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sadguy
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 Posted: Thu Apr 28, 2011 11:28 am Post subject: morton's toe (second toe longer than your big toe) |
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that's the official term for it, did you know that? anyway, is having your second toe longer that weird to people? i have it and i always thought it was normal looking and i find a big toe being longer looks strange, but after watching "shallow hal" i started to second guess myself.
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Hokie21
Joined: 01 Mar 2011
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| Posted: Thu Apr 28, 2011 11:33 am Post subject: Re: morton's toe (second toe longer than your big toe) |
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| sadguy wrote: |
that's the official term for it, did you know that? anyway, is having your second toe longer that weird to people? i have it and i always thought it was normal looking and i find a big toe being longer looks strange, but after watching "shallow hal" i started to second guess myself.
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After looking at my feet I noticed on my left foot my 2nd toe is slightly longer than my big toe. On my right foot my 2nd toe is slightly shorter than my big toe. Is there a name for that? Other than "freak toes" I mean. |
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rumdiary
Joined: 05 Jun 2006
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| Posted: Thu Apr 28, 2011 11:35 am Post subject: |
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| The official name is actually Texas Toe, because feet like that fit perfectly into cowboy boots. It is a result of inbreeding and common in the southern united states. |
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jfromtheway
Joined: 20 Nov 2010
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| Posted: Thu Apr 28, 2011 11:52 am Post subject: |
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| rumdiary wrote: |
| The official name is actually Texas Toe, because feet like that fit perfectly into cowboy boots. It is a result of inbreeding and common in the southern united states. |
Certain Texans with Morton's Toe might take offense to that.
Wiki: "A longer second toe has often been associated with royalty, particularly during the rule of the Ptolemaic dynasty when Egypt was under Greek rulership. It was an idealized form in Greek sculpture, and this persisted as an aesthetic standard through Roman and Renaissance periods and later (the Statue of Liberty has toes of this proportion)." |
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rumdiary
Joined: 05 Jun 2006
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| Posted: Thu Apr 28, 2011 11:59 am Post subject: |
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| I bet having Texas Toe would come in handy when you climb a chain link fence! Are there any other special skills or abilities you guys have as a result of your Texas Toe? |
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jfromtheway
Joined: 20 Nov 2010
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| Posted: Thu Apr 28, 2011 12:15 pm Post subject: |
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I don't know if it qualifies as a skill or ability, but you've heard the phrase, right? "Everything is..."
Second toes, etc. |
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Hokie21
Joined: 01 Mar 2011
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| Posted: Thu Apr 28, 2011 1:02 pm Post subject: |
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| rumdiary wrote: |
| I bet having Texas Toe would come in handy when you climb a chain link fence! Are there any other special skills or abilities you guys have as a result of your Texas Toe? |
I can wear a toe ring, can also pick my nose with it and play the drums. (Only one my left foot though and not at the same time.) |
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rumdiary
Joined: 05 Jun 2006
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| Posted: Thu Apr 28, 2011 2:21 pm Post subject: |
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| I have a friend with flat feet that can give you the bird with his toes. We thought it was pretty cool in Jr. high. |
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DorkothyParker
Joined: 11 Apr 2009
Location: Jeju
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| Posted: Fri Apr 29, 2011 5:47 am Post subject: |
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When I did a Google image search for "foot" the very first image has a slightly longer second toe. Mine are fairly close but the second toe is just barely longer. I thought this was the norm too.
(Also Google imaging toes... eww.) |
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Louis VI
Joined: 05 Jul 2010
Location: In my Kingdom
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| Posted: Fri Apr 29, 2011 11:21 am Post subject: |
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I was a teenager before I realized that there were people whose big toe wasn't their biggest toe lengthwise. It looked freakish at first, but like left handedness, quickly looks normal. The French call it pied de N�anderthal.
Only about 10% of people have it and there are a lot of health problems associated with it.
http://www.integrative-healthcare.org/mt/archives/2010/12/mortons_toe_one.html |
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DorkothyParker
Joined: 11 Apr 2009
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chaiplz
Joined: 21 Mar 2011
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| Posted: Fri Apr 29, 2011 7:42 pm Post subject: |
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hmm.. I've always been very adept at picking things up with my toes.. but I think that has more to do with them being skinny rather than "Morton's".
 what a weird topic hahaha, thanks! |
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SeoulNate
Joined: 04 Jun 2010
Location: Hyehwa
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| Posted: Fri Apr 29, 2011 7:53 pm Post subject: |
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along the same lines, is your ring finger longer than your pointer? If not, and you are a guy then you have a much higher chance of being gay!
Seriously, research it.
The point is, that, and the 'research' linked above are total BS. They are based on speculative science. |
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rumdiary
Joined: 05 Jun 2006
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| Posted: Fri Apr 29, 2011 11:01 pm Post subject: |
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| SeoulNate wrote: |
along the same lines, is your ring finger longer than your pointer? If not, and you are a guy then you have a much higher chance of being gay!
Seriously, research it.
The point is, that, and the 'research' linked above are total BS. They are based on speculative science. |
No. People with Texas Toe can fill out a cowboy boot like nobody's business. It has been researched extensively.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEiMA3QtYWc&sns=fb |
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chaiplz
Joined: 21 Mar 2011
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| Posted: Sat Apr 30, 2011 8:11 am Post subject: |
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that video was amazing. the one guy with the super curly ones and skinny jeans looks like a mexican elf. |
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