left or right
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Topic: left or right
Posted By: gdub411
Subject: left or right
Date Posted: November 11 2004 at 23:42
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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. |
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Posted By: Peter
Date Posted: November 12 2004 at 00:59
(Point made -- no need to keep my original post here.) ------------- "And, has thou slain the Jabberwock? Come to my arms, my beamish boy! O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!' He chortled in his joy. |
Posted By: Blacksword
Date Posted: November 12 2004 at 04:18
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I'm a normal righty! What an intense and cotraversial topic/poll. This is bound to end in a cyber punch up!! ------------- Ultimately bored by endless ecstasy! |
Posted By: sigod
Date Posted: November 12 2004 at 04:48
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Right hand here too. I'm told lefties often have an 'arty' demenour. All I can say is that my brother is a lefty and he's a record producer so I have at least one example to back the contention. ------------- I must remind the right honourable gentleman that a monologue is not a decision. - Clement Atlee, on Winston Churchill |
Posted By: James Lee
Date Posted: November 12 2004 at 09:10
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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! ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/sollipsist/?chartstyle=kaonashi"> 
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Posted By: Velvetclown
Date Posted: November 12 2004 at 10:09
Well I start with the right and when I get tired, I continue with the left 
------------- Billy Connolly Dream Theater Terry Gilliam Hagen Quartet Jethro Tull Mike Keneally |
Posted By: tuxon
Date Posted: November 12 2004 at 17:33
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I'm flip-flopping also, I think left, I act right ------------- I'm always almost unlucky _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Id5ZcnjXSZaSMFMC Id5LM2q2jfqz3YxT |
Posted By: Reed Lover
Date Posted: November 12 2004 at 18:11
I'm always right! ------------- 
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Posted By: Ivan_Melgar_M
Date Posted: November 13 2004 at 00:24
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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 |
Posted By: Garion81
Date Posted: November 13 2004 at 00:40
No More stupid than calling them soutpaws in baseball. |
ivan_2068 wrote:
Posted By: Peter
Date Posted: November 13 2004 at 01:02
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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. ------------- "And, has thou slain the Jabberwock? Come to my arms, my beamish boy! O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!' He chortled in his joy. |
Not "stupid," but historical, as with a great many words and sayings whose origins are now largely forgotten.
Posted By: The Prognaut
Date Posted: November 13 2004 at 02:33
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I'm a right-handed, left-wing orientated son of a gun!
...WAIT!!! Which one is which???
------------- break the circle reset my head wake the sleepwalker and i'll wake the dead |
Posted By: gdub411
Date Posted: November 13 2004 at 03:26
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...nerd!!
Posted By: James Lee
Date Posted: November 13 2004 at 07:19
You want nerdy? The word sinister (as in, "that James Lee is one sinister SOB") also historically means left, from the Latin root. Anyone who studies heraldry- not totally unlikely on a prog site- knows that sinister refers to the left side (from the view of the bearer. So left-handed = sinister = malign or unlucky ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/sollipsist/?chartstyle=kaonashi">
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Posted By: Peter
Date Posted: November 13 2004 at 10:50
Fruit bat! ------------- "And, has thou slain the Jabberwock? Come to my arms, my beamish boy! O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!' He chortled in his joy. |
Well, I knew that word had a logical, historical origin, but anyone can use GOOGLE to check their facts, Gdubble-speak.