It's freakishly official

Allan is a freak. Yeah, I know, that has most of you yawning and saying "Tell me something I DON'T know", right? Right.

But this time, I have solid evidence.

In recent weeks Allan, plagued with hip trouble, sought out a doctor and paid a visit to a rheumatologist, who diagnosed back troubles and stressed proper posture and ergonomics and the like. Just to be certain, x-rays were ordered. Allan dutifully had them done and then paid the doc another visit to discuss the results.

Thence came the unusual discovery: Allan was the proud owner of 6 lumbar vertebrae. Most modern, normal humans have 5. Yup, you read that right. Not only does he possess an extra vertebra (which goes a long way toward explaining why he's so giant despite not *looking* that tall), but it was early man (i.e. Homo erectus, one of the earliest of them all) that commonly had 6 lumbar vertebrae.

So... further proof that not only is Allan a freak, but he's moving BACKWARD along the evolutionary chain!

Since the x-rays are in electronic format, we ought to see about obtaining a copy of it, so I can post the picture here. Then we can all gather around like in the olden days of the circus, gawking at the freak show that took center stage...