Left Handers Day [Always on August 13th]

holidayinsights.com ^ | August 13, 2007 | unknown

[Daffynition]

Left Handers Day

When:  Always on August 13th

If you are a Leftie, Then Left Handers Day is just for you!

Left Handers, also commonly referred to as Southpaws, are the brunt of more than their share of jokes all year long. How do I know? Yup, you guessed it! It ain't easy being a leftie. But those of us who are, would have it no other way. Lefties are proud of it.

The world is built for right handers. Examples are everywhere. For example:

• In school, have you ever seen a left handed desk? They don't exist.
• Many left handed items cost more.
• Novelty coffee mugs are made with the picture or text for a right handed pick-up.

• Scissors for for right handers. Only a lefty would understand this.

• The computer mouse you are using as you read this is designed for right handers.

Did you Know? Right handed people operate in the left side of the brain. Left handed people use the right side. Therefore, only left handed people are in their right mind.

Left Hander's certainly earned the right to have a day dedicated to them. And, August 13th is that day. So take a minute to appreciate your left handed friends and loved ones. Don't forget to send them a Left Handed Day Ecard to show your respect.

Remember today and every day: "Lefties have rights!"

Left Handed Facts and Trivia:

• Sinistrophobia is the fear of left-handedness.

• While many people are left handed, very few are 100% left handed. For example, many Left handers golf and bat right handed. On the other hand, there is a high percentage of righties who are 100% right-handed.

• Lefties are also called "southpaws". The term was coined in baseball to describe a left handed pitcher.
• Tuesdays are Lefties luck day.
• Only about 10% of the population is left handed.
• During the 1600's people, thought left handers were witches and warlocks. 

• International Left Hander's Day was first celebrated on August 13, 1976. It was started by Lefthander's International.

• They say everyone was born right handed, and only the greatest overcome it. (he,he,he)
• It is believed that all polar bears are left handed. Also see Polar Bear Day.
• There is a rumor that octopuses have but one right hand. Scientists are diligently studying this issue.

Think about it: Everyone is a Left Hander in Left Hand, West Virginia.

Lefthander's Slogan: "Everyone is born right-handed. Only the greatest overcome it". ...Brilliant Author unknown

[Daffynition]

Some daay you may need this: Leftie Insult Generator ;-D

[Daffynition]

A similar thing happened to me, only with the other “paw.” They say if you want to make yourself more “awake” that you should use your opposite hand for a while; I think it works.

[alwaysconservative]

So THAT’s why I can’t use the number pad on my keyboard! I’d always wondered, LOL! And now you’ve made me think about trying writing backwards; it sounds really neat.

My penmanship is very good, thanks to a teacher who recommended to my parents to get a chalkboard at home for practice. I neither curl my hand down and backwards, as some do, (which must be tiring), nor drag my hand across the page.

[Daffynition]

Maybe this video will suffice: word of day: ambidextrous ;-P

[Daffynition]

I saw the SAME thing in that picture. Does it mean that we are complicit in the murder?

[caseinpoint]

I drag my fist behind me so occasionally I would smear liquid ink. Just lazy I guess. I had an elementary school principal who, believe it or not, had a minor in penmanship. He had me come to his office each day after school and I would practice my letters. By the time I made it to middle school, I won the school-wide penmanship contest. Got a neato transister radio, too. This was in the mid-sixties.

If I had the number keypad on the left side of my computer, I would actually use the calculator function on it and be in “high cotton”. As it is, I keep a ten-key nearby or scrunch over like I did with right-hand lecture chairs. I have actually tried using the keypad with my right hand, and the ten-key at the right side of my desk at work with my right hand but it gives me a headache. I also rarely use the full function of my mouse. Just adjusting, I guess.

Have fun writing backwards. Maybe our minds do rotate better than righties.

[MoochPooch]

I drag my fist behind me so occasionally I would smear liquid ink.

You should see how I write. The old curled wrist. People gape so much I should charge them to see it.

I read somewhere that lefties who write that way were meant to be right-handers but suffered some kind of brain damage in utero. Lefties who write "normally" -- like righties, only the opposite hand -- are genetically left-handed.

I'm what you call a "pathological" left-hander.

To my fellow southpaws I suggest THE LEFT-HANDER SYNDROME, by Stanley Coren. It's discomfiting, to say the least.

[caseinpoint]

My theory on the curly-handed writers was that in the first grade or kindergarten when the teacher said to tilt your paper to the left, that’s exactly what lefties did. And the only way a leftie can write on the lines of a left-tilted paper is backhanded. But then that’s just my right-brained theory.

Of course my paper tilted to the right and I was occasionally the target of cheaters in school. Once, in college, a professor told me he thought he had identified a cheater who constantly targeted me (I was a fairly good student) so he asked me to mark the multiple-choice test off one (if the answer was A, I was to mark B, etc.). He assured me he would grade my exam by hand rather than by computer. After the exam, I asked the professor whether his strategy worked. He just smiled.

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

My 7 year old daughter is left-handed. I’m ambidextrous.