Wilt

[pitbulllady]

Originally Posted by x_dummkoff_x

y'know,
I got this random thought,
y'know how wilt has those gecko-like fingers?
yeah, do you think they're webbed too?

No, if Wilt had webbed toes and fingers, you would be able to SEE them. Geckoes don't have webbed fingers, by the way, since they are not aquatic, but arboreal. Wilt probably has those rows of velvety-feeling tiny hairlike structures on his fingertips, just like some lizards(not just geckoes)and tarantula spiders, which are called "scopulae", and are designed to help with gripping things and, in the case of the tarantulas and lizards, clinging to vertical surfaces via the the surface tension fine layer of water vapor which covers virtually everything. Those finger and toe pads do NOT feel "sticky", like a tree frog's, by the way, but have a velvety texture to them. I've had many a lizard and many a tarantula walking around on me, to be able to find out! In Wilt's case, these probably help to grip a basketball, so he would not have to resort to doing illegal things like putting resin on his hands, like basketball players sometimes do. Since he has shown no indication that he even likes swimming, he would not need webbed digits, which are designed to enhance swimming ability.

pitbulllady

[x_dummkoff_x]

oh, ok.
I was just wondering.

[Voxxyn]

Originally Posted by Matchsticks

Wilt and Frankie are the Cinderlla's of Foster's (They both work hard and usually end up getting the short end of the stick T_T) One day something awesome good is going to happen to them and that will be a very happy episode for me.

I'm crossing my fingers for Good Wilt Hunting to be that very episode. If not, hopefully sometime in Season 5...

[antgirl1]

Originally Posted by x_dummkoff_x

y'know,
I got this random thought,
y'know how wilt has those gecko-like fingers?
yeah, do you think they're webbed too?

No.

Originally Posted by pitbulllady

Since he has shown no indication that he even likes swimming

Ooooooooh, another idea on Wilt's past! Shark attack when swimming, then doesn't want to anymore......wait....

How the hell would a shark do this to him?! Biting off the majority of Wilt's left arm, that's understandable, but MAKING CUTS ON HIS HEAD AND EATING HIS LEFT EYE? I don think so...

[scary_dream]

Lol! I haven't been here in a few days, so maybe I missed it, but did someone actually suggest a shark-attack theory?

Nonetheless, whenever you make me think about it... I'd hate for a shark to eat MY left eye. Wouldn't that make for a great story, though?

"Yo... what happened to your eye?"
"Shark attack."
"Seriously? Like, he JUST took the eye?"
"Yup."
"But... how did he not take your whol-"
"Weirdest shark you've ever seen, man. Seriously."

But anyhow... now that everyone is talking about Wilt swimming... I was thinking - wouldn't it be a little difficult for him to swim? He's long and thin (as are his limbs) and it just seems like a shape like that wouldn't get very much propulsion through the water. Maybe the large feet count for something, though? ??? I dunno. I'm sure he'd find a way, because he hasn't let anything stop him from doing what he wants thus far.

[Matchsticks]

Well, in the Big Fat Awesome House party (if you wanna consider it Cannon) He did say he could not wait to swim some laps in the pool or something to that effect.

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[pitbulllady]

Originally Posted by Matchsticks

Well, in the Big Fat Awesome House party (if you wanna consider it Cannon) He did say he could not wait to swim some laps in the pool or something to that effect.

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But, it looks to me like George Mucous(that IS George, isnt' it?)is the one saying that, not Wilt. I really do NOT want to visualize George in a swimming pool, though.

Wilt COULD still swim, even with one arm. Remember that teenage surfer girl, Bethany Somethingorother, from Kauai who got her left arm bitten off by a Tiger Shark a few years ago? She still swims and surfs, competitively. I knew a guy(he's dead now, though)who lost his left arm in the Korean War, who was an avid endurance swimmer. He had someone fashion this paddle that he strapped to the stump of his left arm. He has about the same amount of stump left that Wilt has, and he could steer a car with it, pick things up with it, and even shoot billiards with it. He was one of those lean, sinewy types, too, just like Wilt.

Still, it would be difficult, if not impossible, for a shark to bite off Wilt's left arm AND his eye, and cause surgical-clean injuries on either side of his face, without taking his whole HEAD off! I've seen shark bites, and they aren't clean and neat!

pitbulllady

[antgirl1]

Originally Posted by Matchsticks

Well, in the Big Fat Awesome House party (if you wanna consider it Cannon) He did say he could not wait to swim some laps in the pool or something to that effect.

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You are a lier! He never said that!

[Sparky]

I agree with pbl, it looks like the other character (Matchstick's imaginary friend, it would be then) is the one saying that.

[Matchsticks]

Now I hunt for another angle to screenshot from, LOL.

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You just gotta keep leaving the room and coming back in and talkin' to him. He will eventually say it.