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Chaz complains about his useless superpower. We've seen the news stories on the guy who doesn't freeze and the one who keeps eating.
My superpower is having stuff. When anyone says "does someone have a ____?" I usually have it. The downside, of course, is that my backpack is huge and weighs a lot.
So what's your useless/semi-useless/sometimes useful superpower?
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"We all ended up somewhere with our various uncertain lives flapping about us in tatters and our pockets full of foreign coins."
K. E. Gordon - The Transitive Vampire: A Handbook of Grammar for the Eager, the Innocent and the Doomed
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« Reply #1 on: April 07, 2008, 02:09:37 pm » |
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I can find needlework shops, yarn shops, and used bookstores when wandering around strange cities.
Oh, wait. That's not useless, is it?
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Oh...well, darn!
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« Reply #2 on: April 07, 2008, 02:42:56 pm » |
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I can find keys for other people. Not my own, though.
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“All literature, highbrow or low, from the Aeneid onward, is fan fiction”. Michael Chabon
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Why, this is Hell, nor are we out of it.
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« Reply #3 on: April 07, 2008, 02:46:50 pm » |
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Well, I used to be able to identify any classical piece on KING-FM from only hearing one or two measures of the music. Now, with the mental "file retrieval error" problems, it's more "I know that, dammit, what is it???"
Oh! I know. Spelling. I've been the department dictionary at several jobs - spelling and definitions. I can't work any more, but I can still do that. Which can drive me buggy when reading a book that's not been proofed/copyedited, or else the corrections didn't get made. Fingernails on chalkboard are less upsetting.
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Why, this is Hell, nor are we out of it.
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« Reply #4 on: April 07, 2008, 02:52:11 pm » |
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I can find keys for other people. Not my own, though.
My mother could find anything for anyone. My glasses, my father's dentures, lost paychecks or money... She did that when visiting me in Hawai'i about 30 years ago. So, she found a missing item in a place she'd never been before. The thing is... she'd been totally blind since her childhood. *shakes head* Made me feel rather less than competent, y'know? |
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Still will I harvest beauty where it grows... --Edna ST. Vincent Millay
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« Reply #5 on: April 07, 2008, 04:03:37 pm » |
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Trivia. People call me at random moments to ask things like, "What's the name of the Greek goddess of the dawn?" "What are the names of the comedy and tragedy masks?" "Which historical personage said/did X?" "What's the etymology of X?" and similarly random questions. If I don't know off the top of my head, I can usually find out in very short order.
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« Reply #6 on: April 07, 2008, 05:10:04 pm » |
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Pretty standard one: streetlights, they tend to go out around me more often than my friends.... And when I get pissed off, my car's radio wigs out. Though both happened more often when I was younger and a sea of raging hormones.
Also, that cool belly dance thing. I cannot dance worth beans, but I can roll my stomach muscles.
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« Reply #7 on: April 07, 2008, 06:53:26 pm » |
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I can disassemble anything. And put it back together again. Sometimes I can make not worky things work again.
Is beer drinking a superpower?
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I carry a gun because I can't fit Sol Todd in my pocket.
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« Reply #8 on: April 07, 2008, 07:46:04 pm » |
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I don't get lost easily. At the least I can always retrace my steps and get back to where I started, and if I have some familiarity with the area I can usually just point myself in the direction I need to go and reach my destination without too much trial and error.
I wouldn't call this particularly impressive, except most of my friends have no sense of direction whatsoever. So if I'm drinking in public, even if I'm not driving I have to stay sober enough that I can explain to someone how to get home because even if it's some place we've been to before odds are they won't know.
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« Reply #9 on: April 08, 2008, 06:19:49 am » |
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I listen.
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« Reply #10 on: April 08, 2008, 07:51:28 am » |
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I listen.
Sadly, very few people actually share your superpower. Mine would probably be asbestos hands, or at least having lost all nerve endings due to burning them so often. I can now carry fairly hot stuff. |
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« Reply #11 on: April 08, 2008, 11:51:30 am » |
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Laura, I never killed streetlights, but I used to be hell on watches. And I once killed a computer by shouting at it.
MG: Eos, as in "Eos Rhododactylos" (I think I got that right...). And it's not Commedia and Tragedia? What is it then?
Plus my family has the unfortunate collective superpower of accidentally killing celebrities. ("I didn't realize X was still alive." "Well, _now_ he's done for. Thanks, Mom.")
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« Reply #12 on: April 08, 2008, 12:12:30 pm » |
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Plus my family has the unfortunate collective superpower of accidentally killing celebrities. ("I didn't realize X was still alive." "Well, _now_ he's done for. Thanks, Mom.")
Not that I wish anyone dead, but if you could spare some time for Paris Hilton and her like, society would be eternally greatful. |
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I carry a gun because I can't fit Sol Todd in my pocket.
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Works as well for the Anomaly , I figure.
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« Reply #13 on: April 08, 2008, 02:46:31 pm » |
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I can identify any movie with the tiniest glimpse of the screen. No more than 2 seconds and I'll be rattling off the title and cast.
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« Reply #14 on: April 08, 2008, 04:50:32 pm » |
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MG: Eos, as in "Eos Rhododactylos" (I think I got that right...). And it's not Commedia and Tragedia? What is it then?
Eos, yes. I can't check your spelling, but yes, Rosy-Fingered. Yeah, it's basically just Comedy and Tragedy, whether you pick English, Greek (which I think is Comedos and Tragedos) or Latin to say them in. The friend who asked me that one was disappointed. |
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