Word: mullets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Viet Nam. They were able to dominate the industry by working together as families. They put in twelve-hour days, subsist mainly on a diet of rice and fish, and often cram several families into a small apartment. They waste nothing. Americans throw back "rough" fish like sheepshead and mullet, but the Vietnamese live on them...
...failed real estate developer who threw in a shack for Theenie, the family maid. The boy's private name for his father is the Progenitor, an impersonal though not inappropriate designation. Simons' parents are divorced; on visits, the Progenitor tries to exchange his son's mullet pole for a baseball bat and tempt him with the upscale life. But every paternal gesture meets with failure or misunderstanding. His sex lecture about contraception, for example, leaves Simons with the impression that the body part in question "is some kind of electric eel or polyp stinger you have...
...about 35 years, slinging the stuff about guns, and guilt but rarely getting to the Main Event. No wonder all the mums liked it. Anyway, one of the networks here, ABC, made a saga about it, the word for anything ten hours long and slow as a stunned mullet. They say (well, they hope) the Yanks are going to watch it in their millions. Which just shows there's probably no limit to the number of poor suffering drongos who'll sit back and have the Box come the raw prawn on them...