left or right

I'm a lefty myself...what are you? lefty or righty?...or?!!....

I thought I would help contribute to the mind numbing, brainless, psychobabble banter that plagues these sites with this silly poll since I got chastise by other forum members for trying to start a thought provoking topic.

I'm a normal righty!

What an intense and cotraversial topic/poll. This is bound to end in a cyber punch up!!

gdub is one of the more 'real' people here, IMAO...there's this very human sense of conflict, of beliefs that struggle for ascendance...I personally enjoy the frank and provocative exclamations and professions, the humor, and the admitted vulnerability...I have empathy and sympathy for the urge that leads him to make statements when most people would think it better to keep quiet, and the precarious fun of being opposed to things that the majority (in this forum, anyway) tend to support. His humanity and complexity come through more vividly than most online personas, but will we ever fully know the 'real', inner gdub? Probably not...but just as long as his inner conflicts don't lead him to a state of severe emotional distress, I look forward to (probably disagreeing with) every one of his posts.

or, to reduce it to a quickie: greg, you da man!

I'm voting for the anal probe. Thousands of alien abductees can't be wrong!

When I was a kid I was a lefty, but a teacher thought that this was not normal for a decent boy from a private school, so he forced the three of us in the class to write with the right hand, so I can use both hands.

But when I played football (soccer) always used the left foot more than the right and when I used to surf I was a goofy (ridiculous surf term for the guy who surfs with the right foot forward, equivalent to lefty and opposite to regular).

So even though I'm a forced ambidextrous, I'm a natural lefty, except in politics.

Iván

Garion81 wrote: No More stupid than calling them soutpaws in baseball.

 Not "stupid," but historical, as with a great many words and sayings whose origins are now largely forgotten.

Humorist Finley Peter Dunne coined the word "southpaw" in Chicago in the 1880s. In the Chicago ballpark, homeplate was to the west, thus left-handed pitchers there threw the ball from their south-facing hand, or "paw." In time, the term came to be used for any left-hander -- especially pitchers.

Peter Rideout wrote: Garion81 wrote: No More stupid than calling them soutpaws in baseball.  Not "stupid," but historical, as with a great many words and sayings whose origins are now largely forgotten. Humorist Finley Peter Dunne coined the word "southpaw" in Chicago in the 1880s. In the Chicago ballpark, homeplate was to the west, thus left-handed pitchers there threw the ball from their south-facing hand, or "paw." In time, the term came to be used for any left-hander -- especially pitchers.

...nerd!!

gdub411 wrote: Peter Rideout wrote: Garion81 wrote: No More stupid than calling them soutpaws in baseball.  Not "stupid," but historical, as with a great many words and sayings whose origins are now largely forgotten. Humorist Finley Peter Dunne coined the word "southpaw" in Chicago in the 1880s. In the Chicago ballpark, homeplate was to the west, thus left-handed pitchers there threw the ball from their south-facing hand, or "paw." In time, the term came to be used for any left-hander -- especially pitchers. ...nerd!!

Well, I knew that word had a logical, historical origin, but anyone can use GOOGLE to check their facts, Gdubble-speak.

Fruit bat!