Is anyone else doing Movember for Charity?

richlevy · 10-22-2013, 09:40 PM

My office is participating in a Movember campaign. Movember is a charity event that started in Australia and donates to men's health issues. All anyone has to do is grow a mustache with or without beard. In my case it means shaving off my beard on Nov 1st and regrowing it over the month. I'll post pictures.

http://us.movember.com/mospace/6776889

glatt · 10-23-2013, 08:37 AM

Good for you, Rich. Guys are horrible at drumming up support for our health issues. We just don't try much at all, and don't get any press anyway. And we are the sickly ones, with a shorter life expectancy.

Sisters are leaving us in the dust.

monster · 10-23-2013, 08:56 AM

Feeling old and haggish, maybe I'll have a mustache of note by then. I'm in.

zippyt · 10-23-2013, 04:23 PM

My beard is here to stay

Nirvana · 10-23-2013, 05:19 PM

I think that awesome you are doing that Rich. mens health issues are addressed to the hilt in this country without having charity events. Women's health has to have these events and sometime we have to tell the guber-mint to get their heads and ultra sound equipment out of our vaginas.

xoxoxoBruce · 10-23-2013, 05:41 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by zippyt

My beard is here to stay

Agreed, after 44 years I can't just discard it like an ex-wife.

Aliantha · 10-23-2013, 05:51 PM

Aden has been doing movember for about six months now. Its still not working.

richlevy · 10-25-2013, 07:31 PM

Here's the first picture as promised.

BEFORE

richlevy · 10-31-2013, 07:31 PM

I started today. I went to my barber and had the beard and mustache shaved off. Nancy is the 'Queen of the Straight Razor' and everything went bloodlessly.

I did it at lunchtime and when I got back everyone at work says I look ten years younger. My beard is mostly gray but my hair only has gray near the temples.

It's not too late to join in, guys.

glatt · 10-31-2013, 07:36 PM

Wow, Rich. You do look younger.

xoxoxoBruce · 10-31-2013, 09:12 PM

Yup... younger.

monster · 11-02-2013, 05:17 PM

here's something to aim for as you grow it back

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-24788596

Lamplighter · 11-03-2013, 07:25 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by richlevy

I started today. I went to my barber and had the beard and mustache shaved off.<snip>.

RL, do you have a dog or cat ... how did it react ?

The one time I shaved mine years ago, for a couple of days our dog would do
her "stranger-on-the-property" barking until I could get close enough for her nose
to tell her it was just me.

busterb · 11-07-2013, 07:12 PM

http://visual.ly/know-your-mo

richlevy · 11-17-2013, 09:20 AM

Bruce, thanks for the image. I printed it and posted it at work.

Lamplighter, no dog or cat, but I did go to a place I frequent and the manager there did not appear to recognize me.

Buster, nice image. Coincidentally, while in Vegas last year I bought a clock with a similar theme to replace a broken one in my home office.

Monster, no thanks.

Glatt and Bruce, people keep telling me that but I'm still growing it back.

Here's my midway photo.

10-22-2013, 09:40 PM	#1
richlevy King Of Wishful Thinking Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Philadelphia Suburbs Posts: 6,669	Is anyone else doing Movember for Charity? My office is participating in a Movember campaign. Movember is a charity event that started in Australia and donates to men's health issues. All anyone has to do is grow a mustache with or without beard. In my case it means shaving off my beard on Nov 1st and regrowing it over the month. I'll post pictures. http://us.movember.com/mospace/6776889 __________________ Exercise your rights and remember your obligations - VOTE! I have always believed that hope is that stubborn thing inside us that insists, despite all the evidence to the contrary, that something better awaits us so long as we have the courage to keep reaching, to keep working, to keep fighting. -- Barack Hussein Obama

10-23-2013, 08:56 AM	#3
monster I hear them call the tide Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Perpetual Chaos Posts: 30,852	Feeling old and haggish, maybe I'll have a mustache of note by then. I'm in. __________________ The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity Amelia Earhart

10-23-2013, 04:23 PM	#4
zippyt LONG LIVE KING ZIPPY! per Feetz Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Arkansas Posts: 7,661	My beard is here to stay __________________ "Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get. " Brother Dave Gardner

10-23-2013, 05:19 PM	#5
Nirvana Back in 10 Join Date: Aug 2008 Posts: 3,684	I think that awesome you are doing that Rich. mens health issues are addressed to the hilt in this country without having charity events. Women's health has to have these events and sometime we have to tell the guber-mint to get their heads and ultra sound equipment out of our vaginas. __________________ Speaking simply... do not confuse this with having a simple mind.

10-23-2013, 05:51 PM	#7
Aliantha trying hard to be a better person Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Brisbane, Australia Posts: 16,493	Aden has been doing movember for about six months now. Its still not working. __________________ Kind words are the music of the world. F. W. Faber

10-23-2013, 08:37 AM	#2
glatt ™ Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Arlington, VA Posts: 27,717	Good for you, Rich. Guys are horrible at drumming up support for our health issues. We just don't try much at all, and don't get any press anyway. And we are the sickly ones, with a shorter life expectancy. Sisters are leaving us in the dust.

10-25-2013, 07:31 PM	#8
richlevy King Of Wishful Thinking Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Philadelphia Suburbs Posts: 6,669	Here's the first picture as promised. BEFORE Attached Images __________________ Exercise your rights and remember your obligations - VOTE! I have always believed that hope is that stubborn thing inside us that insists, despite all the evidence to the contrary, that something better awaits us so long as we have the courage to keep reaching, to keep working, to keep fighting. -- Barack Hussein Obama

10-31-2013, 07:31 PM	#9
richlevy King Of Wishful Thinking Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Philadelphia Suburbs Posts: 6,669	I started today. I went to my barber and had the beard and mustache shaved off. Nancy is the 'Queen of the Straight Razor' and everything went bloodlessly. I did it at lunchtime and when I got back everyone at work says I look ten years younger. My beard is mostly gray but my hair only has gray near the temples. It's not too late to join in, guys. Attached Images __________________ Exercise your rights and remember your obligations - VOTE! I have always believed that hope is that stubborn thing inside us that insists, despite all the evidence to the contrary, that something better awaits us so long as we have the courage to keep reaching, to keep working, to keep fighting. -- Barack Hussein Obama

10-31-2013, 07:36 PM	#10
glatt ™ Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Arlington, VA Posts: 27,717	Wow, Rich. You do look younger.

10-31-2013, 09:12 PM	#11
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	Yup... younger. Attached Images __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

11-02-2013, 05:17 PM	#12
monster I hear them call the tide Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Perpetual Chaos Posts: 30,852	here's something to aim for as you grow it back http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-24788596 __________________ The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity Amelia Earhart

11-07-2013, 07:12 PM	#14
busterb NSABFD Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: MS. usa Posts: 3,908	http://visual.ly/know-your-mo __________________ I've haven't left very deep footprints in the sands of time. But, boy I've left a bunch.

11-17-2013, 09:20 AM	#15
richlevy King Of Wishful Thinking Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Philadelphia Suburbs Posts: 6,669	Bruce, thanks for the image. I printed it and posted it at work. Lamplighter, no dog or cat, but I did go to a place I frequent and the manager there did not appear to recognize me. Buster, nice image. Coincidentally, while in Vegas last year I bought a clock with a similar theme to replace a broken one in my home office. Monster, no thanks. Glatt and Bruce, people keep telling me that but I'm still growing it back. Here's my midway photo. Attached Images __________________ Exercise your rights and remember your obligations - VOTE! I have always believed that hope is that stubborn thing inside us that insists, despite all the evidence to the contrary, that something better awaits us so long as we have the courage to keep reaching, to keep working, to keep fighting. -- Barack Hussein Obama

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