I would be just heartbroken over this..lol

**Sara Noel** · 10-01-2002, 10:13 PM

Blondes headed for extinction?
Tue Oct 1, 3:31 PM ET

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - In the end, it seems it was just another dumb blond joke -- The World Health Organisation, the Geneva-based health arm of the United Nations ( news - web sites), has insisted that despite the many media reports to the contrary, it had never conducted a study predicting the extinction of the natural blond hair gene.

This despite stories around the world citing WHO research stating that natural blondes would become extinct by 2202.

Reports to that effect had appeared in recent days on CNN and ABC News and in the Daily Mail, among others. But WHO said it has never conducted research on the topic.

WHO "has no knowledge of how these news reports originated but would like to stress that we have no opinion on the future existence of blondes," it said in a statement released at United Nations headquarters in New York.

According to the published reports, the supposed WHO study had predicted that the last blond on earth would be in Finland, which today has the world's highest concentration of true blondes.

The reports said blond hair was caused by a recessive gene, so both sides of the family have to have it to extend the shade into the next generation. But too few people carry the gene to assure its long-term survival.
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=stor...edia_blonds_un

We'll just see who has more fun. LOL

Sara

**heaven** · 10-01-2002, 10:15 PM

i heard this on the radio today. i couldn't beleive it, I have brown hair i think it was brown once, but hey they can do what i always do and dye it.

**~Sherry~** · 10-01-2002, 10:17 PM

Thats just plain weird to think that blonde hair could go extinct?!
I wonder if its really true, though.

**heaven** · 10-01-2002, 10:22 PM

they said by 2202 they will be there are getting scarce now i think. Paul Harvey had it must be true. LOL We already know sara all of us unblonds have more fun!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

**~Sherry~** · 10-01-2002, 10:24 PM

Hey.... at least we will know for sure that they are a fake blonde this way.

**homesteadmamma** · 10-01-2002, 10:33 PM

2202 - hmmmmm well I don't think any of us will be around to know.

I would hate for this to happen though. Our dd was blonde as could be when she was a wee babe with the biggest blue eyes you ever saw. I fell for her the minute I saw her and she was already 10 minutes old.

I do know though that all of us with brown hair have just as much fun as those with blonde. Heck all of us with white hair do too. Now I'm not saying my hair is white mind you.

**bamamomto4** · 10-01-2002, 10:40 PM

I to heard this on the radio today.....

I was thinking like Mamma--We won't be around to see if this is true or not!

And don't forget redheads have fun to ya know

**i.m.cheap** · 10-01-2002, 11:15 PM

No wonder I feel like a dinosaur! LOL

**Julie** · 10-02-2002, 10:04 AM

Here is an update on the blonde extinction by 2202: it's all a big hoax! I heard a story on Good Morning, America this morning and the World Health Organization who apparently had something to do with this report says it's all wrong, no credibility to this report at all. Go figure -- I was born with natural blonde hair and it went brown by the time I was 5. There may be a story about this on http://www.abcnews.com, and you can click on the GMA icon.

Julie