NationStates Jolt Archive

Poll; self-explanatory.

Righty.

We righties are in the majority. :)

Which makes me extra special. Apparantly, left-handed people make up like 1% of the world's population. You know why people shake with their right hand? They give up their good hand so they can't pull a sword or gun on the other person...unless they're left handed...

Which makes me extra special. Apparantly, left-handed people make up like 1% of the world's population. You know why people shake with their right hand? They give up their good hand so they can't pull a sword or gun on the other person...unless they're left handed...

Remind me never to shake hands with you... ;)

odd story: i was born left handed, but broke my left wrist and arm in an accident when i was about 7. it was in a cast for almost a year, and in the mean time i became a righty...i learned to write with my right hand, i bat righty, and i use my right hand as my "primary" when reaching or manipulating object. however, i still do cartwheels left handed, i am left-footed (when kicking, etc), and for some reason i reverse which hand i use to hold the knife and which to hold the fork.

Which makes me extra special. Apparantly, left-handed people make up like 1% of the world's population. You know why people shake with their right hand? They give up their good hand so they can't pull a sword or gun on the other person...unless they're left handed...
according to my much-traveled uncle, in India there is a slightly more gross origin; they don't have toilet paper, so when you go into the field to do your business you take a cup of water and...well, your hand. the tradition is that you use your left for, erm, cleaning up yourself, and thus will only shake with the right because it would be really gross to great somebody with your left hand.

but that's hear-say, and he might just have made it up so that i could gross my mom out with scatological humor.

LEFTIES ARE EVIL!!!!! *cough*

Err yeah, I'm right handed, but my brother is left handed, and he is enough reason for me to think lefties are evil.

Until he reached 12 years old an became ambidexterous, but heh.

Heh, left handed .. thinking of coming up with some sort of left handed supremacy group.
Why not ? pretty much everything else around here has a supremacy group.

Left Power ! :D

Left is Right.

I'm right handed.

I'm of the left=evil opinion too. My brother is left handed, my most hated teacher is left handed, my arch nemisis is left handed... Its not a sure-fire way, but it does often give you a clue.

What I'd heard about the left-right handed thing is that when people fought, sword and shield, you had to have the shield on the left to protect your heart. If you were lefthanded, and fought with your right, you'd be more likely to die. If you held the shield with your right, you're more likely to get stabbed in the heart.

I'm a lefty at writing and a righty at throwing things.
this is probably related to my father telling me at the age of four that lefty was "wrong."
I could have been so damn cool! :headbang:

Left handed, and proud of it!
Crazily enough, alot of the important men in my mother's side of the family were lefties (now, dont take that the wrong way, rabid dogs. women still outnumber us and have the power on her side;)). Now THAT is something to take pride in!

Interesting note: Most lefties tend to actually be wiser than most right handers ^_^

I'm a righty, only with numbers can I write with my left hand.

Well, since according to some on this forum, being liberal makes me a lefty(ist), and therefore the spawn of Satan, I answered the poll with "I use my tail."

But I'm right-handed, although I can teach myself to do certain activities--usually work-related--equally well with either hand.

Lefty and a leftist, apparently.

Actually, to say I'm left-handed isn't entirely true...

This is weird. I bat left handed, but golf right handed. I am ambedextirious at frisbee. More accurate with my right hand but more powerful with left hand (oddly enough...)

I've heard things like left handed people are more apt to be good at math and logic than right handed people (because a different side of your brain is dominant based on what hand you use), and I've also seen lists of left handed people, including people like Alexander the Great, Plato, Jay Leno, Babe Ruth, and a few others. Although, I don't understand how they would know what hand people like Plato used...that was forever and a day ago...and dominant hand probably isn't historically significant.

thats easy XD
we lefties throughout history passed down from generation to generation who was of our Left Hand ways:P

Left-Handed U.S. Presidents
James A. Garfield (1831-1881) 20th
Herbert Hoover (1874-1964) 31st
Harry S. Truman (1884-1972) 33rd
Gerald Ford (1913- ) 38th
Ronald Reagan (1911 - ) 40th
George H.W. Bush (1924- ) 41st
Bill Clinton (1946- ) 42nd

Left-Handed U.S. Politicos
Senator Bill Bradley, Rhodes scholar, basketball star
McGeorge Bundy, presidential advisor
Benjamin Franklin, statesman/publisher/scientist
Steve Forbes, businessman/publisher
Jean-Marc Froidevaux ?, Suiss politician
Ruth Bader Ginsberg, Supreme Court Justice
Senator Daniel Inouye
Anthony Kennedy, Supreme Court Justice
Brigadier Gen. Lee Hsien Loon, Deputy Prime Minister of Singapore
Robert S. McNamara, Secretary of Defense
Col. Oliver North, White House aid
H. Ross Perot, businessman
William Perry, Secretary of Defense
Nelson Rockefeller, Vice President
Senator Hugh Scott
Robert Wagner, New York mayor
Henry Wallace, Vice President
[Senator Bob Dole - switched to left due to injury]

Miscellaneous Left-Handers
Joan of Arc (?), French heroine
Lloque Yapanqui (?), Inca monarch
Ramses II (?), Egyptian pharaoh
Tiberius (?), Roman emperor
Alexander the Great
Charlemagne, Holy Roman emperor
Julius Caesar, Roman general
Napoléon Bonaparte (?), French emperor
Josephine de Beauharnais
King Louis XVI of France
Queen Victoria of England
King George II of England
King George VI of England
Prince Charles of England
Prince William of England
Fidel Castro, Cuban leader
Benjamin Netanyahu, Israeli prime-minister
Nicole d'Oresme, mathematician
Henry Ford, automobile manufacturer
David Rockefeller, banker
Dwight F. Davis, founder of the Davis Cup in tennis
Helen Keller, advocate for the blind
Dr. Albert Schweitzer, physician/missionary
August Piccard, inventor of stratosphere, bathosphere
Edwin Buzz Aldrin, astronaut
Wally Schirra, astronaut
Dr. Mark Silver, surgeon
Paul Prudhomme, chef
Cecil Beaton, photographer/costume designer
Lord Baden-Powell, founder of the Boy Scouts (ambidexterous)
Dave Barry, journalist
Edward R. Murrow, correspondent
Ted Koppel, journalist
Forrest Sawyer, journalist
Ray Suarez, journalist
John F. Kennedy, Jr., lawyer/publisher
Caroline Kennedy, lawyer/author
Ron Reagan, son of Ronald Reagan
Vin Scully, sports broadcaster
David Letterman (?), host
Jay Leno, host
Lenny Bruce, comedian
Allen Ludden, host
Joel Hodgson, host of Mystery Science Theater 3000
Wink Martindale, game show host
Uri Geller, psychokinetic performer
Richard Simmons, exercise guru
Euell Gibbons, naturalist
Marie Dionne, one of the Dionne quintuplets
General H. Norman Schwarzkopf
Clarence Darrow, lawyer
F. Lee Bailey, lawyer
Melvin Belli, lawyer
Marcia Clark, lawyer
Alan Funt, television producer
Milt Caniff, cartoonist
Bill Mauldin, cartoonist
Cathy Guisevite, cartoonist
Matt Groening, cartoonist
Jean Plantureux (Plantu), political cartoonist
Pat Oliphand, political cartoonist Ronald Searle, cartoonist
Pat Robertson, evangelist/politician
N.B. Forrest, Confederate general
John Dillinger, criminal/bank robber
Boston Strangler (Albert Henry DeSalvo), serial killer
Jack-the-Ripper, serial killer
John Wesley Hardin, Western gunslinger
Bart Simpson, cartoon character
[King Edward III of England, due to stroke]

Left-Handed Authors
James Baldwin, novelist
Bet Bowen, horror novelist
Peter Benchley, novelist
Lewis Carroll
Richard Condon, novelist
Jean Genet
Marshall McLuhan
Diane Paul
Helen Hooven Santmyer, novelist
Viktoria Stefanov
Mark Twain, novelist
Samuel C. Warner (?), poet
H.G. Wells
Jessamyn West
Eudora Welty, see One Writer's Beginnings (1983:27)
[Thomas Carlyle - switched to left due to injury]

Left-Handed Musicians
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, composer
David Byrne (Talking Heads)
Glen Campbell
Vicki Carr
Natale Cole
Kurt Cobain (Nirvana)
Phil Collins (Genesis)
Billy Corgan (Smashing Pumpkins)
Dick Dale (guitarist)
Don Everly (The Everly Brothers)
Phil Everly (The Everly Brothers)
Bela Fleck, jazz musician
Glenn Frey (the Eagles)
Eric Gale, guitarist
Noel Gallagher (Oasis) (?)
Errol Garner, jazz pianist
Judy Garland
Crysal Gayle
Kevin Griffin, guitarist & lead singer (Better than Ezra)
Thomas Hedley, vocalist/musician
Jimi Hendrix
Isaac Hayes
Tony Iommi, guitarist (Black Sabbath)
Albert King, guitarist
Melissa Manchester
Chuck Mangione, trumpet
Martina McBride ?, country music singer
Paul McCartney (the Beatles; Wings)
Christie Marie Melonson (opera)
George Michael (Wham!)
Peter Nero, conductor
Joe Perry ? (Aerosmith)
Robert Plant (Led Zepplin)
Cole Porter, song-writer
Sergei Rachmaninoff ?, composer
Maurice Ravel ?, composer
Lou Rawls
John Lydon a.k.a. Johnny Rotten (Sex Pistols / Public Image Ltd.)
Rich Szabo, trumpeter
Seal
Ringo Starr (?) (the Beatles)
Paul Simon (Simon & Garfunkel)
Tiny Tim
Rudy Valee
Lenny White, drummer
Paul Williams, song-writer

Left-Handed Artists
Albrecht Dürer
M.C. Escher
Hans Holbein
Paul Klee
Michelangelo
LeRoy Neiman
Raphael
Leonardo da Vinci

Left-Handed Actors
Don Adams
Dan Aykroyd
Eddie Albert
Tim Allen
June Allyson
Harry Anderson
Amitabh Bachchan, Indian actor
Herschel Bernardi
Robert Blake
Matthew Broderick
Bruce Boxleitner
Carol Burnett
George Burns, comedian
Ruth Buzzi, comedienne
Sid Caesar, comedian
Keith Carradine
Khaled Chahrour, Egyptian actor
Charlie Chaplin
George Gobel, comedian
Chuck Conners
Hans Conreid
James Cromwell
Tom Cruise
Quinn Cummings
Daniel Davis
Bruce Davison
Matt Dillon
Marty Engles, comedian
Olivia de Havilland
Robert DeNiro
Michael Dorn
Fran Drescher, comedian
Richard Dreyfuss
W.C. Fields
Larry Fine ? (of the Three Stooges)
Peter Fonda
Greta Garbo
Terri Garr
Paul Michael Glaser
Whoopie Goldberg
Betty Grable
Cary Grant
Peter Graves
Mark Hamill
Rex Harrison
Goldie Hawn
Joey Heatherton
Tippi Hedren
Jim Henson, puppetteer
Kermit the Frog
Rock Hudson
Angelina Jolie
Shirley Jones ?
Gabe Kaplan
Danny Kaye
Diane Keaton
George Kennedy
Nicole Kidman
Lisa Kudrow
Michael Landon
Hope Lange
Joey Lawrence
Peter Lawford
Cloris Leachman
Hal Linden
Cleavon Little
Shirley MacLaine
Andrew McCarthy
Kristy McNichol
Steve McQueen
Howie Mandel, comedian
Marcel Marceau, mime
Harpo Marx
Marsha Mason
Mary Stuart Masterson
Anne Meara, comedian
Sasha Mitchell
Marilyn Monroe
Robert Morse
Anthony Newley
Kim Novak
Ryan O'Neal
Sarah Jessica Parker
Estelle Parsons
Anthony Perkins
Ron Perlman
Luke Perry
Bronson Pinchot
Joe Piscopo, comedian
Robert Preston
Michael J. Pollard
Richard Pryor, comedian
Robert Redford
Keanu Reeves
Don Rickles, comedian
Julia Roberts
Mickey Rourke
Eva Marie Saint
Telly Savalas
Jean Seberg
Jerry Seinfeld, comedian
Christian Slater
Dick Smothers, comedian
Brent Spiner
Slyvester Stallone ?
Terence Stamp
Jessica Steen
Rod Steiger
Alan Thicke
Terry Thomas, comedian
Emma Thompson
Rip Torn
Peter Ustinov
Brenda Vaccaro
Karen Valentine
Rudy Vallee
Dick Van Dyke
Graham Walker a.k.a. Grumbleweeds, English comedian
Wil Wheaton
James Whitmore
Treat Williams
Bruce Willis
William Windom
Oprah Winfrey
Mare Winningham
Joanne Woodward
Keenan Wynn
Stephanie Zimbalist

Boston Strangler (Albert Henry DeSalvo), serial killer
Woohoo! go lefties!

quite a few dictators in that list...

"Bart Simpson"...

There are also tons of artists and historical figures, too! Man, we got Joan of Arc.. Always knew da Vinci was a lefty, but kept hearing rightist propoganda that he was ambidexterious... thank goodness the one truth prevailed!

Look at the overwhelming number of right handers... theres bound to be quite a few dictators and murderers there as well;)

Down with the left!

Up to the right!

For the true and just cause of Right Supremacy!

Right-Handed Artists, Musicians, Authors, Presidents:

Everyone who Opal Isle didn't list. :)

You know, that list is pretty heavy when you think about proportions. If approximately 1% (or whatever the percent is) of the world is left handed, but the list of significant left handed people is that long...it means a higher percentage of left handed people have had a significant impact on the world..

you mean the peons and lazy people who dont get off their butt to vote?

just messin with ya;)

You know, that list is pretty heavy when you think about proportions. If approximately 1% (or whatever the percent is) of the world is left handed, but the list of significant left handed people is that long...it means a higher percentage of left handed people have had a significant impact on the world..
Because we are better then they are :)

Because we are better then they are :)
Damn straight. You gave us the crappy blunt left handed scissors in crafts class, we over came. We had to find ways to twist cans open...we over come, your problems are just par for the course for a lefty, we're used to thinking... you righties have it too easy. Pansies.

Yay for Lefties

I'm a lefty. Leftys do tend to be smarter and more imaginative than righties. Statistics also show we don't live as long. Sigh. Luckily men over 6'0" live longer than men under 6'0", so I guess it balances out.

ya know, i wonder how dated that "1% of the population" statistic on lefties is...

methinks its time for a new census;) something tells me that in todays world, the number of lefties would be Much higher than the previous 1%...

I am sinister.
Left-Handed.
The word "sinister" comes from the Greek for left-handed.

I´m right-handed.

Though I think much more than 1% are left-handed. It is a minority, but not such a tiny majority actually.

I'm a lefty. My twin bro is a righty...i believe it's actually 1/7 people.. no wait, 1/21 are lefties.... i forget :D...

In the middle ages lefties were considered evil. Thats because in castles, the staircases were designed so that righthanded knights could fight on the way down a circular staircaise, with the central pillar as cover. Lefties of course, could do the same going up.

I thought it was spelled "Ambidextrous?"