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{{quote|''"...like the SAS commander, who has the sort of absurd facial hair that indeed would have given him a proud military bearing circa 1915, but nowadays just makes him look like a German porn star."''|'''[[Zero Punctuation|Yahtzee]]''', on ''[[Call of Duty]] 4's'' Captain Price.}}
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A style of facial hair that resembles the classic "handlebar mustache", but is thicker and bushier on top, with no other facial hair underneath. Often used to (at least in the wearer's intentions) indicate a guy's "rugged" or "manly" nature.
This trope has a [[Fashion Dissonance]] problem. For most of the 70s and early 80s, it was considered authoritarian and [[Rated "M" for Manly|MANLY]], and associated with cops, military men,<ref>It still has these associations in some countries, particularly where fashion is still somewhat stuck in the '70s. One of these in the Arab world--indeed, chances are that someone sporting one of these--in fiction and in real life--in an Arab country is a cop.</ref>
Not to be confused with a [[Porn Stash]]. If you try hiding your stash in your 'stache, it will hurt like the dickens, unless your 'stache is truly [[Badass Mustache|badass]].
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* Earl from ''[[My Name Is Earl]]''.
* Captain Stottlemeyer from ''[[Monk]]''.
* [[Cloudcuckoolander|Matthew]] grows one in an episode of ''[[News Radio]]'', much to the other characters' horror, and Jimmy James is
* Detective Ronnie Gardocki, during the first two seasons of ''The Shield'', had a porn 'stache before trading up for a full beard for the rest of the series (minus the second half of season six, where he was clean shaven). Actor David Rees Snell has over the years acknowledged the pros and cons of his choice of facial hair, noting that in spite of the various jokes people made about his 'stache, that it helped him stand out on a show filled with clean-shaven men and develop a fan following amongst viewers of the show.
* Most of the male cops in ''[[Reno 911]]''.
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== Newspaper Comics ==
* Anthony in ''[[For Better or For Worse]]''. It earned him one of his [[Fan Nickname
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== Webcomics ==
* Indie Pete in ''[[Diesel Sweeties]]'' [http://www.dieselsweeties.com/archive/1995 gets a job as a sex ed teacher] because he has one of these, and [http://www.dieselsweeties.com/archive/2006 loses it after he shaves] - apparently the moustache makes him look like "a man who knows his way around a set of organs".
* ''[[Shortpacked]]'' features [http://www.shortpacked.com/d/20080808.html a debate] on the thin line between a
* ''[[The Adventures of Dr. McNinja]]'':
** Dan McNinja even has a special ninja mask which covers everything but his eyes and the 'stache. It is even revealed to be an almost mystical source of authority.
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*** Porn star Ron Jeremy, perhaps the most iconic example and probably responsible for the association with porn.
*** John Holmes, the inspiration for Dirk Diggler in ''[[Boogie Nights]]''.
*** And the original
** Ric Romero, consumer reporter for Los Angeles-based KABC-TV and [[Memetic Mutation|Internet meme]] extraordinaire.
** John Stossel, former ABC newsman and host of ''20/20''.
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* Athletes and sports figures:
** NASCAR has plenty of famous drivers with porn 'staches. Richard Petty, Dale Earnhardt, Tim Richmond, Neil Bonnett, Terry Labonte, Dale Jarrett, Mike Skinner...
** In [[Formula One]] the most notorious
** Mark Spitz, [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|who won seven gold medals in a single Olympic Games]].
** Baseball player Jeff Kent's famous facial hair has led to baseball announcers to jokingly refer to impressive or important home runs by Jeff Kent as "money shots".
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** [[wikipedia:Günther (singer)|Günther]], the stage persona of Swedish singer Mats Söderlund. His entire act is indeed modeled on bad German porn stars.
** [http://mmalinker.com/wiki/images/1/17/Frye.jpg Don Frye], MMA fighter and the [[Badass]] Captain Gordon in [[Godzilla]]: Final Wars.
** [[Friedrich Nietzsche]] had an uber-
** British Army lore has it that these are standard issue for the SAS, so the page quote may well be justified. However, considering the skills of a [[Super Soldier|standard SAS soldier]], it is a bad idea to mock them for this.
** ''Meet The Talking Car'', an old children's safety PSA, gives one of these to one of the cars. The car in question seems peculiarly affable towards children, claims to have known quite a few boys in girls "in my day", and adds that they are good.
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