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In honor of the approximately 35 redheads running around here, and because I got bored the other day, I present these fun facts:

Did you know that.....?

-Scarlet tresses were long considered the mark of the devil: because the color was associated with menstruation, red-haired women were seen as unclean and taboo

- Believed to be lethal, fat taken from a redheaded man was used in concocting poisons during the seventeenth century

- Both Emily Dickenson and Edna St. Vincent were redheads.

- Redheads require 20 percent more anesthesia to put them under than brunettes or blondes.

- Less than 4 percent of the world's population has red hair (and about 3 percent of them live here)

- Also, in Africa, non-Caucasian albino redheads who live in countries like Cameroon, are subject to ill treatment by superstitious neighbors

Comments

[x-crowdofone.livejournal.com]

Y'know, maybe it's just that I've been here long enough to get used to it and I don't notice so much anymore, but we really do have a wacky amount of redheads around here. I wonder if that's one of those "possibly a mutant side-effect thing but it hasn't been proven yet" things?

We do have a lot of redheads here...

[x-jetstream.livejournal.com]

But gentlemen prefer blondes.

*grins*

Salaam,
Haroun

PS - Anyone needs me, I'll be in the hangar.

Re: We do have a lot of redheads here...

[x-mactaggart.livejournal.com]

You'd better hide in the hanger...

Men, I swear, do I honestly have to threaten all of you with a good thumping today?

Re: We do have a lot of redheads here...

[x-jeangrey.livejournal.com]

do I honestly have to threaten all of you with a good thumping today?

My feeling is, "yes".

Re: We do have a lot of redheads here...

[x-mactaggart.livejournal.com]

Well, between the two of us and a couple of hammers, I believe we could take on the school.

[x-crowdofone.livejournal.com]

Is this one of those things where it's all guys on principle, or just the ones who actually said something hammerworthy? I'm just trying to figure out if I should hide. :)

Hmm.

[x-mactaggart.livejournal.com]

I'll be nice tonight and say just the ones that have said/done something hammerworthy.

Just tonight, mind you. ;)

[x-crowdofone.livejournal.com]

You're my favorite redheaded world-famous geneticist with a newborn daughter. :)

[x-mactaggart.livejournal.com]

*laughs* You say the sweetest things.

[x-jeangrey.livejournal.com]

-laugh- Only at Xavier's would it be necessary to qualify that statement so thouroughly.

[x-jeangrey.livejournal.com]

Remember, Jamie, one of us is a telepath. We can punish the hammerworthy thoughts as well.

[x-crowdofone.livejournal.com]

Then it's probably a good thing I have a brain like one of those Magic Eye things, huh? :)

[x-jeangrey.livejournal.com]

Spoken like a boy with a guilty conscince.

[x-crowdofone.livejournal.com]

Hey, I've been getting up to mischief for nearly eighteen years now (or "over" eighteen years, depending on if you believe my mom's pregnancy stories.) I like to keep my bets hedged. :)

[x-jeangrey.livejournal.com]

Good call.

I like that answer...

[x-dazzler.livejournal.com]

;)

*purr*

And I'll help out some more today, with a short break for the BBQ at one point. :)

Well...

[x-madelyn.livejournal.com]

Red hair is a recessive gene, so it's possible it is connected to mutation. Genetics aren't really my field, so I'll leave the explanation to Jean or Hank. *grins* But I will observe that two of the redhead collection aren't mutants - maybe something about this place attracts the singular?

Personally, mine tends to shift to almost-blonde in summer if I don't spend all my time inside, and darkens to brownish red in winter. I think it's just trying to be cool. ;)

Re: Well...

[x-crowdofone.livejournal.com]

Maybe the school was built on an ancient redhead burial ground. :)

My dad's hair used to go almost white in the summer, when he was little--I got into Grandpa's blackmail stash once. 'Course, it's lightening again now, but I tend to think that's more my fault. ;)

Re: Well...

[x-jeangrey.livejournal.com]

I'm still not convinced that the x-gene is recessive, and there's not enough statistical evidence on second and third generation to be really conclusive in any direction. The fact that mutations spring up in families with no prior evidence of such mutations would suggest that it is, but almost all of the children of mutants I've encountered also turn out to be x-gene positive, which implies a dominant gene. Statistically, a recesive gene oughtn't show up that often in first generation families, but Scott and Alex, Pitor and Illyana, and Sam, Paige and Jay put paid to that suggestion.