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gonzo914 wrote:
daveboling wrote: Waitaminute, do you mean to say that the word f-a-r-t gets a auto-modification to save delicate readers? On this forum??
f*rt, f*rt, f*rt, f*rt, f*rt, f*rt, f*rt, f*rt.

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how about f@rt?

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My sister and brother both have reddish hair. Mine's red if I'm in the sun long enough.

As far as I know, neither of them received any abuse for it.
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fearfaoin wrote:
Walden wrote:
Nanohedron wrote:First I've heard it.
First I've heard the word ginger thus used.
Agreed. Up till now, my only contact thereof was Ginger Spice --
Geri Halliwell of the Spice Girls, and a goodwill ambassador for
the UN.
I came across the use of "ginger" for rufous hair just a couple of years ago, myself. Why "ginger"? Ginger's tan colored, after all.
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growing up, one of my best friends have violently red hair. The boys would taunt her with "I'd rather be dead than red in the head".

And we use the "red headed stepchild" phrase a lot in this area. It means being the one that doesn't fit in.

When we were bad, we were threatened with "I'm going to sell you to the Gypsy's".
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Nano wrote:Why "ginger"? Ginger's tan colored, after all.
I'm guessing they are equating the colour red with the heat of ginger (?).

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crookedtune wrote:I always preferred MaryAnn to Ginger, anyway. (But she was always after that nerd scientist).
Me too.


As usual, I merely skimmed this thread but I can say for sure that my first wife was a redhead and she did not have a quick temper.
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FlyingC wrote:my first wife was a redhead and she did not have a quick temper.
Was she trained? :boggle:

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Anne Shirley seemed to think red hair to be something undesirable.
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I always wished I had red hair. Instead I had to endure the "blonde" jokes when they surfaced until it went grey! :P

"Beat you like a red-headed step-child" is one I've heard around here.- but then the person I knew who use to say this a lot also had another favorite phrase- " and my feet stink and I don't love Jesus". go figure....
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There's an elderly lady I know who came over from Germany when she was in her teens. She has silvery hair with a touch of auburn to it. Once I complimented her on her hair, and she said when she was young it was carrot orange. "Oh how pretty!" She said no, the other kids were very mean to her, and ostracized her. She said they had a rhyme, [and here she said a rhyme in German]. It was something like "Redheaded girl, redheaded girl, you are from the Devil's clan".

All these years later and she still sounded hurt by it :( Not a good memory for her.
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