Arlington is right!

You know what's really creepy about thumbs? People who have those thumbs that kind of bend back a little, creating that devil's crease of disgust on the back of the joint, almost at a right angle. You know those people? And they're always flaunting it, bending their thumbs back with abandon. It's disgusting.
 

Yep, gotta agree here. Thumbs...just weird looking. One of my cats has thumbs, though, and on her somehow it looks really cool. Polydactyl, they call it. ....Yup, been reading.
 

Those cunning thumbs... it's like they're always *there*... except for when they're not, in which case the use of utensils becomes extremely awkward.
 

So, my thumb was the cause of that nocturnal emission that one dark night? I must speak to Fr. McMushylap at once.
 

When I was a child I never ate chicken drumsticks because they reminded me of torn-off thumbs. They still do, but now I don't care.
 

On the other hand, I also have a thumb.
 

Here's an angler spotted at the Lake of Menteith. He found his fingers so uncanny he had them replaced with toes:

http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/39382000/jpg/_39382443_fingers203300.jpg

The thumbs are still hangin' on in there, though.
 

Thanks, Audrey. I will be haunted by that photo for weeks now.
 

I'm sorry Arlington, this time I'm not sure what you mean.
 

I know exactly what he means. Thumbs only have two bits to them and fingers have three. Keep up Marooon, I thought you had a PHD.
 

They're not as sinister as your toes though, just look at those fuckers. The thumbs are merely the advance guard. You mark my words.
 

Noreen I was being a canute.
 

jeez i had no idae thmbs were scuh a hot topac. cool!

v - eeeughghgh! stopit!

adrsste - dont al cats have tuhmbs? i thot polydactylic cats jsut had xis digets instead afive.

lynydk - u cna use btoh hnads. aso if u got a prahensil tail. or whatevar.

hb - dude teh ganetic eginers are workin on chikcan legs that dont just ramind u of thubs. teh resebmlence is gona be uncany. its so cool.

adrey - omg. thats kidna krepin me out. more then a litle actuly. nothin good comes outa that lake does it? an they got teh other one with the dinasor to.

jtp - aint sayin. AN DONT TLKAK ABOT TEH C****NS!!1!

rob - i know. oh god i know. thakn hevan for socks or idve gone mad logn sinse.

jef - we had onea them in my vilage. we hada burn im at teh stake.
 

Blech! Well being a girl, I definitely don't have one of the "whatevars" you mention... and quite happily so, I'd say! Shite, that sounds scary... can you imagine holding chopsticks with one of those?!
 

If you had a prehensile penis, you could have the zip on the inside of your trousers.
 

Killer Extract It may be appropriate at this point to quote from the journal of the well-known diarist, chiropodist and mal vivant Osgood Malbronch, reputedly the inventor of the collapsible denture for rapid and convenient mastication while travelling. That pellucid and trenchant commentator, whose anecdotes were the terror of drawing-rooms from London to Birmingham, should undoubtedly have the final word on this ethereal and metacarpal subject:

18 October 1895: I think my toes are (Here the manuscript breaks off)

I think the point is made.