Congratulations to Eric "Jizzy Peaches" Pylkas, the 2008 Undisputed HOBO World Mustache Champion. Pylkas is now the holder of the UHWMC Belt until next year's contest. He overcame great challenges to take this victory.

Above is the replay of the live webcast. I apologize for the audio quality. Pictures of the night's happenings will be posted on the Flickr account shortly.

In honor of the upcoming 5th Annual HOBO Mustache Contest to take place at the Bessemer VFW on November 26, Schick has decided to let you see how you will look with different styles of mustaches. It also gives you creepy googly eyes, which is really weird.

Go to the Schick Site and upload your picture to see yourself with a variety of 'staches. They don't have them all but they have a couple nice ones to choose from. If you create an account with the site you should be able to save your 'stache and paste the link here in the comments to show all of your fellow HOBOs.

Thank you to Schick for supporting the HOBO Mustache Contest.

HOBO would like to give a big thank you to all the businesses, people, and organizations that helped us, let us have fun there, or partied with us this year. It was great for a bunch of friends who just want to have a good time to get so many people behind them and support them. A Big HOBO Thank You goes out to the following:

Ore House - First off, we would love to thank the Ore House for everything they did for us, and especially for having the best pizza in the area... and maybe the world! Even though they weren't on the Poker Run this year, the Ore House will always be one of our stops. Thank you for all the pizza and beer and especially for sponsoring our Foosball Tournament with a gift certificate. Next year, we will schedule the 2nd Annual HOBO Foosball Tournament at the Ore House.

The Bessemer 4th of July Committee - Thank you for putting on the great 4th of July festivities every year. Without that we would never be able to have as much fun as we do. The rumor out there is that the committee even caught wind of some of our ideas and wants to put some into next year's 4th Schedule. We may have to clean things up a little bit for that, though.

Pub and Grub - Thank you for being such great hosts and allowing us to play our Quarters tournament there. We'll definitely plan to spend some time there next 4th.

Norman Korpi - I'd like to thank the Real World star for being gracious enough to allow us to take some photos and video with him for the scavenger hunt and the video. Make sure to check out his website and order his movie or get it with your Netflix account. We'd also like to invite Norm to hang out with us and go on a Poker Run next year and maybe we can make him a member of HOBO. Maybe we can even set the Real World/HOBO Challenge. We'd be better than those Road Rules guys.

Bessemer VFW - The "V" is the place to be. They've even hosted our poker games before. It's always a nice place to go with nice people. Visit them and get a drink from Pat or Myra. Visit them and buy some Pull Tabs to support the Vets.

Boulder Creek Golf Course - Thank you to Boulder for letting us have a putting contest on the green and then hosting our HOBO Open. They even penciled in a tee time for us at 3 after seeing our sign. Sorry, we were late though. HOBOs don't get going very quick.

Uncle Sam's - We're always happy to see Meatball and Jean Ann. I was even able to get an Uncle Sam's hat.

Pit Stop - The Pit Stop was kind enough to let us put up some HOBO cracker backers right underneath where they had THE PIT STOP spelled up with cracker backers.

Gin Mill - I know the bartenders at the Gin Mill visit the site. They were all talking about it. Thank you for putting up with us.

Booby Hatch - The Hatch has long been a gathering place for HOBOs. Cheryl is also responsible for taking care of the Poker Run. Thank you for that, and dealing us two winners this year. We need to make it a sweep next year, though. Also thank you for the great pizza fries.

Dig Inn/JJ's Yale Bar - Even thought it will always be the Dig Inn to me, it is now called JJ's. I don't care what they want to call it. It's the Dig Inn. I used to walk up there and get candy bars when I was a kid, so it's not going to change names to me. Still, the Dig is great plus HOBOs like to go on the roof of the Dig.

Big Dollar - Big Dollar was the place for the bulk of our beer and supply purchases over the 4th. Be sure to shop ther for the finest Old Milwaukee and Boone's Farm.

John Hellman - John took it upon himself to spread the HOBO word and tell tons of people about our website. He really got the town talking.

The King and Enni - Thank you to the Gregas's for allowing HOBOs to gather at their house many times over the 4th.

Dwight - Thank you to my dad for letting me park his truck on the main street all these years. HOBO should owe you a case of Old Style.

Mott and Julie - Thank you to these two for being the driver many times this 4th as well as tons and tons of times over the past couple years.

I'm sure there are many more people out there who deserve thanks. If any other HOBO comes across someone they would like to thank, please post it in the comments. I'd also like to tell everyone who is visiting this site to please leave a comment to a post and add yourself to our map. We like to know who comes here. Also, remember to support all the businesses above. They've been great and are some of the greatest place I've been to. Next year we'll have to try to make the 4th even bigger!