Daddy's Home by Tony Rubino and Gary Markstein for October 15, 2022

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The implied stereotype doesn’t makes sense. A sizeable minority of Swiss are blonde, make that almost everyone in Geneva. And blonde hair color is sold there just like most places.

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It’s also like the escargot package in 7-11 stores!

Tony asked

Are you buying it?

No – I’m naturally blonde. My grey streaks are natural, too.

I get the feeling Tony was thinking of Sweden, not Switzerland, implying that everybody there is blonde, so nobody needs blonde hair coloring.

But even that stereotype is false, as there are plenty of brunettes and dark blondes in Scandinavian countries, many of whom want to be a paler blonde.

Switzerland OTOH is a confederacy… there are regions with separate populations of German, Italian, and French descent, and by now, many intermixed.

A Swiss friend of mine, with very dark hair and eyes, grew up speaking Italian, German and a little French, along with English in school.

Here in California, he’s often taken for Mexican, and spoken to in Spanish, which he has had to learn, at least enough to say “No hablo español.”’He loves about as much as when people ask him to “say something in Swiss.”

There are a lot of dark-haired Swiss people. If you want to talk natural blondes, go to Norway. When we were in Bergen, all we saw were blondes. Tall, slim blondes. My husband (who is from Germany), is tall, slim, with white-blonde hair. He fit right in. Me? Short, curvy, brunette (at that time)….no way did I get mistaken for a native.

Aaaaaaaaahhhhhh……..where is this Switzerland?

Sweden or Norway perhaps.

Why, oh WHY do people feel the need to use an apostrophe to make a word plural? All you need to do is add an S. Thanks, I feel better now. Whew!

Tony and Gary got it right, by the way. A blonde is a female with blond hair.