We're all fascinated by the weirdness of the human body

The fascination with what the body can do, or how it looks, or how it can go a bit different to the manuals, is always there, writes Colm O’Regan

Was it being double-jointed? Was that the thing you could do when you were young that no one else could? Did word get around that "Sully’s double jointed. “Gwan, axe him to bend back his hand. Axe him?” “Aw gawloon!”*

(*A Corkish expression of surprise like “Hark” or “Gadzooks” usually used in sentences that also contain the word “feen” or “beor”.)