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Redheads were a favorite subject of 19th-century British artists, including the Pre-Raphaelites. Many of the most famous Victorian paintings featured red-haired ladies.
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The Egyptians regarded the color as so unlucky that they had a ceremony to burn redheaded maidens alive to wipe out the tint, but it has failed. There are still people with red hair.
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In Denmark it's an honor to have a redheaded child. In Corsica if you pass one on the street, you spit and turn around. In Poland it's said if you pass three redheads, you'll win the state lottery.
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In ancient Egypt redheads were sacrificial victims buried alive in homage to the god Osiris. The ancient Romans paid a premium for redheaded slaves. Redheads have often been feared as the most potent of witches and sorcerers. In Holland, redheads are still considered to be agents of misfortune -- perhaps a memory of Viking invasions. "Redheaded women are either violent or false, and usually are both," holds a French proverb.

~flower~ · « **Reply #84 on:** March 09, 2007, 04:45:50 PM »

Q: What's the true definition of a blonde?
A: Redhead with the fire of passion missing.

Q: What is the difference between a redhead and a computer?
A: Redhead won't accept a three and a half inch

Q: What do redheads and McDonald's have in common?
A: You've never had it so good and so fast.

Q: What's safer: a redhead or a pirahna?
A: The pirahna. They only attack in schools.

Q: How do you get a redhead to argue with you?
A: Say something like "I'm one of those males who love redheads, great jokes."

Q: How do you get a redhead's mood to change?
A: Wait 10 seconds

Q: Why aren't there any more redhead jokes?
A: Someone told them to a redhead.

Q: What do you call a Redhead with an attitude?
A: Normal

Q: What do you call a woman who knows where her husband is every night?
A: A redhead!

Q: How do you get a redhead to argue with you?
A: Say something

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

Q: How do you know a guy at the beach has a redhead for a girlfriend?
A: She has scratched "stay off MY TURF!" on his back with her nails.

Q: What does a redhead, an anniversary, and a toilet have in common?
A: Men always miss them.

Q: How do you know when your redhead has forgiven you?
A: She stops washing your clothes in the toilet bowl

Q: How do you know when a redhead has been using a computer?
A: There's a hammer embedded in the monitor

Only two things are necessary to keep a redhead happy.
One is to let her think she is having her own way,
and the other is to let her have it.

Q: How do you know when you've satisfied a redhead?
A: She unties you.

~flower~ · « **Reply #85 on:** March 09, 2007, 04:47:40 PM »

A redhead walks into the drugstore and asks the pharmacist if he sells, x-large condoms.

He replies, "Yes, we do, would you like to buy some?"

She replies, "No sir, but if you don't mind I'd like to hang out here until someone does.

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Two sailors on shore leave, walking down the street. They spot a beautiful blonde.

First sailor asks his friend "Have you ever slept with a blonde?" Second sailor replies that he has.

They walk on further and see an even more beautiful brunette.

First Sailor: Have you ever slept with a brunette?"

Second Sailor" Why yes, in fact I've slept with brunettes on many occasions" They walk on a little further, and see a gorgeous redhead, who leaves the other two girls for dead.

First Sailor:" Have you ever slept with a redhead then?"

His companion looks at him and replies "Not a wink!"

~flower~ · « **Reply #86 on:** March 09, 2007, 04:50:49 PM »

* Redheads "are deemed to be the emotional slaves of our colouring as no other group," writes redheaded Nicola Tyrer in the Daily Telegraph; short temper and sexual fieriness are attributed to them. In France, to be redheaded is thought to be a fate so dire that some women have formed a Proud to be Red association.

* Percentages of redheads in different countries range from single digits to a fraction of 1 per cent -- a recent estimate for France is 0.03 per cent of people. (A 1977 estimate for North America is 4 per cent.) Redheads generally are more numerous in northern latitudes, but also turn up among Hungarians, Egyptians, Israelis and certain Nigerian tribes.

* "In Denmark it is an honour to have a redheaded child. In Corsica, if you pass one in the street you spit and turn around. In Poland, if you pass three red-heads you'll win the state lottery," claims Sylvia Stevez, the Parisian founder of Association Francaise des Rousses.

* Harvard dermatologist Madhu Pathak calls redheads "three-time losers" because their red pigment is an inadequate filter of sunlight and their skin is more susceptible to sunburn, skin cancer and wrinkling with age.

* There are two kinds of redhead, says Mary Spillane, managing director of British image consultants Colour Me Beautiful. There's "the autumn type with hazel eyes," and the Celtic type with translucent skin, light eyes and carrot top -- leprechaun redness "that people have trouble with."

* Redheads have always been thought untrustworthy. As a 17th-century Frenchman observed, "Judas, it is said, was red-haired."

* Superstitions: red hair is unlucky; it's lucky to rub your hand on a redhead's head; bees sting redheads more readily. The Egyptians regarded the colour as so unlucky that they had a ceremony in which they burned red-headed maidens alive to wipe out the tint, says author Claudie De Lys.

* In 1960, a contributor to the journal of the British Folklore Society wrote: "Before the ship was due to sail, I became aware of a muttering outside my door. I asked the captain what it was all about and... he replied that the [men in the] fo'castle did not want to sail with a strange red-haired woman aboard, especially as the cargo was iron ore."

* Redheads, used to attention and teasing, can be good-natured about their condition. After journalist/rebel William Lyon Mackenzie went bald from a fever, he acquired a red wig and would wave it in the air and thwack friends with it when amused.

~flower~ · « **Reply #87 on:** March 09, 2007, 05:02:44 PM »

According to a legend, Prince Idon of Mu discovered Atlantis just in time to move his people to the new Continent before his land was destroyed by natural catastrophe.

He came to Atlantis during sunset, and immediately fell in love with the new land. The sky and clouds were of beautiful red color, reflecting the rays of the setting sun. The leaves of trees were moved by a gentle breeze.

Prince Idon wanted to save that beauty for all generations to see. His wish came true. The image was permanently imprinted in his own looks. His hair turned red, like the color of the sky. His face was covered with freckles, the image of the leaves.

Ever since then, any time someone is looking at a redhead, he sees the image of that first sunset in Atlantis.

Because every single redhead descended from Prince Idon, who then became the first King of Atlantis, every redhead is a Prince or a Princess of Atlantis.