Internet Sensation 'Papa Smurf' Dies; Other Blue People Live On

[Musky]

Internet Sensation 'Papa Smurf' Dies; Other Blue People Live On

 

The most famous "blue man" -- known as "Papa Smurf" -- has died.

Paul Karason was born a fair-skinned, freckled boy with reddish blond hair. But later, he developed skin with a bluish tinge against his shock of white hair, the result of a rare medical syndrome known as argyria or silver poisoning from dietary supplements.

 

Karason died at the age of 62 this week after being treated for pneumonia at a Washington hospital after having suffered a heart attack. He'd also previously had a severe stroke, hisestranged wife Jo Anna Karason told NBC's Today.

 

ABCNews.com interviewed Karason in 2008. At the time he lived in Oregon. He said the blue tinge had started more than a decade before that when he saw an ad in a new-age magazine promising health and rejuvenation through colloidal silver. He drank about 10 ounces a day of the home-brew that he dissolved in water.

http://abcnews.go.com/Health/internet-sensation-papa-smurf-dies-blue-people-live/story?id=20368758

[trottigy]

Drinking silver

 

OK - let's NOT be taking that!!  - IMO

 

Says Jerry, as he goes to 7-Eleven to get another Big Gulp of Mountain Dew  

 

Maybe, I'll turn green  

Edited September 26, 2013 by trottigy

[feather]

hope this doesn't start a trend among those intent on

    finding a new basis for their own 'look-at-me' shock value  

[Allabord4Jah]

Oh MY! LOL

[surfergirl]

  this guy was found high on the dew. 

Edited September 30, 2013 by surfergirl

[surfergirl]

Musky I remember that blue guy.

He sure was famous, There was a big story on him on one of the current Affairs or 60 mins.

Interesting Man.