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#22585 03/14/01 11:53 AM
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Virago was claimed by the publishing world in the early seventies.
I just checked out the Virago site and their splash page features a book by one of my favorite science writers, Natalie Angier. Lots of other cool books, too. Thanks for the link!



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I am right handed, but have some double dexterity-- which falls short of being ambidextrous-- so can use a screw driver in either hand, but i write with my right-- I eat european style (left handed), and i knit and sew left handed. there are other things i do left handed, but i can't think of them-- i don't really think about it-- i just pick up and do, and some time i do it with a right hand and some times with a left-- but each hand has, for the most part 'assigned' jobs. there are very few things i can do equally well with either hand.


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Basically ambi, but write with left since screamed at by hideous baggage of a primary school teacher! Still use hands for most tasks without particular favour, though for some reason I would prefer to pick up a saw in my left and a hammer in my right.


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Having jumped on the lefty bandwagon early in this poll, I guess I have to amend things a bit. I seem to work a bit like of Troy and Maverick - occasionally I don't know which hand I prefer in a particular task until I pick up the appropriate implement. But since we tend to describe ourselves by which hand we write with, I call myself a lefty. For writing and many finer motor skills, I use my left, but I mouse with my write, and can write on a chalkboard/whiteboard with either hand, and sometimes switch back and forth. For most sports and other large-muscle activities I use my right, but I can bat either way (but hate baseball) and can fence equally well (in fact, equally badly) with either hand. "I have something to tell you. I'm not left-handed either."

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at Hyla, because that film is definitely included among my long list of favourites...



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"I have something to tell you. I'm not left-handed either."

As you wish.


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There was a man whose right arm was two inches longer than his left arm. He used the right arm to reach everthing on the table he wanted.
He used the left arm to miss the dinner check by two inches.


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how odd, while googling the word "cognomen" i unwittingly discovered a word which applies to this thread: Scaevola

there's an interesting story behind it at http://www.arduini.net/names/names14a.htm






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And the cognomen "Scaevola" meant literally "shitwing". In the days before Charmin was available, the left hand was used instead, and was socially unacceptable.


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Still true among the more traditionally minded here. The paper provided in more upmarket conveniences is often used as paper towels after washing the hands.

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