Comments on: Days of the Dead and Ginger Rodents https://dianagabaldon.com/2010/11/days-of-the-dead-and-ginger-rodents/ Author of the Outlander Series Mon, 30 Mar 2026 14:45:02 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.40 By: Diana Gabaldon https://dianagabaldon.com/2010/11/days-of-the-dead-and-ginger-rodents/comment-page-2/#comment-6615 Sun, 07 Nov 2010 18:09:12 +0000 http://www.dianagabaldon.com/wordpress/2010/11/days-of-the-dead-and-ginger-rodents/#comment-6615 Dear Sally–

What nonsense. I'm all for randomly hugging ginger persons–do it routinely, in fact. [g]

–Diana

]]> By: Sally https://dianagabaldon.com/2010/11/days-of-the-dead-and-ginger-rodents/comment-page-2/#comment-6614 Sat, 06 Nov 2010 23:34:47 +0000 http://www.dianagabaldon.com/wordpress/2010/11/days-of-the-dead-and-ginger-rodents/#comment-6614 Oh I think she would fit right in here! Some people (not all of the ginger persuasion themselves) feel it is wrong to encourage random hugging. That said most that I know who are blessed in the auburn way feel it is just a bit of harmless fun :)

]]> By: Diana Gabaldon https://dianagabaldon.com/2010/11/days-of-the-dead-and-ginger-rodents/comment-page-1/#comment-6612 Sat, 06 Nov 2010 09:57:03 +0000 http://www.dianagabaldon.com/wordpress/2010/11/days-of-the-dead-and-ginger-rodents/#comment-6612 Dear Sally–

Is being ginger not politically correct? Goodness. Perhaps your pc brigade should get in touch with Ms. Harperson. [g]

]]> By: Sally https://dianagabaldon.com/2010/11/days-of-the-dead-and-ginger-rodents/comment-page-1/#comment-6611 Sat, 06 Nov 2010 00:17:38 +0000 http://www.dianagabaldon.com/wordpress/2010/11/days-of-the-dead-and-ginger-rodents/#comment-6611 Love this!
We have traces of ginger in various generations. #1 son (19) grows ginger facial hair. :)
Personally mine tends to be more of the "clariol" strain lol
And here in NZ we have "hug a ginga day". But the pc brigade are trying their level best to stop it.

]]> By: sharaf https://dianagabaldon.com/2010/11/days-of-the-dead-and-ginger-rodents/comment-page-1/#comment-6609 Fri, 05 Nov 2010 14:13:52 +0000 http://www.dianagabaldon.com/wordpress/2010/11/days-of-the-dead-and-ginger-rodents/#comment-6609 I was going to say if you light a burning cross in the USA we are not talking about Scots anymore. You better be ready to explain your self. We have redheads sprinkled through out our family but we are getting pretty watered down. My Dads side is English, my Moms Irish. So they did their part for the peace cause.

]]> By: Diana Gabaldon https://dianagabaldon.com/2010/11/days-of-the-dead-and-ginger-rodents/comment-page-1/#comment-6608 Fri, 05 Nov 2010 09:09:26 +0000 http://www.dianagabaldon.com/wordpress/2010/11/days-of-the-dead-and-ginger-rodents/#comment-6608 Dear Amy–

In this case, the Big Yin is Allan Scott-Douglas (the nice young actor who sings the role of Jamie Fraser on the OUTLANDER:The Musical CD)–he's 6'4", with red hair. [g] (And presently working on the island of Madeira.)

–Diana

]]> By: Diana Gabaldon https://dianagabaldon.com/2010/11/days-of-the-dead-and-ginger-rodents/comment-page-1/#comment-6607 Fri, 05 Nov 2010 09:07:42 +0000 http://www.dianagabaldon.com/wordpress/2010/11/days-of-the-dead-and-ginger-rodents/#comment-6607 Dear silverflight–

Thanks, didn't know that!

–Diana

]]> By: Amy Eades https://dianagabaldon.com/2010/11/days-of-the-dead-and-ginger-rodents/comment-page-1/#comment-6605 Thu, 04 Nov 2010 11:17:16 +0000 http://www.dianagabaldon.com/wordpress/2010/11/days-of-the-dead-and-ginger-rodents/#comment-6605 I'm confused. Who's the Big Yin? The only person I know by that moniker is Billy Connolly, but it doesn't sound like you're talking about him. The story is hilarious, though.

]]> By: silverflight8 https://dianagabaldon.com/2010/11/days-of-the-dead-and-ginger-rodents/comment-page-1/#comment-6603 Thu, 04 Nov 2010 04:13:48 +0000 http://www.dianagabaldon.com/wordpress/2010/11/days-of-the-dead-and-ginger-rodents/#comment-6603 Just so you know, I don't think your tags (labels) are working (at the moment, they're all smushed up as one big tag, and there are no two entries with the exact same tag. This means it's impossible to search or filter with those tags and thus defeats the point of using them). I believe you need to separate them with commas, which will render them individual words.

]]> By: Belinda Jonak https://dianagabaldon.com/2010/11/days-of-the-dead-and-ginger-rodents/comment-page-1/#comment-6602 Thu, 04 Nov 2010 03:27:44 +0000 http://www.dianagabaldon.com/wordpress/2010/11/days-of-the-dead-and-ginger-rodents/#comment-6602 Ginger rodent could also be a description of a red squirrel. A sign in a store window of Findhorn, a quirky community in Scotland, said something to the effect of "dying grays mean more reds". Scotland is evidently trying to preserve its red hairy heritage by eradicating the invasive American gray (no relation to Lord John)squirrel.Immigration problems go both ways. The English "gifted" the U.S. with nuisance species like starlings and house sparrows, so giving the UK gray hair trying to keep their native rodents red seems a bit like karmic payback.

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