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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: tanuki

Way better looking than Scully..let me tell you!


81 posted on 10/28/2007 9:45:30 AM PDT by Armedanddangerous (Chuin, Master of Sinanju (emeritus))
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To: Old Seadog

L’Oreal redhead here (I’m worth it.) I prefer to think of it as better living thru chemistry. ;) PaMom


82 posted on 10/28/2007 9:46:25 AM PDT by PennsylvaniaMom (I do not want people to be agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them. Jane Austen.)
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To: ThreePuttinDude

Yep, but she hasnt been a redhead for some time.


83 posted on 10/28/2007 9:48:45 AM PDT by Armedanddangerous (Chuin, Master of Sinanju (emeritus))
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To: MarkL

the thing that freaks me out about carrot top is, why would any self respecting man shave off their eyebrows like he does?


84 posted on 10/28/2007 9:50:58 AM PDT by Armedanddangerous (Chuin, Master of Sinanju (emeritus))
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To: ovrtaxt

those things stick in your mind forever, dont they?


85 posted on 10/28/2007 9:54:18 AM PDT by Armedanddangerous (Chuin, Master of Sinanju (emeritus))
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To: Dundee

I have brown hair, but my sister is strawberry blonde and a couple of my cousins have positively flaming red hair. So I’ve got the gene.

So all I need is an introduction to Alicia Witt, and I can do my part to save the redheads.


86 posted on 10/28/2007 9:58:59 AM PDT by ReignOfError
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To: Joya

My grandmother always said that redheads were “kissed by an angel” on their heads before they were born. We’re Scotch-Irish so we’ve got a few in the family; however, I am blonde.


87 posted on 10/28/2007 10:03:22 AM PDT by texgal (end no-fault divorce laws return DUE PROCESS & EQUAL PROTECTION to ALL citizens))
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To: ReignOfError
Sorry. Forgot the rules.


88 posted on 10/28/2007 10:06:20 AM PDT by ReignOfError
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To: Dundee
I've noticed that there seems to be fewer natural red heads. Although the artificial ones seem to be in abundance. I can’t quite understand what black and Hispanic women are doing when they walk around with a head full of orange hair. For those of you who want to identify real red hair from the fake, look for the freckles.
89 posted on 10/28/2007 10:26:29 AM PDT by redheadtoo (My screen name says it all)
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To: Tamar1973

That’s a great story. Made any friends that night?


90 posted on 10/28/2007 10:49:18 AM PDT by tanuki (u)
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To: Bobalu
Here's my reworking of a popular Jim Silke painting of Betti Page...as a redhead. An improvement in my book.

The original:


91 posted on 10/28/2007 10:58:22 AM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts (Jet noise. The Sound of Freedom. - Go Air Force!)
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To: Northern Yankee
I am married to a redhead.
The smartest thing I've ever done.

Same here.     =;^D

92 posted on 10/28/2007 11:03:27 AM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts (Jet noise. The Sound of Freedom. - Go Air Force!)
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To: Armedanddangerous

93 posted on 10/28/2007 11:16:52 AM PDT by Dick Vomer (liberals suck....... but it depends on what your definition of the word "suck" is.,)
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To: Northern Yankee
Thanks for the welcome!
Congratulations, many happy years :)
94 posted on 10/28/2007 11:29:49 AM PDT by MaggieM
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To: Dundee

My one year old great niece is a beautiful redhead with big blue eyes.


95 posted on 10/28/2007 11:49:04 AM PDT by nycgal
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To: Tamar1973

Good one...Being a redhead was natural cover.


96 posted on 10/28/2007 12:32:05 PM PDT by TASMANIANRED (TAZ:Untamed, Unpredictable, Uninhibited.)
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To: RobbyS

Well, I certainly can’t criticize DK’s looks.


97 posted on 10/28/2007 12:45:32 PM PDT by chesley (Where's the omelet? -- Orwell)
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To: ari-freedom

So it does.


98 posted on 10/28/2007 12:46:32 PM PDT by chesley (Where's the omelet? -- Orwell)
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To: MarkL
Interesting, I've got dark brown hair, but my beard has dark red/brown color, though now it's about 1/3 gray.

Same here. Medium brown hair and a beard that is red as hell if I try to grow it out. My Mom's got red hair and Scottish blood. Both of my kids are dark-complected thanks to my wife and her part-Indian ancestry. But we can hold out hope for some generation skipping red hair in the future.

-ccm

99 posted on 10/28/2007 1:17:33 PM PDT by ccmay (Too much Law; not enough Order.)
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To: fieldmarshaldj

Carrot and Danny! LOL, dude you are killing me!!!!


100 posted on 10/28/2007 1:20:00 PM PDT by Lockbar (March toward the sound of the guns.)
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