Man, if he is able to grow to maturity....imagine what kind of bad ass martial artist he could make. :>

Egan

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If only "professional porn surfer" was a real career...

Though I suppose that heavy metal drummer might be a nice fall-back.

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I wonder what makes them think that removing one of the arms will make it significantly better for him. Seeing how both seem to hurt, and how both are pretty well-developed.

What if he’s left-handed? I mean, lower-left-handed? :P

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He's totally a ladies man.

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see, now that's a nifty post!

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And thus starts the new wave of mutants. Homo Superior, here we come.

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What freaks me the most is not that the poor little bugger has an extra arm, but that if you think about it, the vast majority of the genetic mutation stories which hit the media seem to originate in China. My question is, "Why?" Is it simply a matter of population; the surging masses in the PRC simply produce more mutations, or is it something else...
Y'know, Third World-ish country emerging into the 21st Century after an age of oppressive regimes... Who knows what they've been slipping to the populace? Think back to all the experiments which went on in places like East Germany and Romania.
I don't want to sound like an anti-communist conspiracy theorist (there are already too many of those), and China is frankly, one of my favorite places ever. But it makes you think.

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Well, if we take the logic of "Kung Fu Hustle" to heart, if one in a million are instantly born as "The One" in that they born as martial art masters of a supernatural nature, AND China is a nation of roughly a billion people, then it would be safe to assume that there about ONE THOUSAND of these superbeings running around China. Imagine that. A thousand people who have the ability of the Buddhist Palm, that loud screaming thing, leaping like frogs and that bendy rubbery thing that the Landlord did. The extra arm boy is the next level.

China really look into this. Imagine what kind of super army of "Ones" they could create. I'm actually excited now.

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Cool, they posted a photo with the story!

But what I really want to see is the x-ray.

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absolutely.

I hope he gets to keep both left arms and becomes a star.

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That Squarepusher cover is pretty nifty.

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never seen a complete arm? how about an almost-complete parasitic person, there's been multiple cases documented - http://www.phreeque.com/parasitic_twins.html - with pictures, explanations, bios...

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The site you linked is amazing. Thanks!

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Here's a great site about one particular case:
http://www.johnnyeckmuseum.com/bio.html

I found these after watching the movie "Freaks" that's been uploaded to google video. It's a good film.

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I've spent far too much time this morning reading that site. The linear progression is too evil!

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Thank you for sharing those fascinating links.

The photos were mind-blowing, but the stories were even more bewildering. Quality stuff.

I also found it somewhat comforting that many of those folks, despite their conditions, managed to find meaning in their lives through work, friendship, love, and some even had kids. Their examples certainly put the difficulties of life that the rest of us complain about in perspective.

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There are even cases of a single person being made up of two people's separate genetic matter:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chimera_(genetics)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lydia_Fairchild

This hasn't been fully understood until recently!!

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On one hand...
On the other hand...
But yet, on the gripping hand... *grin*

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Best. Post title. Ever.

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Up there w/ master_meio's masterpiece from these hallowed pages.

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In India, would he be considered a god? Or a half god? One of those many human/god matings.

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God I hope you're joking instead of painfully ignorant

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of course I am joking!

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sorry - there are a lot of ignorant yanks on LJ, makes it hard to tell..

Must. Stop. Reading. Politic Cartoons feed.

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And there are a lot of fucking idiots who post comments to my LJ. You're one of them. It's not hard to tell.

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oh, I've been the ignorant yank too. But I didn't think others were serious that this kid was going to be a Kung Fu star because of his 3 arms.
More than 2 arms always makes me think of the Hindu gods.

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Dude.

Zaphod Beeblebrox.

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You beat me to my joke, you zarking frood.

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But where's the other head?

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I saw this online this morning. . . . .

can you imagine how irritating it would be when 2 of the 3 arms falls asleep ;)

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Mortal Kombat!

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...welcome our new Motie overloads.

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Apparently a farmer in texas has captured a Cupachabra (Goat Sucker)
Here is a picture.

http://blogcritics.org/archives/2005/08/25/234533.php

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Looks photoshopped to me.

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