What weird "talent" do you have?

[SemiCharmedQuark]

I can moonwalk. Ohhhh yeah.

[sniffa]

1. i can Laugh at my own jokes

[Ready4Change]

2. I can roll my stomach muscles.

Hmmm. Haven't tried in a long while... Yep, still can, both upwards and downwards.

[htuttle]

3. I can move my eyeballs independently (to a degree)

Enough to startle my doctor, in any case.

I can also write my name forwards with one hand, and backwards with the other at the same time. I have a odd, rare 'short circuit' in my brain that makes this sort of thing a lot easier.

[RevolutionaryActs]

8. I can do the eye thing too.

[hyphenate]

63. Hey!

I can do that too. I can also write backwards and forwards with both hands, and with my feet as well!

So now you're telling me because I can do that, that I have a screw loose someplace in my brain? Shucks, I've known that for years!

You know what's even more fascinating? Write backwards with your dominant hand, and forwards with your other hand at the same time, and then compare the two. You will see that more often than not, they are practically the same.

[Squatch]

4. I can set off metal detectors, in the buff

[shanti]

51. i'm not EVEN going to ask!!!

CTFU!

[Shrubhater]

58. What does CTFU stand for?

[shanti]

88. cracking the f*** up!

n/t

[City of Mills]

5. I can speak two languages

simultaneously.

[Shrubhater]

46. How is that possible?

[AllegroRondo]

53. English and British?

[Guaranteed]

6. I know everything.

It's really more of a curse than anything, though. :P

[Shrubhater]

48. Really? Well then,

What was there before the universe?

[Guaranteed]

56. You wouldn't understand if I told you.

:)

[Shrubhater]

57. Why wouldn't I?

I have an I.Q. of 181, sereously, tell me! TELL ME!!!!!!

[Guaranteed]

61. Alright, it's like this:

alkmsdflkams .,ms lkamsdfoijwweoikm.vkxmlkl

B-)

[Shrubhater]

67. Okay..............

Translation please?

[Guaranteed]

70. See, I tried to tell ya....

No, in all seriousness, the truth is that you can't ask that question because it self-contradictory. You're asking for something to exist "before" the universe. But if it existed, it's obviously part of the universe, by definition. It reduces to absurdity.

It's like asking "What existed before things existed?"

[Shrubhater]

Actually,

a theory goes that universes are created from a particle soup. That soup is part of the mutiverse, a super universe that creates and contains universes. So the answer to what existed before the universe would be: the mutiverse!

[Guaranteed]

78. What would be the separation between the universes, though?

How are they "connected?" And does that mean that universes really do have an "end" to them?

[Shrubhater]

86. In both the sense of time and size,

No. The universe is infinite in size, and so is the mutiverse. The thing is, even though the universe is infinite in size, it's still smaller than the mutiverse, because the mutiverse is many times larger than the universe. But if you mutiply infinity by any number, the product will still be infinity. And if you divide infinity by any number (exept infinity), you will still get infinity. So that principle allows both the universe and the mutiverse to be infinite in size, and yet one is smaller than the other.

[TlalocW]

7. Where to begin...

Juggle five balls
Unicycle-ride
Balloon twisting
I can probably still walk on my hands once my shoulder stops bugging me.

I'm a wanna-be circus freak.

TlalocW

[tridim]

22. I'm jealous of your juggling skills

I can't even do four, but I can juggle three. Balls or pins. Why is just one more ball so difficult?

I can also ride a unicycle and juggle at the same time. I got one for xmas when I was about 12.

[TlalocW]

26. Now you know

That when juggling even numbers, you divide them up and do half in each hand right? So for four, you would juggle two in each hand and stagger it so that you're not throwing two balls up at the same time (one from each hand). There are crossing patterns for even numbers, but they're a little wacky. I can't describe very well the one I do for four.

In high school, I could do 6 beanbags. But alas... I lost one of my beanbags (I've had the same ones for 14+ years - still in great shape). I've even thought about contacting the people who made them (it was a garage business based here in Tulsa) and buying the company from them and learning to sew and bringing it back, put it on the web, etc. as they stopped the business a while ago.

I got my first unicycle around the same time. Let me tell you - there's nothing that makes a kid more popular in a small Kansas farming community where football is king to be a math/computer nerd who rides around town on a unicycle and uses the free day in gym class to work on his five ball pattern. (That was sarcasm). :)

TlalocW

[MsAnthropy]

9. I am a jerk magnet

[RagingInMiami]

10. I'm a magnet for psycho women

[MsAnthropy]

12. HAHA What a pair we are!

[johnnie]

13. Our first cd was called Psycho Magnet

I feel your pain.

[AlCzervik]

11. I can also moonwalk and i can tie a knot in a cherry stem

with my teeth.

[sniffa]

30. damn that's hot

:P

[InvisibleTouch]

14. I can destroy electronic equipment at 20 paces.

No lie. Electronics just tend to mysteriously "stop working" around me. I've gone through three computers in as many years, and several video cameras have also fallen prey. Sometimes it seems I just have to be in the same room with a computer, in order to screw it up. I've had friends as far away as England ask me to please not even think about their computer....

[johnnie]

19. I saw a show on that the other day

Some guy who said he had streetlights go off when he would walk past them.

[htuttle]

21. That's the Pauli Effect

Named after Physicist Wolfgang Pauli. I do computer and network support, and we've had more than one person with that affliction at my day job. The solution is to set the person next to one that emits a high degree of clueons (ie., anti-bogon particles).

[amazona]

32. i used to have the pauli effect

I'd say I suffered from it from around age 15 or so until around age 30. I broke one computer that the head of the shop claimed no physics student had ever broken and that indeed could not be broken -- was supposed to be specially designed to guard against that effect. he was flabbergasted when I insisted that he check and, sure enough, the thing was broke.

It wore off though. As far as making streetlights go out, something I used to be able to do all the time, I haven't been able to do that since 1990. I remember the last time I did it. I'm glad I had the opportunity to have some fun with it because the talent departed rather abruptly.

It's a weird world all right.

[InvisibleTouch]

35. Thanks for that reference!

I googled "Wolfgang Pauli" and "Pauli Effect," and about died laughing to recognize my own experience in the desc. It seems I also share a wasp phobia with him....

My own "Pauli Effect" increases with emotional intensity, be that negative or positive. Go figure.

[TrogL]

38. I've got the opposite problem

Computers that cannot possibly work function when I'm nearby.

[htuttle]

40. That's a problem I have as well

And since I provide tech support as part of my job, it's kind of frustrating for everyone.

They call me and say a computer won't work, I walk up next to it, and suddenly it works. :shrug: Unfortunately, when I walk away, it starts malfunctioning again.

I think we probably emit too many clueons.

[InvisibleTouch]

41. Want to come live in my basement? ;) n/t

[matcom]

15. double jointed in both hands

can bend my fingers back so they touch the back of my hand

[DS1]

25. too much negotiating

;-)

[J-Lo Biafra]

16. I can reach my tongue to my toes.

Don't ask. :D

[johnnie]

17. I can be so irritating

That I piss people off.
I used to do handsprings. I don't know if it was a talent, but it looked cool..lol.

[Q3JR4]

18. I can

wiggle my ears (together, or seperately even in opposite directions) and raise one or the other eyebrow independently of the other and I can do both at once. Makes for sort of a strange combination.

[tridim]

20. I can walk on my hands as long as I want

A useless skill learned from many years of gymnastics as a teen.

[dolo amber]

23. I can write backwards, upside-down, in cursive

on an etch-a-sketch. :hi:

[Joe Power]

24. I can wiggle my ears

You all are soooo jealous, I know.

[u4ic]

27. I am self psychic

I can read my own thoughts.

[Shrubhater]

60. Wow,

You can read your own thoughts! Wow! Just like 6.2 billion other people!

[u4ic]

69. 6.2 billion

know my thoughts?! Boy, am I in trouble! :evilgrin:

[billyskank]

84. Yeah I've been looking at your thoughts boy

and I'm totally disgusted. :D

[Z_I_Peevey]

28. I can hold my breath

for a really, really, REALLY long time.

[Shrubhater]

44. How long?

has this been going on?!

[eyepaddle]

29. You know that clucking noise

you make when you put your tongue on the roof of your mouth and then slap it down to the bottom of your mouth? Well I can do that louder than anybody else! So loud I can make your ears ring. I always figured that while I was really loud there was probably somebody out there louder, well thirty years of looking and I haven't met anybody who's even close--so I'm gonna take credit :)

Oh yeah, I can wiggle my nose and one ear.

[Not_Giving_Up]

31. I can touch my nose with my tongue

My husband always tells me that I am destined to make a woman very happy.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

33. I know every year's Formula One World Champion

And every race winner from 1970 to 1985. After that my F1 memory starts having holes.

[dean_dem]

34. I have the power to build a time machine. nt

[Shrubhater]

45. Prove it!

[dean_dem]

81. I already did.

In a parallel universe the creators of DU were killed in a fiery plane crash, before they were able to create the website. I traveled back in time and took over the controls when the pilot had a heart attack, thus saving the people who brought you this very forum.
So....you're welcome.

[Shrubhater]

85. Okay, now

you need to see a psycoligist. n/o

[dr.strangelove]

47. The Flux Capacitor is what makes time travel possible.

[htuttle]

55. I think I got a weird email about that

Some guy from the future was looking for parts to fix his time machine.

[TyeDye75]

36. I can do a perfect impression of ......

the comic book guy from the Simpsons.

Worst talent ever.

[regularguy]

37. I'm a *mean* hackey-sack player.

Not surprisingly, I also have a talent for being able to smoke weed at any time of the day or night! Yeah, me!

[yellowdogintexas]

39. I can arch either one of my eyebrows really high, while the other

one stays still.

My daughter calls it "The Eyebrow" as it often accompanied the patented "Mom LOOK" that told her she was in trouble, or close to being in trouble.

Left one works better than the right one though

[jdots]

42. i could probably do something very kinky

but naw I would loose all respect for myself if I did.....

[NC Beach Girl]

43. I can spend hours ...

surfing the internet reading about all sorts of things including other people's weird habits.

And then innocently claim that I don't know where my day goes. :)

[achtung_circus]

54. Yeah, innocently.

Welcome to the Lounge, how's the beach?

:hi:

[NC Beach Girl]

80. brrrr

Hi, thanks for the welcome. :)

The beach is freezing....we even had snow the other day!

[JimmyJazz]

49. I can sing Thunder Road a capella without looking at the lyrics.

oh - and Magnificent 7, too. G'head - pick.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

50. Nose wiggling...

Waaaaaaaaaaay better than Elizabeth Montgomery.

[Jessica]

52. I can do this weird thing with my tongue:

This is not me, though.



:P

[Guaranteed]

62. THAT is weird.

NOT bad, though. :)

[Blue-Jay]

59. I always know what direction I'm facing.

That said, I still have no problems with asking for "road" directions.

[Guaranteed]

66. Did you know humans have a rudimentary compass in their nose?

Right in between the eyes there's a little iron deposit that allows even blindfolded people to turn and point a few degrees of north.

And when magnets are put on the side of the head, they turn 90 degrees...

[Blue-Jay]

74. I didn't know that...

I just have an iron cockring that always points to the magnetic North pole.

[Guaranteed]

79. ROFL!!!

oh man

[Bertha Venation]

64. I can juggle, and I can make a mighty fine fish face.

Never fails to crack people up. I just need to learn to stop doing it in professional settings.

:squinchy lips:

[Shrubhater]

65. I can

do a good imitation of Patrick, from Spongebob. I can also do a perfect imitation of a car slamming it's brakes, more specifically, the sound the tires make when the brakes are abruptly slammed. I can also flare my nostrils on command. There's 3 right there!

[Lydia Leftcoast]

68. I can sing Balkan style and do all kinds of foreign accents

as well as writing backwards.

[Shrubhater]

71. I can

do a high falsetto, like Barry Gibb from the Bee Gees. aaa, aaa, aaa,aaa, stayin' aliiiiiihiiiiiiihaihiiiiiiive!...

[guitar man]

72. I can

...carry 2 cups of coffee and a dozen donuts at the same time :evilgrin:

[DeposeTheBoyKing]

73. I remember everyone's birthdays without writing them down

Tell me a birthday, and it goes into the vault. I'm also a phenomenal speller.

[Shrubhater]

76. Well then,

can you spell: anfkryugbnsklrhywbnfmjriergiufdbhnksjefmerytozjgmslgirhekvlhgurnhlfldflflflflflflflflflfoflfirtjrtnregdfklcvikotgrkfrmtgsbjaaaalrojpfitbngndkwjeeeerrretyyuuitoruuugndlwighnhmfkrlyhgbnvkslsooptgj? Try that!

[Blue-Jay]

77. Is that Welsh?

If not, you need to be punished for making a "too-longer".

[Shrubhater]

83. No.

It's gibberish;-)

[sakabatou]

75. I can "invert my shoulder-joints"

[St. Jarvitude]

82. Human beatbox

I can lay down a beat that sounds 100% like a synth made it. Everyone tries to imitate it, but no one can come close to my mad skillz.

The jokes about my throat getting a workout are getting real old, though :eyes:

[bobthedrummer]

89. Try doing what I do-play on a drum kit and create pressure waves!

That's what I am here for, laying down the groove.

[Midlodemocrat]

87. Okay, weighing in

...even though I look nothing like her, I do a mean Cher singing imitation. Seriously. I always threaten the 14 year old that I am going to burst into "If I could turn back time" when we are out in public.

[SarahB]

90. two words- horse noises