Ginger was hot, but I was always a Mary Ann kind of guy.
That gingham top........oh boy.
L
Posted on 08/11/2007 1:20:33 PM PDT by blam
Red-heads welcomed at ginger festival
By Bonnie Malkin and agencies
Last Updated: 2:15am BST 10/08/2007
They are a frequent target for comedians and playground bullies, but red-heads have finally been offered some consolation.
Model Lily Cole would get free entry to the event The National Botanic Garden of Wales has offered red-heads free entry to a festival celebrating the ginger plant.
Organisers claims the event on August 26 will be the country's first ever "Ginger Family Festival".
The day will celebrate the opening of the new Tropical House at the tourist attraction in Carmarthenshire, west Wales, which features many exotic examples of the Zingiberaceae plant family, also known as the ginger family.
Red-haired people will be exempt from paying at the gate although organisers of the event warn that "wearers of comedy ginger wigs will not qualify".
Visitors can sample the garden's home-made ginger beer, buy something from a variety of stalls selling ginger-related products and dine from a special ginger-themed menu including Towy salmon with ginger and spring onion.
Senior horticulturist Jess Gould said: "There are 1,200 or so species of ginger and lots of them have aromatic oils which make them useful for culinary purposes.
"Ginger has been used in cooking for 2,000 years. It's been used by man for such a long time, no one now knows where the original wild species came from."
Ginger was hot, but I was always a Mary Ann kind of guy.
That gingham top........oh boy.
L
More of a MAryAnn man myself. She’s a keeper.
There was a kid in high school who’d always say, “I’d rather be dead than have a red head”...
Dawn Wells (Mary Ann)
Born October 18,1938
Natural redheads comprise 4% of the US female population, and 1% of the male population.
Now go stand in an an airport and count the redheaded girls that walk by, as a percentage of population.
Somebody must like red hair.
I say an airport, because it is a self-selecting economic index.
anyway, back to topic, blonde, brunette, redhead, Triple-C don't discriminate, ladies. ;-)
Ahem:
Alas, poor me, two women in my life and both redheads; my dear wife of 30 years and our daughter.
I can’t remember the last time I won an argument.
You sound like my dad :)
My parents had 8 grandchildren. Of those eight, seven, included our adopted daughter, had read hair in their childhood. Our middle child is and remains a blond. As adults, only two could still be called red headed but they are clearly so and both are male. Prior to this generation, the only clearly redheaded person we know of was my great grandfather who was a red headed, left handed cowboy.
I should have added that I am blessed to have those two redheads in my life.
I have one red head son out of eight kids. He does tend to be a deep thinker and does have a temper.
I have heard that most vikings were red heads as were the tribe of Joseph, Easu, King David, Jesus (auburn mixed with red) and according to a book I read on the Middle East there is a tradition of Mohammed being red headed. Heard Buddha was red headed too (not sure about this but he was Aryan and many of the ancient statues I saw of him in China depicted him with blue eyes).
Got one of them reading over your shoulder? :=)
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