# Who can tie knots in cherry stems with their tongue? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 14, 2000, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-can-tie-knots-in-cherry-stems-with-their-tongue/25507 "2000-07-14T00:20:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![mangeorge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d78d45/32.png) [@mangeorge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mangeorge)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2000, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-can-tie-knots-in-cherry-stems-with-their-tongue/25507/21 "2000-07-14T02:41:19Z")
I can tie a knot in a clitoris with my tongue. Amateurs! Wasting you skills on _cherry stems_. That makes me a cunning linguist. Ok, enough. 😉 Peace, mangeorge (Jealous, won’t admit it.) ---
**Author:** ![mega\_the\_roo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3da27b/32.png) [@mega\_the\_roo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mega_the_roo)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2000, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-can-tie-knots-in-cherry-stems-with-their-tongue/25507/22 "2000-07-14T02:44:21Z")
It’s certainly not the prettiest thing you’ll see, but here ya go. [Roo’s Cherrystem](http://members.home.net/cattywompus/images/cherrystem.JPG) ---
**Author:** ![soulsling](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a5b964/32.png) [@soulsling](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/soulsling)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2000, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-can-tie-knots-in-cherry-stems-with-their-tongue/25507/23 "2000-07-14T02:50:01Z")
ouch! One little spelling mistake, and they rain down hard on ya, no Kama Sutra tricks for you **mega the roo**. ---
**Author:** ![hypergirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/49beb7/32.png) [@hypergirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hypergirl)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2000, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-can-tie-knots-in-cherry-stems-with-their-tongue/25507/24 "2000-07-14T03:00:10Z")
i can do it! i discovered this while sitting at a diner with my parents. odd, i know, but i think its something interesting to brag about. ---
**Author:** ![dragonlady](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/5f8ce5/32.png) [@dragonlady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dragonlady)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2000, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-can-tie-knots-in-cherry-stems-with-their-tongue/25507/25 "2000-07-14T04:06:20Z")
First , they have to be marachino cherries. Something about the canning process leaves the stems bendy. Coldfire: there’s a trick to it. I’ll be happy to show it to you…in person. And yes, I can! Didn’t spend all those hours behind the bar fer nuthin’. ---
**Author:** ![GreenEyes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/f9ae1b/32.png) [@GreenEyes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GreenEyes)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2000, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-can-tie-knots-in-cherry-stems-with-their-tongue/25507/26 "2000-07-14T04:08:07Z")
\ I can…!! ---
**Author:** ![Bluemonchichi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6de8d8/32.png) [@Bluemonchichi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bluemonchichi)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2000, 5:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-can-tie-knots-in-cherry-stems-with-their-tongue/25507/27 "2000-07-14T05:34:06Z")
No I can’t. I am not used to working with things that small. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![little\_bit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/258eb7/32.png) [@little\_bit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/little_bit)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2000, 5:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-can-tie-knots-in-cherry-stems-with-their-tongue/25507/28 "2000-07-14T05:54:32Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by dragonlady \* > **First , they have to be marachino cherries.** You can do it with regular cherries, but if you pull the knot too tight it can tear the stem if they’ve been off the tree to long. ---
**Author:** ![Gazelle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Gazelle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gazelle)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2000, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-can-tie-knots-in-cherry-stems-with-their-tongue/25507/29 "2000-07-14T13:10:51Z")
Yep. ---
**Author:** ![Flypsyde](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f0a364/32.png) [@Flypsyde](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flypsyde)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2000, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-can-tie-knots-in-cherry-stems-with-their-tongue/25507/30 "2000-07-14T13:15:43Z")
That would be me, too. However, it never seems all that impressive to the women I’ve showed it too. ---
**Author:** ![lee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lee/32/7455_2.png) [@lee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lee)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2000, 1:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-can-tie-knots-in-cherry-stems-with-their-tongue/25507/31 "2000-07-14T13:18:04Z")
Me!! My friend said he was at a party andit was discovered that all the pple there that had this taletnt were either female or gay men. ---
**Author:** ![Edwardina](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5f8ce5/32.png) [@Edwardina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Edwardina)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2000, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-can-tie-knots-in-cherry-stems-with-their-tongue/25507/32 "2000-07-14T13:31:51Z")
_Sniff_ I cannot. I have tried and tried. I guess I am just underdeveloped in this regard. _sniff, again_ Then again, I can get an entire, unbroken jello shooter out of a standard-sized paper cup with my tongue, which has impressed more people at parties . . . And I can pick up a flat piece of cardboard off the floor/ground without using my hands or letting anything _but my feet_ touch the floor. People seem to just love to watch you do this. ---
**Author:** ![struuter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b9e5f3/32.png) [@struuter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/struuter)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2000, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-can-tie-knots-in-cherry-stems-with-their-tongue/25507/33 "2000-07-14T13:36:19Z")
Been able to do this (and other weird tongue stuff) since I was a kid. Funny, guys think it’s wild and women who can’t do it think it’s gross. I can touch the tip of my nose and the very bottom of my chin. I was in an accident when I was a baby and it severed that connecting strip of tissue beneath the tongue–so I’m like Gene Simmons, mine isn’t a natural phenomenon. One person told me I used my tongue like a finger. I can’t decide if that’s good or bad…he seemed to think it was a compliment. Jeesh. struuter ---
**Author:** ![KimKatt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ac91a4/32.png) [@KimKatt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KimKatt)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2000, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-can-tie-knots-in-cherry-stems-with-their-tongue/25507/34 "2000-07-14T15:49:33Z")
A friend of mine can lick out the bottom of a regular-sized shotglass with her tongue. She has been known to pick up men this way. ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2000, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-can-tie-knots-in-cherry-stems-with-their-tongue/25507/35 "2000-07-14T17:42:46Z")
Count me in as a stem-tying expert. I showed it to my wife once. She thought it was exceedingly weird. Par for the course for us, I guess. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Falcon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/49beb7/32.png) [@Falcon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Falcon)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2000, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-can-tie-knots-in-cherry-stems-with-their-tongue/25507/36 "2000-07-14T18:24:55Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by soulsling \* > \*\*ouch! One little spelling mistake, and they rain down hard on ya, no Kama Sutra tricks for you **mega the roo**. \*\* Hey! I don’t care if you can’t spell it! Wanna show me those tricks? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Sands](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/22d042/32.png) [@Sands](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sands)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2000, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-can-tie-knots-in-cherry-stems-with-their-tongue/25507/37 "2000-07-14T19:36:00Z")
I can’t tie a cherry stem with my tongue…but i can flip my tongue ring upside down! heehee… ---
**Author:** ![Soda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cc9497/32.png) [@Soda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Soda)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2000, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-can-tie-knots-in-cherry-stems-with-their-tongue/25507/38 "2000-07-14T19:54:22Z")
I can too, but my piercing makes it a bit difficult. But I did manage to tie it around my piercing once! I’ve tried that ever since, but it must have been a once in a lifetime thing. ---
**Author:** ![Nen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Nen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nen)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2000, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-can-tie-knots-in-cherry-stems-with-their-tongue/25507/39 "2000-07-14T20:03:27Z")
Folks, it’s really not whether the one can tie a cherry stem in a knot, it’s how _short_ the stem is. Mrs. Nen is an expert at the short stems. 🙂 Me? I save my tongue techniques for useful things…like, um, licking ice cream from cones. Well, I can tie the long ones, but that isn’t too special in my book. (And for those who don’t know, **Tymp** used to have some skill. Unfortunately, he used to tie lures onto the line when fishing, and after the freak treble hook accident, he’s been afraid to attempt anything other than rigging sails). ---
**Author:** ![Tymp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Tymp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tymp)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2000, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-can-tie-knots-in-cherry-stems-with-their-tongue/25507/40 "2000-07-14T20:13:18Z")
Oh, you just _had_ to bring up that incident, didn’t you? How ‘bout if I just go ahead and tell **Mrs. Nen** about that little poker wager, hmmmm? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-can-tie-knots-in-cherry-stems-with-their-tongue/25507.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-can-tie-knots-in-cherry-stems-with-their-tongue/25507.md?page=3)