FW: missing word: mullet -- MORE!

[Bob Haas]

Oops, this was supposed to go to the entire list.

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From: Bob Haas <highbob at mindspring.com>
Date: Sun, 08 Oct 2000 10:30:30 -0400
To: Frank Abate <abatefr at earthlink.net>
Subject: Re: missing word: mullet -- MORE!

The "mullet" cut looks very similar to the pageboy worn by the little Dutch
Boy, on the logo of that particular brand of paint.  Are mullet plentiful in
the Netherlands?  Might "mullethead" be a nationalistically-based slur,
directed towards eaters of fish who also wear their hair that way?  And is
the pageboy-mullet-cut one and the same?  Yikes!

bob

> From: Frank Abate <abatefr at earthlink.net>
> Reply-To: Frank Abate <abatefr at earthlink.net>
> Date: Sun, 8 Oct 2000 09:18:41 -0400
> To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
> Subject: Re: missing word: mullet -- MORE!
>
> There is apparently a parallel mullet universe.
>
> To answer my own previous question -- the haircut from the 70s was called
> "the shag".  The mullet is similar, but not the same.  Perhaps the
> difference is that the mullet is short on the sides as well, in not covering
> any of the ear.  The best description I have seen for this haircut is --
> "business in the front, party in the back".
>
> The haircut sense is also not in either RHDU or WNW4 on CD.
>
> There is a new best-selling book on the cut, a whole bunch of websites,
> evidence from all over the world, and many noted and faded celebs who have
> sported the cut, aside from just folks.  It is simultaneously praised
> (mostly tongue-in-cheek) and scorned.  But it is still popular in some
> circles.  There are notable pop culture examples besides Billy Ray Cyrus,
> Bowie, and Agassi, including the former teen idol John Stamos from the 80s
> TV series "Full House", Jose Canseco (not now), and a bunch of soccer
> players.  It may be a bigger phenomenon in UK -- Lynne?
>
> Etymology is unclear from these sites.  There is mention of the fish in one
> quote, but I don't know what the fish looks like.  It is a common food fish.
> There are, however, 2 completely different species, one the true mullet, and
> the other AKA the goatfish.
>
> Also, one site mentions (and gives quotes from the script) the use of the
> term "mullethead" in "Cool Hand Luke".  But there is no connection to
> haircuts evident in that film.
>
> I have spent 10 minutes on this, and will not waste any more, dammit.
> Someone pick up the thread, please!
>
> Frank Abate