My Wifes Take On The TanMans Skin Color

[rsmith6621]

....She saw her Dad die of liver damage caused by alcohol and thinks that Boner is covering up cirrhosis by tanning.

[rfranklin]

1. Red sunburn plus yellow jaundice = orange color

Sounds right.

[niyad]

2. so then the question would be, do we want him to go fast, or suffer?

[pipi_k]

10. I don't know as I'd wish that kind of suffering on anybody. n/t

[niyad]

14. not wishing it on him, but it wouldn't break my heart to see him in the same condition he wishes on

so many (trying to repeal health care, etc)

[Kennah]

11. I don't wish suffering upon him ...

... but it would be poetic if scandal landed him in prison, he lost his health care coverage, and he needed universal health care to live.

Imagine.

[seabeyond]

13. eeew. nt

[Liquorice]

3. On 60 Minutes, he said he had always been that color. Then they showed

photos of him when he was young and he had the same color 20 years ago. He also has a sister with that coloring. I think it's just genetic.

[RKP5637]

4. The "orange" gene! LOL n/t

[Liquorice]

8. LOL I think he just has weird genes. nt

[Angry Dragon]

5. ALIEN .......... where is his birth certificate??

[madinmaryland]

6. LOL.

[virgogal]

7. That's how rumors start.

[pipi_k]

9. Wouldn't the whites of his eyes be yellow?

My daughter's ex husband died in 2005 from liver disease complicated by diabetes.

His eyes were yellow for a few years before that, plus he was in the hospital multiple times because of ascites. Had to keep getting the fluid drained. His abdomen swelled up so badly his navel grew to the size of a softball and burst. It had to be removed.

So I dunno...in spite of his strange orange color, Boner still looks pretty healthy.

[Maru Kitteh]

12. Look up 'mitral flush'

Also a possibility. Could well be secondary to a lifetime of alcohol abuse.