Hey what are those "ponytails" that grow from the bottom of the neck called??

No, I'm not talking about mullets. But they grow at the very bottom of the hair on the back of the neck, they usually grow long like ponytails, but as I said only from the very bottom of the back of where hair grows.

I've only ever seen these weird hair shapes on two types of people:

1) Pre-teen rural redneck kids (when they become teenagers and adults, that's when they grow a full-blown mullet)

2) Autistic grad-school students going for their Ph.D in Mathematics (more often than not, they combine this look with what I call "David Koresh eyeglasses" to make their appearance extra un-approachable)

Why not just cut the damn thing off, at least for case number 2 because it does look extremely rednecky.

Rat-tails.

those were highly regarded in elementary school

my mom forbade me to enjoy them

yah rattails were pretty popular back when I was in elementary school too (especially amongst the italian and portuguese kids, go figure). I always thought they looked pretty stupid. Also remember seeing one for the first time in years last summer while on holiday in Barcelona

jedi choti?

I want a rat-tail

my old housemate grew a single rat tail on the left side of his neck. he said it's what bolivian anarchists used to sport in the 70s or some shit. yes, we're students.

i have considered a rat's tail for comedy purposes. that and a moustache.

I've been trying to grow a moustache on and off for a while, after a week or so it's still really embarrassingly sparse so I just don't bother.

It's to complete my double-denim 1980s homosexual outfit

nice.

face it, you're just trying to get photographed by vice magazine

I've been stopped on Regent Street once and asked to pose for a street style blog... believe it or not I said no!

I'm sure she was going to put me in the Don'ts

"street style"

yeah your style is pretty urban

Well, I was on a street.

it's the 'style' part watmm has a problem with, iaiain

Yeah, what was up with that whole elementary school rat tail thing? It seems to be some universally high regarded thing amongst little kids. Weird shit.

parents are red necks/chavs and think it's looks great on little Troy/Gary

Padawan hair braid?

LoL I didn't know they had an official logo.

I'm sure you have great parents just like I do, which is why you work in a morgue and I frequent brothels.

  On 7/27/2009 at 4:13 PM, patternoverlap said:

LoL I didn't know they had an official logo.

I'm sure it was copied from somewhere...

  On 7/27/2009 at 8:46 AM, xxx said:

I called it a rat-tail when I had one in 6th grade. I kept it neatly braided. Then, some "sevi" aka cooler 7th grade kid yanked it from behind and said "fag tag!" I was quite chagrined and cut it off when I got home that day. During this period, I would also shave lightning bolts and designs into my temple area. When I went to see Milli Vanilli at Six Flags in 1990, I had the their logo shaved into the back of my head:

lol

I forgot about them being called fag tags.

edit: quoted the wrong post