# Mods **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [July 8, 2004, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mods/254156 "2004-07-08T19:14:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Capt.Ridley\_s\_Shooting\_Party](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/cc9497/32.png) [@Capt.Ridley\_s\_Shooting\_Party](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Capt.Ridley_s_Shooting_Party)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2004, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mods/254156/1 "2004-07-08T19:14:02Z")
I’m talking about mods as in The Who, The Small Faces and mods and rockers. How did the mod movement begin? Is it just a UK thing, or are there other nationalities with a sizeable mod population? Who first attached the Ministry Of Defence logo to the movement (the three concentric circles, red, blue, white)? I’m assuming the logic was Ministry Of Defence -\> MOD -\> mod, is that correct? Why do mods associate themselves with scooters? Why not motorbikes, which are generally perceived as more manly? Was it cost or was a Lambretta a fashionable thing to own before the mod movement? ---
**Author:** ![ccwaterback](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/df705f/32.png) [@ccwaterback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ccwaterback)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2004, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mods/254156/2 "2004-07-09T00:39:24Z")
Here’s a decent website on Mods and Rockers: [http://www.stthomasu.ca/~pmccorm/modsandrockers1.html](http://www.stthomasu.ca/~pmccorm/modsandrockers1.html) ---
**Author:** ![Capt.Ridley\_s\_Shooting\_Party](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/cc9497/32.png) [@Capt.Ridley\_s\_Shooting\_Party](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Capt.Ridley_s_Shooting_Party)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2004, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mods/254156/3 "2004-07-09T21:48:12Z")
So the Rockers were a northern (especially around Merseyside) thing, where as the Mods were a southern thing, originally? Thanks, that cleared a lot of stuff up. ---
**Author:** ![oceans\_11](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/b2d939/32.png) [@oceans\_11](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/oceans_11)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2004, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mods/254156/4 "2004-07-10T01:29:19Z")
[This](http://www.modculture.co.uk/) is another good Mod site… ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Roboto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/76d3ee/32.png) [@Mr.Roboto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Roboto)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2004, 6:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mods/254156/5 "2004-07-10T06:06:57Z")
I remember someone asking Ringo if he was a Mod or a Rocker… He replied, He was a Mocker… In High School during the '60’s,if you were male,your choices were 1. Surfer 2. Mod 3. Cruiser 4. Hairboy