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Speaker 2: Had to answer me this. Did you use the word
Speaker 2: mullet in the eighties?
Speaker 3: Yes, because I see I remember where it was also
Speaker 3: known in the eighties as ice hockey hair. I don't
Speaker 3: remember him in the mullet to like the nineties.
Speaker 2: All right, further research into it. The Oxford English Dictionary
Speaker 2: has credited the Beastie Boys with the term mullet as
Speaker 2: a haircut.
Speaker 4: The Oe d Roy is recognized all over the world.
Speaker 2: How's this for a scandal? The OED first credited Australian
Speaker 2: Street Machine Automotive Magazine with the first publication describing the
Speaker 2: mullet in nineteen ninety two, pre dating the Beastie Boys.
Speaker 2: Then later is discovered that the magazine image had been
Speaker 2: faked and the twenty eighteen apology posted had the fake.
Speaker 2: So the MAGA.
Speaker 4: Post deep fake was about the mullet.
Speaker 2: The magazine fudged their dates to say we were the
Speaker 2: first one to come up with the mullet. Wow, but
Speaker 2: apparently in the eighties we didn't call it a mullet.
Speaker 4: Can someone calling?
Speaker 3: Can anyone call in and tell us some of this? Honestly,
Speaker 3: did you really call it the munet in the eighties.
Speaker 3: I don't believe we did. I don't memory one calling
Speaker 3: him money. It wasn't known as being awed unusual, just
Speaker 3: how you had your hair.
Speaker 2: And if the Beastie Boys did come up with it,
Speaker 2: they should get more credit for coming up with the word.
Speaker 3: Got enough credit, I mean, the Wandi recognized the pioneer
Speaker 3: of music. There's nothing held the Beastie Boys back. When
Speaker 3: are we going to get the ju kudos for coining
Speaker 3: the words word?
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Speaker 4: We're talking about the great Munnet still going strong here
Speaker 4: in Austrow. Did it ever go away? No, it didn't.
Speaker 4: You've stood by the monet now.
Speaker 3: Jack has found some interestant research about the origins though
Speaker 3: not of the mudllet the haircut, but actually the word mullllet,
Speaker 3: which is what we universally all over the world called
Speaker 3: that ye and.
Speaker 2: When I actually think of the mullet as an eighties
Speaker 2: icon hairstyle. But apparently it wasn't until nineteen ninety four
Speaker 2: that we used the word mullet, and the Oxford English
Speaker 2: Dictionary says the of the term mullet to describe a
Speaker 2: hairstyle was coined by American hip hop group the Beastie
Speaker 2: Boys in their song Mullet Heead nineteen ninety four.
Speaker 3: Yeah, what of You's emailed me saying you're actually at work,
Speaker 3: supposed to be working, but actually now googling this doing
Speaker 3: research for us about the origins of the phrase. Mullllet
Speaker 3: send me a link to the Guardian website and a
Speaker 3: very dry dollar con section they've got called semantic enigmas.
Speaker 3: I'm listening to ABC through the night now it was
Speaker 3: time for this week's semantic enigmas.
Speaker 2: Hey, we did Doyley's and Haberdashery ten.
Speaker 3: Stand by that, stand by that. That's hard talk on
Speaker 3: this show. Why is a muddet hairstyle called a mudet?
Speaker 3: Mullett websites done, that was the thing. There are munet websites.
Speaker 3: Munllet websites generally credit the car coining of this phrase
Speaker 3: to Mike d of the of course Beastie Boys. This
Speaker 3: came from the song Mullettheads on the ninety four album
Speaker 3: Ill Communication, which described the hairgun it's wearers. Someone else
Speaker 3: chipping in on this. Americans call it the biff rib,
Speaker 3: which stands for business in front, rocking at the back.
Speaker 3: Paul Newman apparently refers to actually says the words mullet
Speaker 3: heads in his film Cool Hand Luke, which was out
Speaker 3: in nineteen sixty seven, which is see if we can get.
Speaker 4: Hold of the audio for that. You know, we need
Speaker 4: to speak today, right, we've got color. You were lined up?
Speaker 4: Is anyone who was a hairdresser in the eighties?
Speaker 5: Yes?
Speaker 4: What would a guy?
Speaker 3: Yeah, come in and actually say what they want? Would
Speaker 3: they just go look short the back? Leave it all
Speaker 3: big on top?
Speaker 2: I know the person my hairdresser used to be a
Speaker 2: hairdresser to the star.
Speaker 4: How did you leave it with them? When you leave
Speaker 4: a hairdresser?
Speaker 2: No, no, she retired, Oh she retired scissors. She hung
Speaker 2: up the scissors. I had to leave. But she said
Speaker 2: she used to do all the rock bands as they
Speaker 2: came through the rolling stones on the show. Yeah, Colleen,
Speaker 2: I bet she'll know what number.
Speaker 3: Yes, all right, let's try it at that. So all right,
Speaker 3: let's go to lines right now. So we're trying to
Speaker 3: find out what did we all say in the eighties
Speaker 3: for the money? If it didn't come along to the
Speaker 3: Beasti Boys in ninety four, Brett, good morning, good morning, Brett,
Speaker 3: what do you reckon the money, when do we start
Speaker 3: saying it?
Speaker 6: Well, in my opinion, the muddlers known as the Bogan
Speaker 6: cut in the eighties.
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, we used to call it the ice ice
Speaker 3: hockey hair in the UK. Mainly we thought it was
Speaker 3: mainly like Canadians that sort of had that look in
Speaker 3: the It.
Speaker 4: Does feel like a very very Candian.
Speaker 3: Sashes Australians as well, but yeah, go on, Bogan cut them.
Speaker 6: Yes, yes, So if you had the mullet, you were
Speaker 6: known as a bogan yeap. And and if you went
Speaker 6: to the hairdresser you would make sure that they kept
Speaker 6: tails at the back.
Speaker 3: And I think it's the nastiest manifestation and variation of
Speaker 3: the munet. The munet I think can look good, right,
Speaker 3: but those rattails if you see it on like a
Speaker 3: five or seven year old boy, right, I'm afraid you
Speaker 3: judge the parents don't.
Speaker 2: Oh no, wait, I know. I spoke to bretton his
Speaker 2: son has a mullet.
Speaker 6: He does, and it's.
Speaker 4: Down awkward, Brett. I'll send your price. Brett, thank you
Speaker 4: very much for calling. He's triple.
Speaker 3: Who knew we could fall out with this is a
Speaker 3: rat tails? I didn't know that was my unpopular opinion.
Speaker 3: Let's go to sorry Breton the son.
Speaker 5: Good morning Joe, Yes, Hi, hello Christian.
Speaker 4: My friend. What do you say mullets?
Speaker 5: Man? Jack's right, we need to call with a mullet.
Speaker 5: Matter of fact, back in the late seventies we should
Speaker 5: just going in the head dresser and say look, I
Speaker 5: takes some off the sides and leave the back along.
Speaker 5: That was it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, no one said the word money. It wasn't known
Speaker 4: as that one.
Speaker 5: No, it wasn't. If you have look at some of
Speaker 5: the some of the gangs back in the early seventies,
Speaker 5: like the I think it was the sharpest, normal basedab
Speaker 5: their heir along at the back and stuff.
Speaker 4: But that too. Yeah, we have to have a look
Speaker 4: at some of those gangs of the seventies.
Speaker 3: I want to see Daniel day Lewis the Gangs of
Speaker 3: Australia in a mullet.
Speaker 2: Australia is the movie that needs to.
Speaker 4: Be nice, getting Daniel day Lewis to call me on?
Speaker 4: Who's calling?
Speaker 3: Christian now pictured to him he set in the seventies
Speaker 3: in Frankston.
Speaker 4: You're rocking and money.
Speaker 2: Everybody has a mullet, but they don't call it that.
Speaker 4: They don't call it that my friend soon as a bogan, Joe.
Speaker 4: Great call, Thank you very.
Speaker 5: Much, Well well.
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