Wee Study..

[Al J]

I hold a pistol left handed but a rifle butt goes against my right shoulder. Use scissors left handed but cannot use left handed scissors! Can openers are never a problem. Using a right handed mouse (in my left hand!) at the moment. When I played golf I did it right handed. Knives and forks are held in the correct hands.

Oh and when I started playing the guitar I held it left handed then found it easier to swap to right handed playing.

Still rubbish at it as a result. :P

[Calisto]

Phew...I wondered where we were going with that title. ......right handed for most things, but left hand when the right one gets tired :P

[vmail]

right handed, but I have to have fork in the right hand and a knife in the left hand

[JappyBeast]

I'm worried that everyone uses pistols!

My dad told me in Victorian times being left handed was the sign of the Devil.

[1bloke1dog1mr2]

I use a fork in my left and knife in my right, but if I only use one, it's my left hand. I think that's being a leftie in a world designed for righties!!!

[1bloke1dog1mr2]

My dad told me in Victorian times being left handed was the sign of the Devil.

My Mum encouraged my leftiness, even told my nursery school teacher not to force me to write with my right... this was '79

[JappyBeast]

More left handed people than I thought.

[Paul C]

another lefty here

now this knife and fork thing I think us lefties do it right. you think about it if we use a fork or a spoon we use our left hand to put the food into our mouth. now a right handed person with a fork use their left hand to put food into their mouth then give them a spoon they start using the other hand whats that all about?

[acstreet]

right handed, but I have to have fork in the right hand and a knife in the left hand

im the same i get called a !Removed! for that lol

[dazwan]

I've never understood left-handed people who insist that they can't use right handed things (corkscrews, can openers, scissors, etc.). If I tried using anything specifically designed for a left handed person I would fail miserably as I'm so used to using right handed stuff.

[JappyBeast]

I can use right handed scissors but I have to hold them funny. People laugh.

[Pompey Gaz]

lefty is besty?

[Boro Sera]

every year 225 left handed people around the world die from using tools for right handed people

They should ask for permission first then !

even told my nursery school teacher not to force me to write with my right... this was '79

I left Nursery school when I was quite young, as did most people . Still there at 79?? you must be a whiz with play doh by now

BTW. Righty all the way here !

[JappyBeast]

Hendrix and Cobain were left handed.

[Pompey Gaz]

Joan of Arc (?), French heroine

Lloque Yapanqui (?), Inca monarch

Ramses II (?), Egyptian pharaoh

Tiberius (?), Roman emperor

Alexander the Great

Charlemagne, Holy Roman emperor

Julius Caesar, Roman general

Napoléon Bonaparte (?), French emperor

Josephine de Beauharnais

King Louis XVI of France

Queen Victoria of England

King George II of England

King George VI of England

Prince Charles of England

Prince William of England

Fidel Castro, Cuban leader

Benjamin Netanyahu, Israeli prime-minister

Nicole d'Oresme, mathematician

Henry Ford, automobile manufacturer

David Rockefeller, banker

Dwight F. Davis, founder of the Davis Cup in tennis

Helen Keller, advocate for the blind

Dr. Albert Schweitzer, physician/missionary

August Piccard, inventor of stratosphere, bathosphere

Edwin Buzz Aldrin, astronaut

Wally Schirra, astronaut

Dr. Mark Silver, surgeon

Paul Prudhomme, chef

Cecil Beaton, photographer/costume designer

Lord Baden-Powell, founder of the Boy Scouts (ambidexterous)

Dave Barry, journalist

Edward R. Murrow, correspondent

Ted Koppel, journalist

Forrest Sawyer, journalist

Ray Suarez, journalist

John F. Kennedy, Jr., lawyer/publisher

Caroline Kennedy, lawyer/author

Ron Reagan, son of Ronald Reagan

Vin Scully, sports broadcaster

David Letterman (?), host

Jay Leno, host

Lenny Bruce, comedian

Allen Ludden, host

Joel Hodgson, host of Mystery Science Theater 3000

Wink Martindale, game show host

Uri Geller, psychokinetic performer

Richard Simmons, exercise guru

Euell Gibbons, naturalist

Marie Dionne, one of the Dionne quintuplets

General H. Norman Schwarzkopf

Clarence Darrow, lawyer

F. Lee Bailey, lawyer

Melvin Belli, lawyer

Marcia Clark, lawyer

Alan Funt, television producer

Milt Caniff, cartoonist

Bill Mauldin, cartoonist

Cathy Guisevite, cartoonist

Matt Groening, cartoonist

Jean Plantureux (Plantu), political cartoonist

Pat Oliphand, political cartoonist Ronald Searle, cartoonist

Pat Robertson, evangelist/politician

N.B. Forrest, Confederate general

John Dillinger, criminal/bank robber

Boston Strangler (Albert Henry DeSalvo), serial killer

Jack-the-Ripper, serial killer

John Wesley Hardin, Western gunslinger

Bart Simpson, cartoon character

[King Edward III of England, due to stroke]

Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, composer

David Byrne (Talking Heads)

Glen Campbell

Vicki Carr

Natale Cole

Kurt Cobain (Nirvana)

Phil Collins (Genesis)

Billy Corgan (Smashing Pumpkins)

***** Dale (guitarist)

Don Everly (The Everly Brothers)

Phil Everly (The Everly Brothers)

Bela Fleck, jazz musician

Glenn Frey (the Eagles)

Eric Gale, guitarist

Noel Gallagher (Oasis) (?)

Errol Garner, jazz pianist

Judy Garland

Crysal Gayle

Kevin Griffin, guitarist & lead singer (Better than Ezra)

Thomas Hedley, vocalist/musician

Jimi Hendrix

Isaac Hayes

Tony Iommi, guitarist (Black Sabbath)

Albert King, guitarist

Melissa Manchester

Chuck Mangione, trumpet

Martina McBride ?, country music singer

Paul McCartney (the Beatles; Wings)

Christie Marie Melonson (opera)

George Michael (Wham!)

Peter Nero, conductor

Joe Perry ? (Aerosmith)

Robert Plant (Led Zepplin)

Cole Porter, song-writer

Sergei Rachmaninoff ?, composer

Maurice Ravel ?, composer

Lou Rawls

John Lydon a.k.a. Johnny Rotten (s*x Pistols / Public Image Ltd.)

Rich Szabo, trumpeter

Seal

Ringo Starr (?) (the Beatles)

Paul Simon (Simon & Garfunkel)

Tiny Tim

Rudy Valee

Lenny White, drummer

Paul Williams, song-writer

Tom Cruise

Johnny Herbert (Formula 1 driver)

Terry Labonte (NASCAR race car driver)

Ayrton Senna (Formula 1 driver)

Karl Wendlinger (Formula 1 driver)

Valentino Rossi (motorcycle racer)

alll left handers

[JappyBeast]

jack the ripper!

[Pompey Gaz]

phil collins...aren't we lucky

[1bloke1dog1mr2]

even told my nursery school teacher not to force me to write with my right... this was '79

I left Nursery school when I was quite young, as did most people . Still there at 79?? you must be a whiz with play doh by now

No, but I was a master at Fuzzy Felt!!! :P

[Pompey Gaz]

hahah

[MarcTS]

There's rather a lot of lawyers and journalists in that list... The Latin term for lefties is spot on then :D

[Kev Mc]

I can use right handed scissors but I have to hold them funny. People laugh.

I grew up using right handed scissors & when I got to secondary school they had left handed ones & they were a nightmare to cut with, I haven't picked up another pair of left handed scissors since. The blades are a different angle or something aren't they?

[Parts-King]

I think we should gather all the leftys in a barn and burn them all!!! :D

Oi !!!

I'm a leftie and can assure you my left handed back hander is very handy, phew try saying that when yer all stella'rd up

Kingo

[1bloke1dog1mr2]

Welcome to the lefties TOC Kingo!

[Pompey Gaz]

we should have our own fragment board :D

[Boro Sera]

Interesting list from Pompey Gaz there.

Possibly the most interesting thing on it is that most of the people listed are dead !

Coupled with earlier evidence presented I deduce that they all borrowed powertools.

A lesson for us all there methinks !