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Janus Zarate
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« on: September 18, 2009, 02:54:26 am » |
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Continuing a tradition that I sparked on another forum, I am establishing a unique organization here exclusively for the sinistral. If you are a lefty, you are compelled to join forces with your southpaw brethren for the betterment of the left-handed community! For too long we have endured criticism, stereotypes, associations with evil (although in my case, they're quite accurate  ), and the horrors of tools and equipment designed for our right-handed oppressors. For too long we have relegated ourselves to the background merely because we are vastly outnumbered by the opposite-handed. For too long, we have treated our left-handedness as merely an oddity, when it is actually the mark of a genius! Lefties of the world: UNITE! Our Members as of February 1, 2010: 1 Janus Zarate 2 OswaldBastable 3 Sir Nikolas Vendigroth 4 Herr Klinger 5 Countessa Lenora 6 Vienna Fahrmann 7 Pnakotus 8 Jemima Annabelle Clough 9 Tara 10 vela 11 Merlin Augustus 12 Cpt. Tobias Warde 13 Airship Cyborg 14 diamantequeen 15 sebastian Inkerman 16 Genevieve Ozuna 17 S.Sprocket 18 TheBladeRoden 19 Choreocrat 20 Johannes von Koenigsbach 21 Drac 22 Himself 23 Bonny Gallows 24 Prometheus Culier 25 shadowmane 26 Steamhappi 27 Lumis 28 Josephine Hogwood 29 Marble (feline liaison) 30 Ms. Elisabeth Collins 31 Lady Corsair 32 elShoggotho 33 techgnosi 34 blackdragon 35 Thor 36 Thorinis 37 Cyrillia Davenport 38 Isabella Stormrift 39 Ainsly Woodsworth 40 AirshipGreaseMonkey 41 MWBailey 42 Blacksheep 43 PockyNightmare |
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« Last Edit: February 02, 2010, 04:27:33 am by Janus Zarate »
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OswaldBastable
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« Reply #1 on: September 18, 2009, 10:43:29 am » |
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I'm the first recruit, do I get a badge?
The reason the right handed oppress us is FEAR; the left handed have a far higher percentage chance of being a genius (and coincidentally being insane)
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C'est magnifique, mais ce n'est pas la guerre
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Sir Nikolas of Vendigroth
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« Reply #2 on: September 18, 2009, 11:07:15 am » |
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I'm the first recruit, do I get a badge?
The reason the right handed oppress us is FEAR; the left handed have a far higher percentage chance of being a genius (and coincidentally being insane)
Is that a fact, or a function of our low numbers? There're fewer of us, see? Left-handers may well have the same chance of madness and genuis as the population on the whole. However, since there aren't as many of us, it'd be more notable, since a proportionately greater number of left handers have those traits. Bottom line: It's an artifact of statistics, if you will. You're not more likely to be mad or a genius just because you use your left hand. |
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OswaldBastable
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« Reply #3 on: September 18, 2009, 11:16:28 am » |
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to be fair I am quoting half remembered details; however statistics of that nature should always be judged on a percentage basis otherwise it would as you have said be rather silly. In his book Right-Hand, Left-Hand,Chris McManus of University College London argues that the proportion of left-handers is rising and left-handed people as a group have historically produced an above-average quota of high achievers. He says that left-handers' brains are structured differently in a way that widens their range of abilities, and the genes that determine left-handedness also govern development of the language centres of the brain. McManus also says that the increase in the 20th century of people identifying as left-handed could produce a corresponding intellectual advance and a leap in the number of mathematical, sporting, or artistic geniuses. Anyone disagreeing is of course the victim of right handed propaganda! |
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Capt. Dirigible
Rogue Ætherlord
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Shirts?.....I got plenty at 'ome.
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« Reply #4 on: September 18, 2009, 11:56:15 am » |
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Lefties of the world: UNITE! Right on !!!  You need a symbol...maybe a clenched fist (a left fist of course!) |
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« Last Edit: September 19, 2009, 07:12:15 pm by Capt. Dirigible »
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I say, Joe it's jolly frightening out here.
Nonsense dear boy, you should be more like me.
But look at you! You're shaking all over!
Shaking? You silly goose! I'm just doing the Watusi
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Herr Klinger
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« Reply #5 on: September 18, 2009, 01:48:22 pm » |
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Left-handed people are in their right mind, right-handed people have to use what's left.
Count me in! Right handed tools, doors in shops, even cigarette lighters and corkscrews! We shall rise and crush!!!!!
Or just talk about things, it's really up to you.
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"In what country is there a place for people like me?"
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Countessa Lenora
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« Reply #6 on: September 19, 2009, 01:30:43 pm » |
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My goodness am I the first lady member - how wonderful! I am the only left-handed member of my family. Even my own children are right-handed. I have always enjoyed being unique...and a genius....why thank you |
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« Reply #7 on: September 19, 2009, 01:40:39 pm » |
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As a member of the right handers, I commend you on your efforts. I extend my left hand, hoping to extend the hand of friendship between us. A hand that is neither left, nor right, but simply metaphorical. Also, I brought a cake, if anyone's interested.
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In smoggiest day, in sooted night no ignorance shall escape my sight. Let those who worship ignorance's might, beware my power... Brass Goggles light! |
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OswaldBastable
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« Reply #8 on: September 19, 2009, 03:37:17 pm » |
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As a member of the right handers, I commend you on your efforts. I extend my left hand, hoping to extend the hand of friendship between us. A hand that is neither left, nor right, but simply metaphorical. Also, I brought a cake, if anyone's interested.
well if you brought cake........... |
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Vienna Fahrmann
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« Reply #9 on: September 19, 2009, 05:23:18 pm » |
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I'm a leftie also.
Vienna
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Pnakotus
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« Reply #10 on: September 19, 2009, 05:25:56 pm » |
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Ahoy thar mateys! I be a south paw, at least when it comes to writing. Bottom line: It's an artifact of statistics, if you will. You're not more likely to be mad or a genius just because you use your left hand.
I will not, for there are "Lies, damned lies, and statistics". Like beauty to the eye of the beholder, truth is to the heart of the believer. Left handers are all mad and geniuses, even if they nor anyone else around them notices. |
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"Tie two birds together,
and although they have four wings,
they cannot fly."
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Jemima Annabelle Clough
Rogue Ætherlord
United Kingdom
When you're tired of tea, you're tired of life
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« Reply #11 on: September 19, 2009, 05:29:09 pm » |
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I'm ambi, so I'm just half popping in |
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Remember: Stressed backwards spells desserts
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Janus Zarate
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« Reply #12 on: September 19, 2009, 06:04:40 pm » |
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As a member of the right handers, I commend you on your efforts. I extend my left hand, hoping to extend the hand of friendship between us. A hand that is neither left, nor right, but simply metaphorical. Also, I brought a cake, if anyone's interested.
While I appreciate your frosted gesture, I must inquire: is the accompanying cake server set right-handed?  Anyhow... if any of you happen to take pride in numbers, here is the list of members so far: #1 – Janus Zarate #2 – OswaldBastable #3 – Sir Nikolas Vendigroth #4 – Capt. Dirigible #5 – Herr Klinger #6 – Aspen #7 – Vienna Fahrmann #8 – Pnakotus #8.5 – Jemima Annabelle Clough Okay, I'm kidding on the last one. That should be #9.  Jemima, if you're willing to side with the sinistral in every battle between the left-handed and the right-handed, you are welcome to stay aboard. Otherwise, you are merely a double-agent. |
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Tara
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« Reply #13 on: September 19, 2009, 06:42:28 pm » |
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I'm a leftie, more or less; I only learned to write with my left hand, but everything else I do with my left or right hand as the mood takes me.
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Janus Zarate
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« Reply #14 on: September 19, 2009, 07:04:36 pm » |
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Good enough for me, Tara. You're our 10th member. |
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« Reply #15 on: September 19, 2009, 07:35:33 pm » |
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Not a member of your brotherhood myself, however my other-half and our bat-winged cogling are both of the left-handed persuasion
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"Why Ambassador, with these lime and orange tic-tacs you are really spoiling us!"
Baron Redmond Asmodeus Maycock - Ship's Ambassadoer, HMAS Discombobulus
Freelance Investigator of the Eldritch, Otherworldly and Unusual / *Purveyor of fine Teas*
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vela
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« Reply #16 on: September 19, 2009, 07:44:49 pm » |
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Yar, I be a lefty.
-vela
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If you spend your life as a parasite, then it is likely your offspring will follow suit. Beware, they might turn on you.
-Ivan Drugostrov
(The Parasite's Manifesto)
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Janus Zarate
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« Reply #17 on: September 19, 2009, 08:22:30 pm » |
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Not a member of your brotherhood myself, however my other-half and our bat-winged cogling are both of the left-handed persuasion
I thank you, good sir, for contributing a new genius to the world.  Vela, you're our 11th member. |
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Vienna Fahrmann
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« Reply #18 on: September 20, 2009, 08:40:43 pm » |
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According to my mother, she made every effort possible to make my right handed when I was a very young child, but I remained stubbornly a leftie. My father was a natural leftie whose parents had coerced him into using his right hand by stabbing his left hand with a fork or other pointy implement every time he used it.
Vienna
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Janus Zarate
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« Reply #19 on: September 20, 2009, 08:43:35 pm » |
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Your resistance makes you perfectly qualified to join our ranks. Welcome to the revolution, Vienna! |
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OswaldBastable
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« Reply #20 on: September 20, 2009, 09:42:25 pm » |
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According to my mother, she made every effort possible to make my right handed when I was a very young child, but I remained stubbornly a leftie. My father was a natural leftie whose parents had coerced him into using his right hand by stabbing his left hand with a fork or other pointy implement every time he used it.
Vienna
The left is strong in this one........ |
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Cpt. Tobias Warde
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« Reply #21 on: September 20, 2009, 11:33:23 pm » |
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<punches a Kalashnikov into the air, gripping in his left hand> For the REVOLUTION! ...wha'? Oh. We're a League, not a Revolution. Excuse me <tosses the AK into the corner> So! Whats our strategy for dominating the world with our genius? (on another note, left handers tend to have slightly faster reflexes than right handers, due to how the brain is wired up. Don't ask me for details as I don't have any  ) |
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 G-Man, Half-life 2, Episode 2:"There was a time when they cared nothing for Miss Vance, when their only experience of humanity was a crowbar coming at them down a steel corridor" |
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Janus Zarate
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« Reply #22 on: September 20, 2009, 11:51:55 pm » |
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It's rather complicated and still a work in progress, but here is the gist of it so far: First, we begin introducing prominent left-handed individuals into political offices. America is ahead of you on that one. Next, we begin subtly dismantling right-handed appliances and tools, forcing the uneducated right-handed to purchase and learn to operate left-handed products. Then, we gather up gorgeous left-handed women and use them as poster models for our civil rights campaign material... |
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von Corax
Squire of the Lambda Calculus
Board Moderator
Master Tinkerer
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Prof. Darwin Prætorius von Corax
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« Reply #23 on: September 21, 2009, 03:54:06 am » |
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I should think the League's first order of business should be to draw up a Charter, and a Bill of Lefts.
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By the power of caffeine do I set my mind in motion
By the Beans of Life do my thoughts acquire speed
My hands acquire a shaking
The shaking becomes a warning
By the power of caffeine do I set my mind in motion
The Leverkusen Institute of Paleocybernetics is 5838 km from Reading
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« Reply #24 on: September 21, 2009, 08:32:14 am » |
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I should think the League's first order of business should be to draw up a Charter, and a Bill of Lefts.
Quality idea old chap |
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