# What's your silly skill? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 11, 2003, 8:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-silly-skill/200942 "2003-09-11T08:01:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Fillepe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/898d66/32.png) [@Fillepe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fillepe)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2003, 12:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-silly-skill/200942/81 "2003-09-16T12:12:18Z")
I can pick up some stuff with my toes, fit NZ dollar coins in both my ears (discovered this yesterday) and do the no mouth/tongue movement clicky noise thing described by Belly Dancing Panda. Also i am typing this with both sets of fingers crossed on each hand. ---
**Author:** ![Bakhesh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3da27b/32.png) [@Bakhesh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bakhesh)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2003, 1:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-silly-skill/200942/82 "2003-09-16T13:05:47Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Avalonian \* > \*\*I have an amazing memory for completely useless information. > > For example… tell me your name and I’m apt to forget it ten minutes later. However, I _can_ give you the name of the obscure actress who was in a movie I saw once, 12 years ago. Seriously, it’s happened. \*\* I feel like I’ve found a kindred spirit. My mind is full of junk, but almost nothing useful. I can’t remember what I did at work yesterday, but I can remember things like opening monologue to the a-team word for word… in 1972 a crack commando unit were sent to prison by a military court for a crime they did not commit. These men promptly escaped from a maximum security stockade to the los angeles underground. Today, still wanted by the government, they survive as soldiers of fortune. If you have a problem, if no one else can help, and if you can find them, maybe you can hire … the A- Team. I can remember these for a lot of eighties shows. It really doesn’t come in handy very often. ---
**Author:** ![if6was9](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/e47c2d/32.png) [@if6was9](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/if6was9)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2003, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-silly-skill/200942/83 "2003-09-16T13:20:52Z")
Hee Hee. Steve Austin, astronaut, a man barely alive… I can make women disappear with just a few magic words. 😃 I can do Monty Burns and that kid who works at the drive-thru. We don’t have any stew today, sir. I can do Sammy Davis, Bob Dylan :rolleyes: Elvis, James Brown, Jimmy Stewart, Tricky Dick, Michael McDonald (of Chicago) and others. ---
**Author:** ![spogga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ab097/32.png) [@spogga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/spogga)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2003, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-silly-skill/200942/84 "2003-09-16T13:33:18Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by professorbiscuit \* > \*\*I can fire saliva directly out of my saliva glands in a glorious jet up to a distance of 4 metres. When you do it at people, they always think it’s raining. \*\* I can kick people in the nuts when they do this to me, they always think it hurts. ---
**Author:** ![Bakhesh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3da27b/32.png) [@Bakhesh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bakhesh)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2003, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-silly-skill/200942/85 "2003-09-16T13:44:23Z")
…Gentlemen, we can rebuild him, we have the technology. We have the capability to make the worlds first Bionic man. Steve Austin will be that man. Better than he was before. Better. Stronger. Faster. Sorry, I just can’t stop myself ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2003, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-silly-skill/200942/86 "2003-09-16T14:06:53Z")
I can do the conch shell whistle without a conch shell. I cup my hands together and make my knuckles into a mouthpiece. ---
**Author:** ![80sHairMetalMaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/8/ed655f/32.png) [@80sHairMetalMaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/80sHairMetalMaven)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2003, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-silly-skill/200942/87 "2003-09-16T14:42:12Z")
> [@](#): > > My mind is full of junk, but almost nothing useful. I know what you mean. I find myself picking up totally useless, obscure factoids and storing them away for some purpose yet to be determined. I can also recite the script for “Labyrinth” word for word. 😃 Give me the child. Through dangers untold and hardships unnumbered, I have fought my way here to the castle beyond the Goblin City to take back the child you have stolen. For my will is as strong as yours and my kingdom as great…my will is as strong as yours, my kingdom is great…DAMN! I can never remember that line. Metalmaven ---
**Author:** ![Qazzz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/aeb1de/32.png) [@Qazzz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qazzz)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2003, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-silly-skill/200942/88 "2003-09-16T15:08:27Z")
I can say “supercalifragilisticexpialidocious” backwards. I can sing higher than most women. I can estimate weight, length, periods of time, and quantities very accurately with just a glance. ---
**Author:** ![Balance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ccd318/32.png) [@Balance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balance)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2003, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-silly-skill/200942/89 "2003-09-16T16:14:30Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by 80sHairMetalMaven \* > I know what you mean. I find myself picking up totally useless, obscure factoids and storing them away for some purpose yet to be determined. “His mind is a murky well into which the knowledge, wisdom, and accumulated useless trivia of several worlds has been indiscriminately dumped.” –Salteris/Suraklin, _The Silent Tower_ by Barbara Hambly He could have been talking about me (minus the “knowledge and wisdom” part, of course). [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-silly-skill/200942.md?page=4)