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 ...
Way better looking than Scully..let me tell you!
L’Oreal redhead here (I’m worth it.) I prefer to think of it as better living thru chemistry. ;) PaMom
Yep, but she hasnt been a redhead for some time.
the thing that freaks me out about carrot top is, why would any self respecting man shave off their eyebrows like he does?
those things stick in your mind forever, dont they?
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.
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.
That’s a great story. Made any friends that night?
The original:
Same here. =;^D
My one year old great niece is a beautiful redhead with big blue eyes.
Good one...Being a redhead was natural cover.
Well, I certainly can’t criticize DK’s looks.
So it does.
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
Carrot and Danny! LOL, dude you are killing me!!!!
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