I can say no thanks when someone offers me cocaine.

But only if I'm using these matches:

After a lifetime of working with typography, I can read from farther away than anyone I know. I can work out the individual letters with just a hint of their shape.

I always show this off to designers, who are half my age or less. And have won bar bets with this skill.

I can read far away street signs, much sooner than my wife.

People are often pretty shocked.

(or evolution?) :p

There was always this urban legend that some reason that a high number of Mexicans have some sort of immunity to it. I remember they used that legend on an episode of 'Curb Your Enthusiasm'

Just kidding about the nose thing.

I knew a guy that would do that as a party trick. It was all fun & giggles until the last time he did it because he happened to be wearing cut-offshorts with all these fringy like strings hang from the ends (it was the 80s). Not a good idea to light farts wearing something like that.

To already have one tied by hand in your mouth when you start the gag. Pop in a stem and pull out the one that has been tied. So can you really do that or is this a case of fuzzy memory?

The trick is in how you take it out of your mouth. With a long enough stem you really can manipulate it into a loop and lap one end over into the middle of the loop, but you have to reach in and grap that end and pull it out through your teeth or tongue and upper teeth to draw it into a knot.

Go practice and report back.

Learn how to tie a cherry stem with your tongue, and you have a neat trick that you can show off exactly once before nobody cares.

Learn how to palm things, and you have an endless variety of surprising stunts that you can show off to your friends. They still won't care, but at least you won't have to listen to protests of "not that goddam cherry stem trick again!"

(My useless skill is magic tricks)

comes in handy when you're lazy like i am

Has to be one of those ubiquitious lighthouse-shaped shakers with a beveled edge on the bottom. And yes, the salt has to be there.

Hi,
I can blow air rings underwater in a pool. Lay on my back at the bottom and blow them up, they are actually pretty cool.

Peace

Supermarket checkout, bank teller, toll booth, doesn't matter - I can stop it.

shamelessly bump the thread I am parodying.

Both voices say the same thing, though, so I guess it's not that special.

Years ago, I broke my one shoulder and when it healed I realized I could reach way way up further towards my shoulder than normal. So I put the sunscreen on the back of that hand, and I can reach right on up to my shoulder blades. I get full coverage and I feel like a freak of nature. You should hear the comments I've gotten over the years.

I know, trivial and mundane but this is the Lounge after all.

It used to be cool, but now nobody wants to smoke a cigarette that has been in someone else's mouth.
Come to think about it, I don't know that many people who still smoke.

He never appears and has never destroyed anything but this is about what *I* can do, not what he can.

I just pay good attention the first time and then get back each time after, right from space.

And I mean obscure.

Hopelessly snarled knitting yarn, knotted up string, jewelry chains. My Catholic patients used to ask me to untangle their rosaries. Cracked me up, since I'm Jewish, but I was happy to oblige.

I learned when I was younger so I could be prepared when I travel to a different country. I'm not fluent in any language but I can remember some German, Spanish, French, Japanese and Italian phrases such as "where is the bathroom", "I would like a room for two nights", "How much is that" etc.

I can also name all the monarchs on England and US presidents in order. I have a really good memory.

I don't mean turning my head. I don't know how to describe it. Think "Egyptian" dancing.

I can launch bubbles off the tip of my tongue. . most of the time.

bits of cardstock, CD case, books, grapes, leaves, sticks, whatever. If it is in my hands for more than a few seconds it will squeak, hum, buzz or twang in some way.

Tie a http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Figure-eight_knot_(ropes) all inside my mouth. As you can imagine it takes a good long cherry stem to do this with.

Please. Shoot me.



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ransom_note_effect

I can catch 52 stacked-up pennies off my elbow in mid air after eight rye. 53 makes me fall over.

Seht doch wie der Rheinwein tanzt
In dem schoenen Glase
Wie er hin and wieder ranzt
Und kreucht in die Nase

Any idea where I could get sheet music to German drinking songs? I have a use for it.

I know a guy here in Japan who has sheet music for German drinking songs. And I'm going to be meeting with him tomorrow.

By the way, his favorite song is "Ein Prosit, ein Prosit, zur Gutlichkeit..."

Green Lantern skills... (On IMVU.com, that is)