Handlebar moustache
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A handlebar moustache is a moustache with particularly lengthy, often graspable, extremities. They are named for their resemblance to the handlebars of a motorcycle or bicycle. This effect is usually achieved by the use of moustache wax. Similar styles of mustache are quite ancient, appearing on statues and other depictions of iron age Celts.
Handlebar moustaches have always been closely associated with the British armed forces, particularly with the Royal Air Force in the Second World War.
[edit] Men known for their handlebar moustaches
- Napoleon III, French Emperor
- Triple H, Professional Wrestler
- Glenn Hughes, a member of Village People
- James Hetfield, Metallica frontman
- Salvador Dalí, surrealist painter
- Cap Anson, baseball player
- Mr. Boh, mascot of National Bohemian beer
- Michael "Atters" Attree, British satirist
- Louis Blériot, French aviator pioneer
- Johnnie Cradock, British cook and broadcaster
- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, British author
- Jimmy Edwards, British comedy actor
- Sir Edward Elgar, British composer
- Sam Elliott, American actor
- Rollie Fingers, baseball player
- Vince Guaraldi, American jazz composer
- Malone, Burt Reynold's character in this 1987 action classic.
- Merv Hughes, Australian cricketer
- Eugene Hutz, musician and actor
- Bill King, American sports broadcaster
- Lord Kitchener, British Secretary of War during World War I
- Gary McCord, television golf announcer
- General Sir Anthony Cecil Hogmanay Melchett from Blackadder Goes Forth
- Sir Gerald Nabarro, British politician
- Gene Shalit, film critic for NBC
- Joseph Stalin, Soviet Supreme ruler of the glorified state
- William Howard Taft, U.S. President and Chief Justice of the United States
- Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany
- Malone, Burt Reynold's character in his 1987 classic.
- King George V of the United Kingdom
- Frederick William Vanderbilt Vanderbilt family
- Veerappan, Indian bandit
- Diego Velázquez, Spanish Baroque Period painter
- Dennis Gage, host of the SPEED Channel television series My Classic Car
- Alfredo Palacios, Argentine socialist politician
- Russel Hobbs, drummer for the virtual band Gorillaz, though only in the video Dirty Harry
- Barko
- Earl Hickey, character in My Name Is Earl, played by Jason Lee
- James Nesbitt, actor, whilst appearing in TV Drama, Murphy's Law
- Ronnie Vannucci Jr., drummer for synth-rock band The Killers
- James Megyesy, a Physicist renowned in Massachusetts for his expertise in Nuclear Physics and revolutionary experiments.
