# All Right, Fess Up! Who's Got Brown Hair?! **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [January 2, 2007, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-right-fess-up-whos-got-brown-hair/386453 "2007-01-02T19:41:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![AngelicGemma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/439d5e/32.png) [@AngelicGemma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AngelicGemma)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2007, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-right-fess-up-whos-got-brown-hair/386453/41 "2007-01-03T02:28:58Z")
Naturally yes. But not for a good few years. I’m now a [red head.](http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k162/AngelicGemma/Me/100_0114.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Antigen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/848f3c/32.png) [@Antigen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antigen)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2007, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-right-fess-up-whos-got-brown-hair/386453/42 "2007-01-03T02:29:46Z")
Brown. Blah brown. The kind that’s totally flat and dull and mousy. Hairdressers make disappointed noises and beg me to let them put some sort of color in it. I _used_ to dye it red but the maintenance was a pain and I got sick of the roots. But damn, I enjoyed being a redhead. ---
**Author:** ![Cheez\_Whia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d26b3c/32.png) [@Cheez\_Whia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cheez_Whia)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2007, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-right-fess-up-whos-got-brown-hair/386453/43 "2007-01-03T02:33:02Z")
[QUOTE=Queen Bruin] [Henry Higgins]Brown! Brown brown brown brown brown![/HH] [/QUOTE] [Hijack] Hey! You change your name and don’t tell your _MOM_. _AGAIN!_ [/Highjack] Where was I? Oh yeah, brown for me, too. Except when it’s colored blonde, like now. ---
**Author:** ![Jodi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/7feea3/32.png) [@Jodi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jodi)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2007, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-right-fess-up-whos-got-brown-hair/386453/44 "2007-01-03T02:36:36Z")
[QUOTE=Gadarene] **Jodi:** “Freakishly large green eyes” – I’m having a hard time picturing this. [/QUOTE] Like [this](http://keenlook.safeshopper.com/7/155.htm?495) only 25 years older, less cute, and more sinister. Think [Marty Feldman](http://www.comedy-zone.net/images/people/comedians/feldman-marty.jpg), not [Mary Minter](http://www.goldensilents.com/stars/marymilesminter.html). ---
**Author:** ![DSYoungEsq](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c6cbf5/32.png) [@DSYoungEsq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSYoungEsq)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2007, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-right-fess-up-whos-got-brown-hair/386453/45 "2007-01-03T03:48:07Z")
[QUOTE=Ensign Edison] Pretend the point isn’t “completely obvious” and make it. Is this supposed to be a joke? If so, what’s the punchline? I don’t see any similarity between having brown hair and being black that makes sense in the context of your implied comparison. I have dark brown hair when not shaved or dyed. [/QUOTE] I think almost everyone else got the point. :rolleyes: I have medium dark brown, naturally curly, but somewhat balding hair. With the same darkish brown eyes. And way too much gray in the beard. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2007, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-right-fess-up-whos-got-brown-hair/386453/46 "2007-01-03T14:03:55Z")
[QUOTE=DSYoungEsq] I think almost everyone else got the point. :rolleyes: [/QUOTE] As I mentioned, I wouldn’t have answered the way I did if I had been quicker on the uptake as to the purpose of the thread. The purpose is met by simply posting the OP; the answers aren’t important at all. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2007, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-right-fess-up-whos-got-brown-hair/386453/47 "2007-01-03T14:28:18Z")
[QUOTE=DSYoungEsq] All Right, Fess Up! Who’s Got Brown Hair?! [/QUOTE] On what part of the body? ---
**Author:** ![Missy2U](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3bc359/32.png) [@Missy2U](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Missy2U)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2007, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-right-fess-up-whos-got-brown-hair/386453/48 "2007-01-03T14:44:59Z")
Mine’s brown. So are my eyes. Actually, this morning, I thought I had a bunch of new gray ones mixed in there, but it turned out I had smeared my makeup into my hair. So I’m good. ---
**Author:** ![Man\_With\_a\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cab0a1/32.png) [@Man\_With\_a\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Man_With_a_Cat)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2007, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-right-fess-up-whos-got-brown-hair/386453/49 "2007-01-03T14:50:15Z")
Dark brown mostly. There’s some gray, and some odd, scalp-colored stuff in front though. ---
**Author:** ![Gadarene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47c2d/32.png) [@Gadarene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gadarene)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2007, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-right-fess-up-whos-got-brown-hair/386453/50 "2007-01-03T14:51:42Z")
**Jodi:** > [@](#): > > Like this only 25 years older, less cute, and more sinister. Wow. That must serve you well in the legal field. (You’re still in the legal field, aren’t you?) ---
**Author:** ![Ensign\_Edison](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7ab992/32.png) [@Ensign\_Edison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ensign_Edison)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2007, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-right-fess-up-whos-got-brown-hair/386453/51 "2007-01-03T15:02:10Z")
[QUOTE=DSYoungEsq] I think almost everyone else got the point. :rolleyes: [/QUOTE] No, I got the point you were trying to make. What I don’t get is how this thread in makes it, or rather, how the point as it relates to brown hair and brown skin is in any way valid. As many other responders have also noted. ---
**Author:** ![DSYoungEsq](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c6cbf5/32.png) [@DSYoungEsq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSYoungEsq)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2007, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-right-fess-up-whos-got-brown-hair/386453/52 "2007-01-03T15:03:45Z")
[QUOTE=Bosda Di’Chi of Tricor] On what part of the body? [/QUOTE] Do you dye it elsewhere? :eek: ---
**Author:** ![DSYoungEsq](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c6cbf5/32.png) [@DSYoungEsq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSYoungEsq)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2007, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-right-fess-up-whos-got-brown-hair/386453/53 "2007-01-03T15:14:33Z")
[QUOTE=Ensign Edison] No, I got the point you were trying to make. What I don’t get is how this thread in makes it, or rather, how the point as it relates to brown hair and brown skin is in any way valid. As many other responders have also noted. [/QUOTE] Please. “Many other responders” haven’t said squat about it; they’ve accepted the point of the posting, but then approached it with light-hearted irreverence as I intended. If YOU have some point to make, then make it; else, butt out with your irrelevant commentary. :rolleyes: The point to the post is obvious to anyone who was paying attention to the current threads. Now, I could have posted a long commentary in the other thread about how silly it is for a black from Puerto Rico to wonder about who else is “black” unless the question is about skin color only (hence, my use of brown hair), since a black skinned person from Puerto Rico shares little in the way of culture or history with black-skinned people who are descended from former slaves in the U.S. southern states, let alone with black-skinned people from Africa who have arrived in the U.S. within the last couple of decades. This isn’t trivial, given that one of the current Democratic contenders for President is a black who is NOT an “African-American” in the sense most of us think; he’s the son of recent immigrants. And all of this ignores the most cogent point: this message board is international in scope and flavor, so asking who is “black” here as if that has any meaning besides simple skin color is quite provincial in thought. But I think the simple existence of the thread accomplished that quite adequately. You clearly got the point, and it doesn’t matter if anyone didn’t, because after all, who here DOES have brown hair? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2007, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-right-fess-up-whos-got-brown-hair/386453/54 "2007-01-03T15:29:29Z")
Besides, we could all be LYING about our hair colour. Ever think about that? ---
**Author:** ![Carl\_Corey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Carl\_Corey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Carl_Corey)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2007, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-right-fess-up-whos-got-brown-hair/386453/55 "2007-01-03T16:06:15Z")
Brown with occasional strands of red and blond. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2007, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-right-fess-up-whos-got-brown-hair/386453/56 "2007-01-03T17:02:27Z")
[QUOTE=DSYoungEsq] And all of this ignores the most cogent point: this message board is international in scope and flavor, so asking who is “black” here as if that has any meaning besides simple skin color is quite provincial in thought. [/quote] Actually, it might open up an interesting conversation about how assumptions shouldn’t be made about skin color and heritage, or what “blackness” means to people. It might open up new perspectives across nations. Even talking about texture of hair is more meaningful. “Good” and “bad” hair, “perm” meaning different things to different people, the meaning of hair to folks of different heritages. Boring brown hair? Meh. ---
**Author:** ![Aangelica](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b2d939/32.png) [@Aangelica](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aangelica)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2007, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-right-fess-up-whos-got-brown-hair/386453/57 "2007-01-03T17:05:44Z")
Ooooo me me me! It says so right on the box. Why yes, I _do_ hate my natural hair color, why do you ask? ---
**Author:** ![Precambrianmollusc](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/precambrianmollusc/32/63_2.png) [@Precambrianmollusc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Precambrianmollusc)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2007, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-right-fess-up-whos-got-brown-hair/386453/58 "2007-01-03T17:49:24Z")
no blonde what is the point of this thread again? ---
**Author:** ![Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ac8455/32.png) [@Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bippy_the_Beardless)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2007, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-right-fess-up-whos-got-brown-hair/386453/59 "2007-01-03T21:52:53Z")
[QUOTE=Carl Corey] Brown with occasional strands of red and blond. [/QUOTE] For some reason I read that as Brown with occasional strands of red and blood. Dark bown and curly hair and eyes. (The curly eyes are a bit off putting at first) ---
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2007, 6:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-right-fess-up-whos-got-brown-hair/386453/60 "2007-01-04T06:12:38Z")
Purple! Not really, but I’ve always thought that would be kind of cool. It’s chestnut brown, and my eyes are blue. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-right-fess-up-whos-got-brown-hair/386453.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-right-fess-up-whos-got-brown-hair/386453.md?page=4)