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Redheads really are the world's shrinking violets
The Australian ^ | October 27, 2007 | Caroline Overington

Posted on 10/27/2007 9:19:08 PM PDT by Dundee

DEPRESSING news in the September edition of National Geographic: redheads are becoming rarer and could become extinct - some experts say the last redhead could be born by 2060.

Others say the redhead gene can disappear for a generation or two in a family and reappear...

...the proportion of the world's population with natural red hair is down to 2per cent...

On every level, that's surely a tragedy. Before we let this rare and precious species go, has anyone considered what it might be like to live in a world without redheaded women?

...Groucho Marx once admitted... "I don't know why, but whenever I dream of a nurse, she always has red hair. Red hair makes a man want to recover his health quickly, so that he can get on his feet and the nurse off hers."...

Sheer and entirely justifiable terror typically prevents people from joking about redheads in the way they do about blondes. In fact, there are some redhead jokes, but they read like tributes, oozing with awe.

...What is the difference between dating a redhead and putting your hand into a blender? There is a 50-50 chance the blender isn't on.

...If you love a redhead, set her free. If she follows you everywhere, pitches her tent in your front lawn and puts your new girlfriend in the hospital, she's yours.

In the US, they say a trucker will slow down for a blonde, stop for a brunette and back up 500m for a redhead...

A natural redhead is generously sprinkled with freckles and therefore comes with her own built-in board game, known as join the dots.

Yes, they'll be missed. As Mark Twain put it: "While the rest of the species is descended from apes, redheads are descended from cats."

Prrrr.

(Excerpt) Read more at theaustralian.news.com.au ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial
KEYWORDS: dna; freckles; freepun; gingergene; gingers; godsgravesglyphs; helixmakemineadouble; redhair; redheads; redheadsarenuts
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To: Dundee

I’ve passed along whatever redhead genes I could to my sons- I assume eventually they or their kids (or their kids’ kids) will continue the breed...


21 posted on 10/27/2007 9:40:08 PM PDT by JimRed ("Hey, hey, Teddy K., how many girls did you drown today?" TERM LIMITS, NOW!)
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To: Dundee
Happy Halloween!!


22 posted on 10/27/2007 9:41:19 PM PDT by Mike Darancette (Democrat Happens!)
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To: Army Air Corps

That is what I tell her! Red hair is stunning on her. Cant get that color out of a bottle either, I have tried LOL!


23 posted on 10/27/2007 9:43:35 PM PDT by MaggieM
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To: blam; SunkenCiv

Ginger Ping!


24 posted on 10/27/2007 9:45:03 PM PDT by To Hell With Poverty (For evil to win, it is only necessary for Jimmy Carter to be considered a role model.)
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To: MaggieM

I trust that you have told her that there are lot of men who are dead suckers for redheads.


25 posted on 10/27/2007 9:46:58 PM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four fried chickens and a coke)
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I have an obsession with redheads.

I guess it comes from the fact that when I was young I had a neighbor across the street who was two years older than I and was a six-foot tall drop dead beauty with fire engine red hair. She was something else..let me tell you.

Ive heard recently that she’s now an FBI agent.

The current and best representative of red head hotness is Kari Byron, of Mythbusters...woo hoo!


26 posted on 10/27/2007 9:50:34 PM PDT by Armedanddangerous (Chuin, Master of Sinanju (emeritus))
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To: Dundee

Hey, I’m a “red” head.

Between what hair I got left and the sun it’s red on top all the time...

Red beard too though that’s showing signs of turning another less spectacular color...


27 posted on 10/27/2007 9:56:15 PM PDT by DB
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To: Army Air Corps
She believes that men find redheads intimidating and too feisty! No matter how blond she goes, she cant hide her personality LOL
No, I haven't told her. Maybe Ill have her read the article when she comes home next weekend :)
28 posted on 10/27/2007 9:56:31 PM PDT by MaggieM
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To: CourtneyLeigh

Hmmmmmmm....


29 posted on 10/27/2007 9:58:29 PM PDT by sit-rep
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To: Dundee

my husband is a red head. his sister and mother also.

my sister in law is a red head

the earth is going to tip on its’ axis. too many redheads in one portion of the world.

So, What is this about diversity when schools in Los Angeles are 100% latino?


30 posted on 10/27/2007 9:59:52 PM PDT by television is just wrong (deport all illegal aliens NOW. Put all AMERICANS TO WORK FIRST. END Welfare)
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To: Armedanddangerous
The current and best representative of red head hotness is Kari Byron, of Mythbusters...woo hoo

I had never heard of Kari Byron, so I looked her up on the web. Note to self; start watching Mythbusters.
31 posted on 10/27/2007 10:05:28 PM PDT by kb2614 (Hell hath no fury than a bureaucrat scorned)
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To: MaggieM

Yeah, what is it with red-haired girls who dye their hair blonde. If they only knew what a turn-on ginger is. Okay, I think I’m done now....


32 posted on 10/27/2007 10:08:06 PM PDT by tanuki (u)
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To: MaggieM

She can only change the colour, not the personality. She should know that many a Red Blodded American Man likes a feisty lassie.


33 posted on 10/27/2007 10:08:38 PM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four fried chickens and a coke)
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To: Dundee


34 posted on 10/27/2007 10:10:45 PM PDT by Iron Munro (Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself.)
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To: ExTexasRedhead

This thread’s for you.


35 posted on 10/27/2007 10:13:57 PM PDT by Sundog
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To: Dundee
Say it ain't so!

{insert pic of Jennifer Morrison with red or strawberry blonde hair here}

36 posted on 10/27/2007 10:15:53 PM PDT by FlyVet
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To: tanuki; Army Air Corps

Easy does it you two! Got to keep it clean, If I am going to share this thread with her LOL.
Yes, she is a feisty lass, but she is also stubborn as a mule :)


37 posted on 10/27/2007 10:20:37 PM PDT by MaggieM
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To: Dundee

2%? shouldn’t they be some kind of global royalty?


38 posted on 10/27/2007 10:25:11 PM PDT by montag813
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To: montag813

No picture of Kucinich’s wife?

I do prefer Julianne Moore myself although early Angie Everheart works also.


39 posted on 10/27/2007 10:37:17 PM PDT by EQAndyBuzz
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To: wazoo1031

Ping!


40 posted on 10/27/2007 10:38:48 PM PDT by Allegra (Greetings from a kinder, gentler Iraq. God bless US and Coalition Forces.)
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