? *'s varying eye color ?

[stellanoir]

Tin foil alert.

This is really trivial.

* has blue eyes. . .correct? That's how it appears most of the time.

Yet in F911 they appeared to be brown.

Some possible though admittedly lame theories:

1) tinted contact lenses

2) heavily medicated by something that has the side effect of extreme dialation of pupils.

3)creative license editing by MM adhering to old adage. . ."so full of sh*t, his eyes are brown.

4)Nicola Tesla was rumored to have been born with brown eyes and due to excessive exposure to high electrical voltage, he died with blue eyes (very far fetched). But * might have experienced the opposite by being such a "dim bulb". (doubt it)

This has been bugging me for weeks.

Did anyone else notice this?

[Connie_Corleone]

1. Bush's eyes

Bush is a shape-shifting reptile.

[Lavender Brown]

2. Yep.

For photographic evidence:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=105&topic_id=1370056

[stellanoir]

4. LOL thanks

forgot to include the "baby-sacrificing, blood-sucking, shape-shifting reptile" meme ala Mr. Icke.

[YellowRubberDuckie]

3. His eyes are dialated because of all the drugs and alcohol...

in his system.
Also, Bush my actually have Hazel eyes, that look different colors depending on what he's wearing. Bastard wears a hell of a lot of brown.
Duckie

[stellanoir]

5. Hate to disagree but don't think so

hazel eyes usually go green/gold/brown (no blue).

I've seen people and animals (huskies) with one blue eye and one brown eye, but have never seen eye color vary in one individual from light blue to dark brown. Some members of my family have bright blue eyes that change to deep blue before it snows.

Too strange.

[No2W2004]

7. Mine are hazel

they go from green to blue depending on what I'm wearing.

[Lisa]

6. part of me wants to believe that he's been using lookalikes ...

Karl and Karen might not trust him to deliver crucial speeches without goofing up, and anyway * is notoriously lazy and would probably welcome a chance to shuffle the workload onto somebody else!

And with advanced Hollywood latex prosthetics, you wouldn't even need to find an exact lookalike or compel him to have plastic surgery! Focus on getting someone who can do the voice and movements accurately, instead. Added advantage is, you wouldn't have to hide him when he wasn't doing his "substitute" gig to keep people from finding out ... remove and destroy the incriminating foam appliances, and the guy can walk right out under the reporters' noses with them none the wiser.

Here's a guy from Missouri who looks kind of like *:



http://www.gwbushimpersonator.com/



and here's the guy who appears as Bush on Leno's show, without makeup:



http://premierespeakers.com/1189/index.cfm


After a couple of hours of work:



http://www.allstaragency.com/cgi-bin/speaker2001.asp?ID=186



And both of them together (Bridges isn't in character):



http://www.stevebridges.com/photo_gallery.html


Video link:

http://www.washingtonspeakers.com/speakers/speaker.cfm?SpeakerId=3986


Description of the process:

http://www.ppi.cc/ppi_players/kevin_haney2.htm#


(wouldn't it be fun to put someone like Tim Robbins under all that!)

* * *

But seriously -- Bush's eyes are described as "hazel" on his National Guard paperwork (what they can find of it, anyway!).

http://www.midwestpundits.com/comments.php?id=616_0_1_0_C

After looking at a number of people I know who have the same description on their driver's licenses, I noticed that this covers a range of shades, including mixtures with blue, green, and grey. (One woman actually has eyes that are different shades of hazel, left vs. right, and she says that most people don't even notice.) As someone else mentioned earlier, what a person's wearing, and the light conditions, can make eye color appear to change -- even if your eyes are a solid color and not hazel. (Al Gore's eyes were sometimes described as brown by the press and looked fairly dark in photos, but DUers who have met him say that they are actually very dark blue.) One of Bush's biographers compared his eye color to "Sweet Tarts" candy, which are such a garish shade that my mom forbade them because of presumed chemical additives!

One of my colleagues sometimes wears blue-tinted contact lenses, and although I didn't think about it until just now, the tone IS kind of like "Sweet Tarts"! I know that Bush does sometimes wear glasses, but only when he's reading ... maybe his eyes are starting to go and he's too vain to be seen wearing specs outside? And he's trying to compensate with contacts?

Re: the pupil thing, I've seen that too in pics, stellanoir. One would think that the glare of media lights would have the opposite effect. Maybe Bush is using eyedrops? (David Niven commented that Hollywood actors with blue eyes tended to suffer from the harsh lighting due to lack of pigmentation.)

If eyes appear brown due to melanin -- I guess in theory if your eyes were a mixture of green/brown or blue/brown, and the amount of melanin changed (due to change in diet or sun exposure), the blue might be more noticeable. Especially if pigment distribution was uneven (a lot of people have different-colored "flecks", "rays", or "rings" in their irises). My mom says my eyes changed from bluish-purple to dark brown by the time I was 2.

http://www.ivillagehealth.com/experts/eye/qas/0,,242114_174880,00.html

more on the genetic/environmental factors affecting human eye color:
http://www.seps.org/oracle/oracle.archive/Life_Science.Genetics/2001.05/000991227865.22545.html

[TroubleMan]

8. My eyes are blue in bright light and green in normal light or darker

nothing scary there.

[AlienGirl]

9. I know someone whose eye color changes

He has kind of dark green-brown eyes except when he plays a certain Shadowrun character--and then they turn light blue. I'm not kidding. It freaked me out the first time I saw it. And yes, it's been caught on film.

I have no clue how it happens, but it does. There are also reports of people with multiple personalities having different-colored eyes with each personality, so I suspect my friend's variable irises are a less-intense version of the same phenomenon.

Tucker

[Lisa]

10. given how many personalities Bush portrays ...

All those different costumes they dress him up in -- "Ranger George"; "Heroic Pilot"; "Friendly Neighborhood T-Ball Coach"; "Serious Statesman"; "Everyone's Favorite Golfin'/Drinkin' Buddy" -- hey, maybe there's a similar effect there?