Can a blonde girl have brown eyes?

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Is it genetically possible?

And what about all those people who claim to have 'green' or 'hazel' eyes but they're really just blue?

― andy, Thursday, 13 May 2004 15:56 (twenty-two years ago)

yes of course

― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 13 May 2004 15:56 (twenty-two years ago)

they're wearing contacts.

― Ask For Samantha (thatgirl), Thursday, 13 May 2004 15:57 (twenty-two years ago)

Who are these ocularly prevaricating people and why do you care?

― Michael White (Hereward), Thursday, 13 May 2004 15:58 (twenty-two years ago)

Of course they can.

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Thursday, 13 May 2004 15:59 (twenty-two years ago)

are we vetting your friendster hookups here andy?

― g--ff (gcannon), Thursday, 13 May 2004 15:59 (twenty-two years ago)

Only if she violently plucked them out of the socket of her nemesis.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 13 May 2004 16:03 (twenty-two years ago)

Yes. Gene crossovers.

― JuliaA (j_bdules), Thursday, 13 May 2004 16:04 (twenty-two years ago)

debra jo fondren to thread (err, probably showing my age there)

― kyle (akmonday), Thursday, 13 May 2004 16:05 (twenty-two years ago)

This isn't 'Ask Jeeves', is it?

― andy, Thursday, 13 May 2004 16:06 (twenty-two years ago)

Can brown girls have blond eyes?

― Michael White (Hereward), Thursday, 13 May 2004 16:07 (twenty-two years ago)

No, it's "What ho, Jeeves"

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Thursday, 13 May 2004 16:08 (twenty-two years ago)

Whenever I start a thread, everyone's like "God, Andy, why do you even bother starting something about that?"

And then someone else will start a thread like "Mrs. Dash: C/D?" and you all go apeshit. I'm asking the heavy-hitters here.

― andy, Thursday, 13 May 2004 16:10 (twenty-two years ago)

Dude, ILXors opinions of Mrs. Dash is totally pressing! *Goes to search for thread

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Thursday, 13 May 2004 16:11 (twenty-two years ago)

Andy, your threads are almost always among my favorites.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 13 May 2004 16:12 (twenty-two years ago)

totally classic - you don't have to blend the seasonings by hand.

http://www.mrsdash.com/

― martin m. (mushrush), Thursday, 13 May 2004 16:13 (twenty-two years ago)

I know, right? And so much healthier than salt.

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Thursday, 13 May 2004 16:14 (twenty-two years ago)

Thanks, Mrs. Dash!

― tokyo rosemary (rosemary), Thursday, 13 May 2004 16:16 (twenty-two years ago)

Just keep the Mrs. Dash out of my eyes, ok?

― Michael White (Hereward), Thursday, 13 May 2004 16:22 (twenty-two years ago)

When did Damon Dash get married?

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 13 May 2004 16:23 (twenty-two years ago)

Gross, dude, that's his mom.

― NA (Nick A.), Thursday, 13 May 2004 16:24 (twenty-two years ago)

Roca*Spice

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 13 May 2004 16:30 (twenty-two years ago)

Mrs. Dash totally should have been one of the Spice Girls.

Come to think of it, she could have been all of them combined.

― martin m. (mushrush), Thursday, 13 May 2004 16:34 (twenty-two years ago)

*imagines a woman in a giant, puffy Mrs. Dash costume in the wings at a Spice Girls concert screaming "Sing out, Louise"

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Thursday, 13 May 2004 16:35 (twenty-two years ago)

(Wearing a viking helmet, gnashing his teeth at the sky.)

"Where hath my thread GONE!!"

(Covers his forehead and bites his fist. Thunder clashes.)

― andy, Thursday, 13 May 2004 16:48 (twenty-two years ago)

Isn't Roc-a-whatever Posh's current U.S. label?

― j.lu (j.lu), Thursday, 13 May 2004 17:01 (twenty-two years ago)

http://beauty.about.com/cs/blondehairbrown/

Better, andy?

― Michael White (Hereward), Thursday, 13 May 2004 17:04 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.starfileonline.com/lrgoutput/VBECK030905G080.JPG

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Thursday, 13 May 2004 17:06 (twenty-two years ago)

Isn't Roc-a-whatever Posh's current U.S. label?

Roca-VB-Wear or something like that, innit?

― martin m. (mushrush), Thursday, 13 May 2004 17:12 (twenty-two years ago)

Of course its genetically possible. The Mendel Law of independent assortment of genes/alleles

― Cacaman Flores, Thursday, 13 May 2004 17:26 (twenty-two years ago)

All I know is I've only seen a couple people in my life who naturally have black hair and blue eyes, but it made them look really bad-ass and just psychotic enough.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 13 May 2004 17:32 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.countrymall.com/Celebrity/Faith%20Hill%2004.jpg

Apparently Ms. Hill is a blonde & brown. Now can one of you lusty devils tell me, without a shadow of a doubt, that she's a REAL blonde?

― andy, Thursday, 13 May 2004 18:05 (twenty-two years ago)

She isn't - look at her before pictures.

― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 13 May 2004 18:09 (twenty-two years ago)

If genetics teachs us anything, it is that life never throws out unexpected or unusual variations. It is a rigid system that would break sooner than bend.

― Aimless (Aimless), Thursday, 13 May 2004 18:11 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.dollmenagerie.com/photo1/austin.jpg

"Silly Andy! Just look at me!"

― andy, Thursday, 13 May 2004 18:12 (twenty-two years ago)

http://sessionsmodeling.com/Sessions%20Current%20Models/kids/images/MARKOWITZ,%20MACKENZIE.jpg

From a child model sight... this appears to be proof. Nobody would dye an 9 year olds hair, would they?

― andy, Thursday, 13 May 2004 18:17 (twenty-two years ago)

All I know is I've only seen a couple people in my life who naturally have black hair and blue eyes, but it made them look really bad-ass and just psychotic enough.

my father does, but unfortunately he's not bad-ass or psychotic

― chr15Th@mr1n (christhamrin), Thursday, 13 May 2004 18:29 (twenty-two years ago)

. Nobody would dye an 9 year olds hair, would they?

haha jon benet ramsey to thread.

― teeny (teeny), Thursday, 13 May 2004 18:44 (twenty-two years ago)

my best friend in like 7th grade had blonde hair and brown eyes. My dad has black hair and blue eyes. Neither look particularly badass.

― teeny (teeny), Thursday, 13 May 2004 18:45 (twenty-two years ago)

I know a black guy with blue eyes. How likel is that?

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Thursday, 13 May 2004 18:51 (twenty-two years ago)

likely, obv.

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Thursday, 13 May 2004 18:52 (twenty-two years ago)

It's one of those things that happens, little crossover mutations that change what would be expected of the genetic combo. So the typical dominant/recessive Mendelian blahblah isn't expressed. People with those sort of traits can look really cool.

― JuliaA (j_bdules), Thursday, 13 May 2004 18:59 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.photosfromonhigh.com/G035_35.jpg

I was looking for a picture of James Earl Jones (black w/ blue eyes) but I found this instead. While it's hardly topical, it makes me happy.

― andy, Thursday, 13 May 2004 19:05 (twenty-two years ago)

Heheh "brown eye"

― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 13 May 2004 19:12 (twenty-two years ago)

There's heaps of kids with this combination in nz. I used to wish I was one. In other eye-colour news, my coworker has the greenest eyes I have ever seen, they are naturally green, not bright but definitely green.

― isadora (isadora), Thursday, 13 May 2004 20:10 (twenty-two years ago)

Dagnabbit, Dan. I've been looking at this thread all day and when that lame joke finally occurs to me I see you've already posted it.

― Michael White (Hereward), Thursday, 13 May 2004 20:27 (twenty-two years ago)

Dagnabbit!

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Thursday, 13 May 2004 20:27 (twenty-two years ago)

As Roxy points out, at least you got to say "dagnabbit".

― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 13 May 2004 20:29 (twenty-two years ago)

Isn't everything in NZ green? At least on 'Xena the Warrior Princess', it appears so.

― andy, Thursday, 13 May 2004 20:44 (twenty-two years ago)

I can now check that off this list.

Words that just aren't used enough on ILX

― Michael White (Hereward), Thursday, 13 May 2004 20:52 (twenty-two years ago)

isadora

Not Kabyle are they?

― Michael White (Hereward), Thursday, 13 May 2004 20:57 (twenty-two years ago)

Brown eye for the blonde guy

― Leeefuse 73 (Leee), Thursday, 13 May 2004 20:57 (twenty-two years ago)

Soon on your Gay porn sheelves

― Michael White (Hereward), Thursday, 13 May 2004 21:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Gay porn she-elves? WTF?

― Michael White (Hereward), Thursday, 13 May 2004 21:00 (twenty-two years ago)

I have always found black haired people with blue eyes particularly attractive.

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Thursday, 13 May 2004 21:01 (twenty-two years ago)

Scratch that -- people with black hair in general.

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Thursday, 13 May 2004 21:01 (twenty-two years ago)

As Roxy points out, at least you got to say "dagnabbit".

I can now check that off this list.

Yo!

― Leeefuse 73 (Leee), Thursday, 13 May 2004 21:01 (twenty-two years ago)

Scratch that -- people in general.

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Thursday, 13 May 2004 21:01 (twenty-two years ago)

Scratch that -- people with black hair in general.

I originally saw that as 'back hair' and shuddered.

― Michael White (Hereward), Thursday, 13 May 2004 21:28 (twenty-two years ago)

Ew. Could not be more opposite.

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Thursday, 13 May 2004 21:33 (twenty-two years ago)

Not into 'sweaters', eh?

― Michael White (Hereward), Thursday, 13 May 2004 21:34 (twenty-two years ago)

Not as such.

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Thursday, 13 May 2004 21:36 (twenty-two years ago)

All I know is I've only seen a couple people in my life who naturally have black hair and blue eyes, but it made them look really bad-ass and just psychotic enough.
-- Jordan

Our very own esoj/surfacenoise has this combination and he's just about the most bad ass, psychotic person i know.

― ipsofacto (ipsofacto), Thursday, 13 May 2004 21:36 (twenty-two years ago)

Lots of Hungarians if I recall correctly.

― Michael White (Hereward), Thursday, 13 May 2004 21:53 (twenty-two years ago)

My sister was born with platinum blond hair and her eyes are dark brown
She also has natural curly hair... Lucky thing!

― Gale ([email protected]), Thursday, 13 May 2004 21:55 (twenty-two years ago)

Nobody would dye an 9 year olds hair, would they?

Supposedly some mothers have their children's hair dyed, in hope that their own dye jobs won't seem as obvious.

― j.lu (j.lu), Thursday, 13 May 2004 22:17 (twenty-two years ago)

jon benet ramsey?

― ipsofacto (ipsofacto), Thursday, 13 May 2004 22:18 (twenty-two years ago)

My mother has brown eyes and blonde hair, so do my uncle and I. One of my cousins, too. So there you go. Both blonde haired girls and guys can have brown eyes.

― AaronHz (AaronHz), Friday, 14 May 2004 03:48 (twenty-two years ago)

I call my eyes hazel, but it's only cause
"speckled greenish-bluish-grey mutt eyes" sounds weird.

― Dan I. (Dan I.), Friday, 14 May 2004 04:15 (twenty-two years ago)

i usually refer to mine as cesspool coloured.

― ipsofacto (ipsofacto), Friday, 14 May 2004 04:23 (twenty-two years ago)

The simplified dominant/recessive laws such as blond hair and blue eyes being recessive still applies. Apparently most of the genes that determine these things are on Chromosomes 15 (and 19) and are tightly linked - and that's why people with platinum blond hair usually have blue eyes. The random genetic crossover stuff described above is the reason you get people with different than the recently 'normal' combos. As populations change, with more children between people of different backgrounds, the unusual combos happen more often.

The amount of blondes in the world is supposedly decreasing.

And of course, environmental effects still contribute greatly to what we look like - especially the effect of bleach - the vast majority of blondes you see around are actually dark blondes, light browns, or dark browns dyed platinum.

― marianna, Friday, 14 May 2004 08:30 (twenty-two years ago)

I call my eyes hazel, but it's only cause "speckled greenish-bluish-grey mutt eyes" sounds weird.

Ditto, I find "hazel" to be an wholly unsatisfying description of my eye colour - but then, depending on the light in a room, my eyes can appear blue, green or even brown.

― Dadaismus (Dada), Monday, 17 May 2004 08:02 (twenty-two years ago)

My nieces (who are 6 and 2) are both blondes with brown eyes.

― tokyo rosemary (rosemary), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 02:06 (twenty-two years ago)

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