Comments on: 9 Toe-tally Cool Facts

By: jim

jim — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 02:28:00 +0000

No mention of gout? I’ve done a lot real bad things to myself but have never experienced anything near the pain of gout. Thoughts of self amputation with a sharp shovel have passed through my mind. WOW.

By: Vickey

Vickey — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 17:31:00 +0000

Sandra, my father used to pinch us under the supper table, and when we’d squeal, Momma would get onto us.

By: Ansav

Ansav — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 16:59:00 +0000

elih, the sentence that you claim is ungrammatical is not. Also, the issue is punctuation, not grammar. The sentence, “If you can arm wrestle, and thumb wrestle, doesn’t it just make sense that you can toe wrestle?” does not require the first comma because the subject of the second verb (thumb wrestle) is understood, not overt, and the subordinating conjunction “if” is not repeated. The first comma would only be necessary if the sentence were, “If you can arm wrestle, and if you can thumb wrestle, doesn’t it just make sense that you can toe wrestle?”

As you might imagine, I teach English.

By: Sandra

Sandra — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 15:23:00 +0000

You can also pinch with your toes, if you tried hard enough. My mother use to pinch me and my sibs a lot when we were young. Didn’t want to be around her without her shoes on!

By: Brucesquatch

Brucesquatch — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 15:22:00 +0000

I hate to say it, but the funniest story I ever heard was when my dad told me that my brother’s Iguana bit off his big toe…well, it was hanging by a fiber, but he did have to wrestle it out of the lizzard’s mouth to have it reattached…too funny!

By: elih

elih — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 10:41:00 +0000

oh, mental floss. you guys should hire editors. this article is full of grammatical errors.
just one to point out…”If you can arm wrestle and thumb wrestle, doesn’t it just make sense that you can toe wrestle.”
that should read, “If you can arm wrestle, and thumb wrestle, doesn’t it just make sense that you can toe wrestle?”

By: Kelly

Kelly — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 00:49:00 +0000

I had a friend who mowed her lawn barefoot and lost the first digit of her second tow on her right foot. It didn’t look too bad. I woudl always laugh when she would get a pedicure because she would have them put a little dot of polish on the nub.

By: Broken toes

Broken toes — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 22:08:00 +0000

Actually if you read #2 again, you cannot enlist, but it doesn’t say anything about injuries sustained while in the military.

By: Diana K

Diana K — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 21:32:00 +0000

I worked with a guy that I never noticed anything different about until one day the rest of the guys were joking about the “rule of thumb” and he gave the thumbs up sign and I noticed that his thumb was actually his big toe. And it was a huge big toe! They lovingly joke about him giving the toes up symbol…

By: nate

nate — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 20:56:00 +0000

#2’s not entirely accurate. One of my best friend’s had the front half of his foot amputated while serving in the army reserves. He is still enlisted and active in his unit, but they won’t let him go on combat missions anymore.