re: 3-year-old Covington boy advances to National Mullet Championship finals

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The names on these kids

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Leonidas

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Yeah and do you know where the mullet style originated? It originated from glam metal bands whose hair and clothing styles were influenced by LGBT culture

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"Vikings, Romans and Native Americans all had hairstyles that were variants on the mullet.

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literature's first mullet mention may have come from the ancient Greek poet Homer—in The Iliad, he described the Abantes, a group of spearmen, as wearing “their forelocks cropped, hair grown long at the backs,

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In ancient Rome, the “Hun cut” was an early bi-level style sported by young wealthy bands of hooligans in the 6th century B.C., many of whom, not unlike today’s soccer fans, supported differing factions in one of the popular sports of the day: chariot races. They harassed the citizenry while styled like Rome’s worst enemies: the fierce nomadic horsemen who terrorized the empire and helped hasten its fall. “The hair on their heads they cut off in front back to the temples,” wrote the 6th-century Greek-Byzantine scholar Procopius in his Secret History, “leaving the part behind to hang down to a very great length in a senseless fashion.”

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In the late 18th century, Ben Franklin used his “skullet” to help charm France into drastically increasing its financial and diplomatic support of America in the new nation’s earliest days.

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I hope the little guy wins.

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