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India-Pakistan
Mustache Means Money, Authority for Police
2004-01-13
This one’s for you, Fred:
Police in northern India are being paid an extra 65 cents a month to grow moustachios a mustache to give them more authority, a newspaper reported on Tuesday. Mayank Jain, a superintendent with the Madhya Pradesh state police, told The Asian Age that research showed that police with mustaches were taken more seriously.
Police with mustaches and trunchoens are taken very, very seriously.
However, he added, the shape and style of police mustaches would be monitored to ensure they did not take on a mean look.
"Honey, does this make me look mean?"
"Ummm, no, I’d say it makes you look stern."
"Thanks, that’s the look I was going for."
Posted by:Steve

#9  Frank... seriously... do you ever have MetroSexual thoughts? If you do.. could you share them? Do they have anything to do with Tom Seaver?
Posted by: Shipman   2004-1-13 9:23:54 PM  

#8  talk about conflicted - I shaved off my beard to a long Fu Manchu style - just for a change. Then a *male* coworker told me I had sexy facial hair.....DAMN! LOL
Posted by: Frank G   2004-1-13 8:01:16 PM  

#7  On the other hand, an excess of facial hair makes a man look like a goat.
Posted by: Tresho   2004-1-13 2:44:13 PM  

#6  When I worked for DP&L several years ago, I was contractually obligated to remain cleanshaven. The responses to some of their public opinion research indicated, that DP&L customers considered cleanshaven service people to be more trustworthy. Not sure how this applied to my job job supervizing maintenenance personel in a power plant, located several hundred miles from Dayton.
Facial hair didn't rally work for me anyway.
Posted by: Super Hose   2004-1-13 12:01:54 PM  

#5  Here's my take:

Porn Star 'stache - ideal

Handlebar - over the top, too Colonel Blimp-ish; don't want to be a source of amusement for the natives

Dinky Goatee - Shouldn't you be protesting something at your college ?
Posted by: Carl in N.H.   2004-1-13 11:57:37 AM  

#4  C'mon. Mirrored sunglasses. It worked on CHiPs.
Posted by: Anonymous   2004-1-13 11:41:42 AM  

#3  How about the proverbial porn star moustache?
Posted by: Raj   2004-1-13 11:28:50 AM  

#2  Big Wax is behind this ploy.
Posted by: Shipman   2004-1-13 11:10:58 AM  

#1  What's the intimidation factor on the Handlebar?
Posted by: Dar   2004-1-13 11:09:45 AM  

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