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A Man turns Blue



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Wed Jan 09, 2008 1:48 am
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By Mike Celizic
TODAYShow.com contributor
updated 9:41 a.m. CT, Mon., Jan. 7, 2008

Paul Karason gives new meaning to the phrase “feeling blue.”

The auburn-bearded 57-year-old Californian goes through life being stared at and being hailed as “Papa Smurf” because his skin is the color of a ripe Concord grape.

“I’m the blue guy,” he confirmed with a chuckle to TODAY co-host Matt Lauer in Studio 1A on Monday. “It’s everywhere I go,” he said of the stares his skin color attracts. “I’ve gotten kind of used to it. I’m rather inured to it.”

Karason’s skin started turning blue nearly 10 years ago when he used a used a silver preparation to treat a bad case of dermatitis on his face that broke out due to stress when his father died.



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I had actually heard about this a while ago, but forgot about it entirely... Shows you how strange the body is.
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Wed Jan 09, 2008 1:59 am
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Dude, if I turned blue I'd totally play pranks on people. Pretend to crash my spaceship into cornfields and come wandering out covered in aluminum foil.
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Wed Jan 09, 2008 10:04 am
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Lol, Cade. :lol: I don't whether to say, "Poor bloke" or not.
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Wed Jan 09, 2008 3:46 pm
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Wow, that's a great colour! I wonder... what if he had children at this point in his life. Would the pigment of their skin be changed? Would they have a blue touch?
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Thu Jan 10, 2008 12:15 am
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That is incredible! I'm going to go out right now and get some "silver preparation".

It'd be great to go out early in the morning at the beach and lie down, half-way out of the water, and wait for people to come up to you. Just as the EMT's are about to haul you off to the morgue...

"Ooga-Booga!"

*Run off screaming at the top of your lungs.*

That'd be great.

Kitt-- No, his kids wouldn't be blue. It sounds like his skin had a strange reaction to his "silver preparation." Incredible.
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Thu Jan 10, 2008 10:58 am
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That top photo really freaks me out.
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