The Mustache, The Dreamer and You
Photo courtesy of www.canada.com
A contestant in the World Beard and Mustache Championships.
It is a widely known fact that mustaches are better for your health. They increase metabolism, protect against various foreign agents entering your bloodstream, and even in some cases have warded off thousands of malaria-infected mosquitoes in the Cote d’Ivoire in the late summer of 1945.
Sure, if you were to take those claims and process them through modern science or any believable logistics you’d find out they were indeed false. I might have just outright lied to you. In fact, yes, I did just lie to you. And while that sort of thing is frowned upon in journalism (cough, 24 hour cable news networks), I felt beholden to push the limits of the mustache in both print and perception because I believe that it can and will be done. People around the world are doing it, so why shouldn’t I?
For example, what if a mustache had the power to change an entire month? Guess what? It does. If you visit www.movember.com, you will see men
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