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To: Len who wrote (11775)	10/1/1999 12:49:00 AM
From: Karen Lawrence	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 62552

An E-Mail From God One day God was looking down at Earth and saw all of the evil that was going on. He decided to send an angel down to Earth to check it out. So he called on a female angel and sent her to Earth for a time. When she returned she told God, yes it is bad on Earth, 95% is bad and 5% is good. Well, he thought for a moment and said maybe I had better send down a male angel; to get both points of view. So God called a male angel and sent him to Earth for a time. When the male angel returned he went to God and told him yes, the Earth was in decline, 95% was bad and 5% was good. God said this was not good. He decided to E-Mail the 5% that were good and encourage them, a little something to help them keep going. Do you know what that E-Mail said? ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... I didn't get one either!

To: Len who wrote (11775)	10/4/1999 1:01:00 PM
From: SIer formerly known as Joe B.	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 62552

Blondes Have More Fun - But For How Long? Monday October 4 12:09 PM ET dailynews.yahoo.com By Lyndsay Griffiths LONDON (Reuters) - Gentlemen might prefer them but brunettes can finally relax -- blondes are dying out. A new book says natural blondes rely on a recessive gene for their cachet and are steadily being overrun by mobile, darker-haired gene carriers. ''There's no question that the natural blond is an endangered species,'' author Kathy Phillips told Reuters. ''In the primordial soup of genes caused by world migration and intermarriage, the blond will ultimately be superseded by dark-haired and dark-skinned races.'' Phillips based her prediction on research by Steve Jones, professor of genetics at University College, London. Jones, a leader in his field, found that Scandinavia and northern Europe in general, natural home to the blond, had become more open societies in recent years and had thus diluted their gene pools through global travel and immigration. ''Experts have singled out Africa as the next continent for major population expansion, which means that its peoples will travel and their dark genes will absorb fairer ones all over the world,'' Phillips wrote in ''The Vogue Book of Blondes.'' ''In America, where one third of the African gene pool is already of white origin because the intermingling of genes dates back to the days of slavery, they can already predict a time when dark skins, hair and features will predominate.'' Phillips could not put a date on the extinction of blonds but said manufactured ones would anyway take their place. ''By the time the natural blond dies out, we'll be able to tweak our genes and go blond anyway,'' she said in an interview. ''Just as we can chemically engineer blond today, we'll be able to genetically engineer it tomorrow.'' BOY BLONDS AND PEROXIDE PLAYMATES Phillips profiles all sorts of icons from ''boy blonds'' to ''peroxide playmates'' in her book, which will be published in the United States next year. The secret to success, apparently, is one of attitude. ''For me, being blonde is not just having a hair color, it is a way of being and a state of mind,'' said Italian fashion designer Donatella Versace in her foreword to the book. Phillips cites a 1997 research paper by psychologist Tony Fallone that ''hair color is the root of a girl's popularity'' to back up her theory that blondes -- yes, she is one -- are more likely to be lively, outgoing and perceived as more feminine than their red-, black- or brown-haired counterparts. ''The thing about being blonde is that you are noticed more,'' she said. ''Sex symbols like Farrah Fawcett Majors, Marilyn (Monroe), Brigitte Bardot (and) Madonna all had long and blonde hair at the height of their popularity.'' She explores the blonde ''ice queens'' who starred in Alfred Hitchcock's movies, the leggy blondes who fell under 007 James Bond's spell and peroxide blondes such as Debbie Harry, Playboy bunny turned hit singer Blondie. From dumb blondes to bottle blondes, sex kittens to catwalk queens, no yellow-head is dismissed. ''The Italians were particularly mad for blondes,'' Phillips said, calling Botticelli's full-figured Venus ''the original blonde bombshell.'' ''But the blonde has sadly been devalued from goddess to good-time girl. We now feel blondes are easier to bed, which is a huge comedown from Venus rising out of the waves.'' Phillips does unearth some smart blondes, citing Hillary Rodham Clinton, Eva Peron and Iron Lady Margaret Thatcher, who ''got blonder as she became more powerful.'' But most of her blondes are of the dizzy looking sort in a book packed with pinups, male and female alike. ''Imagine a world without blonds,'' said Phillips, health and beauty director of British Vogue magazine. ''Natural or fake, cool or hot, airhead or icon, saint or sinner: whichever of these two blonde stereotypes prevailed, both ultimately proved the epithet that blondes have more fun.''