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November 4, 2007
Movember!
There is a secret 13th month between October and December. Hidden from the consciousness of the mundane, it is a time of grand masculine achievement and glory -- Movember.
Movember is a fierce competition of follicles. Glabrousity vs hirsutentootiness. Brave and generous men from around the globe shave their upper lip clean on October 31st and spend the next 30 days growing the most luxurious moustache they can. This is traditionally done to raise awareness for men's health issues, usually prostate cancer.
I am subverting the agenda slightly by asking you, the moustache-supporting public, to donate to Children in Need instead. Back in September a group of colleagues and myself put our prostates through a fair amount of punishment cycling to Amsterdam to try to raise money for Children in Need and we’re still well short of our fund-raising target. (To be completely honest, a few of my colleagues on this trip didn’t have any prostates to punish, but that isn’t entirely their fault).
The BBC’s annual Children in Need fundraising extravaganza is happening on the 16th of November and I would dearly love for us to have hit our target by then. By donating, you will be helping three important causes at once:
• Children in Need
• Awareness of Men’s Health Issues
• The Growing of Moustaches in General
This last cause is one which particularly could use a bit of support. Moustaches provide joy and delight to all ages. Babies love to tug on them. Supermodels (I’m pretty sure) love to be tickled by them. Your average person in the street likes to gawp and giggle at them. They can be used for straining soup or for storing crumbs. And in the winter they are often festooned with quaint and lovely snotsicles.
So give generously and encourage me, at least, to grow a big twirly-ended cookieduster.
Posted by YandaMan at November 4, 2007 10:36 PM
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