Misconstrued Thoughts : Yesterday's Misconstrued Thoughts Today

I must say growing a mustache is a very fear inspiring action. I did this upon my return from africa a couple of years ago... to prove to myself I could do something that Well I didn't want to do... to make myself be embarresed 24 - 7. I held up to my will for 4 weeks. And then upon returning home... I was instructed (by darcie) that she was to nautious to eat... I'll be placing up some of those images for my part of the game. But i've been there... i've found my reading on the "man-o-meter" and found that I actually scared people away who later saw me... and was like... oh your the guy who had that horrible mustache.

I hope you all the best... and fear the possible reprecusions for you. But hey its a steak dinner!

Oh and you do look like moby? Or from Serbia - Bosnia

oh i forgot to mention, i think there should be a dire consequence for early shaving.... like pink belly.

ben i'm talking to you

The mustache is SO distracting! DA was at my house and he was talking to me and all I could look at was the mustache. I don't know what he said to me; the mustache was hypnotic.

It's funny how things are opposite for people of the lighter persuation. For blacks, it is almost understood that you will have a mustache (all though this trend is starting to wane in the 21st century). Many-a-time I have been harrassed by the older black men about my bare upper lip. How, because it is bare, I'm not a real black man. I, at least, have a reasonable excuse. I'm not full black and my upper lip belongs to my Korean side. But for by full-blooded black brothers, I feel their struggle. Do you go with the standard image of the black man? Or do you follow the new trend for blacks to shave it despite the objections from our fathers and our father's fathers? White people, stay strong! Grow thy manly-o-meter. Rejoice, for there was a time that our white brothers were encouraged not to have them. By doing so, you will be even more accpeted by the black community. Eat your neck bone samitches and your chitterlings. Power to my ash-y-all-over "black" brothers.

Tre, you've struck a valid chord it seems. My mustache was the only thing that connected me to the older black community. In fact, when I had a mustache, I used to get hit on by older black women all the time. I mean all the time. Not a minute would go by, when I, Javann, was not being hit on by some old black woman. And older black men embraced me. I shaved my mustache, and then, suddenly boom! No more older black ladies hitting on me. No more invites to play pinochle and smoke pipes from older black gentlemen. I was cast out of older black society. I still cry silently in my pillow at night about that. I think I'll regrow my man o meter, but it'll have to be after my talk.

What?! Javann, you are growing yours out! I'll not stand for my arch-nemesis having a mustache without me having one too. I'm game. I'll grow mine out. Everyone should grow there's out. That includes you ladies who shave there upper lips. You know who you are.

yes i knew this would come up. I realized it as I stood in line at Jack in the Box, waiting for my sausage biscuit at 12 noon (they serve breakfast all day... score!) anyway, the man running the register was black and had a nice mustache. I realized then that not everthing in my commentary was completely accurate, for it is much more acceptable for a black man to sport upper-lip hair than a white man. So Tre and Javann, no steak for you... and don't even ask, you're not making any physical sacrifices! Yours will look great while ours will propel us deeper into redneck culture.

Fair enough. It wouldn't really be fair for us to join the contest as black men, though I may still grow one. Javann, we'll need another contest to embark on. Any suggestions? I need something that is acceptable to Caucasians but not for blacks. Maybe we'll grow our hair out, get it permed straight, and comb it with a part in it. Game on Javann.

Well guys i would join in but my mustache has always been the same. never shaved it. just trimmed it whenever i got my hair cut. but may the best stache win!

Its interesting... I did think of this phenomnon as i made my first comment because in our hall... all the brothers (which you'd have to know the demographics of our hall) were all like, oh I really like your mustache Jeremy that looks good. While my heritage... caucasian, and Native American.. both strong leaners toward the clean upper lip... was ever present telling me stop stop this nonsense... its annoying and tugging at you all the time for a reason.. it wants not to be a part of you.

Ah, the eternal argument of facial hair...See, my brothers and my father have mustaches, I do not...one cause I don't like em, and two, because I couldn't grow one if I tried.(but give me a week and I could grow a beard) So, to compensate I keep my sideburns a bit longer than everyone else does (about an inch or so) and with the right amount of grooming, it looks nice.

What is your opinion on the "soul patch?"

well, mine made me look goofy, especially since it was blond... I will have to post a link to a picture later

Alex - you look like you are going to bomb some place

DA - come back from the 50s

Ben - "Its Greese Lightning!"

Andrew - "will work for food"

I tried the soul patch, but Nadin said no!

in the end, my affair with facial hair
ended when the wife came home from germany :)

It sure takes guts to want to be gawked at when yer walkin down the street. I think DA is going to win because he is italian, and for the person who looks most red neck? Alex, you already look just like Billy Bob:) You all look pretty good with that length of 'stash, but any longer and thats just pushin it. Ya don't see too many canadian guys with 'stache's, just hippy beards once and a while, and yes black men do look much better with mustaches then white men maybe its cause it doesn't stand out as much i dunno. speaking of facial hair, the brothers in Ireland, I'm talking elders and MS's are allowed to have facial hair, all over the face, not sure if its the same in the states or not.

I remember some of the guys up here did the same thing once......it wasn't pretty. But hey, at least you guys know what you're getting yourselves into.

but as you see in the picture... i was off to the meeting... so that was the last of the moment of facial hair glory.

As I said... off to Ireland.

Black men look better with staches because we have soul. That's right, I said. We have style, class, charisma. That's what it takes to grow a mustache, and that's what it takes to look good in one. That's how I know Alex, D.A. and Ben will score big on the stached look. Yeah sorry, Andrew, you have no soul. I kid I kid. The key is to have the swagger. You gotta feel it. You can't just say, "Hey, I look good!" You gotta feel like you're just the secksiest thing this side of California. That's right, you get out there and you strut that secksy stache.

P.S. I can't say secks unless I spell it like this. Hmmm. . .I guess the filter's not to smart after all! AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. . .oh wait, Jerm'll probably censor me.

we can only hope javann, that your first ammendment right will be upheld... we can only hope.

hey canada! what's up? long time no hear, it sounds like ireland is the place to be for manly men. i'm gonna catch the next flight over, and grow me some real facial hair--israelite style! who's wit meh?!

This is the most horrifying scene of facial hair debauchery that has ever graced this monitor. I have my bets on DA. That rich Italian heritage seems to be some fertile grounds for the thickest hair lip among you. But who knows, let the least among you finally become the greatest in his public humiliation. Let the greatest pube-stache win.

As Bartles and James used to say J, thank you for your support!

I believe that Ben will be the first to drop out and get the dreaded pink belly. He can't take the heat...poor boy thinks he has something to be self conscious of. It's a shame, because he is my chief competition in the "fullness" category. Alex has style points, but he had better watch out because mine is starting to naturally curl upwards! It's amazing!

Even when I don't try, my body betrays my evil.

There should be a fresh batch of pictures up next week, so you all will be able to chart the progress...prepare yourselves.

The Mustachioed Guido