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Re: Yet Another Episode 1 Question
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Wed, 19 Apr 2000 17:14:06 GMT
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Mr L F Braun wrote:
> Interesting thoughts. I'll have to go look at some of my lefty-
> lore (I have a bit of it at home) and see what I come up with.
> I did get a bunch of left-handed paraphernalia when I was a teen,
> including a notebook (useful only if I write in Arabic, unfortunately)
> some scissors, and a few other goodies (and a subscription to the
> lefthanders' magazine, which I think is still out there). They
> were really more like oddities to me, because I've largely given
> in to the right-handed world on everything but writing and drawing.
> I even pitch right-handed.
You know, I never though much about this, but I pitch right and bat left - I'm
sure that confused people in grade school ;-)
Strangely enough, a LOT more than 10% of the people I know are left-handed.
Something about my interests in general just seem to appeal to a larger percentage
of southpaws than "normal".
In middle/high school, our Talented and Gifted classes (they changed names almost
yearly) had an unusually high percentage of southpaws. Well over 50% some years.
I wonder if MENSA has stats on handed-ness? (I never joined, they just seemed too
snooty to me, and when I would have joined, the youngest person besides me would
have been at least a decade older, so most wouldn't have had interests that
interested me at the time).
[Well, the above certainly looks snooty to me, but oh well, I don't know how else
to state it.]
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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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| (...) I always thought it was because the left hand was the primordial "wiping hand"--most people preferring the right meant that one had to keep it clean. This may of course be apocryphal. I'm a lefty in writing only--I favour my right for (...) (25 years ago, 18-Apr-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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