I'm mostly Irish (some German and American Indian in there as well), my ex is an extremely light skinned Hispanic, I'm darker than he is. He burns and freckles, I have a nice year-round tan. When our oldest daughter was in junior high, she had to bring in a food that represented her ethnic make-up. Since we always called them green beans, she took in a can of green beans. The teacher had a good laugh over it.

The best part is, my daughters vary from one extreme to the other on the color spectrum. The oldest has my skin and hair coloring but with green eyes, my middle daughter is dark-skinned, dark eyes and a mop of curly hair, the youngest is blond, blue and freckled. I can't tell you how many times middle daughter and I have fielded the question of whether she's "half black." Gotta love genetics!

I am white. No really. White. Irish, English, and Scottish. The whitest of the white people in the world.
My nickmane among those who know and love me is "Alabasta". I am pale. The funny part is, we do have some Cherokee in our family line somewhere, but my sister must have gotten it all. She can tan really well. I burn. It's sad how I live in South Florida, but can't go to the beach. I need SPF 5000.

Before I found my bio mom, I referred to myself as "mystery meat."

Amy, finish the fucking blog-item title! I dare ya!

Nothing rhymes with beige. It's like orange.

'Nothing rhymes with beige.'

You can do it. Just get real drunk first. 'Wunshhe you go beisszzzhe, you can rhyme with radzzhhe or, or adssszzzhe, or all kindza stuff. (hic!)

Also, the old Billy Connolly special "Pale Blue Scottish Person" shows his version of a tan quite nicely.

My brother's girlfriend is multi-ethnic: black, native american, irish...Really pretty skin, and striking blue-green eyes. Upon hearing that she's from Minneapolis, one of our friends mentioned that he'd never met anyone from Minnesota who was so tan.

> column title tries last night

It's great to know you care enough to make lists, but I always enjoyed thinking these things just came to you, when summoned, with a bolt of lightning and a crack of thunder

One year, before the Road Pirates had a bus to take on Ragbrai, we used a Ryder truck. One of the guys on our team is 1/4th Hispanic and 1/4th Italian, and gets REALLY dark during the summer. Of course we joked that if the cops caught him in the back of a Ryder truck, they'd deport him.

I am pale, but with lots of freckles. As a child I thought maybe my freckles would grow together into one giant tan, but it has never happened.

"Rage." I posit that it rhymes. Discuss amongst yourselves.

"Once you go beige, you'll never forget the rage"?

Naw.

I think you should make up a fake article to go with one of your made-up titles. One that will bring out the insanity in commenters.
"Row vs Wade" sounds promising, but the "Ships ----
Gas" could be a winner. Maybe a rant about the f****n'oil spill.

"Once you go beige, you'll bust out of your cage?"

"Once you go beige, you'll turn the next page?"

Now, I'm about as typical a white guy as you can find, but my kids, being half Asian, do get some inquisitive looks and a few questions, even out here in the NoVA. To hear my 14-year-old tell it, her middle school classmates are pretty geographically uninformed. One kid asked her if she was Japanese or something, adding that he liked that Japan-food, especially that General Tso's chicken. Of course, the truth doesn't always help. After explaining that she'd been to the Philippines over the summer to visit her grandparents, another kid exclaimed, "The Philippines! Wow, I've never been to South America before!"

I'm a Euromutt. Whiter than white, brown hair, green eyes. I'm Enlish, Irish, Welsh, and German. There's a rumor about some Native American blood somewhwere in the mix, my grandfather on my da's side used to say we come from a long line of horse thieves. So, while I burn at first, I do eventually get a fairly decent tan. For about a week. And my great-grandpa, who was Welsh, used to say, "Flynnie, it goes like this: the Irish hate the English. The English hate the Scots. The Scots hate the Welsh, and the Welsh hate 'em all!" o.O

Oh and how about this: "Once you go beige, you can turn back the rage."?

Yeah I know. Fuggedaboudit.

Sorry, guys. Those words don't rhyme. The 'g' sound is different. You have to be inebriated. Or maybe French.

> You have to be inebriated.
> Or maybe French.

I know which I'd choose...

I'm a green-eyed red head from a family of brown haired, brown eyed northern European mixed breed types. Every one tans nicely. I describe myself as that whiter shade of pale Procol Harum sang about. The pictures of my siblings and I during the summer look really, really odd. For years my cousins told me I was adopted but it turns out I got all the rare, recessive genes.

No rhymes for beige, but rhymable synonyms from thesaurus.com: biscuit, buff, cream, ecru, fawn, khaki, neutral, off-white, sand, tan, taupe.

I beat all of you! My dad is as pale as Amy and my mom is a caramel color. This means I can wear almost any foundation color. And I mean any. Also I manage to be simultaneously pasty pale and tan. Could never explain how that works...

Well my mother's side to my grandparents were all Ukranian descent. Greats came over on the boat.

My mother got out and married my father, who was adopted himself, but a product of eastern Pennsylvania. So my sister and I think that we are probably of German descent on that side. We can both tan, but we're going to burn first unless we are real careful.

Once You Go Beige you will never forgot the gauge.

"Row vs Wade" should be about a couple trying to decide whether to have another child or buy a boat.

Jim, if your dad is still alive (don't know your age) you can find out his ancestry if he is willing with y-marker DNA testing. Not saying you should, just saying you could. Y-marker does not work well for genealogy as they want you to believe, but it sure can give good clues on your ancestry.

Irlandes: DNA testing is so exciting right now. My husband and I are going to do it before we start trying for a baby. It'll be nice to know more about my side than we do.

A gook is Korean, and not the correct term for a Chinese-Mexican person.

The correct word would be "Chinxican":)