Hey kids! Let cheer Bryan on as he attempts to grow his very own ironic moustache!

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Come on now!
Here it is after two days growth:
http://ftp.mts.net/~bryang/day2.jpg

I'll post a pic after each time I shave the rest of my face (usually every two days or so). This is so exciting!!!

― Bryan (Bryan), Thursday, 24 July 2003 14:12 (twenty-one years ago) link

you must change your name to Buck Naked.

― Chris V. (Chris V), Thursday, 24 July 2003 14:17 (twenty-one years ago) link

FOCUS! FOCUS!

(Let's cheer Bryan on as he attempt to look more like a cop.)

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Thursday, 24 July 2003 14:18 (twenty-one years ago) link

u r serge gainsbourg

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Thursday, 24 July 2003 14:18 (twenty-one years ago) link

or a retired porn star.

― Chris V. (Chris V), Thursday, 24 July 2003 14:19 (twenty-one years ago) link

I can grow hair everywhere on my body but my upper lip.
So I am envious.

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Thursday, 24 July 2003 14:19 (twenty-one years ago) link

Yes, I'll get the next one in focus (or change that one later). I wish I could get a little more handlebar action going but wtf.

― Bryan (Bryan), Thursday, 24 July 2003 14:19 (twenty-one years ago) link

GO BRYAN! GO BRYAN! IT'S YR BIRTHDAY!

― Ally (mlescaut), Thursday, 24 July 2003 14:21 (twenty-one years ago) link

The Rollie Fingers look is phat yo!

― Chris V. (Chris V), Thursday, 24 July 2003 14:24 (twenty-one years ago) link

He was on Letterman last night. Maybe that's what inspired me.

― Bryan (Bryan), Thursday, 24 July 2003 14:25 (twenty-one years ago) link

When my best friend got married two years ago, the rest of the groomsmen and I decided it would be a good idea to piss off the bride by growing mustaches. We weren't really keen on the way his future wife treated us. We all went down there with some thick staches, she shit. We shaved them off before the ceremony though.

― Chris V. (Chris V), Thursday, 24 July 2003 14:28 (twenty-one years ago) link

"I wish I could get a little more handlebar action" by Skeelo

― smee (smee), Thursday, 24 July 2003 14:28 (twenty-one years ago) link

Go Bryan Go!

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Thursday, 24 July 2003 14:42 (twenty-one years ago) link

This is the sort of thread that only Chris V. is truly capable of responding to.

― Chris P (Chris P), Thursday, 24 July 2003 14:43 (twenty-one years ago) link

So are handlebars really the goal? I had this friend in elementary school whose dad had the hugest handlebar mustache I'd ever seen. And he greased it or whatever to make the rings coil around perfectly. Best of luck, Bryan!

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Thursday, 24 July 2003 14:44 (twenty-one years ago) link

If this works out, Bryan, you should move to the UK and join the Handlebar Club!

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Thursday, 24 July 2003 14:46 (twenty-one years ago) link

Chances are in two weeks when I win my bet I'll shave it off. Using moustache wax does sound like fun, though.

― Bryan (Bryan), Thursday, 24 July 2003 14:56 (twenty-one years ago) link

http://www.armchair.mb.ca/~oneiros/babystache.jpg

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Thursday, 24 July 2003 14:57 (twenty-one years ago) link

i was juat about to say--this many answers and no photoshop yet?

― JuliaA (j_bdules), Thursday, 24 July 2003 14:59 (twenty-one years ago) link

Dammit Crudders you need a slap.

― Bryan (Bryan), Thursday, 24 July 2003 14:59 (twenty-one years ago) link

When have I NOT needed a slap?

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Thursday, 24 July 2003 15:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

that's disgusting! at first sight i thought the baby had been beaten! ouch!

― joan vich (joan vich), Thursday, 24 July 2003 15:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

jaut=just, obv. that's, uh, really disturbing, sean. (oh, xpost)

here's a thick mustache:

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http://imagedeposit.com/Ad_images/Imagedeposit_dot_com_Big_ID_2348__mustachioed.jpg

― JuliaA (j_bdules), Thursday, 24 July 2003 15:01 (twenty-one years ago) link

if someone wants to post it. i have a nice one.

― Chris V. (Chris V), Thursday, 24 July 2003 15:10 (twenty-one years ago) link

http://imagedeposit.com/Ad_images/Imagedeposit_dot_com_Big_ID_2348__mustachioed.jpg

hopefully that worked?

― JuliaA (j_bdules), Thursday, 24 July 2003 15:17 (twenty-one years ago) link

Great. They didn't actually kill all of Saddam's sons!

― Bryan (Bryan), Thursday, 24 July 2003 15:19 (twenty-one years ago) link

http://imagedeposit.com/Ad_images/Imagedeposit_dot_com_Big_ID_1233__bpa.jpg

http://imagedeposit.com/Ad_images/Imagedeposit_dot_com_Big_ID_1233__jcb.jpgcmvenut

― Chris V. (Chris V), Thursday, 24 July 2003 15:28 (twenty-one years ago) link

http://www.jb-photodesign.de/neueSeiten/bart/thumbnail14.jpg

― elliott (ebb), Thursday, 24 July 2003 15:33 (twenty-one years ago) link

Full version of the top picture:

http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/review/2003/07/24/masked_anonymous/story.jpg

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Thursday, 24 July 2003 15:34 (twenty-one years ago) link

Stuff coming from imagedeposit.com doesn't seem to be working with the threads. It's worth right-clicking those red x's of Julia's and Chris's to get the URL so you can go directly too the pics. Chris made Bryan look like Snidely Whiplash or something.

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Thursday, 24 July 2003 15:36 (twenty-one years ago) link

Those are great, CHris!

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Thursday, 24 July 2003 15:37 (twenty-one years ago) link

Bryan, if you look like Snidely already, those are some mega-vitamins, dude.

[The fact I actually posted to this, frightens me, since this proves I've got way too much time on my hands;>]

― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Thursday, 24 July 2003 15:39 (twenty-one years ago) link

I feel the way Bob looks there.

― Bryan (Bryan), Thursday, 24 July 2003 15:52 (twenty-one years ago) link

someone photoshop a top hat on him.

― Chris V. (Chris V), Thursday, 24 July 2003 15:55 (twenty-one years ago) link

I feel love.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 24 July 2003 15:58 (twenty-one years ago) link

Yeah, I more want the fu manchu look than a handlebar look, though it's good, too. Can't look anything but scary with a nice thick Dave Schultz 'stache, and maybe people will just stay away from me then (it's in their best interests to).

― Bryan (Bryan), Thursday, 24 July 2003 16:07 (twenty-one years ago) link

I thought Bryan already had a moustache and a top hat...
http://www.geocities.com/naamme/scan0008withstache.txt

― NA (Nick A.), Thursday, 24 July 2003 16:07 (twenty-one years ago) link

oh my, someone needs to post m newest one for me!!!! please!

― Chris V. (Chris V), Thursday, 24 July 2003 16:07 (twenty-one years ago) link

Chris, email it to me.

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Thursday, 24 July 2003 16:09 (twenty-one years ago) link

done.

― Chris V. (Chris V), Thursday, 24 July 2003 16:12 (twenty-one years ago) link

Hm, hasn't shown up yet...in the meantime, here's Bryan doing another Snidely impersonation while Sundar looks on in awe:
http://www.armchair.mb.ca/~oneiros/ilx/brystache.jpg

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Thursday, 24 July 2003 16:41 (twenty-one years ago) link

Wait, everyone here has seen this, right? (Parts unsafe for work.)

― Chris P (Chris P), Thursday, 24 July 2003 16:47 (twenty-one years ago) link

http://www.armchair.mb.ca/~oneiros/ilx/tombryan.jpg

― JuliaA (j_bdules), Thursday, 24 July 2003 16:50 (twenty-one years ago) link

julia how did you get that to come up? Sean, I sent it again.

― Chris V. (Chris V), Thursday, 24 July 2003 17:02 (twenty-one years ago) link

please put a trucker hat on that picture of bryan and millar.

― Chris V. (Chris V), Thursday, 24 July 2003 17:04 (twenty-one years ago) link

actually, i sent it to sean and he put it on his site, chris... (thanks sean)

(xpost)--good idea...

― JuliaA (j_bdules), Thursday, 24 July 2003 17:05 (twenty-one years ago) link

Fuck it, just go the whole hog and photoshop Benicio Del Toro's head in there.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Thursday, 24 July 2003 17:08 (twenty-one years ago) link

dont forget the mullets.

― Chris V. (Chris V), Thursday, 24 July 2003 17:09 (twenty-one years ago) link

in late-nov 1999 my pals and I decided to grow Millennium Moustaches.
throughout Dec we were an ugly bunch, but I was the only one who showed up at the New Year's Party sporting lip hair (other than yo mama), and as noted, shabby lip hair at that.
I thought I was the only who believed in the dream, but I'm glad to see my eastern neighbour pick up the baton.

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Thursday, 24 July 2003 18:11 (twenty-one years ago) link

http://webpages.charter.net/cmvenuti/images/tombryan2.jpg

― Chris V. (Chris V), Thursday, 24 July 2003 18:13 (twenty-one years ago) link

Skipping 101 messages at this point... Click here if you want to load them all.

There really is no hope for me on that front, sweetie.

― Bryan (Bryan), Tuesday, 29 July 2003 03:21 (twenty-one years ago) link

C'mon, this is simply untrue, I seen you mosh.

― Ally (mlescaut), Tuesday, 29 July 2003 03:21 (twenty-one years ago) link

dude that thing is so money. You have to keep it.

― Millar (Millar), Tuesday, 29 July 2003 03:23 (twenty-one years ago) link

If you shave it he'll break yr rib again!!!!

― Ally (mlescaut), Tuesday, 29 July 2003 03:23 (twenty-one years ago) link

Just the motivation I need, kidz! My dad seems to be growing his (sort of against his will, sadly) so I think I might just keep going along with him.

― Bryan (Bryan), Tuesday, 29 July 2003 03:28 (twenty-one years ago) link

Soon, you will look like a cop.

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Tuesday, 29 July 2003 03:29 (twenty-one years ago) link

http://www.merseyworld.com/khan-dental/moustache2.jpg

― JuliaA (j_bdules), Tuesday, 29 July 2003 03:38 (twenty-one years ago) link

I should scan in a picture of my dad, he fucking looks like the goddamned Sabotage video half the time with his huge ass moustache and Ray Ban aviators.

― Ally (mlescaut), Tuesday, 29 July 2003 12:35 (twenty-one years ago) link

Bryan, Have you ever watched Mr. Show? You could shake a crime stick with a moustache like that!

― Sarah McLUsky (coco), Tuesday, 29 July 2003 12:49 (twenty-one years ago) link

Oh come on, in that last picture, the moustache is clearly just drawn on in crayon.

― NA (Nick A.), Tuesday, 29 July 2003 13:03 (twenty-one years ago) link

More moustache pictures!

― Ally (mlescaut), Wednesday, 30 July 2003 00:21 (twenty-one years ago) link

OTM! Ditto!

― Sarah McLUsk (coco), Wednesday, 30 July 2003 00:22 (twenty-one years ago) link

Oh my god Sarah, I want to come to your house right now and drink with you.

― Ally (mlescaut), Wednesday, 30 July 2003 00:23 (twenty-one years ago) link

Sorry ladies, she's taken!

― NA (Nick A.), Wednesday, 30 July 2003 01:14 (twenty-one years ago) link

I'll post another pic sometime tomorrow. Thanks for being around, everyone. It means a lot.

― Bryan (Bryan), Wednesday, 30 July 2003 04:27 (twenty-one years ago) link

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Wednesday, 30 July 2003 12:31 (twenty-one years ago) link

I am glad that Bryan is finding some solace in making himself look goofy for the amusement of a bunch of random people online. Maybe you should take this into some sort of profit-making webcam service?

― Chris P (Chris P), Wednesday, 30 July 2003 15:55 (twenty-one years ago) link

Well, here it is today in all its pathetic glory:
http://www3.mb.sympatico.ca/~bryang/73003.jpg

They shaved my dad's off for him so mine'll be coming off on Monday.
I guess I'll explain a little bit why I keep mentioning my dad. He had an aneurism (and a heart attack) on Sunday morning. He was flown from Brandon to Winnipeg for surgery (which was, it seems so far, successful). The face I'm making in this latest picture has for the most part been the face I've been making the whole time, though I was told I look a little sad in the pic from Monday, which I s'pose is allowed. He breathed in some blood and/or vomit at some point and now has pneumonia, which is making recovery from the surgery a little more difficult, but he's in good hands. I wasn't going to talk about this here as I was hoping to just have something to cheer me up when I get a chance to get online, but it's just about the only thing on my mind right now so I thought I'd let you all know. Sorry if it bums anyone out - that wasn't my intention. Don't worry too much about me, but if anyone wants to they can send healing thoughts to my dad.

― Bryan (Bryan), Wednesday, 30 July 2003 16:35 (twenty-one years ago) link

I'm so sorry, Bryan.

― Ally (mlescaut), Wednesday, 30 July 2003 16:35 (twenty-one years ago) link

Oof, that is terrible. I hope he gets better. At least he is nearby (or at least I assume this is better than if he were in Brandon still).

(Also, let's see some shots that include your entire head! Enough severe cropping! What does the stache look like at work, at home, going to drop the kids off at soccer games, etc. Let's see the stache fit in with your active lifestyle!)

― Chris P (Chris P), Wednesday, 30 July 2003 16:37 (twenty-one years ago) link

Um, well, it's mostly been sitting still lately, so it's seemingly living a life of ease for now.

― Bryan (Bryan), Wednesday, 30 July 2003 16:39 (twenty-one years ago) link

No I mean what does the stache look like when YOU do these things. Obv the stache doesn't have children of its own yet, it's only a few days old!

― Chris P (Chris P), Wednesday, 30 July 2003 16:43 (twenty-one years ago) link

I've mostly been sitting around at the hospital since Sunday. If I get back to work or go to the gym or something I'll be sure to take some pics.

― Bryan (Bryan), Wednesday, 30 July 2003 16:45 (twenty-one years ago) link

sorry to hear it bryan. the moustache is coming along nicely.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Wednesday, 30 July 2003 16:46 (twenty-one years ago) link

Hugs for Bryan and his dad!

― Chris V. (Chris V), Wednesday, 30 July 2003 16:49 (twenty-one years ago) link

Good heavens, Bryan. My best thoughts for you both.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 30 July 2003 16:54 (twenty-one years ago) link

No I mean what does the stache look like when YOU do these things
I have this strange vision now of the stache bouncing to and fro as Bryan does things at the gym, much in the style of an unrestrained bosom. This leads to the even stranger vision of a moustache brassiere. I think I need a vacation.

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Wednesday, 30 July 2003 19:06 (twenty-one years ago) link

I'm sorry, Bryan. Best wishes and best of luck.

― Millar (Millar), Wednesday, 30 July 2003 19:16 (twenty-one years ago) link

I have a feeling that thoughts of anything resembling unrestrained bosoms wrt his face will cheer Bryan up to no end.

― Kim (Kim), Wednesday, 30 July 2003 20:01 (twenty-one years ago) link

Oh my God, Bryan, I hope your father comes through ok.

And please keep on posting silliness to ILX! 'Tis the Ultimate Cheerer-Upper. :)

― Just Deanna (Dee the Lurker), Wednesday, 30 July 2003 21:28 (twenty-one years ago) link

Thanks everyone for the kind words. My Dad's still a very sick man but I'm confident he'll pull through. Induced comas are a bitch, though.
Here's how the 'stache looked today:
http://www3.mb.sympatico.ca/~bryang/80103.jpg

Monday it will be GONE. It just plain doesn't suit me at all, and people look at me funny (which I am sort of used to but more for the things I do and say). I look like I just had my wisdom teeth extracted!

― Bryan (Bryan), Saturday, 2 August 2003 05:45 (twenty-one years ago) link

But what does your father think of the stache?

― Chris P (Chris P), Saturday, 2 August 2003 06:17 (twenty-one years ago) link

Sorry about your dad, Bryan. I think the stache would look fine as long as you were wearing a bowler hat. You'd look like a pervert, but a fine one.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Saturday, 2 August 2003 16:26 (twenty-one years ago) link

Thanks Anthony. I've always kinda thought of myself as a fine pervert!

― Bryan (Bryan), Sunday, 3 August 2003 03:59 (twenty-one years ago) link

best wishes bryan. also you're handsome with or without ironic hair.

― teeny (teeny), Sunday, 3 August 2003 04:05 (twenty-one years ago) link

I actually think it looks pretty darn snazzy!

― Francis Watlington (Francis Watlington), Sunday, 3 August 2003 04:10 (twenty-one years ago) link

It looks freakishly bad IRL, and it has started to itch again. Monday it comes off, but it was fun to grow these past two weeks. I want to look how I feel (boyish) again.

― Bryan (Bryan), Sunday, 3 August 2003 04:18 (twenty-one years ago) link

Best of wishes, man.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Sunday, 3 August 2003 09:33 (twenty-one years ago) link

I was given a pack of fake mustaches for my birthday.

SOLIDARITY!

― Chris P (Chris P), Sunday, 3 August 2003 17:09 (twenty-one years ago) link

Well kids, all good things must come to an end. Here's how the 'stache looked at the end:
http://www3.mb.sympatico.ca/~bryang/80303.jpg

And here I am, freshly shaven, picture taken only a few minutes ago:
http://www3.mb.sympatico.ca/~bryang/80403.jpg

If someone had taken me up on my offer of a moustache ride, I would've considered keeping it! Thanks for playing along everyone.

Now, in case anyone is concerned, my Dad is very slowly showing some signs of improvement. The pneumonia is a nasty fucking strain and is not particularly easy to get rid of. The forced suctioning of his lungs is painful but necessary. His heart rate seems to be under control. His blood sugar is stable (he's also diabetic). They're not happy about the pressure in his head but hopefully that'll improve in the next day or so. Thanks for reading.

― Bryan (Bryan), Monday, 4 August 2003 17:17 (twenty-one years ago) link

The Minor Thirds salute Bryan and his moustache (long may it live in our hearts and memories) and hope his father has a speedy and not-so-painful recovery!

http://www.theminorthirds.com/pix-tm3-stache.jpg

― Chris P (Chris P), Monday, 4 August 2003 18:54 (twenty-one years ago) link

(Also if you're in Portland and you're trying to decide between seeing us and Momus on Saturday, you will notice that I have renedered the question MOOT!)

― Chris P (Chris P), Monday, 4 August 2003 18:56 (twenty-one years ago) link

Jake in a mustache is one of the funniest goddamn things I've ever seen.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 4 August 2003 19:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Oh there's an even better Jake-in-moustache photo...

― Chris P (Chris P), Monday, 4 August 2003 19:09 (twenty-one years ago) link

No, the 'stache isn't coming back; I just wanted to say a few things about my dad. No one has to read this, of course.
They had to remove a shunt from my dad's head which was installed to drain fluid to prevent vaso spasms ("A vaso spasm is a constricting of the blood vessels and is caused by the vessels being irritated by blood being on the outside of the vessel. This restricts the amount of blood reaching that portion of the brain and can lead to additional brain damage.") because he has a staph infection in his spinal fluid. The removal of the shunt means at least another week to two weeks of ICU time. There was a concern that he would have severe diarrhoea from the psychotically powerful antibiotic they have to give him for this new infection, but so far so good. They did a tracheotomy and installed a gastric bypass tube this week so now there aren't any tubes in his mouth, which seems to have cheered him up. His heart is improving; bpm around 75 today (was well over 100 bpm up until a couple of days ago). Blood pressure and blood sugar stabilized. The pneumonia seems to be almost beat, the fever just about gone. It appears that he's going to survive thought the doctors and nurses are still unwilling to say so explicitly. Thanks for saying nice things to me, kids, and for the chats.

― Bryan (Bryan), Sunday, 10 August 2003 20:40 (twenty-one years ago) link

Glad to hear it, Bryan. Will keep the good vibes active.

― s1utsky (slutsky), Sunday, 10 August 2003 21:49 (twenty-one years ago) link

― Kim (Kim), Sunday, 10 August 2003 22:03 (twenty-one years ago) link

Hurrah! All the best.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 10 August 2003 22:10 (twenty-one years ago) link

nine months pass...

memories....

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Friday, 21 May 2004 13:05 (twenty years ago) link

Yeah, this was a fun thread for me at one of the shittiest times of my life. I actually haven't shaved in 8 days but not out of any desire for producing irony; I've just been lazy. I thought of this thread more as a way to talk about my dad than anything else. He's so-so btw, having some troubles with hydrocephalus which may require a second shunt but after the first one went so smoothly we're not too worried. I'd still like to know who that person was who was hitting on me!

― Bryan (Bryan), Friday, 21 May 2004 13:33 (twenty years ago) link

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