# can you curl your tongue? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 26, 2001, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-curl-your-tongue/78246 "2001-08-26T23:59:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Cartooniverse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cartooniverse/32/3084_2.png) [@Cartooniverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartooniverse)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2001, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-curl-your-tongue/78246/41 "2001-08-27T18:38:04Z")
[QUOTE] \*Originally posted by AudreyK \* \*\* > [@](#): > > Coaster shmoaster. I’ve got a cherry-stem _doormat_. 😉 \*\* How **YOU** doin’, **Audrey**??? :eek: We gotta talk. \>lascivious glance\< ---
**Author:** ![Cartooniverse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cartooniverse/32/3084_2.png) [@Cartooniverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartooniverse)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2001, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-curl-your-tongue/78246/42 "2001-08-27T18:42:29Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Manservant Hecubus \* > \*\*Amateurs. > > When you can tie a knot in a cherry stem in someone ELSE’S mouth, you give me a call 😃 \*\* \*\*[Wayne’s World] > [@](#): > > WE’RE NOT WORTHY, WE’RE NOT WORTHY [/Wayne’s World]\*\* 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Balance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ccd318/32.png) [@Balance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balance)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2001, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-curl-your-tongue/78246/43 "2001-08-27T20:18:18Z")
Let’s see here, maybe I can raise the bar in a few categories: 1. Curl tongue into a tube (and blow out a candle through it) 2. Rotate tongue 90 degrees and talk like a Ferengi 3. Rotate tongue 180 degrees (360 seems a bit out of my range) 4. Lick the back of my soft palate 5. Knot cherry stems with my tongue (I demonstrated this at our last DFW get-together) 6. Snatch popcorn out of the air like a frog (I can’t do this one at all consistently yet) 7. Raise my right eyebrow independently (the scar over my left seems to interfere with raising it) 8. Separate any set of my fingers in any way required 9. Press my hands together (“praying hands”-style) and ripple the fingers back and forth like they’re boneless ( **Zyada** tells me this is considered an important skill in certain belly-dance circles. I have no particular interest in confirming this.) I’ll work on tying the cherry stem in someone else’s mouth as soon as I find someone to practice with. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Anniz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/cc9497/32.png) [@Anniz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anniz)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2001, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-curl-your-tongue/78246/44 "2001-08-27T20:39:20Z")
Yes, I can. And I can also lick my nose.🙂 ---
**Author:** ![beckwall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b487fb/32.png) [@beckwall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beckwall)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2001, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-curl-your-tongue/78246/45 "2001-08-27T22:20:39Z")
Dear sweet Anniz, we are sisters! I can lick the tip of my nose as well, but hesitated to mention it. Now I say it with pride, and challenge all others to come clean, so to speak. ---
**Author:** ![Gundhilde](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ecc23a/32.png) [@Gundhilde](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gundhilde)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2001, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-curl-your-tongue/78246/46 "2001-08-27T23:29:19Z")
Can curl tongue, raise left eyebrow, and pop up the saddle joint in my thumb quite unnaturally. ---
**Author:** ![Nicklz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/8baadc/32.png) [@Nicklz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nicklz)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2001, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-curl-your-tongue/78246/47 "2001-08-27T23:39:30Z")
Well I’ll confess. I can’t do any tongue tricks. But you should see this chick “friend” of mine at work with hers. ::Nicklz runs from computer to call her:: ::“Hey what’s up what you doin tonight?”:: ---
**Author:** ![Geek\_Mecha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ecae2f/32.png) [@Geek\_Mecha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Geek_Mecha)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2001, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-curl-your-tongue/78246/48 "2001-08-28T00:07:26Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Cartooniverse \* > We gotta talk. \>lascivious glance\< Sure. Anytime. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Padeye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a9a28c/32.png) [@Padeye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Padeye)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2001, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-curl-your-tongue/78246/49 "2001-08-28T00:12:20Z")
I am genetically endowed with a curlable tongue, but alas it has been ages since I’ve found anyone whose tingly bits I could curl it around. ---
**Author:** ![Kbean](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Kbean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kbean)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2001, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-curl-your-tongue/78246/50 "2001-08-28T00:18:30Z")
I can curl my tounge and that’s about it. Still working on the cherry stem… ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2001, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-curl-your-tongue/78246/51 "2001-08-28T00:32:34Z")
I can curl my tongue, if the iron’s hot enough. Hurts like a sumbitch, though… ---
**Author:** ![Piell](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/34f0e0/32.png) [@Piell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Piell)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2001, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-curl-your-tongue/78246/52 "2001-08-28T00:37:50Z")
I can curl my tongue. I can raise one eyebrow at a time, and the end joint on both of the second largest toes goes off at about a 45 degree angle. I might not have explained that well, so here is a picture: / \<—end toe joint | | ---
**Author:** ![Sultan\_Kinkari](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7bcc69/32.png) [@Sultan\_Kinkari](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sultan_Kinkari)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2001, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-curl-your-tongue/78246/53 "2001-08-28T01:23:00Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Scott \* > \*\*BTW, **wishbone** , what’s “gleeking”? I’ve heard of gurning and geezing, but not gleeking. > \*?? \*\* **Gleeking** is when you make a small well of watery saliva under your tongue then then clench your jaw so a small driblet of saliva shoots out. Some people can shoot it two or three feet. I can only do it once in a while by accident like when I am just about ready to chomp into a nice warm Big Mac. Any other words out there for gleeking? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-curl-your-tongue/78246.md?page=2)