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Old 12-20-14, 11:59 AM   #1
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Default Do you have Special Powers?

My son's school motto is: "No-one can do everything, but everyone can do something." When I first saw this, displayed on a big sign outside the school, I said to my wife I thought that it was very true because, after all, our son can get his big toe in his ear.

I also know a woman who can curdle milk just by looking at it.

Is there anything peculiar that you can do with your body, or do you know someone else with special abilities, out of the ordinary, like?



Uri Geller has Special Powers
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Old 12-20-14, 12:24 PM   #2
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I have an uncanny ability to put my foot in my mouth at the most unfortunate moments.
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Old 12-20-14, 06:55 PM   #3
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I have an uncanny ability to put my foot in my mouth at the most unfortunate moments.

We all know that you only open your mouth to change feet.
Like I do all too often.
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Old 12-20-14, 01:20 PM   #4
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Uri Geller has Special Powers
Uri Geller is a parlor-trick magician who managed to con people into believing he has special powers. His Special Power is to bilk people out of millions of dollars.
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Old 12-20-14, 01:32 PM   #5
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I don't believe he has special powers either. I'd pay money to see him get his big toe in his ear, though. Bet he can't do that...
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I can change my own flat tires without calling AAA.

I can use the universal remote control without needing all the others around.

I can figure out the change from a dollar without a calculator.

I can read signs posted on doors and alongside freeways.

I can figure out what food is by reading the labels instead of pointing and asking.

I can find my way someplace without needing a GPS on my phone.



All these would seem to be super powers today.........
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Old 12-20-14, 01:46 PM   #7
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I have the amazing ability to turn women into ex's...


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I have the ability to on occasion do something without thinking that is incredibly stupid and deadly and come away relatively unharmed.

For example when I was 12 or so I was walking around in my backyard playing around with model F4U Corsair I had just finished. I happened across this old aquarium that was turned upsidedown. I thought to myself excellent an Imperial Japanese Navy flattop. So I kicked this aquarium turned aircraft carrier it however it did not break the glass. So I got the outstanding idea to stand on top of the glass. Well to my dismay it did break the imaginary flattop deck. Of course this also also meant that my foot and leg fell through the very real glass and I got cut pretty badly but not as bad as could have been.

Of course I have reason to believe that every one has this power they just do not admit it.
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Old 12-20-14, 01:36 PM   #9
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Uri Geller is a parlor-trick magician who managed to con people into believing he has special powers. His Special Power is to bilk people out of millions of dollars.
Aye, James Randi and Johnny Carson exposed him in 1973:
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Aye, James Randi and Johnny Carson exposed him in 1973:
Yeah, Randi is someone I never tire of following on the Tube.
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I have the amazing inept power of running out of beers five minutes before the off license closes ten minutes away.

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I have the amazing inept power of running out of beers five minutes before the off license closes ten minutes away.

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