moriarty@fluke.UUCP (Jeff Meyer) (02/18/85)
Hah! It is well known that the left-handed people of Luxemborg are planning
to implement world domination in at least six weeks. They are being funded
by those bloody Wombats again.
I am at least assured, though, that Reedies will not rule the world, ever,
since they all have to finish their thesis first.
"Strong men blench! Women scream! Children vomit!"
Moriarty, aka Jeff Meyer
John Fluke Mfg. Co., Inc.
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fluke!moriarty@uw-beaver.ARPAmarno@ihuxm.UUCP (Marilyn Ashley) (02/19/85)
> Hah! It is well known that the left-handed people of Luxemborg are planning > to implement world domination in at least six weeks. They are being funded > by those bloody Wombats again. We left-handed people will win over the discrimination that plagues us. Scientists say that left-handed people are artistically superior, but right-handed people have tried to prevent us from taking our place in the world. Have you ever noticed that single-arm chairs in high school were geared toward the comfort of right-handers (rities, we call them)? Have you ever suffered through the shame and embarrassment of sitting at a luncheon and bumping elbows with a right-hander as you tried to eat? When will left-handers be sold a guitar he/she can play without special ordering it, I ask you? M. Ashley ihnp4!ihuxm!marno
mr@hou2h.UUCP (M.RINDSBERG) (02/20/85)
> > Hah! It is well known that the left-handed people of Luxemborg are planning > > to implement world domination in at least six weeks. They are being funded > > by those bloody Wombats again. > > We left-handed people will win over the discrimination that plagues us. > Scientists say that left-handed people are artistically superior, but > right-handed people have tried to prevent us from taking our place in the > world. Have you ever noticed that single-arm chairs in high school > were geared toward the comfort of right-handers (rities, we call them)? > Have you ever suffered through the shame and embarrassment of sitting > at a luncheon and bumping elbows with a right-hander as you tried to > eat? When will left-handers be sold a guitar he/she can play without > special ordering it, I ask you? When left handed people reach the 50% mark in population. Mark
liang@cvl.UUCP (Eli Liang) (02/21/85)
> > Hah! It is well known that the left-handed people of Luxemborg are planning > > to implement world domination in at least six weeks. They are being funded > > by those bloody Wombats again. > > We left-handed people will win over the discrimination that plagues us. > Scientists say that left-handed people are artistically superior, but > right-handed people have tried to prevent us from taking our place in the > world. Have you ever noticed that single-arm chairs in high school > were geared toward the comfort of right-handers (rities, we call them)? > Have you ever suffered through the shame and embarrassment of sitting > at a luncheon and bumping elbows with a right-hander as you tried to > eat? When will left-handers be sold a guitar he/she can play without > special ordering it, I ask you? > > M. Ashley > ihnp4!ihuxm!marno And worst still, left-handed people have always had to suffer at the expense of rities. Consider writing. Most modern languages force one to write from left to right. Thats fine if your a ritie, but consider us poor discriminated against, left-handers. Unless we contort our writing hand into wierd and un-natural positions (the infamous hook style for example) we will strain our necks and smear ink/pencil all over the paper! And where is the left-handed person that can forget the degradation involved in using the 'leftie' scissors in elementary school. Many a left-handed person I know will bear the psychological scars for life. I mean with the little green rubber covered handles that seem to broadcast "crippled!" to the world. The world has always moved for rities, but this is not 'right'. Left-handed people are the few, the bold, the proud, the elite. Why should we not rise up and overthrow the bonds of the ritie bourgeoisie! Left-handed people of the world unite! We have nothing to lose but our chains! -eli -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Eli Liang --- University of Maryland Computer Vision Lab, (301) 454-4526 ARPA: liang@cvl, eli@mit-mc, eli@mit-prep CSNET: liang@cvl UUCP: {seismo,rlgvax,allegra,brl-bmd,nrl-css}!umcp-cs!cvl!liang
mom@sftri.UUCP (Mark Modig) (02/21/85)
> > Hah! It is well known that the left-handed people of Luxemborg are planning > > to implement world domination in at least six weeks. They are being funded > > by those bloody Wombats again. > > We left-handed people will win over the discrimination that plagues us. > Scientists say that left-handed people are artistically superior, but > right-handed people have tried to prevent us from taking our place in the > world. Have you ever noticed that single-arm chairs in high school > were geared toward the comfort of right-handers (rities, we call them)? > Have you ever suffered through the shame and embarrassment of sitting > at a luncheon and bumping elbows with a right-hander as you tried to > eat? When will left-handers be sold a guitar he/she can play without > special ordering it, I ask you? > > M. Ashley > ihnp4!ihuxm!marno Count me in on the revolution--two hovercraft in every garage, a satellite dish on every roof, and a pair of left-handed scissors in every household!!! As a survivor of terrible torture in the lower grades to make me change my handedness, I stand ready to spring into action to correct this malodorous belief that right is right! It is true that the proportion of (so-called) creative people (artists, etc.) that are left-handed is greater than the proportion of left-handed people in the whole population. And, if you don't believe that, consider that it is also true that the proportion of murderers that are left-handed exceeds the proportion of lefties in the general population. So, be warned!!! Don't back us into a corner, or get us riled, or else!! Equal rights, I say. Isn't one hand as good as another? Mark Modig ihnp4!sftri!mom
jeffw@tekecs.UUCP (Jeff Winslow) (02/22/85)
> Hah! It is well known that the left-handed people of Luxemborg are planning > to implement world domination in at least six weeks. They are being funded > by those bloody Wombats again. > > I am at least assured, though, that Reedies will not rule the world, ever, > since they all have to finish their thesis first. > They're all working on the same one? How can they ever take time out for Chamber Music Northwest? (note: this is a plug) *** REPLACE THIS LINE WITH JEFF WINSLOW ***
gjk@talcott.UUCP (Greg Kuperberg) (02/23/85)
> It is true that the proportion of (so-called) creative people > (artists, etc.) that are left-handed is greater than the proportion > of left-handed people in the whole population. ... > Mark Modig Apparently, in addition to all their other unusual qualities, lefties have formed a mutual admiration society. And here the wonderful news: I am myself left-handed. But who cares? --- Greg Kuperberg harvard!talcott!gjk "I believe that Ronald Reagan can make this country what it once was: an Arctic wasteland, covered with ice." -Steve Martin
martillo@mit-athena.UUCP (Joaquim Martillo) (02/24/85)
I believe more people speak Chinese than any other language but Chinese is written top to bottom right to left. How is this discrimination against lefties? Anyway Stephen Mosher claims in Broken Earth that all Chinese are right-handed (at least in the PRC -- which seems odd for a communist country). Yehoyaqim Martillo
liang@cvl.UUCP (Eli Liang) (02/25/85)
> I believe more people speak Chinese than any other language but Chinese > is written top to bottom right to left. How is this discrimination > against lefties? Anyway Stephen Mosher claims in Broken Earth that all > Chinese are right-handed (at least in the PRC -- which seems odd for a > communist country). > > Yehoyaqim Martillo Its not at all odd. First of all, let me explain something about the Chinese. Being of Chinese extraction :-) myself, I think I can speak with some knowledge and insight. As much as I hate to label any racial group, especially my own, I have to say that though the Chinese people have many traits to their credit, tolerance of individual differences/idiosyncrasies is not one of these. Whether this is due to societal conditioning and reinforcement, I can not say. People who are different are viewed with disdain and so are forced into the proper molds. This gives the Chinese culture a uniformity not found in western civilizations. In fact, this is one of the contributing factors that shape the Chinese people's ethnocentric view of the world. The Chinese word for China means "the central country." Even in the US, Chinese-Americans typically refer to EVERYONE else as "foreigners" despite the fact that it is we who are foreign if anyone. Of this "uniformity" and ethnocentricity come many things. Looking for stability, Chinese people tend to be more conservative. There is also the push towards high standards of academic excellence. This though, is at the expense of human dignity and respect for the individual. But I digress from the issue here which is lefthandedness and how it relates to being Chinese. For a miscellany of reasons, the Chinese consider lefthandedness to be an undesirable abberation. The reasons are all minor and not insuperable and I won't go into them here. Actually, the unspoken reason is that to be lefthanded is to be different; and those who are different should be forced to conform to the ways of the majority... Perhaps of some genetic abberation :-), somewhere along the line, starting from at least my great-grandfather, a "tendency" towards lefthandedness developed in one of my mother's lines of the family though for some inexplicable reason, its more pronounced in the male members of our family. Note that I said a tendency since every one of these left-tending people was "cured" of his lefthanded ways. In fact, my great-grandfather suffered from a disability of his left hand all his life since his father tied a string around his left wrist one time when he was just a boy so that it would numb his left hand and he wouldn't be able to use it. Unfortunately it had the effect of killing off circulation and causing great amounts of tissue damage. (What can I say? Peasants don't know any better...) Even though it was worst in less enlightened times, My own parents spent a great deal of effort attempting to "correct" my siblings and myself of our lefthandedness. They were successful with my sister who is now righthanded (nominally) but failed with me thanks to a the efforts of my first grade teacher who managed to convince them that being lefthanded is not like being born microencephalic or something. Both my brother and I are lefthanded now. Happily lefthanded... -eli Ouch! I can feel the flames already....... -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Eli Liang --- University of Maryland Computer Vision Lab, (301) 454-4526 ARPA: liang@cvl, eli@mit-mc, eli@mit-prep CSNET: liang@cvl UUCP: {seismo,rlgvax,allegra,brl-bmd,nrl-css}!umcp-cs!cvl!liang
hsu@cvl.UUCP (Dave Hsu) (02/25/85)
> I believe more people speak Chinese than any other language but Chinese > is written top to bottom right to left. How is this discrimination > against lefties? Anyway Stephen Mosher claims in Broken Earth that all > Chinese are right-handed (at least in the PRC -- which seems odd for a > communist country). > Well, sort of. Printed Chinese is pretty much always top to bottom/right to left. But most written correspondence is done left to right/top to bottom (at least, this is my perception.) And yes, just about everybody who writes is righthanded, since there is an order and direction to the 'brushstrokes', which was VERY BLATANTLY designed by right-handed people. You can't dig into paper with a brush. Ergo, you can't write properly left-handed. Same principle as digging with a fountain pen. (gosh, maybe that's why I dropped out of so many Chinese schools?) =Dave Hsu= (301) 454-4526 ARPA: hsu@cvl hsu@umd2 USnail: Computer Vision Laboratory CSNET: hsu@cvl Center for Automation Research BITNET: hsu@umd2 University of Maryland UUCP: {seismo,allegra,brl-bmd}!umcp-cs!cvl!hsu College Park, MD 20742
tac@cholula.UUCP (02/25/85)
, (sop to the blank line eaters--consider it a religious sacrifice) *** endlessly regurgitated quotes from previous postings deleted here *** > .... So, be warned!!! Don't back us into a corner, > or get us riled, or else!! Equal rights, I say. Isn't one hand as > good as another? > > Mark Modig > ihnp4!sftri!mom What? A "Leftie" wrote this? Naw, he must be a "rightie" impersonating one of us. It should read: Equal Lefts, I say!! Now a _REAL_ statistic would be the percentage of criminals who were left handed until their parents and teachers got hold of them but are right handed now! And NO, one hand is not as good as another. But which is best is an individual's choice. From the Soapbox of Tom Condon {...!uw-beaver!tikal!tac} A Radical A Day Keeps The Government At Bay. DISCLAIMER: The opinions expressed herein are those of everyone who matters, but not necessarily anyone you know, and most certainly not my employers! *** PLACE THIS LINE WHERE THE SUN DON'T SHINE ***
herbie@watdcsu.UUCP (Herb Chong [DCS]) (02/26/85)
> I believe more people speak Chinese than any other language but Chinese > is written top to bottom right to left. How is this discrimination > against lefties? Anyway Stephen Mosher claims in Broken Earth that all > Chinese are right-handed (at least in the PRC -- which seems odd for a > communist country). > > Yehoyaqim Martillo i was born a lefty, but now i am a righty. my mother's reasons were never very clear for converting me and she is evasive now when i ask why, but one which she uses all the time is "how are people supposed to eat with chopsticks by using their left hands?" if you think about it, chopsticks are about 20 cm and stick everywhere. at a typical traditional chinese meal, you sit close together and so even one lefty makes things very messy. it's not much of a reason, but all the other ones i can think of have nothing to do with logic. Herb Chong... I'm user-friendly -- I don't byte, I nybble.... UUCP: {decvax|utzoo|ihnp4|allegra|clyde}!watmath!water!watdcsu!herbie CSNET: herbie%watdcsu@waterloo.csnet ARPA: herbie%watdcsu%waterloo.csnet@csnet-relay.arpa NETNORTH, BITNET, EARN: herbie@watdcs, herbie@watdcsu