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My co-worker by blixco (4.00 / 4) #6 Wed Mar 22, 2006 at 09:41:00 AM EST

was waxing poetic about mustaches. He said "there's not a single mustache out there that isn't fucking awesome" and I said "well, there's the Hitler mustache."

"Yeah, but that's not the mustache's fault, ya know? It's not because it's a small, sort of swank mustache. It's because the guy wearing it is a mass murdering asshole."
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Taken out of context I must seem so strange - Ani DiFranco

So true by nebbish (4.00 / 2) #7 Wed Mar 22, 2006 at 09:44:35 AM EST

You could also argue that Hitler maligned all moustaches.

Funny that people seem to remember him for his moustache as much as large-scale genocide, starting the worst war ever, etc.

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: That is strange, by blixco (4.00 / 3) #8 Wed Mar 22, 2006 at 09:47:29 AM EST

but he was all about iconography. He stole a perfectly good swastika an turned it into the sign for evil. He took a perfectly decent Bavarian mustache and turned it into a fashion statement of evil.
Imagine if he'd used Catholic imagery.
He was all about the visuals, though, and the media. Sort of like all modern politicians, but only in that regard...hopefully.
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: It could, however, be that the entire by yicky yacky (4.00 / 3) #10 Wed Mar 22, 2006 at 10:07:30 AM EST

problem was the moustache's fault. Hitler; the Victorians; Bobby Ball; the Chuckle brothers; the Liverpool midfield / defence of the 1980's; Sir Robert Winston; you've got to agree that it's hardly an exemplary pedigree ...

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