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- From: mcirvin@husc10.harvard.edu (Mcirvin)
- Newsgroups: sci.physics
- Subject: Re: Blue Sky
- Message-ID: <mcirvin.712173440@husc10>
- Date: 26 Jul 92 17:57:20 GMT
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- kriman@acsu.buffalo.edu (Alfred M. Kriman) writes:
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- >(1) The Blue Berbers: I don't know if this tribe persists, or if it keeps
- >to its old sartorial habits, but once the group was wont to wear robes dyed
- >a deep blue with indigo. The color "rubbed off" (more likely sweated in)
- >and these people had appreciable amounts of indigo dye in their blood-
- >streams. Their skin had a slight blue tinge.
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- I remember reading a story in Science 8n about ten years ago which
- concerned a number of people living in an isolated part of West
- Virginia who had blue or bluish skin because of some genetic
- disorder.
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- I'm locally blue, in the irises.
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- >P.S. Why does everybody forget blueberries when talking about blue foods?
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- George Carlin's answer to this was something like "Doesn't count.
- Blue on the plant, purple on the plate."
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- Matt McIrvin mcirvin@husc.harvard.edu
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