There is a programme on the BBC at the moment looking at the origins of various words.  They are working with the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) to try and date some words.  They need printed evidence of a word in use.  One I thought people here might have something about is

"mullet"

"Wanted: Printed evidence before 1994; information of the word's origin.

The infamous hairstyle. Did you sport a mullet and call it that before the 1994 Beastie Boys' song 'Mullet Head'? A mullet-head is 'a stupid person', after the earlier meaning 'an imaginary fish with no brains'. Is this the origin? There are other offers."

So has anyone got any magazines talking about this style?  Or even referred to it in a diary? (apparently this might count)  If so you can go to the BBC site here and contact the OED.

Comedian Bill Bailey has 'skullet'.

http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/01787/Bill_bailey_facebo_1787484c.jpg

I don't really see many guys wearing mullets these days.

Comedian Bill Bailey has 'skullet'.

http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/01787/Bill_bailey_facebo_1787484c.jpg

When you've lost the hair on top of your head growing the rest out isn't going to make up for it. If you plan on doing the epic comb over of brushing it up over your head that would look so ridiculous people would laugh for days!

http://i1.ytimg.com/vi/I4SOnBDe7qs/mqdefault.jpg

When you've lost the hair on top of your head growing the rest out isn't going to make up for it. If you plan on doing the epic comb over of brushing it up over your head that would look so ridiculous people would laugh for days!


or just buy a toupee, that might solve the problem of going bald.

http://wac.450f.edgecastcdn.net/80450F/tasteofcountry.com/files/2012/07/Billy-Ray-Cyrus.jpg

Billy Ray Cyrus had one.

Comedian Bill Bailey has 'skullet'.

http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/01787/Bill_bailey_facebo_1787484c.jpg


Such a ridiculous look when men do that---does not draw attention away from your bald spots!

Such a ridiculous look when men do that---does not draw attention away from your bald spots!


people can obviously see your bald spot. ::)

http://www3.pictures.zimbio.com/pc/PLENTY+TIME+MULLET+OVER+police+suspect+hilarious+-puWC1LE45xl.jpg

When I think of mullets, the first name that pops into my mind is DJ and Fun House presenter Pat Sharp. I think he finally got rid of his notorious 'lion's mane mullet' in the mid 1990s.

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-uPJQQUB9xKc/TysqHcMUFbI/AAAAAAAAA2E/jFFqxyXd0vA/s1600/awkward-mullet.jpg

http://www.blogto.com/upload/2010/03/20100311_PlatinumBlonde1.jpg http://a123.g.akamai.net/f/123/12465/1d/media.canada.com/idl/cahr/20120821/cahr_20120821_final_c7_99300_i001.jpg?size=l

This was just 4 years ago.  I think mullets are making a comeback in a really big way.  ;D Much to the horror of everybody who grew up in the 80s and early 90s.  ;D

http://www.blogto.com/upload/2010/03/20100311_PlatinumBlonde1.jpg http://a123.g.akamai.net/f/123/12465/1d/media.canada.com/idl/cahr/20120821/cahr_20120821_final_c7_99300_i001.jpg?size=l

This was just 4 years ago.  I think mullets are making a comeback in a really big way.  ;D Much to the horror of everybody who grew up in the 80s and early 90s.  ;D


From a distance, he looks like John Lennon. :o

Mullet Kintyre

https://s2.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/M2HFi.6zeyZwBGmR5EKstg--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg4O3B4b2ZmPTUwO3B5b2ZmPTA7cT03NTt3PTExMA--/http://l.yimg.com/os/153/2013/05/22/3285430-jpg_221015.jpg

From a distance, he looks like John Lennon. :o


Yeah I know.  ;D

https://darcknyt.files.wordpress.com/2009/12/80shairherodarylhall.jpg

http://cbssports.com/images/blogs/Jimmy_Clausen_Haircut_Supercuts_Twitter_Joe_Dirt_Mullet.jpg

http://mit.zenfs.com/877/2012/02/bolton-mullet.jpg

http://mit.zenfs.com/877/2012/02/bolton-mullet.jpg
I thought is was Michael Bolton, his hair is a lot short and respectable now.

http://mit.zenfs.com/877/2012/02/bolton-mullet.jpg


It's the Soul Provider himself.

https://michaeljlewis.files.wordpress.com/2013/01/richard-marx.jpg

How can we forget about Marx?

It's the Soul Provider himself.

https://michaeljlewis.files.wordpress.com/2013/01/richard-marx.jpg

How can we forget about Marx?


http://img2.timeinc.net/people/i/2014/news/140721/richard-marx-768.jpg
This is what he looks like now. ↑

http://wac.450f.edgecastcdn.net/80450F/kekbfm.com/files/2013/04/andre-agassi-425x630.jpg
How about Andre Agassi?

http://ztams.com/wp-content/uploads/113009MSMO104.jpg

Simon Le Bon and Nick Rhodes from Duran Duran did the mullets very well.  LOL! I just wish Simon would have gotten rid of the brillo pad on his face.  ;D

http://ztams.com/wp-content/uploads/113009MSMO104.jpg

Simon Le Bon and Nick Rhodes from Duran Duran did the mullets very well.  LOL! I just wish Simon would have gotten rid of the brillo pad on his face.  ;D


They look better with straight hair.

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/b9/39/47/b93947c41f1eddbf34d8854716a6d80d.jpg
Markie Post with a mullet

http://shutupandwearit.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/High-and-Tight-Mullet1-361x500.jpg

http://img2.timeinc.net/people/i/2014/news/140721/richard-marx-768.jpg
This is what he looks like now. ↑


:o

I never heard of that term until late '90s.

In fact, I didn't really know what it meant, anyway.

Real-life people didn't have mullets.  Maybe some stars did, but guys in our school didn't, unless they were grits.  Only grits possibly had that kind of thing.  Usually, it was just plain long hair.  Like Steve Perry on Journey or something.

BTW, some of the pix here I do not know if that is appropriate to label them.

Some would probably say I had a mullet.  I spiked my hair big time into a virtual mohawk, gradually pulling up from the sides, and usually had some length left in the back.  (I'm a girl.)  I never thought of it that way, more just spiking, but with the apparently loose definition shown, I might fit in.

http://shutupandwearit.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/High-and-Tight-Mullet1-361x500.jpg


that's one weird mullet. :o

http://www.digitalbusstop.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/John-Stamos-Mullet.jpg

http://www.digitalbusstop.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/John-Stamos-Mullet.jpg


Pure mullet perfection.

My father had one, and I did as a kid, in the '90s. I always have felt it is a good hairstyle. He father pulled it off
http://s3.postimg.org/5x13fak03/Fall_1995_or_1996_1.jpg

Pure mullet perfection.


He don't wear a mullet any longer.

They look better with straight hair.


I know.  :) Even now Simon needed to get rid of that brillo pad on his face.  :)

http://images.nymag.com/news/intelligencer/encounter/encounter110117_250.jpg

I know.  :) Even now Simon needed to get rid of that brillo pad on his face.  :)

http://images.nymag.com/news/intelligencer/encounter/encounter110117_250.jpg


I kind of like it on his face, makes him look more mature.

http://www.kfm.co.za/-/media/kfm/editor-media/images/content/shows/peter-dinklage-sported-80s-mullet-in-yearbook-photo.ashx
Peter Dinklage

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-mkI7_VF85dg/Ub51f0tQKJI/AAAAAAAAFdM/zEKshzUmz3Q/s1600/abjefferson.jpg

Would this be considered a mullet?:
http://s8.postimg.org/ek4f8mlxx/November_and_December_1993.jpg

http://resources2.news.com.au/images/2008/10/02/1111120/472698-celebrity-mullets.jpg

There doesn't seem to be any clear definition for what a 'mullet' is, given how every photo in this thread looks very different in style.

There doesn't seem to be any clear definition for what a 'mullet' is, given how every photo in this thread looks very different in style.
The mullet is a hairstyle that is short at the front and sides and long in the back.

The mullet is a hairstyle that is short at the front and sides and long in the back.


"business in the front, party in the back".

http://www.stefansautographs.ch/McKeon15.jpg
Nancy McKeon

The mullet is a hairstyle that is short at the front and sides and long in the back.


But how short in the front does a mullet make, is the question?

Like, Mick Jagger here, only has bangs in the front:
http://i1.cdnds.net/13/30/618x501/mick-jagger.jpg

Mullet?

Or John Lennon here:
http://data3.whicdn.com/images/10896332/original.jpg

My father here?:
http://s9.postimg.org/n9uua9ne7/sept_93_5.jpg

or here?:
http://s23.postimg.org/f32m95rkr/early_or_mid_1996_16.jpg

Brother in law here?:
http://s23.postimg.org/m7b8qpk2j/12_02_03_05_03_05.jpg

Out of these pix and the following, which is and which isn't a mullet?
http://www.hotflick.net/flicks/1998_The_Mask_of_Zorro/fhd998MOZ_Anthony_Hopkins_008.jpg
https://b3walker.files.wordpress.com/2013/11/toilet.png
http://snowbum.8m.com/mock/WILLIS.JPG
http://i1.mirror.co.uk/incoming/article2343061.ece/alternates/s615/William-Hartnell.jpg
http://image.pbs.org/video-assets/WKGB/great-conversations/20910/images/Mezzanine_501.jpg.fit.344x192.jpg
https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/d1/69/1f/d1691fda6bd61e5dcba9ff91072f154b.jpg

"business in the front, party in the back".
In Germany a Mullet is known as a "Vokuhila" which is an abbreviation of "Vorne kurz, hinten lang" which means "Front short, rear long". ;D

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/64/Mugil_cephalus.jpg/480px-Mugil_cephalus.jpg

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mullet_(fish)

Not the mullet in discussion here!

http://i3.cdnds.net/12/33/618x550/rexfeatures_108958a.jpg
Rod Stewart with a mullet

Can someone reply to my post on the previous page?

http://media-cache-ec0.pinimg.com/736x/80/10/75/801075f9d1a6155300318e17d59cb2be.jpg

The John Taylor Mullet.  Very popular with the teenaged girls.  :)

Can someone reply to my post on the previous page?
Which post on the previous page?

But how short in the front does a mullet make, is the question?

Like, Mick Jagger here, only has bangs in the front:
http://i1.cdnds.net/13/30/618x501/mick-jagger.jpg

Mullet?

Or John Lennon here:
http://data3.whicdn.com/images/10896332/original.jpg

My father here?:
http://s9.postimg.org/n9uua9ne7/sept_93_5.jpg

or here?:
http://s23.postimg.org/f32m95rkr/early_or_mid_1996_16.jpg

Brother in law here?:
http://s23.postimg.org/m7b8qpk2j/12_02_03_05_03_05.jpg

Out of these pix and the following, which is and which isn't a mullet?
http://www.hotflick.net/flicks/1998_The_Mask_of_Zorro/fhd998MOZ_Anthony_Hopkins_008.jpg
https://b3walker.files.wordpress.com/2013/11/toilet.png
http://i1.mirror.co.uk/incoming/article2343061.ece/alternates/s615/William-Hartnell.jpg
http://image.pbs.org/video-assets/WKGB/great-conversations/20910/images/Mezzanine_501.jpg.fit.344x192.jpg
https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/d1/69/1f/d1691fda6bd61e5dcba9ff91072f154b.jpg


This one

^^^^ You already posted that picture two pages back.  ;D

^^^^ You already posted that picture two pages back.  ;D


Oops, sorry.

http://blogs.houstonpress.com/rocks/andy-taylor.jpg  http://www.rankopedia.com/CandidatePix/94205.gif

Live Aid Day was the last time we would see all 5 of them together.  Andy and Roger would leave the band and not come back.

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/61/d9/69/61d96936a54cc70e621290d6b845b01d.jpg

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/61/d9/69/61d96936a54cc70e621290d6b845b01d.jpg

I don't think that was Charlie's real hair.  I think those were extensions.

http://ris.fashion.telegraph.co.uk/RichImageService.svc/imagecontent/1/TMG10330637/p/Scarlett-Johansson_2681323a.jpg

This one


I would say almost none of those are mullets, they are just guys with longer hair.  Your dad's photo isn't quite so clear.

Typically mullets are cut short around the front and sides (so neat around the ears) and only the back part is long.

I would say almost none of those are mullets, they are just guys with longer hair.  Your dad's photo isn't quite so clear.

Typically mullets are cut short around the front and sides (so neat around the ears) and only the back part is long.


This?
http://s21.postimg.org/nn9nx20mf/Untitled_35.jpg

Or here, where the ears are neat, but the sides are long as well as the back?
http://s12.postimg.org/9cxl4gosd/image.jpg

Dont see many today?

Dont see many today?


Thank goodness! Lol!

Interesting history of the mullet, a hairstyle worn by such luminaries as Benjamin Franklin, David Bowie and the Greek God Apollo.

www.dazeddigital.com/beauty/head/article/44884/1/mullet-subculture-hair-history

Mullets they say,
Are rare today,
And what can we say about that,
In the barber's chair
To cut the hair,
And keep it under the hat.

It was clear that mullets were needed
For those with hairlines receded

Dont see many today?


No, not really, many guys have different hairstyles.

It was clear that mullets were needed
For those with hairlines receded
receding or reseeding?

receding or reseeding?

I think you would have to have a full head of hair to sport a mullet.

https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/918ucBfI9AL._SS500_.jpg

Mullet fish with a mullet.

Tony Blair now has a mullet:

www.cnn.com/2021/04/28/uk/tony-blair-mullet-interview-scli-gbr-intl/index.html

Tony Blair now has a mullet:

www.cnn.com/2021/04/28/uk/tony-blair-mullet-interview-scli-gbr-intl/index.html


Yes indeed, I heard this on the radio this morning, described as taking the appearance of Sir Richard Branson.

Yes indeed, I heard this on the radio this morning, described as taking the appearance of Sir Richard Branson.


It doesn't really look like a mullet to me though. Mullets have to make some pretense of having bangs or hair facing frontwards somehow. This is completely pushed back. I think it's a different category. "Mullet", not unlike "nostalgia",  is one of those words people throw around more loosely now than they used to.

It doesn't really look like a mullet to me though. Mullets have to make some pretense of having bangs or hair facing frontwards somehow. This is completely pushed back. I think it's a different category. "Mullet", not unlike "nostalgia",  is one of those words people throw around more loosely now than they used to.
Like this?

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-uPJQQUB9xKc/TysqHcMUFbI/AAAAAAAAA2E/jFFqxyXd0vA/s1600/awkward-mullet.jpg

Thank goodness! Lol!


I don't know. Mullets aren't what I would call a "favorite", but I like them in comparison to some of the haircuts I see today.

Like this?

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-uPJQQUB9xKc/TysqHcMUFbI/AAAAAAAAA2E/jFFqxyXd0vA/s1600/awkward-mullet.jpg


No, that's definitely a mullet. I guess we have to take each one on a case by case basis.  ;D

Tony Blair now has a mullet:

www.cnn.com/2021/04/28/uk/tony-blair-mullet-interview-scli-gbr-intl/index.html
Holy cow I wouldn't have recognized him... Man did he get old. :o

I saw a picture of Tony Blair. He looks like lots of people at the moment i.e. in need of a haircut. My dad is sporting a similar style, albeit a bit thinner on top. I wouldn’t call it a mullet.

Holy cow I wouldn't have recognized him... Man did he get old. :o


Yes, What the hell happened to him?  :o

Yes, What the hell happened to him?  :o
A result in being unable to get his hair cut during the lockdowns?

A result in being unable to get his hair cut during the lockdowns?


Maybe someone should've cut his hair instead?

Maybe someone should've cut his hair instead?


Perhaps he didn’t trust his wife.

Perhaps he didn’t trust his wife.
Cherie Blair is known professionally as a barrister, lecturer, and writer, so her finger dexterity with haircutting may not be known.

But 'Cherie with the scissors' has a ring to it.

A result in being unable to get his hair cut during the lockdowns?


He needs a Flowbee.

Perhaps he didn’t trust his wife.
Mullet desire, oh fringe oh where it can it be
My desire is always to be there
Oh, mullet desire.

Perhaps he didn’t trust his wife.

His wife would've probably botched his hair.

He needs a Flowbee.

He needs a barber.

My cousin gave me a mullet type haircut in 1988. It was fluffy in the front, and long in the back. Lol. I have various pictures but they're in a storage.

My cousin gave me a mullet type haircut in 1988. It was fluffy in the front, and long in the back. Lol. I have various pictures but they're in a storage.

With most of the hair I have on my head, I could never wear a mullet.

I saw a picture of Tony Blair. He looks like lots of people at the moment i.e. in need of a haircut. My dad is sporting a similar style, albeit a bit thinner on top. I wouldn’t call it a mullet.
Today is Tony Blair's 68th birthday, let us hope he has managed to his hair done for his celebrations?