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.
Anemone
i can only move them back a little. Not back as much as your picture. One quarter that.
Shauna
I can, my girl friend visiting can't.... your right, today's post is weird!! oh and my hubby can't either.... he says his hands have taken far too much damage to do that sort of thing! lol
liz a.
i am laughing....hilarious! i thought it was an old man's butt too! yikes! and no, i can't do that hand thingy....but i am cheerful and laugh at everyone's jokes all the time, does that count?!
Maggie
Sitting here with two men, one woman and my daughter. The girls can do it and the boys can't. Add it to the list!:)
Karen
Done!
Michelle
So glad I wasn't the only one to see the bum.... I swear I thought you were going to tell us how to crack walnuts without a nutcracker! LOL
lynZee
I can NOT
oh well
Annette
too funny!! Thanks to everyone for posting their oddities. =) Sadly I am only singly talented by performing the first hand thing; I do it well though.
Patti
Oh! I'm starting to feel talented!
I can fold my tongue in half front-to-back. I didn't know that was weird!
I also have hitchiker's thumb.
Can bend by thumb to my wrist.
Can do that bendy elbow thing with my hand pointing downwards (I look like a zombee when I do it, I love it)
My tongue will actually go up my nostril. Which I only do at parties to get free booze. I swear!
I can also do Karen's hand trick!
Wow. But that eye whistling.. that's something else!
Kate
I can do it! And the pinky index finger thingy. But no tongue shenanigans, alas.
vickie
I have to tell you when I first looked at this picture on your home page I thought it was a naked butt. made me laugh.
Brittany
I can do it, but not as far as yours!
Can you do the trekkie hand thing?? I always bug my younger sis about this one, she can't do it unless to uses her other hand to help.
My ex boyfriend had the hitchhikers thumb thing going on... it just looks weird, mines straight as an arrow, couldn't bend it backwards if I tried.
Now the question is can anyone here touch their tongue to their elbow?? ;)
Ecochic
Another cool hand thing is:
Press palms together.
Keeping all fingertips touching, bend middle fingers down so first and second knuckle are touching and in between hands.
While pushing on your middle fingers and other fingertips, separate your ring fingers.
I can do it! And it freaks my friends out.
I can also wiggle my nose, ears and make my eyes whistle.
Alison
I can do it!
I also had ridiculously double jointed elbows and fingers... try this one- keeping the rest of your index finger straight, bend just at the top knuckle of your finger
Natalie
Hahaha I was totally going to make a comment on the apparent bum in the thumbnail, until I read the last line of your post :) The first thing I thought when i saw it was can you show that?
I can do it (make my hands look like a bum). :)
martina
I can't do it but my husband can, like really really far. I thought it was a double jointed thing. I'm not too bothered.
Alexandra Dare
Weird, I didn't know that was a "thing" either. But yep, I can do it!
Ever heard of people who can touch their fingers all the way to the back of their wrist? Yeah, I'm not one of those people. LOL
-Alexandra Dare
http://lafemmenotoire.com
Lesley H
Perhaps your niece paid your boyfriend $2 to say he couldn't do it, but he really can?! Thanks for the Friday giggle!
Steph
Mwhahahaha! (I'm in the Halloween mood, forgive me.) There are a lot of things women can do that men can't do (the intense pain of childbirth, anyone?) For instance, cross your legs; then wrap your toes around the back of your calf. Women tend to be able to do this easily... men, not so much.
BTW: I also can do the "thing".
elle
I can, but not very far.... can't do the tongue thing at all.. no curls, & can barely touch my nose tip.... I know the curl thing is genetic - learned that in school
Patches
I can do the fingers back thing. Not even close on the pinky to index finger though! And I don't have any cool tongue tricks at all.