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Would someone who is more up to date on fashion than I am (should be just about everybody) explain what a mullet is with reference to hairstyles?
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short on the top, long in the back... try: http://www.mulletjunky.com
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Your next challenge, consuelo, is to find a self-YART.
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In reply to:
Your next challenge
If I should choose to accept it...
As absent-minded as I am, I probably have already self-yarted and didn't even know it!
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Ah, the mullet! It seems to have been experiencing a revival even among women in recent years (it a slighly different form). This seemingly coincides with the reliving of late 70s early eighties kitsch fashion and early electronic music (hello Moogs, Korgs and DX7s). The mullet is also refered to as 'hockey hair', AFAIK. The mullet has a name almost as absurd as the actual hair cut in the German speaking world, 'Vokuhila' (abbrev. from: vorne kurz, hinten lang, i.e. short front, long back).
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Here is the ostensible etymology from etaoin's mullet junky site:
* The term Mullet(hair context obviously) traces back to the 1967 prison film Cool Hand Luke, starring Paul Newman and George Kennedy, in which Kennedy's character refers to Southern men with long hair as "Mullet Heads."
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not proportionaly longer in back than it is in front?
I would say not. I think there has to be a sudden change from short to long for it to be a mullet. For many years, we knew it as "hockey hair". I can't remember when I first heard the word "mullet" but I was happy to have a word to describe the condition!
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> I would say not.
I don't think so either - according to the people at mullet site, the hair has got to be at least 3x as long at the back as any where else if you want your mullet to be taken seriously. What we can see in the picture is problably best described as a 'mop' or mop-like hairstyle (sorry David, ...and Michelangelo).
It really is a quite extraordinary sculpture in the flesh, .. er marble; it doesn't surprise me that it maintains it's popularity to this day. If you were to try to reenact David's evident triumph in practical day wear, then you'd probably get more than a few sideways looks, and if you were to stand around like that, you'd likely be called a poser or a little on the effeminate side.
Praise the abstraction - abhor its reality, paint bowls of scrupulously clean fruit unwittingly distilling biophobic zeitgeist ... ah I love this world .. let's turn off the telly and go to Disney Land and then Las Vegas!
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