After some investigation, they determined dye had rubbed off his unwashed bedsheets.

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        But just like the source material “I blue myself” doesn’t make any sense when speaking in past tense, unless you’re stretching language to make a joke. I love arrested development but I always thought that was one of their worst jokes.

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            If you had painted yourself blue you would say “I blued myself” not “I blue myself.”

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              JFC…it was a phonetic joke to sound like he said he blew himself. It’s a running gag with the character throughout the series. 4 hours and you still don’t get it.

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                Dude, I get the joke. I blue myself/I painted myself blue = I blew myself/I sucked my own dick. I’m saying it’s a badly written joke and it’s not funny, a rare miss for the AD writers.

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                  I’m saying it’s a badly written joke and it’s not funny

                  Which is why it survives and is quoted almost 20 years later.

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    Yo, listen up, here’s the story

    About a little guy that lives in a blue world

    And all day and all night and everything he sees is just blue

    Like him, inside and outside

    Blue his house with a blue little window

    And a blue Corvette and everything is blue for him

    And himself and everybody around

    'Cause he ain’t got nobody to listen (To listen, to listen, to listen)

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    This happens surprisingly often. Wash fabrics before putting them into service; you don’t want leftover dyes or other things on you or your stuff.

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    Is he from Kentucky? There is a condition, something about hemoglobin, it’s genetic in some families in Kentucky, but can also have other causes, I think. This condition is not harmful either, people that have it live long lives.

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    The doctor rubbed Lynch’s arm with an alcohol wipe, causing the swab to turn blue. It was then that Lynch realized that sleeping on his new, unwashed bed sheets for two nights was to blame for his predicament.

    He said that he and the doctors had a good laugh over his situation.

    “I never knew you had to wash your sheets before you slept on them," he said. “Everyone in the reception of A&E was staring at me like they’d seen a ghost."

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    I’m blue, da ba dee da ba di
    Da ba dee da ba di, da ba dee da ba di
    Da ba dee da ba di, da ba dee da ba di
    Da ba dee da ba di, da ba dee da ba di