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(Des Moines Register)   Mullet hunting: The new pastime of the Iowa State Fair   (dmregister.com) divider line
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staplermofo
2005-08-21 12:48:53 PM  
I wish Iowa would get a job and move out of Minnesota's basement.
 
happydorkgirl
2005-08-21 1:10:36 PM  
The Fam lives in IA right now, and they all went to the fair. The mullet-related festivities weren't restricted to randomly ambushing the wearers; there was a mullet contest as well.

/is glad to be out of the midwest
 
ManAtWork
2005-08-21 1:24:47 PM  
As opposed to my sister's paper's version of the story.

Des Moines CityView Fair Fashion
 
charmed1782
2005-08-21 1:25:57 PM  
I saw the best mullet at my fair the other night. The guy had platinum blond hair (a la Hulk Hogan). The top and front of his head was shaved to a flat top, and then the back was long, flowing hair about 6-7 inches long.
 
vendaz
2005-08-21 1:28:21 PM  
CityView has always been a great paper, what does your sis do, ManAtWork?

/submitter
 
ManAtWork
2005-08-21 1:37:30 PM  
vendaz: what does your sis do, ManAtWork?

She's one of the writers. Specifically the Bar Fly column, and the recent strip club cover story.
 
brap [TotalFark]
2005-08-21 1:40:38 PM  
I mis-spent a Midwestern youth mocking the sartorial mis-steps of those around me, only to move to Brooklyn in the early 90s to find out that all the cool kids were dressed like farmers. Carhart jackets, work boots, and feed-caps.

If I could go back in time I'd be kinder to those who valued function over form or were just too dirt-poor to give a shiat about how their hair was coiffed. Especially on the one of the few times of the year they are just out looking for a bit of fun. It fills me with a mild shame.
 
vendaz
2005-08-21 1:48:31 PM  
ManAtWork
Specifically the Bar Fly column, and the recent strip club cover story.

Oh yeah, my gf really enjoyed that story, we picked it up on our last DSM trip. If I could actually find a job at someplace other than Principal, I'd come back to town...
 
Psychonaut
2005-08-21 3:04:26 PM  
ManAtWork: As opposed to my sister's paper's version of the story.

Des Moines CityView Fair Fashion


Which I posted. With a better headline. :)
 
Farkette_Gone_Wild
2005-08-21 3:30:42 PM  
Staplermofo, you owe me a new keyboard.
 
KazamaSmokers
2005-08-21 3:35:19 PM  
I like Iowa. It's clean, boring, friendly. Fresh air. Some good bars in Cedar Rapids and the Dez. They got Culver's, the BEST fast food chain in the country. Some minor league baseball and hockey. Nice state. Nice place to vegitate.

/probably wouldn't want to live there though.
 
halfdane
2005-08-21 3:35:54 PM  
they shoulda hit a Metal Church concert, they would have even seen the rare femullet.
 
Pokey_Underwood
2005-08-21 3:38:26 PM  
At least this story didn't come outta Wisconsin.
 
Coital Punishment
2005-08-21 3:39:48 PM  
I prefer to do my mullet hunting in "stealth" mode. Mullet hunting in Portland, OR. can be a bit dicey if the mark figures out that you're laughing at them through photography.

Considering the baseline intelligence for mullet-wearers, it's about a 50/50 shot.
 
James Incandenza
2005-08-21 3:40:24 PM  
The best mullet i have ever seen was when i was working as a lifeguard. A black family would come in to swim and the father and THREE sons each had mullets. But these were no ordinary mullets....these were jerry-curl mullets. Fully greased and permed up. It kills me just thinking about them.

_would love to see their family photos
 
BizarreRecords
2005-08-21 3:40:36 PM  
rare femullet.

Rare??? Mosta the mullets I see nowadays are on women, generally lesbians or Mexicans. I have a great MexiMullet pic which I would post if I was at home...
 
Pokey_Underwood
2005-08-21 3:41:29 PM  
KazamaSmokers: probably wouldn't want to live there though.

You know that IOWA stands for Idiots Out Wandering Around
 
moltov
2005-08-21 3:42:55 PM  
[image from davesilvan.com too old to be available]
 
Forsythe P. Jones
2005-08-21 3:45:17 PM  
BizarreRecords: This could be close:

[image from mulletsgalore.com too old to be available]
 
Greta_VanHouten
2005-08-21 3:45:58 PM  
A hunting guide can be found here
 
Teucer
2005-08-21 3:47:32 PM  
I had a girlfriend with a mullet a couple years ago. She was such a farking hipster. I have to admit is was funny though, and cute in this really perverted way.
 
skinink [OhFark]
2005-08-21 3:52:35 PM  
James Incandenza
"...But these were no ordinary mullets....these were jerry-curl mullets. Fully greased and permed up. It kills me just thinking about them."

I'm old enough to have had Jerri Curls when they were real popular. Aside from all the maintenance, I gave up wearing them the day I fell asleep on a bus, and when I woke up, my hair had smeared all the grease on the bus window.


Not to mention the relaxer you had to put in your hair to straighten it out. I'm pretty sure 50 percent of the 'relaxer' was made out of lye.
 
newsweek
2005-08-21 3:57:23 PM  
Since it seems available...

Business in front, party in the back!
 
bbqporkbun
2005-08-21 3:57:37 PM  
"--and it must extend from the bottom of the hair." What does this mean? I know what a mullet is, but I don't understand this part of their definition. Anyone?
 
agoodbook
2005-08-21 3:59:35 PM  
Wait....making fun of mullets. Its a sick, sick world man. I rock the ol' 10/90, chicks dig it man.

/ makes the sign of the devil
 
mychihuahuas
2005-08-21 4:02:42 PM  
GIS gave me the following ethnic variation of a mullet:

[image from roughjustice.blogspot.com too old to be available]
 
Comatose
2005-08-21 4:03:35 PM  
Ever wish you lived in a world where people grew up at some point? Yes I'm talking about the mullet hunters, not the mulletees.

/doesn't have a mullet, for the record
 
mychihuahuas
2005-08-21 4:05:32 PM  
Mullets can even be worn with thinning hair.

[image from 98online.com too old to be available]
 
BizarreRecords
2005-08-21 4:10:23 PM  
Comatose
Ever wish you lived in a world where people grew up at some point?

No. Sounds pretty dull.
 
Larjmarj
2005-08-21 4:15:17 PM  
[image from img326.imageshack.us too old to be available]

Hot diggity!!! Now that thar's a dang fine mullet!!
 
nytmare
2005-08-21 4:24:22 PM  
The kids that copy their hairstyle off Ashton Kutcher don't look any better.
 
DeVane
2005-08-21 4:25:06 PM  
No one posted the mullet family yet? Geez, you guys are slipping.
 
13ItemsInA12ItemOrLessLane
2005-08-21 4:28:46 PM  
Business in the front, party in the back!
 
mychihuahuas
2005-08-21 4:30:40 PM  
DeVane: No one posted the mullet family yet?

Is this the mullet family you were talking about?
[image from cinnamonrainbows.com too old to be available]
 
pizzz
2005-08-21 4:32:51 PM  
My wife and I play a similiar game on our weekly trips with the kids to the zoo. We look for: parents with cigs, guys in wife beaters, women with tatoos, and of course mullets. Today it was crowded as hell but the wife beaters won huge followed by parents with cigs. We only saw one mullet. I think people are wising up.
 
Dansker
2005-08-21 4:34:23 PM  
Comatose:
Ever wish you lived in a world where people grew up at some point? Yes I'm talking about the mullet hunters, not the mulletees.

Nah, I like living in a world where people do silly stuff.
 
dobedobeDUE
2005-08-21 4:37:31 PM  
Boy do I miss the culture of the midwest. Especially the issue of weight. In California I'm lineman sized, but in Illinois my nickname would be 'slim'. And don't forget those hilarious Iowa meth searches.
 
ziklagz
2005-08-21 4:38:12 PM  
I'm not sure that a group drinking vodka spiked kool-aid and bud light has much room to be making fun of people who wear mullets.

As far as living in IA, its not really different here than anywhere else. Some good people, some a**holes. Some things you can do, some things you can't.
 
nevesis
2005-08-21 4:50:22 PM  
ManAtWork [TotalFark]
As opposed to my sister's paper's version of the story.

Cityview is a great paper - though I wasn't impressed by the stripper story. Barfly seems pretty spot on though. Kudos to your sister.

oh and screw the iowa state fair.
 
OscarTamerz
2005-08-21 4:53:25 PM  
the Iowa State Fair isn't the place to go hunting mullets. The prime hunting grounds are in Palm Springs during the Dinah Shore golf tournament. All you have to do is look at ground until you see a pair of Birkenstock sandals and then look up past the Andrea Dworkin size 54 overalls or Billie Jean King coach shorts and if you're not looking at a Prince Valiant cut then you have most likely have found yourself a mullet.
 
GavinTheAlmighty
2005-08-21 4:53:59 PM  
I don't know about Iowa, but back up north in Ontario, the mullet just never went out of style.
 
gazuga
2005-08-21 4:56:02 PM  
I went to Europe a couple summers ago, and there is some great mullet hunting over there. Saw the best mullet ever in Czech Republic, although I think the owner was from Germany.

It's an international phenomenon!
 
Dansker
2005-08-21 5:02:59 PM  
gazuga:
It's an international phenomenon!

Yup. In Denmark we call it svenskerhaar ("Swede hair").
Dunno what the Swedes call it.
 
JestersTear
2005-08-21 5:03:45 PM  
I've never understood the whole fuss over people with a mullet. I've seen black people with haircuts far more farked up than a mullet, and no one seems to make a fuss over that.
 
mciann
2005-08-21 5:05:37 PM  
What I find particularly interesting is that in the 80's, no one referred to this haircut as a "mullet". At that time, it was called a "spike", particularly if the hair in front was gelled up and sticking up like spikes. It makes me wonder if poodle skirts, "greased back", and flappers were ever actually in the vernacular at the time they occurred.
 
rbuzby
2005-08-21 5:06:15 PM  
That is a fun article.
 
Dansker
2005-08-21 5:06:39 PM  
JestersTear
I've seen black people with haircuts far more farked up than a mullet, and no one seems to make a fuss over that.

Yeah, I know what you mean: Noone ever makes fun of afros of jerri curls. What's up with that?
 
Kaymon
2005-08-21 5:11:27 PM  
futv.org had some *real* mullet hunting, but the site appears fubar now.
 
vendaz
2005-08-21 5:19:37 PM  
#4!
 
halfdane
2005-08-21 5:31:54 PM  
mychihuahuas

isn't that a skullet?
 
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