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laureen227

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i can wiggle my ears, cross both eyes, cross just one eye, curl my tongue, raise just my right eyebrow & pop my little fingers in-&-out of the bent position. looks like what people call 'double-jointed', but really it's the only way i can straighten them.
i can also read very quickly w/excellent recall & comprehension. never measured the speed, & since i usually read while doing other things, i don't know how accurate i'd be. but in the summer, i can check out 14-20 books for 2 weeks & finish them before the 2 weeks are up. so pretty fast, i guess. but i wouldn't call that a useless or pointless talent, like the others i listed - it's come in very useful many times!
 

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haha...
well... I have a very long toungue, i will have to get my friend to send a picture because its actually kinda gross!
I can touch my nose, twist it, do many things with it


My rude fingers are bent, i can pick up things with my feet, i can fake burp, my nails are really soft and bendable.

I can also do that eyebrow thing like lunas mom haha
 

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Oh, this has given me such a laugh reading this!


I used to really annoy my sister by turning my eyelids inside out. She would slap me round the head and it would make them ping back

Can only do one now though as I had an operation on one.
I can wiggle my ears too. Can`t think of any others right now.
 

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Originally Posted by Trouts mom

I have a tongue circus


I can clover my tongue, do the worm with it, and flip it right over
Same here!
 

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Originally Posted by lnbandcats

The only thing that I can do is tie a cherry stem in a knot with my tongue!
Hmmmm, what's up with everyone and their tongues?
Me too!!!

I was thinking about having a T shirt made up that says that. Think I'd get a date???
 

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All I can do is spit liquid (preferably beer) through my two upper teeth-a little gap between them-if I tip my head a bit it looks like a fountain!!
 

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I can make myself burp... Matter of fact I can burp and talk


I too can wiggle my ears, do the clam with my tongue, turn my tongue upside down, raise my eyebrow, tie a cherry stem oh and I can blow smoke......without smoking
 

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I can pick things up with my toes
and make myself burp (but i would NEVER admit the burping thing to colin-
i'm always poping him upside the head for burping -it's soo rude!) that's about it. i can't think of anything else at the moment.
 

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I can cross my eyes, and curl my tongue. I can also say the Greek alphabet VERY fast (my 7th grade teacher made us learn it), I can also say the alphabet backwards as fast as I can say it forward.
 

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I can tie a cherry stem in a knot, can wiggle my ears, curl my tongue, raise both eyebrows by themselves....

I think the only thing that wasn't mentioned is I can flare my nostrils and snort like a horse (of course, I do that mainly while I'm sleeping and DH is NOT impressed!)
 

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Strange question... can you spread your toes apart on purpose? Like stick the pinky toe way out there? I can only do it on my right foot but not the left, same with my sister. Weird.
 

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Originally Posted by theimp98

oh yea, i can do the live long and posper things from star trek
you know the fingers
Oh, I forgot that! I can do that too, and if I really concentrate, I can alternate pretty fast between that (a split between the two middle fingers) and two simultaneous splits -- one between index and middle, and one between ring finger and pinky.

Yes, I had to work on that one. And sadly, I was in my 30s at the time.


Hey, bonus points for anyone who knows where the idea for that Vulcan hand gesture came from!
 
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