I can do all kinds of interesting things with my feet- open door handles, throw and catch a racquetball (one-footed), even type. I’m working on signing my name… is it forgery if you do it with your foot?
hey, I can do that, too!
I can make my eyebrows do waves across my forehead.
And, since it was mentioned earlier, I have yet to meet a guy I couldn’t outbelch.
You know the scene in Indiana Jones and the temple of doom where he catches the egg while still asleep?
Several years ago I was sleeping in a pitch black room with a very annoying blue bottle buzzing around the room. Once it flew very close and wham! still semi-asleep, with my eyes closed I had snapped my hand out and caught it perfectly between forefinger and thumb, just enough pressure to hold it without hurting it.
With my left hand, I’m right handed…
Impressive huh 
I can fit a quarter in my nose. Two, if you count one per nostril. I’ve done up to four in my nose (two in each) but it stung like a sumbitch.
“Wanna see a trick? Give me a quarter. I promise I’ll give it back when I’m done.”
I used to be a gymnast, so I can do heaps of things that most other people can’t do.
I can walk on my hands, straight, in circles, following lines. I can do forward splits with both legs. I can do lots of tricks that look difficult and painful. Fun!
(I can also do the “kip” that has been talked about.)
My mom can hum and whistle Row, Row, Row your Boat in a round with herself. That is, her humming is 4 measures ahead of her whistling. It’s awesome.
Oh, and Olive, the Other Reindeer is one of the best usernames ever.
Prove it.
My special talent is that I can spin a basketball on my finger. Not very unique, or useful, but oh well.
The eyebrow thing sounds really, really cool, especially if you happen to have a uni-brow.
I’ve got a couple of useless talents:
- I can do one-armed push-ups.
- I can do a somersault, standing still.
- I can tie my wang into a knot.
- I can down a 0,5 liter beer glass in five seconds.
- I can pull both of my legs behind my head.
I don’t have the freakish memory that elfje has, but it is good enough at times to be annoying.
I remember movie and TV trivia pretty well. Not 100% foolproof, but enough to scare me. I just know who starred in what, and often I know what year. How, I don’t always know. It isn’t like I tried to remember or the actor or actress was a favorite of mine. But I’ll just know. I’m not exactly “freakish” with this talent (I don’t know everyone and I do forget some people) but it’s far beyone what most normal people would consider . . . well . . . normal. So all my friends always ask me who was in this and who is that and what else have they done. And I usually know.
I’m also uncanny at recognizing people’s faces. An actor or actress that is mostly known for the work they did when they were elderly will be instantly recognizable to me even if I see them in something they did when they were 20 and no one else would recognize them.
Same goes for disguises. Disguises, bah! Once again, this skill is not 100% foolproof, but I often recognize people that apparently NO ONE else recognizes, because entire movie plots have been dependent on the entire audience not recognizing so-and-so in disguise. And yet I’ll recognize them instantly and spend the entire film wonder what the hell the big mystery is, because it’s so obvious that so-and-so is wearing a fake beard and isn’t really dead after all. (Another way I recognize them is by their teeth. The teeth are a dead giveaway.)
Sounds familiar, except my memory is not quite photographic. I can, however, remember almost every thing I hear and everything I read.
And I can, um…well, if I wanted to, I could touch my nipples with my tongue. Can I say that here? <blushes> Three glasses of Merlot…I’m sorry if I offend…
Anna Belle
elfje I have the same thing! Obsidian will back me up. She calls me freak when I show it off. I can remember where everything is in every room of our house. When taking my AP test in high school I quoted passages from a book I’d read three years before. I can quote conversations and book passages verbatim. I remember the phone number of a friend I had in 3rd grade. It’s useful at times, annoying at other times and sometimes I wonder what’s going to happen when my brain is full of all this stuff and I can no longer remember my name or phone number or something.
I can also put both feet behind my head, bend my thumb behind the knuckles of my other fingers and (thanks to the dentist who took my wisdom teeth out) I can dislocate my jaw at will.
Oh. I don’t know if this counts as a talent, but it’s another thing that gets me called freak. I see/associate words, letters and numbers in color. Friends will say random words or names to me to find out what color they are. Dammit I’m not a party game! 
I can do a few interesting things with my top finger joints and my right toes. I can wiggle one ear, but not the other.
I have an excellent memory for fabric patterns, and can just about always remember any fabric I’ve seen before. I’m pretty good with faces, too (except for middle-aged white men–they all look the same to me) and have been known to identify people I’ve only seen once, years later.
And I can roll my tongue, too.
PucksRaven, I’ve read that Rickard Feynman did the same thing with the colors and numbers. It’s evidence of an odd brain quirk, apparently.
Hüsker Düde: Fortunately, I do not have an unibrow. It’s still a neat talent though, I always win staring contests, because I can do that and make people laugh.
PucksRaven: I associate things with colors as well! It was briefly mentioned in my psychology class, and it has a long complicated name. Apparently, only 2% of the population do that. I think it helps my memory. I’m 19, and I just found out a few months ago that not all people do this. It was a momentous discovery, I honestly believed that everyone remembered things this way!
I’m really fast at minesweeper.
I’m really fast at minesweeper.
Just discovered while i was waiting for this post to be submitted (sorry if it’s a double, I don’t think it will be) that i too can lick my own left elbow! Woo.
If she can do that without moving her arm, I’d love to meet her. Is she single by chance?
Me?
[ul]
[li]I can roll my tongue.[/li][li]I can cross my eyes, but move either one independently (ask me about watching tennis)[/li][li]I can touch my nose with my tongue[/li][li]I can drink copious amounts of alcohol without a hangover (sometimes this fails)[/li][li]From what the doctor tells me, I’m double jointed, although I don’t know what that means and I’ve never explored the possibilities[/li][li]I can skate, and I play ice hockey. I’ve lost teeth because of it.[/li][/ul]
Tripler
Yep. You can call me “special” if you want.
I can, and so can withaK.
I can move my ears.