Is there a superstition that kissing your own elbow is supposed to change your gender?
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La Parete
ANSWERS: 14
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About 20 years ago, a kid I went to school with told me of the myth that kissing your elbow would cause you to change sex, and that's the only time I've ever heard of it besides right here on answerbag. But unless you're the same person who told me about it before, then that makes at least 3 people (including myself) who've heard of it, so I'd say that yes, there is such a superstition. Possibly not a very popular one though. Of course it should be pointed out that kissing one's own elbow is not an easy thing to do. Perhaps a good contortionist could pull it off.
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I suspect it refers to the fact that its as impossible to change ones gender as it is to kiss ones elbow (trust me - try and kiss your elbow..) I've heard a similar proverb "such and such will happen if my cat licks its ear." Which clearly will never happen. So basically a saying more than a superstition. Although an element of truth I guess - seeing as development in cosmetic science have given us the ability to completely re-structure our bodies, these days we could quite possibly do either!
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How will we ever know? i cannot kiss my elbow. can you?
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I guess there's a good chance. There's only one way to find out...
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Never heard that one, but it should be. Who knew that your gender was nothing to do with the genitalia you were born with, but in fact your ability to bend funny and kiss your elbow. Brilliant! I'm telling the kids next door that one!
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you have to be pretty damn flexible to kiss your elbow
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Yes - Ive heard that- my bro can kiss his elbow
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Hahahaha... brings back memories from grade school! I remember sitting around the lunch table with my friends- all of us twisting painfully to the bet that we couldn't do it. I don't think it started as a quest for male-dom, but I do recall some kid laughing at us and saying we already looked like boys (which, of course he came to take back once middle school and puberty hit).
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Not that I know of. Only one way to find out... Nope, nothing.
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It is possible. I can kiss my own elbow. And I'm still a man. (phew, that's lucky - I did the kissing before I heard the rumour - what a shock that would've been!) I just don't understand the talent. I'm certainly no contortionist. I can't even touch my toes - but I can kiss my elbow. Must just be some sort of weird natural flexibility.
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My mother used to tell my brother and I that when we got too rowdy. The challenge kept us busy for at least thiry minutes. Obviously we never succeeded.
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i can kiss my elbow and im still a girl so its a lie
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If you can kiss your own elbow, it will change the way your arm sits in your shoulder socket.
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Until now I thought it anatomically impossible, but two people here say they have kissed the impossible kiss. Not to doubt anyone's word, but I'm still sceptical. I suppose it's like the old saying that if you pick up a guinea pig by the tail, its eyes will fall out. Guinea pigs don't have tails.
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