Politician turns blue from drinking ‘health’ solution

Stan Jones, Montana’s Libertarian candidate for Senate, started taking colloidal silver in 1999 for fear that disruptions linked to the millennium 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-grey a year ago.

“People ask me if it’s permanent and if I’m dead,” he said. “I tell them I’m practising for Halloween.”

He does not take the supplement any longer, but the skin condition, called argyria, is permanent.” Ananova

I may be the only one around who hadn’t already heard of this, but I’m posting the news item as a public service to any FmH readers who may be as clueless as I had been about the Stan Jones jokes you may have noticed around the internet recently.