Did Mike D invent the mullet?

[Kimpossible]

Ok, I know this has been discussed here previously, but I do need to get to the bottom of this mystery!

The first reference the Oxford English Dictionary has to the word mullet as a haircut comes from Mullet Head in 1994. But did Mike D invent the term or was it around before 1994?

Anyone have any thoughts? Any ex Grand Royal staffers lurking who have something to say?

Incidentally, anyone who can come up with earlier evidence of "mullet" as a haircut (not the fish, obviously that has been around much longer) can get eternal fame and glory through a mention in the OED and a feature on a UK television series, see: www.bbc.co.uk/wordhunt

[PaddyBoy]

Ok, I know this has been discussed here previously, but I do need to get to the bottom of this mystery!

The first reference the Oxford English Dictionary has to the word mullet as a haircut comes from Mullet Head in 1994. But did Mike D invent the term or was it around before 1994?

Anyone have any thoughts? Any ex Grand Royal staffers lurking who have something to say?

Incidentally, anyone who can come up with earlier evidence of "mullet" as a haircut (not the fish, obviously that has been around much longer) can get eternal fame and glory through a mention in the OED and a feature on a UK television series, see: www.bbc.co.uk/wordhunt

They say that Mike D 'coined the term', but he prob heard it from someone else.

[Chicka B]

Actually, I think Adrock (http://server5.theimagehosting.com/image.php?img=mullet.3.jpg) invented the mullet. (y) :D Maybe Mike D invented the term, just maybe.

[b-grrrlie]

This (http://www.mulletsgalore.com/motw/images/ProfileImage.jpg) is a mullet.

And it is the Beastie Boys who coined the phrase (http://www.yourdictionary.com/library/mullet.html).
According to the OED, in America, a "freshwater fish with a large flat head" is called a mullethead. The OED illustrates the term with the following citations:

* 1866 Harper’s Magazine Sept. 537/1 Dat fish is a mullet-head; it hain’t got any brains.
* 1873 J. H. Beadle Undeveloped West v. 102 There is a fish called the mullethead, that cannot be intoxicated by any amount of liquor.
* 1893 W. Forbes-Mitchell Reminiscences of the Great Mutiny vi. 110 That fish, my son, is called a mullet-head: it has got no brains.

It might seem that mullethead "fool" came from mullethead "fish" (since the naming of human beings characterized by their behavior according to a metaphorical resemblance with animals is common). But mulletheaded "foolish" is recorded from 1857, seven years before mullethead "fish": "The men, for the most part sleepy, ignorant, mullet-headed looking wretches"; so it is not clear whether the fool was named for the fish, or the fish for the fool.

[Chicka B]

Hey, that dude in the one picture is scary as fuck! I'm gonna have nightmares now.

That isnt a mullet adrock has in the pic. that pic is circa 85.

HAHAHAHAHAHA!! Ohhh, I feel horrible now. Thanks for telling me.:o

[Documad]

Mike's magazine article on mullets was one of the funniest things I ever read.

P.S. mullets are even scarier on women.

[P.T.B.A.I.]

Hey you guys should check out MulletJunky.com.

Some of the scariest shit I have seen in my life.