Movember - Hairy Lips are back!

It's official, I am joining the Movember movement. What this means, is that as of Monday, I will be sporting a clean shaven face for the first time in many a month, or even year. I will then proceed to grow fur on my top lip till the end of November - why you ask? All for ball and prostate cancer of course - the ladies have pink ribbons, we men have Mo's! Bottom line is, or maybe this time it's the top line? haha The MO will grow!

Are you brave enough?

The Classic Magnum MO

How did this all come about?

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Movember (a portmanteau of the words 'moustache' and 'November'), is an annual month-long event involving the growing of moustaches during the month of November. The event has been claimed to have been invented in 1999 by group of Australian men from Adelaide.
Since 2004, the Movember Foundation charity has run Movember events to raise awareness and funds for men's health issues, such as prostate cancer and depression, in Australia and New Zealand. In 2007, events were launched in Ireland, Canada, Spain, the United Kingdom, and the United States. 
Origins
Seven Nightly News aired a story in 1999 featuring a group of young men in Adelaide who claimed to have had come up with idea of growing moustaches for charity in what "snowballed into a Mo-phenomenon, with people across Australia joining up".^[1]
In the news report, members of the Adelaide-based "Movember Committee" explained how they came up with the idea for Movember one night in the pub. The group was said to have 80 men from Adelaide and interstate involved in the event, and aimed to raise money for the RSPCA through selling T-shirts in what they termed "Growing whiskers for whiskers".^[1]
Seven News also reported that the Committee had received legal threats from a San Francisco-based group called the "Moustache Celebration Federation" that had claimed they had patented the term "Movember" in 1977.^[1] A 2007 statement on the Committee's website states that upon following up on these threats it was discovered that neither The Federation, nor its alleged president, "Charles Kies III", actually existed. The Committee still holds their claims of having coined the term Movember in 1999 are "100% true".^[2]

Even famous people are doing it!

<sup>You can join the movement here - Movember SA


Or you can donate here - CANSA


Or join the fun on Facebook - Facebook Group</sup>