The Magnificent Eight Blog Tour
Is coming to take you away… Sorry, couldn’t resist myself.
The name of the game is the peppermint twist… okay, really, I’ll stop now and get on with the regularly scheduled programming.
All this week, I’m blog touring with some pretty fan-f-ing-tastic authors! We’re asking each others questions and want all of you to play along. We ask a question on our blog. You answer it in our comments section and you’re entered to win a prize! At the end of the week, I’ll select a winner from those of you who have commented! Don’t forget to visit each of the other authors’ blogs (click their name and it will take you straight there) to answer their question as well for even more chances to win!
My question:
If you had to enter a competition for the "Most Uselessly Unique Talent," what would your talent be?
My answer: I can mimic the voices of the cast of The Wizard of Oz movie from the scene where you meet Glenda the Good Witch– Come Out, Come Out song right up Dorothy meeting the scarecrow. I’ve never been able to perfect the scarecrows voice. Clearly, I had too much time on my hands as a child and missed my calling as the front man for an all munchkin rock band.
Megan Hart: My most uselessly unique talent is: After drinking lemonade, I can drop spit in a runner from my mouth and suck it back up. Gross AND useless!
Joey W. Hill – I can screw up almost any computer-related gadget I touch in such a way that it will stump computer geniuses. My husband (who is a computer genius), assures me of this constantly. Usually as he’s rebooting for the tenth time and muttering vile curses beneath his breath.
Anya Bast: I can make up songs about anything, I mean anything…and I quite frequently do, much to my husband’s dismay. I use the melodies to well known songs like the theme from The Empire Strikes Back, for example, or Rigoletto, but I make up my own words. Heh.
Patrice Michelle: I can fold and roll my tongue all kinds of funky ways.
Lauren Dane: I’m utterly lame, I have no real talents. I can do a great Irish accent. Once Megan and I pretended to be Irish for two days in Las Vegas (much to Anya’s annoyance I’m sure). But it’s not unique!
Jaci Burton: I have a completely unique memory for useless old Hollywood trivia like where Bing Crosby is buried or what John Wayne’s real name is. Though it can be helpful in games like Trivial Pursuit or when my husband does the crossword puzzle.
(Its a super secret LOL)
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My prize– winner to be picked on Friday from those who have commented on this post this week– is a $20.00 Gift Certificate for Amazon.com (If I pick you and you don’t get back to me within 14 days, I’m selecting someone else)
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Patrice too mine.. I can curl my tongue – which annoys some of the family because they just can’t.
Wow, those are some pretty, uh, unique talents!
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You know that fool proof experiment they do in high school chemistry? Where you add iodine to starch and get a bright purple? I can mix those reagents and NOT get purple. Totally flumoxed my prof. He made me do it over and over. Then he took the same reagents and added them together and (poof) purple.
Mandy, I think your gmail wants to keep it super seekrit. Check your mandy@mandy email.
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I can pick things up with my toes. It does not matter if it is clothing, pens, etc…if it is on the floor I can pick it up with my toes so I do not have to bend down.
Okay, um:
I can separate my two middle fingers and keep my two outside finger together. I don’t know if that makes any sense but that is the only thing I can think of – very useless but makes for great entertainment when a person is board at a family get together.
Thanks for the contest
Regards
Lea
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:jig: My husband does that and he pinches my legs with them. LOL
You would be awesome at a Trekkie convention! :dnc:
I have the ability to do wonderful job interviews and yet still not get hired. I have been looking for work for 2 months now and going on interviews that are perfection and yet for some reason I can not get the darn ppl to call me back and hire me. :((
I’m noticing my husband shares this one too.
Crossing my fingers things turn around for you both!
Hey! I think Mz Shiloh should have to give it up!
All of my fingers are double jointed, I can bend just the top knuckles (closest to the nail) while the rest of the knuckles remain straight… useful innit it… not!
I can mimic tv character’s laughs. I can do the mom on That 70s show, tigger’s, and woody woodpecker.
I can twist my thumb so it touches my arm. Gross, huh?
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My most uselessly unique talent is to crash a computer faster then a speeding bullet. I have gone through three computers in the last year. The computer company does not want me to have a warranty any longer, I think they are tired of replacing my computer.
Hey, that’s mine too. lol Heather P and I should start a circus act, lol. Huh, let’s see, does singing and dancing in a princess gown count as a talent? Or do you have to be good at it?
:ohpretty:
i flair my nostrils, which drives my hubby to distraction (he cant
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Ok, I can pick things up with my toes, and I can do the star trek finger thing too but my most useless thing, is I can walk across a level floor and fall LOL
Well, I can whistle through my teeth… Not very useful, but it’s another way to entertain myself. lol
I can do the toes thing….I can partially dislocate my shoulder. I have always wanted to try the straight jacket trick. Other than that I am fairly boring…
Natasha A.
Good morning Mandy,
Ok, I’m so not talented. I had to call the hubby & ask b/c the only thing I could think of was I can stack things. The hubby agreed his words “you can stack things higher than any person I know”. My response, “you are in TROUBLE”. It’s gotten bad now that I have TBR stack also to go with all those paper stacks.
Heather, Mandy’s hubby, & Michelle, my hubby can join you all in that circus. Drives me nuts!!!
Have a great day,
Susan
My tongue turns sideways. It freaks people out, but that’s my utterly useless talent.
i can look at anything and make, art or designs in things that i see like tree’s or any other type of non-alive objects
I can curl my tongue and pick up things with my toes.
My talent is that I have no talent. I can’t curl my tongue, or separate my fingers, or anything else. I’m just ordinary.
I have the ability to predict where a straight line goes.
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Can it be a negative talent? as in… I cannot wink?
’cause I have very few talents and I think they are all useful, you know?
Or… Oh, I know! I know! I can reach really high notes when singing–not sustain them long, mind, but ear splitting high notes all the same. Does that work? :grin:
Best luck with the release!
I actually have a useless talent. I know within 24 hours when my mother is going to call. It doesn’t seem to work with any other person I know, just my mother.
I too can do the flaring of the nostrils and picking stuff up w/ my toes but I think my unique talent is I have freakish strength in my legs! lol I don’t do weights or anything to make them stronger but whenever my sis and I would fight as kids I’d always wrap my legs around her and she was useless after that. She couldn’t move or counter attack until I let her go. hehehe
Shanna
After asking what my husband thought was a useless talent, he replied with “reading romance novels”. Mr. Science and Logic just doesn’t understand the idea of those HEAs….
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I’m not sure how to explain this so it makes sense but I’m double jointed in my elbows so I can put my hands down flat on a surface and turn my arms almost completely around……..sounds ickier than it is!!
I’m like Shiloh, mine is super secret too. I mean, I don’t even know what it is. :dunno:
Well, I can still do the moonwalk. That’s pretty useless, not to mention embarrassing. :ohpretty:
I can pick up things with my toes,never knew I could do it until I saw my sister do it.Of course we had to have a contest to see who could do it better and yeah she won(the brat).
I can do horse sounds. Talk anyone out of a fight. im a
i can shoot dang good
This is pretty useless. I can get my double-jointed fingers and thumbs into some pretty wierd configurations.
:ninja:
Ooooooooooouuuuuuuuuuuuuuuccccccccccchhhhhhhhhhhhhh
This reminded me of War of the Roses, when she cracks his ribs with her legs. LOL :spankme:
Reading that made me go take some pain relievers. :thelife:
I have a keen sense of smell and everybody always asks me to smell their milk or food to see if it’s gone bad.
Mine would to lose in all kind of games. I’m not good with physical or mental games. I lose to all my friend and family almost all the time so I might as well use that for a uselessly competition
I can bend my thumb back until it touches my arm—an utterly useless thing to do.
I can touch my nose with my tongue, not very useful but oh well!
I can burp the alphabet, my kids find this hilarious for some reason ;- )
I can tell people the exact correct time without even looking at a clock. It freaks people out.
My most useless and unique talent would be the ability to shift a loose tendon in my thumb. It grosses other people out when they see and/or feel it.
I’m like Lauren – I’m lame closest thing I can think of is I can actually walk & chew gum at the same time. Does that count?
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Hmmm . . . so lame but I can make weird noises. I’m good at imitating things and I do a decent English accent. Nope not useful and not unique.
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I just realized I didn’t actually answer the question! I can do the tongue curling thing, too, and the munchkin voices from The Wizard of Oz.
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:thelife:Well, I have very agile toes & can pick things up with them….and I speak feline fluently…
I have a double jointed thumb. He can go to a 45 degree angle. Pretty usless. I can also come out with outlandish things and make people beleive them
I can do the toe grab thingy, and do, a lot.
I can do the tongue curl thingy.
I can do the bend the fingers at the first knuckle without bending the others thingy.
I can seperate my fingers keeping the others together thingy.
I can flare my nostrils thingy.
I can whistle using my fingers louder than any guy I’ve ever known.
I can do the computer crash thingy, once zapped my laptop with static electricity and shut the whole thing down, lost about 50 pages of writing too.
I can wiggle my ears, much to the childrens delight.
My knees crack every time I bend them.
And I’m leaving now because I’ve just worked out I’m a freak.
Where’d they say they were starting that circus?
RC
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My lovely useless talent is that I can touch my nose with my tongue. It has no purpose other than to entertain my kids.
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Okay, so I can think of two things that are completely uselss — 1) I can fold my fingers over one another, on top of the index finger place the middle finger, on top of the middle finger place the ring finger, and on top of the ring finger place the pinky. I can do it with both hands and used to always freak out my mother who thought I would have horrible arthritis by this time.
2) I can look at an object and as I draw it closer and closer to my face, instead of losing focus or getting blurry, my eyes with just shoot off to the sides — the opposite of crossing them.
See, totally useless! :rockon:
I can fold my thumbs behind my index finger.
Ok (3) weird ones…well (1) that I just LOVE to use.
1) I can pop my hip in an out. Everyone FREAKS because you can see and hear it.
2) Jingles from the past are memorized. Why? I have NO IDEA?
Ex: Big Mac..Filet o fish 1/4 pounder french fries icy coke thick shake sundaes and apples pies..U deserve a break today….at Mc’Donalds.
It sadly doesn’t end there…The Brady Bunch theme, The facts of life theme…I never tried…really! They’re just stuck!
3) I can bluff better than a lawyer!
Dana
I am double jointed in my fingers and elbows as well. So I can bend just the end of my fingers and hold my hands out palm down and rotate just my arm to show either the inside of my elbow or the outside of it.
My very special and totally useless talent. I can always find clothes in every size but the one I wear.
I really don’t have any talents…ueseless or otherwise. According to my husband…I can roll my eyes better than anyone he knows and I do it without even realizing it.
You guys have some very interesting talents, I must say.
Erm – unique and useless talent? My hair hair has a mind of it’s own and/but hold shape incredibly well? Or… I can make a mess of anything in about 10 seconds? I can do a standing back bend? Yeah – I think that one. I mean – what’s the point? Nothing.
That and/or I can bend my right thumb behind the knuckle of my pointer finger. *Behind.* Used to be able to do it with both hands.
great questions ladies
i can jsut roll my tounge,wish i can turn it upside down though lol :ohpretty:
I have no talent useless or otherwise. How pathetic is that????? :bang:
I think my most useless talent is being able to name a movie after only hearing a few seconds of it…..even if it is a part with no dialouge but only instrumental music. This drives my husband crazy!
To never watch any old TV shows. I never know any actors.
I remember long strings of numbers. ATM cards, library cards, credit cards. Doesn’t matter, I remember them all!
It’s totally unnecessary because you have all that sutff in your purse anyway but I can’t help it lol.
I know waaaaay too much useless trivia…. (like the electric chair was invented by a dentist.)
Kinda useful in pub quizes though.
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If you want any electronic gadget to never work again, give it to me to set up.
Wow… I’m feeling incredibly untalented! I’m not sure what uselessly unique talent I might have… I am pretty good at sign-making (hand-lettering posters, not making hand-signals), but in this day and age, that isn’t terribly useful anymore :dunno:
My uncanny abilities in the arena of vocal imitations–so fraking useless!
Wow….how do I describe this? Ok, stand up….are you standing? Take your left arm and point it up at the ceiling and then point it at the ground…..did I tell you to stop? Keep going with that arm while take the right arm and pointing to the ceiling, straight out to the side, and then to the floor…..keep those going and start cracking your jaw. What? You don’t have TMJ? :silly:
I swear this gets ‘em every time! It’s harder than it sounds!
Hi Mandy! Where do I start *g* I can dye and braid hair. I can count to 10 in spanish. I am good at doing make up on people. My friends use to always have me do their make up. I can make picture frames out of Popsicle sticks. I get these sticks from the dollar store they are fun to paint and make things out of. I am very good at arts & craft. I get it from my mom & grandma. I am a great cook one of my favorite dishes to make is meatloaf and for a cold salad Tuna macaroni salad. I give good massages :thelife:
Hugssss
LindaH
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I had to go away and think about this for a while.
I can cut a deck of cards one handed in mid-air without any extra support. The top half of the deck ends up on the bottom. Since I’m only 5 foot 2 inchs tall and I have very small hands, so that was a major accomplishment.
But Totally useless.
sandie
I can balance things on my nose.
I have the ability to instantly perfectly recall everything my husband has done or said wrong, and also I can wipe clean the memory of anything I could have possibly done to provoke him.
The big toe on my right foot makes this weird cracking noise when I bend it. It’s one of the toes on the foot that I broke so maybe that’s why. I can bend just that toe by itself if I want and make the noise with it. It’s funny.
Hi Mandy. Sorry I read the question wrong! I thought it said to list my talents not my useless talents. LOL Well one of my useless talents (but it could come in handy, I swear!) is that I can write with my feet using a pen between my toes. I don’t remember how I discovered this but I can do it! LOL
Hugssss
LindaH
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I can tie a knot in a cherry stem with my tongue.
I’m not proficient at it but given some time I can do it.
I can survive on a diet of just sugar..chocolates, cakes, candies..yum! and I can crack a lot of bones in my body (its pretty gross
I used to be a fountain of useless info but I’m not even that anymore because I can’t remember! wahhhhh
I am sure that I would be able to crack windows with my singing voice. I haven’t practiced though :p
I thought of another one. I can curl my upper lip like Elvis.
My useless talent is that I can sit cross-legged on the floor for sometime and often someone has said ‘how can you do that’. It is easy for me and I just do it. Don’t know how it would help me except that my feet are not stretched out and in the way for someone to trip over, lol.
Hmmm, a useless unique talent. I have a couple. I can tie a knot in a cherry stem with my tongue (although i’m sure some guys wouldn’t find that so useless LOL). I can crack alot of different bones in my body. And I dislocated my shoulder once so now I can pop it in and out of the socket at will LOL. Oh and can do alot of different accents.
Oh these questions are a blast!! I can totally wrap a gift without using any tape at all! No matter what the size is! I learned to do it by myself as a teen and just kept doing it, LOL.
I can instantly find the rough spot in fabric, the imperfection in the wallpaper or a painted wall, the spot where the floor is not level.
I can do a yoga type position that most of the people I know can’t do.
Hi, Mandy
I don’t know if this would be considered a uselessly talent or just bad driving:
I can always count on hitting a skunk in my boyfirend’s car. They just seem to pop out of nowhere. :hitit:
I can remember all the non-important things going on around me, is that considered a useless talent? LOL
Deidre