Are you REALLY Celtic?

[JimB]

My big toe is just a tad shorter. Celt to the bone

Oh, and do you know how stupid that must have looked to the rest of the office?

[Nick the DSM]

holy crud!! theyre the same length!

[ardchoille]

My big toe is just slightly shorter than the toe next to it.. but I already knew I was of Celtic descent

[Arlen]

The ligaments and joint seem to be far more prominent than mine, and also stiff - I can pick things up with my toes.

For some reason that really freaks out some people. Not that I do it on purpose. Not a bit.

Oh man, my wife does that.
She decided when she was a bairn that she wanted to learn how to do things with her feet... Like peel bananas and write with her feet.

Why do you people have to show off so much!?

[hallmarktex]

Ha! Vindication at last!

My wife (maiden name of Kennedy) has always said I was less Scottish because her name is Celtic and mines not (despite having both Clark and Ross for direct ancestors). My toes tell a different story. When we were kids, my sisters said we all had "finger toes" because the middle digits are long compared to the big toes and that makes the big toes like thumbs next to the long middle and third toes. Picking up stuff with your toes? I thought everyone did that. Maybe it's just all Celts!

[beloitpiper]

Biggie is in line with #2...confirms what I already knew!

[bchunter]

I'm in. My big toe is noticably shorter than the second toe, I wear EEE shoes, and there is a very slight reddish tint to my whiskers and hair. Makes me want to leave the office, go home, don a kilt and take my wife to dinner. Thanks for the post!

[Sealark]

Well this is news to me, but growing up in a family of Red heads and my toes follow the pattern mentioned, I can most proudly say that I have Celtic blood in me. Thanks for the interesting data in the article.

[kilted_brewer]

Very cool. Thanks for sharing this. Sorry I couldn't think of a toe pun. I really wanted to(e).

[Howard Clark]

Well that explained everything dinnit ?