[An Awesome Mustache Original]

An Awesome Mustache Original... with apologies to fans of Moses and Mr. Heston.

Honestly, I wish I could say that this was something I created. However, this is what the real Office Depot home page looked like today.

[via Kehrli]

PIZZA UPDATE

Apparently, ham certificates are only one of the fine food items you can purchase at Office Depot. They also offer Pizza.

[Thanks, rosecolette!]

The Ham Page

Oh, and in case you're interested... Here's the Ham Certificate product page too.

Mmmm. Office ham...

For context, here is the the original AFSCME... Much lol and totally NSFW.

Here we have a particularly lovely Flickr set with the Mighty Thor putting his skillz on display:

[Thanks, Bruce!]

[NSFW]

All better now.

[Thanks, Kevin!]

For you freelance writer types, check out http://menwithpens.ca. It's chock-a-block with such masculine writing advice that even Ernest Hemingway says, "I'm nothing but a little girl compared to James and Harry."

** Update: Just reminded of James' historical appearance on SNL. [Thanks, Adam!]

Seriously, folks, where are the editors?

[IHT via Google News, cause like the title of the article REALLY stood out there]

You Were the Judge!

With 165 responses, I feel we have a statistically significant sample (at least as far as facial hair and twitter can be significant). So, without further hooptedoodle, here are the results:

[Note: See the "Making of" video if you want to learn how to use Google Docs Forms to create surveys/polls.]

Brogan has 87% brand recognition. Reviewing the text responses, we would actually adjust this figure upward as it seems clear that some respondents were less than honest in answering this question. That said, an overwhelming majority of respondents knew that Brogan had in fact removed his facial hair.

77% of respondents felt that Brogan should retain some combination of facial hair. However, at 22% we cannot ignore those who preferred the "Teen" Brogan look. In fact, when reviewing the text responses, it appears that those who liked Brogan Teen were ferverent in their devotion to the clean shaven look. Comments such as "yummy" and "Better than Cats" indicate both feelings of playfulness and perhaps some latent sexual arousal.

Text Responses

If you could say one thing about Brogan's shaved face, what would it be?

who is this man, and what did he do with Chris Brogan?

Supercute!

I do love those baby cheeks!

ahh smooth!

Large.

Digg it.

Fail.

Needs more neckbeard.

Looks great!!

Why are you giving yp the Brogan version of "Tom Selleck"

Only thing that would look younger is a neckbeard!

A man is not a man without a full beard.

looking soft as a baby's bottom

kinda strange

more hair is always better

I did not recognize the new guy showing up on Twitter. I had to look at the screen name to know who it was.

I hope his facial hair was not intrinsically connected to his blog abilities.

He's adorable. And I really need to get a life if I have nothing better to do than take a poll on Chris Brogan's facial hair, or lack thereof. LOL!

Soft like a ba....nahhhh I'll pass!

Tee-hee! Younger, fresher, smarter! Who wouldn't want to be all those things in 2009?

My world is ruined.

Didn't recognize him ... was ignoring his tweets because I thought he was someone else.

Smoooooooth

Where's the broken razor?

Are you even old enough to Tweet?!?

He really looks fine either way. I just like facial hair.

Oh snap!

Bring back the 'tee!

Looks more professional.

As long as it isn't like a Samson thing where his intellect left w/ the goatee then I'm sure a clean-shaven Brogan will be ok.

I also just shaved off my goatee. My face feels naked now.

By extension, Chris, please put that chin back in your goatee where it belongs!

He lost about 10 years. He looks great. If he likes it, go with it.

If you took his picture under water upside-down, he would look just like a young Bill Maher.

Baby face.

Shaved or not, Chris Brogan is a total rockstar.

I couldn't care less about it.

Donate the hair to hairless goats. That way goats can have Chris Brogan's goatee hair.

Its actually not a goatee - it was a van dyke http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mustache [editor's note: common misconception. A van dyke is a big moustache with a little chin beard/soul patch. Technically, Brogan has a "spanish beard".]

"Brogan Grunge" gave me permission to go there too. Sad to see it go. Now, since I'm a slave to Social Media, I have to shave off my goatee as well.

I never noticed how silly his smile was before!

in need of a tan... (I didn't say pasty!!)

Put it back

Smiling all the time!

Clean shaven is always nicer.

Aww, he's just a baby!

It's like a baby's butt, but it's his face.

On TwitterFox the pic looks slightly Frankenstein-ish... heh...

I thought he said it was an old picture and he was currently still a "hairy bastard" in real life. ???

He looks like Jeff Ross, the comedian.

Notice how the beautiful blue eyes, and the sexy smile pop out now.

He kinda looks like a little like Patrick Swayze in the thumbnail of his profile pic, but not necessarily in a good way.

He's cute as a button.

With goatee: Look like a young Obi Wan Kenobi

Without goatee: Look like Tim Robbins in Shawshank Redemption

Put it back! I think goatees are sexy.

baby face

will it make his blog cooler than it already is? {editor's note: Oh, come on now!}

I almost did not recognize you!

Makes him look younger.

Why do I know what it looks like in the first place....

I like well-groomed men and I don't care for a lot of facial hair. The shaved face makes Chris look clean-cut, professional and YOUNGER--lol! Now if we can get him to cut
the hair a little more (not a lot) then he'd be the complete package. Go Chris!

now he needs to shave his head to match.

Linking to pictures would be a great thing... I'm going on seeing Chris atSOBCon 07/08, and I dig the goat.

I will now find out who this Brogan character is, and why his shaved face is relevant.

Brogan "Teen" is apt

You look like a totally different person with the shaved face and winter skin. Either go Lumberjack-lite (not so heavy on the beard) or keep the shaved look and head to Tahiti for a week. I vote the latter

So lickable!

Looks like his junior high school yearbook picture. But he's still a pretty smart guy.

Geez, are you legal?

It's everywhere.

yummy.

Missing the also yummy moody pub crawl photo from about 2 weeks ago.

Prepubescent

Grow it back

Better than Cats.

There's a New Kids on the Block concert in Chicago...you could probably go and not draw a second glance...

It's weak.

He looks a bit younger, but still better with goatee!

WTF

gutsy move.

There seems to be rather a lot of it, doesn't there?

Clean shaven is the new black.

It's a fantastic distraction from war and recession. And, he truly deserves all of the attention he gets.

it's a good place to for me to sit.

Scary!

He should write a post about Gillette vs. Schick.

It's bald!

Sweet!

It's just like when Robert Redford shaved off his mountain man beard in Jeremiah Johnson. Except without the Robert Redford part.

At least it's better than stubble. . .

We love you clean shaven or not!

This reminded me not to shave off my own goatee.

It's a very nice shaved face, and it does make him look a lot younger, which is a good thing.

Either way is a very nice look for him, he has a great face.

However, I just happened to be a fan of facial hair on men.

too clean!

He has a chin?? Who knew!