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…
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.
Confirmed. In Germany, it has the same image. Sometimes complemented by a scraggly mustache for good measure.
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.
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.
[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]