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Started by Korea, March 10, 2009, 06:24:26 AM

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Liep

Yeah, we also call it "svenskerhår" because the Swedish love playing ice hockey.
"Af alle latterlige Ting forekommer det mig at være det allerlatterligste at have travlt" - Kierkegaard

"JamenajmenømahrmDÆ!DÆ! Æhvnårvaæhvadlelæh! Hvor er det crazy, det her, mand!" - Uffe Elbæk

Admiral Yi

My sense is "mullet" dates back to the mid-late 80s.

Syt

Quote from: Barrister on February 27, 2015, 04:41:25 PM
I don't know when the term "mullet" came into being, but back in the day we used to call the "business up front, party in the back" look Hockey Hair.

90s Canada has indeed a lot to be ashamed of: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IY_bhVSGKEg
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Malthus

Quote from: Admiral Yi on February 27, 2015, 04:43:30 PM
My sense is "mullet" dates back to the mid-late 80s.

I would have thought so too. Apparently, though, the term itself is a 90s term.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mullet_(haircut)#Etymology
The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane—Marcus Aurelius

Syt

Quote from: mongers on February 27, 2015, 04:50:55 PM
Quote from: Syt on February 27, 2015, 04:49:01 PM
Quote from: Barrister on February 27, 2015, 04:41:25 PM
I don't know when the term "mullet" came into being, but back in the day we used to call the "business up front, party in the back" look Hockey Hair.

90s Canada has indeed a lot to be ashamed of: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IY_bhVSGKEg

Why do I Just know that's a video of Rush, without having to click on it?

That would be *cool*. No, this is much worse and much more Canadian.
I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.
—Stephen Jay Gould

Proud owner of 42 Zoupa Points.

Liep

Quote from: mongers on February 27, 2015, 04:50:55 PM
Quote from: Syt on February 27, 2015, 04:49:01 PM
Quote from: Barrister on February 27, 2015, 04:41:25 PM
I don't know when the term "mullet" came into being, but back in the day we used to call the "business up front, party in the back" look Hockey Hair.

90s Canada has indeed a lot to be ashamed of: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IY_bhVSGKEg

Why do I Just know that's a video of Rush, without having to click on it?

Way more 10s than that. Is that a thing btw? How do you say that? Tenners?
"Af alle latterlige Ting forekommer det mig at være det allerlatterligste at have travlt" - Kierkegaard

"JamenajmenømahrmDÆ!DÆ! Æhvnårvaæhvadlelæh! Hvor er det crazy, det her, mand!" - Uffe Elbæk

mongers

Quote from: Syt on February 27, 2015, 04:51:40 PM
Quote from: mongers on February 27, 2015, 04:50:55 PM
Quote from: Syt on February 27, 2015, 04:49:01 PM
Quote from: Barrister on February 27, 2015, 04:41:25 PM
I don't know when the term "mullet" came into being, but back in the day we used to call the "business up front, party in the back" look Hockey Hair.

90s Canada has indeed a lot to be ashamed of: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IY_bhVSGKEg

Why do I Just know that's a video of Rush, without having to click on it?

That would be *cool*. No, this is much worse and much more Canadian.

:(
"We have it in our power to begin the world over again"

mongers

Quote from: Liep on February 27, 2015, 04:52:13 PM
Quote from: mongers on February 27, 2015, 04:50:55 PM
Quote from: Syt on February 27, 2015, 04:49:01 PM
Quote from: Barrister on February 27, 2015, 04:41:25 PM
I don't know when the term "mullet" came into being, but back in the day we used to call the "business up front, party in the back" look Hockey Hair.

90s Canada has indeed a lot to be ashamed of: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IY_bhVSGKEg

Why do I Just know that's a video of Rush, without having to click on it?

Way more 10s than that. Is that a thing btw? How do you say that? Tenners?

Not sure, as it money? 

If so, yes a tenner.
"We have it in our power to begin the world over again"

Malthus

Quote from: Syt on February 27, 2015, 04:51:40 PM
Quote from: mongers on February 27, 2015, 04:50:55 PM
Quote from: Syt on February 27, 2015, 04:49:01 PM
Quote from: Barrister on February 27, 2015, 04:41:25 PM
I don't know when the term "mullet" came into being, but back in the day we used to call the "business up front, party in the back" look Hockey Hair.

90s Canada has indeed a lot to be ashamed of: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IY_bhVSGKEg

Why do I Just know that's a video of Rush, without having to click on it?

That would be *cool*. No, this is much worse and much more Canadian.

You do realize that's a parody, right?  :hmm:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robin_Scherbatsky
The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane—Marcus Aurelius

Liep

Quote from: mongers on February 27, 2015, 04:53:46 PM
Quote from: Liep on February 27, 2015, 04:52:13 PM
Quote from: mongers on February 27, 2015, 04:50:55 PM
Quote from: Syt on February 27, 2015, 04:49:01 PM
Quote from: Barrister on February 27, 2015, 04:41:25 PM
I don't know when the term "mullet" came into being, but back in the day we used to call the "business up front, party in the back" look Hockey Hair.

90s Canada has indeed a lot to be ashamed of: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IY_bhVSGKEg

Why do I Just know that's a video of Rush, without having to click on it?

Way more 10s than that. Is that a thing btw? How do you say that? Tenners?

Not sure, as it money? 

If so, yes a tenner.

No, the decade we're in.
"Af alle latterlige Ting forekommer det mig at være det allerlatterligste at have travlt" - Kierkegaard

"JamenajmenømahrmDÆ!DÆ! Æhvnårvaæhvadlelæh! Hvor er det crazy, det her, mand!" - Uffe Elbæk

Barrister

Quote from: Malthus on February 27, 2015, 04:49:50 PM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on February 27, 2015, 04:43:30 PM
My sense is "mullet" dates back to the mid-late 80s.

I would have thought so too. Apparently, though, the term itself is a 90s term.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mullet_(haircut)#Etymology

That sounds / feels about right.  Back in the 1980s, Hockey Hair was seen as stylish.  But by the 1990s it came to be mocked.  You can't give something a mocking name like mullet if it's popular.
Posts here are my own private opinions.  I do not speak for my employer.

Admiral Yi


mongers

Quote from: Liep on February 27, 2015, 04:55:24 PM
Quote from: mongers on February 27, 2015, 04:53:46 PM
Quote from: Liep on February 27, 2015, 04:52:13 PM
Quote from: mongers on February 27, 2015, 04:50:55 PM
Quote from: Syt on February 27, 2015, 04:49:01 PM
Quote from: Barrister on February 27, 2015, 04:41:25 PM
I don't know when the term "mullet" came into being, but back in the day we used to call the "business up front, party in the back" look Hockey Hair.

90s Canada has indeed a lot to be ashamed of: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IY_bhVSGKEg

Why do I Just know that's a video of Rush, without having to click on it?

Way more 10s than that. Is that a thing btw? How do you say that? Tenners?

Not sure, as it money? 

If so, yes a tenner.

No, the decade we're in.

You've got as much right as anyone else to name it and see if it sticks; hell you also write English better than I do.
"We have it in our power to begin the world over again"

Liep

"Af alle latterlige Ting forekommer det mig at være det allerlatterligste at have travlt" - Kierkegaard

"JamenajmenømahrmDÆ!DÆ! Æhvnårvaæhvadlelæh! Hvor er det crazy, det her, mand!" - Uffe Elbæk

Admiral Yi

Quote from: Liep on February 27, 2015, 04:58:10 PM
Well, let's hope that doesn't catch on.

"The noughts" and "the teens" are much like "The Department of Homeland Security," in the sense that they sound like crap and are easy to disparage, but it's difficult to come up with something better.