LOL. Thanks Eve. My mind did the vocals. I should not read this board at work.
B_line and Daniel,…I can’t post my picture or you’ll find out that I’m a middle-aged, overweight man who is storing beer in my man-boobs so as not to have to leave the couch during “Hot and Saucy Pizza Girls”. I also have a jug to pee in that I keep by my feet.
I am the ultimate “some assembly required” guy. Anything that needs assembling, I can do it a breakneck speed and not even have any pieces left over!
I can pinch really hard with my toes, hard enough to leave a bruise. I can make a pretty good frog croaking sound in my throat. I am excellent at thinking up witty retorts hours after the opportunity to use them has passed.
My husband has this uncanny ability to recognize and name the voice over person in t.v. commercials, even if the celebrity is (IMHO) obscure. (“hey, that’s Peter Coyote!”)
As well as many other posters, I seem to have a strange knack for remembering useless and well, trivial information. Of course, sitting in the “den” and reading Trivial Pursuit cards doesn’t hurt that talent at all.
I’m also able to whistle through my hands. And I’m able to do this with my hands in each of five different sound producing configurations.
I can make a cool water dripping sound with my mouth.
I play a great radio and CD player.
When I get a cold my voice sounds just like Harvey Fierstein’s.
“I just came back to say goodbye to the gal’s in the typing pool.” Karl
I do a really good chicken-cluck. An I tend to remember the topics of articles I read. I’ll bet the phrase I use more than any other in a week is “You know, I read an article about that once…” I don’t always retain book plots or nonfiction stuff in general, but put it in a magazine article and it STICKS.
oooh, I thought of something else. I can take a thick blade of grass (known as "quack-grass) place my palms together, and position the grass between my thumbs. Then I blow. A loud resounding “QUUUUUAAAAAACCCCK” is what follows. Scares the bejeesums out of people who aren’t expecting it.
I can also say “You are a monkey-face,” in Indonesian. I used to be able to say it in a number of other languages, Dutch, German, Italian, Spanish, Swahili, but I have forgotten all but the original version in Indonesian. I was friends with the exchange student, and we’d scream random things at each other across the halls, causing the one OTHER Indonesian exchange student to fall down laughing. Ah…memories.
Years of African dance trained me to isolate my hips from my ribcage. I can make circles with one while the other stays completely motionless.
I can pat my head and rub my tummy without any problems. And I think that’s it.
gals
I thought I was the only one that did that!
SwimmingRiddles sez:
Damn. Guess I posted my Laminated List a couple hours too soon.
Well, I seem to be able to pick up languages pretty quickly; now if I only had opportunities to practice some of the more obscure ones!
I can also rotate both hands 360 degrees - right hand clockwise, left hand counterclockwise.
I was gonna say I could make up songs to established tunes but Kimstu and Gilligan over in the BBQ Pit have showed me the severe limitations from which I suffer.
And this one:
I used to have a catalog of musical oddities and suchlike; had a musical saw set and a crow call. Wish I knew what company it was, or even what I did with the catalog! I’d love to do that
Well I can do the TV thing, where I can tell you if the TV is on/off from the other room.
(Speaking of which TheNerd does anything strange happen to you when you enter a department store? I always get a high pitched ringing sound. It’s been so bad before that it as almost knocked me to my knees!)
Oh and I don’t have any pressure points. None, Nothing I have a friend who has been taking ti kwon doe (oy’ I slaughtered that spelling :)) for about 5 years and he gets nothing from me. Almost broke my wrist once though!
I can imitate a dubbed movie character better than anyone on Earth. Ok, better than the two or three comedians I’ve seen try it. I am WAY better than them at it. I am PERFECT at it, in fact.
In case you don’t know what the hell I’m talking about, it’s when you speak, but the lips move in ways totally unrelated to what you are saying, like in a dubbed Godzilla or kung-fu movie.
I keep telling myself that one Halloween I will dress up a karake or ninja-type dude and show of this incredibly useful talent, but I keep forgetting.
I can hang a spoon on my nose, and before you make rude comments, I DO NOT have a big nose.
I am just talented.
Scotti
Well, hell! I don’t know if I can compete with all of the previous, marvelous talents.
I’m a ‘60 minute man,’ which has only drawn a complaint from one lady.
I retain a tremendous amount of knowledge, now almost useless, concerning things from the past. (You do know that those old, brass blow torches like in the 3 Stooges movies used Kerosene and not gasoline?)
When motivated, I can sit down and take a bunch of branches, glue and odds and ends and make miniature log cabins, wire up colorful optical lights and turn popsicle sticks into tiny, shanty shacks.
Plus, I’m an excellent listener, something which is becoming a dying art.
I have never ever ever been pulled over for speeding. 78,000+ miles in 5 years and nada. And I drive 80ish consistently.
I just know when there is a cop around the curve or lurking behind me in the other lane.
It’s possibly a Jedi thing.
Swiddles - you should get into belly dancing - I know people who have been taking classes for 5 years who can’t do that.
(btw - I don’t want to steal SwimmingRiddles’ thunder - I can do the hip thing, & move my torso in various ways without moving my hips or head, but I’m supposed to know how to do that)
I have an excellent sense of rhythm - I can predict the rhythm patterns of many songs even when I haven’t heard the song before.
I am very tolerant of people. I have gotten along with and even enjoyed working with people that drove everyone else nuts. About the only thing I can’t handle is rank stupidity in a person in a position that requires intelligence, like programming. Even then, I will tend to be more tolerant than the people around me.
No your not, I can do that to.
I can turn red lights green, just by looking at them long enough.
Seriously though, I can turn both my feet 180 degress.