October 6, 2002
PAPA SMURF FOR SENATE:
Senate candidate blue -- literally (AP, October 3, 2002)Montana's Libertarian candidate for Senate has turned blue from drinking a silver solution that he believed would protect him from disease.Stan Jones,a 63-year-old business consultant and part-time college instructor, said he started taking colloidal silver in 1999 for fear that Y2K disruptions might lead to a shortage of antibiotics.
He made his own concoction by electrically charging a couple of silver wires in a glass of water.
A spokesman for the NAACP said that it's unconscionable that there are no blues in the US Congress. Posted by Orrin Judd at October 6, 2002 6:11 AM
Comments
I think "blue" might be an overstatement; when I looked up 'argyria', which is the condition Jones suffers from, it's usually described as a slate-gray color. But of course, blue is inherently funnier than gray.
Posted by: Just John at October 6, 2002 2:09 PMThere are far too many grays in the Congress and one too many governors
Posted by: oj at October 6, 2002 6:15 PM