Wrap up 2009

Well Mo-bros & Sistas, it looks like our final tally is $4,200! What a great effort!

I would like to thank everyone who participated and who donated to us. This is a wonderful event that is making huge contributions to men’s health.

2009 may be over but I would like to post some photo’s or stories if anyone would like to share them. Just email me, keil.jones@townsville.qld.gov.au.

Once again everyone, thank you for the effort you put in to support this great cause.

Mo-fully yours,
KaptainKeil.

Final donations

Well we’ve had some late donations come in and they are some beauties!

Tom has now recieved a whopping $1000 in donations earning him a Platinum Club membership, well done! Kevin recieved a $100 donation to put us at a total of $3,685.60. Not too shabby!

End results

Hi Mo-brarians!

What a month! Are we all glad to be back to normal? I know my fiancé is over the moon

I just wanted to thank you all for the effort you put in. Together we managed to raise a fantastic total of $3,320! That is just such a great effort! Special mention should go to Mo-bro Tom who has raised a huge total of $735, a rather large chunk of our total all by himself.

But its not all about the money. As Mo-brarians I feel we are well placed in libraries to help raise awareness for the cause. I know that I answered and informed many people each day at the front desk and I feel that I have made a difference for men’s health. I even convinced one elderly gentleman that he should go and get checked, he then told me that he would drag his son along to get checked out as well. I also had an elderly lady that was disappointed to see the Mo go, she was worried that I wouldn’t be able to impress the ladies. I had to promise her that I had more to offer the ladies than just my Mo-growing abilities. True story.

Movember is making a difference, slowing but surely the word is getting around and the message is getting out there and it is happening because people like us are making it happen. So thanks again Mo-brarians for your time and effort, I hope your back with us next year to help unite libraries behind this worthy cause!

Mo-fully yours,
KaptainKeil.

Mo pic’s

Well guys,

It’s time to send in your Mo pic’s! Time to strut around and show of your Mo growing ability, or Mo-bility

Best Mo will win a prize so send the pics in to me as soon as you can.

Keil.jones@townsville.qld.gov.au

Mo-fully yours,
KaptainKeil.

Almost at the end

Well guys & gals, we’re almost there!

Sorry I have been a bit slack on the blog content the last week or so but I have been concentrating very hard on growing a Mo that does not look too lame. By will power alone I have managed to force out a bit of fuzz that could almost, with the right light, be called a real Mo.

So far our team of 20 Mobrarians have managed to raise a whopping $1,710.00 in online donations! Once we add our cash donations I’m sure we’ll cruise past the $2000 mark! That’s a fantastic effort from everyone! I would especially like to thank Tom who has managed to raise $400 so far! Great effort!

Keep up the good work guys, we’re doing great!

Mo-fully yours,
KaptainKeil.

Mo-trivia

So I have been tasked with putting together a lil sumthin sumthin for a trivia thing at our staff christmas party and while searching for interesting facts I got to thinking about Mo facts. So I decided to post some of the facts, quotes and what-nots I have found here:

English proverb – A man without a moustache is like tea without sugar.
Rudyard Kipling from the Gatsbys – kissing a man without a moustache is like eating an egg without salt.
There are only 550 days until the next World Beard & Moustache Championships.
The people at Guiness, Ireland’s most famous brewery, estimate that in Great Britain alone, 92,749 litres of beer are lost each year in drinkers moustaches and beards. They estimate that  each pint is raised 10 times, and each time, 0.56ml is absorbed into the facial hair.
All dolphins are born with a moustache, it helps them locate their mothers while nursing, it sheds after a few days.

Obviously these are all true because I got them off the internet. Can you find anymore Mo-facts?

Mo-fully yours,
KaptainKeil.

Mo Photo’s

Well it has been 5 days gentlemen … I think we could start to share some pics & stories.  Mo-bro Neal is sharing his journey on Facebook.

If you’ve started to share your journey online and would like to tell us all just leave a comment here with the details or email me, keil.jones@townsville.qld.gov.au

Mo-fully yours,
KaptainKeil

What a start!

Have you logged onto movember recently? Have you seen what we have raised so far? Well it’s a cool $435! Not too bad for just 3 days into Movember. Well done everyone.

And that is only our online donations, I imagine everyone managed to wrangle a few dollars out of people today with the Melbourne Cup on. People dont mind giving away money for the Cup, just sit near your Sweep Winnings collection area and rattle your donation tins every now and then

 

Once again Mo-bros & Mo-sistas, well done!

 

Mo-fully yours,

KaptainKeil.

Fellow Mo-brarians!

I would liketo say hello to the Charles Sturt University Mobrarians. Its good to see that other library people are joining the cause! Check out the CSU Mo-brarians blog.

It would be awesome if they were under our Mo-brarian banner but it all goes to the same place and is for a great cause. Maybe next year, good luck guys!

If anyone knows of other libraries or library industry people participating in Movember please let me know, keil.jones@townsville.qld.gov.au

More Mo-isms :)

Here are a couple of Mo-isms from a young Mo-sista:

Mo-vana: those of us still stuck in the 90’s grunge era.
Mo-pire: a vampire that is lucky enough to be able to grow a mo or who died with one.

Keep sending them in, I cant get enough!

 

Mo-fully yours,

KaptainKeil