# What can you do with your body? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 19, 2003, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-can-you-do-with-your-body/162452 "2003-03-19T03:50:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![alice\_in\_wonderland](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alice_in_wonderland/32/176_2.png) [@alice\_in\_wonderland](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alice_in_wonderland)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2003, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-can-you-do-with-your-body/162452/41 "2003-03-20T20:50:46Z")
You guys are so funny. I can also: [ul]- Bend over backwards, grab my ankles with my hands, tilt my head to one side and roll - American Splits - Russian Splits - The lotus position, and then I can walk around on my knees. - I can fold myself up small enough to fit into the average piece of carry-on luggage or dresser drawer (and I’m 5’8"). [/ul] I’m a freak - it’s true. But I am fun at dinner parties. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Teaira](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/9d8465/32.png) [@Teaira](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Teaira)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2003, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-can-you-do-with-your-body/162452/42 "2003-03-20T21:35:36Z")
I can flip my eyelids up and keep them that way for as long as I want… About the only semi-unique thing about me at any rate. ---
**Author:** ![Q.E.D](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/51bf81/32.png) [@Q.E.D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.E.D)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2003, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-can-you-do-with-your-body/162452/43 "2003-03-20T21:39:13Z")
I don’t know where “Down the rabbit hole…” is, but I really, really want to go there! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![samarm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4da419/32.png) [@samarm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samarm)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2003, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-can-you-do-with-your-body/162452/44 "2003-03-20T21:42:28Z")
AIW: I can imagine a date with you is an experience, if you get my meaning. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![samarm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4da419/32.png) [@samarm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samarm)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2003, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-can-you-do-with-your-body/162452/45 "2003-03-20T21:43:39Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by IThinkNot \* > \*\*I can make my eyes go into seizures independently of each other. My right eye can be spazzing out all over the place, and my left eye can be spazzing the other direction. It’s cool when I can focus my eyes, then seizure them in a very direct pinpoint, then cross and double-cross my eyes. If I seizure my eyes and swing them way back in my head then collapse (all for shits and grins, of course) it really does look like I’m an epileptic or something. > > I can tighten my neck, then crack it, and invariably at least ten bone-cracking snaps’ll happen. One time I took both hands and tightened them around my neck (like strangulation from the front) and then snapped it to the left, and about twenty cracks shot across my neck. Everybody went “WHOA!!” > > I can twist and crack my back, then bend way back while cracking (like a bridge) and put my left leg around my right thigh, twisting my ankle so my foot is sitting on top. > > Then I crack my neck, spazz my eyes, and I look like the Contortionist From Hell! > It’s cool. > > 😃 \*\* Good lord! You sir, are not from this planet. Begone back to Qvuak VVI with you! ---
**Author:** ![Ol\_Gaffer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Ol\_Gaffer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ol_Gaffer)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2003, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-can-you-do-with-your-body/162452/46 "2003-03-20T21:45:07Z")
Ha! Amateurs. I can grow massive amounts of ear and back hair while _ **simultaneously not** _ growing any hair on my head!!! Top that kids. ---
**Author:** ![mmhkay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b38774/32.png) [@mmhkay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mmhkay)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2003, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-can-you-do-with-your-body/162452/47 "2003-03-20T22:40:34Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by B.Pants \* > \*\*I can also do this cool thing with my _ahem_ girly part, but it is better left unsaid. \*\* Hey, do you mean you can queef on demand? I said “queef” 😃 … ---
**Author:** ![Mariachi\_Kitty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba8739/32.png) [@Mariachi\_Kitty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mariachi_Kitty)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2003, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-can-you-do-with-your-body/162452/48 "2003-03-20T23:58:44Z")
I can do many of the weird contortionist things mentioned already. AIW and I may have been separated at birth. Most of my joints hyperextend, sublex or pop. I’ve grossed medical staff out more than once with more than one oddly bendy body part. I have a word of caution for the rest of you who are bendy like that: Just because you CAN move your body like that doesn’t mean you SHOULD. I’m only 32, but the joint damage I’ve got at this point makes me act more like I’m 62 sometimes. I’ve spent more time at the physical therapist’s than most people in their thirties would even dream of. Naproxen Sodium (prescription strength Aleve) is my friend. So be careful when contorting & make sure the muscle groups surrounding & controlling the joint are up to snuff. With that caution out there, here’s my 2nd weirdest trick, and 2trew, you’ll be pleased to hear this: I can bend only the top knuckles of all eight of my fingers. When I do, I look like a horror flick freak. I’m sure the ability to do this is related to my weirdest trick, which is the ability to dislocate & (what would you call it?) relocate/undislocate all of the middle joints of my fingers. If I could hold my hands up to your ears, you could hear the noise this makes. This noise, I am told, has almost made several people throw up. Aaaaahhhh, for lack of sound-o-net. ---
**Author:** ![IThinkNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/ce73a5/32.png) [@IThinkNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IThinkNot)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2003, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-can-you-do-with-your-body/162452/49 "2003-03-21T00:24:38Z")
…ewww… great big flexible chunk of fun you are, then. 🙂 **Good lord! You sir, are not from this planet. Begone back to Qvuak VVI with you!** I am not a sir, I am a girl. But thanks for the compliment! I love freaking people out! You have made my day!! 😃 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-can-you-do-with-your-body/162452.md?page=2)