| ochoin deach | 22 Feb 2012 9:29 p.m. PST |
I've been spending time looking at feet lately.
link My Scottish feet meet the definition with longer second toes & proto-bunions at the base of the big toe ; my non-Scottish wife's don't. Of the 2 we'ans, one has the putative Celtic Feet. Is this nonsense? Do you have: a) "Celtic feet" & Celtic ancestry b) One but not the other c) Niether d) Better ways to spend your time than looking at your feet e) Plans to convert the feet of your 28 mm Gauls to better reflect this historical fact. |
| highlandcatfrog | 22 Feb 2012 10:26 p.m. PST |
Highland ancestry (though we've been away since being kicked out after that unpleasantness in the 18th century), but my big toes are bigger than my second toes. Egads! What could it mean! Will I never be allowed to join the Queen's Own Royal Highland Kamikazes? Oh, the shame! |
| SECURITY MINISTER CRITTER | 22 Feb 2012 10:34 p.m. PST |
I have to check my feet regularly. Your feet not so often if ever… |
| flooglestreet | 22 Feb 2012 10:42 p.m. PST |
b & d but I'm an Orangeman/Dutchman/Boche hybrid. I'll just plop my Gauls in the Desenex. |
| Martin Rapier | 23 Feb 2012 4:39 a.m. PST |
I'm British so my ancestry is anybodys guess (well, a guess further back than the 1600s which is where my Dads geneology research got to). I believe there is some Scottish and Irish in there, which is course is no guarantee of Celticness as they may have been sturdy Protestant settlers or Anglo-Saxons or Romans or Vikings or whatever. I do however appear to have longer 2nd toes than my big toes. Right big toe is a bit of a mess at the moment though, recurrent running injury. |
| ochoin deach | 23 Feb 2012 6:27 a.m. PST |
Och, Martin. You've just joined the offal eating, teary-beery, bagpipe loving hairy-kneed clan. Welcome, son. |
Mal Wright  | 23 Feb 2012 7:11 a.m. PST |
e) Plans to convert the feet of your 28 mm Gauls to better reflect this historical fact. I was considering that but I could not find out the correct shade of dust to have under their toe nails. |
| Old Slow Trot | 23 Feb 2012 7:46 a.m. PST |
Last time my doctor checked,mine were in reasonably good condition,circulation-wise. One toe at least,is a bit hammered. Part Scot(Midlands,Wigton)some Irish,Holland Dutch,and Cherokee Native. |
| Cerdic | 23 Feb 2012 8:30 a.m. PST |
f. Never heard of 'Celtic Feet' Is this something to do with the Scottish Independence thing? |
| Altius | 23 Feb 2012 8:32 a.m. PST |
First of all, I wasn't even aware that Celts had special feet. Removing my shoe (Thank God my office has a door), I see that the second toe is, indeed, longer than the big toe. I have no idea what a proto-bunion is or whether I have one or not. Probably not, is my guess. My feet have enjoyed meeting you all, but regret that they have to leave now to go fetch me my coffee. |
 Saginaw  | 23 Feb 2012 9:16 a.m. PST |
C) Neither, but I have to quote that great sage, Groucho Marx: Groucho (as "Captain Spaulding"): "Play that song about the Irish chiropodist." Chico (as "Seņor Ravelli"): "Irish chiropodist?" Groucho: "My Fate is in Your Hands!" (from 'Animal Crackers', circa 1930) 
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| John the Greater | 23 Feb 2012 9:23 a.m. PST |
So the laddies wi' the big middle toes are the ones who have to wear the longer kilts? My middle toe is longer than my big toe. And I woke up in the gutter the other night and discovered I had won first prize! Coincidence – I think not! |
| Grizzlymc | 23 Feb 2012 9:41 a.m. PST |
Mal I feel a "Can I use humbrol dark earth mixed 1:4 with turpentine as a wash for the dust on Celtic feet" thread coming on. |
| ochoin deach | 23 Feb 2012 8:08 p.m. PST |
Is this something to do with the Scottish Independence thing?
(in Basil Fawlty-like tones) Don't mention the Independence thing.
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| Grand Duke Natokina | 24 Feb 2012 1:31 p.m. PST |
Part Scots, part Irish, some Cherokee. My feet point straight ahead when I walk--that's the Cherokee. |
