Origins of the Mullet
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- partdeux
Beastie Boys were responsible
As detailed in the Oxford English Dictionary, the term mullet as derogatory slang for a mullet wearer was "apparently coined, and certainly popularized, by U.S. hip-hop group the Beastie Boys", whose 1994 song Mullet Head uses "mullet" and "mullet head" in contemptuous reference to mullet wearers,[4] and whose fan publication, Grand Royal Magazine, featured a reference to the mullet in a 1995 edition as the first published use of the term.
thats it.... Im clockin out for the day
- utopian0
Thanks Sherlock
- climbatree0
i thought it was interesting
- 23kon0
"Origins of the 'term' - "Mullet" "
They coined the name for it not the haircut itself.
- janne760
- same guy?http://media.cns...BattleAxe
- http://media.cnsnews…BattleAxe
- subcommandante0
I remember calling them mullets way before the Beastie Boys were around.
The internets are clearly wrong.
- how dare you doubt the internets.janne76
- I am older than the internets.subcommandante
- CyBrain0
and Fonzie didn't invent the term nerd.
- boobs0
I call bullshit! They were called mullets back in the 1980s. Not sure why--might have something to do with George Michael--but that stuff about the Beasties is all bullshit. I'm losing respect for the OP even as I type this.
- baseline_shift0
i would have said canada
- long-short, hockey hair officially, but so prevalent it was simply "getting a haircut"danthon