My apologies Duck…I really should read things a bit closer. Sometimes I rush myself…a bad habit I know.
My boyfriend’s pupils are blue around the outside and yellow on the inside. It can happen.
Yellow eyes are often a trait of jaundice, he was probably hitting the vodka bottle a little too much.
bibliophage, if it’s the picture I’m thinking of, wasn’t it a picture of a brown-skinned Berber girl from North Africa, with ice-blue eyes that you’d expect to see in a person of Scandanavian descent? She was staring straight at the camera, and the contrast was striking.
I used to work with a girl who had yellow eyes-the irises, not the whites. She had golden blond hair and her eyes matched her hair, so I always thought of her as having blond eyes.
I vividly remember the National Geographic cover you guys are talking about. I am almost certain the girl on the cover was from Afghanistan. I’ve been thinking about it a lot lately for obvious reasons.
bibliophage, Northern Piper, and carlotta: If this is the picture all of you are thinking of, the girl is indeed from Afghanistan. It was on the June 1985 cover of National Geographic. I’ve seen the photographer who took the picture quoted as saying he has no idea what happened to her.
That’s even more surprising. One learns something new each day…
Blue and green eyes are quite common amongst Berbers…
If all Afghani women look like that, I understand why their husbands want them to wear a Burkha…
- Not all Afghani men want their wives to cover their faces. That’s a Fundamentalist Muslim thing. Not all Afghan Muslims are Fundamentalists.
http://www.smh.com.au/news/0102/22/features/features1.html
The hijab is just the head scarf; the burkha is the whole head-to-toe covering.
- I don’t think she’s that bad-looking.
I dated a man with yellow eyes (the colored part of the eye, not the whites). He called them hazel but they were distinctly canary yellow (no contacts) with some flecks of gold. It was pretty strange.
HUGS!
Sqrl
DDG, I think that clairobscur is suggesting that if his (her?) wife was that hot, he/she would want to keep her under wraps.
That if definitly one of the most memorable Nat Geo coevers ever: I knew exactly which one bibliophage was talking about the second I read his description. I can’t think of another cover that stands out like that.
I would have sworn the accompanying article said the picture was of a boy. Anybody else read it?
Actually, I meant she was beautiful looking, and I hinted that jealousy would make their whusbands want them to wear the burkha…
From the contents page of the June 1985 issue of National Geographic:
If Stalin’s eyes were yellow because of jaundice, it may not have been the vodka that was causing it. There’s what’s known as gil-barrs syndrome (not sure if the spelling’s right) in which one’s body produces too much biliruben (again, forgive the spelling errors, its late and I’ve had a lot of whiskey this evening), thus causing a jaundice-like condition. I’ve got it, but it only manifests itself when I get really stressed out.
Now, that I think about it, I thought that I read some place where Stalin had blue eyes. Hmmm. Have to see if I can find that book.
I knew a guy with yellowish eyes with vertical-slit pupils. He also had a third nipple. It’s funny, I went to school with him when I was 12, and then 16 years later he moved into the apartment complex my mother managed. She remembered me telling her about him and asked him if he lived in Rockwall in the mid-80s, and it was him.
That photo is considered one of the greatest ever by Nat’l Geographic, and those eyes certainly sends chills up my spine. I think Cecil might have been asked whatever happened to this girl, and really no one knows.