A tradition born in 2005, the Mustache Challenge is expanding far beyond the few members who took part in the initial contest. What began as a hilarious way to avoid awkward conversations at night-before-Thanksgiving reunions is now held for the the purpose of raising money for charity. Each year donations are collected, and in 2009 $1,500 was raised for the benefit of the Greater Boston Food Bank, and it's never too late to donate more. For every $1 you donate, the Greater Boston Food Bank is able to provide $4 worth of food which is more than enough for 2 meals for our brothers and sisters in need.

If you are interested in being a part of the 2010 Challenge, you can get involved in one of 2 ways: You can man up, grow a stache, and have people sponsor your mustache. Or you can sponsor someone else's mustache by donating money through that person. If you would like to create a page for your mustache where you can upload pictures of your progress, collect donations, and tell your mustache-related stories, send an e-mail to mustache@mindwafers.com and we'll get that set up for you. That way when your boss asks you why you suddenly look like a sex-offendor, you can send them to your page and prove that it really is for charity and not to lure some boys off the playground with a 6 pack of Mike's Hard Lemonade. See below for the official rules and entry form.

 Don't miss the Mustache Challenge Video where you can see Ralph and several more mustaches in a behind the scenes look into the highly competitive world of mustache growing competitions.

Because we couldn't keep it to just 10. Be sure to vote for your favorite mustache at the end

You remember him from his days when he was trying to bully you into eating Quaker oatmeal every day (I usually go to the Penns for my oatmeal needs), and now see him attempting to break the Guiness World Record for number of times mispronouncing the same word on television. DIABEETUS DIABEETUS DIABEETUS. So what stops us all from revolting like an angry mob and demanding these ads be pulled, or at least reshot where someone tells him how to say Diabetes? That beautifully executed walrus stache basically daring us to do something so it can unleash it's fury through it's host body. Someone needs to tell this man how to correctly pronounce the one word he says more than any other, just don't ask us to do it.

You know him as Homer Simpson's annoying neighbor, but the ladies of Springfield know Ned Flanders as "The Mustache Ride". Fooling unsuspecting neighbors and church patrons by day, by night Flanders' mustache feeds on the vaginas of lonely housewives. Have you ever seen Flanders with his shirt off? He looks like TO. How did this happen despite never stepping foot in a gym? Keep a stache long enough, and it begins to change your body in radioactive-superhero-like ways, giving you power of body, mind, and spirit to defend the honor of the stache.

Quite possibly Canada's finest contribution to mustache history, Alex Trebeck's neatly trimmed flavor saver has been waving to Jeopardy! fans since 1984. The host of the smartest show on television, Trebeck somehow manages to turn what should be a know-it-all, smug type of host everyone hates into a loveable character and American/Canadian television icon. Answer: This keeps people liking and respecting Alex Trebeck, and assuming he is smart and not just reading the answers off the cue cards. Question: What is the mustache?

Despite having no actual political or religious power, Gandhi was able to bring peace and independence to India through the power of his wise and peaceful mustache. It is rare to see an Indian man today without a stache thanks to Gandhi, making India the 2:1 favorite in the "Who is going to rule the world next?" pool. Just imagine how much more he could have accomplished if he had eaten meat...

So you think wearing a mustache is a bad idea? Oh well excuse me, I didn't realize you were smarter than Einstein. It's pretty crazy that the man's name has become a synonym for the word genius. Sort of like Bill Buckner but in every opposite way possible. But who is Albert Einstein without his hairy life partner? Take away the stache and it's more than likely Einstein ends up in a mental institution where he's discussing his theory of relativity with a tray of peas and the Orange Juice Guy. Add the stache back on and crazy becomes distinguished. Someday when you're traveling back in time to prevent yourself from contracting herpes - hopefully you'll remember that none of it would be possible without the mustache.

After teaming up with brother Luigi to form a mediocre plumbing business, the Super Mario Brothers were drafted by a talking mushroom to save the world from evil. While loading up on weapons for the treacherous journey across strange lands, Mario's mustache grew to 3 times it's original size and whispered to Mario, "Put those away, they will only weigh you down. I am all you need". Mario trusted in his magical mustache, running through the world from castle to castle by stomping motherfuckers and smashing bricks with his face. These days you can find Mario on his 70 foot yacht giving the Princess all the magic mushroom she can handle. 

Back when America was America, a cowboy with a badass mustache ruled the land. Roosevelt's mustache may have accomplished more than any mustache in history, winning a Medal of Honor, a Nobel Peace Prize, and leading the completion of the Panama Canal. Now that's some change I can believe in. Thanks to Teddy, future earth civilizations will gaze upon Mt. Rushmore admiring the 40 foot stone mustache staring back at them. No doubt this will inspire men who see it to grow mustaches of their own, ensuring the stache does not die with our generation of humanity.

With all due respect to Mario, when 45% of your body is comprised of a mustache, it's hard for even human staches to compete with Yosemite Sam's. Not to mention that when Mario is out on 1 foot skipping over mushrooms, Sammy is out pistol-whipping liberals and shooting Mexicans, A-rabs, or anyone else that "smells funny" on site. When your stache starts at your eyebrows and hangs below your knees, that's hardcore. Support animated mustaches today and go buy a couple mudflaps. Who cares if you don't need them - this is America!

How does a man without a speck of athletic ability or a single legitimate wrestling move become the Babe Ruth of professional wrestling? I'll give you one guess, and it's not the bald spot. Incredibly as the rest of the Hulkster ages, his iconic handlebar mustache stays at 28 years old. Continuing to pump up his muscles as he sleeps, Hulk's stache has given Terry Bolea the power to wrestle juiced up 25 year old monsters well into his 60's. A perfect ending to his career would be to enter himself and his mustache into the WWE Tag Team division. Then after winning the titles, Hulk's mustache reveals that it has dyed itself black, and gives him a low blow while the referee's head is turned during thier next title defense. The rivalry between Hulkemania and Stachemania would finally come to an end, when the stache would dye itself back to it's natural platnium blonde and save Hulk from getting hit by a chair swung by Jake the Snake's mustache at Wrestlemania 2012. Hulk and the handlebar would be one together again at last, followed by earth being sucked into a black hole on December 21st.

Truly a great American, Ron Jeremy proved that you don't need to be a hairless bi-sexual to make it in porn. You could actually be a fat, hairy, greasy slob - as long as you brought your lady tickler to the party. There is not a single female on earth who would find this man sexually attractive, yet he is paid millions of dollars to have sex with the hottest whores on the planet. Ask yourself seriously if any of this is possible without the well crafted patch of lip fur Jeremy carries around with him. Many might be skeptical, but any female that's been within a 3 mile radius of the most famous porn stache on the planet will tell you just looking at it for too long causes your panties to drop and your jaw to lock in an open position.

The grandfather of physical comedy, Charlie Chaplin ruled cinema in the early 20th century. But take away the soul stache and Chaplin is nothing more than Rob Schnieder with a stupid hat. Charlie made the toothbrush stache an iconic look that he alone made cool...

Until this guy came along......yikes. Thanks to old friend Addy, no one will be referring to that particular cut as a Toothbrush stache ever again. Sure he was arguably the worst human being to ever walk the face of the earth, but we can not ignore Hitler's contributions to mustache history. Not only was the style of mustache named after him because of how closely associated he was to it, but Hitler actually managed to retire that particular style of facial hair forever. When's the last time you saw someone sporting a Hitler stache? It's one of those things that people wouldn't even do as a joke - no one wants to touch it. And when you alter the way human beings groom themselves forever, I'd say you deserve a spot in the top 5. As a young boy Hitler was a little bitch that used to get his ass beat by girls in the school yard. Later in life he was 1 or 2 moves away from conquering the world. Teaching us a very valuable lesson that while the power of the stache can be used for good, we also need to fear and respect the dark side.

What's so great about Reggie's mustache you say? Since 1914 Major League Baseball had an unwritten policy prohibiting any facial hair whatsoever. Then just before the 1972 season Mr. October walked into spring training sporting a full lip guard, the first one seen on a baseball field in 58 years! The Oakland owner confronted Reggie and asked him to shave it off, at which point Reggie offered to let the owner shave his asshole first. Believing Reggie was only acting out to be an individual, the A's owner ordered other teammates to grow a mustache so that Reggie wouldn't be the only one and would decide to shave his off. The move backfired tremendously as the entire team began to buy into the power of the mustache, and the 1972 A's became known forever as "The Mustache Gang". If it wasn't for Reggie we may have never seen Goose Gossage, Wade Boggs, Dennis Eckersly, or any other of the superstars of the 80's who derived their power from the stache. But perhaps Reggie's greatest contribution came from inspiring his 1972 Hall of Fame pitching teammates to start growing their legendary mustaches, including the great Catfish Hunter and the one, the only....

It's true that Reggie started it, but you just can't teach mustache growing ability like that. You're either born with it or not, and luckily for all of us Rollie found his true calling in life while wasting his time playing baseball. People who have never seen a baseball game in their life know who Rollie Fingers is and it has nothing to do with his name sounding like a kiddie porn actor (if there was such a thing). Not since Hitler has someone been so famously associated with a distinct facial hair style, and although the official records are a bit fuzzy, I believe he killed far less Jews. Would Fingers have had a shot at the Hall of Fame without the stache? According to BaseballReference.com, here are the 10 most similar players to Rollie in MLB History: Goose Gossage, Gene Garber, Kent Tekulve, Mike Marshall, Jeff Reardon, John Franco, Stu Miller, Sparky Lyle, Lee Smith, Roberto Hernandez. How many of those guys are Hall of Famers. One. Just happens to be this man. Coinsidence? I think not.

No mustache list would be complete without the mustache that single handedly tried to capture Osama bin Laden and end terrorism forever. Everyone's favorite Hispanic Jew has been piggybacking onto high profile stories to get his push broom on television since the 70's. While the names and faces have come and gone, Geraldo's glorious mustache has remained the same. Geraldo's stache didn't start the fire....it's been slyly grinning since the world's been spinning. If you feel like it's been too long since you've seen Geraldo last don't worry, we're always only one celebrity murder or natural disaster away.

Please don't make us choose! How could we? It's like asking someone who their favorite kid is. Plus that would require us to know which one is which. This is no knock on either Tom Selleck or Burt Reynolds, hence the #1 ranking, but they are both so badass and smooth with the ladies that one can never escape the shadow of the other. These men sport the epitome of what a mustache should be. A message is being sent to the world that says "Don't mistake my sweet talking ways with the ladies for weakness. Just try me and I'll punch you right in the mouth. But not you ladies. You know daddy is here for you." An interesting note to mention is how no one has ever seen Burt Reynolds and Tom Selleck in the same place at the same time. We're not suggesting that they are actually the same person - that would be ridiculous. Rather we are suggesting the distinct possibility the Selleck/Reynolds mustache is an all powerful entity unto it's own, switching back and forth between host bodies because it is so badass and so sexually charged that it needs the bodies of 2 men to feed it's desires. Some of you out there might be thinking, "Hey, I can grow a Burt Selleck/Tom Reynolds mustache", and while I highly doubt you could be man enough, if that is the case you need to do it immediately. Not for all the cougar fucking and ass kicking you'll be doing as a result, but for the little Irish kid in the midwest or the Asian guy on the west coast who would give anything to be able to grow such a glorious display of masculinity. Please, do it for them.

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