Tache Match Special

Chris Vallance | 13:55 UK time, Monday, 5 January 2009

In Hollywood, we read, 2008 was the year of the tache. Yet fashion is a fickle mistress, in India the soup-strainer is facing the chop and the Telegraph observed that in political circles at least, the upper-lip-cosy was unlikely to make a comeback. Whether or not we are seeing the green-shoots of tache recovery we thought it the perfect excuse to play Tache Match Special. There are no prizes, it's not a competition and you should only call a premium rate phone line if you find that sort of thing gratifying.

The task: identify the taches above and leave your answers in the comments. NB some of the taches aren't real, and some are included in a beard.

Clue: there is a Radio 4 presenter and one Today programme "guest editor" in there. Answers will be revealed later this week.

UPDATE: The results are available here.

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1. At 10:22am on 06 Jan 2009, Thejestersang wrote:
So far I've got 2,7,8,9. 3 is me in '73.
But I'm not working for nothing. What do points make?

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2. At 12:34pm on 06 Jan 2009, David_McNickle wrote:
Does 4 still have one? 1 looks like Blunkett, and one is obviously Ronnie Corbett. That one is not to be confused with 1. 10 looks like a guy on Antiques Roadshow. The rest are all Thejestersang.

PRIZES !!

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3. At 1:13pm on 06 Jan 2009, chris_vallance wrote:
TJS and DmcN - 1 right answer so far but I'm not saying which....

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4. At 3:49pm on 06 Jan 2009, Thejestersang wrote:
Chris, I thought your face was familiar!
It's been a long time mate - still going out with Lolita?

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5. At 4:39pm on 06 Jan 2009, David_McNickle wrote:
4 looks a bit like Jeremy Bowen before he shaved. The rest are Tariq Ali or George Galloway.

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6. At 4:43pm on 06 Jan 2009, David_McNickle wrote:
One (not 1) is Freddie Mercury, and one (again, not 1) is Mark Spitz. Or Teddy Roosevelt. Maybe 8 is Groucho Marx. Or Hitler.

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7. At 4:45pm on 06 Jan 2009, David_McNickle wrote:
6 might be Emelio Zapata. Show me his hat and I'll decide.

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8. At 4:46pm on 06 Jan 2009, David_McNickle wrote:
3 is Philip Henscher of the Indy.

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9. At 7:27pm on 06 Jan 2009, chris_vallance wrote:
Not Henscher, but 3 is a journalist. And there is a musician and a sports star in there - but not Freddy Mercury or Mark Spitz. But you are getting warmer.

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10. At 00:51am on 07 Jan 2009, Thejestersang wrote:
Warmer??? In this bleeding weather?

4. It's all coming back to me now - Nothing Sweeter, we used to say. Ah, them were the days eh Chris?

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11. At 00:56am on 07 Jan 2009, Thejestersang wrote:
If I don't get a pen, I'm going to go on and on.

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12. At 10:43am on 07 Jan 2009, David_McNickle wrote:
c_v 9, And, I'm just guessing without much thought put into it.

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13. At 10:48am on 07 Jan 2009, David_McNickle wrote:
Tjs 11, 3 is Lewis Edson Waterman, inventor of the Waterman pen. You can pick up yours at Broadcasting House. But don't bend over for too long.

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14. At 10:49am on 07 Jan 2009, Thejestersang wrote:
1 might be Harry Nillson and 10 might be Dennis Lillee.

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15. At 10:51am on 07 Jan 2009, Thejestersang wrote:
and 6 might be Tendulkar.

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16. At 11:47am on 07 Jan 2009, Thejestersang wrote:
On second thoughts, 1 is Eric Clapton.

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17. At 12:41pm on 07 Jan 2009, Thejestersang wrote:
And 10 might be Alan Border.

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18. At 12:42pm on 07 Jan 2009, Thejestersang wrote:
4 is Mandy, of Turkey Trot fame.

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19. At 3:19pm on 07 Jan 2009, Thejestersang wrote:
I printed this page and took it down to the black pudding and tripe shop in the indoor market. I can now confirm that 12 is Mr Hardcastle.

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20. At 4:31pm on 07 Jan 2009, Thejestersang wrote:
Or Peter Cushing.

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21. At 4:33pm on 07 Jan 2009, Thejestersang wrote:
12. I mean Vincent Price.

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22. At 4:38pm on 07 Jan 2009, David_McNickle wrote:
One of the Arab lookers might be Saddam Hussein. Or any other Arab ruler. By ruler, I don't mean a yardstick. Or even Omar Sharif.

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23. At 4:39pm on 07 Jan 2009, David_McNickle wrote:
I thought 10 looked more like a Border Collie.

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24. At 4:43pm on 07 Jan 2009, Thejestersang wrote:
Summarising therefore, because I'm bored out of my skull and I can't get Count Arthur to play:

1.Clapton. 2.Dali 3.Me or Mair 4.Mandelson 5. Foreman 6.Tendulkar
7. Corbett 8.Zebedee 9.Sharif 10.Lillee
11. A BBC reporter 12. Price.

Owzat? Chris, this was not your finest hour, but we won't go into that.

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25. At 4:46pm on 07 Jan 2009, chris_vallance wrote:
Between comment 18 and 23 we have three more right answers. Saddam Hussein isn't in there though and 10 may have been involved in protecting borders, but is not a Border Collie.

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26. At 5:08pm on 07 Jan 2009, Thejestersang wrote:
can I change 10 to Alan Border? No? Oh well..I don't care anyway.

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27. At 5:20pm on 07 Jan 2009, David_McNickle wrote:
C-v 25, Did 10 run a boarding house and protected people who stayed there? Leonard Rossiter with a moustache?

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28. At 5:25pm on 07 Jan 2009, chris_vallance wrote:
re 24 TJS ... 6 right...very good! 3 isn't me or Mair. 11 we need names!

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29. At 5:37pm on 07 Jan 2009, David_McNickle wrote:
I'd say number 3 is Nigel 'Adjustable' Wrench.

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30. At 5:47pm on 07 Jan 2009, David_McNickle wrote:
10 is Jeff Hoon, although he looks a bit like Eric Knowles from the Antiques Roadshow.

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31. At 5:58pm on 07 Jan 2009, David_McNickle wrote:
9 could be Roger Bolton. Although John Bolton has a nice moustache. White, though... Am I getting a bit to esoteric?

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32. At 5:34pm on 08 Jan 2009, David_McNickle wrote:
C'mon, c'mon, we need hints. Thejetsonsang needs a bit of gratifying.

Nils is nil by face for hair.

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33. At 5:49pm on 08 Jan 2009, David_McNickle wrote:
6 is Margaret Thatcher.

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34. At 5:50pm on 08 Jan 2009, David_McNickle wrote:
12 is 3 with the beard removed. Or 3 is 12 with a beard grown.

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35. At 1:05pm on 09 Jan 2009, chris_vallance wrote:
DMcN - there are going to be audio hints on iPM saturday.

TJS you're now up to 7 right!

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36. At 2:23pm on 09 Jan 2009, Thejestersang wrote:
I know 11 but can't put a name to him, and there are just too many BBC reporters (on the list I gurgled) to single him out. Needles and haystacks spring to mind. One last guess: is it Giant Haystacks? if not, I concede. And I've no idea about the rest.

Now, back to Lolita..

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37. At 5:13pm on 09 Jan 2009, David_McNickle wrote:
c_v 35, They don't let me out on Saturdays.

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38. At 5:15pm on 09 Jan 2009, David_McNickle wrote:
One thing's for sure, only one of two people will be the winner. But then, I'm Thejestersang without a moustache. Not that he can't sing with one.

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39. At 11:18am on 10 Jan 2009, David_McNickle wrote:
Take the dimple out of the chin and 10 could be John Kettley. John Kettley is a weatherman, and so is Michael Fish.

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40. At 4:34pm on 10 Jan 2009, David_McNickle wrote:
6 is Rowan Atkinson in Blackadder WW1. Or is it 5? Or Manuel in Fawlty Towers. Or Pancho Villa. Or Aston Villa. Or is that a soccer team? Randy Lerner, then.

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41. At 4:42pm on 10 Jan 2009, David_McNickle wrote:
5,6, and 11 combined is Stalin.

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42. At 5:05pm on 10 Jan 2009, Eddie Mair wrote:
We'll have some audio clues on the programme for you...

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43. At 5:52pm on 10 Jan 2009, janeknows wrote:
Is 1 ricky tomlinson?

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44. At 5:53pm on 10 Jan 2009, janeknows wrote:
3 Brian Hanrahan?

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45. At 9:00pm on 10 Jan 2009, Dennis_Junior wrote:
Chris:
I have no idea whose 'tache' is it anyways in the pictures....

~Dennis Junior~

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46. At 11:08pm on 10 Jan 2009, jonjo777 wrote:
Chris - Could you have cleverly (and subtly) included a 'blast from the past' by choosing the late and much lamented Brian Redhead as your No. 3? (I seem to remember he sported this hirsute look for a while...). The 'bankers' here are... 2: Dali 7: Corbett 8: Zebedee 9: Sharif.

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47. At 01:35am on 11 Jan 2009, ruperthowe wrote:
The audio helped... Pretty confident about all of these... but totally stumped for 11.
1. Blunkett (couldn't figure out the audio clue, but he was a Today guest editor)
2. Dali
3. Brian Hanrahan (genius quote)
4. Mandelson (best 'tache award)
5. Paul Shane
6. Daley Thompson
7. Ronnie Corbett
8. Zebedee
9. Omar Sharif
10. Geoff Hoon
11. No idea at all. Glittery glittery spangly yellow shirt like a rockstar?? Sounds like a familiar voice from the radio. Bah.
12. Vincent Price

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48. At 11:35am on 11 Jan 2009, David_McNickle wrote:
That's it, everybody join in after Thejestersang and I already give the answers to most of them, just because you listened to iPM.

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