International Lefthanders day

[Lefthacker]

Happy international Lefthanders day to my fellow southpaws. Especially a shout out to our incredible President.

[NBachers]

1. When someone sees me writing and remarks that I'm left handed, I always say "Just like Obama!"

[yeoman6987]

29. My niece is left handed. Not sure how that happened since the entire family is right handed

Not sure if it was from birth because if can't be genes. Have they found out how this happens? Does anyone know the origins of this? I never found out how it happens.

[whistler162]

2. Dang thought that was February 30th

My father was left handed.

[Kingofalldems]

3. I'll go one on one against the world---left handed.

[Brother Buzz]

4. And a hat tip to the faux left-hander, Ichiro Suzuki, for his 3000th MLB hit

He's naturally right-handed, but bats left.

[Lefthacker]

16. Ichiro

Is one of the greatest all around players I've ever seen.
Today is also the birthday of Ben Hogan, the greatest striker of a golf ball ever. Naturally left handed but switched as a child.

[Brother Buzz]

19. There's an advantage to switching at golf...

and it may sound counterintuitive, but the club is pulled through the swing rather then pushed, and pulling with your favored/stronger arm makes for a longer, more accurate shot.

The contemporary golfer and right wing asshole extraordinaire, Phil Mickelson, is naturally right-handed, but plays golf left-handed.

[OriginalGeek]

5. Left handed is the devil!

[Brother Buzz]

6. Ned disagrees

[Wednesdays]

26. Seriously, the word "sinister"

began as a term meaning "left handed."
The word "gauche" too, IIRC.

[grubbs]

7. Finally

Recognition of our innate superiority over the masses of "normals".

[Delmette]

8. Happy Lefthanded Day to the fellow lefties!

From my Mother and me.

[angstlessk]

21. I am sure you have read about the difference between

any old left hander and one who's mother is also left handed?

[Delmette]

22. No I haven't.

??

[angstlessk]

32. Some years I read a book I (think) was named "Sinister" about left handedness.

In it, it said if the mother was left handed, the left handed child's brain would be a mirror image to that of a right handed person...maybe they have discovered more since?

Any way here is an interesting fact:

In both studies, left-handed mothers are more likely to have left-handed children than left-handed fathers.

Source: http://www.rightleftrightwrong.com/theories_genetic.html

A link from there is also interesting: http://www.rightleftrightwrong.com/brain.html

[Delmette]

33. I'll have to read both articles again.

It is interesting that one of my brothers was left handed until his first grade teacher made him change hands. That would be two of five children left handed.

One other odd group is where I recently retire from. My work group had ten people, at one time five of us were lefties.

Thank you for the links.

[Egnever]

9. Woot now if they would just get rid of those damn right handed scissors...

[mcar]

10. Aww, thanks!

Waving with my left hand!

[MineralMan]

11. Sounds sinister to me!

http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=sinister

[EL34x4]

12. Lefties would've been extinct in a right-handed world except for one skill they excelled at;

Hand to hand combat.

And this is why left-handed genes continue to find their way through life.

[petronius]

23. Which in the modern world has devolved into a solid advantage in

casual racquetball! Which, in my undergrad years, was some consolation for righty desks, useless scissors, smeared exams, and all the other outrages we're subject to on a daily basis...

[UMTerp01]

13. Proud lefty here. I'm sure we can all recognize the struggle.

Having to search the room for those 1 or 2 (if you're lucky) left handed desks



Smudge marks from any writing object that is not completely dry



But being left handed like President Obama is awesome sauce!!!!!



Interestingly, I am ambidextrous in some areas. I golf right, use scissors with right hand, and play baseball right handed. I play tennis left handed and can only write with my left hand.

[Lefthacker]

17. Maybe

We need a golf thread from time to time.

[loyalsister]

20. As late as 1976 my 1st grade teacher took me to task

She tried to force me to straighten my arm and made me erase every single pencil smudge before I turned in my papers.
I write, eat, and shoot pool left handed and use my right for everything else.

[Takket]

14. proud lefty!!!!!!!

[Humanist_Activist]

15. Lefties unite with our pencil lead stained hands! n/t

[Alkene]

18. How gauche.

And getting gaucher.

Désolé pour le mauvais jeu de mots.

(Edit: because, you see, 'gauche' means, 'left' in French, and 'gaucher' means, 'left-handed.'
That's why that's a pun. Whatever.)

[question everything]

24. It is presidential: Bush Sr., Clinton, Obama. And how sinister..

(how is your Latin? Or Italian..)

[HereSince1628]

25. This thread has a sinister theme

[Lefthacker]

27. Vin Scully

The legendary voice of the Dodgers Vin Scully tells a story about growing up in Brooklyn. He attended Catholic grade school where he was routinely hit by nuns with a ruler on his left arm every time he tried to write left handed. No matter how much his parents pleaded with the nuns the beating continued. Not until they produced a letter from young Vins pediatrician saying that if they didn't end the beating he would indeed suffer permanent damage did the nuns stop.
Sadly, I have heard similar stories from others.

[Motley13]

28. I'm not, but always wanted to be different, sadly very much a rightie, but not in politics

left handed Prez

James A. Garfield (1881) 20th
Herbert Hoover (1929-1933) 31st
Harry S. Truman (1945-1953) 33rd
Gerald Ford (1974-1977) 38th
Ronald Reagan (1981 -1989) 40th (actually a right-handed writer)
George H.W. Bush (1989-1993) 41st
Bill Clinton (1993-2001) 42nd

[Wellstone ruled]

30. But,what the heck.

We lefties are in our right mind. Proud to be a South Paw!!!!

[DFW]

31. And to my younger daughter

The only one of the four of us to be left-handed

[SwissTony]

34. We have identical twins, except that one is a leftie and the other is not.

I believe it's not uncommon in identical twins but don't have any data to back it up.

I remember lefties in primary school (in the 50s, in Scotland) were forced to write with their right hand. And the word is "forced". Physical intimidation was used.

[angstlessk]

35. Here are a couple interesting articles, which mention twins.

http://www.rightleftrightwrong.com/theories_genetic.html

http://www.rightleftrightwrong.com/brain.html

[MineralMan]

36. Probably mirror twins.

Cool!

[area51]

37. Kick for the night crew, n/t

[pinboy3niner]

38. Blatant discrimination!

Why do you Lefties insist on special rights when we Righties don't have OUR day?

[Zing Zing Zingbah]

39. My oldest son is left handed.

He is the only one in our family. He has some awful penmanship, but I think it is because they never worked on penmanship with him at school in the early grades. Kids mostly type on computers these days too.