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Cuban man '24' proud of his 4 extra fingers, toes
Yahoo ^ | 08/26/11 | FERNANDO GONZALEZ

Posted on 08/26/2011 5:08:25 PM PDT by Lady Lucky

They call him "Twenty-Four."

Yoandri Hernandez Garrido's nickname comes from the six perfectly formed fingers on each of his hands and the six impeccable toes on each foot.

(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...


TOPICS: Health/Medicine; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: polydactyly
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To: mamelukesabre

You’ve given this some thought, haven’t you?


21 posted on 08/26/2011 5:53:32 PM PDT by Lady Lucky
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To: Lady Lucky
And who says inbreeding is just a white redneck thing?
22 posted on 08/26/2011 5:56:34 PM PDT by tophat9000 (American is Barack Oaken)
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To: tophat9000
inbreeding

Generally speaking, polydactyly is dominant, not recessive. You don't need to inbreed to catch it. Just sayin'. :o)

23 posted on 08/26/2011 6:02:52 PM PDT by Lady Lucky
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To: FlingWingFlyer

Probably from consuming Communist Chinese foodstuffs.


24 posted on 08/26/2011 6:04:06 PM PDT by wetgundog (" Extremism in the Defense of Liberty is no Vice")
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To: Lady Lucky

It was the 6 fingered man who is the suspect in the car bomb that took Trudy Monk’s life....Hmmmmmm


25 posted on 08/26/2011 6:07:43 PM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
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To: Lady Lucky

this little piggie went to....aw crap!


26 posted on 08/26/2011 6:15:10 PM PDT by bigbob
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To: Lady Lucky
Hernandez is proud of his extra digits and calls them a blessing, saying they set him apart and enable him to make a living by scrambling up palm trees to cut coconuts and posing for photographs in this eastern Cuban city popular with tourists. One traveler paid $10 for a picture with him,

Thanks to the idiotic Communist government, he's still just cutting down coconuts.

27 posted on 08/26/2011 6:31:56 PM PDT by Paleo Conservative
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To: Lady Lucky

Don’t know about the photo, although it looks legit to me. But the concept of six-finger-ism is not terribly rare among the Amish in PA. It comes from in-breeding with individuals who are too close relatives. Honestly have not seen or heard about six toes. Frequently with the Amish the six-fingered person is also a dwarf. And there are also Amish dwarfs who only have 5 fingers....but it all comes from in-breeding. At a big auto & truck auction in NJ there was a dealer who attended who had 12 fingers but was not a dwarf. But now a Cuban? That’s a new one.


28 posted on 08/26/2011 6:33:27 PM PDT by Tucker39
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To: Lady Lucky

Hey, Little Twelve toes...

http://www.schoolhouserock.tv/Little.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kd2EhOeOJ3s


29 posted on 08/26/2011 6:35:01 PM PDT by GreenLanternCorps ("Barack Obama" is Swahili for "Jimmy Carter".)
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To: tophat9000
And who says inbreeding is just a white redneck thing?

Under Castro's Communism the people are no longer limited to just 10 fingers as they were under the oppressive capitalist pigs. And since he has two middle fingers on each hand, just think of the new possibilities for flipping people off!

30 posted on 08/26/2011 6:36:13 PM PDT by Bernard Marx
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To: phalynx; Lady Lucky
Ought to be awesome on the piano...

The Communist state has enough piano players. They need more coconut harvesters. Imagine if he had any talent as a receiver in football.

31 posted on 08/26/2011 6:36:13 PM PDT by Paleo Conservative
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To: Paleo Conservative

Between you and Bernie Marx the possibilities seem endless!

I think the guy has great potential as a baseball pitcher. I bet he could throw curves and sliders like nobody ever imagined. Don’t know about a knuckleball......probably too many knuckles!


32 posted on 08/26/2011 6:45:20 PM PDT by Tucker39
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To: Lady Lucky

Unimpressed.

33 posted on 08/26/2011 7:00:11 PM PDT by Eccl 10:2 (Pray for the peace of Jerusalem - Ps 122:6)
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To: Tucker39

There’s no single type of “polydactyly.” Some of it may be the result of inbreeding, other types not. Look it up, you can get it from one parent with the gene, and the other parent unrelated and lacking the gene.
You can get it with a double thumb, a double pinkie, dwarfism, a sixth digit in just one hand or both, or the extra in hands and feet...etc.
Amish he is not. :)


34 posted on 08/26/2011 7:11:45 PM PDT by Lady Lucky
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To: Lady Lucky

Former major league pitcher Antonio Alfonseca had this. I believe he was Dominican. As I recall, he had a specially made fielders glove with an extra finger.


35 posted on 08/26/2011 7:17:58 PM PDT by OrangeHoof (Obama: The Dr. Kevorkian of the American economy.)
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To: FlingWingFlyer
“Don’t tell me. He was a math wiz in school.”

As long as it was a base 12 system.

36 posted on 08/26/2011 7:42:52 PM PDT by CrazyIvan (Obama's birth certificate was found stapled to Soros's receipt.)
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To: Lady Lucky

You may be right. Most of that was above my pay grade. But until this Cuban showed up, the only ones I was aware of were Amish, and since they only marry each other, it inevitably leads to inbreeding and sometimes, birth anomalies. Fershtay? (sic)


37 posted on 08/26/2011 7:49:59 PM PDT by Tucker39
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To: Lady Lucky

Okay, so most people work with the decimal number system, so what system does that Cuban use?

Also, shouldn’t he be getting punished for having “more” than the rest of the population, or at least get taxed more? He’s violating all the rules of equality of the communist system.


38 posted on 08/26/2011 7:54:15 PM PDT by adorno
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To: adorno

the correct solution is for the state to give everyone the extra digits.

a five-year plan has been initiated and is ahead of schedule. Cubans will start receiving their extra toes in 10 years (of course they are all left big toes, and they are pallid gray). Mucho Gusto El Papa


39 posted on 08/27/2011 9:36:04 AM PDT by fnord (Republicans are just the right-wing of the left-wing of American politics)
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To: Tucker39

What I’d like to know is why we don’t all have six fingers, if it’s a dominant gene. Dominant means that if you have two genes for it, your kid is gonna get it for sure. You marry a person who has six like you and odds are pretty high your kids get it.
Capeesh?


40 posted on 08/27/2011 11:21:38 AM PDT by Lady Lucky (Heavy the head that wears the tiara.)
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