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In this month of November many men around Ireland and the world will be growing moustaches in aid of Movember, raising money and awareness for prostate cancer. In honour of this we've picked out a few HerMoes to look up to and keep you growing during those hairy days.

By Darragh Harkin

In sport

When I think about moustaches and sport I automatically think of football players in the late eighties and early nineties (What? No Merv Hughes? - Ed). Many of them rocked a great Mo including people like Graeme Souness, Ricky Villa and Ian Rush. But none of these men can live up to the Mo of Ruud Gullit (pictured top).

The man was not only one of the best players in the world, but also the most fashionable. He rocked some tasty long dreads and complimented them with a bitching dark Mo. A ladies man for all the ages and the secret is in the Mo.

In music

Music above all the other categories has many moustaches that really shouldn’t exist. The type of thin upper lip fluff that wanna be rock stars or “serious” singer/ song writers attempt to grow for their “art”.  But for all of them there are a few musicians with great moustaches that deserve respect.

Lemmy from Motorhead is a man with some serious facial hair but the mutton chop come moustache combo that he rocks eliminates him from winning this award. Instead it goes to a different English man and his name is Freddie Mercury.

Mercury is a cult icon for many reasons, being gay, being a great musician and most importantly rocking a serious mo. His mo became synonymous with him in the end and if you ever see a picture of him clean shaven it just looks a bit bizarre. He is the Queen of the HerMoes.

On screen

This man is better than you and he damn well knows it. He also has a better moustache than you could ever hope for and will remind of this before throwing a dodgeball into your face. He is White Goodman, the head honcho at Globo Gym and villain from the movie Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story.  White has one of the finest moustaches to ever grace the silver screen and some say he grew it just to annoy Chuck Norris who we all know is more a beard guy.

Look at the head on that

When it comes to the telly, though there have been lots of great 'taches they all pale in comparison to that of Tom Selleck. If there was an annual Moustache Award ceremony it would have a lifetime achievement award called the Tom Selleck, it would be in a building called the Magnum PI Theatre and the award statutes would be a carbon copy of his mug and mo. Tom Selleck is Moustaches, boom.

In Cartoon

Randy Marsh is the kind of man all men want to be. Hot wife, top job, good friends and cool enough to get drunk at all his kids little league baseball games just so he could get in a fight. Randy Marsh, better known to some as Stan’s Dad from Southpark, is the holder of the record for the world’s largest crap, likes to say “OH MY GOD”, is a little bit rock and roll and wears his moustache with pride.

OMG! It's Randy Marsh!

He’s a real get up and go type of fellow and the kids of Southpark all look up to him. Well, not really but they do look up to his moustache and that'll do for Randy.

In Video Games

As a die hard Metal Gear Solid fan I would love the give the Video Game HerMo to Revolver Ocelot. He is a man of moustachey myth and legend, someone you should never cross and one that has an uncanny ability to bend bullets around objects.

Super Mari-Mo!

But even Ocelot cannot defeat the juggernaut that is Super Mario and his Super Moustache. The little Italian plumber has gone through many adventures and changes through his almost 30 year gaming career and yet the stash on his face remains. Thick dark and very much ready to store some pizza crust Mario is a HerMo for the ages.

In Life

This one is all about you. Whether you are growing or not growing a mo isn’t that important, what is important is that Irish men talk about prostate cancer. If you grow a Mo this month you will have plenty of opportunities to talk about prostate cancer when people ask what the hairy thing on your lip is all about. You don’t need to annoy people with too much info and constant nagging, but you could drop some stats into conversation every once in a while.

If you are not growing a mo then try to donate something, large or small - it will all count and you will feel better about yourself. Like David Bowie said, we can be HerMoes! So go do it.

Darragh Harkin writes for JOE every weekend. You can drop him a line on Twitter (@DarraghHarkin) or Facebook.