Showing posts with label Cold War. Show all posts
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Wednesday, April 23, 2008

2008 Mustache On-Line World Championships

Well we're down to our two finalists: Heinz Christophel, from Germany, and Keith Hernandez, of the USA.

Christophel is the three-time world champion in the full beard freestyle category.

His most famous qoute, "Germans are superior to Americans when it comes to facial hair growing because styling is more evolved in Germany."

Keith Hernandez, a former major league MVP, was the 2007 winner of "Mustache Madness".

During an 18-year big league career, Hernandez compiled a lifetime .296 batting average, 2,182 hits, 162 home runs, and won an amazing 11 consecutive Gold Gloves.

His most famous quote, "I'm Keith Hernandez."

When told of Christophel's quote regarding German superiority, Keith laughed and said, "he does know that 'Ken' is German, right?"

Ken, of course, is the famous Ken Willerwacher. Willerwacher's '70s album "by Request Only", sold 1,364 copies, of which 961 were bought and played on underground radio in the former East Germany during the rise (and rapid fall) of the disco era.

The album is said to be responsible for delaying the bringing down of the Berlin Wall by 6 years and increasing tensions all across the European peninsula.

The most requested song on the album was "Dandy Ding-O Disco Swing-O".

Voting will be open until May 15th.