Weird Talents

[Ash]

Everybody has a weird talent.
Mine is gleeking.

The technical definition according to Wikipedia is, "the projection of saliva from the submandibular gland upon compression by the tongue."

Now there's a word you don't use everyday.  Submandibular!

When I was a freshman in high school, lots of other kids could gleek...and they would gleek on me.  To retaliate, I learned how to do it myself.
A memory that is still fresh in my mind was when I asked my mother if she knew what gleeking was.  When she said no, I gleeked in her face.  Needless to say, she went ballistic.  I got it all over her glasses and remember her swearing at me as she ran those glasses under the sink to wash them off.  
I thought it was hilarious! 

How about you?
Got any weird talents?

[ghouck]

I can do "The String Trick". That's where you snort a length of string up your nose and pull it out of your mouth. When I was in the Army, I snorted on end of my dog-tag chain up my nose, pulled it out of my mouth, and attached it so it was litterally hooked through my skull. Cool eh?

[ER]

I can juggle five tennis balls at the same time. Or let me put it this way: I have. Did. Once. Usually four's my upper limit.

[Paquita]

*I* can't do this, but my favorite weird talent is spit bubbles - not the ones that gather on your lips, anyone can do that, but the ones that actually float away!  A kid in my ROTC class could do it and I remember standing behind him for inspection and seeing the little bubbles floating away from him.  It was so hard not to laugh I was tearing up.

[schmendrik]

Nope. No talent I can think of.

But one of my favorite stories of a weird talent is 19th-century French performer Le Petomane.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_P%C3%A9tomane

Ah, will we ever again have a venue like the Moulin Rouge, where a musical farter can be a headliner seen by royalty?

[Mr. DS]

*I* can't do this, but my favorite weird talent is spit bubbles - not the ones that gather on your lips, anyone can do that, but the ones that actually float away!  A kid in my ROTC class could do it and I remember standing behind him for inspection and seeing the little bubbles floating away from him.  It was so hard not to laugh I was tearing up.

I can do this but not to perfection.

I can wiggle my ears.  I remember as a kid trying to explain to my mother how to do it.   I think you either have the "talent" or you don't.  

[Derf]

I've never heard of gleeking before, and I can't do it, at least not on the first try. I can wiggle my ears, flare my nostrils, lift one eyebrow (Mr. Spock style), wiggle the top part of my forehead, curl my tongue into a tube (can't quite manage the cloverleaf) and juggle (only three balls, though, 'cause I never practice). Are any of these talents?

I can also sit for hours and listen to accordion music. Bagpipes, too. Is that talent or self-loathing?

Musically, I sing, play several instruments, write songs, etc. A self-proclaimed musical genius (i.e., arrogant organist with zero social skills) once showed off how he could beat triplets (no, Menard, he wasn't spanking three girls ) with one hand while simultaneously beating eighth notes with the other (three beats against two). After about ten seconds of watching him, I could do it easily. Is that talent?

[Psycho Circus]

I can perfectly imitate a cat purring, by almost choking on my tongue 

[Ed, Ego and Superego]

I can move both thumbs beyond the human normal.  Its almost a dislocation.
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[zombie no.one]

I can wiggle my ears.  I remember as a kid trying to explain to my mother how to do it.   I think you either have the "talent" or you don't.  

can you wiggle them independently of each other or just both at the same time? I can do one at a time but I distinctly remember practicing how to do this when I was about 9 or 10, don't think I was 'born' an ear waggler

I can also bend my little finger on my right hand backwards bending at all the joints so it curves back on itself. really useful for not much actually...

[Mr. DS]

I can wiggle my ears.  I remember as a kid trying to explain to my mother how to do it.   I think you either have the "talent" or you don't.  

can you wiggle them independently of each other or just both at the same time? I can do one at a time but I distinctly remember practicing how to do this when I was about 9 or 10, don't think I was 'born' an ear waggler

Just tried it, the answer is yes. 

[RCMerchant]

I can  raise either eyebrow independent of one or the other. I can wiggle my ears too. I can also make my lips vibrate real fast so that it sounds like a helicopter.  I can cross one eye,while the other looks straight . I've been told I have a 'rubber' face. I'm real good at making stupid looking faces.

[JaseSF]

My girlfriend complains I can fart and belch louder than most. Is that talent? 

[Patient7]

I can make any conversation uncomfortable by saying only a few words.

[indianasmith]

I can inflate my tongue at will to three times its normal size, and I can belch at will, and fire off a series of rapidfire burps most of the time when I feel like it.  I can also arch my right eyebrow but not my left.