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Re: Yet Another Episode 1 Question
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Wed, 19 Apr 2000 17:06:50 GMT
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Ah, but the defenders coming DOWN would be better off being right-handed - so I
guess you'd start hating southpaws if you were defending ;-)
Dave Schuler wrote:
> In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Frank Filz writes:
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> > One supposed explanation of why left handed is bad is if you think about
> > troops in a shield wall, and how badly such a formation would be messed
> > up by a left hander.
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> Only if the rest of the wall is made up of those goofy right-handers I keep
> hearing about!
> On the other hand (!) to use another period example, a lefty fighting his
> way up a spiral staircase would be at an advantage, since such stairways
> spiral counter-clockwise and thereby pin the swordarm of northpaws...
>
> Dave!
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| (...) Sinister one might even say (for a very good example of the thinking of "left" as bad). And of course right handed is good (dexter). One supposed explanation of why left handed is bad is if you think about troops in a shield wall, and how (...) (25 years ago, 18-Apr-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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