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I once made the mistake of plunging into the world of mustache. It was an act I had to do to prove to myself I can do things against my own will to myself. It was something I had to do, at least once in my life, and now that is complete. I'll never forget going home and being commanded by Darcie to shave it before we ate because she couldn't eat with me looking like that.

The Boys from Nashville have now completed their contest. So its now time for you to vote, who has the best stach... the winner, the winner has declared they will wear it for the next 2 years. (OK, so maybe I added that last declaration).

Anyways,

Yes the time has come. The time for you the people to raise your
collective voice and declare who it is you want to lead you. To declare
which man the manliest. To judge us not by our character or by deeds,
but by hideous displays of facial hair. There are no standards no
pre-requisites here. You are not picking best, or most beautiful, or
even scariest. You are just going to pick your personal favorite. It is
obvious that each mustache has its own pros and cons (lists to long for
me to spell out here) each mustache its strengths and weaknesses. After
almost three long and arduous weeks of mustache brandishing, behold....
our babies.

specimen A: D.A. D'Elia.
Dark, creepy, and slightly curly. Everything a good mustache should be.
Seeing D.A. do mics at the hall with this bad boy made everybody a
little uncomfortable.
pros: black as night
cons: could contain evil powers

da finale.jpg

specimen B: Benjamin Pearson
Definitely the cutest, this mustache says "hi, my trailer has a big
screen tv, with the nascar channel." Extra points for shaving directly
under the nose.
pros: Orlando bloom anyone?
cons: might be suspicious at a crime scene

ben finale.jpg

specimen C: Andrew Pearson
I'm not sure when Tom Sellick entered the contest, but here he is with
all his crime fighting powers, and looking secksy as ever! Interesting
note: mustache and beard color do not match.... curious.
pros: changes colors depending on mood
cons: middle picture... way too cop like

andrew finale.jpg

specimen D: Alex Pearson
An ever-changing mustache, much like it's owner. First biker broom, then
a Chicago-stalker-stache, and finally a half-stache (yes I did go to
work like that, and Atlanta bread company for lunch)
pros: has the wing span of a 747
cons: unpredictable

alex finale.jpg

So vote already!!










So Who Has the Best Mustache?
Alex
DA
Ben
Andrew




bonus: Jonathan Pearson
(ben's and my 10 year old brother), unfortunately too late to enter the
contest officially, but definitely a strong contender. (No you can't
vote for him, so don't try) Perhaps a young Johnny Depp can be seen in
this too cool for school pose. Or maybe a young gang member just before
hitting his prime. I'm getting veklempt, discuss amongst yourselves.

Comments

THis has to be a win for alex hands down... the half stach is classic.. the fact youwent to work and public. We're talking land slide... the half stach should be a part of you forever, the women won't help but keep lookin at you.. (well and everyone else ;0) )

oh god... its everywhere... its in my racoon wounds.

thats horrible, DA should never be seen like this. and im pretty sure Andrew is auditioning for a remake of the Sabotage video

Hands down Alex wins! Alex wins! (to be read in a Harry Carry voice)

Andrew's is super cool man. He looks with the 'stash and the glasses he could be a brooding drummer/guitarist with Coldplay or Jet! Stash on Andrew...'Stash on!
your generic black guy,
-o22 uju kamalu

it was such a toss up at first...but the half-stach killed me....so alex you get my vote

I think DA has by far the best color and shape, but I voted for Ben because he is the only one that could really pull it off without looking super creepy.

I'm glad to see I've got some good support here. I can assure you that I will not be voting for myself. and I can only hope the rest of the contestants have the same amount of self control.

alex 2005!

How is The Cheat tied for 1st place???? Riddle me that! Andrew, I'm looking at you, buddy.

founder? i think thats what the hater above meant to say... the founder of the contest. the one who actually wrote a rap song about his mustache. the one who was so in love with his mustache they got married in vegas(ok so that last sentence was a lie) the point is this is real life and thats real hair on my face..whatever that means?

Andrew Pearson! Shame, shame

Folks, if you don't know whats happening here, Andrew had grown his 'stache longer than the rest of us, and it was still...well...weak. So, he decided, after the rest of us had already taken our 'stache pics and shaved, to DYE his 'stache so that you could at least SEE IT on your screens.

Yes, he came to play, so he shall play, and he suggested the contest, but I think I speak for the rest of we 'Stachioed Studs when I say to please way his actions in your votes.

And yes, my 'stache did have evil powers. You can ask Hannah or Melody. Mallory, however, was spared from its wrath.

D.A.

You guys probably thought alex was joking but seriously, if anyone wants to come over and watch nascar with me in my trailer id love to have you.

uuummm da's stache did have evil powers. when he looked at me with his crazy eyes i freeked out but now without the stache im not scared of the crazy eyes.

andrew is such a cheater!!! i thought for sure he would lose because you could barely see it! his did not look that good before he colored it.

actually i'm perplexed... I still don't think it looks to great...

"but I voted for Ben because he is the only one that could really pull it off without looking super creepy."

very true statement kim

But Alex... and the half stach... u cant touch that.

(and i never noticed da had a chip in his tooth b4)

You all look impishly pathetic. Even a Brit could do better than any of those excuses for barbed wire. I vote for D.A. because he's the only one that still looks like a Witness despite the facial hair. The others need to board a bus for Patterson, NY to audition for the new holocaust video - Purple Squares.

I am VERY selective on moustaches....I think MOST guys look bad in them.....but IF I was going to say I liked one of these I'd give it to D.A.......he has a certain something.......

DA? what? its just cuz his name starts like yours right? Alex... better idea... if you would have shaved the mustache so that it looks like a whole mustache that has just fallen to one side.. that would be classic!

We should have discussed the rules among the 4 of us stache growers before the voting began, but its to late for that now. For 3 weeks we were all certain andrew would be dead last for his stache was as white as albino hair and all around trailer trash. But to all of our suprise he is winning and its for 2 reasons in particular. First one being coloring it in with a sharpie marker. Which i would say is definitly the reason he is in the lead now. Secondly posting the event on his myspace account which im sure is gettin him plenty of votes from his cronies. Im not really tryin to say theres cheating going on here but we definitly should have discussed the rules a bit more and maybe even wrote a mustache rule book.

I'm not one to usually be at a loss for words...but...eh, em, errr....

Okay, I found the words...

It's wrong that you guys have done this, all of you...for the following reasons:

1)Mustache in it's early forms; French moustache, from Italian dialectal mustaccio, from Medieval Greek moustakion, from Greek mustax...all of which translate in modern English as "He who looks like a 1970's porn star". Now, I have not confirmed this, as pornography (por'ne'a) is just wrong, but if I were gonna guess...you do!

2)You are dumb! (Maybe on this particular point I should have stuck with my original "loss for words", but you are just dumb...I'm sorry!)

3)Please refer to #1

I just have to say, that song was perfect! Great beat. And I voted for you Alex cause you just look like such a perv, made me laugh.

Yes Jerm, I have a chip on more than my shoulder. Picture the scene:

Third Grade. 1 P.M. Bonny Kate Elementary School. Knoxville, TN. Gym Class. Partly cloudy.

A pudgy but improbably flexible 10 year old D.A. D'Elia is in the battle of his life against odds more impossible than the Spartans at Thermopylae. His entire Bombardment team has been erradicated by enemy fire, and so it is up to him to hold the line that his countrymen have given up so much for.

Balls ZIP by! He dodges! Ducks! Dives! Dips, and dodges again, often catching the stray hate-laden sphere, until several challengers are cast out and all of the remaining balls are on his side of the court.

It is then that he bursts into action, Nestle's Toll House loving finger-stubs grappling up his ammunition. Red, green, and yellow streaks fly cannon-like through the air, each one devastating its target, until only one bony blonde infidel remains. She blindly runs toward the line, air-filled tool of evil hefted above her head.

What she does not know, however, is that once the bulk of the Decadent Decataurian is in motion, it becomes a juggernaut unstoppable by anything so frail and scrawny as herself, and he is plowing towards the line just heartilly as she is.

The air sizzles as he lets fly his red weapon!

THWACK! A hit! A most palpable hit!

The ball hits her directly in the side of the head, sending her foppish frame reeling.

"OUT!"

But not, however, over. You see, D.A. can not stop his galloping mass, and she, dazed from the vanquish of the death blow, tumbles head first with all of her dead weight into his face; skull against teeth. When both are hauled up, she is dazed, yet fine, but the Hero of the Dodgeball Day, however, is in horrible, throbbing agony.

Straight to the nurses office he is carted, and upon the arrival of his parental unit, is again whisked straight away to another office...that of the dental kind.

The doctor is an evil man, apparently getting his D.D.S. from the same school as the feared Mengle of old and can not see the urgency and suffering of the young man's situation. He huffs, puffs, hems, and haws upon the parental units request for immediate care, gesticulating toward a small smattering of other poor wretches in the holding pen outside the unearthly panel of pristine glass between he and they.

Finally, with much huffing exhasperation, he all but grabs the lad and yanks him away, hauling him by the arm into an awaiting chamber of terrors. The smell is of acrid cleanliness, and the walls are of brown wood panelling, the same shade as the carpet. You can still see the heads of the hand-driven finishing nails poking out in places where the pieces are joined together. With a sneer, a curved finger is jabbed repetitivly towards a chair leaning back to the heavens (as though the looking to the lord would make you believe his acts were holy) and hand to aching tooth, the boy reluctantly plops down, never breaking the gaze of the doctor.

It is then that the sadistic act begins.

Dr. Dental Death commences to snatch up his grinding tool, pry the fry-greased mouth and salt-basted lips of the tot open and belt sand the portly pip's exposed toothy nerve pulp WITHOUT ANESTHETIC!!! The irrate Italian immediatly brings a right hook around sending the Doctor backpeddling as the meaty fist misses him by an inches fraction. He yells for help, as he can see the sanguinous anger raising into the boys aspect as spittle drips from his gapping maw. D'Elia gruntingly tries to stand and throttle the white-wardrobed Warlock, when four aids burst through the door. Harpies they! All harpies!!! Each attacks, and gripping claw-like an appendage, pins our protagonist to the hate-hot pleather. Grinning, the toothy Torquemada then walks slowly; methodicaly, as all mad men do, towards the squirming, wide-eyed, victim.

Fade now, friends, to gurggled screaming for your own minds sake.

The boy limps out minutes later, face white and drawn, hand still to mouth, but now with tounge gingerly tapping against the smooth curve his tooth now takes. They never paid for this service, and he never returned to the place where the injustice was metted out to him. It was turned into a chripractors office soon afterward, the former opperators never being seen again.

He still believes that they were not mere mortals in that hole of maxillotomous malice, for only minions of the darkness could have robbed him of a light so bright from that day of victory.

Let this then serve as a reminder to you now friends, for oh how fast we can fall from glory!

Beware ya'll...beware.

This is extremely funny and a little bit sad. I don't know DA, but I had to vote for him because his Dad said so. By the way, I'm impressed with your storytelling abilities, DA. The apple apparently does NOT fall far. You couldn't hold this contest in South Florida in the summer. In this heat and humidity the 'stache will either slide off your face after one hour in door-to-door work or one of the locals will mistake it for a palmetto bug aka cockroach and start batting at your head with a broom.

Gotta go with DA as Don gave specific instructions to do so and when Don D'Elia speaks, (as we all know), you best listen! Ever tangle with an angry, double-crossed Italian daddy? Not a pretty sight! So, it’s DA for sure!

Of course I vote for DA, because I Only know DA. Gooooo DA! Your real talent is writing, but I guess you already know that. Hang in and be good now. Your fans Debby and Buck.

andrew glenn pearson!! you are such a cheating dog!!! you know what you did to get that stache to such a dark calibur, and now you are in the lead. i hope you are proud of yourself. jehovah knows what you did...

Geez, such a load of complainers. I was there, I saw the before and afters of the coloring effects, and what the stash looked after he washed it out. The effects were minimal. All of the stashes are gorgeous, and you should each be proud. Perhaps this contest should inspire a female version of the same thing. Just hope Le Tigre dosen't get involved.

I know this is a sensitive subject, so I'm gonna try to walk softly. That having been said...this contest posed the question, "which man is the manliest?". I think there is a direct correlation between the fact that Ben is in last place and that he has a couple of red growths emerging from the stache like the summer sun setting over the grasslands. Let's chalk it up to poor judgement that he was allowed to enter this contest at all and hope for a future contest in which the vote is "which of these boys is most likely to be ID'd for renting Finding Nemo"?

Personally, I tend to think that Jonathan's Photoshopped, upsidedown eyebrows....errrrr....mustache is more likely to be his own.

Oddly, Ben's stache mysteriously looks to be eerily similar to the hair that Alex seems to have shaven from his skull.

WOW....thats all I can say !! :)

the official polls are now closed to prevent multi votes on more than one day...

however, u can still vote we can see the long term result

I'll post the last snapshot later.

Cool! In the 3rd pic Andrew looks like he could be in Interpol or The Killers...or an extra for CHiPs.

Brett i dont think i like your attitude towards this contest. I think you have a deep dark secret about mustaches. Maybe a tramatic childhood experience involving one, who knows? But i do know i went through alot of hardships with that stach (being turned down by girls, called names, etc.) So if your gonna be hateing take it else where MR.!!

i like the fact that andrews is MOOD CHANGING but my vote is going to alex and why is no one looking at my jonny depp stache.

(PS. BE PREPARED FOR GLORY)

I really hate mustaches in any form. But because DA is one of my old buddies... I voted for him.

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