Golden 'Stache: 2010 Winter Olympics Edition
Almost inconceivably adorable Mathieu Crépel (aka Little Monkey) sported this little number at the halfpipe competition last night.
According to Gawker, though Crépel didn't place, he won the gold, 'stachwise:
French half-pipe snowboarder Mathieu Crepel sported the world's most ironic mustache last night. Let us count the levels of irony: (1.) Beginner's irony: It is a fake, black-ink mustache on an adult. (2.) Advanced-placement irony: It is drawn on top of his real mustache. (3.) Nationalist irony: A teensy, curling mustache on a Frenchman, at an competition that emphasizes one's citizenship. I was unable to find explanation for Crepel's stache other than (paraphrasing) "kid is weird."This obviously trumps Michael Phelp's apparently unironic porn 'stache, for which he won the gold in'08. When it comes to postmodern 'staches, no one beats the French.
Americans: don't try this at home.
Do we really expect Americans to be as "engage" as our French cousins? Irony goes over our heads. Hence Michael Phelp's porn 'stache: he has no chest hair, he has the wrong body type...he's no Mark Spitz. Mathieu...bien sur, green eyes and all.
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