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"Changed my hair style so many times, I don't know what I look like!"

--Talking Heads

I had punk hair dos, but I didn't like punk rock.  That earned me the epithet "poseur."  That was hypocrisy on their part, the punks were the ones going on about freedom of expression and individuality.

I had an orange mohawk at one point.  I'd usually dye it, then bleach it for various hues of orange and blonde, various lengths and spikiness, like Depeche Mode.  I got a crewcut when it started to fall out after a few years of abuse.  I've worn it very short since then.

My WORST hairdo was an attempt at the most famous hairdo of the '80s.  Think: "And I ran, I ran so far away..." ;)
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Where could you have existed in the US with an orange mohawk?  LA, NYC, San Francisco, maybe Denver?  I thought the Punk/New Wave styles were cool in the 80s, as I was there, but just can't picture a person walking along with an orange mohawk like for example in Alabama.
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In suburban Boston, every town had a few "punks."  We were a persecuted minority, hassled by jocks and rednecks, tailed by the police on suspicion of drug activity, and, at one point, accused of Satanism by some of the local hayseeds.  So, why did we do it?  I, for one, was a social outcast BEFORE I took on a "punk" image.  I had been a hapless dork, one of the most bullied kids in junior high.  The "punk" thing was valued self expression amid suburban pathology.
The mohawk I had was not a rooster style, but like the one Joe Strummer had, just spikier and bleached.  My friend Wayne had a fan mohawk.  That was when the Satanism rumor emerged.
We'd be in McDonald's hanging out, and some of the little kids would be scared of us.  This got the parents worried.  It didn't help that we dressed in black, or that my friend Sara wore a big pentagram.  Then a calf was found with its throat slit in a pasture near town.  Someone blamed us.  Satanic ritual, you know.  The school nurse and the football coach gave our names to the police and brought the local concerns to the school administration.  It backfired.  Our principal was a cool, liberal guy.  He told them in so many words they were all full of BS, and he didn't want to hear anything more about it.
I'm not in touch with any of those "punks."  They all grew up to be shits. :D

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I joined the ARMY. Shaved it all off. :'(

The rest of the time, I had long rocker hair. 8)
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8) 8)Are you sure you were i n the ARMY????Elvis didn't have to be BALD when he went in---he still ended up with hair.The Everly brothers joined the marine reserve,and they really did have to be bald. :D ;)Cheers!

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Do you  remember  having a  "tail"?

You know, all your  hair was a  short length, except for a few strands  that  grew long in the back, so it looked like a  tail? It was really stupid!

And then, in the late 80's amongst the "hip hop" set, there was the "box cut" which made your head look square!
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Yeah, lots of kids at the school I went to had those rattails, and so did NKOTB. And yes, they were stupid not to mention ugly.

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Do you  remember  having a  "tail"?

You know, all your  hair was a  short length, except for a few strands  that  grew long in the back, so it looked like a  tail? It was really stupid!

And then, in the late 80's amongst the "hip hop" set, there was the "box cut" which made your head look square!
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Yes, the "rat tail," or "rat's tail."  The Latino kids used bleach them orange. The teacher, Mr. Moore (Howard Hessman), on Head of the Class had quite a tail (BTW, didn't Arvid Engman look an awful lot like Bill Gates?)  I remember the heydey of the "box cut" as being 1990.  I was living in Boston that year, and all the dudes had 'em.  The chic was to make the top flat and squared off as well.  Some guys had little designs or logos shaved into the back or sides.  The best example of this style was the guy in Kid 'n Play, you know, from the "House Party" movies.