What's your special ability?

I can also remember trivia- surprisingly lots of it. I usually get 2/3 or more of the Jeopardy questions, usually while I’m doing something else.

I can do the “turn to the right page” trick with any gaming volume, if I’ve read the book previously.

I have the ability to use spices correctly to make bland food actually taste good. Not just for me, but for other people.

heh, I can read at the pace of about 100 pages per hour and then answer most any question asked… not quite sure if that is a super power, but comes in quite handy for last-minute book reports…

Im also a pretty good shot with a rifle, made an almost line across a piece of paper posted three houndred feet away during a breezy day (this was my third time shooting with a gun, ever)

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FYI MrTuffPaws…about your work ethic comment…I did LMAO, but in my defense, my work ethic is just fine (so says my boss of 12 years that just gave me my usual 5% annual raise and annual Christmas bonus) - - all of my daily work gets done - - with the exception of filing, I could be filing, which would take less than an hour I suppose, but that’s not as fun as being here with all of you dopers. Thanks for the laugh though! :wink:
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I can suck my neck in. Meaning that space at the base of my throat between my collar bones - I can somehow pull it in about 2 inches, so I have this giant hole at the base of my neck. I’m not sure if that’s a superpower, but, boy is it good storage!

I have the amazing awe inspiring ability of…wiggling my ears. I can perform this amazing bit of mobility either with both ears or only one. That’s right you heard me I can wiggle just one at a time. This amazing skill makes me a hit at every party, irresistible to women and an object of fascination to small children everywhere.

I can bend my arms out about 15 degrees beyond the direction of the elbow.

I can make up a complete bullshit explanation for something that I have absolutely no knowledge of and make it sound very convincing.

For some unknown reason, Mrs. Gaffer does not have the same appreciation of this gift that I do.

I always know what time it is within a few minute range.

I am very good at creating good recipes with stuff on-hand.

I know when the dog has to poop just by looking at her.

I can be me better than anybody else in the universe.

Assuming the universe is finite.

I can change red stoplights to green by focusing my incredible mental powers upon them.
Of course, I can change green lights to red by merely approaching them in my car.

I have amazing powers of boredom (boringness?). If I apply myself I can bore anyone within mere seconds.*

I also have a gift of stopping conversations, but I’m not sure whether that really is a separate power.

  • I’m not sure whether I’m up to Dilbert’s Boro, though.

Another triviavore here. It may not help me put food on the table, but I can be very entertaining at cocktail parties. Except I don’t go to cocktail parties. Figures.

My special talent is for finding good parking spaces. Never ceased to amaze my wife with that one.

Also, I start humming songs a haven’t heard in years only to hear it playing on the radio moments later. Happens way too frequently.

Total aside, but if this is true I have a list that I would like to send you.

I am a human barometer. I always get horrible sinus problems (sneezing, headache, stuffiness) the day before it rains. Even when there’s no rain forecast for weeks, I’ll be all icky one day and it’ll rain the next.

Annoying economists.

They used my cookie file to lock me out of THEDISMALSCIENTIST, but no one even tried to refute what I said.

It is peculiar that consumer automobiles wear out.

Dal Timgar

I have double-jointed toes.

(My excuse for not being able to run fast)

Unfortunately, it’s been drinking lately…I’m not bad at repelling women either Sunspace. . .

I can create a sound/vibration that sounds exactly like purring.

I can also produce an extremely loud croaking-gurgling-growling sound that has been known to induce discomfort in humans and fear in small dogs.

When I was in high school, without fail any class I was in would be the teacher’s loudest, most ill-behaved class that year, even though I was quiet, spent much of my time reading quietly in the back corner, and generally did nothing to encourage it. This happened so much that even other people started noticing it. I just seemed to have an aura of chaos around me.

I can repell mosquitoes, I never, ever get bit, even though others around me are slapping and scratching like crazy. Fleas on the other hand, luvvvv me… aaaaaahggguh, stritch, scritch,stritch, scritch

I can repel men. Especially helpful when in a long term relationship. I think there must be some big neon sign that goes on over my head that says “INVISABLE” and no one even tries to come on to me. When I’m single though, its different, the sign seems to be gone. Although I can instantly turn it back on when surrounded by ugly guys/drunks/panhandlers/beggars/hoodlums etc.

When angry or alarmed, I instantly turn into a 7 foot tall, 300lb man with a bad temper. This particular metamorphasis has helped me many times in the bad neighborhood I grew up in.

I can put my palms together, fingers woven, turn palms under and out, then continue my palm faces me again. Something there is double jointed, I just don’t know what.

And, my hands are as small as my wrists, so I can get out of handcuffs relatively easy.