US EditionPerfectly Sculpted Mullets Turn Heads at Pennsylvania’s Wildest Hair Contest
The contest featured categories for all ages and awarded a Corvette rear bumper to the winner, attracting competitors from Pennsylvania and beyond for its third year.
- On Monday, the Pennsylvania Farm Show in Harrisburg hosted the third annual mullet contest, drawing a packed crowd and dozens of competitors as the event's main attraction.
- Culturally, the hairstyle traces to hockey players and hair-metal bands and the Beastie Boys' song Mullet Head, while the Oxford English Dictionary calls the term slang, humorous, and frequently derogatory.
- Categories included children under 5, throwback mullets and the patriotic Flow of Freedom Award, while performances featured magic tricks, a 'skullet' and wrestling-style shirt rips.
- Drew Fleschut won the top prize, a Corvette rear bumper, paying homage to movie character Joe Dirt while a packed crowd enjoyed playful moments including a child refusing to leave the stage.
- Families and youth figured prominently as Brittni Williamson brought her son Mason, while Brayden Shaner and Ben Barley arrived early, highlighting camaraderie and fun.
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Pennsylvania Farm Show Mullet Competition Was As Awe-Inspiring As Always
What a time to be alive if you're rocking a mullet, or if you're like me and have gone the route of a normal adult haircut, but respect the hell out of a mullet.They're not just for carnies anymore!For decades, the mullet had been mocked, but these days, it isn't just welcome, it's revered, and perhaps nowhere more so than the Pennsylvania Farm Show.I grew up close to Harrisburg, where the Farm Show was like the Super Bowl or even some kind of p…
Contest Brings Mullets Out in Force
A packed crowd celebrated the much-maligned but enduring mullet on Monday in a competition at the Pennsylvania Farm Show in Harrisburg. The contest celebrating the short-in-the-front, long-in-the-back coiffure, once the province of Canadian hockey players and hair metal bands, attracted about 150 competitors and more than a thousand spectators for...
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'Joe Dirt' tribute takes top prize in Pennsylvania Farm Show mullet contest
A contest that celebrates the much-maligned but enduring mullet hairstyle brought thousands of spectators to a stage inside the Pennsylvania Farm Show.
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