Here's a bit of video of the event from ThatGuyBSU's youtube stream, originally posted here. Lots of familiar faces in this snippet, including Storm, Famous Tracy, Randal Schwartz, and the ever-present back of my head.
I especially love watching this video and being able to say "Aha, that's who took that picture!"
Searching the Official Flickr photo stream for the word "mustache" gives you nine pages of results from the formal, and I really think they're the best photos from the cruise. Not only is there the whimsy of seeing a lot of people in fake felt mustaches, but there's also plenty of proof that we nerds clean up real purtey.
I'm including a few of my favorites below.
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Clearly the best way to get noticed at a mustache formal is to bring your own. The mustache on a stick and the tie-on mustache were both show stoppers:
Original photo from Gina Mai's photostream posted here.
Original photo from ElLordHighBueno's photostream posted here.
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Turns out the only thing more photogenic than a lovely woman in a mustache is a baby in a mustache (little wonder).
Original photo from Joseph.Boss' photostream posted here.
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Sara (chicazul) continues to make everyone else look bad with her epic levels of off-beat beauty. Also, check out those biceps!
I love that Her Highness brought her own mustache. It's hard to tell in this photo, but it was fuzzy and pink.
Original photo from cajunjoel's photostream posted here.
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Finally, perhaps the world's only known record of a photobombing mustache?
Original photo from Hijammer 42's photostream posted here.
This last picture leads right into the speculation of what sort of organized events we'll see on the next cruise. Paul and Storm have hinted that a lot of the ideas discussed in the forums were already things they'd planned. We'll find out soon enough what they've got in mind, but here are some of the things I've seen go by:
The Fez Fete -- inspired by Wil Wheaton, Dr. Who, and the coolness of fezes in general. Don't have a fez? EDIT: Go buy one from Chicazul, who's making all manner of custom fezes to raise money for Joco cruise crazy 2. (You can dress up like a sultan in your cthulhu head hat.)
The I Crush Everything First Annual Bubble Social -- Take in the sea air, blow bubbles, and possibly fly tiny kites on the aft deck.
Talent show! -- for people with talent. Expect a lot of ukeleles -- the most portable form of stringed accompaniment, after the lute.
Bake off -- a chance to get together and get creatively baking or get fat off other people doing so.
The Snuggie Social -- an opportunity to prove that Jonathan Coulton isn't a fluke in our eyes (I mean, he's NOT a shake weight, for goodness sake).
Of course, we could always do the mustache formal again. In this case, we'd all get a chance to be rockin' the 'stache a second time (this time, it's personal).
This video from sarachicazul posted here.
