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The Beastie Boys Coined "Mullet" (hairstyle) ... in 1994 (1 Viewer)
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TheIronSheik
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I feel like it's been around longer than that. Also, I'd need more proof than someone posting something on Reddit.
zamboni
Footballguy
I am surpised the Beasties coined it, but if the Oxford English Dictionary says so, that's good enough for me.
http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/253382?rskey=01r6qS&result=9&isAdvanced=false#eid
http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/253382?rskey=01r6qS&result=9&isAdvanced=false#eid
pantagrapher
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zamboni
Footballguy
Speaking of, whatever happened to this destined-to-be-a-classic show:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2dO9Autuk-M
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2dO9Autuk-M
pantagrapher
Footballguy
But it's true. This is what makes this so fascinating.
Granted, etymologies can be revised with time, but as of now, nobody has found any record of it before 1994.
tdoss
Footballguy
It was fashionable in the late 80's but I never heard anyone call it mullet until it was years after it was no longer fashionable.
zamboni
Footballguy
My favorite celebrity mullet is bass player Tony Franklin's from this clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lk7AVm0Ome0
Bob Magaw
Footballguy
Coincidentally, I went to high school with the editor of the first two Grand Royal magazines (Bob Mack), and the author of the Mullet article (Casey Fahey?), which was in the second edition, with the Lee Perry Wheaties box cover. Bruce Lee graced the inaugural cover, clad in the iconic yellow track suit, perhaps most famously reprised by Uma Thurman in Kill Bill: Vol. 1.
Not much seems to remain online, except for another second edition article by another classmate (detecting a trend?), Mark Riebling, about whether Timothy Leary worked for the CIA, titled Tinker, Tailor, Stoner, Spy...
http://aggressivedissentermedia.blogspot.com/2007/01/tinker-tailor-stoner-spy-was-timothy.html
Riebling (now a think tank policy wonk and adviser on national security) wrote a great book on the history of internecine boondoggles created by the bizarre schism between the respective FBI/CIA charters and mission statements, titled Wedge: The Secret War Between the FBI and CIA. Much of the history recounted the absurdities that arose due to the FBI not supposed to follow spies abroad but hand off info to the CIA, and the CIA not supposed to track spies within our borders but hand off info to the FBI (seeing as bad guys and groups frequently cross borders and often move in and out of the country at will). Partly due to the police mentality of wanting to make the collar themselves, and compartmentalized, insular information access, and general lack of integration, a lot of mischief and grief has been created (see 9/11, but he cites a mind-numbing, myriad number of other instances). Incidentally, I think Bond creator Ian Fleming contributed to the original charter of the CIA, or its predecessor OSS?
Funny exchange from the original reddit link.
Typical reddit xenophonophobia.
[–]nickycthatsme 31 points32 points33 points
an hour ago(8 children)I'm afraid of becoming afraid of that.
[–]atomheartother 26 points27 points28 points
an hour ago(6 children)xenophonophobiaphobiaphobia?
[–]maynardftw [score hidden]
50 minutes ago(0 children)xenophonophobiaphobiaphobiaphilia.
I love it.
[–]developer_of_webs 0 points1 point2 points
an hour ago(0 children)like a pinch on the neck from mr spock :(
[–]reticulatedtampon 0 points1 point2 points
an hour ago(0 children)sesquipedalophobia
[–]hawkian [score hidden]
an hour ago(1 child)I, uh, think that would be the fear of being afraid of being afraid of that.
[–]atomheartother [score hidden]
27 minutes ago(0 children)Yes, he is afraid of becoming afraid of xenophonophobia.
[–]_dontreadthis [score hidden]
34 minutes ago(0 children)That word frightens me.
* In another coincidence, since zamboni mentioned it, I met Tony Franklin a bunch of times (might have been around the time or just after he played in the firm with Jimmy Page, as well as David Coverdale's Whitesnake? and I don't think that latter band name was a reptillian reference
). He was super cool, and his friend gave me a cassette of some Warner Brothers cartoon Carl Stallings orchestral score cues. Oddly, I don't recall if he was sporting that heroic of a mullet at the time?
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Sabertooth
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Doesn't one of the prisoners in Cool Hand Luke call another guy a mullet head?
Henry Ford
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TheIronSheik
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pantagrapher
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Pots
Footballguy
Already debunked as being used as early as 1991 from other sources. http://imgur.com/gallery/1uV57qo
MC Gas Money
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Hitler coined the word "mullet" in '38
cstu
Footballguy
Maybe it was an Australian term that they picked up on tour and brought back.
This seems to fit with the hairstyle:
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Apple Jack
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the mulletsgallore website will always be one of the first entries in the interwebs hall of fame.
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