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pscot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-22-11 06:23 PM
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Poll question: Are you right handed or left handed
Dexterous or sinistrous?
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taterguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-22-11 06:25 PM
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1. Amphibious here
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trof Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-22-11 06:32 PM
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4. frog
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BlueJazz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-22-11 08:09 PM
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13. Lefty but can use both sides if needed.
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MiddleFingerMom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-22-11 06:25 PM
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2. Left-handed for writing and eating... right-handed for everything else. n/t
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Bake Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-22-11 06:31 PM
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3. Us lefties are, of course, --ahem-- geniuses
Like Einstein. And Bill Clinton.

:hi:

And me.

Bake
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pscot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-22-11 06:34 PM
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5. We're also a lot harder
to sneak up on.
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Maine-ah Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-22-11 08:30 PM
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15. + 1....and check this out
Edited on Tue Mar-22-11 08:31 PM by Maine-ah
:hi: <------ even the smilie waves with his left hand.
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Bake Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-22-11 08:33 PM
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16. Excellent catch!! +10
:hi:

Bake
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Paper Roses Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-23-11 04:14 PM
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25. I am told that::
Only left handed people are in their right mind.

No wonder I am in a fog half the time
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bigwillq Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-22-11 06:44 PM
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6. Right (nt)
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Bake Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-22-11 07:07 PM
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7. I do, however, play guitar/banjo/etc. righthanded.
I really don't think there's a "handedness" to string instruments - you gotta use both of 'em anyway.

Bake
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Bertha Venation Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-22-11 07:12 PM
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8. I always thought it was weird when my left-handed students thought
that they had to get special guitars, or re-string theirs, so that they formed chords with their right hands and played the strings with their left. I'm left handed and I learned the "normal" way. :shrug: (And for that reason I always thought of Paul McCartney as a wimp. *haughty*)
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Bake Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-22-11 07:14 PM
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9. Now, Hendrix ... that's another story!
Voodoo was involved.

Bake
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Bertha Venation Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-22-11 07:21 PM
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10. Name the subject. Hendrix gets a pass.
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CaliforniaPeggy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-22-11 07:29 PM
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11. A little ambidextrous but mostly right handed.
I wash my face left-handed, and thread a needle...

I can write left-handed, but it IS an effort!

Right-handed for everything else...

I was totally left-handed till I was five years old, when I apparently spontaneously switched.

:hi:
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rrneck Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-22-11 07:34 PM
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12. The entire left side of my body is just there for weight distribution. nt
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Kali Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-23-11 05:19 PM
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27. this is my answer too
total spaz on that side:rofl:
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TheMightyFavog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-22-11 08:17 PM
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14. Right handed for evertyhing but shooting.
My left eye is my dominant eye, and I can't hit the broad side of a barn shooting right handed. Shooting lefty however has drawbacks... Ever have a freshly fired brass casing tumble down your shirt? Does not feel good.
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dixiegrrrrl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-22-11 08:38 PM
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17. Depends on what I am doing.
Write left handed. Totally illegibly, thank god for keyboards.
Can use mouse either hand.
Can switch hands for most other things, depending on the angle of what I am doing.
Shoot a rifle right handed, come to think of it.
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Common Sense Party Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-22-11 08:45 PM
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18. I thought we were all leftists here.
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Lindsey Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-22-11 11:42 PM
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19. I use both hands. There are some things I have to make an
effort to do when it just feels right w/the other hand. I eat and drink w/my left hand and write mostly w/my right hand but some days it just doesn't feel natural so I write as a lefty. I can't handle my mouse w/my right hand at all. I have to deal cards w/my left hand. I can play ping pong equally as well w/both hands so it trips whoever I'm playing w/out when I switch.
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quakerboy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-23-11 12:42 AM
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20. how about Un-dexterous
Equally inept with either side.

I hate when these polls are short on applicable options for me
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IcyPeas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-23-11 01:12 AM
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21. right handed but I can also mirror write (also with right hand)
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blogslut Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-23-11 01:45 AM
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22. Another ambi here
I write, eat, draw, crochet and tat with my left hand. I use my right hand for all hand tools as well as my computer mouse and my right arm was always my "tray arm" when I was a waitress. I can't play baseball or bowl worth a crap because neither side feels correct.
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meow2u3 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-23-11 10:45 AM
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23. Predominantly right-handed
Edited on Wed Mar-23-11 10:51 AM by meow2u3
I golf and bat left-handed, but do everything else righty. I used to switch-hit (in baseball/softball), but gave up when my coach told me I didn't have a snowball's chance in hell batting right.

Forget about golf, except for miniature golf. It's tough to find ladies' lefty golf clubs.
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KamaAina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-23-11 04:04 PM
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24. Righty
but could bat left if needed. Also, fight southpaw. :-)
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Pryderi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-23-11 04:50 PM
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26. Ambiclumsy. Actually, my hands specialize. I bowl, bat and throw right-handed, but
write, eat and play table tennis left-handed.
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