Skills
Don't be shy. Can you do something that other people find useful, entertaining, or impressive? Don't hide it under a bushel! Instead, post here. Put your proficiency in parentheses. Add new categories and skills as appropriate.
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Automotive Skills
Drive Stick Shift
Evan Miller (maniacally)
Daniel Rooney (erratically)
Brendan Dougherty (smooth as shit out of a duck's ass)
Joe Shoer '06 (proficiently)
Katie Montgomery (could drive anything from a '82 Toyota Tercel to a forklift, or so she believes)
Jessica Chung (I learned in a week.)
Samantha Peterson (automatics are for women)
Janey Waney Lee (She doesn't even need to say anything.)
Leah Joy Weintraub (In her other life, she actually is a race car driver.)
Lucy Cox-Chapman (Knows the subtle sounds of her transmission better than you do)
Helena Harnik '07 (I have two driving licenses, one for each side of the road. Yeah that's right- I can use either hand to shift. That makes me 2x more stick-savvy than everyone else)
Change a Tire
David Rodriguez '06 has changed more than his fair share of tires and learned that salt+rust will effectively glue a wheel onto the axle. Solution? Wedge the flat edge of your hubcap-removal tool into the jammed area and whack the crap out of it with a hammer. Eventually, if you're lucky, that wheel will pop right off.
Jumpstart a Car
David Rodriguez '06 has also had his fair share of car jumpstarts and knows not to connect the black plug to red and red plug to black. If you do, you will blow the battery fuse in your fusebox and burn out some expensive component in your car. Through his learning processes, he found just how costly it is to replace the stock amp that powers your stereo.
Leah Joy Weintraub (but only if you ask nicely)
Get a Williams Van License -If I Wanted To-
Oral Skills
I can blow free-floating saliva bubbles
I can curl my tongue into a W
Leah Shoer
I can touch my tongue to my nose
I can remove one/all of my teeth
I can eat iced cream without using my tongue/lips
Manual Skills
I can snap my fingers by flipping my wrist
Evan Miller (right hand only)
Ronit Bhattacharyya (both hands)
I can pull my fingers back to touch the back of my hand
John Chatlos can.
Other body skills
Computer Languages
Perl
Kai Steverson (competent)
Evan Miller (wizardly)
Java
Daniel Rooney (disgusting)
Mathematica
Daniel Klein (is too a real language)
Joe Shoer '06 (it's my thesis, and I can do more with it than the math nerds can)
PHP
Feats of Strength
I can benchpress my own weight in bad Christina Ricci movies
Object Tricks
I can swallow... (list object below)
Foreign Languages
Sign Language
Foreign Object Tricks
Luck
Lisetta Shah can find 4-leaf clovers pretty much just by looking down at the ground for a couple seconds, and sometimes without even that much effort.
Numchuck skills, computer hacking skills, bowhunting skills
Girls only want boyfriends who have great Italic textskills.