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I don't know if this has been done before, but I love hearing about these things.
Here are my mutant powers:
I have the ability to identify obscure actors within seconds and name every movie that they've ever been in, even if they didn't have a speaking role, and sometimes I can even name their relations. I can also identify segments of movie scores even if the segment is only four seconds long, and I can tell you what part of the movie it came from, and what happened next. I am also the whitest person alive and can burn in direct sunlight under five minutes.
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I also possess the Cosmo Kramer "internal clock," which means if I worry enough about waking up at a certain time I often wake up 30 minutes before that time, and then sleep in only five minute segments, each time in a panic, afraid that I've overslept. It would probably just be smarter to get out of bed.
Also, my eye color changes depending on the shirt I'm wearing.
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I can learn music (that I like or sometimes that I absolutely abhor) word for word, note for note, in only a few hearings. Once I did it in my sleep-- had a song on repeat to relax to, fell asleep, my roommate said I was singing along in my sleep after a few minutes, and when I woke to go to the bathroom, sure enough, I knew every word, every note. This usually applies even when the song is not in English.
My ("grey-hazel") eyes appear to change color with what I wear. Okay, it's not really a power, but it's really freaky when I wear grey-- they look silver and gold.
I can hear swearing or inappropriate conversation, even when the speakers are speaking very quietly, at the length of a football field. (Developed that one while working daycare.) I (thankfully) have the ability to completely tune out all conversations that don't require my attention, if I so wish.
I can make most teenage boys quiver and apologize with a look. (Again, daycare.)
I can eye up the food left in a pot, pick out the right tupperware container, and get it to fit exactly right. (Got that one from my mom.)
When I fully flex my left middle first knuckle, the tendon or whatever that is over it slips to the side. I can totally freak people out by having them close their eyes, place their fingertips lightly on said knuckle, and flexing it.
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If I don't want to hear something, I don't hear it. I've actually been to doctors about this one. I suppose I hear it the first time, and then just forget it if it's not important enough.
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Last wednesday I recieved radioactive iodine treatment for an overactive thyroid. I'm sure to get super powers. I mean, spiderman was bit by a radioactive spider. That must have been a very small dose of radiation. I should be able to kick spiderman's butt when my powers kick in (any day now powers, its been almost a week!).
I had some superhuman abilites from the hyperactive thyroid that I might miss.
1) Can metabolize food almost instantly. Your thyroid regulates metabolism, and mine is indeed superhumanly fast. This does not mean I am skinny, mind you, since I eat a TON of food to compensate. I must burn 2-3 times as many calories a day as most people. This leads to 2-3 times as much food/water leaving me, which is the drawback I suppose.
2) Can stand very cold temperatures. Basically a permanent hotflash, which makes me feel pretty comfortable even in extremely cold weather. "Do you even own a coat?" My puny human coworkers quip. This power correlates to an inability to withstand heat. But every superpower has its drawbacks.
3) The rest include shaky hands, frequent urination (and bowel movements), fatigue, and an extremely fast pulse (for someone my age and condition). These ones don't really help me fight crime very well.
My non-thyroid, non-radiation based powers are few. One is that I can identify just about any actor by their voice. So many a commercial involves me telling my SO who the speaker is. Perhaps I will think of others later.
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I am the most powerful force user on Hatrack. The only one with the potential to surpass me is Darth Card himself.
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I can cram very well for a test, spit it all out word for word, and have forgotten it all in just a week.
With the right people, I can get into a groove where I have everyone rolling on the floor laughing at stuff I pick out of the conversation. With the wrong people, I generate uncomfortable pauses and changes of subject.
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I, too, am comfortable in very cold weather, though for very different reasons. The downside is that I get hot very easily, and try to keep the A/C around 73 degrees. It takes me very long to get cold. However, my feet do not know the middle ground of temperatures, and are consistently either very hot or very cold. Strange.
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I can leap forward short distances through time. Entire hours melt away before my awesome powers and I arrive at the end of the day having accomplished nothing.
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I also have an inhuman short term memory, complimented nicely by a total inability to convert anything short term to long term.
I can learn stuff in a heartbeat, totally forget it a week later, relearn it the next semester, forget it again, rinse, repeat.
I know every word to "Ice Ice Baby".
I can recite comedy hours in their entirety.
I can go days speaking in nothing but movies quotes (which 90% of the people who hear them don't get - "Hello, McFly, anybody home!").
[edit - I know the difference between 'here' and 'hear', and I don't like when I don't think before typing]
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We were talking about this at DallasCon! I'm a time traveler- with some limitations. I travel only forward, in a consecutive manner, and am unable to control the speed at which I travel.
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quote:I, too, am comfortable in very cold weather, though for very different reasons. The downside is that I get hot very easily, and try to keep the A/C around 73 degrees. It takes me very long to get cold. However, my feet do not know the middle ground of temperatures, and are consistently either very hot or very cold. Strange.
You, my friend, have poor circulation.
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quote:Originally posted by El JT de Spang: I can go days speaking in nothing but movies quotes (which 90% of the people who here them don't get - "Hello, McFly, anybody home!").
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Anyone who misses that one is sentenced to watching the USA network for one weekend, where they will inevitably see the entire trilogy.
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Now, see, you can't just tell people they have a medical problem and then not expand on it. "Circulation," especially, which sounds dangerous.
What do you mean, "poor circulation?" What's it caused by? What are the symptoms? What's the danger? What's the solution?
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I make at least one streetlight a week go out as I walk by, and without the handy gadget Dumbledore's got in the first Harry Potter.
I can make FM radio stations turn into static by standing in certain parts of a room.
I make computer monitor screens turn purple or rainbow or completely black, whether the monitor's brand new, plugged in, and/or set to never turn itself off or not.
Oh, and that talent of BtL's too. I've got that a plenty.
Edit: Forgot about my double-jointed, dislocatable thumbs. I'm sure they're useful for something...
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Poor circulation isn't really a medical problem. It doesn't really have a danger, or a solution. And as I'm an electrical engineer, I'm in no position to diagnose or advise you if it were a medical problem.
The reason I say that is your cold feet comment. That's just the sort of thing I associate with having poor circulation, by which I mean your blood doesn't circulate through your body very efficiently.
I don't know if I'm right, because I can't think of any specific reason why I said that. But I find myself consistently being right about stuff that I don't know how I know (a statement that anyone who's watched Jeopardy with me will attest to).
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Astaril, do you stop watches, too? It sounds like you have a strong personal magnetic field. We had a thread awhile ago about people who can't wear watches, 'cause they stop. The degaussing monitors thing, especially.
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I have the ability to BS my way out of almost anything.
I have the ability to confuse just about anybody on any subject and in the end get them to siagree with themselves, get angry at themselves, and lurk away muttering words of an unfriendly nature.
I can convince anybody to watch Firefly using a selection of seven count them seven quotes.
I have the ability to lose just about everything important in my life, animate or inanimate.
I also have the singular ability to combine lyrics from county songs, out them over melodies from Irish and Scottish bands (not jigs though) and makes them sounds pretty damn good.
I can quote George of the Jungle back to front and occasionally front to back.
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I have the ability to make my hands look like they are on the wrong arm. But only if I'm wearing thick gloves.
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I can look at a dog of mixed breed and instinctivelt tell what the different breeds are. I can hear something distinctive somewhere (a conversation, quote on a news item, a pithy one-liner, etc) and remember it exactly, word for word, when all my friends have misremembered it, get the words mixed up, or something else that completely ruins the effect of the original quote. I have to be careful revealing that one as it can cause persecution and suspicion! I can look at a colour and tell you what its component colours are (get that from being an art teacher). I can spell evrything! I can procrastinate anything you can name, at any distance, and over any period of time!! That, I feel, is my greatest mutant talent, and my greatest curse!
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The ability to play video games for days without eating, sleeping, or going to the bathroom. My power trumps all of yours Posts: 1567 | Registered: Oct 2004
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Oooh, I can mimic people's voices very well, with the correct level of concentration. You know how cell phones have the voice call thing? Where they will call a number if the voice programmed into the phone says the name they programmed in? I've fooled two or three phones into thinking I'm their owner that way. I'm also invisible when no one is looking.
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quote:Originally posted by Sid Meier: The ability to play video games for days without eating, sleeping, or going to the bathroom. My power trumps all of yours
Don't get so cocky! I can do that too.
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I've got an abnormally over-developed photographic memory - but only for things I like. Example #1: Harry Potter. I took a mini-course at the student union here and corrected the teacher several times with direct quotes from the books/movies, and I'd not read/seen them in at least 6 months. Example #2: Greek exams. The night before, I read the Greek, read my translation, read the English, then go into the exam the next day and spew it out word-for-word.
It kind of sucks. I can't remember the things I don't find interesting - like anything vaguely science-related. Episodes of ST:VOY? Sure. High school chemistry? Not so much.
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I have the greatest power in the world. You are all very envious of this power. Just admit it and the healing process can begin. Unfortunately, due to contract disputes I am unable to specifically name this power.
Just know that it is grand. Far grander than the grandest power you have yet imagined.
I have the ability to hear a phrase - or even one word - and have a song running through my head. It's like my own, personal radio that plays parts of songs ... over and over and over again (until I concentrate on a different song I want to listen to in my head).
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quote:I used to could suck air into my butt and blow it back out on demand. ------------------------------------------------ Wow - how do you follow an act like that?
Why would you want to follow someone blowing air out their butt? I'd want to be far in front.
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quote:I have the ability to hear a phrase - or even one word - and have a song running through my head. It's like my own, personal radio that plays parts of songs ... over and over and over again (until I concentrate on a different song I want to listen to in my head).
This one seems to run in my family; my mom, my dad, my brother, my sisters, and I all do it.
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I have the amazing ability to be deleriously happy for no reason whatsoever. (The converse is true, but we shall stay out of that darkened area.) Of course, this ability is saddled with a balance; people seem to assume that you are on drugs just because you gigle wildly, run around, and are absolutly happy.
Ach, vell such is life. ^^
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I accidentally memorized the subtitle to just about any videogame that has a subtitle. Weird, yes, I know.
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Hm, some of these I don't do very often. But I do do them at times.
I can doze off during a lecture of a movie and remember a lot of what it's about during the time I'm dozing. (Though I can't really be full-blown snoring and dreaming.)
I can doze off taking notes in classes and still get them down. Of course, this only works when it's absolutely silent, or else I'll start writing what other people are saying too. (Only have had to do this on about... two or three occasions.)
Same thing with me on the cold, I get hot really easy, but I prefer to be in the cold. (64 degrees is comfortable for me, and I'm still fine for quite a bit lower too.)
One of my favorite powers is that I can stare anyone down. I've not met someone who doesn't eventually give up. I have to give credit to my contacts a bit, they don't let air in my eyes, but... I can go for a long time without moving, twitiching, blinking, scarcely breathing, and no emotion staring at someone. The longest I went was... all of a lunch break. (I believe they're about 20 minutes.)
I have a very good evil laugh. I get some people just to shiver when they hear it, some say it's really cool, mixed reactions from it, but it works wonders.
I can do a Full Lotus/half lotus with more comfort than doing crossed legs. (And apparantly that's hard for most males.)
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I can play music on my thumbs.(make fist, blow through thumbs, but not just whistle, play songs)
I can pick things up with my finger-like toes. I can remember the layout of people's homes to the finest detail, even from childhood. (freaks out my dad)
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ElJay: No, I don't stop watches, but my father does! He probably has to change the battery in his every month or so. My whole immediate family has the radio talent. I may be the only one for steetlamps and monitors though. Do magnetic fields run in families? I don't know...
Carrie: Me too! I love straight translation Greek exams, because all I ever have to do is read the Greek and my translation over once beforehand, and I can spit it back out just as it is. I should add that one to my list of powers. It's the cursed parsing of idioms that always gets me... (By the way, I'm wearing my Classics shirt right now which you might appreciate - top: si tu hoc legeris nimium educationem habes, bottom: ei de kai tode anagignoskein dunasai pollo lian paideusin exeis)
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I don't know if they will, but sure. It'll be next year or so if they do. It's got "University of Waterloo Classics" on the front too, if that matters. You're a bit too far away to have us be a rival though I think.
Add My Super Power #4: The ability to always use 50 or more words where 10 would suffice. I could work for governments. See? Even this paragraph is an example.
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