[muawiyah]

It's very easy to imagine some of the genetic lineage of the Picts. First off, they had to have had twice as much genetic coding for "red", the normal amount for "green", and possibly missed completely the coding for "blue".

Note here that the "blue gene" is NOT sex-linked! Men and women can be "blue blind".

Give me a good heavy fog, a dreary winter's day that starts at 10:30 AM and is gone by 1:30 PM, and anybody painted blue is invisible! About the only thing I can see is the red veins in the whites of their eyes!

Tells me the Picts had to wear eyecovers as well to avoid that extra pick-up on the "red".

The Romans just had to love these guys!

[blam]

What do you think of my suspicion that the Picts may have been related to the proto-Xiongnu (...and proto-Hans, proto-Scytians and proto-Huns) people.