Does your dad have a moustache?

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Moustaches are the essence of dadliness in my ind since every dad I knew growing up sported one. I asked a bunch of people yesterday, and all who knew their fathers save for one said their dad had a moustache. That's 43 dads with, one without. Maybe it's just a Rocky Mountain thing. Does your dad have a moustache?

― Abbott (Abbott), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 19:11 (twenty years ago)

yes!

― ai lien (kold_krush), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 19:12 (twenty years ago)

My dad had one for a while in the early seventies when the naval regulations loosened up a bit. It was a classic bad guy cowboy mustache. I barely remember it, he got rid of it when I was four or five.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 19:12 (twenty years ago)

Yes - from the age of 18 until the present with the exception of six months when he was around 40. We were creeped out by its absence and he grew it back. I actually conned him into growing a goatee with it a while back.

― mike h. (mike h.), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 19:14 (twenty years ago)

The Coast Guard only banned beards in the 80's!

― andy --, Wednesday, 15 March 2006 19:16 (twenty years ago)

My dad has a full on Santa Claus/Samuel Delany beard. And he's bald. And a biker.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 19:16 (twenty years ago)

My dad is downright crazy protective of his moustache. It's his identity. He's grew it 17 and has never been without since. My family is Mormon and the biggest fight my parents ever had was about said soup strainer. I don't know if it's universal, but at the Idaho Falls temple you couldn't be a temple officiator and have a moustache. Who knows why.

Anyway, my mom asked my dad, "If the church asked you to shave your moustache, would you?" He was super pissed that she even asked. They fought all week about it! He refused to even consider it. My mom was convinced he was blocking himself from the temple & a godly afterlife. It was at this time I learned my mom apparently had a personal revealation from god that she would marry a man with a moustachge. WTF? It was the late '70s so this wasn't exactly a specific revealation. My dad used this as his main argument. "Why would god tell you to marry a man with a moustache if he didn't want men to have moustaches?"

― Abbott (Abbott), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 19:17 (twenty years ago)

Yep, my dad has had one almost as far back as I can remember. I have a picture of him from, like, 1972, where he doesn't have one, but I was born in 1969 and I remember him always having it. A goatee now, too.

xpost Goatees must be the new thing in dad fashion.

― phil d. (Phil D.), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 19:17 (twenty years ago)

No, but he had the shittest beard you've ever seen for about six months. Like teenage bumfluff. We're not very well-endowed on the facial hair front in my family.

― chap who would dare to be a stone cold thug (chap), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 19:17 (twenty years ago)

My brother grew a moustache as soon as he could, too. It was his new year's resolution every year until he could actually grow one. I convinced him to shave it Waters-style.

― Abbott (Abbott), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 19:18 (twenty years ago)

It also happens to be classic US slang: [accompanied by a disdainful wave of the hand] Ehhhh! Your father's moustache!

― Aimless (Aimless), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 19:20 (twenty years ago)

I've never seen my father without a full beard. Before I was born, it was kinda ZZ Top-ish, now it's just a normal middle-aged guy beard.

I decided to shave off my beard yesterday, and while I was trimming with clippers, I had it shaved down to a Jack Twist 'stache, but couldn't convince myself to leave it.

― Erick Dampier is better than Shaq (miloaukerman), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 19:21 (twenty years ago)

No. He had a goatee for a short while maybe five or six years ago and sported a beard in the 70s. But never a mustache. And he's clean-shaven now.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 19:22 (twenty years ago)

God no. He's got hair down to his ass (No, literally, that's how long his ponytail is) but he's clean shaven and has been as long as I've been alive.

― Failure Isn't Falling, It's Staying Down (kate), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 19:26 (twenty years ago)

my dad has had one since like 1950 or something

― pssst - badass revolutionary art! (plsmith), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 19:33 (twenty years ago)

he used to have one, a tom selleck style one. but he grew a beard for my bar mitvah, not sure why, and has kept it ever since.

― AaronK (AaronK), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 19:34 (twenty years ago)

I have no idea.

My boyfriend however has beard and mustache. should he be a dad then?

― Miss Misery xox (MissMiseryTX), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 19:50 (twenty years ago)

No. But if I ever saw a photo of him with one, I think I'd have a pretty good laugh. Somethings I just can't picture in my mind.

(to answer the original q)

― jim wentworth (wench), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 19:53 (twenty years ago)

the tache? ew, nein danke! dad free zone it is.

― dr lulu (dr lulu), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 20:34 (twenty years ago)

I am a dad with a moustache - a handlebar. My own dad, however, has always been clean shaven. His dad had a goatee. It must be a generational reaction thing.

― ratty, Wednesday, 15 March 2006 20:46 (twenty years ago)

oh, my dad had a moustache on and off for a while, but more of a 70s-rock moustache. It was pretty awesome.

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 20:58 (twenty years ago)

my dad used to have a beard. now he is clean shaven. unlike me, he has never had a moustache.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 22:33 (twenty years ago)

My pops is bearded, and the one time he removed the beard when I was young, he did keep the 'stache. He grew the beard back quickly though.

― martin m. (mushrush), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 22:37 (twenty years ago)

Dad's had a beard since the late seventies. He shaved it off in the early nineties, saw two chins, and promptly grew it back again.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 23:15 (twenty years ago)

Weird, that's a lot of yesses! No way, my dad has never NOT been clean-shaven. My mom has always dropped hints that she thinks he'd look great with a beard, but he won't oblige her.

― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 23:19 (twenty years ago)

why are dads' moustaches all yessed out

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 23:20 (twenty years ago)

My dad has had a beard and mustache since the early 70s. He works at a cheese factory now and has to cover it, but even the inconvenience of that is worth not having to shave, apparently.

― Jaq (Jaq), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 23:24 (twenty years ago)

on and off, currently off

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 23:25 (twenty years ago)

My dad has never had a moustache. Well, maybe once. But I was young and I don't think he let it grow that long.

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Wednesday, 15 March 2006 23:37 (twenty years ago)

yeah, man. Pete and my dad has had one since the early 70s. There are shots of our older brother as an infant in 1969-70 when he didn't have one, but he has had one since I remember, and thats like 30 years.

― Big Loud Mountain Ape (Big Loud Mountain Ape), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 23:41 (twenty years ago)

im in the rocky mountains and my dad has no mustasche!

― POOP BITCH (Mandee), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 23:58 (twenty years ago)

Not only does my dad have one, but he continues to draw them on all my birthday cards, etc. I'm 33. (I still love it)

― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 16 March 2006 00:16 (twenty years ago)

NEVER. No beards, no moustaches, nothing. The craziest he ever got was his sideburns going to the ends of his earlobes back in the mid-seventies.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Thursday, 16 March 2006 00:29 (twenty years ago)

my dad had a beard and no moustache, like lincoln. true!

― kyle (akmonday), Thursday, 16 March 2006 00:32 (twenty years ago)

I saw this guy who was the spitting image of Lincoln - half-balding, same face lines, mole and all, wearing a muscle shirt. Then he turned around and on his other arm was a tattoo of the Lincoln memorial! Most hardcore guy ever.

― Abbott (Abbott), Thursday, 16 March 2006 00:41 (twenty years ago)

My dad never had a moustache. Never. I've looked at all the photos and have thought back as far as I can -- nope, never. My mom's a total moustache lover and did say that at one point in the late '70s, inspired by Tom Selleck's 'stache, she begged Dad to grow one out. Apparently his facial hair showed signs of only growing out white, which obv doesn't look good with dark olive skin and nearly jet black hair, so after a couple days' worth of growth my mom had my dad shave all of his facial hair off. It's ok. My dad would have looked odd with it on, I think. Interestingly enough, I don't like moustaches or beards on a guy. I think they look icky.

― See Me, Repeat Me (Dee the Lurker), Thursday, 16 March 2006 03:43 (twenty years ago)

my dad looks like wilford brimley

― gear (gear), Thursday, 16 March 2006 03:46 (twenty years ago)

one year passes...

yes. i've seen pictures of him without it (like before i was born) and it is ten kinds of fucked up.

― mookieproof, Saturday, 12 January 2008 00:50 (eighteen years ago)

You know whose dad has a moustache? Every single Miss America contestant.

Mine? No.

― Guayaquil (eephus!), Saturday, 12 January 2008 00:53 (eighteen years ago)

My dad's had a beard since 1970/71. Basically I could post a picture of Noel Edmonds and that's what he looks like.

― snoball, Saturday, 12 January 2008 00:56 (eighteen years ago)

For a short time in the 70s my dad wore a beard and mustache, but for decades now he's been clean shaven or occasionally merely unshaven.

― Oilyrags, Saturday, 12 January 2008 01:09 (eighteen years ago)

Man I bet having a dad in the '70s was insane, before they invented polo shirts and khakis as what dads wear (or Big Johnson shirts and Wranglers, depending on yr dad).

― Abbott, Saturday, 12 January 2008 01:10 (eighteen years ago)

never, he loathes accoutrements of any form

― iiiijjjj, Saturday, 12 January 2008 01:12 (eighteen years ago)

my dad can't grow one and neither can I. :(

― Viceroy, Saturday, 12 January 2008 01:21 (eighteen years ago)

Your dad had a gross, scroungy row of upper lip pubes in his wedding photos tho. Glad you cannot attain that.

― Abbott, Saturday, 12 January 2008 01:23 (eighteen years ago)

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