Fear The Mullet

I live in the South and the common perception of the good old boy held by the rest of the nation, sadly, is not far from the truth. I know plenty of people with gun racks in their trucks, pigs feet on their dinner plates and couches on their porches. However, nothing epitomizes the stereotype like the mullet.

Surely everybody is familiar with the mullet. A simple definition is a hairstyle that is short in the front and long in the back. According to the web site http://www.mulletjunky.com/, a legal mullet must be three times longer in the back than in the front. Other names for the hairstyle are: "The Ape Drape," "The Tennessee Waterfall," "The Mud Flap," and "The Achy-Breaky Big-Mistakey."

One of the more recognizable mullets in recent memory was the one sported by David Spade in the movie "Joe Dirt." If you aren't familiar with the movie, Joe Dirt was actually born without part of his skull and his parents stapled a mullet wig to his head to cover his brain and the skin and skull just kinda grew into the wig so he was stuck with it.

Why am I talking about mullets? I ran into the most awesome Joe Dirt mullet at work the other day. An exact replica. And it was a wig. On a seventy year old. You are never to old to rock a mullet.