By Smaktakula
If This Happens To You, You Probably Deserve It.
Some common misapprehensions about identical twins:
1) In most societies, the belief persists that identical twins are a blessing. In fact, they are evidence of God’s displeasure.
2) There is no “evil twin” per se. However, because identical twins share but one soul between them, they have a higher propensity for wickedness than do “normals.”
3) The pinkie-finger of a twin, ground up and made into a tea, wards off the effects of leprosy.
Which Twin Is The Evil One? We’re Looking At The Ginger.
Promethean Times 
“In fact, they are evidence of God’s displeasure.” Hehehe.
The things they don’t teach you in an embryology textbook…
Love the bathtub pic, by the way. Very cute!
The things they don’t teach you in an embryology textbook…
You’d be amazed at the amount of lies contained in your average textbook. Back in school, my teachers tried shoving that “science” malarky down my throat, but I was having none of it.
Love the bathtub pic, by the way. Very cute!
Thanks! It’s amazing what typing “twins with a genetic predisposition toward awesomeness” into Google will get you.
You can’t fool me. I know they’re your young ‘uns. I can see their tiny backpacks floating in the water.
So under the Touch of Grey dye, are you saying you’re a ginger?
So under the Touch of Grey dye, are you saying you’re a ginger?
What a perfectly cruel thing to say! Is it not bad enough that I carry the defective Ginger-Gene in my own DNA without having to be accused of being one? I’m just a carrier, man!
Isn’t that second picture triplets? Or is it just twins and a spare? Also, what’s your take on the Doublemint Twins?
Also, what’s your take on the Doublemint Twins?
I would TOTALLY take on the Doublemint Twins. By the end of the night they’d be triplets! (No, I don’t know what that means either, but regardless conveys my intentions: that I would have vigorous intercourse with them).
The two on the right are twins, the red-headed (non)stepchild is a singleton.
Ew, but anyway, I’ll take that as okay, because I really like you and am welcoming of all.
Thanks for putting all kinds of unseemly images of you and the Doublemint Twins in my head, Smak.
Weebs, I got the same picture, but Smak is deep and I like him. He’s good people, we have to cut him some slack.
Smak, your knowledge and expertise astounds me.
Thanks, Brigitte! It does ME too. I mean, I’ll be thinking that I don’t know ANYTHING about a subject, but then I’ll surprise myself by giving a long, rambling discourse on it.
I mean that with respect, my friend.
I know–that’s how I took it. I still can’t help but answer like a smartass. It’s in my nature you know.
I LOVE smartass. So I’m good.
Twins are special any way you look at them. Love that tub pic 🙂
They look like pure evilness to me, especially that little red-headed one….(if you ever decide you don’t want em – can I have em?)
My wife and I have a large chance of twins (evil or not) because both her parents were twins. It didn’t happen with our first child, but there is still a high chance of it happening if we want another.
I always make the red headed jokes (rounding them up, etc) to my wife. She doesn’t get it. I say it is a banter tradition.
Yeah, you guys might very well be carrying the twin virus. Fraternal twins run in families, identical twins are a genetic aberration.
The only small comfort is I can blame it on the wife!
The twins are not sinking. Witches! Witches!
Another stellar job of sorting through all the misinformation out there to get at the true facts. I can only imagine what a superstitious lot we’d be without you.
I do so try to pierce the veil of ignorance with the light of reason!
I had always believed one of the twins is usually kept in the attic due to its propensity for violence and cannibalism. Has TV lied to me?
Perish the thought! I don’t want to live in a world where TV is not implicitly trustworthy. You are very correct, however, we have neither a basement nor an attic.
I’ve been trying to shake this leprosy FOREVER. Do me a solid, and send a finger my way? Help a sister out? I mean, you’ll still have three outta four.
HA! I just love that you posted this in “Science”! Finally, factual truths as we’ve always suspected them…
Thanks, LL! We were lackluster students at best, and have never really trusted “science.”