re: #83 wrenchwench

When my brother married a redhead I asked him if they were going to have a bunch of redheaded babies. He said, ‘That’s not how genetics work.’ This is the astrophysicist, not the evolutionary biologist, so I said, ‘Huh?’. He said, ‘She dyes it.’

Nobody in my immediate family has natural red hair, except my mother’s mother. Yet somehow, my beard comes in with a vivid fiery color. Mrs. Fish is a strawberry blonde. We wondered, at our wedding, if we would have ginger babies. Didn’t take too long to find the answer to that one.