you lucky so and so!
I ain’t got the trifecta yet. Some part of me wants a Xbox360.
Another useless talent I have, good making MVs. It is all about timing and a sense of what fits best.
Not really useless, but I can figure out how to use something in half the tim anybody else I know can.
You beat me. Very rarely I can get something done half the time (unless it is something I’m good at)
Any device, I can tell someone how to use even if I never saw it before.
That probably doesn’t fit with the category useless. I think it is a pretty useful talent.
I’m double jointed. that’s useless.
I am a little double jointed, but only in my fingers. I can bend it back a little bit farther than most people I know.
I’m double jointed everyhere.
The Tokay Gecko is named after the strange sound it seems to make, especially during mating season but through the rest of the year as well- it sounds as though it’s actually saying ‘tokay! tokay!’ I think it’s also the only small lizard able to make a clear sound with its voice.
Heyy… I’m double jointed too! Only in one of my thumbs though. I can bend it backwards, and the bone kind of pops out. Weird, and useless if you ask me. 
I have benign joint hypermobility syndrome.
We’re so cool here. I like longest things, so here it goes!
The longest town in the United Kingdom is in Wales. It is:
Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch.
This name is given in full on the railway station. The local people do not bother to say the name in full. They refer to it as Lannfair PG.
However, there is a place with an even longer name in New Zealand. It is the name of a hill. Here it is:
Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapiki maungahoronukupokaiw en uaitnatahu.
the longest official word ever (1,913 letters) is the term for the formula C1289H2051N343O375S8
And it is spelled:
Methionylglutaminylarginyltyrosylglutamylserylleuc ylphenylalanylalanylglutaminylleucyllysylgl
utamylarginyllysyglutamylgycylalanylphenylalanylva lylprolylphenylalanylvalylthreonylleucylgl
ycylaspartylprolylglycyllisoleucylglutamylglutamin ylserylleucyllysylisoleucylaspartylthreonylleu
cylisoleucylglutamylalanylglycylalanylaspartylalan ylleucylglutamylleucylglycylisoleucylprolylph
enylalanylserylaspartylprolylleucylalanylaspartylg lycylprolylthreonylisoleucylglutaminylaspara
ginylalanylthreonylleucylarginylalanylphenylalanyl alanylalanylglycylvalylthreonylprolylalanylgl
utaminylcysteinylphenylalanylglutamylmethionylleuc ylalanylleucylisoleucylarginylglutaminyllys
ylhistidylprolylthreonylisoleucylprolylisoleucylgl ycylleucylleucylmethionyltyrosylalanlylasparagi
nylleucylvalylphenylalanylasparaginyllysylglycylis oleucylaspartylglutamylphenylalanyltyrosylal
anylglutaminylcysteinylglutamyllysylvalylglycylval ylaspartylsrylvalylleucylvalylalanylaspartylv
alylprolylvalylglutaminylglutamylserylalanylprolyl phenylalanylarginylglutaminylalanylalanylleu
cylarginylhistidylasparaginylvalylalanylprolylisol eucylphenylalanylisoleucylcysteinylprolylprolyl
aspartylalanylaspartylaspartylaspartylleucylleucyl arginylglutaminylisoleucylalanylseryltyrosylg
lycylarginylglycyltyrosylthreonyltyrosylleucylleuc ylserylarginylalanylglycylvalylthreonylglycylal
anylglutamylasparaginylarginylalanylalanylleucylle ucyllysylglutamyltyrosylasparaginylalanylal
anylprolylprolylleucylglutaminylglycylphenylalanyl glysylisoleucylserylalanylprolylaspartylgluta
minylvalyllysylalanylalanylisoleucylaspartylalanyl glycylalanylalanylglycylalanylisoleucylserylgl
ycylserylalanylisoleucylvalyllysylisoleucylisoleuc ylglutamylglutaminylhistidylasparaginylisoleuc
ylglutamylprolylglutamyllysylmethionylleucylalanyl alanylleucyllysylvalylphenylalanylvalylgluta
minylprolylmethionyllysylalanylalanylthreonylargin ylserine
The longest words in the English language without a repeated letter are:
Uncopyrightable and dermatoglyphics.
Source: englishforums.com/English/9837/Print.htm
Yeah, I also seem to know when a tv is on. Here’s an interesting fact: Children and young adults hear within most of the human decibel capacity which means they can pick up higher frequencies. Recently there was a free ringtone circulating on the internet that was just a high-pitched frequency. It is impossible for older schoolteachers hear, so they can’t confiscate ringing phones in the classroom! (not to give out any ideas…)
Funny one-liner:
For sale: Parachute
Never opened
Small blood stain
~Sarah =D
that’s a 3 liner 
That is seriously awesome. I want that ringtone JUST to see if my parents or someone older than me by quite a bit would be able to hear it… Oh, would I have fun with that.
I’ve got that tone.
^ lol! Okay, for anyone who’s got time on their hands and likes off-the-wall origin stories, this one’s for you.
LIFE IN THE 1500’S
Most people got married in June because they took their yearly bath in May, and still smelled pretty good by June. However, they were starting to smell, so brides carried a bouquet of flowers to hide the body odor. Hence the custom today of carrying a bouquet when getting married.
Baths consisted of a big tub filled with hot water. The man of the house had the privilege of the nice clean water, then all the other sons and men, then the women and finally the children. Last of all the babies. By then the water was so dirty you could actually lose someone in it. Hence the saying, Don’t throw the baby out with the Bath water.
Houses had thatched roofs – thick straw-piled high, with no wood underneath. It was the only place for animals to get warm, so all the cats and other small animals (mice, bugs) lived in the roof When it rained it became slippery and sometimes the animals would slip and fall off the roof. Hence the saying “It’s raining cats and dogs.”
There was nothing to stop things from falling into the house… This posed a real problem in the bedroom where bugs and other droppings could mess up your nice clean bed. Hence, a bed with big posts and a sheet hung over the top afforded some protection. That’s how canopy beds came into existence.
The floor was dirt. Only the wealthy had something other than dirt. Hence the saying, Dirt poor. The wealthy had slate floors that would get slippery in the winter when wet, so they spread thresh (straw) on floor to help keep their footing. As the winter wore on, they added more thresh until, when you opened the door, it would all start slipping outside. A piece of wood was placed in the
entranceway. Hence the saying a thresh hold.
In those old days, they cooked in the kitchen with a big kettle that always hung over the fire. Every day they lit the fire and added things to the pot. They ate mostly vegetables and did not get much meat. They would eat the stew for dinner, leaving leftovers in the pot to get cold overnight and then start over the next day. Sometimes stew had food in it that had been there for quite a while. Hence the rhyme, “Peas porridge hot, peas porridge cold, peas porridge in the pot nine days old…”
There’s more but I feel like I’m exhausting my useless knowledge hoard. I like to put my double-jointed thumbs behind my index fingers so they look like little butler hands. Try it! I know, I’m that weird!
~Sarah
random!
Wow, FunnyGirl, that is an awesome story of (almost) useless facts! The bridesmaid with the flowers and the raining cats and dog ones are the best… Is that information actually real?
FunnyGirl: That is a very interesting “story”! Awesome.