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I have a super-power. Mine isn't the sort of thing you think of when you hear the term. It's not flying or invisibility or the ability to rearrange subatomic particles. My super-power can't be boiled down to a single word or a simple phrase. Nothing quite so grand, though I would like to believe it has saved many of my friends and family from pain and suffering.
My super-power is the ability to find bones, stones, fragments of metal, shards of glass, chunks of plastic, and so forth in my food.
"Sounds more like a super-weakness," you say. Well, consider it from this point of view: People who go out to eat with me have a much lower chance of finding said junk in their food. I figure that, although it could be seen as a super-weakness from my point of view, if I instead view this as a service super-power, I'm helping save the teeth of people everywhere.
Those of you who have dined with me know what I'm talking about. Some have argued that I find so much stuff in my food only because I chew so thoroughly and bite down rather more firmly than most gourmands. Granted. But how many of you have bitten down on part of a blender in your McDonald's soft-serve ice cream? Or a half-inch piece of a steel measuring cup in your gumbo? Or what appears to be a cube of tempered glass from a shattered windshield in your pasta? Or pea-sized stones in your salad? Seriously, I find something that doesn't belong in my meals - especially in restaurants - almost every time I dine out with people. I am not exaggerating.
I'm posting this now because I just found... an unidentifiable thing in my pasta. It would not give under great biting pressure. Looks like a pebble.
So: What's your super-power? (Super-weaknesses accepted.)
EDIT: Ooh, and what's your superhero name?
Chris
My super-power is the ability to find bones, stones, fragments of metal, shards of glass, chunks of plastic, and so forth in my food.
"Sounds more like a super-weakness," you say. Well, consider it from this point of view: People who go out to eat with me have a much lower chance of finding said junk in their food. I figure that, although it could be seen as a super-weakness from my point of view, if I instead view this as a service super-power, I'm helping save the teeth of people everywhere.
Those of you who have dined with me know what I'm talking about. Some have argued that I find so much stuff in my food only because I chew so thoroughly and bite down rather more firmly than most gourmands. Granted. But how many of you have bitten down on part of a blender in your McDonald's soft-serve ice cream? Or a half-inch piece of a steel measuring cup in your gumbo? Or what appears to be a cube of tempered glass from a shattered windshield in your pasta? Or pea-sized stones in your salad? Seriously, I find something that doesn't belong in my meals - especially in restaurants - almost every time I dine out with people. I am not exaggerating.
I'm posting this now because I just found... an unidentifiable thing in my pasta. It would not give under great biting pressure. Looks like a pebble.
So: What's your super-power? (Super-weaknesses accepted.)
EDIT: Ooh, and what's your superhero name?
Chris
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I'll play!
I also have a natural anti-entropy field, but it takes a really long time to notice the benefits of that one. :D
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Extra credit for knowing the reference without following the link.
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Anti-entry field... goes well with the finding lost things; I suspect they come from the same source, or one feeds the other ;-)
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Criminy!
My super power is sewing related, surely. Not sure how to define it, but yeah. Or, it is a kind of craft magic, passed on to me by my family. :>
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I can imagine. Imagine how full he'd get trying to eat a person-sized hole through a steel blast-door.
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Ooh, yeah: Craft Magic Lass!
Hm, editing my post to request your superhero name. So what would you be called?
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I stimulate the economy by buying multiple tons of lightbulbs a year?
Okay, maybe it's a super-weakness, dammit.
Sigh.
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I always remind people of someone they know... and it's usually obscure. "Oh! You look like my cousin's dog walker!" O RLY? :)
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I hope you provide thorough feedback to the product manufacturers so they can improve their products for the rest of us.
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So you stimulate memory. Hm, could help cure Alzheimer's.
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Four years ago, your dentist -- who, unbeknownst to you, dabbled in the occult before disappearing -- used an unusual amalgam in one of your fillings, which filling has a peculiar harmonic that attunes it to the subsurface of a necropolis in a nearby but quite horrifying dimension. The amalgam, when struck by your upper teeth while chewing, creates a tiny, temporary portal that opens in your mouth (you've felt the sensation, I'm sure, not unlike pop rocks, but probably chalked it up to overly spicy food or bad beef) and closes again almost instantaneously, but not before drawing forth some tiny thing buried in the unholy earth of the other-dimensional necropolis. So the pebbles? From the gravesites, or perhaps chips from sarcophagi. Bits of wood and the like? Coffins. Bits of bone? You can imagine.
On the plus side, it all tastes like chicken. Unholy, evil, putrescent chicken. :-)
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1) Naming things--I'm good at giving things names. Names can be powerful, and I can deliver good ones.
2) People Always Know Me From Somewhere -- It happens to me a lot, and not just as a cheesy pick-up line. People are convinced They Know Me From Somewhere and will keep suggesting how until I just pick something so they stop. It would be great to use as a networking tool should I become a spy or evil. I can align myself to anybody just because They Think They Know Me From Somewhere.
3) I break alarm clocks. My current one is going on 5 years, and it is the longest an alarm clock has ever lasted in my hands. One even started running time backwards. It is just one variable in what I call MellyStu Time.
My super hero name is MellyStu, of course.
Let me know when you write your Heroes story about ordinary citizens who don't wake up one day with super powers, but start to realize they had them all along, and by linking together our seemingly unimportant idiosyncrasies, we can destroy/save the world.
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Superhero Name: Obvious Man
Superhero catchphrase: "It's not surprising really that...[fill in any topic]"
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