Handlebar moustache
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A handlebar moustache is a moustache with particularly lengthy, often graspable, extremities. They are named for their resemblance to the handlebars of a motorcycle or bicycle. This effect is usually achieved by the use of moustache wax. Similar styles of moustache are quite ancient, appearing on statues and other depictions of Iron Age Celts.
In the United Kingdom and other European Nations, handlebar moustaches have always been closely associated with the British armed forces, particularly with the Royal Air Force in the Second World War.
In the United States, handlebar moustaches are considered stereotypical of the Wild West, and the 19th century, and were revived in the 1970s when Charlie Finley, then owner of the Oakland Athletics, paid his players (most notably Rollie Fingers) not to shave to give the nation a reason to recognize the Athletics as unique from the rest of the league.
[edit] Men known for their handlebar moustaches
- Napoleon III, French Emperor
- Triple H, Professional Wrestler
- Glenn Hughes, a member of Village People
- James Hetfield, Metallica frontman
- Salvador Dalí, surrealist painter
- Cap Anson, baseball player
- Mr. Boh, mascot of National Bohemian beer
- Michael "Atters" Attree, British satirist
- Louis Blériot, French aviator pioneer
- Touch the Clouds, Native American warrior from South Dakota
- Johnnie Cradock, British cook and broadcaster
- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, British author
- Jimmy Edwards, British comedy actor
- Sir Edward Elgar, British composer
- Sam Elliott, American actor
- Rollie Fingers, baseball player
- Vince Guaraldi, American jazz composer
- Malone, Burt Reynold's character in this 1987 action classic.
- Merv Hughes, Australian cricketer
- Eugene Hutz, musician and actor
- Bill King, American sports broadcaster
- Lord Kitchener, British Secretary of War during World War I
- Gary McCord, television golf announcer
- General Sir Anthony Cecil Hogmanay Melchett from Blackadder Goes Forth
- Sir Gerald Nabarro, British politician
- Gene Shalit, film critic for NBC
- Joseph Stalin, Soviet Supreme ruler of the glorified state
- William Howard Taft, U.S. President and Chief Justice of the United States
- Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany
- Malone, Burt Reynold's character in his 1987 classic.
- King George V of the United Kingdom
- Frederick William Vanderbilt Vanderbilt family
- Veerappan, Indian bandit
- Diego Velázquez, Spanish Baroque Period painter
- Dennis Gage, host of the SPEED Channel television series My Classic Car
- Alfredo Palacios, Argentine socialist politician
- Russel Hobbs, drummer for the virtual band Gorillaz, though only in the video Dirty Harry
- Barko
- Earl Hickey, character in My Name Is Earl, played by Jason Lee
- James Nesbitt, actor, whilst appearing in TV Drama, Murphy's Law
- Ronnie Vannucci Jr., drummer for synth-rock band The Killers
- Tom Ritchey, mountain biker, former national cyclist, master bicycle frame builder, designer, welder and founder of Ritchey Design.
- Greg Norton, bassist in hardcore/alternative rock band Hüsker Dü.
- Jamie Hyneman, Mythbusters
- Thomas William Dyer II, student filmmaker, moustacheod entrepreneur, sound designer
- 1936 Strong Bad.
- The Lorax
- Wilford Brimley
