I dare you to lick your elbow

I have not posted in a while, well maybe it just seems that way. I've done a lot in the past weeks. Okay, let's face it, it was the weekend; there were people in my house other than me...parents! Which means I can't just sit around and do nothing, summer weekends are the bane of, well, summer. And driving is useful in the summer...if you know where you need to go. Hint, don't go to the library if you don't know how to get back.

I digress, you may be wondering what the title is about. I hope to God that you did not try to lick your elbow. I was sitting with my family at a restaurant, Outback to be exact, when some strawberry sauce [stuff on cheesecake] fell right on my elbow. I had an epiphany: this is how humans found out that it is impossible to lick your elbow. Did I forget to say SPOILER ALERT! I really hope you didn't need it.

I propose that some great scientist, Newton perhaps, was eating apple sauce happily when a glob of it fell on his elbow. He was a messy guy, I'm sure, sitting under trees and whatnot. So being this messy man he promptly leaned toward the apple glob, stuck out his tongue and soon became enraged with his inability to complete a simple task.

I imagine that some decades, maybe centuries later, a comedian used this knowledge to his advantage. I bet he won whatever battle of wits he used it in.

As a child when and adult pulls this prank on you and you are suddenly aware of this amazing dysfunction of the human body, you must wonder what else your body is incapable of. Now some of these disabilities are due mainly to genetics, such as double jointed bones, rolling tongues, and many more that do not occur to me at the moment. [Feel free to add some in the comments :)]

As for me I am double jointed in my shoulder, but not to an extreme measure. All I can do is turn my arms in side out...it's hard to explain. The tips of your fingers face opposite of your face in general but when I use my amazing double jointed powers my fingers point toward my face, quite literally actually. That also means that my elbows are parallel to the surface in which I am leaning on. All together I look like the girl from The Ring, pleasant right?

Clearly this elbow situation did not cause Newton to just think "Well this must be true for everyone," he most likely thought "What the hell is wrong with me?!" Perhaps it took him days or years to find enough people that were unable to preform such a task to calm himself. I guess we all have those sort of things that make us question our abilities.

Such a silly thing, not being able to lick your elbow. Oh well.

XDara