REDHEAD SPOTLIGHT: Discrimination Pushes A Ginger Over the Edge

Imagine the ending of this headline: Man shoots himself and mother because of __________.

a) His crystal meth addiction

b) He was breast fed until the age of 10

c) He felt discriminated against as a redhead

Correct Answer: C

As a self proclaimed “ginger” celebrator and general reveler of all things carrot-top, strawberry-blond and flaming fabulousness, you can imagine my surprise, shock, awe and general bafflement at this story! 

Clearly this man was one book shy of a full library but seriously - What’s so wrong with redheads anyway!? 

Frankly, makes me wonder if there’s something to the phrase “beating like a redheaded step-child.”

 

Suspended Paramedic Trent Speering 'Sent Redhead Rant' Before Murder-Suicide

Suspended Sydney paramedic Trent Speering fumed that the NSW Ambulance Service was run by "degenerates" and was bigoted towards redheads before shooting dead his elderly mother and himself, a court has been told.

On June 11, 2008, the 40-year-old visited his 70-year-old mother, Monica Speering, at her home in Baulkham Hills, Sydney, and shot her twice in the head before covering her with a blanket and resting her head on a pillow, The Daily Telegraph reports.

Mr Speering then killed himself, a coronial inquest into both deaths heard today.

The day after the shootings, the Daily Telegraph opened a letter to the editor from Mr Speering detailing the reasons for his actions.

John Agius, counsel assisting the coroner, outlined some of contents of the letter in the NSW Coroners Court today.

"There are two main reasons as to why I've taken the action I have,'' Mr Agius read from the letter.

"One is that there is a lot of bigotry towards people with red hair in this workplace ... and I've copped my share in my lifetime...

"I work for the Ambulance Service of NSW and you would be hard pressed to find an organisation more morally bankrupt, and run by a bigger bunch of degenerates if you tried.''

Mr Speering went on to say that he would kill his mother and himself.

The letter triggered a police investigation but officers arrived at the house too late.

Mr Agius told coroner Mary Jerram that repeated recommendations from paramedic colleagues and medical experts that Mr Speering undergo a psychological assessment, had not been adopted.

"There are issues here about the duty of care for the ambulance service to Mr Speering as an employee ... given what the ambulance service ought to have known of Mr Speering's mental state,'' he said.

The inquest, set down for two weeks, is due to hear from numerous witnesses, including senior NSW Ambulance management.

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Redhead Spotlight #28

Spy Ring's 'Femme Fatale'

By BRUCE GOLDING, ANDY SOLTIS and CATHY BURKE

A ring of 10 Russian moles right out of a Cold War spy novel was smashed yesterday — and among those busted was a flame-haired, 007-worthy beauty who flitted from high-profile parties to top-secret meetings around Manhattan.

Russian national Anna Chapman — a 28-year-old divorcee with a masters in economics, an online real-estate business, a fancy Financial District apartment and a Victoria’s Secret body — had been passing information to a Russian government official every Wednesday since January, authorities charged.

In one particularly slick spy exchange on St. Patrick’s Day, Chapman pulled a laptop out of a tote bag in a bookstore at Warren and Greenwich streets in the West Village while her handler lurked outside, receiving her message on his own computer, the feds said. A similar exchange occurred at a Midtown coffee shop at 47th Street and 8th Ave.

The FBI claimed the two were corresponding via a secret online network.

Last week, an undercover agent pretending to be a Russian official arranged a meeting to talk about the weekly laptop exchanges, pretending to be ready to send the sexy spy on a mission to deliver a fake passport to another female agent, according to the federal complaint.

"Are you ready for this step?" he asked. "S¤-¤-¤-, yes," Chapman allegedly gushed.

The undercover instructed her on how she would recognize her fellow spy and how to report back on the handoff, the feds said.

"Haven’t we met in California last summer?" the spy expecting the fake passport was supposed to say. Chapman was to respond, "No, I think it was the Hamptons," according to the FBI.

Chapman allegedly was also supposed to hold a magazine under her arm so her counterpart would recognize her, and plant a stamp on a wall map indicate the handoff was a success.

It never took place.

Another spy-movie-like maneuver took place in Brooklyn shortly after the meeting with the undercover agent when Chapman darted into a Verizon phone store to buy a cell using the name Irine Kutsov, and an address of "99 Fake Street," the feds said. She only planned to use the phone to "avoid detection of her conversations," the FBI alleged.

At her arraignment last night, she was held without bail as federal prosecutor Michael Farbiarz called her a "highly trained agent" and a "practiced deceiver."

The other suspects, including four middle-aged couples living seemingly ordinary professional lives, were supplied with bogus names and documents and told by Moscow to become "Americanized," infiltrate "policymaking circles" in the United States and send secrets back to the Kremlin, the feds said.

All allegedly were on deep-cover assignments and schooled in spying tradecraft — from using high-tech methods like digital gadgets to traditional methods like invisible ink, sending encoded radio bursts of data and using innocent-looking "brush-by" encounters to pass documents.

Among the extraordinary allegations detailed in documents filed in Manhattan federal court yesterday:

* A senior Russian spy who used the name Christopher Metsos served as a go-between for agents across the country. He buried cash under five inches of dirt in upstate Wurtsboro that was dug up two years later by a Yonkers couple who were members of the ring.

* Metsos turned over an orange bag of cash to a Russian government official in May 2004 when they passed one another on a stairway at the Forest Hills, Queens, LIRR stop.

Other handovers and meetings between spies occurred in a Fort Greene, Brooklyn, coffee shop, a Sunnyside, Queens, restaurant and a subway entrance at Columbus Circle, the feds said.

* In May 2006, spies based in Boston gave their handlers information about changes at the CIA and about the 2008 presidential election. The information came from a well-connected "former legislative counsel for the US Congress," they told Moscow.

* The Boston spies also boasted in 2004 that one of their agents had talks with a US nuclear expert about research on bunker-buster warheads.

* A spy in Montclair, NJ, who used the name Cynthia Murphy, told Moscow in February 2009 that she had "several work-related personal meetings" with a prominent New York financier, who was a big campaign fund-raiser and friend of a former Cabinet member.

"Of course, he is a very interesting target," Moscow replied.

* Her husband, who used the name Richard Murphy, was told last January how he would be able to identify another spy when he traveled to Rome to get a bogus Irish passport.

"Excuse me, could we have met in Malta in 1999?" he was told to ask.

If the contact was legitimate, he would reply, "Yes, indeed I was in La Valetta, but in 2000."

But if his contact was carrying a copy of Time magazine in his left hand, it was a signal that the meeting was in danger, according to the instructions from Moscow.

"You were sent to USA for long-term service trip," one message said. "Your education, bank accounts, car, house etc. — all these serve one goal: fulfill your main mission, i.e. to search and develop ties in policymaking circles in US and [send] intels."

The court documents also reveal day-to-day travails of the spy business.

Last March, two of the suspects were watched as they met at a payphone at DeKalb and Vanderbilt avenues in Brooklyn. They went from there to a coffee house for a long chat. One alleged agent complained about the computer Moscow had given him.

"They don’t understand what we go through over here," he kvetched.

Before they left, one spy gave the other a package believed to contain cash, the feds said.

Moscow Center, the infamous headquarters of Russian intelligence going back decades, closely monitored how much it was spending. In one message, it listed all the expenses for two Boston spies, including $8,500 for rent, $160 for telephone and $180 for a car lease.

The Yonkers spies, meanwhile, struggled financially, and after one of them flew to an unidentified South American country to collect eight bags each packed with $10,000, he used some of it to pay off nearly $8,000 in back taxes to the country and city, the FBI said.

Neighbors of the suspects were stunned.

The two Montclair "Murphys" moved to the neighborhood about a year ago and were described by one neighbor as very normal. "They were suburbia personified," he said. Near the crowded, book-filled Yonkers home of suspect Vicky Pelaez — an op-ed columnist for El Diario — and another defendant, Juan Lazaro, neighbors were stunned.

One, Ellen Shaffren, said that the couple had lived there 12 to 15 years and that one of their two sons is a piano prodigy.

Shaffren said Lazaro was an economics professor.

Two other defendants, Michael Zottoli and Patricia Mills, were arrested at their residence in Arlington, Va.

Mikhail Semenko, was busted Sunday at his home in Arlington.

Donald Howard Heathfield and Tracey Lee Ann Foley, were arrested at their Boston residence Sunday.

Outside their home near Harvard Square, local residents said the couple never quite fit in the offbeat neighborhood.

"There was no interaction," said neighbor Lila Hexner. "Everything was very nondescript."

Metsos, who apparently was able to enter the United States repeatedly over several year, is not in custody.

Each of the 10 arrested was charged with conspiracy to act as an agent of a foreign government, which carries a maximum penalty of five years in prison on conviction.

Nine were charged with conspiracy to commit money laundering, which carries a maximum 20 years in prison.

Additional reporting by Perry Chiaramonte, Erin Calabrese, Rebecca Rosenberg and Doug Montero in New York and Marcia Harrison in Boston

Black Chery and Hot

Well the ceiling situation hasn’t been completely resolved and I’m still sleeping in the middle of my living room but that’s neither here nor there.

I had a little home beauty budget disaster on Tuesday night. In preparation for spring and the two (count them) TWO dates I have this weekend, I decided to give myself some much needed highlights. Its been over a decade since I purchased one of these little chem. labs in a box – and I remembered why. What happens when you try to lighten red hair?? It TURNS ORANGE!!!

So I just spend $300 to get the color stripped and then re-deposited into my hair. But the color that was re-deposited…is NOT my color red. It’s DARK. Like black cherry dark! It’s crazy! I have DARK hair. Every 3 minutes I’m debating between thinking ‘I look like a bad ass bitch with dark hair!’ and wanting to use non color friendly shampoo then lather, rinse and repeat like its my job.

We’ll see. I need to seek some outside opinions on the matter.
I look like a bad as bitch with dark hair!!

Frankly,

Red Spotlight: #12

The Sunday Times January 07, 2007 Flaming Heck, First Brits Were Redheads A genetic study has revealed a surprise about our ancestors, says Robin McKie There is a small, windowless room on the ground floor of Oxford’s Radcliffe Infirmary that can be reached only by walking through a maze of narrow passageways. The hospital, built in the late 18th century, is old even by the normal standards of ageing National Health Service buildings. Nevertheless, it is in these antiquated surroundings that scientists have set up one of the most ambitious biological programmes attempted in Britain. This is the base of the People of the British Isles project, which is using the power of modern genetics to show how people in different regions interacted over the past few thousand years, how they subjugated one another and how they passed on ideas, inventions and art. In that little cubbyhole on the ground floor there is a bench fitted with high-technology gear used to isolate and copy DNA, a couple of tables with personal computers and several tall fridges. Inside these are rows of vials that hold the bloodline of the British people. Each vial contains DNA from a person who has taken part in the project and each sample has its own special story to tell. Blood was collected from 11 sites for the project’s pilot study: Orkney, northeast England, Cumbria, Lincolnshire, Norfolk, Suffolk, Oxfordshire, Pembrokeshire, Kent/Sussex, Devon and Cornwall. The researchers then used centrifuges to isolate the white cells, which are stuffed with DNA. Using the DNA — and thanks to advances in molecular biology — the team has begun to build up a pattern of different genetic variants for different parts of the British Isles. From the moment they started to pull data from their machines, their findings produced fascinating information about one of the most conspicuous aspects of the British and Irish population: our redheads. Whether they are called carrot-tops, ginger-heads or “Titian blondes”, these people are blessed — or cursed, according to some of them — with flaming locks that have been a feature of people for millenniums, from Boudicca to Prince Harry. The underlying causes of the condition were recently disentangled by a team led by Professor Jonathan Rees, a dermatologist based at Edinburgh University. It was discovered that hair colour is controlled by a gene called the melanocortin 1 receptor, or MC1R. Genes come in different variants and there are about 70 different versions of MC1R. Rees discovered that a subgroup of about half a dozen is closely involved in determining if a person will be red-haired or not. “If you have one of these variants, your chances of having red hair are increased four or five times above the average,” said Rees. “However, if you have two of these variants — one inherited from your mother and one inherited from your father — your chances of being red-haired increase to 30 to 40 times the average.” (This is exploited by forensic scientists when testing blood left behind at crime scenes. If they find two MC1R variants, police know there is a strong chance the culprit will be a redhead.) Red hair today is generally associated with the Scots and Irish, but there have been no consistent efforts to establish the prevalence of the condition. “It has actually become harder to find the prevalence of red hair today,” said Rees. “More and more women — and some men — now dye their hair and we simply have no idea if a redhead is a real one or if a blonde is a redhead under the dye. As a result the incidence of red hair in Britain is still a bit of a mystery.” Enter the scientists of the People of the British Isles project: thanks to their efforts, this most distinctive characteristic is now opening up its mysteries for the first time. Testing their white cell samples for two of the half-dozen red-hair versions of the MC1R gene, they were able to show their frequency in each area of the British Isles. The results were intriguing. Where one is the maximum value, they got figures of 0.16 and 0.23 for the frequencies of red-hair genes in Cornwall and Devon. The frequency in Oxfordshire was 0.07; in Sussex and Kent 0.13; in northeast England 0.11; in Lincolnshire 0.07; and in Cumbria nil. In Wales the figure was 0.21, and in Orkney a high 0.26. But the highest was in Ireland. Using data from other research studies, the team got a figure for Ireland of 0.31, confirmation of the stereotypical image of the red-haired Irishman. The results are remarkable, as Sir Walter Bodmer, the Oxford geneticist leading the project, acknowledges: “I was amazed at them. I didn’t expect to see something like this.” The research gives us, for the first time, an insight into the startling numbers of native people who have been described as having red hair in ancient times. Famous British redheads include Queen Boudicca, who rebelled against the Romans and sacked London in AD60. She was described by Dio Cassius, the Greek historian, as being “tall and terrifying . . . a great mass of red hair fell over her shoulders”. Over the centuries there have been many other famous red-haired Britons, including Elizabeth I, Oliver Cromwell, Nell Gwyn and Winston Churchill. Nevertheless, today red locks are mainly associated with only certain areas, with Scotland being the principal focus in mainland Britain. Prominent Scots “ginger-heids” include Gordon Strachan, manager of Celtic, and Charles Kennedy, former leader of the Liberal Democrats. But why do we have such numbers in these parts of the British Isles today and not others? The answer, says Bodmer, is that red-hair genes were common among the first Britons and that populations in the archipelago’s fringes still carry their bloodline. “Genes for red hair first appeared in human beings about 40,000 to 50,000 years ago,” agrees Rees. These genes were then carried into the islands by the original settlers, men and women who “would have been relatively tall, with little body fat, athletic, fair-skinned and who would have had red hair”, says David Miles, of English Heritage. Redheads therefore represent the land’s most ancient lineages. So if you want an image of how those first people appeared, don’t think of a hairy savage with a mane of thick black hair. Contemplate instead a picture of a slim, ginger-haired individual: Prince Harry, perhaps, or the actress Nicole Kidman who has Scottish and Irish descent. Why did those early Britons have so many redheads in their midst in the first place? Is there an evolutionary advantage to having red hair in this part of the world? According to Rees, the answer may be yes. The MC1R variants that cause red hair also have an effect on the skin. As a result, redheads do not make enough of the dark pigment melanin to protect them against the sun’s powerful ultraviolet rays. Their skin rarely tans. It just burns or freckles. In Africa, where modern humans first evolved 150,000 years ago, this would have been fatal. In northern Europe, however, melanin-free skin could have provided an advantage because we make vitamin D in our skin when sunlight shines on it. Dark-skinned people were protected against the African sun, but their ability to make vitamin D would have been badly affected in relatively gloomy northern Europe. This could have caused rickets, resulting in weak bones and curved legs — bad news for a hunter-gatherer. Rickets is particularly damaging for women, as it increases pelvic deformations, raising the risk of death in childbirth. So, the theory goes, we evolved white, melanin-free skin that has no dark pigment to block sunlight and cause rickets. Red hair was a side effect. So there it is: being a redhead could mean you possess an evolutionary advantage over non-red-haired people. Or it could simply be a matter of luck. Those MC1R variants may have appeared by chance and survived in northern Europe where they caused no harm. Scientists in the United States and Britain have uncovered another surprising aspect to having ginger locks. Researchers have found that red-headed women are better able to tolerate pain than anyone else, including red-headed males. This is due to a protein produced by MC1R that does one thing in the skin and hair and another in the female brain. At the human genetics unit at the Western general hospital in Edinburgh, Professor Ian Jackson has launched a study of redheads in the hope of developing new painkillers in the wake of this discovery and has found that redheads are better able to tolerate intense heat. As a result, he is preparing to test the hypothesis that redheads should be able to tolerate hot spicy foods better than other people. Thus our ancient, divergent origins seem to have equipped some Britons with the ability to deal with one of the most powerful challenges of modern life: the vindaloo.

Naked and Desperate

REDS IN THE NEWS

Marcia Cross is truly a 'Desperate Housewife.' Cross, the real life actress that plays Bree Van de Kamp on the hit ABC show 'Desperate Housewives' had had some naked pictures of her turn up and she is desperate to keep the pics from being sold to a third party.

According to the New York Daily News, a man who works for firm she hired to remove trash from the Cross' home in Los Angeles discovered the photos when he got to the dump.

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An agent hired by the company, attorney David Hans Schmidt, told the News that he has more than 200 photos of the "Desperate Housewives" actress.

Since she is completely naked and he has seen the photos - the lawyer let's everyone know that she is indeed a true redhead. "There are some pictures of her showering outside," Schmidt tells the Daily News.

"She looks absolutely gorgeous. And yes, the carpet does match the curtains."

Classy.

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Cross of course wants the pictures back.

Her lawyers argue that no matter where the photos were found, they are the copyrighted property of Cross and her husband, Tom Mahoney, who may have taken some of them. Cross' attorneys maintain the photos were thrown out by mistake.

"The pictures were not stolen," says Schmidt. "When you throw something away, you forfeit that property.

Links to this story:

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NationalLedger.com

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Stealing the Fire from Hell

I love Halloween and I think it's a very misunderstood holiday. Its origins are in Celtic (Irish, go figure) - a harvest celebration - a coming together of death (the harvesting of the crops) and life (coming from the food from the harvest).

Interestingly enough, redheads have long been associated with the supernatural. German folk culture believed that redheads were witches and from 1483-1784 thousands of suspected witches were stripped and searched for "marks of the devil" which included any abnormality such as freckles, moles, warts or birthmarks. This pretty much screws most redheads since many of have many many freckles.

For example, my mother doesn't tan - she just waits for all of her freckles to connect to make her darker! I have a few but nothing even close to that. I'm not a be-speckled redhead. I'm just a redhead who can't get a tan to save her life. Oh well.

Because of our natural beauty or "abnormality", an estimated 45,000 women were tortured and murdered, usually by burning at the stake or by drowning.

Germans weren't the only culture to persecute us - Egyptions also regarded redheads as so unlucky that they had a ceremony in which they burned redheaded maidens. Still Greek mythology tells us that redheads turned into Vampires after they die and during the Spanish Inquisition, redheads were thought to have stollen the fire of hell and had to be burned as a witch.

Hmmm...i was a witch last year....maybe I'll go as a devil next year :) I like the "stealing the fire of hell" bit. I'm sure some of my ex's would agree.

Either way, light your pumpkins, break out your candy, and be nice to redheads today - who knows....we might be witches after all!

Place in the sun for redheads?

REDS IN THE NEWS

Have that skin that burns but never tans?

Researchers at Harvard's Dana- Farber Cancer Institute and Children's Hospital Boston think they're close to developing a way of protecting fair-skinned people from skin cancer caused by sun exposure.

The study involved engineering a bunch of red-haired mice and applying a cream to them that turned on the tanning machinery in their skin cells. The compound, called forskolin, is derived from the root of the forskohlii plant, found in India. The mice involved in the experiment turned dark, proving that proper stimulation can cause even redheads to tan.

Because people who tan easily or have naturally dark skin are far less prone to skin cancer than fair- skinned people, the findings suggest, drug-induced tans can protect at-risk people from the disease.

The researchers say that sunless tanning may also keep people from sunbathing, further lowering the risk of skin cancer.

Melanoma is the fastest-increasing form of cancer in the world, accounting for 62,000 new U.S. cases every year and nearly 8,000 deaths, according to the American Cancer Society.

The study appears in the September Nature.

Little Mermaid is Voted the Most Popular Redhead

The Little Mermaid is Voted the Most Popular Redhead

Disney has a way of proving that some things get better with age! Disney's Ariel, The Little Mermaid, proved to be the most well-known red head, in a recent study conducted by Omnibus Operations: Ipsos North America.

The animated character (who has her own U.S. postage stamp) was better known than such modern day red heads as Sarah Ferguson (former Duchess of York), Pippy Longstocking (popular children's literary and film character), Julianne Moore (The Hours, The Big Lebowski), and Debra Messing (TV's "Will & Grace").



Red heads were also most perceived as "unique," according the study. "Feisty" was the second-most common perception, followed by "smart" and "sexy." "Nerdy" was the least-perceived trait, with only 3% of total respondents identifying red heads with it. Respondents were asked why they would not dye their head red. Adding to the "unique" factor, the majority reason was because they were afraid that red hair would not go with their skin tone.

Another red head fact that many don't know is: Ariel was almost not a red head! When the Little Mermaid character first came to Disney, her "look" went through an early design process. Of course, her red hair won out. For fans worldwide, Ariel is an icon of red-headedness - a unique, feisty character beloved by millions.


On October 3rd, The Little Mermaid splashes onto a spectacular 2-disc Platinum Edition DVD for the first time ever. Winner of two Academy Awardsâ (Best Music, Original Score; Best Music, Original Song "Under The Sea," 1989), this new DVD features an all-new digital restoration, and is presented in all-new 5.1 Disney Enhanced Home Theater Surround Sound, for the best picture and audio quality ever. The Little Mermaid 2-disc Platinum Edition is awash in bonus features, including the all-new "Kiss The Girl" music video performed by Ashley Tisdale. Fans will thrill to the new "Under The Sea Adventure," a virtual ride inspired by the famous "Imagineers" of Walt Disney Imagineering. There are never-before-seen deleted scenes; a first-time-on DVD new animated short "The Little Match Girl;" behind- the-scenes specials; and much, much more.

A Bit About Redheads

First let me say, this is not meant to be a dig to my Blonde friends, ya'll are fabulous. These are just jokes and should be taken as such. A friend sent this along to me....so good, I just HAD to share!

A young man marrying a redhead asked his father for some marital advice. The father said, "Just remind her who wears the pants in your family." The evening arrived, the new husband tossed his pants to his bride and said, "Here put these on." She did and said "I don't fit into these." "That's right!" he said, "and don't you forget who wears the pants in this family!"...... With that she flipped him her panties and said, "Try these on." He looked at them and said, "I can't get into your panties!" She said, "That's right - and you won't until your attitude changes!"

What do you call a redhead walking between two blondes?...An interpreter.

What's the Redhead Dating Motto?
The fastest way to a man's heart is through his ribcage.

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

Differences Between Good Girls and Redheads

*Good girls loosen a few buttons when it's hot.
*Redheads make it hot by loosening a few buttons.

*Good girls wax their floors.
*Redheads wax their bikini lines.

*Good girls blush during sex scenes in a movie.
*Redheads know they could do it better.

*Good girls wear white cotton panties.
*Redheads don't wear any.

*Good girls think they're not fully dressed without a strand of pearls.
*Redheads think they're fully dressed with just a strand of pearls.

*Good girls only own one credit card and rarely use it.
*Redheads only own one bra and rarely use it.

*Good girls pack their toothbrush.
*Redheads pack their diaphragms.

*Good girls wear high heels to work.
*Redheads wear high heels to bed.

*Good girls think the office is the wrong place to have sex.
*Redheads think no place is the wrong place.

*Good girls prefer the missionary position.
*Redheads do too, but only for starters.

*Good girls say 'no'.
*Redheads say 'when?'

*Good girls say "Thanks for a wonderful dinner."
*Redheads say, "What's for breakfast?"

*Good girls keep a diary.
*Redheads keep a blog.

*Good girls love Italian food.
*Redheads love Italian waiters.

*Good girls will apologize, brown nose and kiss YOUR ass.
*Redheads will tell ya to kiss MY ass.

How do you know when you've had sex with a redhead?
If you are dehydrated, can't walk, and have blood running down your back

What do you do when a redhead is pissed at you?
Run like hell and don't look back.

Redheads are the sweetest most innocent girls.........when they are asleep.

What is the difference between a redhead and a lawyer ?
There are somethings that even lawyers won't do to people...

Why do redheads think they're special?
It's amazing what arrogance and a lack of sensitivity will do for your ego...

What is the difference between dating a redhead and putting your hand into ablender?
You got a 50/50 chance the blender isn't on...

This goes out to all my favorite Reds - KassyK, CrazyNY, Life of Red