Twenty-Four
Extra digits help to reach coconut heights
Yoandri Hernandez Garrido, 37, is known in Baracoa, Cuba as 'Twenty-Four' - his nickname coming from the six perfectly formed fingers on each of his hands and six toes on each foot. Hernandez has no fixed job, and his 'extra digits' are a blessing to Hernandez since they set him apart, and enable him to make a living by scrambling up palm trees (to cut coconuts) and pose for tourist photographs. The money he makes from tourist pictures ($10 per) is a bonanza to Twenty-Four in a country with an average salary of $20 a month. Twenty-Four’s condition (polydactyly) is relatively common, but it's rare for the extra digits to be so perfectly formed.
QuotaBillsReaching high keeps a man on his toes. - Unknown
I could not get the ring without the finger. - Thomas Middleton
Clean your finger before you point at my spots. - Benjamin Franklin
I didn't give you the finger - you earned it. - Bill Murray
The No. 1 cause of bankruptcies is medical bills. - Michael Moore
The ring always believes that the finger lives for it. - Malcolm de Chazal
Toe: A part of the foot used to find furniture in the dark - Daffynitions joe-ks.com
The fingers of your thoughts are molding your face ceaselessly. - Charles Reznikoff
Never touch your idols: the gilding will stick to your fingers. - Gustave Flaubert
Chiropractor: A Doctor who works his fingers to the bone - yours - Daffynitions joe-ks.com
When a finger points to the moon, the imbecile looks at the finger. - Chinese Proverb
If I had nine of my fingers missing I wouldn't type any slower. - Mitch Hedberg
Acorn: 1. An oak in a nutshell; 2. Something painful on Dad's toe. - Daffynitions joe-ks.com
He has so many muscles he has to make an appointment to move his fingers. - Phyllis Diller
It's a battle with himself and with the ticking fingers of the clock. - David Coleman
You know you're getting old if you have more fingers than real teeth. - Rodney Dangerfield
If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger. - Frank Lloyd Wright
On the keyboard of life always keep one finger on the 'escape' key. - Unknown
Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die. - Mel Brooks
Grave: A place in which the dead are laid to await the coming of the medical student - Daffynitions joe-ks.com
I want someone who can keep me on my toes, has a good sense of humor and a good heart. - Carmen Electra
Show me a Jewish boy who doesn't go to medical school and I'll show you a lawyer. - Milton Berle
Ambition has one heel nailed in well, though she stretches her fingers to touch the heavens. - Lao Tzu
The ballet toe shoe is one of the few instruments of torture to survive intact into our time. - Unknown
Like trying a man's finger for having pulled the trigger of a gun which murdered someone. - Malcolm Muggeridge
Poker Hand: What you do when you’re trying to get a blood sample from the finger of a lady - Daffynitions joe-ks.com
Wherever I go, people are waving at me. Maybe if I do a good job, they'll use all their fingers. - Frank King
Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open, and it stays. Clutch it, and it darts away. - Dorothy Parker
The Christian's Bible is a drug store. Its contents remain the same, but the medical practice changes. - Mark Twain
The road to medical knowledge is through the pathological museum and not through an apothecary's shop. - William Withey Gull
Finish last in your league and they call you idiot. Finish last in medical school and they call you doctor. - Abe Lemons
My fingers are long and beautiful, as, it has been well been documented, are various other parts of my body. - Donald Trump
In the sick room, ten cents' worth of human understanding equals ten dollars' worth of medical science. - Martin H. Fischer
When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself. - Louis Nizer
I remember the time I was kidnapped and they sent back a piece of my finger to my father. He said he wanted more proof. - Rodney Dangerfield
Irish poets, learn your trade, sing whatever is well made, scorn the sort now growing up all out of shape from toe to top. - William Butler Yeats
Only one rule in medical ethics need concern you: that action on your part which best conserves the interest of your patient. - Martin H. Fischer
There are three subjects on which the knowledge of the medical profession in general is woefully weak; they are manners, morals, and medicine. - Gerald F Lieberman
Wit is the key, I think, to anybody's heart. Show me the person who doesn't like to laugh and I'll show you a person with a toe tag. - Julia Roberts
Sex is like an atom bomb. A potent weapon which fascinates and frightens. We're afraid to let it loose, yet we all have our finger on the button. - Zeena Schreck