People with N arms for N = 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9...

[jack]

Who has N arms?

1. The One Armed Man from the Fugitive
1.75. Captain Hook
1.999. Average human number of arms. Does anyone have a more accurate number here?
2. Modal/Median Human.
3. Zaphod Beeblebrox. Moties.
4. Elzar from Futurama, Green Martians, various deities, Edit: General Greivous
5. Starfish
6. Doctor Octopus aka Dr "Doc Oc" Octavious, from Spiderman
7. Def Leppard according to the internet, but wikipedia thinks they have five members, which is right?
8. Octopus
9. Fivetide from excession when he was born, or other people from the affront born with the most propitious number of arms
10. Edit: Squid (more-or-less)

Comments

[simont]

Cardinality of Def Leppard: as far as I can see Wikipedia thinks it has been five since 1992 but had been known to vary before that. So I'm guessing whatever you found on the Internet was out of date.

[jack]

Cardinality of Def Leppard:

LOL.

But on wikipedia it looks like it was almost continually five -- what I wasn't sure is if there was ever a period where you'd sensibly count them as four, or if four are considered "the" def leppard and someone else isn't really counted, or similar. I'd be happy with "Def Leppard after the car accident" or something, if it was accurate at the time.

The actual link was "What has seven arms and sucks? Def Leppard!" Which seemed pretty precise, but not very authoritative :)

[simont]

if there was ever a period where you'd sensibly count them as four

The album Adrenalize was apparently recorded as a four-piece.

[jack]

Ah! OK. I wasn't sure if there was anything actually in that gap. That must have been a very briefly topical joke. (I guess "what has nine arms" works nearly as well but doesn't sound as euphonious :))

I could probably go with "authors of Adrenalize" or similar for 7.