Are you left handed? You have some famous company.

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dara — Fri, 02 May 2008 22:49:37 GMT

jerry seinfeld and kermit the frog

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rich parsons — Fri, 02 May 2008 22:52:27 GMT

i guess i am in good company then Rod -the list was impressive but got real impressive once your name was added-lol. I guess i qualify only because i write left handed. Here is the breakdown-golf: right handed- bowling:left handed-baseball i throw left handed but bat right handed- i eat with my right hand and throw a frisbee right handed-do you share any of these traits?-hagn-Rich

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kevintorres — Sat, 03 May 2008 02:26:50 GMT

Famous Right-Handed People:
Jim Teske

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Snowlover — Sat, 03 May 2008 02:41:33 GMT

Hey good list can i add myself since im a lefty haha but kinda of a oddball lefty since i wrote lefty but golf righty and bat righty but pretty much everything else i do is lefty haha.

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294EVER — Sat, 03 May 2008 12:51:39 GMT

In addition to the above, Albert Einstein, Marie Curie, Leonardo Da Vinci, Jimi Hendrix, Paul McCartney, just to name a few. There have been studies done, that state left-handed people, on average, have higher IQs.

We are lucky to live in the times that we do. My uncle, who is in his early 70's, was left-handed but was forced to become right hand, because of a) the church and b) being the son of a very supersitious Irish mother. In addition, left-handedness was considered evil and many were burnt at the stake.

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critterwoman — Sat, 03 May 2008 21:05:33 GMT

everyone tried to change me as a kid many,many years ago but never succeeded my gym teacher was furios because I never had a backhand stroke I just swapped to my right hand, one of the few things I due right handed I have been told that lefties are supposed to be more artistic I guess Leonardo proved that for us

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Rick — Sat, 03 May 2008 22:49:45 GMT

I am right-handed except I hold a hockey stick left handed and play drums left handed. I'm also told that left-handed people have above average IQ.

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Karen — Sun, 04 May 2008 15:43:28 GMT

I was born left-handed and smacked with a ruler until I switched when I was in 1st grade (I'm 45 now). I was very confused in gym class and remember running up to kick the ball during a kickball game and not knowing which foot to kick with! I write with my right hand and do many other things lefty. My husband is left-handed and, ironically, all of our four kids are righty's.

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facefurny — Mon, 05 May 2008 02:26:22 GMT

...and me. :o) I'm mixed up like a lot of others. I still write and eat left-handed, but I play most sports right-handed (except for tennis and ping-pong).

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Karen — Mon, 05 May 2008 03:20:06 GMT

I am left handed. I am the only left handed person in my immediate family. I like being different. I do most everything with my left hand except drinking. I always hold the cup or whatever in my right hand, weird...I know. Oh and when I write, my arm isn't all bent and curled like most left handed people. I actually write normal...you know with the paper and my arm straight.

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Robin — Mon, 05 May 2008 13:15:41 GMT

I have always heard tha Left handed people are in the right state of mind.

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Dan in Cicero — Mon, 05 May 2008 14:00:40 GMT

Ringo Starr said he is left-handed but was forced to learn to do everything (including playing the drums) the 'other' way, for the same reasons as the older folks mentioned above.

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Don in Lafayette — Mon, 05 May 2008 19:00:38 GMT

Well, I'm kind of a hybrid. I write lefty and I eat half-lefty. A true lefty will switch a knife to his or her left hand to cut - my fork stays to the left. I do everything else right-handed and right-footed. When I started learning to write, I kept switching hands. My second grade teacher told me she didn't care which, just pick a hand and stay with it - and so I have.

There's a saying that only left handers are in their right mind. I'm not sure where that leaves me. Of all the things I've lost in my life, I miss my mind the most.

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Jackie — Mon, 05 May 2008 19:56:30 GMT

The saying is "If the right side of your brain controls the left side of your body then left handers are the only ones in their right mind".

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tom f — Mon, 05 May 2008 23:25:15 GMT

i am ambidexterous at birth but favored my right hand because i was raised to do everything left handed. genetic studies are not necessarily accurate drawing a parallel to high IQ and left handedness. ive known alot of lefthanders in my time that are[dumber than a box of sox] thats not to demean anyone but it has no direct correlation. variety is the spice of life being ambidexterous is a wonderful way to live also.

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Jennifer N. — Tue, 06 May 2008 01:01:38 GMT

My dad was left-handed, and one of his sisters. I'm left handed, and so is my son. Is it really only 10% of the population? It seems like I know more than 1 lefty out of every 10 people. In the dept I work in, there are 3 out of 13. In my bible study, there are 5 out of 10!!

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GLT — Tue, 06 May 2008 15:44:40 GMT

my neice is a lefty, her parents and brother are both right handers. I had to
show her how to hold a pencil when she was a little kid. I am the only lefty
in our family, all the kids are right handed. My mom right handed my dad left handed.

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GLT — Tue, 06 May 2008 15:45:36 GMT

the office I work in used to have 4 out of 5 staff leftys.

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theresa — Tue, 06 May 2008 15:51:11 GMT

I think the percentage is more like 15-20%. I'm the only leftie out of 7 kids, but I do lots of things right handed. Comes from living in a right handed world. My mom was forced to use her right hand (she's about 80 now), but used to just switch hands when her right would get tired.
Interesting factoid - go into a normal college classroom and the ratio is 8 right to 2 left handed out of 10. Now go into an art based class, and that almost flip-flops, the ratio will be 3 right to 7 left handed out of 10.

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Kym — Tue, 06 May 2008 17:05:53 GMT

I am left handed as well as my mother and father, my sister was right handed. When I played softball, I batted right handed and pitched and catched left handed. In cheerleading I had to learn how to start with my right foot, as I always wanted to start with my left. I have two children now, both right handers, teaching them how to tie their shoes, and write their names were very difficult.

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Maggie — Tue, 06 May 2008 20:19:05 GMT

My son is left handed, but I am right. Teaching him to write has been interesting. My left hand letters looked just like his! My grandma thinks that which hand you right with has to do with how you are spoon fed as a baby. She has 4 kids, three of which she fed on thier right(they are all right-handed) and then my dad whom she fed on his left(he is the only lefty). I agree with her as I fed my son with my right hand facing him, which would be his left. My dad can bat left or right, as can my son. I however, cannot. Maybe lefty's are better at flipping between left and right?

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BigNTall — Wed, 07 May 2008 15:26:04 GMT

I am a lefty. I remember working at McDonald's and having to learn how to scoop fries with a right handed scooper. Every once in a while I have seen a scooper with two handles on it for either one.

I have heard that left handed people are also creative as well...

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JasonSutliff — Wed, 07 May 2008 19:58:20 GMT

"RIGHT" On !!! 'Us' lefties rule! Famous? Me?

J.
N. Syr.
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Theresa — Wed, 07 May 2008 20:27:06 GMT

My husband and I had four children. We both are right handed. The first three children are lefties and the fourth is right handed, but they are all equally smart.

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jay22 — Wed, 07 May 2008 21:55:12 GMT

being left handed in a right handed world for over 50 years and survived.