I can do this ...
Can you?
Push your palms together like you're waiting to hear the results of a long shot and then try to pull your fingers back. You have to keep your palms touching while your fingers pull back.
I had no idea not everyone could do this. I had no idea this was a "thing", until my sister sat herself down on my living room couch to eat a piece of my pumpkin pie the other day.
For some reason she did this hand gesture. Then I did this hand gesture. Then my boyfriend tried to do this hand gesture and ... nothin'. It was so strange. What was even stranger was the fact that he didn't seem to care. He tried it once or twice, said "hmm", and went back to watching Mad Men.
That's the exact sort of thing that would drive me crazy. Would, in fact, drive me to tie ropes around all my fingers and have a team of wild house cats pull my fingers apart.
So I'm curious. Give it a try. Can you do this? No ropes or cats allowed.
And Yes! I did know the thumbnail for this post looks like old man bum. :) I had to crop it "just so" for that pleasant effect.
Jennifer Hamilton
The tongue to the nose thing is also called Gorlin's sign. I got it from the Mater. She can go farther than just the tip. It's kinda gross, kinda fascinating.
maggie
I am an Ennismoron from Ennismore, Ont and I can do all three of these tricks. Hee Hee
michelle
Me Too! I can do it.
mbb.
i can do it - and knowing that it's a 'thing' makes me kind of happy... :)
Ana
I can do it. I can also roll my tongue into a U shape. I cannot, however, wiggle my ears : (
KDot
When I first saw the picture for this post, I thought it was a male behind. Woah, maybe it's too early in the morning for me to be reading blogs.
Liz
I can do it. By the way, the picture on the title page for this post, to me it looked like someone with a really skinny butt, clenching their butt-cheeks. I thought this was going to be a rude post.
Alisha
By the way, is it only me or does the thumbnail of the first picture look like a haggard naked bum and legs if you glance at it quickly? Not to say your hands are haggard but if they were a bum ... lookin' a little lopsided and your bum wrinkles would be in awkward places.
Alisha
I can do it ... but barely. If you put your pinky and your thumb together and flex your wrist a tendon should pop up in your forearm. Not everyone has that tendon, most people do. I however have only one. ONE! It's so absurd. I'm missing a muscle, someone serenade me with a violin already.
Michelle
Maybe it's just late at night but I swear when I first saw the post and the picture I thought it was a naked butt clenching and slightly ...errr... less meaty than mine!
Don't know what it says about me that I clicked through anyway but I was glad to see a pair of hands... anyway! Prego-loco strikes again.
Theresa
glad I wasn't the only one!
Michael
I can do that.
My girlfriend cannot. Her fingers are totaly straightened and she cant even bend them a little. But she can reach her nose with her tongue what i cannot do. well, i can touch her nose with my tongue but not my own nose...
Leah
nope.
Stephanie
I can do it. I think your boyfriend has a problem he's clearly denying.
@Rebecca: My sister can do that front-to-back tongue fold thing. I can do the single and triple loop tongue thing, and the making out with strangers in college thing, but that's about it.
Adrienne Audrey
I CAN'T do it :( I can however do a variety of other Stupid Human Tricks including the "wave" with my tongue, wiggle my ears and do a freaky eye vibrating trick. And ya...that pic totally looks like an old man bum. LOL
Rebecca
Adrienne, my dad does that eye vibrating thing and I'd begun to think he was the only person in the world who could do that! "Freaky" is a good way to describe it.
Theresa
yes - but the facebook pic looked like a strangely emaciated tush!
Rebecca
Yep, I can do it. And I can fold my tongue in half front to back. I read that only one in ten thousand people can do that and I am that one! You other 9,999 suck! Never met anyone else who can do that, and, believe me, I break that trick out whenever I get the chance.
Pete
If you combine folding your tongue front to back with folding it outside-in (ya know, the thing that just about everyone can do), then you get an interesting clover effect.
Rebecca
Yep, I do that one too!
Stefanie
I can do it too AND the tongue folding in half thing too!
Lynn
I also CANNOT touch my nose with my tongue. TMI?
Karen
Not even close to being too much information. You may recall I did a post on a frozen yogourt tampon. LOL. So um ... yeah ... a tongue to the nose is definitely not too much information in my books! :) ~ karen
Jenn
Oh Karen. That's when I became a *true* fan of your blog. You had me a frozen yogurt tampon.
Jjhhy
It's ok
Lynn
I can do it, too!
Can you touch your index finger to your pinkie (pinky?) BEHIND your middle and ring fingers? I have trouble doing this one!
Karen
Yup. I can do the index finger/pinkie thing. Again. Didn't know that was a "thing". ~ karen
Pati
I can too...!!
Karen
Won't it be hilarious if my boyfriend is the ONLY person who can't do this? O.K. Maybe not hilarious, but interesting. I'm sure his reaction will be "hmm". ~ karen
Norell
I can do it!!