The benefits of Captain Mohammed

I must admit that Captain Mohammed wasn't fully aware of the benefits of being a captain. He ensured this status by being the founder of the Sno-Mos over the past two years. As it turns out, any donation to the team as a whole is assigned to the captain! I know, not really fair, but he'll take it.

So thanks to Sara Stronge Mohammed is up to $453.73 and the Sno-Mos are up to a whopping $878.73, ranking us 897th in Canada!

Other donors this week: Karin, Patricia and Jeannie!

The $400 Mark

Mohammed has broken the $400 mark thanks to a big donation from Mom, and it's looking like last year's just under $500 mark may be broken. Can anyone believe there's only 13 days left in Movember? Having facial hair for 1/6th of the year has just gone too fast...

MO Stats

This makes for some good, although slightly disturbing reading. Thanks for digging this up MOses.

http://ca.askmen.com/top_10/travel/top-10-mustache-dense-countries_10.html

MOhammed the Immortal!

Today is a HUGE day in Mo-dome. It's true, MOhammed is now immortal! Low and behold, my driver's license renewal notice showed up today, in the month of Movember. Coincidence? I think not. So despite the two months I have until expiry I of course rushed off to the registry office to impose MOhammed's will on the space-time continuum.

MOhammed will be with us all until 2015, preserved on my driver's license for bouncers, waitresses, cops, money lenders and creditors everywhere. Congratulations to all those that have the privilege of ID'ing me in the next 5 years.

Also, a big thanks to MOhammed's most recent donors: Marcia, Sister Franny, Louis and Cousin David! Together we've now broken the $300 mark!

And if anyone wants two free tickets to the Calgary Mo-Gala, let me know asap and I'll order 'em up for you!

MOhammed, day 8

Man, cheating is fun. To think that without RootBeard, MOhammed would really be at day 8 instead of day 39. As you can see, we needed the head start.

The donations have been pouring in for my 'Mo. It's going to be tough to hit last years target of nearly $500, but the team is doing well and progress is progress. We're currently ranked as the 1249th team in Canada. MOhammed is the 3597th ranked 'Mo. That doesn't sounds that good, I know, but just think what another $100 will do?! (hint, hint)

MOhammed has just been awarded a free ticket to the Mo-gala on the 30th, but he has other plans, so if anyone wants to go to the big partee let us know.

CamMO

Six days ago I did something bad. I took a razor and killed the lonely goat. Some would say killed, some would say transformed. Point is, all that is left is one dirty/ bushy/ prickly MO. This year it was decided my Mo would be called CamMO due to lack of visibility. CamMO is joined this year by a very strong team and even more shocking a Mo-Sista! Stay tuned for more updates on CamMO and his brethern. Here is a pic of CamMO day 6.

Notables

Notable moustaches

In some cases, the moustaches are so prominently identified with a single individual that it could be identified with them without any further identifying traits, such as in the case ofAdolf Hitler or Friedrich Nietzsche. In some cases, such as with Groucho Marx and Charlie Chaplin, the moustache in question was artificial for most of their lives.

Frank Zappa in concert with his trademark moustache.

John Waters's pencil moustache.

The American composer and musician Frank Zappa is also very closely associated with his trademark imperial moustache. Zappa became so identifiable by his moustache that after his death its image was copyrighted by the Zappa Family Trust.

Other famous musicians famous for sporting moustaches at some time include Carlos Santana, David Crosby,Ted Nugent, Duane Allman, Usher, Sammy Davis, Jr., "Weird" Al Yankovic, Chuck Mangione, John Entwistle,Burton Cummings, Phil Lynott, Lionel Richie, Ritchie Blackmore, Albert King, Stevie Ray Vaughn (soul patch),Yanni, Jeff Baxter, Mel Schacher, Rick James, Freddie Mercury, Tom Selleck, George Harrison, Ringo Starr,Jimi Hendrix, Dennis DeYoung, John Oates, Chuck Panozzo, Joe Walsh, Otis Redding, Jim Croce, and Alex Kapranos.

English Romantic composer Sir Edward Elgar wore a particularly prominent moustache for the duration of his professional life.

Kaiser Wilhelm II's moustache, grossly exaggerated, featured prominently in Entente propaganda.

Mahatma Gandhi sported a moustache for most of his life.

General Lew Wallacewore a full moustache and long goatee; this was the style at the time of the American Civil War

The longest recorded moustache belongs to Bajansinh Juwansinh Gurjar of Ahmedabad, India. It had not been cut for 22 years and was 12 feet, 6 inches long in 2004.^[11]

U.S. Air Force ace Robin Olds became celebrated for a flowing handlebar moustache he grew while commanding the 8th Tactical Fighter Wing "Wolfpack" during the Vietnam War, and when forced to shave it by his superior became the source of an Air Force tradition known as "Moustache March".^[12]

Billionaire-aviator Howard Hughes was known for his iconic pencil moustache, which he grew after a 1946 plane crash.

John L. Sullivan, the last bare-knuckle heavyweight boxing champion and first gloved boxing heavyweight champion, was well known for sporting a handlebar moustache.

Costco Wholesale CEO and Co-Founder James Sinegal.

MOhammed Abdul, for one day only

St Clement of Alexandria

Before BeardTober leaves us, a few more words of wisdom from St Clement of Alexandria!

• "The hair of the chin showed him to be a man." St Clement of Alexandria (c.195, E), 2.271
• "How womanly it is for one who is a man to comb himself and shave himself with a razor, for the sake of fine effect, and to arrange his hair at the mirror, shave his cheeks, pluck hairs out of them, and smooth them!...For God wished women to be smooth and to rejoice in their locks alone growing spontaneously, as a horse in his mane. But He adorned man like the lions, with a beard, and endowed him as an attribute of manhood, with a hairy chest--a sign of strength and rule." St. Clement of Alexandria, 2.275
• "This, then, is the mark of the man, the beard. By this, he is seen to be a man. It is older than Eve. It is the token of the superior nature....It is therefore unholy to desecrate the symbol of manhood, hairiness." St. Clement of Alexandria, 2.276
• "It is not lawful to pluck out the beard, man's natural and noble adornment." St. Clement of Alexandria, 2.277

BeardTober is almost over, and Root Beard is pretty sad, although his wife is pretty damn happy. But let's face it - things are only going to go downhill from here.

On Halloween there'll be a special treat for everyone, and on MOvember 1st it's game on: I'll be going toe to toe to Tom Selleck. He may live in Hawaii, solve mysteries and wear lots of floral prints, but I have a few tricks up my sleeve.

Here's to cheating and doing MOvember right.

ps- Don't even say I look like Jokinen!

A Goat is born!

It's a beautiful thing when a goat is born. It's cause for great celebration and is an object of wonder and marvel. In this case not so much. Look close. Very very close, maybe even zoom in a little. And there it is. A still nameless but steadily growing goat. My new goat is a little ugly, and slightly self concious. To remedy this there has been talk that he and his good freind rootbeard will be undergoing a little makeover to boost thier confidence.

What's a Beard?

"There are two kinds of people in this world that go around beardless—boys and women—and I am neither one."- Greek saying

"A woman with a beard looks like a man. A man without a beard looks like a woman."

- Afghan Saying

"The beard is the handsomeness of the face, and a wife is the joy in a man's heart."

- R' Akiva, Eicha Rabbah

Leonato: You may light on a husband that hath no beard.
Beatrice: What should I do with him? Dress him in my apparel and make him my waiting-gentlewoman? He that hath a beard is more than a youth, and he that hath no beard is less than a man: and he that is more than a youth is not for me, and he that is less than a man, I am not for him...

- William Shakespeare - Excerpt from Much Ado About Nothing – Act 2, Scene I

"And yet your beards forbid me..."

- Banquo, to the witches, in Shakespeare's Macbeth.

"Shaving was a custom of the Macedonian military, taken over by Hellenic and Roman society. From then on the beard becomes a philosophical status symbol, a sign of non-conformism."

- Peter Sloterdijk, Critique of Cynical Reason, pg. 210, n.4

Root Beard, Day 6

Butler, Day 1

We cheat. Join us. Girls Welcome.

We are the Snow-Mos. Last year there were only three of us on team Snow-Mo, and we certainly need to do better than that this year. If you're committed to Movember, you can join us, or at least support one of us with a Movember donation.

We cheat

Our Mo's were a little on the meager side last year (read pathetic). To combat this, we've decided to cheat this year. We don't want to hear about morals and ethics. We're going to cheat and there is no convincing us otherwise. So on October 1st we have officially start Beardtober and Goatober. We won't have Mos until Movember, but we're damn well going to have big bushy beards or goatees (read spindly, sparse facial hair) on the morning of Movember 1st when we shave 'em down to Mos.

Join Us

So join us. Start growing a beard or goatee immediately so you're ready for Movember. Even if you have ethics, we'll still take you, because we don't. So if you want to wait until Movember 1st like a good little girl or boy and then start growing, we'll still take you. Our only condition on Snow-Mo membership is that you don't let a razor touch your upper lip in the month of Movember, and that you think up a really, really witty name for said Mo.

Girls Welcome

You can join us even if you don't have Mo growing abilities. You would then be what we call a Mo-Sister (men need not apply). You can also raise money for the cause and call yourself a Snow-Mo. You don't even have to love Mo's to join us.