"hudags"

[Laurence Horn]

At 1:34 PM -0500 3/11/03, Mark A Mandel wrote:
>Is there any connection between this word and "hodad", a word
>(formerly?) used by surfers to mean a non-surfer?
>
>         He's the kind of surfer got a hodaddy haircut
>          and you wonder how he'll ever survive
>                 -- Richard Farin~a, song "Hard Loving Loser"
>
>(Date: 1966 or before
>[http://entertainment.msn.com/Album/?album=120732]. I have both his
>prehumous albums in original vinyl, but not to hand.)
>
Thanks, Mark.  I have that song on a double-cassette "Best of Richard
and Mimi Farin~a" and always wondered exactly what a hodaddy haircut
was.  The guy in the song always struck me as a role model at the
time.

Larry