable to do so as such:
