Poll: Best Mustache of the 20th Century

Submitted by pianoshootis on Sun, 01/01/2006 - 11:34
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Adolph Hitler
21% (5 votes)
Salvador Dali
21% (5 votes)
Clark Gable
13% (3 votes)
Ferdinand von Zeppelin
8% (2 votes)
Tom Selleck
8% (2 votes)
Teddy Roosevelt
4% (1 vote)
Groucho Marx
4% (1 vote)
Hulk Hogan
4% (1 vote)
Oliver Hardy
4% (1 vote)
Frank Zappa
4% (1 vote)
Errol Flynn
4% (1 vote)
John Stossel
4% (1 vote)
Melvyn Douglas
0% (0 votes)
Richard Pryor
0% (0 votes)
William Taft
0% (0 votes)
Mark Twain
0% (0 votes)
Saddam Hussein
0% (0 votes)
Burt Reynolds
0% (0 votes)
Adolphe Menjou
0% (0 votes)
Charles Bronson
0% (0 votes)
Charlie Chaplin
0% (0 votes)
Geraldo Rivera
0% (0 votes)
Marcel Proust
0% (0 votes)
Total voters: 24
Author Comments: 

Am I missing anyone with a unique mustache?

192201/14/2006

Cool poll. I go with Dali (who is at the same time one of the greatest artists of the 20th century).

pianoshootis01/14/2006

Dali is my boyhood idol/role model. Good choice going with him; he definitely put the most thought and effort into mustache theory.

192201/15/2006

Count Zeppelin had a pretty cool mustache too.

0dysseus01/15/2006

I'm assuming that we're talking non-fictional, reality based moustaches (although Groucho's was painted on) because he's got nothing on the Emerald City doorman.

Back in the real world nobody can lay a finger on the Amazing Mumford.

pianoshootis01/16/2006

I just added Zeppelin.

I seriously considered Snidely Whiplash and had a lengthy internal dialogue about Groucho. I decided to include Groucho because he is the only one I know of to inspire a mass-produced cosmetic mustache. It's not a perfect definition of what constitutes a "real" mustache, but I would say that in the case of Snidely, Mumford, and the Emerald City doorman those aren't their mustaches but fictional mustaches in the minds of the animators, puppeteers, and costume designers. On the other hand, the Grouchostache is a real mustache made out of greasepaint instead of hair. Maybe fictional ones could merit their own list.

0dysseus01/17/2006

"Snidely Whiplash," good one! It makes me think of Boris Badenov. (Which makes me think of Jack Abramoff who makes me think of John Bolton who makes me think of Yosemite Sam... funny how that works.)

Don't try to tell me that the Amazing Mumford is anything but real. Why would he commission an official portrait? A la peanut butter sandwiches!