You may have noticed that in November, normally sane people decide to grow moustaches!? No, it's not a case of multiple spirit possession, it's all for charity and I'm happy to say that Stoke are world leaders in supporting this initiative. Players for local football team, Stoke City FC, who many would describe as the best team in the city, are supporting the charity drive to raise awareness of men's health issues.
You can find more information at the Movember UK website:
This of course reminds me of a famous local old wives' tale.
Mark Woolley is a middle-aged badger farmer from Hanley. He is worried about his thinning moustache hair, which causes tension between him and his nagging wife, who judges a man's masculinity by the power of his moustache. Late one night, Mark sees a satellite TV channel's infomercial about a miracle moustache transplant. He decides to go and visit the doctor, Dr Shipman, who agrees to perform the operation.Mark wakes up after surgery and removes the bandages and is delighted to see a moustache that Stalin himself would have been proud of.
Despite his intial joy, Mark is soon bothered when he starts having dreams about torturing and killing random strangers. One day, he wakes up next to a dead body! Fortunately, he is able to bury the tramp's body without the police finding out.
Mark goes back to Dr Shipman and finds out that the moustache is a transplant from a recently executed serial killer! It's then he realises that the serial killer's spirit inhabits the moustache and is trying to take over his body. Dr Shipman agrees to remove the moustache but Mark dies on the operating table, not before signing his assets over to Dr Shipman leaving his wife penniless.
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