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hu-man · 01-02-2004, 01:20 AM

You name it, I can scratch it.

Ooooh, and I have a trick! Yay...
Put your palms together, then separate the hands so only your fingertips touch eachother. Then take your pair of index fingers, and put them under and behind your pair of pointer fingers - WITHOUT separating any of your fingers. I can do that! I've only met one other person who could do it...

Nisses · 01-02-2004, 01:32 AM

what are pointer fingers?
and separate your palms so only your fingertips are touching? what's the problem if you do it like that? I'm assuming you meant middle finger by pointer finger, so I don't have a problem at all doing that trick

ratbastid · 01-02-2004, 05:19 AM

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Originally posted by Nisses
what are pointer fingers?
and separate your palms so only your fingertips are touching? what's the problem if you do it like that? I'm assuming you meant middle finger by pointer finger, so I don't have a problem at all doing that trick

Ditto. If pointer == middle, then I can do that too. Though I've never tried it before.

hu-man · 01-02-2004, 07:04 AM

Maybe I mis-labeled them... Index=middle finger and pointer= the one next to the thumb

That meaning, put your fingertips together, and put your middle fingers' fingertips under your next-to-thumb-fingers' fingertips.

Did that make any sense at all?

greytone · 01-03-2004, 10:17 AM

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Originally posted by ratbastid
That can't be the whole story, because I can reach my whole back and I definitely don't have a small frame. The hand-around-the-wrist test, my thumb and middle finger just barely meet. Before I started my diet in early October, they didn't meet.

I am talking about the area of your wrist bones. Most people don't have enough soft tissue there to make a difference in the measurement. There certainly are other factors. Routine activity and stretching can make a big difference in how limber someone is. I am not making up this frame test....I learned it in med school.

JStrider · 01-03-2004, 04:15 PM

i can reach all my back... and clasp hands in both directions behind my back...

and according to greytones test i have a small frame...

ratbastid · 01-03-2004, 04:18 PM

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Originally posted by hu-man
Maybe I mis-labeled them... Index=middle finger and pointer= the one next to the thumb
That meaning, put your fingertips together, and put your middle fingers' fingertips under your next-to-thumb-fingers' fingertips.

Did that make any sense at all?

Ah. I can't quite do that.

ratbastid · 01-03-2004, 04:21 PM

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Originally posted by greytone
I am not making up this frame test....I learned it in med school.

Sure, I'd heard of it before. I was just saying that spindliness isn't the sole factor of back-touch-itivity.

Sounds like there isn't a real clear gender correlation either, from what people are saying. I'd sort of expected that.

juanvaldes · 01-03-2004, 04:28 PM

I can reach anywhere, but I have always been limber and flexable.

tritium · 01-03-2004, 07:26 PM

My right shoulder and elbow have been wrecked to injury, but my left can cover the places my right arm can't go. So, yes, I can touch my back -- and that's something considering that I'm a big guy.

bernadette · 01-03-2004, 08:38 PM

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Originally posted by Sapper
I can lock fingers behind my back in either manner: right arm above, left below _or_ left arm above, right below ..

Seems pretty normal to me

same here. i'm female.

Unga · 01-04-2004, 02:16 AM

Touching my back i can do.
I've never heard of the back licking though.. haha

01-02-2004, 01:32 AM	#42 (permalink)
Nisses Shade Location: Belgium	what are pointer fingers? and separate your palms so only your fingertips are touching? what's the problem if you do it like that? I'm assuming you meant middle finger by pointer finger, so I don't have a problem at all doing that trick __________________ Moderation should be moderately moderated.

01-02-2004, 07:04 AM	#44 (permalink)
hu-man The one that got away Location: Over the hill and far away	Maybe I mis-labeled them... Index=middle finger and pointer= the one next to the thumb That meaning, put your fingertips together, and put your middle fingers' fingertips under your next-to-thumb-fingers' fingertips. Did that make any sense at all? Last edited by hu-man; 01-02-2004 at 07:07 AM..

01-03-2004, 04:15 PM	#46 (permalink)
JStrider Poo-tee-weet? Location: The Woodlands, TX	i can reach all my back... and clasp hands in both directions behind my back... and according to greytones test i have a small frame... __________________ -=JStrider=- ~Clatto Verata Nicto

01-03-2004, 07:26 PM	#50 (permalink)
tritium Professor of Drinkology	My right shoulder and elbow have been wrecked to injury, but my left can cover the places my right arm can't go. So, yes, I can touch my back -- and that's something considering that I'm a big guy. __________________ Blah.

01-02-2004, 01:20 AM	#41 (permalink)
hu-man The one that got away Location: Over the hill and far away	You name it, I can scratch it. Ooooh, and I have a trick! Yay... Put your palms together, then separate the hands so only your fingertips touch eachother. Then take your pair of index fingers, and put them under and behind your pair of pointer fingers - WITHOUT separating any of your fingers. I can do that! I've only met one other person who could do it...

01-03-2004, 04:28 PM	#49 (permalink)
juanvaldes Banned Location: shittown, CA	I can reach anywhere, but I have always been limber and flexable.

01-04-2004, 02:16 AM	#52 (permalink)
Unga Crazy	Touching my back i can do. I've never heard of the back licking though.. haha