Quote Originally Posted by Crankin View Post
Zen, I kid you not. This is what he said. OK, maybe it's not an extra rib, but he definitely said something like that, describing in detail some physical anomaly in that population.
Wha? *feels ribs* I do know of two friends that both have unusually long backs. It's not visible, at least it doesn't look weird or anything, but I do believe they have an extra vertebra. Maybe it's more common here, never thought about it. I kid them that they're like these modern pigs that are bred with an extra rib.

I wouldn't mind an extra vertebra. My female friend has the loveliest elegant back you can imagine and looks stunning in long gowns.

Re: prayer and kids: not quite the same, but I can also vividly remember the discomfort I felt about the Pledge of Allegiance when I visited my grandparents in the States for 3 months when I was... 9 or so, and went to school there. Not surprisingly it just felt very wrong, which I "solved" in an extremely unelegant way, by mumbling, rolling my eyes and generally being a pain Funny, that no-one ever asked if I might want to pass on it and just sit. Do kids still recite this in school?