Richo's mo

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Richo's mo

WE’VE managed to persuade Richmond legend Matthew Richardson to grow a moustache for Movember, but he’s not doing it just for fun, it’s for charity. Movember’s funds will be used to benefi t men’s health — specifically prostate cancer and depression. We’re asking you to get behind Richo and donate money to his mo. Every Friday in the Miss Behave column there will be an updated picture of Richo to chart the progress of his mo.
Go to www.movember.com, click: Australia, Donate, then Donate to team “Richo’s Mo”.

http://www.theage.com.au/news/sport/horse-racing/when-the-rain-comes-down/2008/11/03/1225560738700.html?page=fullpage#contentSwap1

[cub]

It was gr8 last year, if he gets together with McMahon goes to a nightclub picks up some trollop and makes a video I'll give them a G 

[Bene Boy]

Ive got one growing as well

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RICHO’S MO

LET’S not mince words, Matthew Richardson’s moustache was a sorry little thing last week. But seven days is a very long time when it comes to hair cultivation on the upper lip. Our Movember poster boy from Richmond was living proof of that yesterday when he strolled into Age headquarters with a distinct spring in his step for this picture update.

"‘I can’t go the handlebar because hair doesn’t grow on the side of my mouth there, so I think this is the style I’m going to be continuing with for the next few weeks," Richardson said. As for the name of the moustache variation, it’s one he’s terming "a bit German porn star".

Every hard-earned dollar you donate out of appreciation for the work of the big Tiger forward — and we thank those who have dug into their pockets already — will go towards men’s health.

No need to fear now that Richo’s slow-starting mo will be a disaster … it’s officially off and away.

LOG ONTO: www.movember.com
CLICK: Australia
CLICK: Donate
CLICK: Donate to a team
ENTER: Richo’s Mo

Week three update and donation tally here next week.

http://www.theage.com.au/news/sport/miss-behave/2008/11/14/1226318849754.html?page=fullpage#contentSwap1

[mightytiges]

"Julz, I have come to clean the pool" 

Is that red hair in Richo's mo or just the light?

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Richo's movember whiskers are for sale on ebay

http://cgi.ebay.com.au/Richos-whiskers_W0QQitemZ320321711340QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLH_DefaultDomain_15?hash=item320321711340&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14&_trkparms=66%3A2%7C65%3A1%7C39%3A1%7C240%3A1318

[julzqld]

LOL @ MT.  The current bid for Richo's mo is $40 and no I haven't put in a bid.

[mightytiges]

LOL @ MT.  The current bid for Richo's mo is $40 and no I haven't put in a bid.

Nah Julz is waiting to bid for what was formerly attached to the mo 

[Fishfinger]

What, a boogie?

[mightytiges]

What, a boogie?

lol 

[WilliamPowell]

 

What, a boogie?

lol 

 

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Richo's mo
One man's emotional Movember journey in pictures.

Week One: Awkward early days. Ouch. Richo said: “It’s pathetic. You can barely see it.”



Week Two: Getting somewhere, but half-here, half-there look bordering on disturbing. Richo said: “I can’tgo the handlebar because hair doesn’t grow on the side of my mouth . . . I’m calling it German porn star.”

Week Three: Moustache finally has a sense of self. Even if it’s unappreciated by its owner. Richo said: “I feel dirty. It’s a bit itchy and it’s just starting to creep on to my lip a little bit. I think it needs to be manicured or something. I’m inexperienced and I don’t know what to do, you know?”

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Week Four: A fully-fledged mo. No shame in the living, breathing strip of hair whatsoever. Owner finally embraces it as a part of him. Richo said: “I am a little bit attached now. And I have contemplated going on with it. But the comments I’m receiving from people everywhere I go are suggesting I should get rid of it. I’m torn now. I think it will come off, but I’m going to be a little bit disappointedwhen it does.”



Shave Off: Matthew Richardson as we’ve come to know him is back and ready to plough on with pre-season.Richo said: “I feel naked.”

http://www.realfooty.com.au/ftimages/2008/11/30/1227979847942.html

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Richo's Mo banned from eBay
The Age | December 2, 2008

STYLISH, sophisticated, classy, debonair ... none of these words spring to mind when considering our regular sporting auction, which goes by the name of Trashbag.

Don't take our word for it, just take a look at what eBay.com.au had to say when we tried to flog the whiskers from Matthew Richardson's moustache yesterday morning."

We appreciate that you chose eBay to list the following auction- style listing(s): 320321711340 - Richo's whiskers. However, your auctionstyle listing(s) violates eBay's Human Body Parts and Remains policy and has been removed."

So the column that brought you Adam Cooney's budgie smugglers can't bring you the "remains" of Richo's mo. Which is a shame because one clever wag on an online footy forum had already come up with an idea of using the whiskers to clone hundreds of tiny versions of Richo. If we can do that, then who cares what GC17 do to the draft?

Trashbag can only offer its sincere apologise for this low and dreadful act and promises to produce a new item next week that does not break eBay's Human Body Parts and Remains policy.

http://www.theage.com.au/news/sport/richos-mo-banned-from-ebay/2008/12/02/1227980000152.html

You can win Richo's Mo ... for free!
December 3, 2008

THEY said we couldn't sell Adam Cooney's budgie smugglers and we said, "YES WE CAN". And we did. Kerchinggg!

They said we couldn't sell Simon Gerrans' vest and we said, "YES WE CAN". And we did! Kerchinggg!

They said we couldn't sell Richo's mo and we said, "YES WE CAN". And they said, "NO YOU CAN'T". So we said, "FINE, THEN WE'LL GIVE IT AWAY FOR FREE".

Here's a quick recap. We asked Matthew Richardson to grow a mo for Movember and managed to help him raise almost $1700 in the process.

We then decided to put his discarded whiskers up for sale in our weekly sports auction more commonly known as Trashbag.

Then ... eBay.com.au told us that Richo's mo contravenes its human body parts and remains policy and it removed Richo's Mo from its website.

So we're offering it to you for free! You will receive the remains of Richo's mo with some photographs charting its cultivation and then its removal.

All you have to do is tell us what you might do with it. Send your entries to sport@theage.com.au by 2pm Thursday.


But here are some early contenders:

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I would have a lot of bragging rights among my Richmond friends that I own something of the great Richoman himself and i would probably get it framed up with my Richo signed jumper and put it "up in the pool room" for all my visitors to gleam their eyes in jealously and envy. Richo is a Richmond legend and if i must add and AFL legend whose modesty and sheer skill in the game brings a lot to the game and shows a lot about the great Richoman. If I had Richo's Mo I would know that i had something that was part of the Matthew Richardson that graces the field during the winter months and amazes us all with is spectacular football skills, it would be an honor for me to posses such a Mo.
- Dugald
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My name is Stella Montgomery and I was born on 22 October.

Since I was born my Mum and Dad's friends have been talking about what school I should go to when I grow up, but Dad is more worried about what football team I will barrack for. A friend has started me on the correct path with some nice jim-jams.
The problem is, my Mum likes Collingwood, and Dad is nervous that I will grow up wanting to support the club run by that man with three chins.

If you send me Richo's mo, I will keep it in my nursery and Dad can remind me every day that it came from the big man from Richmond, and so I will have to barrack for the Tigers and everyone will be happy.

- Love from Stella
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I watched Richo play his first game, and I will see his last.

I carry a Richo 'Footy Card' always and will defend him vigorously when his greatness is challenged.

I love Richo – Always have, always will.

- Dean Collins

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I was intrigued at the column regarding Richo's Mo in the sports section of today's Age.

A few colleagues and I run a not for profit organisation called MMU Ltd, (www.mmu.com.au) which raises money, support and awareness for community groups and charities. All our directors donate their time to manage the charitable activities offered by MMU with all profits being donated to the charity of choice for the particular event.

On the 28th of March 2009 we will be hosting the official Good Friday Appeal Bunny Ball, a black tie event with a 'touch of Bunny' to be held at the St Kilda Town Hall, where we expect over 300 guests to attend. The main fundraising initiative of the night will be a charity auction in which I would love to include Richo's Mo.

I would envisage we would have it framed along with the photo's supplied (which I will try and have Richo sign) and auction this unique item for the Good Friday Appeal.

http://www.theage.com.au/news/sport/you-can-win-richos-mo/2008/12/03/1228257121743.html?page=fullpage#contentSwap1

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The moustache that eBay banned rests in peace
Samantha Lane
December 5, 2008

A RE-CAP of this very hairy story if you’d dropped out of the loop: If you missed the fact that we coaxed Richmond’s Matthew Richardson into growing a moustache for Movember, you haven’t been reading. Newsflash: we raised $1793.

It’s now December, he’s shaved down and is moving on with his life. In our Trashbag segment on Monday, where we auction off weird and occasionally wonderful items of sporting memorabilia and donate the dollars to charity, we put Richardson’s whiskers up for sale.

Twenty-four hours had not elapsed when a message arrived at the inbox of Trashbag’s eBay account. The “Trust & Safety” division was advising that the “Richo’s whiskers” listing had been removed because it violated eBay’s “Human Body Parts and Remains policy”.

With knuckles rapped, we contemplated the future of this mo (by now sitting in an envelope in the top drawer of yours truly’s work desk). eBay be damned, we thought, no rules could prevent us from giving it away!

A two-day competition after an already eventful month climaxes here. The response was overwhelming. We narrowed it down to an odd number of finalists:

“I would mount Richo’s Mo on the bullbar of my Toyota Prado that I’m going to drive around Australia with my wife and 5 daughters and a campervan. I would then photograph the Mo in different locations all around Australia . . . Richo’s Mo could return to Melbourne at the start of Movember 2009. This could be part of the build-up advertising and a daily blog could be posted from Richo’s Mo’s perspective.”

— Dan, Gem, Mezan, Tarkiah, Jatiqua, Zamaya & Emmra

“I would use it as my merkin.”

— Moira Cameron

“Richo’s whiskers would be the first step in the Richmond Football Club cloning program where we will ensure the success of the club in the future by recreating the stars of the past.”

— Dr Sarah Wheatley

“I would glue it carefully, whisker by whisker to my bathroom mirror, about head high, in the exact shape it was on Richo’s face. Then, on the morning of a tough meeting, big presentation, or when I just needed to do the impossible, I would position my head in the mirror, just right, so Richo’s mo sat perfectly on my face. Then I stare back at myself. All mo’d up. And I would be ready. Ready to take on the world. Just like he does every Saturday.”

— Emma

“If I got Richo’s Mo I’d donate it back to the Richmond Football Club under the proviso that the club renames its leading goalkicking award the Richo’s Mo award … Every goal gets Cleve Hughes or Jack Riewoldt a hair closer to the moustache of glory. What dodgy piece of silverware could ever beat the whiskers of a champion?”

— Christian Roach

“I would like to give it to Anthony Hudson. Huddo is a small little man, smaller than a jockey’s armpit. I’m hoping that it will enable him to walk just that little bit taller, and feel a little bit more of a man with Richo’s tash above his top lip. Either that or I’ll plant it in my vegie garden to see if I can grow another Richo.”

— Shaun Cox

“Richo’s mo would defi nitely be put to good use where I live at Mandurang. It is public knowledge that he is an avid greyhound fan and his mo would make excellent bedding for my 2 greyhounds. My only concern is that the stewards may consider this shock wave therapy.”

— Steve Butler

“I would nominate the MO (short for Mighty Origins) for the draft and then watch in pride as Richmond picks MO up under the fatherson rule and MO then goes on to win 10 consecutive B & Fs at Richmond and becomes the 2nd most valuable Richmond player in history (just behind the great man himself) and captains Richmond to its first flag in 57 years in a thrilling game against Mt Isa (who have just entered the league as the 17th non-Melbourne-based team) that the Tiges win by a whisker during time-on in the fourth.”

— Jim Maxwell

“It all started four years ago when I first met a gorgeous young lady who I was destined to fall for and marry. The only way she would even go out with me was if I promised to change my name to Matthew Richardson. Being a keen Tigers barracker I agreed, yet never followed through . . . this would be a great opportunity for me to make at least some amends to my broken promise.”

— Steve Lake

“I would build a shrine to house it in and, when the time was right and the page of history had turned, I would donate it to the Melbourne Museum, or — if there were sufficient interest — I’d loan it to venerable world institutions such as the Museum of Man in San Diego and the British Museum. It could become a travelling exhibit akin to the mask of Tutankhamun’s mummy and kiddies from all over the world could admire it. “He was an artist, entertainer and a true clubman,” they would say, “and that was his mo.”

— Dave Sheridan

But the (Richardson-endorsed) winner of Richo's mo is ... drum roll ...
Patrick Fagan from Devonport

The mo is going back to its roots! Fagan wrote: “We could enshrine Richo’s Mo at the birthplace of his fi rst whiskers where they would be looked after and lauded for all of eternity. This place is the Devonport Football Club where Richo would have been playing footy when he grew his first whisker.”

It touched our heartstrings.

We got onto Fagan yesterday and he vowed to loan the mo to the  Devonport Football Club so that visitors to the social club can admire it for themselves over a beer any time during opening hours. A team of gloved Age artistic geniuses were set to work on the conservation job — the remnants of the mo have been sealed and framed — and the finished product will be crossing the Tasman and hanging in the clubrooms by next week.

Go see it for yourselves!

The end.

IMPORTANT NOTE: Matthew Richardson’s moustache will not be mentioned again on this page next week.

http://www.theage.com.au/news/sport/the-moustache-that-ebay-banned-rests-in-peace/2008/12/04/1228257234973.html?page=fullpage#contentSwap1