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Re: Yet Another Episode 1 Question
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Thu, 20 Apr 2000 01:40:14 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Tom Stangl writes:
> Mr L F Braun wrote:
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> > 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.
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> You know, I never though much about this, but I pitch right and bat left - I'm
> sure that confused people in grade school ;-)
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 with my left eye!
It seems that all of us are mostly right-handed and only eat and write with our
left hands. Do you think that is due to the necessity to adapt to a right
handed world or would it have happened even if scissors weren't racist (or
handist?)
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> 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".
When I was a kid I felt like I was the only one. Now, I run across lefties
everywhere - it seems to me, too, that there are more than 10%.
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> 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.
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> 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).
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> [Well, the above certainly looks snooty to me, but oh well, I don't know how • else
> to state it.]
Apparently lefties are more likely to be artistically creative and more likely
to have photographic memories. Right side of the brain and all. Seems like a
lot of Lugnuts are lefties, I wonder if the creativity thing has something to
do with it. I have some right handed friends who are fairly intelligent,
though. :0)
Bill
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