Oh I so totally freakin' LOVE that icon you've got there. *grin!*
It's just that I've met so damn many people who were below five feet tall, it just doesn't seem unusual to me. And it seems as if it would only take a few people who, by breeding, by luck, by brains - whatever - begin to dominate the gene pool in an isolated area, for the characteristics of the people in that area become very defined. Human variety is really amazing. As you learn if you work with the public. There used to be a guy who regularly came into the store I worked at who had a face like a Star Trek alien (kind of like Odo with the weirdly smooth forehead-into-nose thing) and his thumbs didn't seem to be articulated properly (the looked like fingers set on the sides of his hand, from what I could see, but he always wore his sleeves down over them). Of course, he could have been a mutant-freak one of a kind. And he could have been an alien, how can I know? ;)
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Date: 2005-02-01 01:32 pm (UTC)It's just that I've met so damn many people who were below five feet tall, it just doesn't seem unusual to me. And it seems as if it would only take a few people who, by breeding, by luck, by brains - whatever - begin to dominate the gene pool in an isolated area, for the characteristics of the people in that area become very defined. Human variety is really amazing. As you learn if you work with the public. There used to be a guy who regularly came into the store I worked at who had a face like a Star Trek alien (kind of like Odo with the weirdly smooth forehead-into-nose thing) and his thumbs didn't seem to be articulated properly (the looked like fingers set on the sides of his hand, from what I could see, but he always wore his sleeves down over them). Of course, he could have been a mutant-freak one of a kind. And he could have been an alien, how can I know? ;)