If there is one thing TCM agrees upon it’s facial hair. Especially when it comes in it’s purest form, the mustache. Well we’ve stumbled on a new blog called remarkable moustaches, highlighting that very thing. Your life just got a whole hell of alot better.
Today is tax day. First, get your taxes filed slacker. Second, answer this important question: should there be a tax break for the American Mustache Institute? With facial hair like this, it’s hard to argue:
The Civil War was a turbulent and volatile period in our great nation’s past. But their was more to this war than states rights and slavery. Foremost, this was a war of facial hair, the kind the United States had never seen and will likely never see again.
Please watch this video (the opening credits to the movie, Gettysburg) and remember a simpler time when the world was a different place and stunning facial dominated the American landscape.
There is a situation occurring in the world that was virtually unheard of decades and centuries ago – facial hair is losing its style. We at TCM wonder whether facial hair is actually losing it’s style or if men now a days are too pussy to rock something truly unique and somewhat awesome on their mugs. Back in the day, facial hair set men apart from, well, other men. Today it’s either what car you drive or how you dress. It’s a shame.
Well it’s up the Captain’s to take you for a stroll down memory lane to marvel at some famous facial-haired forefathers:
You guessed it – this is Ivan the Terrible. In the frozen land of Russia, he popularized the beard and beating his kids. Although this is a mere painting, notice the intensity of this beard. If you rocked this today, someone would think of you as a serial killer or raving lunatic.
Let’s face it, the Presidency of the United States of America has lost some luster over the past 50 years with increased media scrutiny, partisan politics, lack of free time to unwind from the doldrums of the job, and of course, that Presidential “look and feel.” What do I mean, well when was the last time the White House played host to a President with facial hair? Oh you know what I’m getting at.
Here’s the Top 10 Presidential Looks according to the Captains:
#10 – Andrew Jackson: One of the first “I don’t give a shit the way I look” President’s evident by his overflowing locks of grey hair. A good leader to start of this list.
It is a spectacle in the sport of hockey. Players letting their facial hair grow out throughout their team’s playoff run. It originated back in the 80s when players did not want to re-open facial wounds during the playoffs, so they just quit shaving. It has evolved to be a timeline of survival. The bigger the beard, the longer that player and his team have advanced closer to Lord Stanley’s Cup.
It’s unfortunate though for those who cannot grow an acceptable playoff beard. Lets take the Penguins’ Sidney Crosby for example. Sure, he is a great player, but this kid cannot grow a beard to save his career. Now compare that to his rival in the cup playoffs, Kris Draper– a seasoned veteran — who puts Crosby’s pubie looking beard to absolute shame. Just take a look at exhibit A below. Draper and the Wings should win the Stanley Cup on beard performance alone.
The playoff beard doesn’t have to just be used by hockey players during the playoffs. It can be used by anyone for anything. Here is a list of 5 other reasons to grow a playoff beard. (Ladies, this list is not for you. Please don’t grow a beard, that’s not socially acceptable and to be honest, just plain gross.)
So there you have it ladies and gents…the playoff beard.
