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If Jeff Goldblum didn’t cut it as an actor, he planned to pursue his other talent: jazz piano. You know Tom Wolfe as a best-selling author, but he was once a star baseball player who tried out as a pitcher for the New York Giants (before they left for San Francisco). While he’s more famous for his HOPE posters for the Obama campaign, Shepard Fairey also DJs. And before she was an Oscar award-winning screenwriter, Diablo Cody was a stripper. She even wrote a book about the experience.

Our point? Sometimes the people who we know for one thing have a hidden talent that we never could have guessed. That’s the premise behind HBO’s new Sunday night comedy Hung, which debuted to huge numbers earlier this month. The idea behind the show is rather unique: Ray Drecker, a former high-school sports legend, is now a middle-aged high-school basketball coach. He’s divorced, struggling to support his kids, and virtually homeless after his house catches fire. That’s when he decides to take on a second job — as a gigolo.

To help get the word out about the new series — which was created by Dmitry Lipkin (The Riches), is executive produced by Alexander Payne (Sideways), and stars Thomas Jane, Jane Adams, and Anne Heche — HBO is giving Flavorpill readers a chance to win a box set* of one of their other acclaimed series. To enter, leave us a comment here detailing your own hidden talent. We’ll pick our favorites on July 22 and post the winners here!

* Our first-prize winner will take home The Sopranos: The Complete Series. Three runners-up will score a box set of Sex and the City, The Wire, or Deadwood.

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Comments (62)

I can bite my own toenails.

I've been waiting for someone to give me a prize for my hidden talent for a long time:

I may be a very little girl, but I sure can give a mean piggy back ride to just about anyone. …videos to follow?

yes please! this must be seen to be believed…

i have an extremely high tolerance for spicy things. really. throw some scorching, smoking, wicked, debilitatingly hot wings at me: no problem.

warning: other hidden talent is projectile vomit of buffalo wings.

doesn't vomiting the spicy food disqualify you from this talent?

on second thought… that spice gotta go down and then back up. that's like… twice da spice!

I have ENORMOUS thumbs that allow me to dominate at thumb wrestling.

I know lots of dirty jokes.

I can make my eyes squeak.

I'm a website editor by day, and my hidden talent is that I can play the accordion. My favorite number is Also Sprach Zarathustra.

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I can belly dance. No, I won't show you. You just have to take my word for it.

By day I design wireframes, by night I melt faces with my air guitar

i can meow really really well. i seriously sound like a real cat. i probs spent too much time with our pet cat in my childhood, but it's a good thing this freaky talent finally came in handy!

you best win for revealing a talent like that… ;-)

I've never lost a game of air hockey in my life. And I'm 35. Sad, yes, but true.

I'm just a mild-manner client account executive by day but I have a rare ability to do some pretty crazy voices. My boyfriend says I have split personalities (jokingly) but I think it's just plain funny.

Put your arms up above your head. Clasp your hands together. Try to go around your back with your arms. You won't be able to do it. I've never met anyone else who can. It's pretty amazing. Really good for getting out of handcuffs (I'd imagine) and definitely a very cool party trick.

Hidden talent: procrastination via web contests.

i just want y'all to know: my richard can suck itself. thank you and goodnight.

My Louis Armstrong impression has been declared, "spot on," and, "alarmingly accurate." By the way, I'm a skinny, Korean-Japanese-Irish male.

I am very good at imitating almost any voice I hear, especially from cartoons. And extra bonus *** I can find very small things on a heavily patterned carpet/floor/what have you. This talent comes in more often than you'd think, especially where office bland colored carpeting exists.

I can do mirror image handwriting at the same time with both hands.

I can sleep anywhere, anytime. I am a world-class sleeper/napper. I can nap for 15 minutes and wake feeling refreshed. Folks hate me when they can't sleep, when noises or surroundings keep them from sleeping, and there I am, happily sound asleep. Z z z z z z z z z z z.!

I can identify any random actor in any random film and give at least two prior credits. I can also identify celebs or even just random people starring in commercials at 100 paces.

Im an architect by day and an artist by nite, somewhere in between i can crack your toes and good enough to know when theres one more crack hiding on the 3rd knuckle (the other 3rd knuckle)

I can put my legs behind my head and walk on my hands.

I can replicate in my kitchen something I've tasted in a restaurant. Anything from a mean bowl of cereal to a spicy thai beef salad that would make you and your mother cry.

My secret strength is "instigator" – I can convince my friends and colleagues to rally behind nearly any cause. And no, I don't lead a cult, yet.

I can sing Amazing Grace to the tune of the Gilligan's Island theme song. Also to the tune of House of the Rising Sun.

I'm a med student who plays bass in a punk band and knits scarves. I can also drink extreme amounts of alcohol for my size

Unlike the guy with big thumbs, I'm a small asian girl that has wily thumbs and has been able to successfully dominate entire bars full of larger man hands in thumb wrestling. I'm a thumb shark if you will. And I can do it while singing the alphabet backwards.

I'm the WORLDS BEST hand farter. It comes in handy when the person next to you is talking super loud on their cell phone.When this happens, I just bust out my extreme hand farting skills and over power the phone conversation making them hang up. It works every time.

Hand farting FTW!!!!!!!!!

I am a very talented and widely despised internet troll. I enjoy making mincemeat of my online enemies who stand no chance against my rapier wit, my charm and my borderline personality disorder. I am very good at making insipid, inflammatory, rude and/or obnoxious comments on the internet.

I can get knots and kinks out of absolutely any tangled necklace, chain, rope, etc. This is hidden because during my day job I'm know for being exceptionally impatient.

I cannot beat any of the talents listed here. I can whistle the overture to Loehngrin while listening to Coldplay.

What am I good at? Simple—maxing out my credit cards. I can pay off a balance and have the same card maxed out in a day. Jealous? Prolly! HA ha ha.

I can spot celebrities outside of celebrity functions (and even know who they are) regardless of whether they are A, B, C, or D listers. My friends have been impressed by this talent for years!

My hidden talent is that I invented the internet.

In third grade, while the other kids were memorizing Shel Silverstein and "Casey at the Bat," I memorized "Jabberwocky." And I still know it.

I am a trivial psychic. I can't predict when you'll meet the love of your life, or who committed that heinous crime, but I can tell you when you might ash a little into your friend's eye.

I'm usually quite talented at scoring some sort of promotional cable package including HBO so I can catch their always good new series du jour. Unfortunately, those promotional packages usually don't last long enough, and I'm forced to resort to catching later seasons through the wonder that is TV on DVD.

i want to be your friend… after you've been to a good restaurant.

Ha…no prob. I'm always whipping something up. All guinea pigs are invited!

I can touch my nose with my tongue – seriously long and dexterous tongue – has been put to great use ;)

I can flare both my nostrils really fast.

My secret talent -Tuvan throat singing

I can tap dance like Paula Abdul in her heyday (straight up now tell me, what ever happened to Arsenio Hall–or MC Scat Cat, for that matter). No talent shows though, you need to catch me in the elevator or waiting on the BART platform.

By day I am an Italian professor (I also speak Spanish and French), so I guess the main talent is languages; however, by night I continue to wait tables. My second, hidden talent, is that I have doubled jointed thumbs (they bend in both ways!). While it may not at first seem to be a talent, in the end it is because it allows me to precariously carry more plates up the length of my arm due to the strong base I am able to create with the first plate in my hand which all comes down to the doubled-jointed thumb. The talent is born from the desire to work with the doubled-jointedness and creating from it something useful beyond the party demonstrations and "who has the freakiest abnormality" contests, that are also usually played at parties – for the most part an open-bar or hosted bar affair, oh yes, good times.

Some people crack their knuckles…I can crack my sternum

i have the uncanny knack of saying the right thing at the right time and it's logical.

It turns out that I'm really fluid and flexible and am a really good stripper.

I have a very sensitive sense of taste and smell which I pursue as an amateur food critic. I taste everything from restaurant dishes, to belgian beers, wine, exotic dark chocolate, exquisite Chinese green teas, to jamon iberico and much more. I even started writing my own blog on this. http://www.ultimatefoodsnob.com Who would have ever known?

I may be a 19 year old marketing assistant but i have a multitude of abilities, here are a few…
I can untangle any rope, cables, strings of christmas lights, etc. with ease
I can sing back any song I hear at least once and can know all the words by the third time i hear it. If it's in a different language it takes me 6 times even though i don't know what they're saying. This is involuntary, so i have stored in my head the words to countless pointless pop songs from the radio.
I can tell you which way is north no matter where i am, my friends call it human integrated gps.
I can make clothing without a pattern.
I can bake biscotti and a mean cheesecake (new york style, thick and luscious, none of this low fat crap).

Oh and i used to teach Tae Kwon Do

me too! i thought i was the only one!

i think my favorite silly "hidden talent" is i put on mascara with my mouth closed. i have never met anyone else who could.

I can tell you who sang — and often, who WROTE — almost any classic country song. It's a fairly useless talent, but I do have a country music trivia board game that I win 100% of the time. (In the interest of full disclosure, I've only played twice. I can't seem to find anyone around here willing to play!)

I can identify over 1,000 species of bird, 400 species of dog, and 6 different kinds of cow.

The ability to display my (other) talents in an understated way so as not to attract the envy and jealousy of my fellow citizens.

I can sign the alphabet with both hands (ambidexterously?).

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