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(...) However, if you ever happen to find yourself travelling in Britain, rent yourself a car with a manual transmission. The stick shift will be on the left side. :D I've never had a problem with using a mouse with my right hand, though. In fact, I (...) (25 years ago, 21-Apr-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Tell your critics to check out the story of Ehud the Left-Handed (Judges 3:12- 30). God makes use of all kinds of people. Incidentally, the Hebrew language reads from right to left, so unless all the Israelites wrote backwards, they would have (...) (25 years ago, 21-Apr-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) I've heard that as well. It was related to cultures with strong feelings/tradition around 'clean' and 'defiled', I seem to remember. (...) "I admit it--your are a better swordsman than I." "Then why are you smiling?" "Because I know something (...) (25 years ago, 20-Apr-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Mo, it's a compliment. Or a complement. You decide. FUT .o-t.fun ++Lar (25 years ago, 20-Apr-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) This is playing dangerously close to equivocation: using one mindset’s definition of success to refute the success of another mindset that uses a different definition. If you define success as happiness or job satisfaction (and that’s a valid (...) (25 years ago, 20-Apr-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) :-) (...) Hey! Is that another ethnic slur? 8^) Dave! (25 years ago, 20-Apr-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) In my experience, the teachers who fail to convey the usefulness of basic concepts just don't have a good understanding of how they are actually used. I might be wrong, but it seems to me that not many people are willing to give up an (...) (25 years ago, 20-Apr-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) That is one of my major *major* beefs from the normal schooling system. They teach you things which definitely might turn out to be useful; but do you hear the teachers ever mentioning that? Not in my current school. One of my favorite and (...) (25 years ago, 20-Apr-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) What about when the teacher brings in lots of Star Wars LEGO sets and lets the students play with them?(1) Alan (1)I've seen it happen! (25 years ago, 20-Apr-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) LOL!! ROFL! I'm not touching that one with a 10ft ...pole... Kevin (25 years ago, 20-Apr-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) I think I thought you were thinking thoughts that made you think unthinkable thoughts...I think. Bill :D (25 years ago, 20-Apr-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Me too, I play baseball right handed, but I play hockey left handed. Similarly, I fire a handgun with my right hand and a rifle with my left hand. I think that's because my left eye is dominant. It'd be kinda hard to fire a rifle right handed (...) (25 years ago, 20-Apr-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) the (...) Why, that, of course(1). Why, what did you think I thought you meant? :-) 1 - or leather. We had the leather guy over when we lived in Parkland. ++Lar (25 years ago, 20-Apr-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Thank you very much, I'm sincerely honored that you would say such a thing. (...) :-) (...) It means that I do woodworking, joinery and refinishing in the homes of people who recently purchased furniture from all the major retailers in Miami. (...) (25 years ago, 20-Apr-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) I would have to say, speaking entirely theoretically, of course, that if there is a god and he IS a christian god, implying that there is a christian heaven, you'd certainly qualify. :-) So don't worry about bad PR from the PR contingent. (...) (25 years ago, 20-Apr-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) I have a friend who went to a Catholic school. They tied his left hand behind his back for years because they said it was satanic. I believe they get this from the Biblical references to Jesus sitting on the right hand of God; metaphorically, (...) (25 years ago, 20-Apr-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Of course you did, and I bet you and everyone else at that school learned things they were really interested in. I think one problem with American schools is that they think that there's a strict curriculum which everybody needs to learn in (...) (25 years ago, 20-Apr-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) As a Hungarian of gypsy ancestory, I didn't know that's where that term comes from, how cool - my very own racial slur! I must remember to be offended each time it's used by others, while using it myself among other Hungarians. Also, I must (...) (25 years ago, 19-Apr-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Now you're just confusing me. By "clockwise" I've been (consistently, I hope!) referring to those stairs that have the central pillar on the right, since the steps spiral clockwise upwards. I think... Dave! (25 years ago, 19-Apr-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) I don't even know where to trim Chris' words, so I'll just quote the whole dang thing. I'd venture to say that the attitude he displays helps drag down the standards of American education. It's one thing to be upset with the quality of your (...) (25 years ago, 19-Apr-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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