CONFESS!!!!! What talents do you have

[LynneSin]

Real talents, not crazy stuff like you can fart the alphabet or something like that.

Me: I can play the clarinet and saxophone. I enjoyed playing the sax (tenor - like Bill Clinton) but I loved playing the clarinet. My favorite piece was Mozarts K622 - Clarinet Concerto

[Mr. McD]

1. I play Bagpipes

Guitar and a little Banjo.:)

[underpants]

2. That banjo would have to be little with all that stuff in your hands

I know a little German. His name is Otto.

[Mr. McD]

41. I knew I should have phrased it differently.

[wryter2000]

I write fiction pretty well eom

eom

[underpants]

3. I know a little German

His name is Otto.

MAn does that ever keep getting funnier.

[LynneSin]

5. I love you underpants but....

...please don't quit your day job

[VelmaD]

4. I play the piano...

I started so young I don't even really remember when I learned the names of the notes. I started formal lessons in kindergarden. I eventually went to college on a piano scholarship. I was really good. I won medals in a couple of international competitions.

I also play percussion, clarinet, and flute.

[Loki]

15. Me too

I remember sitting on my mother's lap playing chopstix. Was classicly trained in piano and in the past 4 years, have gone back into the taking lesson mode to learn blues and jazz. Also play guitar, mandolin and hand bells.

[Q3JR4]

6. Um....

I can tutor algebra and such (including calculus I, calculus II, multivariable and vector calculus, differential equations and matrix theory).

I'm a physics major, which probably makes me sort of a Renaissance man as far as technology, engineering skills, and problem solving skills in various other sciences are concerned.

Then again, none of these are really what you'd call "talents."

[tigereye]

10. maybe you can help that poor college kid

who was so worried about his calculus class :) I think math skills are very cool. My h reads math books for fun.

[KurtNYC]

7. Cook a mean Coquilles St. Jaques

with crisped swiss cheese over it. French onion soup with the floating croutons and, more, swiss cheese. Beef Bourginon with those little pearl onions sauteed in butter. Beef chili with dark red kidney beans. And risotto in many forms.

And roast salmon with a pinot noir reduction (balsamic vinegar, shallots, etc). Is it lunch time yet?

[LynneSin]

8. damn, you can come cook for me

:bounce:

[LanternWaste]

9. Hooray for Clarinet players!!

I play wind instruments, too. My favorite's the B-flat Bass Clarinet. Love the deep, rich tones it makes (without the comic honking sound of the bassoon- a horn that makes me laugh when I hear it).

I'm also a pretty funny guy (though that may a bit difficult to tell on DU as I get a bit more... serious here) and do a regular one-night-a-week gig at an Anglo club in Cancun for a extra few bucks of play money :)

[eyesroll]

11. I'm a decent writer, but my true talent is reading

I read (with comprehension and retention) at a ridiculously fast rate. I got through Harry Potter IV on a one-stop flight from Salt Lake City to Milwaukee.

[bobbobbins]

12. i can stick my whole fist in my mouth

[tridim]

13. I'm a decent artist and cook

but I don't have much time for either lately. The computer age has almost completely destroyed my daily pencil and sketchpad habit. Until about 10 years ago I used to fill about 5 pages a day.

I still leave time to make good food for weekend parties, my creations are always a big hit. The only problem is I never use recipes, so when people ask for a recipe I can only give a general approximation.

[ContraBass Black]

14. Poet, Public Speaker, former Cellist

Countless written works, Several speeches in front of thousands of people, Eight years behind teh Cello.

[dryan]

29. My talents....

needlepoint - have done several huge tablecloths, tree skirts, and I am now working on a king size needlepointed bedspread\
writer - in the past wrote many magazine articles
public speaker - member of TI and have given several award-winning speeches
"stylist" - I am able to put together many great looking outfits for my friends and neighbors also interior design

[Chovexani]

16. I play the violin and piano.

I'm also told I'm a very good fiction writer (I have self-esteem issues about my level of talent though).

Ooh you play sax! So it's you playing all the sleazy music in those naughty movies. :evilgrin:

[tridim]

31. Hey, fellow violin player

10 years of lessons here. With an additional 2 years of fiddle (Bluegrass). It's been awhile, but my finger still work every time I pick it up.

Since then I've taken up the Mandolin, drums, guitar, harmonica, piano and a bit of flute.. I played drums in a rock band with absolutely no training, it was an interesting experience to say the least (read- I could hold a rhythm, but I still sucked :)). Mandolin is cool because the tuning and fingering is exactly the same as violin. It came naturally.

[GOPisEvil]

17. I'm a pretty decent researcher.

I like discovering the answers to things I don't know. I'm pretty determined too, I hate not being able to find the answer to something.

[LynneSin]

18. Can you discover why folks find such appeal in an asshole

like that chimp boondocking in the white house

:shrug:

[GOPisEvil]

20. Oh come on, don't you have a needle in a haystack I can look for?

Actually, he's done a good job of being packaged well. For people who only pay cursory attention to current events, he seems like their kind of guy. It's that damned liberal media, I tell ya...

[liontamer]

19. I play clarinet

and I bellydance.

[Chovexani]

21. Bellydancing is so cool!

:loveya:

I would love to learn how but I just can't get my hips to move like that, LOL.

[liontamer]

24. it just takes practice!

the music makes your hips want to move

[MissMillie]

22. I can sing

play clarinet, saxiphone and flute.

I'm a pretty good cook.

I've been known to crochet some pretty things.

And I think I'm a pretty good mom.

[Occulus]

23. I compose

for piano, voice, and am currently writing a drum and bugle corps show titled "Anthem for Manhattan".

This is all just for fun; I don't expect to be "discovered" or anything like that...

One of my pieces, titled "Fantasy on the Old West" (Overture) can be heard here, if I uploaded it correctly:

http://home.ripway.com/2004-9/171188/index.html

[liontamer]

25. Composition rocks

I used to love composition in high school. Sadly I lacked talent :(

[Occulus]

27. it helps to know how to play piano

Looking at other full scores helps a lot as well.

[barackmyworld]

26. I do a lot of visual arts

I get bored a lot and I need things to draw, if you have a picture of your wife, your dog, or something send it to me and I can draw it for you and send it to you. And of course, you can always support my most popular skill--printing t-shirts!

[La Lioness Priyanka]

28. i can bellydance

not professionally but i am not bad either

[Surf Cowboy]

30. I flyfish and tie flies.

Some that are actually fairly artistic and/or realistic.

I am also a Retriever Whisperer.

Once upon a time, I was a poet--but I've lost the muse...

[miss_kitty]

32. i do a lot of different stuff

so i could be considered a 'dilettante'

i am an artist painter,have done some photography, and i do metalwork, forging and jewelry making-looking forward to learning how to weld and do holloware, maybe some beadmaking.

my landscape design stuff is pretty good.

research and writing-I'm kinda good at that too...

i am mechanically inclined, which means i can and have done work on cars, like engine rebuild, brake system rebuild, engine swapping and massive tiny jobs...all on '57-64 Rootes Group Hillman Minxes... (7 to make 4 :))

now, if only i could get a job in Bush's America :)

on edit: cook and sew, too....

[Magrittes Pipe]

33. Anything I could post...

...would get this thread locked.

[Wapsie B]

34. Clarinet player here.

And I cook a mean batch of chicken giblets. Yummmm!

[SarahB]

35. I'm a decent soprano.

Not the mobster variety, the singing variety. I can also refinish furniture and can do plenty of crafty, decorative type stuff (painting, stenciling, lots of stuff) when I'm feeling like it. Someday, I might buy a house just to do the cosmetic fixings and make some bucks on it in the process.

A few other things as well. :7

[AspenRose]

36. Flautist.

eom

[henslee]

37. Cool. I wish I was musical. Lesson never panned out. I do have a

few talents. I know how to trim trees very well, though it's not my full time vocation. Also, basketball-wise, have a ridiculously good "Kareem" skyhook that always shocks people.

[hyphenate]

38. Well....

I'm a writer and a photographer. I try to sing, and I'm not too bad, but no one wants to listen to me.

I have no actual artistic talent when it comes to "drawing" but I do some mean web graphics.

I remember stuff. I think I'm a savant for television trivia, from the early 60s to the mid 90s. I know actors that no one knows or recognizes. I have a partial photographic memory--I used to look at the pages of text books the morning of tests and remember most of what I saw.

I have an intuitive sense of navigation. This comes in hand when I'm in the rare position of being lost.

It's kind of crazy, but I can write backwards with both hands, as well as regular with both as well. I can even write upside down and backwards.

I think that's about it.

[VOX]

39. I play guitar, blues-harp, and ukulele, and I can sing pretty well...

Too bad I have to work for a living! :)

[arcane1]

40. I'm not allowed to post this on DU

:evilgrin:

[ContraBass Black]

42. Forgot to Mention

I sing Contrabass in a non-auditioning choir. My handle is actually outdated, as I haven't been a baritone for a very long time and attempting to sound like one would be painful.

[Squeech]

43. Jack of all trades rock'n'roller

I play guitar, bass, and keyboards, and I can drum in a pinch.

While I'm tooting my own horn (actually I wish I played tuba), I have a really good pitch sense that falls just shy of perfect pitch. In my case, it's like I carry a reference A440 around in my head all the time, and I can adjust whatever else I'm doing to it. This also allows me to figure out the chord changes to songs very quickly, and come up with reasonable accompaniments-- which is (partly) why I'm most in demand as a bass player.

Also I have a real good memory for tunes. This turns out to be supported by biology-- I once had my brain scanned, and the doctor told me my "Heschel's Gyrus" is significantly bigger than normal-- and that's the part of the brain where audio memory lives.

DUers in the Boston area may be interested to note that I'll be performing as a singer/songwriter on September 18th in Watertown MA at a venue called the Inner Limits Lounge, at the corner of Waverly Ave and Main Street. I have this scurrillous ditty about the chimp pretender in the White House that I'm real proud of...

</horntoot>

[mrboba1]

44. I am the best one I know at...

listening to string instruments.

:P

[noonwitch]

45. I am better than anyone else I know at this limited talent

I can fill balloons with nitrous from those little cannisters. I am very good at it, and can get every last bit out of the cannisters and into the balloons without wasting the gas. No one I know is as efficient at it as I am.

[Bertha Venation]

46. I wasn't much good at sticking around, but this girl can sing.

And she's not a bad guitarist -- when she's in practice.

When I'm in shape, I'm crackerjack on a softball field and on a tennis court. I am highly skilled in both places; I just don't have the body for it these days.

I take some pretty damned impressive photographs. I have a good eye (some people think I have two).

And I don't know why, but I can make people laugh.

[rbnyc]

47. I can sing, play guitar, write songs...

...I'm a good producer/engineer, I can draw, I make nice collages, I make great chocolate torte, and I'm awesome in bed.

:evilgrin:

[rbnyc]

50. I forgot some:

Scrabble
Bridge
Cribbage
Spades
Hearts


(any card game with tricks, really.)

[lil-petunia]

48. paint, sketch in bars, play piano, sculpt

swear and drink, love to create things. especially impish trouble.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

49. I sing both classical and Balkan style

I'm also a quick study when it comes to learning languages, and my translation and editing clients like my writing style.

When I was teaching, I used to make my own visual aids, lots of cartoonish, often humorous, drawings to illustrate certain situations or words.

However, anything involving numbers is a struggle for me, and that was true even before I heard that women aren't "supposed" to be good at math.

[Misunderestimator]

51. Pissing off Republicans

I also play the piano and sing, among a few other things, but that's all water under the bridge :)

[Caution]

52. I can throw a playing card about 50 feet

I can also throw it about 15 feet from me in such a way that it boomerangs back and catch it (only about 50% of the time am i successful on that one).

I can juggle, i can pick most handcuff locks with a paperclip, I can bake a bunch of different kinds of bread, cakes and cookies and I can recite various baseball related statistics ad infinitum.

I can also read at about 125pps/hour with good to great retention.

I'd toss all of that aside inside of 2 seconds to be able to at least carry a tune.

[Ramsey]

53. I can sing

Pretty well some people have told me.

I can write well, and very quickly.