We loved the azalea festival and the dogwood festival.
Then, since we lived near Morehead City, there was a bald man festival.
So, you can imagine the thrill that went through me when I read about the upcoming festival in a town near us - the Mullet Festival. Holy Billy Ray Cyrus, that was sure to be a blast. I wrote it on the calendar and counted down the minutes.
Did you know that mullet is also the name of a fish? I didn't. The Mullet Festival was sure enough festing all things related to fish known as a mullet. Not celebrating the best men's hairstyle since time began.
That's not to say there weren't some mullet hairdos in attendance at the festival.
It was the south, after all. We like to cling to a trend until it screams for mercy.
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Awesome festival. Can't wait to hear how it goes. When I met my hubby he had a mullet. It drove me crazy. So after a few months of dating he had it cute off. I look back at those pics and think how cute he looked with a mullet. LOL! My little sister still thinks it's a sexy haircut. Why? I have no idea. Thanks for stopping by. Hope you guys had a great Fathers Day.
Hugs
Michelle
Now, how could they go and screw up a perfectly good festival by celebrating a fish?? The hairdo event would have been way cooler.
Did the fish have "the business in the front, party in the back" attitude at least?
Keep on festing...
Happy Monday !
I didn't know the mullet was a fish. But I know of what I THOUGHT was an artist named Fred Mullet who designs rubber stamps that are fish just like the one you pictured.
How interesting. And so happy that you can still see so many of the best men's hairstyle since time began! (Cough.)
Yeah, but did ya eat some mullet at least?
Hugs from the festival capitol of the world. :)
I hope you post pictures of this festival. I wonder if rat tails are included too. Remember those? I still see some around...shudder.
I have cousins who once won the "most identical" category at the Twins Festival in Twinsburg, Ohio. Even the freckles on their knees were identical. The story goes that Joyce, who was not easily rattled, took Lois's (who was) driving test for her.
Since you are a Mullet lover, I would HIGHLY recommend the Ice Bear's Mullet night. Oh yes! They have a Best Mullet contest. And almost everyone there has a mullet!
Oh my stars! The mullet! Hard to believe the festival wasn't about that classic 'do! LOL! I must say, John Stamos wore a mullet better than Billy Ray. But still - that look is just wrong!
women with mullets!!!!!!!
the worst
"we like to cling to a trend until it screams mercy" Love it! (love your post, that is, not the mullet...)
The mullet hair festival would be way cooler than the fish version but at least there were some hair mullets to view.
Mullets.....*snort*
So, how was the fish????
Aw, man, what a bummer!
roflmao - too funny! I would've gone to make fun of the hairstyles too!
Mullet is some good eatin girlfriend! My grandpa use to catch them by the nets full. Grandma could fry em up and we could eat several at one sittin.
You are right about the "Festing" in the south. We calendar lots of them for fun weekends. Now we take the GRAND~girls. They love it, especially the pony rides.
Ah yes - the mullet is very fashionable here among sportsmen!
Still - celebrating the fish can also be good...
K...that last picture..do they have a hairy chestival?? :0)
Oh uncle jessie, how I love thee.
Umm...that last pic? Yeah, I'll send you the bill for the therapy. yak!
Have fun at the festival. ;-)
Business in the front, party in the back! Woo-hoo! :D
And let us not forget the mullet's little cousin, The Skullet. You know, when men maintain their lovely long locks, even when they are bald on top. Think Riff Raff in Rocky Horror Picture Show. Or my friend Steve in the 80s.
I'll take a mullet over a come over any day!
Mullets - YUCK!
tell us - did you REALLY go to it? This post made me laugh!
I get a painful reminder of the 'south clinging trend' thing almost every day.
Yeah for festivals, for fun food and crazy costumes. We have few festivals here in the Northwest.
The best one is the Salmon/Harvest festival in September on the river in Coos Bay, with canoe races, plank cooked salmon and Indian arts and heritage, sponsored by the confederated tribes of Coos,Rogue, Umpqua and many others.
Oh...I know of Mullet fests! There is on at the Florabama (a bar...you guessed it, on the Florida/Alabam state line) every year. It gets worse: they have a mullet toss! You get to throw a dead fish as far as you can across the state line and win valuable prizes (read trophy and bar tabs). It use to be tons of fun...but now too many people and too much b.s.
Happy Mullet Day!
Hope you had fun! My boys would have loved it. Joe Dirt (an awesome mullet 'do) on dvd gets viewed at our house as least once a year.
WHAT?!?!? We have nothing cool like this in Utah. Not even a Polygamy Festival!
Oh, wait. That's called Walmart.
Oh man...I think a (hairstyle) mullet festival would have been a lot more fun!
Do mullet fish have mullet hair/scales?
Wow! That's about all I can muster for that one. Who knew? Stop by my place, I have an award for you to have fun with.
I love this idea...to fest...I am going to create a festival everyday this summer.
Today is the run to the bank and try to open a savings account with three 3478 kids festival! woo hoo!
OMG this made me Laugh out Loud, I wish we had a Mullet Festival around here!
darn. I was marking my calendar for next year's mullet festival. Then, I find out it's a fish festival. Never mind. I'll just stick to Super Cow and Feather Fest (in appreciation of all things poultry).
The good old mullet.Where on earth do you find these pictures?
Business in the front, party in the back.
As far as I know, mullet (the fish) is used as bait. I'm not sure why this deserves a festival.
Lousiana is the total party state. No one can do it better (or more regularly) than a bunch of drunken Cajun Catholics. Trust me. Our OFFICIAL state motto is "Laissez les bon temps rouler" (Let the good times roll.)
Still, we never had anything as cool as a mullet festival. Did you know there's an actual Mullet Hall of Fame? I heard an interview with the guy that runs it.
Business in the front! Party in the back! LOL! Oh, what fun!
That is a great story. Who'd of thought that mullet the fish meritied its own festival.
Uhm, I really wanted my breakfast to stay in my stomach....
WHERE did you find that last photo. Make it go back, please!
There are some wacky festivals in San Francisco...come on over sometime!
I have eaten more mullet than anyone else I know. It is actually quite tasty if it is fresh but it doesn't freeze well. As for the hairdo, I may need to get one now that we have a car on blocks in the front yard. :)
One of the wines I sell is called Mullet Hall and people always laugh about the name. I should send you a bottle.
They really need to rethink that festival. Celebrating mullet hairstyles would be so much more fun!
Houston fests everything too.
I learned something new today. I had no idea a mullet was a fish. Huh.
Oh man. I miss North Carolina SO much. I can honestly say I don't see a lot of mullets in Washington DC. Fish or hairy.
Every time I see a mullet I think of that Joe Dirt movie where it was sewn on his head!
How funny. John Stamos actually doesn't look bad with a mullet!
This post is so right and wrong all at the same time. Move over Uncle Jessie, I'm on my way!
How wonderful! Let's celebrate EVERYTHING!
The German word for Mullet is 'fokuhila' (pronounced foh-kuh-hee-lah'), which is short for 'forne kurz, hinten lang.' It basically means short in front, long in back.
That's one thing I miss about the Big Easy is festivals. They celebrated everything there too. But if we wanted to celebrate the mullet. We went to the Florabama for the mullet toss...the fish ;-)
Funny you mention this ! We drove to the beach this weekend and every other exit there was a sign for some sort of festival or another. It was like festivalpalooza!! I ALMOST stopped for the Blueberry Festival but the call of the beach ultimately won :)
that last photo makes me want to lock my doors...
Aww...fish instead of hair? What kind of party is that?
Scary pictures!
When my son was a toddler, I accidentally got him a haircut like that.I couldn't part with the curls in the back, and the front had already been cut too short...
My husband was not thrilled.
I knew it was a fish! How much does my life suck, that knowing that made me genuinely happy?
Oh, wow - those were SOME hairdo photos! Sounds like an interesting festival...:) Silke
Uncle Jessie!!
Sorry, I loved Full House when I was younger.
That festival sounds like fun. My son had a mullet when he was one. I think it's acceptable when you're a toddler...but on a man?? Yikes.
"seeing crafts, eating food, and people watching for next to no cost". People watching is always my favorite of that combo. Being at those places just gives me an excuse to watch opening :)
Does the hairdo have anything in common with the fish???
i love mullets! the hair, not the fish! that last picture is classic! lol....
My first husband had a mullet. It was pretty short. The marriage, not the mullet.
I love the word festival. I wanna start one! think we could just straight up do a Bitch festival? And have fried oreos and espresso?
What a let down....fish. Bah! Are you still hoping like I am that the mullet makes its way back onto the fashion scene?
Blessings!
That's great!! Hafta hear the ending now, hon!!! I grew up in Goldsboro. Nothing beats those pine trees. I miss NC!!
I like "fested" so much better than "feted."
But poor Billy Ray Cyrus, what with that old photo floating around out there.
John Stamos.
I think he was and still is one of the best looking men in Hollywood.
(even with a mullet)
I am laughing out loud! A Mullet Festival. Who knew!
GREAT POST.
a Mullet festival! ha haha
I would love to attend such an event, I'd take lots of pictures and make a collage of mulletry...
ha ha
Oh my gosh, my BIL would have fit in wonderfully a couple of years ago.
That last photo scared me. Did you take that one at the fest?
I love festivals! Thanks for stopping by my blog.
My sister once gave herself a mullet...accidentally when she was trimming her bangs. Thank God it was 1988.
Oh. My. God. That last photo is a prize-winner. But I want to be very far away when the prizes get handed out......
Perfect.
Ellie
Mullets...aggghhh. What are people thinking?? LOL
Wish we had more festivals around here!
XOXO
I had no idea mullets where fish.
There should definitely be a mullet hair style festival.
thanks for stopping by my blog. enjoyed your post about festivals in the southeast. living in the Upstate and visiting other SC & NC areas i see a lot of mullets. never heard of the fish though. my hubby and i enjoy rating mullets and placing them in categories: wavy, permed, tri-colored, etc. take care.
-Kiki
I'm loving your pictures :)
oh we love the mullet here. still it was on accident that i gave my oldest child one. he had no hair on top & i didn't want to cut it in the back until he had more on top. before i knew it, there was a gaggle of teens pointing out my 16 month's mullet. he was smiling ear from ear at all the attention.
lol! long live the mullet!! i saw one walking down the street just yesterday. it was kickin! :P
Debbie, you give good post!
And yes I actually did know that about a fish.
Oh how dissapointing! I would have seriously flown to South Carolina just to attend! Imagine, all the mullets in the world gathered into on place. That would be photo heaven!
I bet you there is some good people watching at a mullet festival - regardless whether it's the fish kind or the hair kind!
lol at the bald man festival!!
~Penelope
http://penelopesoasis.blogspot.com/
A bald man festival? Excellent. Although please don't invite Husband, he's still in denial. MH
That is the best! I totally would have thought it was a festival to celebrate the "Business in the front, party in the back" haistyle! I didn't know it was a fish, ha ha ha!
I love festivals!I especially look forward to our annual greek festival with traditional music and great food! Can't wait to hear how it goes!
that is NOT dale junior. Is it?
Although it wouldn't surprise me a bit.
Hahahaha -- what a disappointment.
Kristina's wrong, we have lots of festivals in Utah. She must just not get out much. My own town has the "Summerfest" (celebrating, you know, summer,) and the next town over has "Strawberry Days," and there are lots more. Often there's a rodeo involved.
Whispering Writer said "I think it's acceptable when you're a toddler" and I just have to say, what do you mean by "acceptable"? Because if you mean "cute and attractive hairstyle," then I beg to differ . . .
Oh, dear. That last one is priceless!! Thanks for stopping by my blog. :) When you lived near Morehead City, did you ever eat at the Sanitary Fish Market? That's our favorite spot...my Nannie has a place in Atlantic Beach, and SFM is a must-see. :)
OMG each time I read your blog I laugh out loud. Mullet fish. Who knew?
Ahhhh, good old Jesse! He wore the mullet well...
Those are some very deserving reasons for a festival! Why aren't they nationwide?
Oh yes we do!
Reminds me of what Hannah Montana said about a mullet. "Business in the front...party in the back!"
My word! I can't believe that some people actually still sport a mullet!
Fish smish. You know those festival folks could've at least thought to clarify things better. Everyone knows Billy Ray owns that word.
Mullet Festival? We have a Hairy Man Festival where I live. Never a dull weekend.
I wonder what's up for this weekend???
I noticed the other day, I think my sister-in-law has a mullet. Could that be? And we don't even live in the south.
HOTTT
lol!
My husband still longs for his old mullet. I try to remind him it's a package deal... he also gets his single days back. :)
Personally, I can't think of anyone who could pull of a mullet in it's heyday, let alone now. Although, I suppose, Uncle Jesse would have come close.
It would be fun to go to a mullet hairdo festival though! Unless one had to have a mullet to get in, then not so much . . .
that is a riot! i forgot about the fish with the same name :)
I miss NC so much! I can't wait to go back! The festivals.. ahhh the festivals! So how close are you to Fort Bragg, by the way?? :)
oh, I mentioned on my blog yesterday about a lady at the pool with a mullet... frightening...and when I was growing up in the south, they guys gave away the mullet fish if they caught them... so even the fish isn't loved too much in most places...
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