# For non-U.S. Dopers -- the "mullet" **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 29, 2000, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-non-u-s-dopers-the-mullet/27354 "2000-07-29T19:04:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![TwistofFate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/cdc98d/32.png) [@TwistofFate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TwistofFate)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2000, 7:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-non-u-s-dopers-the-mullet/27354/21 "2000-08-01T07:18:23Z")
cheers douglips, gut if I was to roll my pension plan into an IRA acount over here I’d probably be arrested 😉 as for “Suit you, Sir”. It comes from a British TV programme called “The Fast Show” the line is from a running sketch about 2 extremely polite but totally sleazy tailors, who come up with total filth while measuring their clients up for clothes. “Suit you , Sir!” has entered common vocabulary as a response to do with the opposite sex e.g. Person A:“My girlfriend likes bareback horseriding” Person B:“Oh, Suit you sir! I’d bet she likes the bit between her teeth and to be rode like a horse! Dosent she. sir? Oh, suit you sir!” I’d guess you’d have to see it… 😉 ---
**Author:** ![silent\_rob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@silent\_rob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silent_rob)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2000, 8:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-non-u-s-dopers-the-mullet/27354/22 "2000-08-01T08:08:12Z")
Where I am, it’s referred to as a _mullet_, _hockey hair_, or _ninty-ten_. You know, ninty percent at the back and ten on top. It’s not too popular now, though. Since _Beverly Hills: 90210_ went off the air. 😉 Actually, my friend currently has one. So this makes me laugh to no end. ---
**Author:** ![TheThill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/35a633/32.png) [@TheThill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheThill)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2000, 11:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-non-u-s-dopers-the-mullet/27354/23 "2000-08-01T11:58:18Z")
Confirmed. In Germany, it has the same image. Sometimes complemented by a scraggly mustache for good measure. ---
**Author:** ![tatertot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c37758/32.png) [@tatertot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tatertot)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2000, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-non-u-s-dopers-the-mullet/27354/24 "2000-08-01T13:41:32Z")
**Thill** , you forgot the parachute pants in assorted brights and prints! We’re talking orange with a camaflauge pattern…purple with white doodles…I feel queasy just writing about it. Sometimes, it’s paint or plaster covered work pants or overalls, but down here it’s mostly parachute pants. ---
**Author:** ![big\_yellow\_kingswood](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8e8cbc/32.png) [@big\_yellow\_kingswood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/big_yellow_kingswood)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2000, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-non-u-s-dopers-the-mullet/27354/25 "2000-08-01T13:44:34Z")
We have mullets in Australia too. In Sydney, it’s common in the western suburbs. The Aus-mullet generally comes with a case of VB and half a pack of Winnie Blues (12mg cigarettes), a flannelette shirt (covering an AC/DC t-shirt), a de-facto ex-stripper named Charlene (a fem-mullet), at least three kids (congratulations, it’s a mullet) named after his best mates, Tommo, Robbo and Pig-dog, and probably an ex-wife. They should have at least three cars in their front yard (two up on bricks) and uncompleted renovations to their self-built house. They will drive either a '78 holden panel van, or an '82 ford falcon sedan. Possibly both. And you will never, EVER catch one anywhere near the city on mardigras night… I work at the Sydney Superdome, and last weekend we had a bunch of your WWF wrestlers come out and put on one of their impro acting shows. The audience… wooee… Mullet City. A friend of mine wrote a story based on “the Sixth Sense” in which Bruce Willis has to help this kid who sees mullets everywhere. At the climax of the movie Bruce (co-incidentally a common mullet name) takes off his hat and… I’m sure you can guess… For a more detailed picture of the Australian Mullet, download an mp3 called ‘bloke’ by Chris Franklin. ---
**Author:** ![Quadzilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/a4c791/32.png) [@Quadzilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quadzilla)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2000, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-non-u-s-dopers-the-mullet/27354/26 "2000-08-01T15:28:58Z")
[back to hijack]astrangefish and mattk: You guys are right, the 3 guys are all British. But ye gods! They look a LOT like the KITH cast members…_shudder_ Well, at least in the commercials.[/back to hijack] [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-non-u-s-dopers-the-mullet/27354.md?page=1)