wiggle it. just a little bit.

ont even front like you dont remember this song. (ill admit i had never seen the video before, but now that i have, i must unequivocally state that it's one of the worst videos of all-time - UNTIL the 4.24 mark, that is, where it all of a sudden goes wes craven/twilight zone craisins on a most unsuspecting viewer. so now i dont know what to think of it. perhaps there's more to 2 in a room than meets the eye. no, prolly not.) back to the post.

the results of the ear wiggle straw poll are in, and at least as of now - with 34 total votes, it would appear that slightly less than one out of four people can wiggle their ears, with the non-wigglers suffering from slightly below-average IQ scores.

can you wiggle your ears (without using your hands, obv)?

Selection		Votes
yes	24%	8
no	76%	26
34 votes total

so bottom line: im not as special as i thought i was, and d is more special than he thought he was. in the end, it turned out to be a zero-sum game. if not a lose-lose scenario.

btw, here's what i would classify as a solid wiggle:

all that having been said, i did a bit of research on the interweb, and would you believe i couldnt find a single study stating, simply, what percentage of headz can wiggle their ears? that was a rhetorical question.

my googling did unearth some ok stuff:

wikipedia doesnt even mention the subject, save for a link on the bottom of the 'ear' general entry. from Ear wiggling mechanism unmasked:
"The mechanism behind ear movements is sophisticated," says Bastiaan ter Meulen, who led the ear wiggling study, accepted for publication in the journal Clinical Neurophysiology.

Unlike other facial muscles, ear muscles have their own accessory nucleus, a control area for muscle function, in the brainstem, says ter Meulen, a researcher at Erasmus MC, a university medical centre in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.

"Compared to animals, especially bats and cats, this nucleus is rather small in humans," he says.

however, wikiwhat, wikihow does have a tutorial on how to wiggle. jeannie, you dont even need that, young grasshopper. prince, you have some work to do. note from the tutorial: "Approximately twice as many men as women can wiggle their ears." ladies, not to fear. the same could be said for scratching one's nuts.

and as long as i have you 'warmed up,' here are some more laughs regarding ear wiggling, at the expense of no less than aristotle (the first two comments on Did Aristotle really not know anyone who could wiggle his or her ears?).

lastly, a fairly anti-climactic discussion thread on this very topic. (i know, i know, who am i to throw stones?) one small morsel of info there; search for the word 'bair.'

in other news, it's goddamn fall outside already. i wore a jacket to work, and it's august!