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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
All I can say is WOW!


61 posted on 10/28/2007 4:10:24 AM PDT by Erik Latranyi (The Democratic Party will not exist in a few years....we are watching history unfold before us.)
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To: Armedanddangerous

I had a childhood sweetheart who was a redhead, not fairskinned with freckles, but with dark tanned skin, and incredible legs! I was in fifth grade at the time, and she was really cute. I remember thinking about her the other day- I wonder what she looks like now.


62 posted on 10/28/2007 4:12:52 AM PDT by ovrtaxt (My dog has worms, so I named him Scooter.)
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To: DB
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...

Sadly, in this last year mine is also fading into gray. The head, of course, on this Irish lass.

63 posted on 10/28/2007 5:03:36 AM PDT by mtbopfuyn (I think the border is kind of an artificial barrier - San Antonio councilwoman Patti Radle)
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To: Surtur

THANK YOU, THANK YOU, OH THANK YOU!!!
A truly stunning woman...


64 posted on 10/28/2007 5:34:32 AM PDT by 2nd Bn, 11th Mar (The "P" in Democrat stands for patriotism.)
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To: Perdogg
Someone told me that there were a lot of redheads in Denmark and Sweden, more so than blonds.

Maybe it's a Viking Thing...

65 posted on 10/28/2007 5:38:19 AM PDT by Gorzaloon (Food imported from China = "Cesspool + Flavor-Straw")
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To: MaggieM
Hey... welcome!

I am married to a redhead.

The smartest thing I've ever done.

66 posted on 10/28/2007 5:41:30 AM PDT by Northern Yankee (Freedom Needs A Soldier)
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To: JimRed
I’ve passed along whatever redhead genes I could to my sons

There is hope for those who crave women with red hair.

Just saw the Nova episode 'Ghost in Your Genes' about a new field called 'epigenetics'.

It is astonishing that what you eat or breathe can modify your genes that are subsequently passed on to descendents !


BUMP

67 posted on 10/28/2007 5:57:38 AM PDT by capitalist229
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To: fieldmarshaldj
You know, I thought that I had seen that Carrot Top had "bulked up," but thought, "Nahhhhh... He's probably wearing one of those 'Galhager body suits.'" Wow! Was I wrong! I saw him on an episode of Gene Simmons Family Jewels, and that's really him. Sort of freaks me out, and gives me the creeps, all at the same time.

"I truly hope that we don't loose our redheads. Please, redheads, go forth and multiply."

Just the wimmin folk, please...

Mark

68 posted on 10/28/2007 6:24:30 AM PDT by MarkL (Listen, Strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is no basis for a system of government)
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To: DB
Red beard too though that’s showing signs of turning another less spectacular color...

Interesting, I've got dark brown hair, but my beard has dark red/brown color, though now it's about 1/3 gray. Nobody in my family has any red hair. And no, when I was conceived and born, we lived in a high rise apartment building in Yonkers, NY, with no postman or milk man who did deliveries to the 12th floor!

Mark

69 posted on 10/28/2007 6:29:07 AM PDT by MarkL (Listen, Strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is no basis for a system of government)
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To: ari-freedom

AWWWWRIGHT!!!

Nicole Kidman, except for my wife the most beautiful woman on Earth!


70 posted on 10/28/2007 6:29:37 AM PDT by chesley (Where's the omelet? -- Orwell)
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To: Dundee

“Life’s a redhead. Bitches are easy.”


71 posted on 10/28/2007 6:33:05 AM PDT by Doohickey (Giuliani: Brokeback Republican)
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To: chesley

Don’t have a picture to provide, but Deborah Kerr, who just died, had glorious red hair. I rented “The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp,” in commemoration of her death. It was the movie that made her a star. There she is, age 21, playing three different women in the life of Clive Candy, radiating beauty and intelligence and flaming red-hair in glorious technicolour.Then, of course, we have her ten-years later making out with Burt Lancaster on the beach(and off-screen) in “From Here to Eternity.”


72 posted on 10/28/2007 6:43:11 AM PDT by RobbyS ( CHIRHO)
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To: Dundee

“As Lucille Ball, herself a redhead, said: “Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead.”

I did, and next June we will be married 30 years. And she gave birth to a red-headed daughter to carry on the tradition. I feel for my son-in-law, but, really, two redheads in the same house!


73 posted on 10/28/2007 6:49:30 AM PDT by ops33 (Retired USAF Senior Master Sergeant)
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To: chesley
this makes her more beautiful:

74 posted on 10/28/2007 7:03:58 AM PDT by ari-freedom (I am for traditional moral values, a strong national defense, and free markets.)
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To: Dundee
I knew this thread would be a winner.

Just wanted to do my part...

75 posted on 10/28/2007 7:08:50 AM PDT by the invisib1e hand (keep the heat on the hillary.)
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To: Dundee
Art Of Being A Redhead
76 posted on 10/28/2007 7:41:01 AM PDT by blam (Secure the border and enforce the law)
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To: Dundee

Whenever I see a redheaded child, I remark, LOOK at that BEAUTIFUL child. Redheads really are gorgeous.

My son is engaged to a redhead, so it will be interesting to see if we have that recessive gene on our side. I hope so.


77 posted on 10/28/2007 7:55:56 AM PDT by Joya
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To: Dundee

I did my best, but our kid just doesn’t have the red gene like I do. Oh well...


78 posted on 10/28/2007 8:50:11 AM PDT by coop71 (Being a redhead means never having to say you're sorry...)
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To: ThreePuttinDude

you, lad have done a greattttt service to the f/r community
and there will be a little extra something in your pay envelope this week...
mucho obligados.


79 posted on 10/28/2007 9:26:06 AM PDT by flat
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To: coop71
"I did my best, but our kid just doesn’t have the red gene like I do. Oh well...

Yah, me, too. Out of four, not one RED redhead, but my first is a light, light strawberry blonde. Curly, too, just like mom.

80 posted on 10/28/2007 9:36:05 AM PDT by redhead (Victory first; then peace)
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