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stopbush Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-07-05 12:49 PM
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Try This At Your Desk...Really Weird!
This is weird. Try it...consider it exercise:

This is so funny that it will boggle your mind. And you will keep trying it at least 50 more times to see if you can outsmart your foot. But you can't!!!

1. While sitting at your desk, lift your right foot off the floor and make clockwise circles with it.

2. Now, while doing this, draw the number "6" in the air with your right hand. Your foot will change direction!!!

I told you so... And there is nothing you can do about it.

Found this at the Museum of Hoaxes...but this one is true!
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0007 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-07-05 12:53 PM
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1. My right foot reverses direction when drawing the six.
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Debi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-07-05 12:53 PM
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2. What do you DO that you have time to do this AT YOUR DESK?
:rofl: Just kidding - That WAS weird!
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stopbush Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-07-05 01:01 PM
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10. Today's a slow day after two weeks of insanity.
I'm sure you know the feeling.
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Debi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-07-05 01:12 PM
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14. Well...err...ummm
what am I doing posting instead of working? :shrug:

It IS Friday after all! :hi:
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MadAsHellNewYorker Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-07-05 12:54 PM
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3. Holy Crap!
im trying so hard not to change my foot direction, but i cant help it! wierd! :scared:
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notadmblnd Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-07-05 12:54 PM
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4. doesn't happen for me
maybe it's because I'm lefthanded?
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stopbush Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-07-05 01:05 PM
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11. Are you using the correct foot?
:)
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Up2Late Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-07-05 01:12 PM
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15. Try switching hands and feet, Also, you might try drawing a 9...
...I'd be interested in the results of these tests.
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Field Of Dreams Donating Member (570 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-07-05 12:54 PM
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5. I did this with my office door open...
glad nobody walked by!
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AZBlue Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-07-05 12:56 PM
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6. Wonder what it means if it doesn't happen
'Cause my foot kept going clockwise!
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WHAT Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-07-05 12:56 PM
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7. you can do it if...
you draw the 6 from the bottom up.
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MadAsHellNewYorker Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-07-05 12:57 PM
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8. very true!
:hi:
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Fox Mulder Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-07-05 04:37 PM
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33. Aren't both the right foot and the right hand...
controlled by the same side of the brain? If that's the case, it explains why I cannot "outsmart" my foot.

:)
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unpossibles Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-07-05 12:58 PM
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9. didn't work for me
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Lerkfish Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-07-05 01:05 PM
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12. ok, that is beyond freaky!
I even tried, really really hard NOT to do that.

man!
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Up2Late Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-07-05 01:11 PM
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13. I can almost keep the Right foot going, but try the Left foot, and...
...the 6 has no effect.

Must have something to do with the right/left sides of the Brain thing.

I wonder of a Left handed person would have a different result?
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VWolf Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-07-05 01:19 PM
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17. I'm left handed
and my foot changes direction as well. FREAKY!!!

This must be Clinton's fault.
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zbdent Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-07-05 01:13 PM
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16. Uh, oh . . .
it fell off . . .
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Speck Tater Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-07-05 01:20 PM
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18. Hmmm. Didn't work. Foot kept going clockwise. (nt)
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stopbush Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-07-05 01:25 PM
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19. Try drawing the 6 three times...
then the anti-Christ jumps in and helps it work!
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Dora Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-07-05 01:28 PM
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21. "bloody Mary, bloody Mary..." n/t
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Fuzz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-07-05 01:25 PM
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20. I did it 3 times, and the devil appeared in the form of Karl Rove
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incapsulated Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-07-05 01:37 PM
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24. lol! I guess I'll stop at two! n/t
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Up2Late Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-07-05 01:28 PM
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22. Try using you left foot and draw a 9 (from the bottom)...
...that screws up the circle too with me.
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TallahasseeGrannie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-07-05 01:34 PM
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23. My foot stops for a moment
and tries to change direction, then I get control over it.

Cool.

I'll bet you work for the government, don't you?
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incapsulated Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-07-05 01:40 PM
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25. You don't have to draw a "6", btw
Just move your finger in the opposite direction (left) and you get the same result!

Very interesting little exercise, something is going on with your brain here, I wish I knew...

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Buns_of_Fire Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-07-05 01:44 PM
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26. My foot didn't change direction -- it started going back and forth
Then my heel kicked out one of the supports on my chair, so it collapsed and I fell against the filing cabinet, opening up a gash in my head. In my haste to get up, I put my hand down the wrong way and sprained my wrist. While flailing around on the floor, I hit my knee against the fish tank and (1) dislocated my knee, and (2) knocked over the fish tank. The water from the fish tank spilled over everything, shorting out the electricity and starting a fire that spread into the next three offices. At the doctors, they found a fish in my pants and called the police on me for being a prevert. Much hilarity ensued when I explained the story to them, so they just issued me a swift kick in the crotch and left it at that.

Is that what's supposed to happen? :shrug:
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Straight Shooter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-07-05 01:54 PM
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27. Dang.
:rofl:
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ComerPerro Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-07-05 01:56 PM
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28. I can do it without changing direction, but it takes a lot of focus
If I relax and do it, then my foot changes direction.

I'd seen this before, but, yes, its really weird.

This will probably be moved to the lounge, BTW
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Taxloss Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-07-05 01:57 PM
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29. Neat trick, cool.
I laughed out loud when I tried it. I'll certainly suggest it to colleagues.
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Fleshdancer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-07-05 02:01 PM
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30. I had to do it with my left foot while drawing the number 9 w/ left hand
is it because I'm left handed? I turned my right foot and drew the 6 without any problems. Can right-handers do it on their left side?
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Up2Late Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-07-05 04:13 PM
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31. Yup, it's easy to do the left foot for me.
Just hope none of my neighbors saw me.:crazy:
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El Fuego Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-07-05 04:34 PM
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32. Holy shit!!!!
Too weird
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