Posted on 06/15/2007 10:58:19 AM PDT by Daffynition
Six generations after a French orphan named Martin Fugate settled on the banks of eastern Kentucky's Troublesome Creek with his redheaded American bride, his great-great-great great grandson was born in a modern hospital not far from where the creek still runs.
The boy inherited his father's lankiness and his mother's slightly nasal way of speaking.
What he got from Martin Fugate was dark blue skin. "It was almost purple," his father recalls.
Doctors were so astonished by the color of Benjamin "Benjy" Stacy's skin that they raced him by ambulance from the maternity ward in the hospital near Hazard to a medical clinic in Lexington.
Two days of tests produced no explanation for skin the color of a bruised plum.
A transfusion was being prepared when Benjamin's grandmother spoke up. "Have you ever heard of the blue Fugates of Troublesome Creek?" she asked the doctors.
"My grandmother Luna on my dad's side was a blue Fugate. It was real bad in her," Alva Stacy, the boy's father, explained. "The doctors finally came to the conclusion that Benjamin's color was due to blood inherited from generations back."
Benjamin lost his blue tint within a few weeks, and now he is about as normal looking a seven-year-old boy as you could hope to find. His lips and fingernails still turn a shade of purple-blue when he gets cold or angry a quirk that so intrigued medical students after Benjamin's birth that they would crowd around the baby and try to make him cry. "Benjamin was a pretty big item in the hospital," his mother says with a grin.
Dark blue lips and fingernails are the only traces of Martin Fugate's legacy left in the boy...........
(Excerpt) Read more at english.pravda.ru ...
true blu dims?
I saw Blue Man Group in concert in March. Awesome show. If you get a chance catch their show.
alas...
The Blue People Of Troublesome Creek (Kentucky)
Science | November, 1982 | Cathy Trost
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How about when interrogating terrorist prisoners?
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Too cruel, even for terrorists.
> It is only in the recent elections that the map colors were switched. Republicans used to be represented by Blue.
> Don’t know why the media changed it. But they sure have seized upon pointing out the colors now (red state/blue state logic). <
To deflect attention away from the Democrats’ obvious affinties to Marxism and Communism, the MSM decided during the run-up to the 2000 election that henceforth we rightwingers would be painted as “reds” while the genuine Reds-of-the-Left would be painted as “blues.”
The icing on the cake (or the nail in the coffin) was the large map of the USA printed by USA Today just after the election of 2000, with ‘pubbie-voting counties in red and dhimmi-voting counties in blue. The map was so well done that it found a place on the office wall of almost every political reporter and every political consultant in the country. At that point, there was no turning back.
The leftwing media really pulled off a giant psychological coup d’état in this case. They won, we lost, and it’s obvious that nothing can be done to reverse the outcome.
French bluebloods....
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