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Ed:Blog: Thunderlips is Big in Japan (and a correction)

We learned quite a lot about Hulk Hogan while working on this issue. Everyone probably already knows the Hulkster played the wrestler Thunderlips in Rocky III, but did you know he was big in Japan and wrestled there for years? Fans there call him "Ichiban." He once had a restaurant called Pastamania in the Mall of America, and was the original choice of pitchman for The George Foreman Grill but turned it down to sell a blender. And last but not least, The American Mustache Institute tells us they believe "Hogan's lower nose garment is the largest naturally grown, farm-raised mustache on earth." True story.

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  1. Abraham jonas Froman from American Mustache Institute, April 8, 2010 at 10:17 a.m.

    Indeed, Mr. Hogan played a fine person of Mustached American heritage as Thunderlips in Rocky III; and true, his lip accoutrement is in fact the largest naturally grown, farm-raised mustache on earth. These are undeniable truths, just as when the Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered in the middle 20th Century in Israeli caves, it was discovered in the texts that each time a mustache is shaved, an angel in heaven dies and falls to earth.

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