#0 · Jul 03, 2003, 12:30 · Tisha

Fols, we're all good at something weird.  If you think long enough, you'll remember something.  Some people can pick things up with their toes or touch their ears with their toungues.  Other people can speak Klingon - - and do.

I knew someone who could recite the entire script of the original Star Wars.  Then again, I also knew two people who could sing the entire Bugs Bunny Opera (kill the wabbit, kill the wabbit!).

So, what's YOUR thing?  It can't be metaphysical, it has to be something just weird.  I'm still thinking about mine.

#1 · Jul 03, 2003, 13:30 · jason

BURRRRRP!

[:O] Insert excuse me !

that's my wierd talent.anyone got a can of coke?

#2 · Jul 03, 2003, 13:46 · Nay

LOL @ Jason..Good one!

This is a different spin on a topic...I like it..lol.

Ok, I can pick up things with my toes! and use my feet in..ummmmm well, certain ways..wink,wink,nudge,nudge.. I can't touch my ear with my tongue but can touch my nose..ewwwwww..I use to be able to fold my eyelids inside out..but haven't tried that in a LONG time, just never came up..lol. I make this fantastic "monkey" face that even after 28yrs, cracks my brother up too no end!  Well, that is all I can think of..but I am sure I will start to remember more..[ :P ]

My hubby can change a light bulb on a 8ft ceiling WITHOUT a chair..to me that is funny in soooo many ways...LOL..I think it's the visual..[ :D ]

Nay. [ ;) ]

#3 · Jul 03, 2003, 14:20 · Frank

Erm, I can Astral project with a fair degree of proficiency and ride a horse. :)

Yours,
Frank

#4 · Jul 03, 2003, 14:25 · Tisha

I can pick up things with my toes too!  I also can move my head side-to-side like a serpent, along with other near-impossible body contortions that come from being a dancer. Nevermind what I used to be able to do with these "cans" - - - - um, wait - - - yup - - - I can still do it - - - wow.  Something to show my grandchildren someday! HAH

I used to be able to speak Dakota, an obscure native american language. I spent some time in college translating creation stories (transcribed phonetically) into english. But that was a long time ago.

Hm!  Anyone else?

#5 · Jul 03, 2003, 15:39 · MosesB

Some times if i concentrate really really hard i can fart unbelievably loud...hmm i could probably prove it by recording it and uploading it here...I believe this is a technique everyone can master if they keep practicing and concentrate.

#6 · Jul 03, 2003, 15:48 · timeless

Dear MosesB,

I LOVE typos.  I sure hope you do not fart an unbelievable load[:O].
I'm sure you meant loud[ ;) ]...right...I hope.

Regards,
timeless

#7 · Jul 03, 2003, 16:22 · Nay

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA. ROTFLMAO!!!!!!  OMG...*wipes tears off face* that was funny.. A load! ...ok..now the visual has me in it's grip..NOOOOOOOO...[ :P ]

Nay. [ ;) ]

#8 · Jul 03, 2003, 17:18 · James S

quote:
Originally posted by Frank

Erm, I can Astral project with a fair degree of proficiency and ride a horse. :)

Yours,
Frank
At the same time? Wow! You're good!![ :D ]

I can hear sounds several kilohertz above the normal range of human hearing. Not quite dog-whistle territory, but close. And like Nay, I can touch the tip of my nose with my tongue (Gene Simmons look out!)[ :) ]

As far as some other things go, I have the astounding ability of being completely unexceptional.

Tisha, the "cans" thing....pictures, we need pictures. No boasting unless you can prove it! [ ;) ]

James.

#9 · Jul 03, 2003, 18:05 · Nay

That me think of something, James! I can hear well, actually "feel" when a T.V. is on in a different room even if the mute is on.  Also happens when I go to the mall..I hear a high pitched noise..We have SUPER HEARING!

P.S. pictures of the can thing?..I should say no we don't need pictures..lol..but what the hey!? Bring 'em on, Tisha..hehe

Nay. [ ;) ]

#10 · Jul 03, 2003, 21:28 · James S

Nay,
yes I know what you mean about the high pitched noises from TV's etc. In TV's this is due to one of the main components that provides the high voltage for the screen. It runs at a high frequency, and sometimes people can hear the noise it makes, especially if that component starts to become faulty. For those of us with sensitive hearing it gets downright irritating and your ears start to hurt.

I also know what you mean also be "feeling" it more than hearing it. I think it could be a sensitivity to EM emissions from all the electrical appliances around us.

James.

"Kill the wabbit, kill the wabbit, kill the wabbit"
"Yo ho to oh! Yo ho to oh! Yo ho..."
"O mighty warrior of great fighting stock"
"Might I enquire to ask, eh, what's up doc??"
"I'm going to kill the wabbit!!"
"Oh mighty warrior t'will be quite a task"
"How will you do it, might I enquire to ask??"
"I will do it with my spear and magic helmet!"
"Your spear and magic helmet?"
"Spear & magic helmet!"
"Magic helmet?"
"Magic helmet!"
"Magic helmet"
"Yes, magic helmet and I'll give you a sample"
"Bye"
.....ok thats enough

#11 · Jul 04, 2003, 00:13 · justine

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#12 · Jul 04, 2003, 02:27 · cainam_nazier

I am almosta "Block head" if you are familiar with the tirm.  The pounding of nails into the nose, straight back into the head.  I prefer to use smooth painted chops sticks though, mails can be a bit rough.  And I only do it when I am bored.

I use me feet to do a lot of stuff.  Pick things up, open doors when my hands are full, grab stuff that is just out of reach, pet the dogs, and so on.

I'm double jointed!  So I can slip out of a "full nelson" (wrestling move), and I can also fold may arm flate accross my back, ie, back against wall with both arms sticking straight out on side.

I can cross one eye and look at you with the other, and then switch it back and forth.  This tends to be very distracting in conversation.

I also tend to flare my nostrals, like a rabbit does.  Also distracting.

I like to walk around with my eyes closed.   I can kinda still see where everything is at.  I do really good in pitch black areas.  I think it comes from having really bad eyesight.  Its dangerous for me to walk around with out my glasses so I just shut my eyes.  It's actually easier that way.

I got the "super hearing" thing also.  I can also track 3 or 4 different conversations at once, and participate in them.

I can only lick the bottom of my nose, I can't get my tounge to go up to the tip.  But I got a big nose too, of which I can fit quarters into......not that I do that or anything.....right well moving along.

Ialso tend to go around quoting Monty Python, mostly Search For The Holy Grail.  Then there are the other movie classics, Strange Brew, Space Balls, Blazing Saddles to name a few.

I am sure the list is longer than this but most of this stuff seems perfectly normal to me.

Ofcourse a lot of people think my dreams are a little strange too.  Like the other day I had a dream where I was waling around outside in my underware.  But it was okay because I remember thinking to myself, "Uh Dave, your dreaming about being outside in your underware....Let's go back inside and go back to bed." and a few days before that I had one about shaving my legs.

Okay I'm done.
For now.

#13 · Jul 04, 2003, 05:43 · Lasher

Oh great, Tisha!  Now you've set our work on overcoming our egos back 15 years!!!  [ ;) ]

I can play and sing the entire song, Paradise by the Dashboard Light (by Meatloaf) on the ukulele.



I can also make people pay me to stop.

Lasher

#14 · Jul 04, 2003, 12:53 · Laurel

This thread is cracking me up! I love the photo, Lasher! Can we have a sound file, too? Hee!

I sound like a Monty Python "lady" when I scream. Does that count as a talent? And I'm really good at imitating accents. I can improvise devastatingly bizarre tone poems on the piano. Also, I can write impressive-sounding poetry that's utterly devoid of meaning.

I can fall asleep at will (and I'm really asleep when I do it--I've tested myself with EEG equipment!)

Oh, and I'm able to turn off nasty odors or make them smell good to me (a side effect of cleaning up animal excretions for a living for some years.)

Aren't we all so interesting...

#15 · Jul 04, 2003, 14:00 · Peephole321

hey back to that hearing the tv even when the mute is on, i can do that, its a jsut a high pitched noise thats kidna annoying and u cant ignore iti can pick thing up with my toes and speak arabic pretty good, but i havent mastered it yet and i'm only 13...i dont find anything i jsut said amazing or amusing or even wierd but i wonder why.[?]

#16 · Jul 04, 2003, 14:01 · Peephole321

AAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHH
i can't type!!!!![ :( !]

#17 · Jul 04, 2003, 15:02 · Lasher

quote:
Originally posted by Laurel
This thread is cracking me up! I love the photo, Lasher! Can we have a sound file, too? Hee!
Fortunately for you, I've never recorded that.
However, if you are feeling brave, you can hear three of my songs at: http://www.mp3.com/davelasher
Don't say I didn't warn ya.   [ ;) ]

As for you saying that you sound like a Monty Python "Lady" when you scream, I hope that's not in the bedroom.  Your poor hubby will be distracted by unbidden images of John Cleese in drag!!! [ :P ]

Lasher

#18 · Jul 04, 2003, 15:04 · Nay

I love this post!  but it is making me think of things that I never thought were weird..lol..like I too can do the toe thing, but Justine try this..put JUST your big toes up (like the fonz, saying aaaaaaa) my kids crack up!

Lasher...Have you ever heard of the "naked cowboy"? I see a tour in your future!! lol..

Caniam...You only hammer stuff in your head when BORED?..OUCH.lol.

Nay. [ ;) ]

#19 · Jul 04, 2003, 15:22 · Lasher

quote:
Originally posted by Nay
Lasher...Have you ever heard of the "naked cowboy"? I see a tour in your future!! lol..
Nay,

I took the liberty of looking up The Naked Cowboy after reading your post.  (Anyone interested can find it here : http://www.nakedcowboy.com/ ) And I feel quite comfortable in saying that he won't have to worry abount competition from me any time soon.  Firstly, he's in much better shape.  Secondly, he's got an entire guitar to cover his privates with, while I only have a ukulele.

Insert your own emasculating joke here --->

Lasher

#20 · Jul 04, 2003, 15:54 · Nay

Come here Lasher..give me a hug.! I swear I wasn't emasculating you!!
Just made me think of the Naked Cowboy..tehehehehe..He was on Moral Court one day...oh, man was THAT funny!

Nay. [ ;) ]

#21 · Jul 05, 2003, 21:21 · Squeek

Hmmm...Things I'm good at............

  • I have this whistle that has this huge frequency.  Nobody else can do that...
  • I have the ability to cause a controlled muscle spasm in my right hand so I am able to press a button about 15 times a second. (That's fast)
  • I can sit in comfortable computer chairs and sit online for many hours a day and type stuff and develop capral tunnel and not be able to type for a while and not use the computer which would be really bad and not good because it's really bad and bad means not good and then not be able to listen to my good music that is on my computer and then DANCE!

:D \-<
:D |-<
:D /-<

Wow that was wacky.

~Squeek

#22 · Jul 05, 2003, 21:52 · Tisha

I can spread my toes wide so I look like a duck.

I can sit still for what seems an eternity.  I used to be an artist's model - - hey there's a topic:  WEIRD JOBS!!!!!!!!!!!

#23 · Jul 06, 2003, 02:56 · AndrewTheSinger

i can blow spit bubbles

#24 · Jul 06, 2003, 06:15 · Rob

I can control air flow between my nose and inner ear. Its like a have a muscle that nobody else does. It is actually very useful when I go scuba diving as I just drop all the air out of my suit and sink like a rock with my hands behind my back looking waaaay cool [ :D ]. And if I push more air in/take more air out (ie vary the pressure in my inner ear) I hear different frequencies of sound. Like, low pressure gives me the low notes and vice versa.
At least I know that if someone tried to gag me I could blow me ear drums and breath through my bleeding ears! Ouch...

#25 · Jul 07, 2003, 00:42 · RandomName

LEt me see here.... I can touch my tounge to my nose, put my ankles behind my head, bend my thumb completely backwards, rotate my arms backwards over my head to my back while my 2 hands hold, I can Astral project, I can use computers, I can use energetic healing, I can think of all my talents and name them quickly from the blue, I can chug any liquid that has a low viscosity and a decent taste and I can focus energy hard enough to move a pen forward 2 inches with telekinesis. Thats about it

#26 · Jul 07, 2003, 03:54 · speedcubist

-I can vibrate my eyes.  Everything looks blurry and shakes.
-I can solve a rubik's cube in about 25 seconds.
-I can say some words extrememly fast such as "nope" or "bye".
-I can walk really fast.
-Sometimes I can whistle with a range as big as 3 octaves.
-At night when I'm alone I can creep myself out or scare myself with my imagination.  Sometimes I just start visualizing creepy creatures and have to clear my mind so I don't scare myself too bad.

#27 · Jul 07, 2003, 08:09 · cainam_nazier

Nay
"Caniam...You only hammer stuff in your head when BORED?..OUCH.lol."

Yes, I know. The mind is a terrible thing to waste. And it's not a painful as one might think, unless you do it wrong.  The only thing you really need to remember is not to sneeze, at least not with said object in your nose.  Now that hurts.

Psi
"rotate my arms backwards over my head to my back while my 2 hands hold, "

You specified 2 hands, are there more that we should be made aware of?

#28 · Jul 07, 2003, 08:10 · timeless

Hey speedcubist,

Your vibrating eyes caught my attention.  Everything looks blurry and shakes.

Welcome to the club!  This is called Saccadic Nystagmus.  They say 1 in 500 people can do this voluntarily.  Unfortunately, for some it happens when they do not want it to.

I am in the voluntary group and find the more light there is the faster I can make my eyes giggle.  It served me well in my life.  If a guy was bothering me (say at a bar), all I had to do was look at one of the lights, look back at him and totally freak him out.  The ability to look possessed is wonderful don't you think[ :P ].

All the Best,
timeless[ :) ]

#29 · Jul 07, 2003, 10:06 · Rob

My eyes tend to vibrate when i am trying not to fall asleep and let my eyelids droop. Happens all the time in meetings lol.....very annoying....
how odd. 1 in 500 people and yet 3 people already in this little forum...

#30 · Jul 07, 2003, 12:45 · speedcubist

Wow, cool!  I had no idea so few people could voluntarily vibrate their eyes(1 in 500). [ :D ] I never really thought about how many people could do that.

#31 · Jul 07, 2003, 19:20 · HeadachyMuzikGirl

1. i can fold my tongue into thirds in the front of my mouth so that my tongue looks like a mouth within a mouth.
2. i can predict who's on the phone when it rings. mental caller ID! woohoo!
3. i can create a sopund in my throat that sounds something between a roar and an anguished scream.
4. i know huge words. (you're pressing upon my neural transmitters in a deleterious manner which doesn't make me very eudaemonistic.)
5. i pick up random facts. see my autograph for details.
6. i know many random jokes and bumper sticker sayings (one day we'll look back on this, laugh nervously, then change the subject).
7. i can sound exactly like the lady singing opera on the beginning of the Encarta program (now, if only i had some bongo drums...).
8. while creepy, i can think of many creative ways to maim and kill people. or is that the neg? hehe.
9. i can laugh evilly.
10. i can create a different personality for every person's likes and dislikes. for instance, if i meet a goth, i act goth, even though I'm rather ditzy. sorta.

that's all i can think of for now...

#32 · Sep 10, 2003, 20:11 · General-Army

I can whistle with my tounge, but thats not the joy of it, i can make an extremely high pitched whistle with only my mouth that people usualy end up covering their ears over. I can also give people my middle toe with out having to use my hand to help it, the foot can give the toe all by itself, so when i give someone the finger, they give me 2, all i gotta do is take off my shoe and show em the 3.

#33 · Sep 10, 2003, 23:04 · Calypso

My husband can do the vibrating eye thing..very creepy..he is way more talented than I am. For example he can make a sound like Chewbacca which is so very annoying *L* The only thing I can think of that I do is the Yoda "hmmmmmm?"[ :P ]

#34 · Sep 11, 2003, 00:53 · lullabi

I can flare my nostrils, and wiggle my ears.. [ 8) ] and I can moonwalk.

#35 · Sep 11, 2003, 06:32 · Kazbadan

I´m great..really great! Hehe, I can make womans get crazy for me, i can make a strange woman, crying for my love in the middle of a street...more, let me see.. oh, yes...i can make sex for 14 hours without stop, i can make all the positions in Kama Sutra...oh, i don´t know, there are so many thinks at wich i´m realy good that i won´t have time to post it here.

(note: i´m even better in saying completly stupid lies...like the ones above..ehehe [ ;) ])

#36 · Sep 11, 2003, 09:58 · shaman

It has happened that I knew when some people would die by either having this intuition or vivid dreams ...

premonitory dreams are still coming now and then about events in the news or in the family...

I cannot tell the future, but I can tell some events that will happen in the future...

I usually have very weird dreams, with corpses, blood, or people with 4 eyes, etc... and some a premonitory signs....of death.

Take care.

Sorry for being so serious.

#37 · Sep 11, 2003, 11:13 · Mustardseed

this is so funny. I suddenly got hit with a big panick after reading this thread thinking oh no I cant do any of that but after thinking about it for a while I do have some

I can learn a language in just under 3 weeks I forget it when I leave the contry and can only maintain a proficiency in 7 simultaneusly

I can say "CALIFORNIA" like with a perfect Arnold Swartzneger accent.

I am a very proficient Ventrilouguist but maybe that does not count as it is my job but it is kind of wierd. (got a few others for the vierd job section)

I can see if my wife is fibbing.

I can look at people and make them uneasy. (not so proud of that but its handy at times)

and last of all I can sing in falcetto. Pretty good for a man my age I should think

#38 · Sep 11, 2003, 14:42 · Tisha

ooh mustardseed you reminded me.  I'm real good at picking up languages and other symbolic systems.  Never had an opportunity to learn more than 3 1/2 languages though - spanish, french, dakota, and a little greek.

I can effortlessly copy a foreign accent - french with a spanish accent, english with a spanish-celtic accent, english with a southern accent, boston accent, parisian accent, etc. But I can't keep it up unless I do it constantly.

#39 · Sep 11, 2003, 15:23 · Squeek

Ok so in the last one I told you I have this odd arm spasm dealy...  Well I've upped that to maybe 16 times per second. If you want an estimate on what it sounds like when I use a pen on a hard surface, imagine a woodpecker.  I might even be faster.

Also I still have 2 eye abilities :)

1.  I can also vibrate my eyes back and forth and kill my vision temporarily :p  It's alot of fun though.

2.  I can exhale air out of my eye.  There's a small air pocket leading from my nose to the side of my eye that I can exhale air out of.  You can see bubbles come out of it underwater.

It's uber coolness.

~Squeek

PS - Do typing and spelling count too?  [ :P ]