**The Official PJ 20 Mustache Movement[UPDATE]**

Heisenberg wrote:

Any chance we can get stickers of this so I can put them up on stop signs around town?

Heisenberg wrote:

Actually, what we need is the PJ ladies to fall in line with this excellent idea from Movember. Then the movement would really gain steam!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GudcxvmHoyQ&feature=player_embedded

Seriously though, we need to come up with a way to turn our degenerate asses growing mustaches into a way to raise money for charity. I haven't quite figured that out yet, but it NEEDS to happen so that this is more than just us being goofy.

i was typin it as u were

Can't sleep . . . did some brainstorming.

The first and foremost step to bring this from a silly movement to a grassroots movement would be to contact the 10C with our intentions. Send someone affiliated with the ten club an email telling them what we plan to do and ask them if they would accept a donation on our behalf. Once we receive confirmation from the 10C that they support us in our endeavor, we can start delegating responsibilities. Obviously, the three of us with the most posts on this thread, me, bambam, and heisenberg would be expected to take an active role. It would help if we got a few forum celebrities on board as well, and I'm pretty sure Dimitris and 81 will help us out with that. I've already shot a few PMs to heisenberg about how to go about raising funds and i'd be more than happy to handle that aspect.

The key is, once we have the 10C's blessings, is to utilize as many forms of media as we can. We can create a facebook event, make a website through google sites, and even make a blog to update three or four times a week about progress and details of that nature. Once again, I have experience writing a blog so I'd be more than happy to handle that as well. Our website would be there to keep an open record about donations received, mustaches pledged, mustache progress, etc. The blog would be there to basically provide carbon copies of important posts made on this thread, possibly to grab the attention of fans who are not privy to this thread, as well as complete strangers who are willing to donate who may or may not even be in the 10C.

We could look to set up donations on a few different levels, we should discuss them and decide if/which/all sound plausible. We could ask individuals who are interested in pledging a mustache to donate a nominal fee towards the charity. . . $10 or so. Then, once we have a group of men (and women who are willing to look silly by wearing fake mustaches for the weekend) we will have that group ask others to "sponsor" their mustache and raise more money that way. Finally, those of us who are officially "in charge" of the mustache charity would be responsible for finding people/businesses/corporations to donate physical prizes for the winner. (After all, it should be a mustache competition, those with the most epic furry upper lips should be rewarded) I ordered the super delux added adjective for envy box set of vs and vitalogy and have yet to open it, as buyer's remorse has crossed my mind. Rather than returning it, if this were to take place, I think I would be happy donating it as a prize for the competition. I'm not exactly financially secure but money isn't everything in life and if it helps recruit participants it's well worth it. I really think that if we do this right, with the number of people attending PJ20, we could raise anywhere from 10,000 to 20,000 to donate to Pearl Jam to in return donate to a worthy charity.

As for the catalyst to move this rock, I personally think that heisenberg should write the email to the 10C, and if we were to assign positions, President of operations, or whatever the "most important" office should be.

Once again, once we have the 10C's blessings and they are privy to our intentions and have given their blessings, we can continue to delegate responsibilities amongst members. For now though, the email is the most important step.

Will you write the email that spawns 1,000 mustaches, Heisenberg?

Furthermore, once we have an official confirmation, it would help to have a logo and catchy name for our movement ready. Unfortunately I'm not a very artistic guy, but a logo of sorts does not need to be hand drawn, if anyone is handy with computer generation/digital design. I've seen things such as World Wide Mustache Ride on here and I've proposed MFC (Mustaches For a Cause) as our official movement name, but once again this is something we can decide upon as a group.

I'm really optimistic about this whole thing. . . and who knows, if it goes really well, maybe the band themselves might want to give a quick shout out during the concert to the awesome dudes that got the ball rolling. Hey, we can dream, can't we?

Heisenberg wrote:

Actually, what we need is the PJ ladies to fall in line with this excellent idea from Movember. Then the movement would really gain steam!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GudcxvmHoyQ&feature=player_embedded

Seriously though, we need to come up with a way to turn our degenerate asses growing mustaches into a way to raise money for charity. I haven't quite figured that out yet, but it NEEDS to happen so that this is more than just us being goofy.

That was awesome!!

Big Drop wrote:

Can't sleep . . . did some brainstorming.

The first and foremost step to bring this from a silly movement to a grassroots movement would be to contact the 10C with our intentions. Send someone affiliated with the ten club an email telling them what we plan to do and ask them if they would accept a donation on our behalf. Once we receive confirmation from the 10C that they support us in our endeavor, we can start delegating responsibilities. Obviously, the three of us with the most posts on this thread, me, bambam, and heisenberg would be expected to take an active role. It would help if we got a few forum celebrities on board as well, and I'm pretty sure Dimitris and 81 will help us out with that. I've already shot a few PMs to heisenberg about how to go about raising funds and i'd be more than happy to handle that aspect.

The key is, once we have the 10C's blessings, is to utilize as many forms of media as we can. We can create a facebook event, make a website through google sites, and even make a blog to update three or four times a week about progress and details of that nature. Once again, I have experience writing a blog so I'd be more than happy to handle that as well. Our website would be there to keep an open record about donations received, mustaches pledged, mustache progress, etc. The blog would be there to basically provide carbon copies of important posts made on this thread, possibly to grab the attention of fans who are not privy to this thread, as well as complete strangers who are willing to donate who may or may not even be in the 10C.

We could look to set up donations on a few different levels, we should discuss them and decide if/which/all sound plausible. We could ask individuals who are interested in pledging a mustache to donate a nominal fee towards the charity. . . $10 or so. Then, once we have a group of men (and women who are willing to look silly by wearing fake mustaches for the weekend) we will have that group ask others to "sponsor" their mustache and raise more money that way. Finally, those of us who are officially "in charge" of the mustache charity would be responsible for finding people/businesses/corporations to donate physical prizes for the winner. (After all, it should be a mustache competition, those with the most epic furry upper lips should be rewarded) I ordered the super delux added adjective for envy box set of vs and vitalogy and have yet to open it, as buyer's remorse has crossed my mind. Rather than returning it, if this were to take place, I think I would be happy donating it as a prize for the competition. I'm not exactly financially secure but money isn't everything in life and if it helps recruit participants it's well worth it. I really think that if we do this right, with the number of people attending PJ20, we could raise anywhere from 10,000 to 20,000 to donate to Pearl Jam to in return donate to a worthy charity.

As for the catalyst to move this rock, I personally think that heisenberg should write the email to the 10C, and if we were to assign positions, President of operations, or whatever the "most important" office should be.

Once again, once we have the 10C's blessings and they are privy to our intentions and have given their blessings, we can continue to delegate responsibilities amongst members. For now though, the email is the most important step.

Will you write the email that spawns 1,000 mustaches, Heisenberg?

Furthermore, once we have an official confirmation, it would help to have a logo and catchy name for our movement ready. Unfortunately I'm not a very artistic guy, but a logo of sorts does not need to be hand drawn, if anyone is handy with computer generation/digital design. I've seen things such as World Wide Mustache Ride on here and I've proposed MFC (Mustaches For a Cause) as our official movement name, but once again this is something we can decide upon as a group.

I'm really optimistic about this whole thing. . . and who knows, if it goes really well, maybe the band themselves might want to give a quick shout out during the concert to the awesome dudes that got the ball rolling. Hey, we can dream, can't we?

I definitely agree that we should make this a charity event! I'm willing to help as well. I agree that MFC should be the official name. I think that World Wide Mustache Ride would be great for t-shirts...maybe MFC logo (whatever we make it)could be on the front corner of the t-shirt and the world wide mustache ride could be on the back w/ a pic. We could sell the t-shirts to make money...We could also get people to donate PJ related stuff for the cause as well...since with this group those would be the most likely items to raise money.

But first things first...did we decide what charity? I'm assuming either the wishlist foundation or CCFA? If we go with the wishlist foundation, maybe along with contacting 10C we can get help from someone who has set up one of the wishlist foundation fundraisers before?