<p>Okay on the face of it that seems like a facetious question....
...but I read this question on some forum a while back and it has
stayed fresh in my mind....I would rather write about my attempts
to lick my elbow and why they failed and what it would take to succeed
for my personal statement on the common app
.....</p>
<p>how about wiggling ears.... are we all capable of doing this with training
....or.....is the satisfaction of being able to wiggle one's ears the sole
realm of the genetically blessed...</p>
<p>then there is the ability to bend just the pinky without bending any of the
other fingers.....</p>
<p>Are there times that some techers sit around a table with an impossible
problem and wiggle their ears, try to lick their elbows and do the pinky thing
just until a flash of insight strikes them...</p>
<p>....so many random ideas and so little time.... all this counterproductive
creativity due the Caltech box's demise (and now the Stanford Picture
prompt going away as well).. :(</p>
<p>ADVICE? :)</p>
<p>Well....for me, when I have to think hard, my ears get and urge to be wiggled. Sometimes I wiggle my right ear, sometimes just the left one, but most of the times simply both - makes my skull muscles stretch, ya know...
=)</p>
<p>I gave up trying to bite my elbow when I was about 6. My parents lured me into a doctors office for a shot. I asked him whether there was something I could do to avoid it. He said: "Sure, if you bite your elbow, I'm not going to give you the shot"... After half-an-hour of twisting my arm, I, already crying, allowed the doctor to poke me.... <em>sob</em></p>
<p>As for twisting my pinky and fingers in general, I exercised them to avoid pain from girls torturing us, guys, to the point where I can touch the bone that's sticking out of the wrist with my pinky. People say it's gross, but eh... =)</p>
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<p>Yep :)</p>
<p>At frosh camp, one of my friends licked his elbow for the talent show. So I guess it is possible. My advice: get a friend to take a picture of you licking your elbow, and send that picture in, labeled as "the Box." :) </p>
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I gave up trying to bite my elbow when I was about 6. My parents lured me into a doctors office for a shot. I asked him whether there was something I could do to avoid it. He said: "Sure, if you bite your elbow, I'm not going to give you the shot"... After half-an-hour of twisting my arm, I, already crying, allowed the doctor to poke me.... <em>sob</em></p>
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<p>Hahaha! What a doctor.</p>
<p>but the box is gone zoogies, that's the sad thing :(</p>
<p>Is the box really gone? That can't be. </p>
<p>Edit: Just looked. That is a travesty. :-(</p>
<p>Just because the box is gone doesn't mean people can't send in boxes anyway, right? ;)</p>
<p>YES. there should be a people's rebellion. people should send boxes no matter what. then maybe they'll bring it back.</p>
<p>Bring Back The Box! Freeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeedom!</p>
<p>It could be an optional essay.</p>