Some people’s thumbs bend backwards. They do! It is, well -- it’s a thing they do, and often they do it at parties when their owners say: Hey you guys, look at this -- heeheehee -- why are you making that face? My doctor, Yahoo! Answers MD, tells me it’s called Hitchhiker’s Thumb and is perfectly natural.
Man photobombs Doug Collins with creepy thumb and -- OH, GOD, IT BENDS SO FAR BACKWARDS
This man, lurking behind Doug Collins, is maybe not natural.
The thumb slithers! It bends, and then it bends too much, and then -- oh, god -- it bends more and more and it just won’t stop bending back and he’s grinning and -- oh, god -- he is a reptilian snake person with no solid bones in his body at all.
We have a lot of thumbs, here at SB Nation. In the interest of identifying any rubber-boned snake people on staff, we have performed a thorough thumb examination.
Here is my thumb. It does not bend backwards at all.
Here is Jacob Price’s. It also exhibits a traditionally “normal” range of motion.
Here is Seth Rosenthal’s thumb and a dog. Caveat: Seth was not actually bending his thumb in this image. The dog does not have thumbs.
Peter Berkes, exhibiting an impressive range of motion:
And congenital hitchhiker James Dator:
How far back does your thumb go?
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