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Happy Left-Hander's Day!

Discussion in 'Anything goes' started by Songbird, Aug 13, 2014.

  1. spikechiquet

    spikechiquet Well-Known Member

    I'm only a lefty for when I need a stranger! :)
     
  2. expendable

    expendable Well-Known Member

    I'm 100 percent lefty. My right hand is about as useless as a righty's left hand.
     
  3. da man

    da man Well-Known Member

    Yes. I remember long ago one of my co-workers had a son and told me he would always put things in the baby's left hand, hoping the kid would become left-handed. The idea was that he'd make the boy into a left-handed pitcher so he would always be employed.

    We both moved on from that shop shortly afterward, so I have no idea if he was successful.
     
  4. Zero chance of playing 2nd base and .0005 percent playing catcher. :(

    #BobbyGrichwannabe
     
  5. Songbird

    Songbird Well-Known Member

    Benny smiles.

    This story is 5 years old. Love this line: "Like Ladies Night and pitchers named Wilbur, left-handed catchers are effectively extinct ... "

    http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/16/sports/baseball/16catcher.html?_r=0

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  6. Batman

    Batman Well-Known Member

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    Smi-diddly-ing today!
     
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  7. spikechiquet

    spikechiquet Well-Known Member

    Rush Limbaugh HATES today I bet!
     
  8. ColdCat

    ColdCat Well-Known Member

    also an increased likelihood of being President
    In the last 40 years we've had a whopping two right-handed Presidents (Carter and W). Two were ambidextrous (Ford and Reagan) and three were lefties (HW, Clinton and Obama).
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Handedness_of_Presidents_of_the_United_States
     
  9. joe

    joe Active Member

    My wife is left-handed. The one before her is left-handed. And the one three before her is left-handed. Apparently I attract left-handed women. What that says about them or me, I don't know.

    A righty, I can do many things lefty, such as drive a nail, shoot a basketball, kick a puppy, etc.
     
  10. deskslave

    deskslave Active Member

    Have always done some things left-handed, although I could never write or bat lefty. Always threw a football left-handed (albeit badly) and shot a basketball left-handed (again, badly). I also always used a fork with my left hand, even if there was no knife, and I never did the switching thing. Don't use a spoon lefty, though.

    I have twin sisters, one of whom is left-handed, the other right-handed.
     
  11. Killick

    Killick Well-Known Member

    No stranger jokes yet? So disappointed in you all.
     
  12. Bob Cook

    Bob Cook Active Member

    Did anybody else have parents who were forced at school into being right-handed? My father was. The upside is that as kids, he could play catch individually with my brother and I, and he didn't have to buy a glove. He'd borrow my brother's when throwing to me, and borrow mine when he threw to my brother. (Yes, he had small hands.)
     
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