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my brother was borned a lefty but got his hand tied behind his back – a method to force him to become a righty
Most of WNYC’s (NYC public radio) budget is from listener contributions. WQXR, the only classical music station in NYC, is part of WNYC now–was threatened with extinction when the NY Times sold its call number license last year but was rescued by WNYC.
My father told me to play golf right handed since he said there was some eye hand advantage for lefties. But then I went out a couple of times with righty clubs and they thought I was developmentally disabled.
He taught my brothers how to switch hit, very useful skill.
Mirror writing is cool! Have you ever seen that dude THOTH under the bridge in central park do it?
rf, thanks for the Passover schedule. I assume that means the first Seder is Monday the 18th and the second is Tuesday the 19th?
Growing up in CT, we always had all the Jewish Holidays off, too.
I am a lefty. My mother is a lefty who was forced to be a righty. I read an article which tried to follow lefties through life and measure health-related issues and the studies got screwed up past middle age since they found a lot of lefties died young. They opined that lefties were brain-damaged somehow.
Lefty bonus. I can mirror write, i.e. write totally backwards without effort.
I’m a righty. But I try to use my left hand a lot to strengthen it. Good to have options.
aw man -Mike Starr(from the band Alice in Chains) found dead of a drug overdose
DIBS, I mean I know some folks who would throw a football and baseball left handed then shoot basketball and swing a bat or golf club right handed