Donate:

Make your cash donation to the cause by Paypal to email@internationalfakemoustacheday.org.  Or, send your check or money order to:

International Fake Moustache Day dot Org

POB 1761

Mercer Island, WA  98040

Buy Schwag:

Get your attractive fake moustache related swag.  It looks hot and a(n infinitesimal) portion of the profits go to a good cause!

Sponsor:

Sponsor a "Child in Need" or an "Academic All-Star" by sending us a fake moustache.  Each and every fake moustache goes to one of our deserving children.  When possible, we'll send you a photo of the child wearing the moustache you've donated.  Let's do it for the kids!

Participate:

February 3rd is right around the corner!  Wear a fake moustache!  Wear two!  Attend an event!  Host a party!  After it is all done, send us your photos and stories.  We want to hear about your moustache related hijinx and culture misunderstandings!  Let us know about your do-it-yourself fake moustache designs.  What works, what doesn't!  The best photos, stories, and ideas will become part of our public gallery....furthering fake moustache lore.

Write:

Tell your elected representatives that you demand to see International Fake Moustache Day recognized as our first, true, all-inclusive national holiday.  Here's a sample letter:

Dear Congressperson/Senator X;

I am writing to you today to bring to your attention the important issue of International Fake Moustache Day.

International Fake Moustache Day (February 3rd) is among the fastest growing festivals and celebrations in the world (participation in the USA alone will have grown a whopping 2700% [projected] between 2006 and 2007).  Yet this wholesome, inclusive, fun-for-the-whole-family holiday receives little or no official recognition from our federal government.  Meanwhile exclusive and/or openly offensive holidays are regularly accorded "national holiday" status.  (Examples include:  Christmas, celebrating a particular religious viewpoint; New Year's, celebrating crass-consumerism and the exploitation of amateur athletics; Fourth of July, celebrating the entrenching of power by Freemasons and landed gentry; Veterans' Day, celebrating belligerence, jingoism, and unthinking allegiance; Thanksgiving, celebrating the beginning of the European genocide against the indigenous populations of this continent.)

What I would like to see, what I--as your constituent--demand to see, is that International Fake Moustache Day be accorded a national holiday status higher than these other so-called national holidays.  Let's make it a holiday for everyone....which means that everyone (except, perhaps, essential services like a skeleton crew of police and fire) gets it off.  With pay!  This means you movie theater employees, you restaurant workers, you grocery store clerks, and you big box store lackeys!  No longer will national holidays mean that some play while others work.  No longer will it mean that we gorge ourselves in front of the TV set.  Instead, we'll have to go for a national walk, read a national book, or play a national game of scrabble with our friends.

Giving International Fake Moustache Day its rightful place in our pantheon of holidays also sends the right message to our trading partners, allies, and enemies.  To our trading partners it says, "We plan to keep these good-paying, fake moustache making jobs at home.  Thank you very much."  To our allies it says, "We feel a part of the international community, moustache days and everything."   To our enemies it says, "Yes, we are fierce.  But we also have a sense of humor.  Whatcha gonna do about that bad boy?"

It is time we close the fake moustache gap and give our citizens a real national holiday.

Respectfully Yours,

John Q. Citizen

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