Mullet(haircut) revisited.

[Sam Clements]

The poster said nothing nor implied anything about what the haircut was
called at the time.    The Beastie Boys could still have invented the
phrase.
I'll post back, asking if there is a memory of what it was called.

SC
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jesse Sheidlower" <jester at PANIX.COM>
To: <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
Sent: Thursday, August 28, 2003 11:48 PM
Subject: Re: Mullet(haircut) revisited.


> On Thu, Aug 28, 2003 at 11:44:06PM -0400, Sam Clements wrote:
> > If there has been a cite prior to the OED 1994 Beastie Boys, I couldn't
find
> > it.
> >
> > A poster at the Straight Dope offered this post:
> >
> >    "First I remember seeing it here in north Texas was about 79-80,
often
> > bleached white and associated with button covered members only jackets,
> > white dress shirts and thin black leather ties.
> >
> > Totally newwave fer shur dude!"
> >
> > I'm not really supposed to post that as a quote.  But knowing the SD,
they
> > want to get the real info.
> >
> > The poster struck me as more reliable than many.  I would take this at
face
> > value.
> >
> > All I meant to do by posting was to give a clue to a researcher who
might
> > still be trying to antedate the phrase beyond 1994.
>
> Does the poster elsewhere claim that it was called a "mullet" at
> that time? Or does s/he merely offer this as a date for the
> hairstyle itself?
>
> Jesse Sheidlower
> OED
>