All this Movember craze has me feeling like a black and white movie

Pencil thin mustache

I can’t remember the reason but all the guys are growing moustaches this month. Oh yes, to bring attention to Prostate cancer.

I gotta follow the herd right off the cliff on this one.

In the meantime, I do get fewer kisses since my upper lip is prickly.

I had a moustache back at 17 years old. It was a disguise to get me into the Quebec Régie Des Alcools a few years early.

Well waxed handlebar mustache

We were very continental in Montreal, sampling all the cheap wines before we were old enough. We kept a book on the good, the bad and the downright ugly du vin.

You weren’t allowed into the Club du Mustaches on Crescent Street in Montreal without some hair on your lip. Clean shaven men were offered clip on hair or a black stage pencil to cover their lip.

My moustache came and went over the years – thin, thick, bushy, trim, a full beard and back to moustache.

It was dropped, permanently I thought, after 50 when a clean upper lip made me look younger. Vanity oh vanity eh?

Dennis King, with a full mustache on the 5th day of November

Young men generally have no problem growing a moustache. Look at the swagger on Dennis King’s face now that he is hirsute. I’d bet he started early.

Not so lucky when you hair turns grey.

Everything below my ears, on the face at least, is a speckled grey on this old face. The Movember moustache needs a little help from a makeup pen.

Jimmy Buffer sported a bushy mustache when he recorded Pencil Thin Mustache.  He shaved his mustache off years ago.