Got you beatā¦40 years of red marriage next monthā¦.30 this summer for me !
Funny thing is that I never had a āthingā for redheadsā¦.. until her!!
Here you go, LJ (I know your expecting it:
āThe Twelve Most Famous Redheads:
- Lucille Ball, comedienne
- Gen. George Custer, military maverick
- Lizzie Borden, hatchetwoman
- Thomas Jefferson, revolutionary
- Red Skelton, comic
- George Bernard Shaw, playwright
- Judas Iscariot, informer
- Mark Twain, humorist
- Woody Allen, humorist
- Margaret Sanger, feminist
- Edna St. Vincent Millay, libertine poet
- Bernard Mickey Wrangler, bomber
From this list, the analytically minded might conclude that persons with red hair tend to be either dangerous or funnyā. (p. 45)
āā¦on the planet Argon redheads were considered evilā¦āRed hair is caused by sugar and lust⦠Highly evolved beings do not indulge in sugar and lust'ā. (p. 55)
āHis hair was red then, red being the colour of emergency and roses; red being the prelateās top and the baboonās bottom; red being the bloodās colour, jellyās colour; red maddening the bull; red being the colour of valentines, of left-handedness, and of a small princessās newfound guilty hobby. His hair was red, his cowboy boots muddy, his heart a hive of musical beesā. (p. 57)
āThe hair of most so-called redheads is actually orange, but it was red, first colour in the spectrum and the last seen by the eyes of the dying, it was true-blue red that clanged like fire bells about the domes of Bernard Mickey Wrangle and Princess Leigh-Cheriā. (p. 99)
Robbins, T. Still Life With Woodpecker, Bantam Dell, New York, 1980