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Get a dog up ya Sydney

01 Mar 12:11am

Filed under: Adelaide, Bogans, Marketing, Mullets, Sydney

Adelaide is no longer the city of churches or the arts capital of Australia. It’s not even Yass with poofs, as famously dubbed by Doug Mulray shortly before he was mercifully removed from national television by Kerry Packer.

According to the people who run the Sydney Fish Markets, Adelaide is now the mullet capital of Australia, a bogan backwater which is ripe for ridicule by the pony-tailed pseuds who run Sydney’s advertising industry.

The Fish Market’s new marketing slogan - “More Mullets Than Adelaide” - says more about Sydney smugness than Adelaide’s earthiness.

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Chris Bass says:

12:20pm | 12/12/11

“Upper middle-class white boys imitating the middle-income Sydney Lebanese boys who mimic the middle-class black American entertainers who pretend to have risen from the streets.”...What a joke. Firstly, the Hoods have never imitated anyone (let alone someone from Sydney? regardless of racial origin which seems to be extremely important to… Read more »
S.L says:

12:10pm | 02/03/10

Some people just don’t get it. I had to go to a 50th birthday party with a 70s theme (why do parties always have a theme these days?)last year so I went to the hairdressers the day before to style my hair into a mullet. The young trendy girl barely… Read more »

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