Tache-o-rama

So I was trying to watch Question Time, the UK's premier weekly "grill the panel of politicos" show, but something was distracting me. The same something has had this effect before, leaving me incapable of following a word that was said. It was this:



Or to be more precise, it was his moustache. This is Lord Thurso, Liberal Democrat something-or-other. He could be the greatest orator of the modern era, or a hate-filled harbinger of evil, but I'd be none the wiser - the tache gets all the attention.

He always reminds me of this fella -



Francis Tumblety, one of the many suspects in the Jack the Ripper case (more about that here). I've always had trouble taking him seriously as a suspect: it seems ridiculous to suggest that a gent with his frankly ludicrous facial adornment could meld into the background successfully enough to avoid detection.

Of course if you should happen to find yourself in need of hiding for years on end after accidentally killing your children's nanny (no need for an allegedly here, methinks), then a distinctive tache like so



could be quite handy. Just get rid of it, and the world at large will be none the wiser. Anyone seen Lord Lucan lately?