Look at the shit-eating grin Charles Ponzi had when he was getting his mug shot taken after being arrested in New Orleans. Ponzi is synonymous with a pyramid scheme. He grew a mustache and shaved his head in an attempt to disguise himself and flee the country.

According to Wikipedia:

Ponzi traveled to Tampa, where he shaved his head, grew a mustache, and tried to flee the country as a crewman on a merchant ship bound for Italy. The ship, however, made one last American port call; he was caught in New Orleans and sent back to Massachusetts to serve out his prison term. Ponzi served seven more years in prison.

Ponzi’s scheme was essentially buying Italian postage stamps and exchanging them for US stamps. Because of high inflation after WWI, he could make money that way. He offered his investors incredible returns. Then someone figured out that there weren’t enough postal reply coupons in circulation to come close to covering the total amount of investments.

More mustache merchandise from Etsy! Ladies can now ornament their private parts with a handlebar stache. I call it the “Muffstache”.

The seller offers some opinions of men with mustaches and the women who love them:

Gentlemen prefer blondes but scoundrels prefer girls with mustache undies. And we wouldn’t have it any other way, really. Attract the wrong sort with these hand-screened mustache undies…

[Mustache Undies from Etsy]

A PopCandy (USA Today) reader spotted a mustache vending machine in Frankfort, Kentucky. Where were these when I was a kid? For only 75¢ you can get a handlebar stache, toothbrush stache, flavor saver, or even the Fu Manchu.

I just hope kids don’t use these to buy beer.

[Mustache vending machine via PopCandy]

Happy MLK day everybody! Hopefully you have the day off. Please remember that discrimination of any kind is ugly. It doesn’t matter if it’s done by race, nationality, religion, gender, age, sexual-orientation or facial hair. Here’s to Martin Luther King Jr., his Dream and his mustache!

The folks over at 7th Inning Stache have been inducting notable ball players with mustaches into the MLB Mustache Hall of Fame. Here is a sample of the inductees to date.

[MLB Mustache Hall of Fame via 7th Inning Stache]

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The iMustache iPhone app lets you add an assortment of different mustaches to any pictures or photos you take with your camera. The app features a wide assortment of mustache styles and colors including the classic Groucho Marx eyebrow/glasses/nose/mustache disguise. It also lets you resize and rotate the stache to get it just right.

Of course, the app will mostly be used to be-stache women, as demonstrated in the sample here. Men, on the other hand, can just grow their own.

(Thanks to Joe for the tip)

[iMustache from ObjectGraph]

Hockey players, specifically Canadian hockey players, are renowned for a lot of things: their badassity, their fighting ability, their ridiculous haircuts and general dismissal of fashion (annoying pretty boy and Canadian Sean Avery aside), their storied traditions concerning facial hair.

Dan Carcillo is the holy grail of the above requirements:

1.  Canadian?  Born in King City, Ontario.

2.  Badassity?  He has grown a stache to honor past Flyers such as forward Dave Schultz.

3.  Fighting ability?  Carcillo led the NHL in penalty minutes in 2007-2008.  It’s safe to assume that he understands the rules of hockey (read: dude fights).

4.  Ridiculous haircuts?  Combining his Shawn Hunter/Eric Matthews haircut from 1999 with his skinny stache, if he was out of his Flyers uniform he would not be allowed near children.

5.  Storied traditions?  The guy grew a mustache to honor the men who paved his way, an honor on par with being elected to the Hall of Fame.  Come playoff time, Carcillo’s mustache may be swallowed by his playoff beard, but until then, he is the official Stachist representative in the NHL.

A loyal red-headed reader recently tipped me off to another fantastic blog that sometimes showcases epic mustaches, though indirectly.  My Parents Were Awesome is, in a word, awesome.   The site simply exists to be a place where users can post old pictures of (presumably) their parents.

There is so much to love about these pictures.  The clothing  styles.  The haircuts.  The obvious love.  The mustaches.  One example:

The Central Michigan Chippewas won the GMAC Bowl in thrilling fashion earlier tonight, defeating Troy in double overtime.  Some would say it was the masterful quaterbacking of senior Dan LeFevour.  They would be wrong.

The win was clearly a direct result of interim head coach Steve Stripling’s robust stache.  Speaking of which. . . Central Michigan?  Interim head coach?  ARE YOU KIDDING ME?  What does a guy have to do to get rid of that interim title.  Clearly not just having an awesome lip carpet.  Maybe winning a bowl game will help, but I’m not sure if I want to live in a world where bowl wins are valued more than mustaches.

This is my brother. He had a mustache. I’m assuming it was a tribute to me and this site. He always had goatee, so it wasn’t too difficult to  move to the mustache. I’m disappointed tho because he only kept it for a day. Weak sauce.