WE DIDNT LISTEN! WE DIDNT LISTEN!

LOL. I love you abbie!

I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but according to the advertisements that I have seen recently, Big Bang Theory will be shown on Thursday night once the new season starts.

We were watching that last night and my wife asked, "Colloidal silver....isn't that the stuff that turns you blue?". I said it was and mentioned it could be found at health food stores. She was aghast that they sell that crap to the general public.

True Blood wasn't the first to use the idea. The Blade movies did too and I'm sure others have.

It actually would make for an interesting speculative paper: in a world with rampant lycanthropy and vampirism, does argyria become an acceptable side-effect in exchange for more effective protection against the underlying infectious agencies?

Of course, it would make more sense to ask in the Anita Blake universe, where preternatural biology is still (mostly) biology; at least in the Sukie Stackhouse books, it's made explicit fairly early on that the "virus" is just a cover story.

Probably not something for the average joe, but possibly something one of the hard-core bounty hunter types might try.

Pam's use of colloidal silver against Bill was brilliant. You can learn more about colloidal silver at www.TheSilverEdge.com

A wood stake pounded through the heart has seemed to stop cold every vampire I've encountered.

Well.... I think they were vampires. ;-)

"Underworld" used silver nitrate bullets. They looked like the mercury ampoule in your thermostat.

I loved that part, but reading this cracked me up even more. I love applying science geekery to True Blood. My friend and I had a big discussion on Sookie "not having a blood type." She has to have one! Just a rare undiscovered once that rejects other types, which isn't that hard to imagine. But then we started talking about inheritance patterns, and nothing made sense anymore.

...Yay geneticists talking about magic!

abb3w @ 5: "Of course, it would make more sense to ask in the Anita Blake universe, where preternatural biology is still (mostly) biology"

Since the supernatural creatures in that narrative universe are hyper-sexed, it would make sense to reverse-engineer their blood chemistry to get the successor to Viagra :)

On the topic of things that come back from the dead... looks like smallpox vaccine is also good for protecting against monkeypox. Wonder if they'll have to start producing the vaccine again for travellers (unless the WHO will pay for global vaccinations in the DRoC)? http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2010/08/24/1005769107.full.pdf

I think they used it in Blade 3 as well.

I am only (willingly) acquainted with Anita Blake via the hilarious Annotated Anita Blake series.

abb3w@#5

"....in a world with rampant lycanthropy and vampirism, does argyria become an acceptable side-effect...."

I am now looking forward to an episode where Russell Edgington battles federally created Smurfs.

Do you think vampires have nightmares about Stan Jones?

Actually, there's an interesting article on vampires and colloidal silver here:

http://meetstevebarwick.com/ezine/ColloidalSilverSecrets_August2010_Iss…

lol, hilarious!