"Not the Usual Allotment": tell your tales of people you've encountered with an excess or a surfeit of body parts

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Well, looks like no one else here had the extra body parts necessary to actually post this question; it came up on an AIM chat that at least two of the participants had been with more than one partner who were...well, missing a testicle. It also came up that some of us had met people with extra (vestigial) nipples. Of course, our minds being what they were, we didn't go into other things like extra finger or tails, etc.

So, if anyone is interested, here's a place to talk about it (note: discussion is welcome, mocking is not).

― Jimmy Guy, Monday, 14 April 2003 22:09 (twenty-two years ago)

My best friend's older brother had been born with an extra little toe on one of his feet, but it was removed shortly after birth.

― Dan I., Monday, 14 April 2003 22:15 (twenty-two years ago)

Those who were in the chat are tired of hearing me point this out, but: The average American has one testicle.

― Chris P (Chris P), Monday, 14 April 2003 22:15 (twenty-two years ago)

A friend of one of my ex girlfriends had 6 toes on each of her feet

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Monday, 14 April 2003 22:35 (twenty-two years ago)

doesn't duane know some girls with extra fingers?

― di smith (lucylurex), Monday, 14 April 2003 22:36 (twenty-two years ago)

One of my exes has only one testicle. And once in a grocery store I saw a man with only one eye -- he didn't have a glass eye or an eyepatch, the eyelids had simply been sewn shut.

― j.lu (j.lu), Monday, 14 April 2003 22:48 (twenty-two years ago)

I went to primary school with 2 sisters with major polydactyl-ism. They had something like 28 fingers between them. But they had lots of operations and were left with the normal number, but lots of scar tissue and not the full range of movement. Strangely, I cannot remember them ever being mocked for this, whereas a boy with comparitively minor eczma was really picked on.

― isadora (isadora), Monday, 14 April 2003 22:55 (twenty-two years ago)

by himself?

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 14 April 2003 22:56 (twenty-two years ago)

I have a third leg.

― Mark C (Mark C), Monday, 14 April 2003 23:14 (twenty-two years ago)

Jamie Lee Curtis. 'Nuff said.

― Skottie, Monday, 14 April 2003 23:16 (twenty-two years ago)

Prove it, Mark! Let's see some pix.

― Chris P (Chris P), Monday, 14 April 2003 23:16 (twenty-two years ago)

i remember meeting one of my dad's friends who had 2 thumbs on both hands. i was really young and got really freaked out.

― sand.y, Monday, 14 April 2003 23:32 (twenty-two years ago)

I met a bloke with three cocks on an allotment once. And there is a guy with two heads who stands in the centre of Lisbon begging. I'm not making this up you knnow.

― Gatinha (rwillmsen), Monday, 14 April 2003 23:40 (twenty-two years ago)

testiclops!

― rosemary (rosemary), Monday, 14 April 2003 23:44 (twenty-two years ago)

seen a kid in this town about an hour south of addis with 6 fingers on both hands and 6 toes on both feet

― H (Heruy), Monday, 14 April 2003 23:47 (twenty-two years ago)

I've known a bunch of people who have an extra penis attached to their neck.

― ChristineSH (chrissie1068), Tuesday, 15 April 2003 01:55 (twenty-two years ago)

Does anyone remember the girl with six toes in the Day of the Triffids?

I recall finding that very romantic and dreaming about meeting a girl like that one day. So far ... another unfulfilled childhood fantasy.

― logjaman, Tuesday, 15 April 2003 02:10 (twenty-two years ago)

Jamie Lee Curtis

I too have heard this story. And I believe it.

― Sean (Sean), Tuesday, 15 April 2003 02:13 (twenty-two years ago)

When he was little, my brother always used to draw boys with three legs. His crayon-scribbled family portraits are quite amusing.

― kirsten (kirsten), Tuesday, 15 April 2003 02:14 (twenty-two years ago)

Oops ... it was The Chrysalids not Day of the Triffids.

And six toes is twelve.

― logjaman, Tuesday, 15 April 2003 02:17 (twenty-two years ago)

I think I've told this story here before -- my high school girlfriend was born with no left hand, her left arm ending just below the elbow. She was in a program where she tested experimental prosthetics. When we met, she had a flesh-colored plastic claw thing (ugly as hell, but very functional), and later, got a very realistic looking hand with rubber skin, which was even creepier looking and didn't work as well. She stopped wearing it around age 20 or so (I don't think she uses a prosthesis at all any more as she never really needed it -- she taught me how to tie my shoes with one hand), but it was good for amusement if nothing else. Two stories: once she was in an elevator with someone who was pretty obviously staring at her left arm, so wiggled out of it and let it drop to the floor. She then sweetly asked the horrified stranger if he wouldn't mind picking it up for her.

The biggest fun was when we hid it in the freezer and convinced my mother to serve us some ice cream. My mother shrieked bysterically; oh how we larfed.

― Colin Meeder (Mert), Tuesday, 15 April 2003 08:01 (twenty-two years ago)

Cor! Testing experimental prosthetics sounds like too much fun. Who's that (leg) amputee model who did a show with these ace prosthetics that were made of carbon-fibre and were built like springy jaguar legs? She's an excellent athlete as well as a model, I seem to recall.

I don't want to be picky (although I am), but 'surfeit' means the same as 'excess', innit.

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Tuesday, 15 April 2003 08:08 (twenty-two years ago)

excess = too many from perspective of others
surfeit = too many from perspective of self

― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 15 April 2003 09:30 (twenty-two years ago)

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