'Italy's Ginger Gene Spread From Sicily'

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[SargeK]

Good. Send the redheaded women my way. The Italians wouldn’t know how to deal with them anyway.

[Sherman Logan]

My understanding is that red-headed boys have a lot more trouble than girls.

[Pontiac]

Bump

[Tired of Taxes]

I know of a whole family of redheads. Their hair is a beautiful color. :-)

As for the Sicilian connection, Sicilians are a big mixture of ethnic backgrounds. I’ve known a few redheaded Sicilians. But, in Sicily - in the old days, anyway - red hair was not viewed in a positive way.

[Tax-chick]

It seems that red hair could become a marker for children who are conceived naturally rather than manufactured for purchase. This might indicate that they’re less likely to have nutcases (or homosexuals) for parents.

Just sayin’ ...

[Jack Hammer]

Don’t know about the guys, but red headed women get chased around the block and far down the street.

[Sherman Logan]

So the Normans, led by Roger I, transported the gene to Sicily, “and it spread across Italy from there,” said Rosso, who estimates a red-headed population of just one percent in the whole of Italy.

Lousy history.

The Normans had already conquered most of southern Italy before they invaded Sicily.

In ancient Rome, one of the most common cognomina (family names originating in nicknames, usually derived from some physical characteristic) was Rufus, which means redhead.

There was probably also some infusion of redhead ancestry from the Ostrogoths, Lombards and other German invaders over the centuries.

[nickcarraway]

Where are children being manufactured for purchase?

[newfreep]

No "Cartman the Ginger" post yet?

[Tax-chick]

In the artificial reproduction industry, which is almost completely unregulated worldwide. Women sell their ova, men sell their sperm, uteruses are hired in India or Thailand, and the rich people get “their” baby, if they don’t change their minds before it’s born, like that tv personality last week.

[RichInOC]

“’Cause you, you’re part eggplant.”

[Covenantor]

Yeah, but then there’s Carrot Top

[yarddog]

I think it is fascinating that Ramses the Great had red hair.

Supposedly King David did too.

[BitWielder1]

My understanding is that red-headed boys have a lot more trouble than girls.

Wonder why?

[Nea Wood]

My understanding is that red-headed boys have a lot more trouble than girls.

Redheaded women have always been considered beautiful. There's Maureen O'Hara, Ann-Margret, Nicole Kidman, Ginger on Gilligan's Island, etc. But find a redheaded man who's considered a sex symbol! Trouble is, you need redheaded men to get redheaded women.

[trisham]

Damian Lewis:

[yarddog]

I have never liked red hair but it runs heavily in my family. I remember when our Daughter was born and the nurse brought me to the baby room, my first thought was "oh no, red hair".By the time she was two it had turned blonde but by the age of 30 it had gone to a dark auburn.

[Justa]

Au contraire

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ&feature=player_detailpage

[JimRed]

But find a redheaded man who's considered a sex symbol!

That'd be me, depending on how you define "considered"...

;^)