I'm not sure why an article about moustaches (The Argus, August 7) needed to be accompanied by three large pictures of Des Lynam, nor why a list of those sporting said facial growths needed to be captioned "Mustachioed nuts".

Were Einstein, Gandhi (whose name was misspelled), Martin Luther King or Schweitzer, nuts? Hitler and Salvador Dali, maybe.

In addition, the list seemed biased towards current pop, TV and sports celebrities, some of whom I'd not heard of, while other more eminent moustaches were overlooked.

Where were Saddam and Sadat, Enoch Powell and SuperMac, Clemenceau and Peter The Great, Jung and Keynes, Kipling and Wells, Stevenson and Proust, Gurdjieff and Gorky, Dr Livingstone and Dr Crippen, to name only a few? Even Shakespeare, if I'm not mistaken, is shown with some sort of 'tache in the Droeshout portrait.

But surely the all-time prize moustache belonged to Friedrich Nietzsche? There is nothing in his philosophy, I submit, that cannot be read in his moustache.

That Niagara of hairy exuberance pouring from under his nose has "Ubermensch" written all over it. It leaves only one question to be answered. How the hell did he eat his dinners?

-Graham Chainey, Brighton