calling all freaks

[Anubis]

Anybody got any unusual talents? I have independently rolling eyes, so I can look in front of me and at something to one side of me.

[Mr Strange]

Yeah, I'm a freak, and bloody proud of it. My talent is that I can't do anything. Well, I can take alot of pain, useful for my martial arts, very useful, i tend to be the test subject.

[11811]

I can play melodies by rapping on my head with my knuckles. Stole the idea from George Carlin.

[Joyfulgirl]

I can shoot milk out of my eyes. No, really. I can.

I can also meow pretty convincingly, and throw the sound so it sounds like it's coming from across the room. I have no clue how I do it. I just do.

Friend: Did you hear something?
Me: No, what?
Friend: I could've sworn I heard a cat...
Me: I didn't hear anything Hehe

[Sublight]

I can bend my fingers back to a 90 degree angle without any strain. With effort, I can bend them back until my fingertips are parallel with the backs of my hands.

[AwSnappity]

I can bend the first knuckle of each of my fingers without bending the others.

I can also open/close my eustacian tubes at will. (Too bad Will isn't here! Har har har)

[Shera]

I can tie a cherry stem in a knot with my tongue. I just learned how to do it last night, but it still counts.

[arachnidlove]

Originally posted by Joyfulgirl
I can shoot milk out of my eyes. No, really. I can.

I can also meow pretty convincingly, and throw the sound so it sounds like it's coming from across the room. I have no clue how I do it. I just do.

Friend: Did you hear something?
Me: No, what?
Friend: I could've sworn I heard a cat...
Me: I didn't hear anything Hehe

Sharlaan??..Hehe..Okay I'm kidding. I knew a girl who could do that. The cat thingy. It took me a couple of hours to figure out she was doing that.

[Kbean]

Originally posted by Shera
I can tie a cherry stem in a knot with my tongue.

Me too. I can also fit a grand total of 48 green grapes in my mouth at one time, and can catch goldfish crackers in my mouth if someone throws them up in the air for me. I can catch almost anything in my mouth if I myself throw it...grapes, small crackers, jellybeans, etc.

[iampunha]

Originally posted by Chrome Spot
I can play melodies by rapping on my head with my knuckles. Stole the idea from George Carlin.

I can, too, but I didn't steal it from the man. I had no idea until now that he could do it.

I also do it on my cheeks (facial) and throat.

[Nicklz]

On my left hand I can rotate my thumb (out of socket)
Feels pretty freaky and looks really gross

[Lucki Chaarms]

[/b]Calling all freaks![/b]

That's the name of the game!

::runs::

[VeraGemini]

I can bend the first knuckle of my fingers too, as well as bend the fingers backwards, although not *quite* parallel to the backs of my hands. I can move my eyes independently like the OP, move ears back and forth, and I also have prehensile toes - I do tricks like write and strike matches with my feet. Great fun at parties ;) (Yes, I am a mutant)

[Miller]

Originally posted by Sublight
I can bend my fingers back to a 90 degree angle without any strain. With effort, I can bend them back until my fingertips are parallel with the backs of my hands.

Amateur. I can touch the backs of my hands. I used to be able to touch the inside of my right arm with my right thumb, but I've stiffened up in my old age. I can also pop both my thumbs out their sockets.

[Cougarfang]

i'm a doper and a cat simultaneously.

i can land on all 4 feet unharmed after jumping off a five-story building, i can judge exactly how wide a hole in the fence is in pitch darkness, i can catch a rat blindfolded, and i can make Crunchy Frog make an entire thread (http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=93472) about my sig... and have it get into threadspotting!

Hah. beat that! :D

[zoogirl]

I can cross my index finger with my middle finger and my little finger with my ring finger without using my other hand to put them in place, on both hands.
I can also write poems on any subject almost instantly. Rhymed too, not just that "Free Verse" crap.

[Eternal]

I possess the ability to make people uncomfortable, scared, or hate my guts using only the power of my personality.

Well, normal people anyway. Not you Straight Dope freaks.

[ianzin]

Originally posted by zoogirl
I can cross my index finger with my middle finger and my little finger with my ring finger without using my other hand to put them in place, on both hands.
I can also write poems on any subject almost instantly. Rhymed too, not just that "Free Verse" crap.
This is very strange. I can do both too. Maybe we're cosmically-related soul mates or two halves of a divided soul.
The instant poetry thing is very strange. I'm not claiming any great merit to my screeds, so don't think this is self-praise because it's not meant that way. But as far back as I can recall I've been able to gauge three factors at once - meaning, metre and rhyme - to string words together appropriately into 'instant poetry', and I was very grown up before I realised this was a weird knack that didn't come easily to everyone. It's obviously just a faculty of freak brains like mine and zoogirl's. I've never found any use for this weirdness, apart from entertaining office pals when I used to be a 9-5 wage slave. It was also very handy in my more musically-active days, because whenever anyone wanted lyrics they just turned on the tap (me).

[11811]

Originally posted by iampunha
Originally posted by Chrome Spot
I can play melodies by rapping on my head with my knuckles. Stole the idea from George Carlin.

I can, too, but I didn't steal it from the man. I had no idea until now that he could do it.

I also do it on my cheeks (facial) [glad you specified] and throat.

Yeah, I do those too. It's pretty much the same talent. I wish I could do the William Tell Overture like Curly on the Three Stooges.

[Dirty Earthworm]

I don't know if anyone else can do this, but I can wiggle my scalp without using my hands - you know, the old "Look! He's wearing a wig!" trick. It freaks people out and I think it makes my ears wiggle, also. Looks like I have two talents in one!

-Syko

"My cat's breath smells like cat food." - Ralph Wiggum

[Miller]

Except for the scalp thing, I can do almost everything mentioned so far. Which means that you're all a lot more normal than you'ld like to think, or that I am King of the Freaks.

Personally, I'm leaning towards the latter. Bow before me, peons!

[drewbert]

Originally posted by Chrome Spot
Originally posted by iampunha
Originally posted by Chrome Spot
I can play melodies by rapping on my head with my knuckles. Stole the idea from George Carlin.

I can, too, but I didn't steal it from the man. I had no idea until now that he could do it.

I also do it on my cheeks (facial) [glad you specified] and throat.

Yeah, I do those too. It's pretty much the same talent. I wish I could do the William Tell Overture like Curly on the Three Stooges.

I could do that (including William Tell Overture, though I had no idea Curly did that!) until I grew a beard. Tends to muffle the sound. However, I still can do musical tongue clicks, quite quickly.

And then there's the one talent that I rarely share, because I'm invariably asked to repeat it for friends, and their friends, and so on: I can perform "Stars and Stripes Forever" by making rhythmic farty sounds with my lips while simultaneous humming or clicking my tongue.

[Nacho4Sara]

I used to be able to put my whole fist in my mouth. However, I just tried it for the first time in a few years and either my hands grew or my mouth shrunk. Now I can only get it in up to the knuckles.

Yeah, that last line sounded pretty dirty.

I have an eidetic memory - if I read something once, I form a mental image of it and can recite it almost entirely from memory (limited, of course, to a few paragraphs. I'm not that good.)

However, if I'm studying, I just rewrite my notes on paper with a cool pattern - likes clouds or rainbows or what have you. I can vividly remember the pattern of the paper and then the words just appear with it. Makes studying a piece of cake.

That's all for me. I bow to the King of Freaks, Miller. I always knew you had it in you, baby.

[Mudshark]

I can make almost real sounding chicken noises.

[croaker67]

I can raise one eyebrow (Spock-like). :D

[mnemosyne]

My feet don't match. One is noticeably bigger than the other when I place them side-by-side.


Not really a talent, but still kinda freaky.