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It weighs about one pound.

This weekend marks the annual Interstate Mullet Toss, in which contestants compete to throw a mullet from Alabama as far as they can into Florida. Want to know what a mullet is, all y'all who didn't grow up where I did?

A mullet is one of the more popular and plentiful fish indigenous to this area. It is the only fish with a gizzard and is said to possess mystical properties.

Laura Conaway

10:15 AM ET | 04-23-2008 | permalink

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Am I the only one who read "Interstate Mullet Toss" and thought they would be throwing Billy Ray Cyrus's haircut?

Sent by Joe | 11:08 AM ET | 04-23-2008

I just had a fantastic mental image of people standing at the state line, ripping mullet wigs from their heads and pitching them into Florida. A Southern act of sharing (or maybe war).

Sent by Kerry (from r/s) | 12:03 PM ET | 04-23-2008

Isn't a mullet toss something thrown onto the ice in Montreal when a Canadiens player scores a hat trick?

Sent by Matthew Scallon | 3:31 PM ET | 04-23-2008

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