A month ago, I decided to spend the next year or so growing some good n proper Fu Manchu facial hair. In my mind, having seen the original movie and read the books - in which the famous hair apparently isn't spoken of and I never noticed - an authentic version of the style, and the finest example I can come up with, looks like this:

This is the end game - though I suspect that unless I get out the hair dye to play with, it's going to be rather grey. I'll cross that bridge when we have some length to speak of. Anyway, out of curiosity, I had a quick trawl to see if there were any other people sporting a version better than this and I'm pleased to report that this is indeed, the best I've seen but the web seems to be awash with false information.

For instance, quite often you'll see phrases like 'the style has been adopted by bikers and roadies' - but this is a lie because what they're talking about in those instances is something like this 'handlebar', as modelled by the immortal Hulk Hogan:

That's quite a difference don't you think. I'm sure there's some rules on this but they're not similar in the slightest. If the rules don't agree, then maybe they need to look a little closer. Having said that, I'm sure the rule book is actually correct if there is such a thing because the web is constantly flooded with garbage when it comes to... well, everything. Either way, it's not important. It's the Chow Yun Fat as Captain Sao Feng Fu version that I'm intending to grow on my face. I wonder how far it we'll get in a year? I read that facial hair grows about half an inch a month, so if my primary school maths is correct, that makes about six inches.

There's only one way to find out...