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Senate candidate blue -- literally

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Senate candidate blue -- literally

Thursday, October 3, 2002 Posted: 10:31 AM EDT (1431 GMT)
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Jones has a distinct blue-gray skin color, the result of taking too much of an anti-bacterial form of pure silver.
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GREAT FALLS, Montana (AP) -- 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.

His skin began turning blue-gray a year ago.

"People ask me if it's permanent and if I'm dead," he said. "I tell them I'm practicing for Halloween."

He does not take the supplement any longer, but the skin condition, called argyria, is permanent. The condition is generally not serious.

Colloidal silver dietary supplements are marketed widely as an anti-bacterial agent or immune-system booster, but some consider it quackery.

Jones is one of three candidates seeking to unseat Democratic Sen. Max Baucus in November. The others are Republican state Sen. Mike Taylor and Green Party candidate Bob Kelleher.

© 2002 Cable News Network LP, LLLP.

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  • PJHPJH The Lovely Thing
    [img]http://216.15.145.59/mainforums/rolleyes.gif[/img] [img]http://216.15.145.59/mainforums/rolleyes.gif[/img] [img]http://216.15.145.59/mainforums/rolleyes.gif[/img]

    - PJH
  • yep, heard about that. [img]http://216.15.145.59/mainforums/biggrin.gif[/img]

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  • ArgoneArgone Genuine Klingon
    That was really stupid! [img]http://216.15.145.59/mainforums/rolleyes.gif[/img]

    Argone

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  • BigglesBiggles <font color=#AAFFAA>The Man Without a Face</font>
    For those who want to see what this looks like, [url="http://www.cnn.com/2002/ALLPOLITICS/10/02/offbeat.blue.candidate/index.html"]this article[/url] has a picture.

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    [url="http://www.minbari.co.uk/log12.2263/"]Never eat anything bigger than your own head.[/url]
    "Nonono...Is not [i]Great[/i] Machine. Is...[i]Not[/i]-so-Great Machine. It make good snow cone though." - Zathras
  • Random ChaosRandom Chaos Actually Carefully-selected Order in disguise
    Add antenae and he'd look like an Andorian [img]http://216.15.145.59/mainforums/biggrin.gif[/img]
  • BigglesBiggles <font color=#AAFFAA>The Man Without a Face</font>
    True, he would! [img]http://216.15.145.59/mainforums/biggrin.gif[/img]

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    [url="http://www.minbari.co.uk/log12.2263/"]Never eat anything bigger than your own head.[/url]
    "Nonono...Is not [i]Great[/i] Machine. Is...[i]Not[/i]-so-Great Machine. It make good snow cone though." - Zathras
  • ArgoneArgone Genuine Klingon
    Take off his face and he'd look like

    [b]Biggles[/b] [img]http://216.15.145.59/mainforums/biggrin.gif[/img] [img]http://216.15.145.59/mainforums/biggrin.gif[/img] [img]http://216.15.145.59/mainforums/tongue.gif[/img]


    Argone

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  • BigglesBiggles <font color=#AAFFAA>The Man Without a Face</font>
    But I'm not blue.

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    [url="http://www.minbari.co.uk/log12.2263/"]Never eat anything bigger than your own head.[/url]
    "Nonono...Is not [i]Great[/i] Machine. Is...[i]Not[/i]-so-Great Machine. It make good snow cone though." - Zathras
  • Nope, but your super-secret senator-mask is [img]http://216.15.145.59/mainforums/biggrin.gif[/img]

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    This is not a subliminal message. Keep walking. Thank you for not noticing.

    [This message has been edited by Hofnar (edited 10-07-2002).]
  • BigglesBiggles <font color=#AAFFAA>The Man Without a Face</font>
    Right...

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    [url="http://www.minbari.co.uk/log12.2263/"]Never eat anything bigger than your own head.[/url]
    "Nonono...Is not [i]Great[/i] Machine. Is...[i]Not[/i]-so-Great Machine. It make good snow cone though." - Zathras
  • ..hmm...give him black hair..glowing red eyes..I KNEW the empire was trying to take over!

    That's just dumb...like the people who took mercury thinking it would make them live forever..
  • Random ChaosRandom Chaos Actually Carefully-selected Order in disguise
    At least he didn't take cyanide...well...I think that that is a good thing [img]http://216.15.145.59/mainforums/wink.gif[/img]
  • PJHPJH The Lovely Thing
    People took mercury? That's one of the most unhealthy substances you can put in your mouth. LOL! [img]http://216.15.145.59/mainforums/rolleyes.gif[/img]

    - PJH
  • Yup Yup, is true..the Daoists in ancient china made "immortality pills" that were a combination of sulfide and mercury..very healthy.
  • The MercifulThe Merciful Earthforce Officer
    Here's a link to article about the stuff senator wannabe took:
    [url="http://www.quackwatch.org/01QuackeryRelatedTopics/PhonyAds/silverad.html"]http://www.quackwatch.org/01QuackeryRelatedTopics/PhonyAds/silverad.html[/url]

    [This message has been edited by The Merciful (edited 10-07-2002).]
  • ArgoneArgone Genuine Klingon
    And this guy's running for Senate? [img]http://216.15.145.59/mainforums/confused.gif[/img]

    Like George Carlin says " Put garbage in garbage comes out"

    Argone



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  • TyvarTyvar Next best thing to a St. Bernard
    Its Montana, you think they take politics seriously? they deliberatly vote for weirdos to get them out of the state.

    and the smelters and miners unions are a bunch of commies [img]http://216.15.145.59/mainforums/wink.gif[/img]
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