Blue people

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rrlund

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• Apr 3, 2014

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This is kind of strange.

Blue people of Kentucky

 

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Nancy Howell

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• Apr 3, 2014

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I've read about them. If I remember correctly, not many left.

 

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AG in IN

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• Apr 3, 2014

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(Ab)use of Colloidal Silver (for medicinal purposes) can turn the skin a shade of grey or blue, too.

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Wile E

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• Apr 3, 2014

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Kinda reminds me of the Oompa Loompas of the movie with Gene Wilder. Cant remember the name of it now.

 

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cumminspuller

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• Apr 3, 2014

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Charlie and the chocolate factory

 

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Wile E

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• Apr 3, 2014

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Yep, and the Oompas were Orange, not blue.

 

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el6147

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• Apr 3, 2014

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I have a friend that this happen to .

 

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Mike M

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• Apr 3, 2014

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PaPa Smurf !

 

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Traditional Farmer

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• Apr 3, 2014

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Guess thats where The Blue Man group comes from.

 

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retired farmer

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• Apr 3, 2014

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Better than being green. Several years ago I went to some county office in Longmont, Co. to see about getting my ex girlfriend some help with her heating bill. There were quite a few people in the building when I found the right office and walked up to the counter. Office was staffed with about half whites and half Mexicans. I was standing there waiting for someone to help me when all of a sudden this thing, I am assuming it was a male, came around the corner and stood in front of me and asked what I wanted. I was speechless for a couple of minutes trying to figure out if it was made up for Halloween or St. Patrick's day. I have never seen an uglier shade of olive green or whatever green it was. Was some foreigner but I have never seen any that were green. Ended up it couldn't help me so I went outside and about puked.

 

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Hal/ Eastern WA

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• Apr 3, 2014

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I have seen Blue Man Group perform. They are amazing and very funny. It must take great concentration to keep a straight, unemotional face all the time like they do.

However Blue Man Group uses makeup and latex to look like they do when they are performing. We got to meet the performers without makeup and they looked completely normal--not even shaved heads.

There are a number of different sets of Blue Man Groups, not just the 3 guys we saw on our cruise last month. I really enjoyed their shows!

 

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RESLLS

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• Apr 3, 2014

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Covered by "Mysteries at the Museum" couple weeks ago. One shot and it goes away.

 

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Spook

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• Apr 3, 2014

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Reading the article, the extent of intermarriage surprised me. One guy married his mother's sister? Yikes!!!

 

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JayinNY

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• Apr 3, 2014

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Yes, that is pretty strange, never seen that before! 162 year old gene? I guess anything is possible.

 

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Billy NY

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• Apr 3, 2014

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Jay the guy in the photo is recently deceased, look up blue man, his name will come up, will explain his situation, self medication I think, the link in the post, I never heard of before, was just thinking of the man in the photo.

Crazy to think the pigment of ones skin can turn colors like were mentioned in this post.

I believe the man pictured above died of a heart ailment or similar, don't think it was related to what was going on with his skin, but I am no MD either LOL!

 

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David G

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• Apr 3, 2014

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Papa Smurf

 

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JayinNY

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• Apr 3, 2014

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I read looked it up, yes he was a heavy smoker, had triple bypass, and had heart trouble, but the skin color was from silver! Intersting.

 

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blunosr

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• Apr 3, 2014

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I thought it was called Fulgrum's Disease (although I just looked it up and couldn't find it...), and is caused by a recessive gene that prevents metaglobin from changing to hemoglobin. Oxygenated metaglobin is blue, where oxygenated hemoglobin is red.
Quite an interesting disease if I recall correctly.

Troy

 

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rrlund

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• Apr 4, 2014

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It goes in to that at the end of that article that I linked to.