[PJ-Comix]

I know a guy who was in the Navy. Stationed for awhile in Japan. He has blue eyes and so does his wife. So the guy puts out to sea for many months. He comes back and later his wife gives birth to a brown-eyed boy. The guy goes BERSERK because he claims it is impossible for two blue eyed parents to give birth to a brown eyed baby. Plus the kid (I knew him too) looks a bit Japanese. Okay, after much distress the guy seemed to live with it. I told him such a child would be possible (I don't think it is). Okay, maybe I fibbed but I wanted to set his mind at ease. I don't think it worked because he was always grumbling about how his kid really isn't his.

Okay, so was my white lie really the truth or is it impossible for two blue-eyed parents to have a brown eyed son?

p.s. The guy finally became a Jehovah's Witness and that helped settle him down but didn't really stop his grumbling.

[TheThirdRuffian]

It is impossible, barring mutation, for two blue-eyed parents to have a non-blue eyed baby. (You can sometimes get green, but I can’t remember how.)

(I dealt with paternity with some regularity as a senior enlisted in the Army -— master chief, I think, is the equivalent for squids. The CO would hand this off to me without looking; all sorts of paperwork and sometimes serious ramifications.)

[Kozak]

No it’s not impossible. Just unlikely. But it is definitely possible...

[GQuagmire]

http://www.usatoday.com/tech/columnist/aprilholladay/2004-10-14-wonderquest_x.htm

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