# What bodily quirks/mutations/oddities do you have? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 11, 2014, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-bodily-quirks-mutations-oddities-do-you-have/681104 "2014-02-11T23:54:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 9
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2014, 6:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-bodily-quirks-mutations-oddities-do-you-have/681104/161 "2014-02-25T06:47:11Z")
High school in the mid-70s, gang showers for girls. That’s one of the reasons I cut phys ed so much. ---
**Author:** ![kayT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayt/32/3633_2.png) [@kayT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayT)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2014, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-bodily-quirks-mutations-oddities-do-you-have/681104/162 "2014-02-25T13:45:02Z")
Glad to see my school wasn’t singled out for the gang showers. We were excused if menstruating but the PE teacher kept track and if you had two periods in four weeks, og help you. ---
**Author:** ![Beelzebubba](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Beelzebubba](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beelzebubba)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2014, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-bodily-quirks-mutations-oddities-do-you-have/681104/163 "2014-02-25T13:59:35Z")
I have brown eyes, but a small part of the iris in my right eye is white. Roughly 1/8 of the iris was white at birth but it now covers less than 1/10 of the iris. I was taken to numerous eye specialists over the first five years of my life because no one had seen this condition before (at least not in the Atlanta area in the early 1970s). When I started kindergarten, I met a girl who had green eyes with a light blue area of discoloration very similar in size and shape to my white spot. Both of us had excellent vision and eventually learned that the ‘spot’ on the iris was essentially just a “birth mark”…although mine wasn’t as pretty. =) ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2014, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-bodily-quirks-mutations-oddities-do-you-have/681104/164 "2014-02-25T15:15:30Z")
I have a scar from having a more removed which is shaped like a heart. I have an unusually wide tongue. (Mick Jagger wide ☹ ) ---
**Author:** ![Rattle\_and\_Hum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Rattle\_and\_Hum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rattle_and_Hum)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2014, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-bodily-quirks-mutations-oddities-do-you-have/681104/165 "2014-02-25T15:43:03Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > Wooooosh? > > He is a dude, and the “heavy object” reference was a common penis joke. Wooooosh right back? I know that it was a joke… it was funny and obvious. Mine was a joke too…that should have been obvious as well. I’m sorry if it wasn’t obvious (or humorous). ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2014, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-bodily-quirks-mutations-oddities-do-you-have/681104/166 "2014-02-25T16:27:14Z")
> [@Rattle\_and\_Hum](#): > > Wooooosh right back? I know that it was a joke… it was funny and obvious. Mine was a joke too…that should have been obvious as well. I’m sorry if it wasn’t obvious (or humorous). dammit! ---
**Author:** ![Morgyn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morgyn/32/3041_2.png) [@Morgyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgyn)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2014, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-bodily-quirks-mutations-oddities-do-you-have/681104/167 "2014-02-25T16:43:27Z")
> [@kayT](#): > > Glad to see my school wasn’t singled out for the gang showers. We were excused if menstruating but the PE teacher kept track and if you had two periods in four weeks, og help you. Heh. My periods had just started by ninth grade, and they were HIGHLY irregular. Sometime during that year I had one that lasted for a couple of weeks–not heavy, just enough to show. The teacher stopped me once when I was heading to the stalls and rather … \*aggressively \*implied that I was lying so I didn’t have to use the car wash. I told her she could see my pad if she liked (yep, there was blood on it), and she backed off and never questioned me again. Oddly, I actually preferred the car wash because it was much, much faster than using the stalls. It never occurred to me until years later that there might be something weird about it and being inspected by the PE teacher at the end. ---
**Author:** ![Bam\_Boo\_Gut](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8c91f0/32.png) [@Bam\_Boo\_Gut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bam_Boo_Gut)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2014, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-bodily-quirks-mutations-oddities-do-you-have/681104/168 "2014-02-25T17:05:38Z")
My cervix is ‘on the side’ or ‘slightly tilted’. Overheard the gyno one day muttering ‘oh here it is, on the side’. It’s been valuable news to pass on with every subsequent exam and I no longer have to endure them going at me with larger and larger shiney cranking things, the smallest one works fine. ---
**Author:** ![tapu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/49beb7/32.png) [@tapu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tapu)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2014, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-bodily-quirks-mutations-oddities-do-you-have/681104/169 "2014-02-25T17:43:44Z")
I can touch my tongue to my forehead, just above the spot between my eyes. ---
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2014, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-bodily-quirks-mutations-oddities-do-you-have/681104/170 "2014-02-25T18:16:03Z")
> [@tapu](#): > > I can touch my tongue to my forehead, just above the spot between my eyes. Either you have an unusually low brow, or I have a new Doper crush. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![tapu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/49beb7/32.png) [@tapu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tapu)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2014, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-bodily-quirks-mutations-oddities-do-you-have/681104/171 "2014-02-25T18:44:10Z")
It was a crafty pick-up line. Are you a lesbian, too? I know you’re smart… ---
**Author:** ![RichieBoy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b5e925/32.png) [@RichieBoy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RichieBoy)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2014, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-bodily-quirks-mutations-oddities-do-you-have/681104/172 "2014-02-25T19:00:50Z")
[quote=“Alice\_The\_Goon, post:6, topic:681104”] That’s hazel. Fairly common.[/QUOTE I also have Hazel Eyes and yes it most likely a combination of Blue & Brown that adds up to be Hazel. As for me I am Half Italian Decent and Half Irish Decent. My Dad who’s Italian has Brown Eyes while my Mom who’s Irish Decent has Blue Eyes. This is very common with people who’s ethenicy is mixed. My Best Bud who is my long time lover also has Hazel Eyes as he is of Polish & Italian Decent! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-bodily-quirks-mutations-oddities-do-you-have/681104.md?page=8)