Smurfs could truly be real!

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UsedToBeHusky
UsedToBeHusky Posts: 15,227 Member
edited January 29 in Chit-Chat
Benjamin "Benjy" Stacy so frightened maternity doctors with the color of his skin -- "as Blue as Lake Louise" -- that he was rushed just hours after his birth in 1975 to University of Kentucky Medical Center.

As a transfusion was being readied, the baby's grandmother suggested to doctors that he looked like the "blue Fugates of Troublesome Creek." Relatives described the boy's great-grandmother Luna Fugate as "blue all over," and "the bluest woman I ever saw."

In an unusual story that involves both genetics and geography, an entire family from isolated Appalachia was tinged blue. Their ancestral line began six generations earlier with a French orphan, Martin Fugate, who settled in Eastern Kentucky.

Doctors don't see much of the rare blood disorder today, because mountain people have dispersed and the family gene pool is much more diverse.

http://abcnews.go.com/Health/blue-skinned-people-kentucky-reveal-todays-genetic-lesson/story?id=15759819

So... if one were to be born with this rare blood disorder AND the trait for dwarvism...

Would we have smurfs?

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  • Trechechus
    Trechechus Posts: 2,758 Member
    This article needs pictures.
  • UsedToBeHusky
    UsedToBeHusky Posts: 15,227 Member
    This article needs pictures.

    You'll have to go to the link. I have no photo-hosting access at work. :embarassed:
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  • UsedToBeHusky
    UsedToBeHusky Posts: 15,227 Member
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    I was Smurfette for a day

    Nah! You're better looking! :wink:
  • billsica
    billsica Posts: 4,741 Member
    Smurfs are described as being 3 apples tall.

    We should work on creating larger apples.
  • UsedToBeHusky
    UsedToBeHusky Posts: 15,227 Member
    Smurfs are described as being 3 apples tall.

    We should work on creating larger apples.

    Well then they would just be giant smurfs, I guess.
  • Trechechus
    Trechechus Posts: 2,758 Member
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    I was Smurfette for a day

    Nah! You're better looking! :wink:

    Indeed
  • Contrarian
    Contrarian Posts: 8,137 Member
    No, because smurfs are only 3 apples tall. You would just have short, blue people.
  • ScottyNoHotty
    ScottyNoHotty Posts: 1,957 Member
    Lots of people have this



    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argyria
  • KANGOOJUMPS
    KANGOOJUMPS Posts: 6,474 Member
    I still have some smurfs here, and cabbage patch too.
  • CapnGordo
    CapnGordo Posts: 327
    This is old news. Guy made all the talk shows and end-of-local-newscasts a while ago.

    Congenital_Methemoglobinemia-4.jpg
  • ldrosophila
    ldrosophila Posts: 7,512 Member
    People that take a lot of colloidal silver also can become blue
  • SpeSHul_SnoflEHk
    SpeSHul_SnoflEHk Posts: 6,256 Member
    This article needs pictures.

    ht_fugate_family_blue_people_ll_120217_wg.jpg

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  • UsedToBeHusky
    UsedToBeHusky Posts: 15,227 Member
    This is old news. Guy made all the talk shows and end-of-local-newscasts a while ago.

    Congenital_Methemoglobinemia-4.jpg

    LOOK! SEE! It's Papa Smurf!!
  • CapnGordo
    CapnGordo Posts: 327
    Lots of people have this

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argyria
    The folks in the article cited have methemoglobinemia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methemoglobinemia).

    Methemoglobinemia (or methaemoglobinaemia) is a disorder characterized by the presence of a higher than normal level of methemoglobin in the blood. It can be congenital or acquired.

    Argyria or argyrosis is a condition caused by inappropriate exposure to chemical compounds of the element silver, or to silver dust.
  • So_Much_Fab
    So_Much_Fab Posts: 1,146 Member
    I ain't no smurf!!!!

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  • Valqis
    Valqis Posts: 1,016 Member
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    I was Smurfette for a day
    I just thought you got after them with a gun and they bled blue!!!
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  • BrainyBurro
    BrainyBurro Posts: 6,129 Member
    arrested-development-blue-man.jpg
  • Mr_Bad_Example
    Mr_Bad_Example Posts: 2,403 Member
    arrested-development-blue-man.jpg

    I'm afraid I just blue myself.
  • missdibs1
    missdibs1 Posts: 1,092 Member
    Benjamin "Benjy" Stacy so frightened maternity doctors with the color of his skin -- "as Blue as Lake Louise" -- that he was rushed just hours after his birth in 1975 to University of Kentucky Medical Center.

    As a transfusion was being readied, the baby's grandmother suggested to doctors that he looked like the "blue Fugates of Troublesome Creek." Relatives described the boy's great-grandmother Luna Fugate as "blue all over," and "the bluest woman I ever saw."

    In an unusual story that involves both genetics and geography, an entire family from isolated Appalachia was tinged blue. Their ancestral line began six generations earlier with a French orphan, Martin Fugate, who settled in Eastern Kentucky.

    Doctors don't see much of the rare blood disorder today, because mountain people have dispersed and the family gene pool is much more diverse.

    http://abcnews.go.com/Health/blue-skinned-people-kentucky-reveal-todays-genetic-lesson/story?id=15759819

    So... if one were to be born with this rare blood disorder AND the trait for dwarvism...

    Would we have smurfs?


    tick tick tick boom my mmind was blown

    real life smurfs would be awesome
  • Trechechus
    Trechechus Posts: 2,758 Member
    ht_fugate_family_blue_people_ll_120217_wg.jpg

    From the article, yo
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