RadarLake Movember Moustache Championships: $20 at stake
Filed under: Championships by Jeremy on Monday, 16th November 2009 at 7:16 pm
Movember. For men, it’s a win-win time of year. You get to indulge that urge to grow facial hair selectively on your upper lip–an urge continually stymied by your girlfriend or wife–while contributing to research into the most common cancer in Canadian men. I wish I could say I had contributed my upper lip to the cause but I kept putting it off every Monday morning (my weekly shave) and now I find myself halfway through the month without enough time to sprout a soup-strainer.
I did, however, dig up a photo from 2006 when I did have a moustache. I grew it because I was doing research in some of the most rural parts of the Beauce and Estrie regions of Quebec. My first visit was moustacheless and, I have to say, I felt more estranged than when I hit the Rio de Janeiro dance floors with seven black girls from New Jersey. A moustache was all it took and people were letting me smoke in bars (which was illegal) and drink Laurentide until I didn’t know an Eastern Cottonwood from a Trembling Aspen.
But growing a moustache is serious business and, if I learned anything from the 1:21 I spent watching the trailer for La Moustache, it’s that you should take a picture of your moustache everyday or you’ll end up crying in the shower with your life in shambles. And if you send one of those photos in to jeremy@radarlake.com, as our contribution to Movember, RadarLake is going to pitch in $20 for the charity of the best moustache this side of October. We accept any category of moustache recognized by the World Beard and Moustache Championships. We wish we could set up a runway like they did at the 2007 World Beard and Moustache Championships (I call the moustache at 0:29 the Usain Bolt) but we’ll have to settle for a post dedicated to all the moustaches received before November 23. After that date we’ll post all entries on this site along with the link to donate to their ‘stache. The winner will be determined by popular vote.
Send a photo of your moustache to jeremy@radarlake.com to enter. Bonus points if your moustache has a catch phrase. We promise, no gender testing.
I have a real dilemma because “Movember” is now in direct competition with my traditional “holiday moustache”. I prefer the holiday stache but it is in a self serving context rather then the honorable context of “movember”. Maybe I should just go for a two month stint? Not sure what to do. I’m confused.
Antigua has been set on fire by the Movember craze. I hussled cash out of most of my students to save our most precious possessions. Spent the first two weeks rocking some handle bars, but have since reclined to a ‘wanting to be Magnum PI’ ‘stache with a flavour saver. It may have to stick around to protect my upper lip from the Canadian frost.
Peters, just let it grow.