Feb 1, 2009
Handless jaw harping, etc: Share your quirky skills. (And I’m using skills loosely.)
I can hold a jaw harp without my hands because my front teeth zigzag.
What curious—yea, mystifying—abilities do you have?
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My toes are about as close to prehensile as a human’s can get. I pick up a room with my feet. I can even open doors with them.
–Denita
I can slide my hands out of handcuffs.
I can untie myself if I ever get kidnapped and bound. Used to play the game with my brother, he’d kidnap me and I’d wriggle my way out of the rope.
All my toe knuckles pop.
I don’t have any wonderfully weird abilities, but my brother can play a harmonica without using his hands; he holds it to his mouth with his toes. I know, it sounds a little gross, but it’s absolutely hilarious to watch and REALLY impresses my kids. :)
I can pick up a tennis ball with my toes. I’ve never tried to open a door with them, I might have to now. . .
I can move my eyes independently left and right, and can lick inside my nostrils. I try not to EVER practice the latter…
I am UNABLE to get “brain freeze”. I have tried by drinking a Slurpee/Icee as fast as I can without stopping, eating HUGE spoonfulls of ice cream, etc. But, I’ve never experienced anything!
on my right foot i can wiggle my big toe and third toe while keeping the second toe still. :) TA-DA!
I can sing “Take Me Out to the Ballgame” one beat off.
In either direction.
I have never heard of a jaw harp until now. That is so cool, but I cannot think of any curious abilities that I possess.
I can whistle quite well breathing in. So, when I’m whistling songs (usually to myself, I guess…I don’t draw crowds…wife and kids are generally unimpressed) I don’t have to pause to take a breath.
Charles, when did you discover this “ability”? And what had you been doing beforehand?
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I can raise and droop my eyebrows individually. I can waggle ears independently. It’s on my CV. Be impressed.
Chris, when I first saw your reply about singing Take me out to the ball game, I thought, “I can do that! That’s easy.” Turns out it’s not, and now I’m very impressed.
I can pop my right thumb out of its socket.
Able to catch food items up to about the size of a marshmallow (M&M’s, cereal, fruit, etc.) thrown from any distance. If I can get there with my feet, I’ll catch it.
I can make a terrifying noise with my left shoulder. It’s not actually popping, I don’t think, but that’s the closest I can get to describing the noise. It’s just entertaining to me, but it freaks people out when they hear me doing it.
I can pop my right index finger out of socket, totally dislocated, people get grossed out.
I know my dad is mystified when I’m home and walk through the house and fill up a cup of water without turning any lights on, without running into anything, and without spilling the water.
If necessary, I can also get my hands from behind my back to in front when handcuffs are on (found this out with toy handcuffs).
I can clap with one hand.
Wow. This comment box is freaky reading material. I think I’ll refrain. :)
You forgot one skill, Abraham: you got nominated for the bloggies. That’s one skill not to be taken lightly–or loosely. Congratulations.
I can stick out my tounge and touch the top of my nose. Wait at least 1 hour or brush your teeth after eating before attempting to impress your family with this skill during “one up” holiday competitions.
I can talk backwards, phonetically…though I’m a little rusty these days.
I can make an extraordinarily loud clicking noise with my tongue. Loud enough to be painful to the ears in some settings.
I can use my feet to pick up items off the floor, and I’ll use my feet to close the dishwasher door, etc. to prevent having to bend down. I can use a power drill with either hand. I can catch a frisbee behind my back (and use the same trick to close doors-by grabbing the handle without having to look for it).
i can whistle through my tongue! only about a penta-tonic scale range but still.
I can flip light switches with my chin.
I can write backwards and upside down (at the same time)
I can make a really cool water drop sound. It’s a combination of type of whistling and a tap on the cheek for amplification. Learned it in 7th grade.
I used to be able to do Rubik cube (spelling) with my toes. Now, I forgotten how to do them. I was challenge to do that since one of the high school boy did that when I was in high school, and he did that on That’s Incrediable show. This was back in the early 80′s. I would love to find that on youtube and share that with others!
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I can turn my feet completely inwards, so that the toes of one foot are stacked in front of the heel of the other foot, and then walk foot over foot like a wind-up toy.
me and jonathan can play the snap game. it’s the game where we can guess what famous person you are thinking.
I can untie any knot. Sometimes I’ll make complicated knots (in one instance, an entire ball of yarn was involved) just so I can untie them.
Hum and whistle pretty much any song at the same time.
I can bend the 2nd knuckle of my ring finger at near a 90 degree angle while keeping the other knuckle straight.
i am laughing so much at all these things.
i can talk (where you can hear my clearly) with my lips closed. short sentences, but still talking.
I can bend my fingers back so they touch the back of my hand.
I can also hold my hands behind my back and flip them over my head, so they are in front of me, without letting go.
Freaky I know!
I can fold my tongue into three loops, two loops, and of course one loop. I can also create a type of wave- like a wave a surfer would surf. I can also move my ears.
I used to be able to lay on my back and pull my legs up and over my head to rest my knees on the ground behind my head. I haven’t tried it in a while. It’s probably not that special, I’m just pretty flexible for someone who’s considered non-athletic.
also – this is INSANE reading material!!!
I can gargle the tune to just about any song…on pitch too.
I can hang a spoon off the end of my nose, while standing perfectly straight. Great at weddings. LOL
I was a synchronized swimmer in the 5th grade. I did my routine to Enya’s “Sail Away”.
Does that count?
HAHA!!! I have the same hat! Now I won’t feel embarassed to wear it….:)
I can shoot saliva out of my mouth ridiculously long distances…like across the room..I think it’s called ‘gleeking’. It’s kinda gross but that’s all I’ve got!
1) My non-blog reading (but still wonderful) wife can do all that tongue stuff that Katrina mentioned and I even saw our oldest son mimic her as an infant so I know its genetic.
2) I can crack all the knuckles in my hands just by making fists and can continue this as fast as I can open and close my hands and for as long as I can stand to do it. And like that other person I can also crack all my “toe knuckles.”
3) I used to be able to win the game “Guess Who” with in three turns (or if I messed up at least one turn before the other person was about to guess).
4) I know (by memory) the number pie to the following extent (3.1415926535) even though I have not tried or wanted to remember that since I was 13.
5) I also can quickly tell you (no calculator) the decimal equivalent of any fraction with a denominator of 7 (i.e. 1/7 = 0.142857….) and several that have a denominator of 14 (probably all of them if you give me extra time compared to the 7′s)
6) Not only am I the biggest sinner that I know, but I am the biggest dork that my wife knows!
I can roll my stomach.
And I, too, have prehensile toes. =)
Oh, and my fingers are longer than the palm of my hand.
I can swallow a quarter and regurgitate it back. But once I almost lost it for good and haven’t done it since.