Rub your tongue across the roof of your mouth. Do you have a solid "lump" in the middle?

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Poll question: Rub your tongue across the roof of your mouth. Do you have a solid "lump" in the middle?

I've had one for as long as I can remember, and I always thought everyone had one, but my nurse sister recently told me that this wasn't so. It's not any disease, just some anomaly.

Try it. Do you have one?

[Lisa0825]

1. I do.

I had no idea it wasn't typical.

[Yavin4]

8. Same Here.

We must be Aliens.

[redwitch]

14. Klingon ancestry.

:-)

[CaliforniaPeggy]

2. I don't...

I have to confess, I've never heard of such a thing...

There's just no end to the variety, is there?

:hi:

[Duer 157099]

3. You mean like a ridge, that runs from the teeth towards the throat?

If so, yeah, got one. And thought everybody had one. Surprised they don't.

I can also curl my tongue. Are they related?

[Inchworm]

4. No, but last week I got facinated with the "soft spot" in back

And darted at it with my tongue so much I could barely swallow the next day. :D

:hi:

[nytemare]

5. I guess it's called Torus Palatinus

I have one, and never realized that everyone else didn't until now. I suppose people who don't have one think that no one else has them. Strange.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torus_palatinus

[Hell Hath No Fury]

18. Wow!

I guess you do learn something new every day! :D I had no idea -- I have one and just thought it was normal physiology. :shrug:

[kentauros]

6. Yes,

And I've discovered that it really facilitates the harmonic overtones when doing overtone-singing :D

[Forkboy]

7. I have a solid lump, but not there.

[MiddleFingerMom]

10. GEEZO-BEEZO...

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...can't you EVER behave?
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YOU are engorgeable.
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This is why we can't have nice things in The Lounge.
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[Forkboy]

11. "engorgeable"

:rofl:

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12. Rofl. You just really don't give a fuck, do you?

:rofl:

[Forkboy]

19. Not really.

:D

[Xithras]

9. Yep. Thought it was cancer when I first found out it was abnormal.

I was 16, and was SURE that sneaking that chewing tobacco had just killed me.

You can imagine my relief when I found out that it's a normal human variation.

[Deep13]

13. More of a ridge than a lump. nt

[Iggo]

15. Other: Smooth plastic.

[MiddleFingerMom]

16. Last night's chewing gum.

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I don't have bedposts.
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[Brickbat]

17. Do you mean the ridge that runs from teeth to the back of the mouth? I have one, but it has a ridge

running down the middle of it, because I had my jaw widened when I was in sixth grade.

[lillypaddle]

20. ooooh, that tickles

sorry, got distracted. What was the question?