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View Poll Results: Who deserves credit for the mullet?
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Bono 2 votes (22.22%)
Patrick Swayze 7 votes (77.78%)
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Who Invented the Mullet?
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BasketofPuppies
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Dec 6, 2005, 08:51 PM
 
Originally Posted by The Denver Post
Masters of the mullet: Bono, Patrick Swayze
Bono and Patrick Swayze are embroiled in a hairy dispute.

According to contactmusic.com, Swayze relates a meeting between a friend and the U2 frontman: "Bono said, 'I have issues with (Swayze), real serious issues.' My friend was like, 'Oh no!' and was about to skulk out of there when Bono told him, 'I read somewhere that people think Patrick Swayze invented the mullet. Someone needs to tell him I invented the mullet.'

"When I heard that I went, 'Oh my God, I'm going to love him.'
http://www.denverpost.com/entertainment/ci_3270804

Jay Leno reported last night that Billy Ray Cyrus may jump into this fight.
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Dec 6, 2005, 09:00 PM
 
It was the NHL that decided that it's the best cut for under the hockey helmet. I vote for them.
     
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Dec 6, 2005, 09:01 PM
 
The Camaro.®
     
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Dec 6, 2005, 11:56 PM
 
The Mullet existed WAAY before Billy Ray Cyrus.
     
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Dec 7, 2005, 12:00 AM
 
This guy invented it

     
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Dec 7, 2005, 12:10 AM
 
before it was called a mullet I always heard Hockey hair. I think they are what made it famous.

Just as bad is that Poodle cut white trash women get.

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Dec 7, 2005, 12:14 AM
 
Do you enjoy calling people trash?
     
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Dec 7, 2005, 12:20 AM
 
Stop questioning Severed Hand of Skywalker.
     
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Dec 7, 2005, 12:22 AM
 
Originally Posted by Cubeoid
Stop questioning Severed Hand of Skywalker.
Oh man.. owned.

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Dec 7, 2005, 01:08 AM
 
Originally Posted by Kevin
Do you enjoy calling people trash?
You got a thread here somewhere advocating child abuse and beating a kid.

And I've heard you call people worse.

People in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.

He who is without sin cast the first stone.

Other stuffs.

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Dec 7, 2005, 02:15 AM
 
What the fekk is a mullet? thought it was bird feed.
     
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Dec 7, 2005, 03:32 AM
 
David Bowie.



WTF?!
     
BasketofPuppies  (op)
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Dec 7, 2005, 03:55 AM
 
Mullet and cameltoe: together at last!
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Dec 7, 2005, 04:16 AM
 
Guys don't have camel toes.
     
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Dec 7, 2005, 04:17 AM
 
Guys don't have camel toes.
     
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Dec 7, 2005, 08:03 AM
 
Originally Posted by Rolling Bones
You got a thread here somewhere advocating child abuse and beating a kid.
Nothing was advocating child abuse.
And I've heard you call people worse.
I am sure I have.

But can you name the last time I did? I bet you can't.

And I certainly don't call people names just because of how their hair is cut.
     
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Dec 7, 2005, 08:13 AM
 
It seems to be very popular in Spain right now. So many beautiful girls mutilated by this haircut!
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Dec 7, 2005, 08:18 AM
 
Originally Posted by OreoCookie
It seems to be very popular in Spain right now. So many beautiful girls mutilated by this haircut!
We have them in the U.S. too. We call them lesbians.
     
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Dec 7, 2005, 08:33 AM
 
You are all wrong..

It was Pat Sharp!

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Dec 7, 2005, 08:57 AM
 
Originally Posted by as2
You are all wrong..

It was Pat Sharp!

Remember the fun-house twins Melanie and Martina?
     
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Dec 7, 2005, 09:15 AM
 
I think we have the answer folks..



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Dec 7, 2005, 09:23 AM
 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mullet_%28haircut%29

The mullet goes by various nicknames, including Waddler (named after Chris Waddle, the English footballer) Ape Drape, Absolom, Camaro Cut, Camaro Crash Helmet, Shlong (Short-Long), Sfelby (Short Front, Long Back), Mississippi Mudflap, Hockey Hair, Femullet (woman's variety), ten-ninety, Tennessee Tophat and Kentucky Waterfall, Neck Warmer, Canadian Passport and Coupe Longueuil (Quebec French term meaning Longueuil-haircut). The popular phrase "Business in the front, party in the back" describes the look of the mullet; Mike D of the Beastie Boys is purported to have coined this word usage. Others credit Olympia, Washington's Jon "Quitty" Quittner and his mid-90's Hessian Obsession zines lampooning and celebrating heavy metal culture.
     
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Dec 7, 2005, 09:23 AM
 
Originally Posted by moonmonkey
Remember the fun-house twins Melanie and Martina?
Of course I do! Doesn't everyone who grew up watching that programme!
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Dec 7, 2005, 09:34 AM
 
No Joe Dirt option?
     
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Dec 7, 2005, 09:49 AM
 
I think we may have found him.

     
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Dec 7, 2005, 10:06 AM
 
are they the originators of the term? the world may never know.

Artist: Beastie Boys
Song: Mullet Head
You're coming off like you're Van Damme
You've got Kenny G, in your Trans Am
You've got names like Billy Ray
Now you sing Hip Hop Hooray
Put your Dakleys and your stone wash on
Watching MTV and you mosh on
#1 on the side and don't touch the back
#6 on the top and don't cut it wack, Jack

Shiny chrome rims never rusted
Driving through the tunnel, you might get busted
Never trusted, Mullet head
You know you took that girl to bed
Cruising 8th Street Saturday night
Trying to find a head shop, looking to fight
You've got that stonewash derriere
Spike the top because the week-end is here

You wanna know what's a mullet? well
I got a little story to tell
About a hair style, that's way of life
Have you ever seen a Mullet wife?

Yo, take a chill B, check out my Spillbee
'Cause you don't know about the Mullet head
Cruise in my Iroc, stonewash on my cock
Got it like that 'cause I'm the Mullet head
Put me on trial 'cause I'm worth your while
Pass me the comb 'cause I'm the Mullet man

Read the New York Post, read a story
About Joey Buttafooco in all his glory
They said he tried to freak it with a high school girl
Pimpin' Amy Fisher to the rest of the world
A real lover man, a real Cassanova
Joey got horny and now he's over
Amy got pissed, shot his wife
Joey gest to jail for the rest of his life

Cut the sides, don't touch the back
     
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Dec 7, 2005, 10:17 AM
 
Originally Posted by OreoCookie
It seems to be very popular in Spain right now. So many beautiful girls mutilated by this haircut!
Noticed that too the last time I was in spain. Really horrible.

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Dec 7, 2005, 10:38 AM
 
Whoever it was that invented the mullet, they're first up against the wall when the revolution comes!

At least all those beautiful girls can either let the awfulness grow out or go for a short cut all over and just look cute for a while.

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Dec 7, 2005, 11:18 AM
 
Originally Posted by Rolling Bones
Guys don't have camel toes.
Then what do you call this?

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Dec 7, 2005, 11:42 AM
 
Originally Posted by Goldfinger
Noticed that too the last time I was in spain. Really horrible.
Maybe it's particularly bad in Catalunia, I don't know, but I heard so.

Horrible. Spanish have a reputation of having more style, but this haircut pretty much makes it irrelevant for me what the girl (or guy) is wearing. All I can see is hair
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Dec 7, 2005, 01:14 PM
 
My stepdad is a barber. About a year ago I asked him how many mullets he cuts in a week. He had no idea what I was talking about. It seems people who wear mullets do not call them as such.
I have heard the mullet described as the biggest inside-joke in the history of mankind. I would have to agree.
     
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Dec 7, 2005, 02:12 PM
 
I'd say bono deserves credit but I doubt he wants it.
     
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Dec 7, 2005, 02:25 PM
 
Doesn't want it? He's fighting for sole credit.
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