Obscure talents
 

Do you have any obscure talents? I'm a very good finger snapper. Well at least that is what everyone tells me. I guess I got good at it because it is a thing I do when I'm bored. I start subconsciously snapping my fingers to the tunes of certain songs. I can snap my fingers insanely fast and can snap with every finger on my hand. I'm best with the middle finger though.

I can do hundreds of situps without getting tired. I can climb trees extremely fast. (I can basically run up a tree propelling myself up in short time.) I'm also an expert midget tosser. Are these obscure enough?

Stick half a soda can in my mouth? Being really flexible for someone 200 lbs+? Along with the soda can, my fist? Not at the same time though...

Obscure enough?

Obscure enough for me.

I have a tendency to freak the hell out of people when I bend my rather flexible double-jointed fingers backwards, such as to the point when the upper two segments of the finger lie nearly parallel to the hand.

I can make farting sounds with my hands. However, I haven't perfected it enough that I can make actual notes, its usually 5 notes in one. *BOOP BOOP*

And you can imagine how many girls I impressed in grade-school. *BOOP BOOP*

I'm quite flexible, and for some reason it freaks people out. Especially when I'll collapse myself from standing to sitting indian-style, and can lean forward and touch the ground in front of me (or hunched over a laptop, which is what I do if it's on the floor). I can also hold hands behind my back, which isn't that impressive, but relates to the flexible bit.

Also, I apparently am pretty good at impersonating my friends that speak in a distinctive way or have a pronounced accent, especially my former Russian viola teacher. I pretty much have the Russian accent down.

I can use my feet like slightly retarded hands, picking up anything from a dropped sock to a wineglass.

I can also vibrate my eyeballs and squirt dual saliva streams from under my tongue like a snake.

Dual saliva streams? Wow, that really is something! Although most of us do this in small amounts anyway, what with bilateral sublingual caruncles and all.

I can twist my wrist in a full circle, bend my right pinky back so it touches my wrist, pop my thumbs out of their sockets without touching them, pop my shoulders out of their sockets, put my one foot behind my head, and grab my wrists behind my back (one hand goes over the shoulder the other goes low behind my back).

I was either dropped a lot as a kid or none of my joints formed properly.

I can whistle and hum at the same time. I can't really change the interval though. It's usually a minor 6th.

I can blow air out of my right eye by holding my nostrils and mouth shut and blowing. Apparently either my lacrimal ducts or nasolacrimal duct on the right side are unusually large. I could probably squirt milk out like that guy in the record books if I tried. I don't particularly want to, though.

As a side note, due to the unusual size of my ducts, when I itch my right eye it squeaks. And as if all of that wasn't gross enough, I have attached a recording of my squeaky eye. It's probably overkill, but I figured at least a few of you are curious as to what a squeaky eye sounds like.

All at once? =D

I'm freakishly flexible, especially for my build. I can tuck one foot behind my head (not both at once!), but it isn't terribly comfy '~' I can easily touch anywhere on the bottom of either foot to, say, my nose or forehead. No hands involved.

The girl I roomed with at a Kansas music festival could do this, and it kind of freaked people out. Occasionally I do it by accident.

For some reason, people get really freaked out that I can bend my fingers at the first joint (joint closest to fingernail) without moving the other joints. Years of jamming your fingers into their sockets as a soccer goalie will get you some pretty weird finger abilities.

Yeah I can do that too. It really weirds folks out something fierce. Plus my fingers can bow back pretty darn far, possibly tied in to that. I can raise my fingers to around 60° or so while keeping my palm still flat >_>;

After the fact that no fewer than four people have commented on their uncanny flexibility, I'm going to go ahead and say that being double-jointed or whatever is no longer "obscure".

Me, I can impersonate Marge Simpson, to the point of being able to say anything in her voice. Patty and Selma too.

I can do this:

http://a.photos.cx/IMG01073-93d.jpg

f u crash

I used to be able to do it with both legs, but I fucked up my right thigh last year, so now it kind of really hurts!

When I was younger and a hell of alot skinnier, I was able to do that...

Maybe I should do the soda can one if I have the time. :|

Hooray for not being the only one who can bend the top joints of my fingers ^___^

I can also bend my left thumb back to my wrist; let's get a picture here:

http://aycu08.webshots.com/image/222...2843170_rs.jpg

=o

I can also cross all of my toes and move my little toe on each foot horizontally outwards. Apparently that's weird, and I've yet to hear the contrary.

Me too! :eagletear: I used to have so much fun doing that when I was younger. If I dropped something, I didn't have to actually bend down to pick it up.

...Maybe that's part of the reason why I'm so lazy now.

I can belch on command and fold my tongue. That's about it.

I have really good eye-hand coordination, and good motor skills in general, so I can do a lot of odd and obscure things. I'm really good at playing with devil sticks (juggling sticks), and I can bounce a tennis ball by using a pen as if it were a racket for a very long while.

I'm sure all of you have heard of mental calculators, people who can calculate very large numbers in their head. I can do similar except with angles. I can very accurately measure angles just by looking at them. Back in geometry I almost never used my protractor except to double check my work.

Obscure enough?

Well if impersonations are allowed...just to name a few for you anime and video game fans:

Elder Toguro (dub), Yami Bakura (dub), Shadow the Hedgehog (both Adventure2/Heroes and [bleh!] 4kids voice), Walter Dolmes (dub, 1st OVA).

Closest I've gotten to the Simpsons though is being able to say "Excellent" with Mr. Burns.