03-02-2000, 11:06 PM | #1 |
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Useless talents....
Does anyone have any useless talents? I can put both feet behind my head and juggle......hehe, not at the same time. I can also wiggle my nose and ears and make my eyeballs vibrate. Oh yeah, and turn my eyelids inside out.
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03-02-2000, 11:09 PM | #2 |
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I can ************************************************** ************************************************** **. I can also ************************************************** ********************.
The material of my talents had to be censored to keep the PG rating of the board. |
03-02-2000, 11:17 PM | #3 |
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Umm... I can roll my eyes and cross them
Can't think of anything else atm... get back to you on this |
03-02-2000, 11:19 PM | #4 |
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Oh yeah, I'm a pimp. I guess thats a pretty cool talent.
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03-02-2000, 11:44 PM | #5 |
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I've got a suggestion for bmilder - it involves excessive usage of a certain emoticon...
As for myself - well, my grandiose pop can sculptures immediately come to mind. |
03-03-2000, 12:10 AM | #6 |
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I juggle (up to four balls) and do yo-yo tricks, do card tricks and sleight-of-hand magic, and can quickly compose limericks on any given subject. I've also got perfect pitch: hum or play a note and I can tell what it is. This isn't quite useless but I don't use it much except when doing musical transcriptions.
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03-03-2000, 03:15 AM | #7 |
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I'm teaching myself to be a ventriloquist and have a good memory which enables me to recount most of the details of a movie after one viewing (that's the useless part--it's very useful on tests!) TOR, do you get annoyed when an instrument is in tune with itself but out of tune with the real pitches? I've always wondered that. I have perfect relative pitch, so I get some of the same benefits. I'm a limerickist too! Perhaps my most useless talent, though, is that I can wiggle my ears. Both together, individually, alternating--you name it! This is a talent that I developed while sitting in very boring classes a few years ago. It involves strengthening and coordinating ear muscles that most people don't even know exist. I can still shock people sitting behind me in class. You just don't expect to see someone's ears wiggling!
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03-03-2000, 12:23 PM | #8 |
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In highschool, I had memorized the 400 first decimals of pi... talk about uselessness!
Now, only maybe the 40 first decimals are still in my head, because I didn't keep up refreshing them... (I didn't want to stay useless all of my life!) |
03-03-2000, 07:19 PM | #9 |
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400? Wow, I can only do 50!
And TOR... I'm glad SOMEBODY else here has that limerick talent besides myself... I used to display it all the time. But I don't anymore. Ooh, and given time, I can do some pretty snazzy anagrams on movie quotes... |
03-03-2000, 08:25 PM | #10 |
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I have a photographic memory, which IS usefull since it only takes me about 5 mins. to study for a test. I'm a magician, and that's kinda usefull when you wanna shut little kids up
Ok, on to the useless. I can bend my thumb back and stick it below the nuckle of my pointer finger. I can also move the nuckles of my middle fingers back and forth. I'm basically double jointed everywhere in my hands, and can do almost anything I want with them (Jae and Greg, you guys know better then to respond to that ) |
03-03-2000, 10:28 PM | #11 |
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I have memorized a lot of useless information, like the names of every Swedish king and queen that ruled from 988 A.D to the present and for how long they reigned.
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03-04-2000, 01:20 AM | #12 |
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Heh, I've done something similar to emilsson. When I was younger I memorized every fact I could find about each and every U.S. President (I'm still pretty good at Presidential Trivia, and amaze my friends with my ability to name a president based on his number )
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03-04-2000, 01:36 AM | #13 |
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I too have a semi-photographic memory, meaning I remember lots of things, but none of them are really important. It does help me study, though. Another thing is the fact that I am a very fast reader (according to a school survey, faster then 99% of the rest of the school), so it takes me about 5 minutes to do all of my textbook reading. Hey bmilder, did you know that every president elected in a double decade year since 1820 has died in office?(except Reagan, who was shot at, anyway) We'll have to see if the winner this year can escape the "curse".
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03-04-2000, 02:13 AM | #14 |
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Ummmmmm... well I'm pretty good at banging people on the head with Harry Potter books(funny funny! my friend was really irritating me once and I said if I had a Harry Potter book in my backpack she'd be unconsiouc by now!(She's four feet tall, weighs 50 pounds, and is older than me by 8 days!(i'm 10)))
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03-04-2000, 02:25 AM | #15 |
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The first 500 numbers of pi? F***!
And yes, ben does amaze me with his presidential knowledge. |
03-04-2000, 03:06 AM | #16 |
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I'm Canadian, so I can only name about... ten to fifteen U.S. presidents...
I used to be able to memorize The Phantom Menace as well, but I lost that ability over the last few months. Besides, it's nothing special - lots of people can do it... hmm... oh, I know. I can rant about any given topic at hand - throw me an ambiguous, multiple-definition word and I can turn it into a controversial debate. |
03-04-2000, 04:00 AM | #17 |
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Of course I knew that! I've telling some people at school about that and they think it's cool.
Btw you're off, it started in 1840 with Harrison's election and death, not in 1820 |
03-05-2000, 02:49 AM | #18 |
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You're right.... and I of all people should know that, considering that Harrison was my great-great-great-great-great(I think that's enough....) uncle (really!). So, of course, was his grandson, Benjamin, minus two greats. I'm the relative of two presidents!
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03-05-2000, 03:49 AM | #19 |
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Really? Wow, that's so cool!
(sorry to hear about the untimely death of your great-great-great-uncle William ) |
03-05-2000, 06:12 AM | #20 |
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John Adams is my third cousin 8 times removed. So I'm related to just as many presidents as you, TOR.
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