Have you hugged your mustache today?

Having been relocated to high end digs here at Fort Ticks, I now have a semi-reliable locale from which to share the ongoing joy that is my life.  My new house is a tent that I share with a handful of other Hard Men.  All of which except for Mr. Catfish are adorned with outrageously out-of-regulation mustaches.  Mr. Catfish would no doubt love to own one, but he is apparently a victim of either inadequate genetic makeup or he has not reached puberty yet. Mr. Herb is planning on documenting the history of the mustache, while Mr. Gringo Vega will be cataloging the many uses of same. I am in charge of compiling a collection of Interesting Mustache Facts. (For example; Did you know that no soldier with an out-of-reg. mustache has ever been injured by enemy forces? Or that since mustaches create their own vitamins, mustache wearers live 1.5 times longer than PWMs (People Without Mustaches)? ).  I will vouch for the veracity of these facts because I make many of them up all by myself. Feel free to add your own in the comments section.  Vicki, I am counting on you.

Every deployment has some kind of running joke, but this one has altready morphed into the local culture.  I predict it will become a running joke of legend. Or it will, at least, until some crabby Sergeant Major gets wind of it. 

My crew, Mr. Smith and Mr. Smithalso have proven to be great troops.  They don't complain or argue about anything except MRE's.  Frankly if it weren't for the MRE thing, I would think something were wrong with them.  It also helps that Mr. Smith has already done a tour to Afghanistan and that Mr. Smithalso is still young enough to believe that I, his team leader know what I'm doing.  Hopefully this rotation will be over before he finds out otherwise.

Mrs. Doclee informs me that construction on the annex (domicile of one Miss Sunshine, formerly known as Mrs. Grumbles) continues, but has been experiencing stoppages due to rain, rain and still more rain.  It pains me to know that she has nothing to do. Primarily because that frees up time for planning other projects.  Miss Crabgrass is attempting to find an actual job so she can quit it to go back to school.  Intelligence reports that she has not wrecked a vehicle in nearly 180 days.  Good job Miss Crabgrass! Bicycles do not count, of course.

Looks like my time is up here for today.  Feel free to e-mail doclee462@yahoo.com or leave comments if you wish to participate in Mustache Fever '09.  Back soon.

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[Cody J Miller]

MUSTACHE FACTS - Things You Didn't Know About Mustaches

This should keep you busy, Uncle Darren. - Cody

• In 1967, The Beatles gave away cardboard mustaches with their album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.

• Scientific research, commissioned by the Guinness Brewing Company, found that the average mustachioed Guinness drinker traps a pint and a half of the creamy nectar every year. Now that Guinness is UK 2.10 a pint, this is the equivalent of an annual mustache tax of UK 4.58.

• There are between 10,000 and 20,000 hairs on a man's face.

• In the Glorious Mustache Challenge - whose efforts aim to revive the mustache trend - out of 44 total contestants/challengers (ages 18-30) that committed to grow and have just a mustache for one month, 24 passed the challenge, 12 failed, and 8 redeemed themselves by growing a stache the following month. Only 11 of these men would proudly grow a mustache again. Go Glorious!!

• The only 4 U.S. Presidents known for baring mustaches are: Chester A. Arthur, Grover Cleveland, Theodore Roosevelt, and William H. Taft. Since Taft in 1909, all U.S. Presidents have been clean shaven.

• The mustache has a wonderfully powerful effect upon a man's whole expression. The idea of virility, spirit, and manliness that it conveys is so great that it was a long time the special privilege of officers of the army to wear it. -Mrs. C. E. Humphry (Etiquette for Every Day, 1904)

• Groucho Marx for many years wore a fake mustache of greasepaint on stage and film, then grew a real one later in life.

• By 1914 and the advent of WWI, the military mustache was well-established. Generally, the shape of the stache suggested rank: As a man advanced in rank, so did his mustache become thicker and bushier, until he ultimately was permitted to wear an ever fuller beard.

• In the U.S. today, there are some ten million millennial men thought to be wearing mustaches.

• The owner of the Oakland A's baseball team paid each of his players $300 to grow a stache in 1971. Not surprisingly, when the A's met the clean cut Reds in the 1972 World Series, it was dubbed the "Hair versus Square" Series by the media.

• According to the Guinness Book of World Records, in July 1993, Kalyan Ramji Sain of Sundargarth, India, had a mustache that measured 133.4 inches long.

• In a deck of cards the King of Hearts is the only king without a mustache.

• A U.S. Marine's mustache cannot be longer than half an inch.

• Fireman are not allowed to have facial hair because it prevents breathing equipment from fitting properly.

• It perplexes. It fascinates. It amuses and it repulses. Glorious is the mustache!

And that's just the ones I could think of. :P

[dar]

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i hope that i never have a wreck again.
did youhear how much my insurance is now?

[Di]

Cody, your brother is a firefighter and he has facial hair

[Doclee]

It is a well known fact that all Navy Divers and all firefighters are required by U.S. Code 3622 to wear and maintain mustaches. Interesting Fact,no?