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MoseyWalker Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-03-06 04:01 PM
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How many left-handers do you know, and whaddya think about'em?
I'm a lefty, proud and sometimes loud.

:toast:
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skygazer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-03-06 04:02 PM
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1. I live with a lefty
My dad's a lefty and my older brother. I was formerly married to a lefty. And I love them all.

I envy lefty's actually. Every lefty I know can do more with their right hand than I ever could with my left. Because, of course, the world is set up for right-handed people. But it's a good thing to be somewhat ambidextrous.
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Droopy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-03-06 04:04 PM
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2. It seems like lefties make better baseball players
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MoseyWalker Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-03-06 04:10 PM
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3. tell that to all the poor batters
I smacked with the ball in a leg or worse when I was in little league.

They moved me to first base, and I found my niche!
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Droopy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-03-06 04:22 PM
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9. lol!
You must have pitched against my team in little league. I reached base 20 times, but never got a hit.
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sir_captain Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-03-06 04:33 PM
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15. Well sure
they have the advantage of mostly hitting against right-handed pitchers. Of course, they can only play the outfield, first base, or pitch, so there are some disadvantages as well.
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Blue-Jay Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-03-06 04:11 PM
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4. No idea. That's not something I normally notice.
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MoseyWalker Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-03-06 04:13 PM
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5. I wonder if a percentage of squirrels
are left pawed?

Off to do some research!
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MoseyWalker Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-03-06 04:18 PM
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7. No real success, but got a laugh out of this
"A rogue squirrel knocked out power across much of the Eastern Seaboard early today in an act of sabotage that the president is calling "a heinous and cowardly act of rodent terrorism." An unidentified squirrel leaped into an electrical transformer at a unidentified substation shortly after 9 a.m., just as the business day began.

The economic impact of the brazen daylight suicide mission is estimated at $74.2 killion as millions of technology-dependent workers were left literally powerless to do their jobs. Employees at one local dot-com were startled to find the company no longer existed when the electricity came back on. And several firms provided counseling to help workers deal with the emotional trauma of not being able to get onto their computers.

President Bush joked that the squirrel terrorists probably have stockpiled acorns of mass destruction for the upcoming nuclear winter and vowed to "smoke 'em out of their trees."

http://www.humorgazette.com/blog/item/229/
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Blue-Jay Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-03-06 04:20 PM
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8. HA!
:rofl:
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Oeditpus Rex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-03-06 04:16 PM
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6. My sister's a lefty
She's okay, I guess. Too normal for me, though. :scared:

Then there's my boyhood idol. And boyhood idols are idols forever.

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CaliforniaPeggy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-03-06 04:23 PM
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10. My dear MoseyWalker!
How many do I know? Well......my late MIL was, my oldest daughter was briefly, and I was as well, till kindergarten......

I think it's way cool! I love to watch left-handers write that way....

It looks amazing.......

I know, I'm crazy! :crazy: :silly:


:hi:
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MoseyWalker Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-03-06 04:27 PM
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11. Hey CP, blame it on the lefties!
they made you crazy!

:hi:
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Fuzz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-03-06 04:30 PM
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12. I hate 'em because they get to use the handicap parking spaces!
hehe

:evilgrin:
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Rabrrrrrr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-03-06 04:30 PM
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13. They're all shifty beady-eyed bootlicking white liver apple-polishing
sneak thieves, pilferers, and second story men with a penchant for buggery, purloining, swindling, and ungodly peccability, all manifestations of luxuriating in the sin of Adam, and all other activities of the rogue, scalawag, and general reprobate.
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MoseyWalker Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-03-06 04:36 PM
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16. So
you've been talking to my supervisor about me, haven't you!

O8)
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sendero Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-03-06 07:30 PM
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37. I didn't know..
.. you were a lefty!
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Rabrrrrrr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-04-06 06:59 AM
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51. I'm a middler.
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sendero Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-04-06 07:09 AM
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52. Middler?
Well, I write and eat left handed, but do everything else right handed. Figures :)
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Nikia Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-03-06 04:31 PM
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14. There are left handed people in my family
My paternal grandmother is left handed as are a couple of my father's siblings. My mother is left handed. My husband is amidextrous, but naturually a lefty (broke his left arm in grade school so developed dexterity with his right). Strangely my half sister isn't left handed even though my mother is as was my mother's second husband (my half sister's father).
I don't know if I can make any generalizations about the left handers that I know.
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Awsi Dooger Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-03-06 04:36 PM
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17. I know dozens of lefties
Edited on Sun Sep-03-06 04:37 PM by Awsi Dooger
And I'm one myself. There must be something that influences lefties to get involved in sports analysis and betting because there is a surreal percentage of lefties involved in that here in Las Vegas. A few years ago at the Stardust on Sunday night many of us were getting ready for the lottery of the opening lines, and noticed that 5 of the 6 of us in one line of the lottery were lefthanded. When someone pointed that out, a guy standing nearby said, "So what. The whole town is lefthanded." He meant the whole town in regard to the sports betting regulars.
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MoseyWalker Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-03-06 04:44 PM
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21. I'll bet
you didn't know that before you moved to Vegas!

:)
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datasuspect Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-03-06 04:41 PM
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18. demonic spawn
the lot of them
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Random_Australian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-03-06 04:42 PM
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19. Left handed people? They have an agenda to overthrow America!
You see, the Founding Fathers were right handed, and now the immoral brainwashed Left handed people want to instigate their own warped and unnatural Left handed people behaviour - (which is highly immoral).

Also, recently some have tried to say that bieng a Left handed people is genetic - however I once saw an ambidextrous person so it is a CHOICE to lead their immoral, Left handed people lives.

Finally, people only become a Left handed people for their own sexual gratification, so they are inheritly evil.


____________________________

Pretty good FReep impression, huh?

In all honesty, I can't understand a difference between left and right handed people, but that does not make for much of an answer so I thought I would spice it up a bit with the above passage. :)
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Roon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-03-06 04:43 PM
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20. I do everything with my left hand
but write. I write with my right hand.
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Gormy Cuss Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-03-06 05:03 PM
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22. Lots, and they're all sinister.
:evilgrin:
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Xipe Totec Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-05-06 08:49 AM
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55. And gauche too!
:evilgrin:
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pscot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-03-06 06:38 PM
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23. The master race
Leftys are the salt of the earth, nature's noblemen. They are usually brave, strong, generous and good looking. They always remember their wives' birthdays. They are kind, loving and sexually adventurous. They are natural leaders. Moses was left-handed. So was George Washington. It's a little known fact that Hitler was born left-handed, but his father made him switch when he was just a little kid, with tragic results for 20th century man. There's a lesson there for all parents. If you know a Lefty of the opposite sex (or the same sex,if that turns you on) go up to them and give them a big smooch, just to let them know how much you appreciate them. You'll be glad you did.
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MoseyWalker Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-03-06 06:41 PM
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24. Thou speaketh the trutheth
:thumbsup:
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pscot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-03-06 06:45 PM
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26. Another characteristic
of Left-handers.
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chaska Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-03-06 06:49 PM
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28. Great Post! This lefty thanks you.
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pscot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-03-06 06:55 PM
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31. Happy to be of service
in such a noble cause.
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Joe Fields Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-03-06 06:42 PM
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25. I'm a southpaw, and so is my brother.
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MoseyWalker Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-03-06 06:48 PM
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27. I tend to walk around slowly in mental circles
do you and bro?
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Joe Fields Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-03-06 08:16 PM
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42. yes. counter clockwise....
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Deja Q Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-03-06 06:49 PM
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29. I am ambidextrous. And I can assure you, nobody likes me!
:spray:

Right-handed folks say I shouldn't be using the left hand as it's immoral...

Lefties tell me it's a vain, empty fantasy for me to want to be right-handed...

This could also double as a bizarre double-entendre to bisexuality. I hope my attempt gets a grade of C+ or better. :evilgrin:

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graywarrior Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-03-06 06:51 PM
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30. I'm ambi, also. Think that's why I have few friends?
Or is it that I am sometimes an a-hole.

Mr. Gray is a lefty. He's crazy.
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Deja Q Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-03-06 06:59 PM
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35. I'm more or less the a-hole, but with good reason...
I'm bi and nobody really likes me when the tough questions are asked, or the bluff called into play.

I tend to get cynical in my old age. Lonely and cynical. I ought to be living in a senior citizen home, drawing off a pension, and using coupons for cheap inexpensive fruit.

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graywarrior Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-03-06 07:20 PM
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36. Sounds like we'd get along great, after a few fisticuffs.
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LaurenG Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-03-06 06:56 PM
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32. Of all the men I've ever dated
someone in their family was left handed and my husband is left handed. I think they are great. I've also noticed that they were all either writers or artists. :thumbsup:
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auntAgonist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-03-06 06:57 PM
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33. my dear Mother was left handed
and at times switched to right handed. I think it had something to do with the way left handed folks were treated in school. She was forced to use her right hand a lot.

what do I think of her? I love/loved her, she's my Mum, gone but not forgotten.


:hi:

aA
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Dulcinea Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-03-06 06:59 PM
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34. My household is 50% left-handed.
My DH & my younger daughter. Well, she's almost 3, so she may be faking us out...but she scribbles & eats with her left hand.
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MoseyWalker Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-03-06 07:33 PM
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38. So everybody is always only half right?
i like that!
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dolo amber Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-03-06 07:43 PM
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39. My sister's a lefty
We had to sit next to each other every night at dinner. I got really good at elbow-swordfighting pretty quickly. x(
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RebelOne Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-03-06 08:01 PM
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40. I am a left-hander and we lefties supposedly
have higher intelligence than all you righties.
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NJ Democrats Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-03-06 08:10 PM
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41. I love them and I am one!
I know 4 of the top of my head
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Taverner Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-03-06 08:17 PM
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43. My Son
And he rawks!
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Lydia Leftcoast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-03-06 08:20 PM
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44. I'm a lefty for writing and eating, but I do most other things,
including cutting with scissors, knitting, and playing the violin (I haven't done the last two for years) right-handed.
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derby378 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-03-06 08:24 PM
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45. That's kinda like me, too
I bowl and use the mouse with my right hand. Writing is strictly for the left hand, though. Tried writing with my right hand, but it's still pretty dicey.
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smtpgirl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-03-06 08:26 PM
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46. I'm left-handed, so is my niece, mom and my grandfather
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Jamastiene Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-03-06 08:33 PM
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47. I'm a lefty.
My grandmother is a lefty. I can't think of any others I know right off the top of my head, but Joan Jett, one of my most favorite singers is a lefty too.
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ikojo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-03-06 08:46 PM
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48. Two of my friends are left handed and married to one
another. My brother is a lefty as is my nephew Eric.

So that makes four.

What do I think of 'em, they're good people.
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lizziegrace Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-03-06 09:53 PM
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49. Two of my four nephews are lefties
One's a terrific pitcher and switch-hitter. The other's a presidential scholar at the university he attends.

:)

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hyphenate Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-03-06 09:59 PM
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50. Being a lefty myself
I think the world of them. :)

Actually, my brother and wife are both lefties, with two lefty boys. My dad would have been a natural lefty, but he had to go through that shit of the nuns hitting him on the hand every time he went to use it. (Barbaric days of the early 20th century!)

Lefties seem to have a firmer grip on a lot of things, IMO. For instance, we have to work in a right-handed world, so we have to use our right hand frequently, which results in us being ambidextrous. I bowl right handed, for example, and can use flatware with both hands. I can also write with both hands.

Also, as a result, we learn to be both left and right brained, using both our creative sides and our logical sides.

I love right handed people, of course, but we lefties are just more capable. ;)
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Left Is Write Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-05-06 08:34 AM
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53. Me, my mother, my sister-in-law, and a few friends.
I am the only one of my mother's five children who is left-handed. All three of my kids are right-handed, but my sister has two kids - both lefties! How'd she get the lefties and I didn't?
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YankeyMCC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-05-06 08:40 AM
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54. My Dad was left-handed
but the nuns forced him to learn to use his right.

So obviously left-handedness is a sin! :eyes:

But I guess it's a sin that got repealled I'm told that doesn't happen anymore in catholic schools.

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1gobluedem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-05-06 09:03 AM
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56. My sister and my boss and both leftys
And two of the best people on the face of the earth. So, I like leftys.

My sister is also a very talented artist and has exquisite penmanship which is not common to leftys.
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Benfea Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-05-06 09:39 AM
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57. They are scum and we need to build concentration camps for 'em
Just kidding. ;)

Although I do like to tease certain lefties about their persecution complex.
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