FC: Y2K nutter runs for the U.S. Senate, literally turns blue

From: Declan McCullagh (declanat_private)
Date: Fri Oct 04 2002 - 09:42:28 PDT

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    A photo of Stan Jones taken back when he had normal skin color:
    http://www.mtlp.org/jones/home.htm
    
    Colloidal silver was popular among Y2K enthusiasts (and on groups like 
    misc.survivalism) as a general cure-all. It's been touted as a cure for 
    AIDS (http://www.colloidal-silver.com/article7.htm), cancer, warts, bad 
    breath, herpes, and even head lice. And, of course, if you had more silver 
    than you could eat, you could spend it -- when the federal fiat currency 
    regime collapsed after all the bank runs. See:
    http://www.colloidal-silver.com/uses.htm
    
    -Declan
    
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    From: Georgeat_private
    Subject: Y2K Nutter Turns Blue!
    Date: Thu, 03 Oct 2002 16:15:24 -0400
    
    http://www.cnn.com/2002/ALLPOLITICS/10/02/offbeat.blue.candidate/index.html
    #
    #    Senate candidate blue -- literally
    #
    #    GREAT FALLS, Montana (AP) --Montana's Libertarian candidate for
    #    Senate has turned blue from drinking a silver solution that he
    #    believed would protect him from disease.
    #
    #    Stan Jones,a 63-year-old business consultant and part-time college
    #    instructor, said he started taking colloidal silver in 1999 for
    #    fear that Y2K disruptions 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-gray a year ago.
    [...] 
    
    
    
    
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