Mullet May Monday (a.k.a. the Ape Drape)

A recent email from one of my dearest friends, Bean, inspired these words on the haircut fit for business in the front and a party in the back (you know, a mullet, pronounced "muhl let" in case you live under a rock). She's a successful attorney and contests this is child abuse, and frankly, I gotta agree. Of course I can't resist adding my $.02 (seen below in italics).

Red Wing boy takes first place in Minn. mullet contest, Star Tribune

RED WING, Minn. - A 3-year-old (he's a baby-he can't fend for himself!) Red Wing boy has won first prize in this year's Minnesota Mullet Contest, (and we wonder why people think we live like the folks from the movie Fargo-hey) and yes, there is such a thing. Hockey Moms magazine, a Minnesota publication that's distributed at hockey arenas, named Brady Arneson's blond hairdo the best. Mullets are a family tradition for the Arnesons — Brady's older brother Blake won the same award in 2005 (OMG! even their neighbors from the trailer park are embarrassed). Their father Scott Arneson also had a mullet as a child (hellloooo, Dad, Scott, whatever TWO wrongs don't make a right). Mullets, which are sometimes called hockey hair, remain popular for some players. Scott Arneson explains that hockey kids want their hair to hang out the back of their helmets (I tight rolled my pants as a kid-doesn't make it O.K.). Brady's parents say they'll soon cut his mullet to keep their son comfortable in the warm weather (you have got to be kidding me are they gonna shave "tiger claws" in his sideburns for extra ventilation?).

In honor of the Mullet, Beaver Paddle, Bi - Level, Canadian passport, Kentucky waterfall, Missouri compromise, Neckwarmer, Ranchero, Shlonc (short + long), Soccer rocker, Squirrel pelt, Tennessee tophat, Yep-nope, I am going to feature a new "Mudflap" every Monday for the month of May. This is gonna be fun! PS Turn on the volume-I "think" I am soooooo funny...