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Aristus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-21-08 08:57 PM
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18. I can name all of the Emperors of Rome over a five-hundred-year period from memory.
How useless is that???
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  -What is your mundane superpower? MPK  Sep-21-08 02:06 PM   #0 
  - DU Threadkiller  LiberalEsto   Sep-21-08 04:09 PM   #1 
  - I appear to have that talent as well. n/t  HereKittyKitty   Sep-22-08 08:35 AM   #68 
  - Lim'ricking's my gift to the world...  Orsino   Sep-21-08 06:06 PM   #2 
  - But that is useful and productive. :)  MPK   Sep-21-08 06:52 PM   #5 
  - I am a douchebag magnet...  mcctatas   Sep-21-08 06:22 PM   #3 
  - Yikes.  MPK   Sep-21-08 06:55 PM   #6 
  - I will do my part to decrease the overall level of douchebaggery  mcctatas   Sep-21-08 08:27 PM   #15 
  - ... there is no higher calling.  DarkTirade   Sep-21-08 07:01 PM   #7 
  - Hey baby, I hope you like pancakes for breakfast...  Wetzelbill   Sep-21-08 09:02 PM   #21 
  - Ah, but at least you are a higher quality of douchebag...  mcctatas   Sep-21-08 09:06 PM   #23 
     - the t-bone!!!  Wetzelbill   Sep-21-08 09:11 PM   #27 
  - I don't think that's the proper way to dispose of a douchebag.  deucemagnet   Sep-21-08 10:03 PM   #44 
  - kicking because I can...  mcctatas   Sep-22-08 11:43 PM   #72 
  - I'm very sorry.  ThomCat   Sep-21-08 10:50 PM   #49 
     - They travel in packs!  mcctatas   Sep-22-08 08:23 AM   #66 
  - I can bend the last joint of my ringfingers.  krispos42   Sep-21-08 06:29 PM   #4 
  - I attract drunks and derelicts  skygazer   Sep-21-08 07:02 PM   #8 
  - i'm double jointed and extremely flexible, i can also pick up lots of different objects with my toes  chimpsrsmarter   Sep-21-08 07:03 PM   #9 
  - What is the largest thing you've picked up with your toes?  MPK   Sep-21-08 07:06 PM   #10 
     - hmm, so many things, a hammer was probably the heaviest thing, a dime was  chimpsrsmarter   Sep-21-08 07:09 PM   #11 
        - I pick shit up with my feet all the time too...  mcctatas   Sep-21-08 08:16 PM   #12 
           - my husband calls mine "Flippers" "Howz the flippers hon?" always makes me laugh.  chimpsrsmarter   Sep-21-08 08:18 PM   #13 
  - I never forget a face  KC2   Sep-21-08 08:20 PM   #14 
  - Lol. I do that too. "Hello...you!"  MPK   Sep-21-08 08:53 PM   #17 
  - teh Crazy. it loves me.  MsTryska   Sep-21-08 08:34 PM   #16 
  - Word. I take BART as part of my commute.  MPK   Sep-21-08 09:08 PM   #25 
     - My worst ever was when i was working an election...  MsTryska   Sep-22-08 01:12 AM   #53 
  - I can name all of the Emperors of Rome over a five-hundred-year period from memory.  Aristus   Sep-21-08 08:57 PM   #18 
  - I think it's kinda hot!  mcctatas   Sep-21-08 09:00 PM   #20 
  - I think that's awesome.  MPK   Sep-21-08 09:04 PM   #22 
  - Okay: (List does not include most co-emperors, pretenders, or doubtful figures)  Aristus   Sep-21-08 09:32 PM   #32 
     - Thank you.  MPK   Sep-21-08 09:44 PM   #36 
        - It's very interesting. The vicious mud-slinging election campaigns they had for the civic offices  Aristus   Sep-21-08 09:54 PM   #41 
  - my brother is like that  Wetzelbill   Sep-21-08 09:09 PM   #26 
  - I have a certain magnetism...  Concerned GA Voter   Sep-21-08 08:59 PM   #19 
  - I was put on earth to entertain beautiful women  Wetzelbill   Sep-21-08 09:07 PM   #24 
  - I'm thinking you're working some kind of angle...  mcctatas   Sep-21-08 09:48 PM   #38 
     - Sadly I only catch the bad guy  Wetzelbill   Sep-21-08 10:02 PM   #43 
     - And at least once, Kato as well!  Peake   Sep-21-08 10:56 PM   #50 
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  - I can make street lights go out.  mutley_r_us   Sep-21-08 09:29 PM   #29 
  - dude...  mcctatas   Sep-21-08 09:30 PM   #30 
  - Inorite?!  mutley_r_us   Sep-21-08 09:31 PM   #31 
     - In a movie that always means something bad is going to happen.  MPK   Sep-21-08 09:46 PM   #37 
  - I've convinced people they have the same "power"  jberryhill   Sep-22-08 01:18 AM   #54 
  - You too?  MaggieSwanson   Sep-22-08 02:28 AM   #56 
  - I do that, too!  Love Bug   Sep-22-08 05:59 AM   #59 
  - a certain number of my friends are considered assholes by other friends.  MnFats   Sep-21-08 09:37 PM   #33 
  - It's a lounge post.  MPK   Sep-21-08 09:41 PM   #35 
     - I thought they were that there are no standards...  mcctatas   Sep-21-08 09:50 PM   #39 
        - It's like the Pirate Code:  MPK   Sep-21-08 09:53 PM   #40 
  - I remember a ton of useless shit, and forget important stuff.  nytemare   Sep-21-08 09:41 PM   #34 
  - I can force things I order online to arrive a day ahead of schedule...  LostInAnomie   Sep-21-08 09:55 PM   #42 
  - I'm a little jealous. n/t  MPK   Sep-21-08 10:29 PM   #45 
  - I have a near-superhuman ability to APPEAR like I know what the hell is going on around me.  dicksteele   Sep-21-08 10:36 PM   #46 
  - I have a grin that lets me get away with anything.  Evoman   Sep-21-08 10:44 PM   #47 
  - That's a lot of responsibility!  MPK   Sep-21-08 11:39 PM   #52 
  - I could make a killing if I charged for my special ability.  Jamastiene   Sep-21-08 10:49 PM   #48 
  - I attract incredibly painful but non-lethal medical conditions.  ThomCat   Sep-21-08 11:00 PM   #51 
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  - I can make bad musicians sound fairly competent.  MilesColtrane   Sep-22-08 04:20 AM   #57 
  - The ability to trip over almost everything.  elshiva   Sep-22-08 04:52 AM   #58 
  - I can predict the past.  GoPsUx   Sep-22-08 06:42 AM   #60 
  - I destroy small companies by quitting.  bezdomny   Sep-22-08 07:52 AM   #61 
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