mark@hp-pcd.UUCP (mark) (11/30/83)
#R:arizona:-618300:hp-kirk:11300012:000:312 hp-kirk!mark Nov 28 10:29:00 1983 I believe in jousting that horses pass to the right. The lance crosses the horse and the shield is the crucial item presented to the opponent. Mark Rowe hplabs!hp-cvd!mark Corvallis, Oregon
grunwald@uiuccsb.UUCP (12/09/83)
#R:ihuxx:-60500:uiuccsb:9900030:000:1137 uiuccsb!grunwald Dec 9 00:48:00 1983 Re: left handed eating I think that most people use their knives in their right hands to push the food around and to apply enough force to cut. Poking food into your mouth takes little aiming, and hence can be delegated to the left hand. Re: C&NW left-handed train in ChiCity: Well, I talked to a railroader friend of mine, and he said that the reason they're left handed on that line in Chicago is not because the company was English. The in-going line was built first, and for a few years, there was only one line. They built terminals near the towns the train ran to (on the "left"). When they installed the second line and split the traffic, they had to build new waiting areas (on the "right" side). There was only enough room for dinky ones and they were "to the right" of the old track since that was the only place to put them (the towns having expanded, but not over the tracks. They reasoned that people would rather wait in the nice ones for the train, but that anyone getting off the train would just leave, and did not need a nice terminal. Hence, they kept the in-going trains on the left. Sorry to blow the theory.