SIGforum
How long have your had your moustache?
March 03, 2022, 03:57 PM
fiasconvaHow long have your had your moustache?
I started mine in 1971 just as I was finishing up my senior year in college until I had to shave it off that fall for boot camp. Started growing it back as soon as I left Lackland and have had it ever since. Neither of my kids nor grandkids have ever seen me without it. So I guess it's a little over 50 years.
"Even if the world were perfect it wouldn't be." ... Yogi Berra March 03, 2022, 03:57 PM
Webley GreenSince '68. Haven't ever shaved it off. Met my wife in '69 so she's never seen me without it. What was dark brown then it now 100 percent grey. Nice shade of grey but grey none the less.
March 03, 2022, 04:05 PM
64dodgeMoustache and beard started in 1974. Moustache has been there the entire 48 years but I did shave off the beard once. The spousal unit screamed "grow it back!" when she saw me without it. I followed orders.
March 03, 2022, 04:53 PM
flashguyI think I let the moustache grow around 1987. The beard is much more recent--2006. I let the beard grow when I had Carotid Artery surgery (couldn't shave one side for a while). My friends liked it so I let it stay.
flashguy
Texan by choice, not accident of birth March 03, 2022, 05:45 PM
RipleyI knew a girl in New Orleans.
She had a moustache in her jeans.
Set the controls for the heart of the Sun. March 03, 2022, 06:23 PM
hft119I grew mine in 1976 for the bicentennial, and never shaved it off
NRA Benefactor
GOA
March 03, 2022, 07:05 PM
PHPaulquote:
Originally posted by SIGnified:
Since 1866
Has anyone ever told you you look just like Kurt Russell?
Be careful when following the masses. Sometimes the M is silent.
March 03, 2022, 07:45 PM
ptruckI started mine right out of high school. June 6, 1985.
March 03, 2022, 08:53 PM
Appliance BradI have no recollection of when I started mine. Sometime in young adulthood. When I ran for the House in 2014, my consultant suggested I shave it. i told him to bugger off.
I can't remember how long I've had a ponytail either.
__________________________
Writing the next chapter that I've been looking forward to.
March 03, 2022, 09:13 PM
AKSuperDuallyStickman, love it!
I've been growing my mustache since 1999. Other people could even tell I sort of had one by 2000 even. I shaved it off when I was going through fire school (volunteer FF1), and I met my wife at the end of that school. Long story short...I deployed a couple of months later having just been married and immediately started growing my stach again. That was 2001.
Got home in December and the wife hated it. Me being the asshole I am, I've only shaved it once since.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
"The trouble with our Liberal friends...is not that they're ignorant, it's just that they know so much that isn't so." Ronald Reagan, 1964
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
"Arguing with some people is like playing chess with a pigeon. It doesn't matter how good I am at chess, the pigeon will just take a shit on the board, strut around knocking over all the pieces and act like it won.. and in some cases it will insult you at the same time." DevlDogs55, 2014
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
March 03, 2022, 09:36 PM
JR78I had to shave it off for basic training and TACS in 1978-79. It’s 2022.
______________________________
Men who carry guns for a living do not seek reward outside of the guild. The most cherished gift is a nod from his peers.
March 03, 2022, 09:55 PM
airbubbasince 1970.
March 04, 2022, 04:15 AM
MinnowSince 1976. I cut it off one time, after I was married. The wife acted like I had put a damn nose ring in, the way she claimed it changed my appearance with it gone. Funny thing is, the mustache is still here, long after she is gone.
"Prepared in mind and resources" March 04, 2022, 04:21 AM
tacfoleyWell, I've had my moustache since I was about fourteen, but I've never let it out in the open.
March 04, 2022, 05:50 AM
4MUL8RSince January. This year. And yes, I have been compared to Sam Elliot. Ted Lasso. Thomas Magnum.
-------
Trying to simplify my life...
March 04, 2022, 06:08 AM
bobandmikakoI've had one since I was 15 but had to temporarily shave it off for 8 weeks during boot camp in 1984.
十人十色 March 04, 2022, 07:14 AM
IronbuttI grew a moustache while I was in the Marines, sometime around 1967-68. Since then, it's been shaved off only one time, and I left it grow back immediately. So I've had it for 56-57 years...minus two weeks.
------------------------------------------------
"It's hard to imagine a more stupid or dangerous way of making decisions, than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong."
Thomas Sowell
March 04, 2022, 08:18 AM
6101971
_________
Whether you think you can or you think you can't, you're right.
Henry Ford
March 04, 2022, 08:26 AM
stickman428Originally posted by AKSuperDually:
quote:
Stickman, love it!
I've been growing my mustache since 1999. Other people could even tell I sort of had one by 2000 even. I shaved it off when I was going through fire school (volunteer FF1), and I met my wife at the end of that school. Long story short...I deployed a couple of months later having just been married and immediately started growing my stach again. That was 2001.
Got home in December and the wife hated it. Me being the asshole I am, I've only shaved it once since.
Thanks man.
This is the longest I’ve ever grown out my beard. My wife is
NOT a fan of the mustache at all. It’s wild, I’ve gone from a brown/red beard to a mostly gray beard in just 5 years. Covid and having 4 kids along with being a land lord aged the hell out of me.
I do have a plan to fix the gray today. The wife isn’t at all pleased with my my plan.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
The price of liberty and even of common humanity is eternal vigilance
March 04, 2022, 08:34 AM
phil in indyI've had mine since 1976, when I was 16. I turn 62 tomorrow. I was a Junior in High School. I've had it all this time and have had a short beard on and off since then also.