I just heard on the news that some woman’s cat (“Twinkletoes”) is in the Guiness World Book of records, because it has a total of 25 toes.
Damn. When I was a kid, we had a cat with that many toes! 8 on one front paw, 7 on the other, and 5 on each of the back. That’s 25, right?
Damn. If we’d only known.
Just had to share.
Makes my last kitty, “Crazy Toes”, with a mere 22 of them seem like a downright slacker.
According to this site:
Maybe the Guinness people missed these. Either way, that’s a lotta toejam.
count, count, count
i have… er… exactly twenty toes!
hang on, that doesn’t seem quite right.
count, count, count, recount, count, count, count…
I think Guinness have changed a lot of things just to get more modern records in. My 2001 edition contains entries that seem to be less impressive to the ones in my father’s 1984 edition. Also, I wanted to compare some records and found 2001 didn’t list them. Then there were some that seemed like they made up the catagory so they could cash in on a popular trend - example: 14 of a page is devoted to Harry Potter, image of the book and of JK Rowling for the catagory of “Best Selling Children’s Book Series In One Year”. There’s no Best Selling Fiction Book Series In One Year, or other similar awards, and it appears that they just wanted to get Harry Potter in there. While this 2001 edition is flashier and better looking than the old one, it doesn’t have as many records and there seems to have been a dumbing down of the concept; there are fewer geeky facts and more trendy facts.
Anyway, my point was that even if you had made it in to the Guinness Book of Records all those years ago, chances are they would have dumped you for Twinkletoes anyway.
I’d like to add that as rarely as I would also mention it myself, scientifically, there is barely any way to argue the above statement.
[sup]Lubs ya, Mister Mustard. Another really wacky post.
ESPECIALLY WHEN APPLIED TO INDOOR CATS…[/sup]
My my my. So much I’ve learned about polydactyl cats! Thanks everyone!
Well, it would have been nice to have our cat in an old edition of the Guiness Book of World Records! Better than nothing!
Right now I have just an ordinary poly. 6 toes on front, 5 on back - total 22 toes. (What a loser!) But he’s a VERY orange kitty, so the orangeness kind of makes up for the lack of impressive toe-count. 
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That’s Colonel Mustard to you, bub. Now, you all must pardon me. Miss Scarlet is beckoning me from the conservatory with a candlestick in her hand. I’m not sure what she wants, but I figure it’s either got to be really bad or really good.
Do those stupid things from the show make it into the book? The other day, they had “Most weight thrown by a trebuchet” which is a stupid catagory to begin with. Worse though, is they talked about how trebuchets used to be used to fling stones and cattle and whatnot and this one fired an entire 170lbs (an emptied out and gutted refridgerator). Call me silly, but I’d think a diseased cow weighs more than 170lbs so that record was broken long ago.
Haven’t looked at one of those books since I bought my 1974 copy, but I read an article several years ago on trebuchets (speaking of which), and this guy was planning on building one that (according to him) would be able to fling a car the length of a football field. Why anyone would bother doing such a thing, I’ve no idea. I guess it’s just proof of the old adage: Guys like to smash things.
I just recently saw that guy (or maybe another one! Could there be two?) on some tv show. He did throw a car, though I’m not sure of the range.
As far as I could tell, he had the usual number of toes.