Chatterbox: Chirp at Cricket

Letfys rule!

As you all may or may not know, I, Joe Dosie Doe, am part of the ten percent of the population who is left-handed. I know Charlie (a girl) is also a lefty. This thread is for discussing famous left-handed people and the advantages (and disadvantages) of being a southpaw. I now own The Natural Superiority of the Left-Hander by James T. Dekay, which is a great book that weighs the data to discover why there are leftys, if leftys are better than rightys, and leftys who have changed our world for the better.

In L. Frank Baum's The Patchwork Girl of Oz, the Munchkin boy Ojo the Unlucky tells the Tin Woodman that he is left-handed, and it is one of the reasons why he is "unlucky". The Tin Woodman replies, sensibly, that, "Many of our greatest men are that way. To be left-handed is usually to be two-handed; the right-handed people are usually one-handed."

Famous Left-handers:

1. Judy Garland, actress, famous for her role as Dorothy Gale in The Wizard of Oz

2. Barack Obama

3. L. Frank Baum (the man who wrote the above qoute)

4. Leonardo da Vinci

5. Peter Benchly, novelist and writer of the novel Jaws

6. H.G. Wells, who wrote many sci-fi novels such as The Invisible Man and The Time Machine 

7. Jim Henson, legendary creator of the Muppets

8. Many more!

So are leftys better than rightys? I believe yes.

Opinions? Other left-handers? Speak up! We do indeed rule!

Many lefties I know are also really smart. It's something about their brains. (I'm not one of them.)

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