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Blonds get last laugh after media's gaffe - Bad reports cited study predicting extinction of blondes
The New York Times ^ | October 2, 2002 | The New York Times Staff

Posted on 10/02/2002 4:06:17 AM PDT by MeekOneGOP

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Blondes 'to die out in 200 years'

1 posted on 10/02/2002 4:06:18 AM PDT by MeekOneGOP
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To: MeeknMing
Can't have a blond thread without a pic!


2 posted on 10/02/2002 4:11:04 AM PDT by chance33_98
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To: MeeknMing
The 'study' did not even pass the smell test. Anyone with a 5th grade education abount genetics would know it was phoney. What idiots.
3 posted on 10/02/2002 4:14:15 AM PDT by Always Right
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To: chance33_98
Smartest lady I've seen in quite a while!!
4 posted on 10/02/2002 4:20:24 AM PDT by upchuck
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To: chance33_98; McLynnan
We're here, we're dear, and we aren't leaving anytime soon.
5 posted on 10/02/2002 4:22:15 AM PDT by anniegetyourgun
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To: MeeknMing
Whether it is a phoney study or not, I believe we will die out eventually because blonde hair and blue eyes are not dominant genes, and the vast majority of people on this earth have brown eyes and dark hair. At least people like me won't have to listen to dumb blonde jokes anymore. It gets old. Especially when they laugh in your face and slap their knee afterwards like it was really a great joke and you (the blonde) should be laughing along heartily as well.
6 posted on 10/02/2002 4:24:34 AM PDT by DBtoo
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To: anniegetyourgun
I think a lot of dark-haired people out there suffer from "blonde envy." (apologies to Freud)
7 posted on 10/02/2002 4:27:39 AM PDT by mywholebodyisaweapon
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To: Always Right
I think you need to study up on your genetics a bit. Especially long term effects on populations, especially during periods of heavy migration across the globe like what is occuring now at unprecedented levels.
8 posted on 10/02/2002 4:29:06 AM PDT by DBtoo
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To: MeeknMing
Blondes 'to die out in 200 years'

Islam would like to speed up the process.

9 posted on 10/02/2002 4:29:50 AM PDT by PBRSTREETGANG
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To: Always Right
The main point to consider about this piece, is that once again the video media becomes a laughing stock by parrotting what the print media reports. Nobody does investigative journalism.
10 posted on 10/02/2002 4:30:33 AM PDT by 7thson
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To: DBtoo
Oh, come on. Don't you know we love you? You live in one of the most beautiful states in the union and in the greatest nation in the world. Don't feel picked on; feel proud!
11 posted on 10/02/2002 4:31:24 AM PDT by Movemout
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To: MeeknMing; Constitution Day
ah-HA!....so I can remove my black armband and stop mourning? (snicker, snicker)

hey, CD....how ya doin'? Didn't want you to miss yet another Blond Update. (I know, I know....you prefer redheads....!!)

12 posted on 10/02/2002 4:31:39 AM PDT by ZinGirl
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To: DBtoo
Especially when they laugh in your face and slap their knee afterwards like it was really a great joke and you (the blonde) should be laughing along heartily as well.

It's because the blonde did not get the joke :)

13 posted on 10/02/2002 4:35:17 AM PDT by chance33_98
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To: DBtoo
I think you need to study up on your genetics a bit. Especially long term effects on populations, especially during periods of heavy migration across the globe like what is occuring now at unprecedented levels.

Excuse me, but I think you need to study up a bit, and explain how the hundred of million blond genes out there are gonna disappear. Shoot, even if you committed genocide against all blonds, there would still be hundred of millions of recessive blond genes out there waiting to reappear.

14 posted on 10/02/2002 4:35:21 AM PDT by Always Right
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To: MeeknMing
In related news, a new political party was formed, called Friends of the Blondes, and announced that their platform would be the Save Our Blondes campaign, "to preserve these proud, magnificent creatures."

To ensure the survival of the breed, the Friends of the Blondes announced that they would attempt to interact with blondes to detail their mating habits, plumage, migration patterns and mating call ("What's your salary?").

15 posted on 10/02/2002 4:56:11 AM PDT by jpthomas
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To: Always Right
I'm blonde, blue eyes. Hubby has brown hair and eyes. Obviously, he has a gene for blonde (or red) hair and blue eyes (his dad had red hair and blue eyes) becauseall three of our children have blonde hair, 2 have blue eyes, the other brown. (If I remember from H.S. science, blonde is dominant over red) Anyway, seems to me, we had a 50/50 chance of having either, yet we ended up with 3 for 3.

16 posted on 10/02/2002 4:56:11 AM PDT by OldBlondBabe
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To: DBtoo
I think you need to study up on your genetics a bit. Especially long term effects on populations, especially during periods of heavy migration across the globe like what is occuring now at unprecedented levels.

No, you need to study up a bit. Migration and mixing may reduce the incidence of gene expression, but will not reduce the number of carriers for the recessive genes. Cystic fibrosis is also an autosomal recessive trait and the individuals with the disease are frequently infertile. Despite the inability of the homozygous individuals to reproduce, the recessive allele has not "died out". This story did not pass the freshman biology smell test.

17 posted on 10/02/2002 4:58:54 AM PDT by WilliamWallace1999
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To: Always Right
You have to think on a large scale. The percentage of blondes on the earth has already decreased during the past several centuries. Recessive genes do show up, but the sheer number of dominant genes will eventually breed out the blondes, although a few may continue to pop up. It also depends on our future such as potential wars, plagues, and higher/lower child birth rates which will strike certain ethnic groups more than others.

I'm sure the death of the Jews in WW2 has had a similar effect on the present number of Jews in the world today, and that probably helped to decrease their numbers forever as a result. Not that they will go extinct, but it sure put a dent in their potential population.

18 posted on 10/02/2002 5:04:48 AM PDT by DBtoo
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To: Movemout
Thankyou Movemout!! I like you!
19 posted on 10/02/2002 5:06:25 AM PDT by DBtoo
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To: chance33_98
No, it's because they are dumb jokes!! I guess they mean well, I think.
20 posted on 10/02/2002 5:10:05 AM PDT by DBtoo
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