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TAMPA, Fla. - A Tampa man – with his natural curls, highlights, and a mustache to match – is hoping the country thinks his mullet is the best in all of America. Anchor Brant is vying for the USA Mullet Championship top prize along with 99 other guys from across the country. Brant, a University of South Florida student studying communications, told FOX 13 his mother was the reason he applied in the first place. "Over the pandemic, I thought no one was really going to see me, so I started growing it out," he explained. "A bunch of people...

You won't believe how much has changed since then. Notice anything peculiar (other than the fashions) in some of these photos? (Many photos at link)

This is typically the purview of the excellent blog Vin Scully is My Homeboy, but I was so excited about it I couldn't wait to see if he'd get around to doing it himself. UPDATE: Courtesy of Deadspin, here's the audio:... Check out this transcript of Vin Scully's call of Troy Tulowitzki's sixth-inning at-bat last night in the Rockies-Dodgers tilt:...

News from Iran, fashion capital of the Middle East. First scantily-dressed women were accused of causing earthquakes. Now it’s the men who stand accused of destabilizing society… with their hair.

Choice mullets from the Internets: Animull, Bizmull, and Muddle East.

PORT ORCHARD — It's been more than five years since Julea Penland launched her mission "to beautify Kitsap County one mullet at a time." The beautician began offering free haircuts to anyone sporting the once-popular "business in the front, party in the back" hairstyle because she believes they perpetuate negative stereotypes about Kitsap County. And she plain thinks they're ugly. Her sign advertising "Free Mullet Removal" has drawn plenty of yuks and people stop by almost daily to take pictures of the readerboard at her Port Orchard spa and salon. But so far, no one has taken her up on...

And The Winners Are....

RED WING, Minn. -- Three-year-old Brady Arneson recently took 1st place in the 2008 Minnesota Mullet Contest put on by Hockey Moms Magazine. Brady’s older brother Blake won the top mullet award in 2005. Their dad, Goodhue County Administrator Scott Arneson, also had amulet as a child, but the award wasn’t around back then. The mullet peaked as a hairstyle in the 1990s, but has stuck around with Minnesota hockey players who like the let their hair hang out the back of their helmet, Arneson said. Blake hasn’t worn a mullet since he won the award and Brady isn’t planning...

When I was in the eleventh grade I decided to study Latin. I don’t remember what it was that compelled me to study the language, but I suspect it had something to do with the small class size. Where most classes in my high school had twenty five or thirty students, Latin usually had only seven or eight. And so it was that for a year I studied Latin. The teacher, Dr. Helder, quickly became my favorite teacher and grade eleven Latin stands out as my favorite class in all my years of high school. Dr. Helder was faced with...

Television bounty hunter Dog Chapman set free on bail in Hawaii By Associated Press Saturday, September 16, 2006 - Updated: 12:08 PM EST HONOLULU - TV reality star Duane “Dog” Chapman and two co-stars accused of illegal detention and conspiracy in the bounty hunters’ capture of a cosmetics company heir in Mexico posted bail and were released Friday. Chapman was released on $300,000 bail after spending the night in a federal detention center and his co-stars on the popular A&E show “Dog The Bounty Hunter” were freed on $100,000 bail each. Chapman, his son, Leland Chapman, and associate Timothy Chapman,...

Washington, DC – U.S. Rep. Tom Tancredo (R-Littleton) criticized Attorney General Alberto Gonzales in a letter to the Justice Department in the wake of media reports yesterday that the U.S. Marshals raided the Hawaii home of Duane “Dog” Chapman at the direction of the Mexican government. A spokeswoman for the Marshals Office confirmed yesterday that an arrest warrant was signed Wednesday by a federal magistrate in Hawaii at the urging of the administration. Chapman could now be extradited to to face criminal charges for successfully capturing Max Factor heir Andrew Luster in Puerto Vallarta in 2003. Luster, who was wanted...

The owner of a discount store in Oxford has halted the sale of cigarettes to protest the Legislature's approval of a dollar-a-pack increase in the cigarette tax.OXFORD, Maine (AP) -- Manager Mike Sturgis of C and R Redemption said the store's owner, Ron Snow, disapproves of what the state is doing and wanted to take a stand. Sturgis said his boss, who's not a smoker, feels the new tax is unfair because it would discriminate against those who smoke. The doubling of the cigarette tax to two dollars a pack was approved by the Legislature as part of a bill...

German soldiers will be allowed to sport mullets and ponytails after a court ruled army hair regulations were unconstitutional. The ruling came after an 18-year-old soldier was locked up in a cell and fined £100 when he refused to chop off his 10-inch ponytail. The teenaged recruit only agreed to let army barbers cut his hair when faced with three weeks in solitary confinement, but made a formal complaint at the same time. The military court in Munich ruled in favour of the soldier and argued the varying rules for male and female recruits were "unconstitutional" and "incomprehensible". It said...

By MARK STEVENSON, Associated Press Writer MEXICO CITY - The bodies of 12 men killed by hitmen believed linked to drug gangs were found Tuesday in the northern state of Sinaloa, in what appears to be one of the deadliest one-day tolls in violent drug battles in recent years. The victims — all apparently executed with close-range gunshots — turned up in clumps along an 80-mile stretch of highway between the state capital, Culiacan, and the well-known beach resort of Mazatlan. "Given the type of weapons used, the type of people (killed) and the objects found at the scene, we...

In an effort to be inclusive, this thread is for nonmetrosexual males (and likeminded women) to advise queer guys on their outfits, decor, vehicles, hairstyles, homes and hobbies. I've outfitted the thread with keywords toward this end.Enjoy.