A few years ago I found out I could blow air through my tear ducts if I hold my nose. But that gets uncomfortable after a while so I’ll switch to waving my hands real fast in front of my monitor. It makes me feel like an animation character.
But that’s only good for a few moments of entertainment so I’ll watch the tetras and danios in my fish tank. I have to be careful, though, because that really blisses me out.
Gleeking is this thing you do with your mouth and tongue that makes this tiny drop of spit fly out. You open your mouth wide, fling your tongue a certain way and out it shoots.
At least this is what I call gleeking.
I get the feeing that Demo and Psycat’s gleek is a little bit more perverse. I dunno, maybe not. 
Gleeking is this thing you do with your mouth and tongue that makes this tiny drop of spit fly out. You open your mouth wide, fling your tongue a certain way and out it shoots.
I always wondered what that was called and if I was the only one that did that. Sometimes it seems like I can do several shoots in a row, and other times (like now), I’m as dry as a desert. Oh, wait, I can do it again. Gleek is the perfect word because it sort of mimicks the tongue’s position.
First of all, you guys are all fucking weird
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I can’t do it, no matter how hard I try. Somewhere I read it is a sign of intelligence if you can do this. Now, get a load of this. My girlfriend can do it. With both eyebrows. Flipping back and forth, no problem. HOWEVER: she can’t wink with one eye. If she tries, both her eyes close. I, on the other hand, am quite the WinkMeister. How is it possible that a person can raise one brow, yet is unable to do something as easy as WINK??
Oh, and I gleek too, apparently. Sometimes even without intent, which can lead to embarrassing situations 
Same gleeking. Although, lately I’ve not been able to do it as well. I used to shoot pretty far on command several times in a row. It was a favorite past time in high school.
I can do the sneer thing with both sides of my nose, I can flare my nostrils (sometimes when I laugh, my nostrils flare in time with my laughing), I can raise and lower both eyebrows independantly, I can wiggle my ears, I can spin, cross, and wall-eye my eyes, I can do some wierd thing with my bottom eyelids, I can blow air through my tear ducts… oh shit, I’m sure I can do more… but I forget right now… Shower me with praise.
–Tim
I can do the eye thing too.
I can go cross-eyed, wall-eyed, spin one eye while the other looks straight ahead, and even spin both eyes but at different angles.
I can do the nostril thing too. Flare-release-flare-release-flare. . . really fast.
Sealemon88 – I’ve tried, but the noise of the sudden air compression disturbs the effect. I’ll keep trying different ways of stopping my ears.
Thanks for the tip!
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Why did I just do that?!
I can crack my knuckles so loudly that people jump.
I also have a mild case of Tourette’s, which gets reactions whether I want them or not.
Id say this thread is one of the strange things that entertain me…
Speaking of cutting things with my hand while driving… do any of you ever close one eye and look at something in the distance and measure it with your thumb and forefinger? (Imagine holding your thumb and forefinger as if you were showing somone how big an inch was) Then when you’re looking at something like that, you can pretend you’re squishing them! Such power!
I can only raise my left eyebrow, or both, but not the right one by itself. My daughter can put ‘loops’ in her tongue. I can only do one loop (curl?) on my tongue. She can get up to five! You know what I’m talking about? Stick your tongue out and curl the sides up, that’s one loop, etc.
I had another thing, but I’ve forgotten since I began typing. Maybe I’ll think of it in a little bit.
School is oh so boring so I now simulate the NHL Playoffs with a nickel. I set up the teams and work my way through the best of 7 series. Each flip is a game. Then at the end of a season I say stuff like, “Yep Jagr is really holding the Penguins in it.” My friends think I’m weird. 
PS- The Mighty Ducks have a nice dynasty goin.
More hand tricks …
Do you see the little “hot dog,” floating between your fingertips? Some do and some don’t from what I’ve been able to gather. I do.
Sadly, I can’t do the “live long and prosper thing” with my hand, making me the object of ridicule.
My wife can’t curl her tongue, though.
If you take a plastic barreled Highlighter (the round kind) and hold it up to your ear and SNAP! the top on with your thumb, you’ll get a really satisfying ringing tone.
You reminded me of another one… Make the V like Spock does. Now lower your pinky and your forefinger keeping you middle two fingers up in the V formation. Not many people can do that, but I can.
I can also do just the opposite. Make a V with the middle two fingers down, and the pinky and forefinger up. Sort of like the Hook’em Horns sign except you don’t use your thumb to hold your middle two fingers down, and your your first two fingers are held together, and then your 3rd and fourth fingers are held together.
Does that make sense? Probably not. Oh Well.
You reminded me of another one… Make the V like Spock does. Now lower your pinky and your forefinger keeping you middle two fingers up in the V formation. Not many people can do that, but I can.
I can also do just the opposite. Make a V with the middle two fingers down, and the pinky and forefinger up. Sort of like the Hook’em Horns sign except you don’t use your thumb to hold your middle two fingers down, and your your first two fingers are held together, and then your 3rd and fourth fingers are held together.
Does that make sense? Probably not. Oh Well.
I thought of another one today. You need two people for this. Get a friend to lie on the couch upside down - so his legs are up over the back of the couch and his head is hanging down off the edge of the cushions. Then you sit in a chair across from him and begin a normal conversation. Look at his upside-down head while you are talking. After a minute or two, your perception of his face will change such that instead of talking to a person with his head upside down, you will think you are talking to a person with a right-side-up head, but with a talking hole in the middle of his forehead.
Sounds weird, but just try it.
missbunny, your headhole example reminded me of “Jelly Belly,” a mindless entertainment for a group of bored folks. Everyone lies on their back, with their head on someone elses stomach, forming a circle. Then somebody tells a joke. Head-bouncing and hilarity ensues.
Try as I might, I can’t get any of my friends to do this with me.
God, you people are funny.
I don’t know how old I was, but sometime in my childhood I discovered I could make a sound with the roof of my mouth and the end of my tongues (oops, I mean, tongue - I only have one, I swear) that sounds exactly like a squirt bottle, like Windex or something. Especially when you rapid-fire or spray a large area. You take air in over the sides of the tongue and squish it out through a small flat opening made by pressing the front of the tongue right behind your teeth.
It’s freakily convincing, and though my cats get a squirt of water when they’re being naughty, they aren’t fooled by my noise. Yet.
When I was young I’d adapt it somewhat to mimic a rain-bird sprinkler, but I haven’t heard one of those in so long I don’t think I could do it anymore.
Here’s another idea for you: Turn off the sound and then turn on the radio or a cd or something. Sometimes the strangest things happen!
One time I was watching some old cartoon with some robots retreating from a spaceship with all this smoke swirling around them when the song “Smoke” by Ben Folds Five came on…majorly weird. :^)