Our blogWe’re still really excited with our summer of sport and now we’ve got the Paralympics. This is the year it’s meant to be the biggest ever, with tickets virtually sold out and the profile of Paralympic athletes growing. All in our own backyard too. After Team GB’s fantastic medal haul at the Olympics we will be screaming our support for our Paralympians with equal fervour.
We can’t wait to meet the Super Humans, as the adverts keep inviting us to do, and this got the Adopt A Word team thinking again.
A Superhuman is defined as having powers above and beyond those of mankind – so basically it’s like having a super power!
It’s competition time again! Our Paralympians all have reached above and beyond in their chosen sport and we all have that potential too.
So if you had to pick out your Super Power what would it be? We’re not talking necromancy or X-ray vision here but the thing that’s a slightly random talent that you have, for example
Are you a Procrastinator extraordinaire? Able to put off any task until it is way, way too late.
Can you say Tongue Twisters without a single stutter?
Or perhaps you are the master of mismatched socks!
We want to know what your super power is, the sillier the better and preferably able to be summed up in one word, and you could win yourself your own Super Power T-shirt so everyone can know how amazing you really are!
To enter all you have to do is post your suggestion as a comment below, along with your email address or Twitter user name before midday BST on 9th September 2012. Adopt a Word’s very own Games Committee will reconvene to choose the superpower that they can relate to the most. It just can’t be smutty, illegal or unhygienic.
The fun will also be happening on Twitter @adoptaword and we’d love you to join in there too, but don’t forget to use the hash tag #superhuman.
Terms & Conditions:
1. You may submit as many entries as you wish.
2. Automated entries will be disqualified. 3. Entries must be received by midday BST on 9th September 2012.
4. A winner will be chosen by an independent panel from all the entries received.
5. The winner will be contacted via email or Twitter and delivery of the prize will be arranged. 6. The winner consents for their name to be used for publicity purposes by
I CAN in printed and/or online formats.
7. I CAN will not pass on your details to any third party without your prior consent, but your name will be shown on our blog.
I have the power to maim myself with seemingly safe household objects. Last week I needed stiches from using a vegetable peeler.
It’s not the most useful of superpowers, but you never know
My word: Fabtastic!
I’m Fabulous and Fantastic
I have the power
to speak only in rhyme
it can get quite annoying
as its all of the time!
my non-ending rhyming
can bore bad-guys to death
unlike my husband
who just uses his breath!
We’re a family of Heroes!
Yep, each one of us!
we stand up to Evil
with nary a fuss!
My sons power is better
he has Power of wind!
to stop any bad guys
from trying to win!
Oh its so pungent
he can clear a room
you know to spet back when
you hear something go BOOM!!!
And my young baby daughter
she uses her nappy
believe me, when thats full
then no-one is happy!
My second eldest son,
has the power of chatter
he can talk you to death if you
stop for a natter!
but my rhyming problem
just won’t go away
it happened one fateful
dark stormy day!
I was hit by lightening
on the duel carriageway
when suddenly screaming
i just tried to say
help help
won’t you help but then it
turned out this way!
so now I just rhyme
each line that I say
its MY power of Verse
is there a shirt coming my way????
I’d like to have the ability to fly, because I think the breeze would feel great and the places I could go really quickly without thinking about traffic, paying for fuel or public transport! yippeee!
My word for my super power and super t-shirt could also be ‘Inspired’, ‘relentless’, ‘persistent’, ‘indomitabl’e, ‘focused’, ‘driven’, or ‘obsessed’ – I really want that t-shirt – I shall have it! (Evil laugh)
My word would have to be ‘loquacious’. Then again, it could just as easily be ‘verbose’ or maybe even ‘bombastic’. As long as it wasn’t ‘morose’, ‘grumpy’ or ‘pinhead’.
I Can……. eat a whole tin of quality street in less than 15 mins, i have choco-power!
I TALK for England!!
WINNER
I have the super-power of organising 3 wild animals (otherwise known as my children), restoring calm to chaos and generally being super-mum, which includes the talents of finding missing clothing, magically ensuring all washing and ironing is done and put away, restoring tidyness in a flash to bedrooms and a playroom you can barely move in!!!
My super power is super sonic staying power …… now this isnt rude as it may first sound , it basically means that I can survive on 2 hours sleep a night , thanks to a hyperactive 4 year old with stronger super power than myself and his constant training to produce this super powered mummy …… altho still not as super powered as him sadly
My super power is being super messy- Mess just follows me everywhere I go and my house or desk is never tidy! @esthermate
Twitter is @lindylulu47
I have the superpower of being unfailingly early for everything and for eating marshmallows without the kids noticing.
My super-skill is the ability to stain a T-shirt within hours of buying it. This skill is proportional i.e The nicer the tee the faster the staining and the more persistent the stain. I am the “Splatter-Magnet”
my super power is MakingCakesDisappear ! and quoting Keyser Soze “And like that, poof. They are gone” , well its a near quote lol
I have an incredible superpower. I can walk into any restaurant, and pick the one item on the menu that they haven’t got!
So I guess my superpower is SUPERHUNGRY!
Multitasking mind reader xx
@lonelyaesthetic
I can dislocate my knee & collar bone, usually just by sitting still!
I have a firm belief in my ability to cram everything that I have to do into the very last moment, thereby freeing up the rest of my day for important things, such as pottering, mooching, tinkerine and doodling, for I am none other than Miss(ed) Deadline!
I can Start up a conversation with just about anyone who can grunt! I have a passion for making a connection which helped me to find I CAN when I realised not everyone has that superpower to be able to communicate as easily as me… Keep up the great work
@h_igoe My husbands superpower is FlameCharred BBQer
I am capable of tripping and taking out everyone around me, all unfixed objects in a two metre radius and at least one fixture. So far I’ve not yet needed to deliberately unleash my power, but I expect one day it will save the world. Somehow.
Just call me Captain Collateral Damage.
Word Lover!!
I have the Super Power to know the location of every pocession my family owns! My children aged 20 and 23 still make use of this, as does my husband.
I’m super at making castles out of cake
I have the power of WINTER PLUMAGE. I have the ability to retain fat stores to see me though a lifetime of cold winters and cool summers. XXL t-shirt required.
@Isis1981uk
Optimist Extraordinaire!
Whilst trying to return strength to my toes, I gained an awesome (and weird) superpower of Toe Waving. Where I can move my baby toe in a ‘wave’ motion.
Some people can cross their toes, how freaky! Now that’s a superpower lol.
I also have the power to generate my own bad luck and to generate awkward situations.
I have the extraordinarily useless talent of invisibility in the dark!!
I can say the alphabet backwards faster than you can say it forwards.
Tetrachromacy