{"id":301,"date":"2012-10-24T17:58:17","date_gmt":"2012-10-24T16:58:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/badhedgehog.com\/?p=301"},"modified":"2018-12-14T17:49:06","modified_gmt":"2018-12-14T17:49:06","slug":"top-ten-gingers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atantalus.com\/badhedgehog\/2012\/10\/top-ten-gingers\/","title":{"rendered":"Top Ten Gingers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Top Ten Gingers: featuring red-headed old lady fashionistas, orange cats and SPORT, SPORT, SPORT. The top three in this festival of the flame-haired are all rally-related. What a tremendous shock.<\/p>\n

10. Paul Collingwood<\/strong>. Now who doesn’t love Colly? As I thought. We love his tenacious batting, and we love his fielding. Durham’s finest ginger.<\/p>\n

9. Street Cat Bob<\/strong><\/a>, known for his smart little knitted scarves and his busker companion. Like all self-identifying cat people, I claim to be able to read the mindset of a cat through facial expressions and body language. The way Bob carries himself clearly shows his stout and stalwart pride in looking after his man. Bob is a gentleman.<\/p>\n

8. Anthony Davidson<\/strong>, racing driver and analyst. If you only see him on Sky Sports at the “SkyPad” you are missing out. His practice session commentary and repartee with David Croft are tip top, as listeners to their pre-2012 BBC Radio commentary will attest. Ant is also fascinated (I stop short of the term “obsessed”) with radio masts, which is a point strongly in his favour. And let’s not forget he’s DAMN quick in a Le Mans prototype.<\/p>\n

7. Andy Murray<\/strong>. Not technically a ginger? Aw, come on!<\/em> Dark auburn counts.
\nUsed to be, you could easily spot a person without much grasp of human nature and humour. They’d be the ones saying “Ugh, Andy Murray is so grumpy”. He ain’t grumpy. He has a dry sense of humour, something entirely occult to these ludicrous people. Once Murray shed a few tears after defeat in the 2012 Wimbledon final, those fools came round pretty damn quick.<\/p>\n

6. My friend Sarah’s daughter Sophie<\/strong>. She’s two. She’s very funny. She loves disco and funk \u2013 you know I want to go down in history as the person who introduced this smallest among the top ten gingers to the works of the CHIC organisation. I hear that Sophie is currently interested in and concerned by “the people”. When Sarah makes gingerbread men, gotta be one for Sophie, one for Mummy, one for Daddy and one for “the people”. A leetle teeny weeny socialist!<\/p>\n

5. Miguel \u00c1ngel Jim\u00e9nez<\/strong>. His ginger ponytail! His beard! His biiiig ol’ cigar! His belly! Miguel \u00c1ngel will bring the Rioja AND the good time, and you know it.<\/p>\n

4. Ilona Royce Smithkin<\/strong><\/a>, artist, performer, and one of the muses of the Advanced Style blog. She’s 92 (the video below is two years old) and just fucking splendiferous. Lady makes her own long ginger false eyelashes. Now this next part is important. Ilona says that for a long time she didn’t have much self-confidence. She was very insecure, But now, in old age, she has self-confidence. Let this be a lesson to you. It isn’t too late. You aren’t too old.<\/p>\n