![]() ![]() Luke is careful to say that this was not actual fire, only “what seemed to be. The word cloven means “divided” or “separated.” The picture is of something like a large fire appearing in the room then dividing into “tongues” that rested momentarily upon each person in the room. Other translations refer to “divided tongues as of fire” (ESV) or “tongues as of fire distributing themselves” (NASB). As the Holy Spirit filled the 120 disciples in the upper room on the Day of Pentecost, “there appeared unto them cloven tongues like as of fire, and it sat upon each of them” (KJV). (And the power of Mitchell Black and Bob Audette is so underrated.When people hear of “cloven tongues,” they almost immediately think of Acts 2:3. Next thing you know, a whole bloom of cloverleaves has started. They started trying it, mimicking him, competing with each other. He was a city kid, smart and funny and personable, and he’d shown us his trick. Mitchell, 11, had visited us in Alaska a few years ago with his parents. I asked my daughters about the cloverleaf trick, and they reminded me who had started this whole thing: it had been Mitchell Black, from Brooklyn. (On all other fronts, I remained a lot closer to Horshack than Vinnie Barbarino, but hey, it was something.) In fact, I could do it as well as Bob Audette. But then, all of a sudden, I wasn’t terrible. ![]() Of course, I was terrible at it for a long time. I didn’t play basketball - this skill was completely useless - but for whatever reason I got obsessed, spending hours in my basement spinning this ball. After watching Bob Audette for a few days, I found myself taking a basketball and trying to spin it on my finger. Bob Audette spoke in a thick accent that sounded exactly like Vinnie Barbarino on “Welcome Back Kotter.” Bob Audette called the water fountain “the bubbler.” Coolest of all, Bob Audette carried a basketball everywhere he went, and he would sometimes flip the ball into the air and spin it on his finger with supreme Vinnie Barbarino casualness, the ball revolving there while he chatted up the girls in the hallway. Bob Audette wore cooler clothes than we did. Bob Audette was different from anybody any of us kids had ever met. His name was Bob Audette, and he had just moved to Anchorage from far-off New York. Thinking about this got me thinking about when I was in 8th grade. So what’s up with all these cloverleaf experts? It must be the genes, right? Also, I’m told that several of their friends can do it, too. I’m not saying our family is weird or anything, but Katie is officially the third Coyle kid to be able to perform this feat. I look over, and sure enough, she’s folded her tongue into a cloverleaf shape. I was driving my daughter Katie to school and she stuck out her tongue at me and said, “Look! I can do it!” A far smaller percentage - a genetically chosen few - could fold their tongues into the rare cloverleaf.īut a funny thing happened the other day. They said around 80 percent of people have the gene to roll their tongues in a tube shape. When you first try it, you flounder around and can’t even come close.īack when I was in fifth grade and again when I was in college biology class, my teachers informed me that tongue-rolling, like so many other talents, is genetic. But have you ever tried the cloverleaf? It’s hard. Most everybody can roll their tongue in a tube. ![]()
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