OT? Do left-handed people's phone cords twist the other way?

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Slight difference in semantics the captain is the captain. But both him and the First Officer are pilots of the plane hence the term co- pilot. All the critical controls can be handled by one or the other.

Sometimes even you could have a third pilot on long nonstop flights.

the guy who flies a little cessna or a floatplane who is in seat 38B holding a private pilots license is also a "pilot"

Anagram analysis:

A TWISTED PHONE CORD = SAD WRETCHED OPTION

--Dogstar

I wish I'd taken the trouble to learn to bat left in baseball, so I'd know how it compared. I didn't notice a preference swinging an ax.

Decades ago a scientist said 70% of chimps were right-handed. More recently another scientist noticed those were zoo chimps. In the wild, he found 70% left-handed.

Another scientist found that 20% of school children were lefties, but only 1% of 80-year-olds, IIRC. He thought this was because lefties were prone to fatal accidents. I think it's because the way a person thinks influences which hand he uses, and that can change with age.

Could she be responsible for all those twisted cords?

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I thought it was Robert Goulet messing with your stuff, but he just died. Has anyone noticed twisted cords *recently*?

Bill wrote: ) Another scientist found that 20% of school children were lefties, but ) only 1% of 80-year-olds, IIRC. He thought this was because lefties were ) prone to fatal accidents. I think it's because the way a person thinks ) influences which hand he uses, and that can change with age.

How about being forced to right-handedness, in schools and stuff ?

SaSW, Willem

It's very simple. It's proof that you're really twisted.

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I've wondered about that. I think the statistical research was done in the 1980s. The scientist found a linear relationship between right-handedness and age. If early schooling accounted for it, the acceptance of left-handedness must have evolved gradually. I *think* instead it happened pretty fast.

My grandfather, who learned to write in the 1890s, was left-handed in everything but penmanship. I learned to write left-handed because that was my drawing hand. Taking notes in high school, I discovered that the right hand is best for penmanship because it uses the side of the brain that's not easily distracted; that's why I dial a phone better with my right hand. (I still write almost entirely left-handed.)

My grandfather was notorious for dozing during sermons, but when those who had been awake questioned him after a service, they would find he remembered more than they did. Typical of a left-hander, he would think of the big picture as he listened, and that could lead to daydreaming and dozing. Still, by thinking of the big picture, he could retain more than those who had listened with a one-track mind.

If students pay attention to every word a teacher says and still have trouble, that can make a teacher feel supremely authoritative. If a student like my grandfather was obviously thinking about other things but seemed to know everything the teacher had said, some teachers could feel disparaged. I think that's a reason many teachers quietly resent left-handers.

You know the first time I looked at that I could olny see it revolving clockwise, this time it also went CW when I first looked, I then glanced away and when I came back it reversed. Curiouser and curiouser. :-) ...lew...

Actually i expect that if we can get past all our training prejudices it will turn out to be ab 1/3 lefty, 1/3 ambidextrous, and 1/3 righties. Back when i was i grade school i could write with both hands.

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He didn't say he could type with both hands.

That must have been tough. I guess you had a hard time with short pencils, eh?

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-- Ed Huntress

Are you saying that he can't type with two hands?

When she first popped up, she was turning counterclockwise. But by concentrating, I was able to turn her around, i.e., reverse her. Then, with a little more mental effort, I turned her around again. It's an interesting feeling, somewhat similar to eyestrain. :-)

Cheers! Rich

I can't write with either, so it's a good thing the PC was invented.

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My father was forced to learn to write right-handed as a child. As an adult, he was encouraged by a golf pro to try some left handed clubs. By the end of the round he was using the only two right-handed clubs he took along - a wedge and a putter.

Back when I was in Saudi Arabia, on a construction site, this subject came up in the engineers (real engineers) trailer. WIth a show of hands something just greater than 50% of us (out of 30) were left handed.

As for the ambidextrous issue, there is no such thing. Its ambisinisterous. :)

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