You might not believe this but I checked, and the science is very sound....

[Playinghardball]

[idwiyo]

1. No way!

[Wait Wut]

2. Too specific.

I want a three headed skeleton with eight legs.

[randome]

22. The best band name of all time is 8 Legged Taco.

[hr][font color="blue"][center]There is nothing you can't do if you put your mind to it.
Nothing.[/center][/font][hr]

[Wait Wut]

33. LOL!

Okay...gotta look that one up!

[Arkansas Granny]

3. What? No link? Am I expected to take your word for it?

[tridim]

4. Fascinating.

[Buns_of_Fire]

5. I learn something new every day here! nt

[Taitertots]

6. No, the AVERAGE is less than one human skeleton

Because the average is brought down by people with amputations.

[tridim]

7. And what about tooth-loss?

I demand a recount!!!!!111

[surrealAmerican]

11. ... unless there are some people who have extra bones.

That would bring the average back up, but which bones? Infants have more bones because their skulls have yet to fuse.

[progressoid]

12. Yup. n/t

[NickB79]

15. What about all the extra fingers and tails?

Finally, all that hillbilly inbreeding is bringing UP the national average for once!

[Taitertots]

18. I have no idea how many people have extra fingers and toes

From personal experience...
I've never met a person with extra fingers/toes and I've met numerous people with missing bones (amputations, accidents, missing from birth....)

[Tikki]

8. Well, if you're going to look at it THAT way…I guess we are ALL the same...

but, my skeleton is, ah…picked cleaner..


Tikki

[postulater]

9. Sounds like woo to me.

[NightWatcher]

10. The average person has one testicle

[immoderate]

13. I think a bit less.

You are rounding.

--imm

[NightWatcher]

16. yes, they are round

ish.

It's a Friday night, I'm not doing any hard math. Half the people are guys (2), half are women (0)...

[immoderate]

20. Not exactly. Somewhat more than half are women.

--imm

[eppur_se_muova]

14. There is enough sand in the Sahara desert ...

that if spread out it would completely cover most of northern Africa.

[NightWatcher]

17. If you lined up every hotdog consumed in the US each year end to end on the ground

they would be dirty and no one would eat them

[pinboy3niner]

19. Odds are that's right--but only by a marrow margin. nt

[BadgerKid]

21. On the other hand,

I have five fingers. Go figure!

[petronius]

23. Fried chicken dinner for EVERYBODY!!1!

[randome]

24. The thing that disturbs me is this:

How did you check?
[hr][font color="blue"][center]There is nothing you can't do if you put your mind to it.
Nothing.[/center][/font][hr]

[pinboy3niner]

32. It wasn't easy. He had to work at a femurish pitch.

It was a total surprise that the results were humerus.

[randome]

37. LOL!

You always come through!
[hr][font color="blue"][center]Birds are territorial creatures.
The lyrics to the songbird's melodious trill go something like this:
"Stay out of my territory or I'll PECK YOUR GODDAMNED EYES OUT!"[/center][/font][hr]

[Kaleva]

25. Woo. Belongs in CS.

[matt819]

26. Are you sure?

Sounds liberal-ish to me.

[Tree-Hugger]

27. Nice distraction

...from BENGHAZI

[Courtesy Flush]

28. Bad science. Depending on your definition of "average"

While the majority of humans contain an entire skeleton, when you factor in all the people with missing bones (like me. I'm an amputee) the "average" is less than a whole skeleton. I suppose that there are a few people out there who have more than a full skeleton, but they're much more rare than amputees, so we're still bringing down the average.

But I am aware that there are other ways of calculating averages, so at worst you need an asterisk by your claim.

[pinboy3niner]

29. Not a bad idea as a starting point, but needs to be fleshed out

[CFLDem]

30. Lol!

[Lint Head]

31. But you have to use wires to put it together because the cartilage rots away.

I think it's funny when you see full skeletons jump out at someone in a movie. Sometime you can see the screws or wires holding the pieces together.

[HappyMe]

34. Link!!1?

I'll wait for more research.

[treestar]

38. I would like to know if it says that in the Bible anywhere

otherwise, I ain't buying it!

[treestar]

35. OMG!!!!!

[treestar]

36. If the ACA web sites worked properly we could do something about that!

[panader0]

39. I always have left over parts.......

[SidDithers]

40. I learned on DU...

that average here means that half the population has more bones, and half the population has fewer bones.



Sid

[randome]

41. Is that a tinfoil hat on that duck or a Hershey's kiss?

And what's the average for ducks?
[hr][font color="blue"][center]Birds are territorial creatures.
The lyrics to the songbird's melodious trill go something like this:
"Stay out of my territory or I'll PECK YOUR GODDAMNED EYES OUT!"[/center][/font][hr]

[SidDithers]

42. It's a loon...

It's a tin-foil loon

Sid