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Butch Furse
ANR Sports Editor Rich Rhoden in his BigRich Sports Report made mention of former Husky Nate Boerkircher making good waves inside the Husker football workouts. Boerkircher has been noticed for his play on the field as well as his new flowing hairstyle called a “mullet.”
The word “mullet” was new to me just a couple weeks ago when visiting with our 11th grade grandson who now also sports what he explained was a “mullet.”
To emphasize how out of touch I am with today’s hairstyle world, I thought our grandson had said, “Mohawk” instead of “mullet.” He looked puzzled and re-emphasized “mullet” and then asked, “Just what is a Mohawk?’’
I explained a Mohawk was like a “flat top,” but with only a slim strip of hair just down the center of your head and the rest burr-cut on the sides. Next question came, “What is a flat-top and a burr-cut?
Again, I had explaining to do about hairstyles of yore. My experience went back and I reminisced and told about the days when flat tops were about one inch of clipped hair evenly brushed straight up to give the image your head had a flat top. To me burr cut was about the same as a buzz cut when the barber ran the clippers uniformly over your head from the top down the sides.
Well, today’s mullets, and styles of other long hair cuts do look a lot neater than those early days’ “over the ears” in my era and there’s even hope more good looks are still coming. Just recently I spotted a few flat tops out there.
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Life isn’t fair to us men. When we were born, our mothers get the compliments and the flowers. When we are married, our brides get the presents and the publicity. When we die, our widows get the life insurance and the winters in Arizona.
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Over 40 some years ago, a newly elected President Ronald Reagan spoke to a joint session of Congress, called for deep cuts in federal spending. “In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem,” Reagan had said. “Government is the problem.”
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“What would I get,” inquired the man who had insured his property against fire, “if this building should burn down tonight?” . . . “I would say,” replied the insurance agent, “about 10 years.”
RL Furse is publisher emeritus of the News-Register
