Peanuts by Charles Schulz for January 27, 2025

Let’s give a big hand for hands!

The human opposable thumb is longer, compared to finger length, than any other primate thumb. This long thumb and its ability to easily touch the other fingers allow humans to firmly grasp and manipulate objects of many different shapes. (WWW so it must be true). Thumbs up.

let’s hear it for Woodstock’s wings!

Previously, Linus had bragged about his hands, only for Lucy to tell him they had jelly on them.

Have ya ever looked at your hand, man?

Well, for paws, not so much claws.

Hands nowadays use computers and internet too!

It takes 27 bones to perform all that magic and eight more in the wrist.

YAY SNOOPY & WOODSTOCK

I had a cat who had extra toes on his front feet that were positioned like thumbs, and he taught himself to use them as such. He could pick things up & even turn on a light using a wheel-switch in the cord.

Hands are one of the few adaptations humans possess that are superior to all other organisms on the planet. No other animal has the dexterity to manipulate objects the way we do.

One other thing humans excel at is throwing things with accuracy: it could be a football, a baseball or a spear. Apes can fling things but I think I am safe to declare that no ape will win a Cy Young award.

Never take our appendages for granted.

What then about poor ol’ Woodstock, who has neither ! ! !

Let’s hear it for dog noses with their far superior sense of smell

I believe they’re talons, not claws. Claws are what carve your doghouse into millions of wonderful shapes all the time.

I know how important a thumb is! I had surgery last month to remove a bone spur and realign it from extreme arthritis in the basal thumb joint that connects it to the wrist. Now I have to do strength and flexing exercises many times a day to recover range of motion. Ouch!

Celebrate appendages!

Claws and paws for substitute of hands

My cat wants outside so bad, he’s trying to figure out how to turn the door handle with his paws.

Today is Mozart’s birthday

Also, Beaks and feet!

I know of a restaurant called Beaks and Feet.

Let’s hear it for prehensile tails!

claus and pause

Here Here Snoop ! ;-)

Was this the inspiration for that song by Jewel? (who is in the news lately because she felt obligated to apologize to her fan(s?) for playing at an inaugural event.

T-Rex’s never knew what they were missing….

Woodstock is a talon-toed bird.

I think claws are for most birds but talons are specially for birds of prey.

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