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Old 09-October-2007, 04:41 AM
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The power to turn gold into lead, and diamonds into lumps of coal.
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Only having enough psychic ability to know what shapes are on the cards. None left for crime-fighting.
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The ability to know when the answer is "None of the above".
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Mike Alexanderhas the ability to remember television commercials he saw almost fifty years ago with uncanny accuracy.

And remember, "If it doesn't say Amana, it's not a Radarange."
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Old 12-October-2007, 12:47 AM
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The ability to only speak fluent English and binary code.
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The ability to quote every riff from MST3K.

The ability to understand every obscure reference in MST3K.

The ability to know what MST3K is!
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On Earth, my skin recieves far less UV rays than I was exposed in the Vegan colony where I was born, making it impossible for me to be sunburned by Sol.
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Old 14-October-2007, 09:58 PM
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The ability to use my ears as a shroud!
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I think a story where some heroes with gadgets and minimal powers like hypnotic suggestion or vantriloquism defeat a villian with stronger powers by clever thinking would be a good read.
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I think the ability to average 40 post a day in the first month after registration is amazing.
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Old 15-October-2007, 09:38 PM
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Mostly, it's in these games.
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I knew it. You do not sleep or work or play or eat Oh Kai? Are all Vegans like you? With that sunscreen skin you better watch your Vit D intake. But maybe on Vega only Vitamins V, E,G,& A are needed? I really need the worthless superpower of that knowledge.
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Old 19-October-2007, 12:42 AM
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I knew it. You do not sleep or work or play or eat Oh Kai? Are all Vegans like you? With that sunscreen skin you better watch your Vit D intake. But maybe on Vega only Vitamins V, E,G,& A are needed? I really need the worthless superpower of that knowledge.
No, I have a cover to maintain and only go on BAUT after I return from school. I do my homework quickly. I have my own vitamins that I take before eating Earth food so that it doesn't harm me and gets broken down into the nutrients that I need.
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Old 19-October-2007, 09:05 PM
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I can blink up to four times in one second, provided that I focus. Is that a super enough power to win the Randi Prize?
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The ability to touch your ear with your elbow.

this should be good

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A hoax believer with the ability to NOT use ad hom attacks when commenting on YouTube!
No, the powers have to be worthless.
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I sometimes call my wife Non-Sequitur Girl, with the ability to turn any conversation in a completely new direction. In her crime-fighting alter ego she uses it to confuse criminals.
Mine has that power too, coupled with the uncanny use of pronouns during this time to send it from superpower to an art form. This can lead to immense confusion as the conversation will continue on for a paragraph or two with each side talking about something completely unrelated. Then minutes are wasted trying to untangle the conversation to figure out just who meant what about which topic.

Put her and her sister together and I just leave. They know exactly what they're talking about even though nary a noun has been uttered for an hour and the topics change rapidly, I swear in mid-sentence even. I'm half convinced it's just a