Conference back40::soapbox

    
    making a boat with one's tongue.

    typing 72 words a minute without grammar or speling errors. no kiddin'.

    tying a cherry stem in a knot with one's tongue...

    being able to do good convincing duck and crow calls with
    only mouth and hands

    Whistling.

    .4 OOOOOHhhhh my!!!!:)
    
    Being able to do Bolien algebra.... after alll these years....
    
    Knowing the square root of pie... Sides apple or blueberry!

    Being able to make a really loud click by snapping your tongue off the
    roof of your mouth.  
    
    

    being able to leap tall buildings in a single bound.
    
    being faster then a speeding bullet
    
    being more powerful than a locomotive
    
    being immune to kryptonite
    
    

    |    Being able to do Bolien algebra.... after alll these years....
    
    How can you do it, if you can't spell it.
    
    Boolean.

    Being able to program computers...

    Doing a pretty mean and fast drum roll with my hands. Wow weeeeee.
    

    Ya, nobody warned us about programming windows.

    not a bad shot with a sling shot.

    good with electrical, plumbing, dry wall, and general overall home
    repair. i fix all our stuff. now cars...forget 'em.

    
    re: tying a knot in a cherry stem with your tongue...  
    
    i can...but it takes some serious warming up...and the stem has to be
    long enough...
    
    
    re: that clicking noise with your tongue off of the roof of your mouth...
    
    for some reason, this was incredibly popular among the boys in my high 
    school...and i still can't do it...
    
    
    being able to fold your tongue
    
    being able to twist your tongue
    
    
    

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    Being able to turn my eyelids inside out.  It was a great trick in
    elementary school, but I've found that its usefullness has diminished
    in time.

    homebrewing.
    
    friends and I decided long ago that it was a good insurance policy to
    know the rudiments of beer production in case the balloon ever went up,
    and we happened to be among the post-apocalypse survivors...
    
    DougO

    
    >>> Being able to turn my eyelids inside out.
    
    
    could never do that, either... :<
    
    

    
    Getting a knot out of a strand of hair....

    
    that's easy...just snip it off!!!  :>
    
    (besides, like your hair is long enough for knots!!!)
    
    

    
    
     I didn't say my hair... silly!! :)
    
     No snipping..... really un-tying....

    
    
    hey...how did that get in two different notes?!!?!?
    
    

    
    
    You got them magic fingers!! 
    
    :) :) :) :)
    

    	Bending my fingers at the very last knuckles only.

    .16
    
    :-)  It's still popular amongst the "boys", my two sons do it all the
    time, drives me crazy.  My oldest can turn is tongue upside down.
    
    Also they do a great rendition of Jingle Bells with their arm pits!

    Folding your tongue is genetic; you either have the gene (and can do
    it) or you don't (and can't).

    Well, I gots the tongue gene and I can tell you that I'm not the only
    one who's happy about it! :-)
    
    -b

    I think all of this tongue talk is in bad taste.

The one I have:  taking shorthand at 120 wpm.

The one I wish I had:  Ability to roll my "r's".  6 years of German,
and I still couldn't do it.

But I do have the tongue-rolling gene.

    Everybody seems to be lapping up this tongue talk.

    
    i can roll and twist my tongue...so i guess it's not just my fingers
    that are magic... :> :>
    
    

    
    
    Being able to pick things up with my toes (this comes in
    very handy being 7.5 months pregnant and all).  *8^)
    
    Also I can wiggle my nose.

    I'm not getting a lick of work done now.

    
    >>Being able to pick things up with my toes (this comes in very handy 
    >>being 7.5 months pregnant and all).  *8^)
    
    i can do that too!!!  (tho i am NOT pregnant... :> )
    
    
    

    
    Well I could do it before I got preggers, but NOW
    it just makes some things easier. *=^}
    
    

    Being able to store a pocket of air in each cheek, and then expelling
    the air slowly by pushing on my cheek with my finger in such a way that
    it creates a "quacking" sound.
    
    This has proven extremely useful at job interviews...
    
    -b

    >Well, I gots the tongue gene and I can tell you that I'm not the only
    >one who's happy about it! :-)
    
    omidear. this is in the wrong topic. i'd say this ain't a MINOR
    ability.

    
    making great turkey calls.
    
    excellent songbird imitations.
    
    can flex my tongue muscle horizontally, increasing the width 100%.
    
    can flex my nostrils to large size, and to a beat.
    
    can lick my nose.
    
    those that know me say that my facial expressions are exactly like jack
    benny's especially when being humorous.
    
    can comfort my wife over the phone.
    
    

    >>>can flex my tongue muscle horizontally, increasing the width 100%.
    
    
    me too!!!  tho maybe not 100%
    
    >>>can flex my nostrils to large size, and to a beat.
     
    me too!!!
    
    
    i can also raise (arch) one eyebrow and not the other, slowly or
    quickly.  however, i can only do that with my left eyebrow.  my right
    one is just too damn stubborn.
    
    

    
    
    
    What I can do with my tongue can be explained by a gift that was given
    to me by a female a few years back.  It was the first gift she had
    given me.  It was a mug that reads "I'd walk a million miles for one of
    your smiles.......and even further for that thing you do with your
    tongue"
    
    
    Mike

RE     <<< Note 134.4 by JULIET::MORALES_NA "Sweet Spirit's Gentle Breeze" >>>

>    tying a cherry stem in a knot with one's tongue...

  Giant:  "The second thing is: The owls are not what they seem."

  George

    wannahunnie and that tongue thing...
    
    
    i have seen that saying on a card before...i almost wee'd myself when i
    saw it cause i know of someone i could give it to... ;> :> :> :>
    
    

    
    
    Care to tell us more, Raq? :')

    
    "tell me more, tell me more
    like does he have a car??
    
    tell me more, tell me more
    did you get very far?"
    
    :>
    
    

    baby, you can drive my car... :-)
    
    -b

    what kind is it???
    
    

    Large.

    RE:134.42
    
    One eyebrow only you say??? Rookie!
    
    Taught my son to do both so we can both drive my wife crazy!!!
    
    Working with my daughter now, time will tell... �^)
    
    C

	I can form bubbles about 1 cm in diameter on the tip of my
	tongue and then send them flying across the room.

    RE: .52
    
    Too bad Lawrence Welk is off the air...
    
    -b

    
    -b,
    
    what kind of lard car????
    
    
    eyebrow man...
    
    i am trying...really...it took me almost a whole school year just to
    teach myself to do one eyebrow...sitting in from of the mirror for
    hours at a time...my father thought i was a bit vain)...but i just
    can't get my 'brows to dance... :<
    
    

    Raq:
    
    I have a Ford F150 pickup with an extended cab, and a Chevy Lumina 4
    door sedan... both dark blue.
    
    -b

    
    oh...that's nuttin' excitin'... 
    
    now, if you had a '60-ish 'stang or 'vette, well, then you might have
    had a customer... :>:>:>
    
    

    Try raising them both first then lower the one you can do already.
    Then you can swap back and forth...granted you'll always have one
    powerbrow..but you should be able to get it.
    
    �^)
    
    C

    Nope, nothin' excitin'...
    
    My money is in Tascam digital 24 track tape machines, Soundcraft
    36X24X2 consoles with VCA automation, Focusrite mic preamps and
    compressors, Lexicon and AMS reverbs, Tannoy monitors, Bryston
    power amps and an ever-growing collection of the world's finest
    bass guitars (and NO Ibanez :-)
    
    If you have any idea what any of this stuff is, then you'd probably
    like me, otherwise not... :-) :-) :-) :-)
    
    -b

    Bryston, a great Canadian amp.

    
    .58...
    
    what'd he say?????
    
    
    
    
    :>
    
    

    	remember that 70's-era song Popcorn?
    
    	I can play it on my head.

    >Bryston, a great Canadian amp.
    
    Made in Vermont... :-)

    
    
    (i saw that -b.... ;>)
    
    ums:  being able to spell krawiecki's name without looking... ;>:>
    
    

    >.58...
    
    >what'd he say?????
    
    Translated it means, "I have nothing to offer when it comes to cars,
    and in fact plead woeful ignorance of everything about them, but I
    do know something about something else which a small but usually
    pretty interesting group of people GAS about... it gets me invited
    to some great parties anyway..." :-) :-) :-) :-)
    
    -b

    Head office in Toronto. 8-)

    -b,
    
    is it something i can play with???
    
    

    >is it something i can play with???
    
    You bet! If you like hanging about in recording studios then there's
    plenty to play with. More knobs then you could imagine... I'd
    imagine...
    
    -b

    
    
    
    hmmmmmm.....this could be fun....
    
    
    

    
    Brian,
    
    I've often felt that the recording industry had more than its
    share of knobs.  ;^)
    

    Well, I think we should have a "Federal Knobs Program", to look after
    it... :-)
    
    -b

    My oldest son and I watched Gone with the Wind...
    and the only impression he got from the whole movie was the how
    Scarlett could move her eyebrows! :-)

    Being able to stick my tongue out of my mouth and touch my
    nose...
    
    Sin-te-da

re: .41, .72 licking/touching nose with tongue

I'd heard the real value was in being able to lick your eyebrows.

 I can make a real mess in my nice clean apt real quick.





Jim

    RE: Scarlett's eyebrow's.
    
    Saw it (them?) and fell in love all over again,
    
    she is a Master!
    
    �^)
    C

    Playing the air guitar to Hotel California, I'm convincing. 8^)

    I can wiggle my ears, and nose, but could never get the hang of the
    eyebrows.  Somehow I know feel woefully inadequate.
    

    I can move my entire scalp back and forth.

Uh oh, Glenn, better get that checked.
An earwig mighta crawled in your ear or
something.  Check with Rod Serling.

;^)

    I can whistle with my mouth closed...
    
    and I can sing a really low note that vibrates at just the right
    frequency to be, well, enjoyable.
    
    -b

    
    I've been giving it a lot of thought, and I'm afraid that I have no
    useful minor skills at all.
    
    None.
    
    I'm feeling a bit delicate over this, so please don't tease.

    When you have so many _major_ skills, what bother is a dearth of minor
    ones?
    
    -b

    Oh, and Mz. Debra, I thought of one for you... being able to remember
    lines from so many different movies... Not a career thing, granted, but
    useful for 'boxing...
    
    -b

    	I can hold my breath for up to 2 minutes.  Useful in certain
    	gas station restrooms, port-a-potties, etc.

    .4 
    
    I can do that!!

    Separate digits from my fingers!  Great for getting a curious smile
    from little 'uns.  (Until they try do it themselves without knowing the
    trick).  :^)
    
    Also I can move my head side to side and all around without moving my
    shoulders or below - kinda like it was detached.  Good for doing
    Arabian dance type things.
    
    Lastly, able to survive a 50% downsizing in Corporate finance since
    joining in '88.

    Sounds like the ability to move your head from side to side was
    useful when you were faced with the headsman's ax...
    

    re surviving a 50% downsizing.
    
    i've survived the downsizing of my group from 28 to 2.

    Now THAT'S impressive 8^(

    Guess there's only one set of negatives (embarrasin' pix of hiz boss,
    one assumes) & Haag has 'em in a safe deposit box, ehh?
    
    |-{:-)
    

    yes danny. with dogs no less. :-))))))))))))00000

    Now you just STOP referrin' to yerself as a DOG.  Even wifout yer
    clothes on, you look NUFFINK like one.  Have some self-esteem, man!
    

    cossack!

    
    ...Dr.Dan has seen Gene nekkid?!
    
    

                                      |-{:-)

    dan has not seen me nekkid. other boxers have. but not dano. 

    ... I like to watch.
    
    ... butt seriously folkx, Gene is right.  I wuz only puttin' on airs
    'n' social-climbing, hoping I could join the in-crowd & cheapen my
    marriage along with Haag & Oppelt.
    
    :-)
    

    well dano, of you watchin at the right time...well, hell, who knows.

Do those boxers what's seen you nekkid know of any skills which remain
hid from the rest of us?

    re -1 
    
    that's classified info /john. it will remain so. 

    Oh Mz. Debra... I thought of another one for you...
    
    
    	Being able to tell the difference between an eagle and
    	an osprey! :-) :-)
    
    -b

    
    <-- YES! YES!  I can do that 8^).
    
    I have to admit, I haven't seen Gene nekkid, but I _have_ slept with
    him, in a menage-a-cinq thing.  It was very cheapening 8^).
    

    
    
    re: -1
    
    
    it may have been cheapening, but it sure was warm!!!  :>:>
    
    

    re: .103/104
    I remember that.

    
    You do?!  I find that hard to believe 8^) 8^) 8^) 8^) 8^) 8^) 8^).
    

    RE: downsizing survivor
    
    From 37 to 3 for me.  I don't know if this is a good thing or not
    though.

    ... there were many pleasant detonations and fireworks literally filled
        the sky...
    

   Ya, 'tine told me.
    
    If I'm not mistaken, Gene told ACMA:
    "You see, you gotta understand these Southern Gentlemen types..."
    I'm not sure if he said this before or after he threw me out of y'alls
    tent.
    
    Then as Kalicow sez, the sky wasn't the only thing MadMike lit up.
    Those kids thought I was the greatest thing sinced bread, now don't
    you know.
    
    Then there was the USS loveboat, and the campfire.  Hey, at least I
    didn't wind up like that ex-soapboxer at the last party, talking to
    the bushes, er, yard plants.  8*O&&&&&&
    

    
    .110
    
    Did he ever leave the house?
    

    <---- That's disgusting!!!
    

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>>>    I knew some one who could give himself a b**w job
    
    Do you work for security?  You're a temp aren't you?!
                                   

    >I knew some one who could give himself a b**w job
    
    A _truly_ useful skill is not having to...
    
    -b

Note 134.103 by POWDML::LAUER 
    
    >I have to admit, I haven't seen Gene nekkid, but I _have_ slept with
    >him, in a menage-a-cinq thing.  It was very cheapening 8^).
    
    yes. indeed it was.
    
    and i didn't throw madmike outta no tents. he stumbled out on his own
    with proper motivation.

    Proper motivation = kick in the arse.
    
    I vaguley recall mumbling "c'mon man..." when I was trying to hop
    into someones sleeping bag.  Next thing I know, I'm looking at your
    mug and your say "IN THE HOUSE, JACK".  Next thing I know I'm inside the
    house, the sun is up and I'm on the phone with a touch-hole in Atlanta
    telling me my mortgage is screwed up and I can't buy the house.
    (which I ultimately did buy).
    
    Oh ya, and the pizza dude thinks *I AM AWESOME*!
    

    
    It's too bad I moved away from Maynard.  O Mad-One, wanna come up for a
    visit?  We'll order pizza, and you can make the Shirley pizza guy like
    my house 8^).
    
    That was a major useful skill, no foolin'.

    I saw this movie once where the pizza guy was a girl... and she really
    ended up liking this house she went to because it turned out to be a
    sausage pizza. I'm _not_ making this up.
    
    -b

I don't weather this is a useful skill but I used to drink beer standing on 
my head(usually down the pub after few stellas) 

	Paul

    >I don't weather this
    
    
    and your current state of intoxication?
    
    I presume you mean "I don't know whether....
    
    but perhaps not?

    Butchering the english language (It's a art form, believe me). 
    
    Talking to myself (Some off my conversations are quite stimulating).
    
    Learning how to say "I'm sorry, baby I was wrong." Very useful. 
    
    Finding that nerve, and dancing on it like a Wildman (It's an Artform).
    
    

    Using a pitchfork to unload a truck full of dead puppies.
    
    Skillful employ.

    
    Give a friendly smile. 
    
    Talk Plattd�tsch.
    
    Play minor etudes on the piano.
    
    
    

    
    Hmm...you know, after giving it some thought, I've decided I do have a
    couple of minor skills.
    
    I can sight-read.
    
    I can play various musical instruments.
    
    And I can play "Oh When The Saints Go Marching In" and "Come Thou Almighty
    King" on the harmonica.
    

    
    what is sight-reading....
    

sight-reading is the ability to read music and perform it (vocally or on
an instrument) first time and at tempo.

/john

	Knowing how to operate a MAC   %^)

>    And I can play ... "Come Thou Almighty King" on the harmonica.

I suppose you refer to the tune "Moscow", which was composed by Felice de
Giardini.  Giardini died in Moscow; the tune is also known as "Trinity"
(the original name of "Come Thou Almighty King"), as "Italian Hymn",
(because of the nationality of Giardini), as "Bentinck", "Fairford",
"Florence", and "Hermon".

In Canada, the following hymn is more commonly associated with this tune:

    Thou whose almighty word		Spirit of truth and love,
    Chaos and darkness heard,		Life-giver from above,
      And took their flight,		  Speed forth thy flight:
    Hear us we humbly pray,		Move on the waters' face,
    And where the gospel ray,		Bearing the lamp of grace,
    Sheds not the glorious ray,		And in earth's darkest place
      Let there be light.		  Let there be light.

    Thou who didst come to bring	Holy and Blessed Three,
    On thy redeeming wing		Glorious Trinity,
      Healing and sight,		  Wisdom, Love, Might,
    Health to the sick in mind,		Boundless as ocean tide,
    Sight to the inly blind,		Rolling in fullest pride,
    O now, to all mankind,		Through the world far and wide,
      Let there be light.		  Let there be light.

    
    That must be it, those words flow nicely with the tune I know.

"Come Thou Almighty King" was first sung to the tune Americans call
"America" and Canadians call "National Anthem" (not to be confused
with "O Canada").

/john

| <<< Note 134.127 by GMT1::TEEKEMA "Holly sheep dip Batman....." >>>


| Knowing how to operate a MAC   %^)


	Too bad it's only the kind you eat....

    >  HBFDT1::SCHARNBERG "Senior Kodierwurst
    >  Talk Plattd�tsch.

     If you ever pass thru Bokel, please stop in and
     chat with my Tante Anna and Tante Wilma.

     This was my grandmother's native tongue, which was
     quite embarrassing to her!  "Peasant German", as
     she referred to it.

    
    oh yeah....i was reminded of this one at lunch...
    
    with the right materials, i can build a pretty damn good fire
    
    

    Raq:
    
    You been to the state house lately?
    
    -b

    
    
    %^>
    
    

    Sight reading.  To some that's a major skill versus minor.

    Any average musician sight read music...
    
    ...try reading fingers 
    
    (a useful skill learned by bass players when they don't have a clue
    what the rest of the band is playing - just watch the geetar man's
    fingers, or the keyboard.  Forget the drummer, tho', they're watching
    the bass player...)

    mine...
    
    - remember names, numbers, dates, weights & measures (almost total
    recall)
    
    - can do pretty good calligraphy
    
    - can speak in multiple accents (sometimes even mixing them up
    within one sentence!) -- which means I can imitate a lot of different
    kinds of people 
    
    	* sub-skill -- I do a pretty good Coffee Lady imitation!
    
    I have to go now.  I'm getting verklempt.  Talk amongst yourselves. 
    You already have a subject...
    
    M.
    

    I have heard that many of them descend into the earth and wrest her
    mineral bounty from her, with great efficiency.  This redounds to the
    benefit of the general economy, and is thus a useful miner skill.
    
    |-{:-)
    

    I'm a Vocalist, but I haven't learned how to read music yet.  That why
    sight readers impress me on any level.
    
    
    Speaking of the geetars :-)
    
    WBOS sponsered a concert at South Station.  I was there during my lunch
    break, chillin out, maxing, profiling and styling.  Suddenly, I heard the 
    some incredible sounds flowing form a (if I remember correctly) EG1, 
    Paul Smith (or Reed) Electric Guitar.  
    
    Have you ever seen the cartoon's with the aroma of a pie filling the air, 
    and the cartoon character floating through the air, following the scent.  
    The music was so good that it tugged my soul and I followed, inhaling each 
    note, chord, melody, etc.  To say to least, I enjoyed the experience.  Be 
    on the look out for a guy named Lone Kent.  He's an okay singer, but he is 
    definitely a gifted musician.
    
    
    Peace.

    remembering names/faces, dates, numbers, addresses
    
    organizing boxbashes :-)

	I can tell a real Diet Coke from any other kind of diet coke that
	someone might try to sneak by you...

    I can tell Canadian made Diet Coke from the American made Diet Coke.

    
    <-- Fibber.

    Me too.  Canadian made D.C. sux, IMO of course.
    
    Brian

    I hate American made Diet Coke. Way too sweet. In fact all of the
    drinks with aspertame in the U.S. are way too sweet.
    
    re: .144	
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    <-- Come outside and say that.

Do they not use aspertame in Canada, Glenn?

    Yes, they do, but not as much in a recipe as they do in the U.S.

    Diet Coke Rules! Have it everyday with lunch. Just 'cause canucks
    can't tell the difference 'tween U.S. DC and spruce sap shouldn't
    be held against them (i guess)... :-)
    
    Chip

    
    Coke, Diet Coke, Pepsi... whatever...
    
    Just flavored carobonated water...  Total waste of tastebuds...
    

    Nay nay sir.  Flavored carbo water indeed.  These bevvies are highly
    useful in staving off thirst after a bender, precipitating a much
    needed purge of internal atmospehe (belch), prompting increased
    synaptic activity during a bout of post lunch drowsiness.  No, these
    beverages are useful tools for the modern day.  Now the decaf versions
    are another matter. 
    
    Brian

	Classic Coke rules...  only real sugar/corn syrup/caramel/caffeine for
	me.  And I can distinguish it from "new" Coke, Pepsi, or chocolate milk,
	so don't try to slip any cola past me.

	It's my vice... I don't do coffee, and I quit the cigarettes.

I'm with Joanne.

What would a 'box be without the eternal Coke/Pepsi/Diet/Decaf
discussion?

Must be time to start the basenote . . .  Are Harney and the Doctah
watching?

 I used to be a diet coke drinker, but recently I've switched to diet
 Dr. Pepper.  




 Jim

	Diet anything, ptui!

	I must have corn syrup.

    
    Diet Cherry Coke, if I drink any soda at all.
    
    (Since I can never find the stuff, I don't drink much soda 8^)).

And there's plenty more where that came from . . . 

     >>                            -< {kisses} >-

	kissing is not a minor skill.  it's an art form.
    

    Di, you beat me to it.  That's no 'minor skill' at all!
    
    DougO

    
    Then how come they have "kiss the girlie for a dollar" boothes???

    
    
    
    So that's why the wimmins call me Leonardo...... ;')

    well, mike, not all 'art' is good :-)
    
    and tab rules.

    They still *sell* Tab?  Methought that went out when Diet Coke came in!
    
    OmiGOD, I've joined into the ""debate"" on colas!  Damn, and I live in
    a ranch house, work in a one-story DEC plant -- I shall have to wait
    until tomorrow, return to my old office in MLO, thence to defenestrate
    meself.
    
    And it's all because of YOU, 'Tine!  AieeeEEEEEEE!!!!!!! 
    
    Goodbye, Krool World!  |-{:-)
    

    it is a dirty job, dr.dan, but someone had to do it :-))))
    
    seriously, i've been on the tab kick since at least 85, mebbe
    longer :-)  only lost its status in 1981 when dc {shudder}
    came on the market.

    
    
    RE: .165  Oooh, you are a cold one, Tine.   

    Hm McSkeane, best to wear some sort of deodorant/absorption protection
    if yer spotting.  Makes it less likely you'll partake of snarfs of the
    non-.x00 sort donchaknow.  Jest tryin' to help.
                                                   

    < Note 134.170 by LJSRV2::KALIKOW "Pentium: Intel's Blew-Chip Special"
    
    
    >Makes it less likely you'll partake of snarfs of the non-.x00 sort
    >donchaknow.  Jest tryin' to help.
    
    It wasn't supposed to be a .x00 snarf but it was a .x69 snarf (ala Esco)
    instead.
    
    POL  :>>>>

    'twuz exackly my point...  spotting, um, errm, unsightly, ... aaah...