# How weird / unusual is this ability? (possible TMI) **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 15, 2008, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-weird-unusual-is-this-ability-possible-tmi/453061 "2008-06-15T23:59:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Savannah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b3f665/32.png) [@Savannah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Savannah)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2008, 5:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-weird-unusual-is-this-ability-possible-tmi/453061/21 "2008-06-16T05:13:55Z")
Thanks. I’ve been able to do this intermittently all my life, but rarely practise it as I’m over the age of 40. I’ve now just doused my laptop. ---
**Author:** ![Dunawake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/85f322/32.png) [@Dunawake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dunawake)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2008, 6:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-weird-unusual-is-this-ability-possible-tmi/453061/22 "2008-06-16T06:53:12Z")
Crap, I can’t do it on command, but I’ve managed to accidentally spit on my keyboard. Thanks a lot SDMB! 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Autolycus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@Autolycus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autolycus)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2008, 7:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-weird-unusual-is-this-ability-possible-tmi/453061/23 "2008-06-16T07:10:32Z")
[QUOTE=Asimovian] How much money is “so”? It is teachable. [/QUOTE] How much do you want? ---
**Author:** ![LouisB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/dfb087/32.png) [@LouisB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LouisB)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2008, 10:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-weird-unusual-is-this-ability-possible-tmi/453061/24 "2008-06-16T10:14:03Z")
I sometimes do it while yawning. I don’t remember ever seeing anyone of any age do it on purpose. ---
**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2008, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-weird-unusual-is-this-ability-possible-tmi/453061/25 "2008-06-16T14:33:23Z")
[QUOTE=Autolycus] How much do you want? [/QUOTE] Are you serious? I’ll teach you. PM me. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![freekalette](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/50afbb/32.png) [@freekalette](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/freekalette)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2008, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-weird-unusual-is-this-ability-possible-tmi/453061/26 "2008-06-16T15:53:24Z")
I can gleek at will, but I have to take out my bottom teeth to do it. On the other hand, it does accidentaly happen at random, usually when I’m talking to someone up close. Very embarassing! ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2008, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-weird-unusual-is-this-ability-possible-tmi/453061/27 "2008-06-16T15:58:29Z")
I can gleek too - I can get it to go a long way, like ten feet or so. Sometimes it happens by accident when I yawn. I like to think of myself as akin to a cobra, but actually I look like a dork. One time on the school bus I gleeked over the bus driver’s head all over the windscreen. The poor bastard thought he was going mad! ---
**Author:** ![Sigmagirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c89c15/32.png) [@Sigmagirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigmagirl)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2008, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-weird-unusual-is-this-ability-possible-tmi/453061/28 "2008-06-16T16:35:13Z")
You would have won Freak Night at my summer camp. The guy who could blow air out of his eye always won, but this would have beat him. ---
**Author:** ![Yorikke](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yorikke/32/4335_2.png) [@Yorikke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yorikke)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2008, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-weird-unusual-is-this-ability-possible-tmi/453061/29 "2008-06-16T16:36:36Z")
Thanks, all! I’m glad I’m not a complete freak of nature. Just partially… Joe ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2008, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-weird-unusual-is-this-ability-possible-tmi/453061/30 "2008-06-16T18:19:50Z")
[QUOTE=freekalette] I can gleek at will, but I have to take out my bottom teeth to do it. On the other hand, it does accidentaly happen at random, usually when I’m talking to someone up close. Very embarassing! [/QUOTE] Another great user name/post combination ---
**Author:** ![freekalette](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/50afbb/32.png) [@freekalette](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/freekalette)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2008, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-weird-unusual-is-this-ability-possible-tmi/453061/31 "2008-06-16T18:54:55Z")
Watch out **Annie** , or you’re next!! 😛 ---
**Author:** ![AngryIrishLass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bbce88/32.png) [@AngryIrishLass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AngryIrishLass)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2008, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-weird-unusual-is-this-ability-possible-tmi/453061/32 "2008-06-16T19:17:06Z")
When I had a version of the mumps a couple months ago, I could open my mouth, lift my tongue, the press on the salvia gland under my chin to make saliva shoot out. My boys thought it was the coolest thing ever. Since the cure, I’m no longer cool. ---
**Author:** ![Santo\_Rugger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e95f7d/32.png) [@Santo\_Rugger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Santo_Rugger)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2008, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-weird-unusual-is-this-ability-possible-tmi/453061/33 "2008-06-16T19:26:56Z")
[QUOTE=Autolycus] I would pay so much money to learn how to do this. Any takers? [/QUOTE] Just eat something sour (even just thinking of something sour can work. Pavlov, anybody?), and then push the underside tip of your tongue against the roof of your mouth. Depending on how your mouth is shaped, you may have to push more forward or more towards the rear of your mouth. I accept PayPal. ---
**Author:** ![chaoticbear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f07891/32.png) [@chaoticbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chaoticbear)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2008, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-weird-unusual-is-this-ability-possible-tmi/453061/34 "2008-06-17T01:34:23Z")
[QUOTE=AngryIrishLass] When I had a version of the mumps a couple months ago, I could open my mouth, lift my tongue, the press on the salvia gland under my chin to make saliva shoot out. My boys thought it was the coolest thing ever. Since the cure, I’m no longer cool. [/QUOTE] Salvia gland? I’ll bet you have teenage goth kids following you around everywhere 😉 ---
**Author:** ![gaffa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e68b1a/32.png) [@gaffa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gaffa)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2008, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-weird-unusual-is-this-ability-possible-tmi/453061/35 "2008-06-17T01:44:55Z")
My sister has the unusual ability to flare her nostrils and move the dimple on her chin in and out. At the same time. Dimple in, nostrils out. Nostrils in, dimple out. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-weird-unusual-is-this-ability-possible-tmi/453061.md?page=1)