Moustaches everywhere! Plus, a new MotD

I saw hundreds of them yesterday, when I went to Silver Dollar City with family. (SDC is a really corny, historical theme park, which is set in pre-civil war Missouri). Period moustaches! It was glorious, and inspired me to post today's MotD.

Today's MotD? The title is shared among two men: Nick Morris and Nick DiCarlo, two dear friends of mine. Both graduated this May from Columbia, and both have, at one point or another, sported some great moustaches. Best of luck to both of you. I'm sure you'll carry this honor with the same grace as other distinctions you have achieved.

-George

Charles Lyell

Beginning what will hopefully be celebrated as the "great facial hair in Science" series, we have Charles Lyell, arguably the father of modern Geology and Darwin's mentor, scientific father-figure, and inspiration in many ways.

Lyell was so awesome, in fact, that he is our moustache of the day and didn't even have a moustache. Just some incredible, epic sideburns that he certainly twisted as he hemmed and hawwed, with furrowed brow, as he thought about geology.




http://images.google.com/images?q=charles%20lyell (image search for more glory)

Marcel Duchamp

Today's Moustache of the Day belongs to Marcel Duchamp, Dadaist and Surrealist. I think you could call this both an interesting moustache and an unusual example of graffiti. This moustache dates to 1919.

Chester A. Arthur

The first line of the Whitehouse.gov biography of this man:

" Dignified, tall, and handsome, with clean-shaven chin and side-whiskers, Chester A. Arthur "looked like a President."

I agree.

Lew Wallace

Today's MotD belongs to Lew Wallace, a Civil War General.

I encourage you to use your imagination when gazing upon moustaches as magnificent as these. Think of taking orders from this man. Think of walking into his tent, and briefing him on some very troubling developments, causing him significant consternation. How would he respond, imagine his facial expression. Think about the stories he must have told, once the whiskey started flowing.


-George

Glory

Hello,
Welcome to the first edition of The Daily Moustache.

Today's entry is, appropriately, the oldest representation of a moustache known to man. (I will be using consistently gendered language in this blog, for obvious reasons. Apologies to Frida and that unfortunate woman at Blockbuster when I was in 3rd grade.)

This magnificent moustache dates from 300 BC, and pictured is a Scythian horseman. Think about the shaving technology 300 years before Christ.

The debonair facial expression that accompanies an epic 'stache had already been perfected, even then! My father's (and many other fathers' as well, certainly), adage that "there's nothing new under the sun," comes to mind.

Talk about a Pedigree, look at that thing.

-George