Being Left Handed
One out of every ten people walking down the street is left-handed. Everywhere they go, left-handed people come across tools that were designed for right handed persons.
From scissors to camcorders to screw drivers to hockey sticks to baseball gloves, lefties learn early on that they need to develop skills to live in a world designed for right handed people.
If you are a right-handed person, try this experiment sometime: Grab a scissors with your left hand and try cutting a piece of paper. Don't be surprised if the experience feels extremely awkward.
Thankfully, there are companies that make left-handed scissors, left handed camcorders, and other left-handed tools. But often times left-handed persons find themselves in a situation where they have no choice but to use something designed for right-handed persons.
In ages past, society was not sympathetic to left-handed persons. Young students who preferred using their left hand to write were punished for doing so. Some of these students eventually learned to write with their right hand, but only after enormous effort.
These days parents and teachers are far more accepting and understanding. In almost every school in the world, students who are left handed are allowed to continue using their left hand to write.
Medical researchers have searched long and hard for what causes people to be left handed or right handed. The researchers have concluded that left handed people are left handed for the same reason as brown eyed people have brown eyes. It's just one of those things that shows up in one out of every ten people.
A really interesting question is whether there is any connection between left handed people and creative genius. Some of history's most creative minds have been left-handed.
In the category of art, both Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo were left handed. In the category of music, Ludwig van Beethoven was left handed. In the field of science and invention, you find Benjamin Franklin, Isaac Newton, and Albert Einstein. In the field of motion pictures, Charlie Chaplin.
Bobby Fisher, the modern chess genius, is left handed. So too musical geniuses Bob Dylan, Paul McCartney, and Wynton Marsalis.
Each of the these persons had a mind so exceptional as to be head and shoulders above anyone else in their field. So even though it may be more difficult for a left handed person to live in a right handed world, lefties can know that they are in good company. Beethoven and Einstein had it tough, too.
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Famous Left-handed People
Don Adams, actor/secret agent
Eddie Albert, city farmer
Buzz Aldrin, astronaut
Alexander the Great, mega-man
Kristian Alfonso
Tim Allen, comedian/handyman
June Allyson, actress
Earl Anthony, pro bowler
Dan Ayckroyd, conehead
Carl Phillipp Emmanuel Bach, composer
Sir Robert Baden-Powell, Boy Scouts founder
F. Lee Bailey, legal eagle
Ellen Barkin, actress
Dave Barry, humorist
Kim Basinger, actress
Jason Bateman, actor
Peter Berg, actor
Yogi Berra, baseball star/linguist
Larry Bird, basketball star
Robert Blake, actor/Little Rascal
Wade Boggs, baseball star
Napolean Bonaparte, short mega-man
Barry Bonds, baseball star
David Bowie, Ziggy Stardust
Bruce Boxleitner, actor
Bill Bradley, intelligent basketball star
George Brett, baseball star
Lou Brock, baseball star
Matthew Broderick, actor
Carol Burnett, actress/comedienne
George Burns, actor/cigar smoker
George Bush, president
Ruth Buzzi, actress
David Byrne, talking head
Sid Caesar, comedian
Bruce Campbell, actor
Milt Caniff, cartoonist
Rod Carew, baseball star
Jim Carrey, actor/comedian/pet doctor
Lewis Carroll, author
Fidel Castro, cigar smoker
Charlie Chaplin, tramp
Emperor Charlemagne, mega-man
Bill Clinton, ?
Kurt Cobain, now in Nirvana
Ty Cobb, baseball star
Natalie Cole, singer
Phil Collins, musician
Jimmy Connors, tennis star
Tom Cruise, actor
Billy Ray Cyrus, achey-breaky-flunky
Wilson Cruz, actor
Leonardo daVinci, renaissance man
Clarence Darrow, legal eagle
Robert DeNiro, actor
Dustin Diamond, actor
John Dillinger, bad guy
Matt Dillon, actor (not the sheriff)
Celine Dion, musician
Bob Dole, loan shark
Richard Dreyfuss, actor
David Duchovny, actor
Keith Duffy, musician (Boyzone)
Lenny Dykstra, baseball star
Bob Dylan, musician
Albert Einstein, genius
Ethan Embry-Randall, actor
Phil Esposito, hockey star
Don Everly, Phil's brother
Phil Everly, Don's brother
W.C. Fields, comedian/cigar smoker
Laurence Fishburne, actor
Peter Fonda, actor
Gerald Ford, president (USA Co.)
Henry Ford, president (Ford Motor Co.)
Benjamin Franklin, statesman/electrician
Morgan Freeman, actor
Glenn Frey, musician
Greta Garbo, actress
James Garfield, president
Judy Garland, actress
Errol Garner, jazz pianist
Bill Gates, owns your browser?
Crystal Gayle, singer
Lou Gehrig, baseball star
King George VI of England, king
Ruth Bader Ginsburg, supreme court justice
Paul Michael Glaser, Starsky (or was it Hutch?)
Whoopi Goldberg, actress
Cary Grant, actor
Peter Graves, Mr. Phelps
Ken Griffey, Jr., baseball star
Matt Groening, Bart Simpson
Lefty Grove, baseball star
Devon Gummersall, actor
Cathy Guisewite, cartoonist ("Cathy")
Marvin Hagler, boxer
Dorothy Hamill, skater
Mark Hamill, actor/skywalker
Taylor Hanson, musician (Hanson)
Zachary Hanson, musician (Hanson)
Bob Hare, educator at SJS
Woody Harrelson, actor
Rex Harrison, actor
Goldie Hawn, actress
Isaac Hayes, musician
Tippi Hedren, actress
Jimi Hendrix, guitarist supreme
Ben Hogan, golf star
Herbert Hoover, president
Rock Hudson, actor
Dan Inouye, senator
Joshua Jackson, actor
Kate Jackson, Charlie's Angel
Reggie Jackson, baseball star
Bruce Jenner, olympic athlete
Shirley Jones, Momma Partridge
Immanuel Kant, heavy thinker
Gabe Kaplan, actor
Danny Kaye, actor
Diane Keaton, actress
Caroline Kennedy, daughter
George Kennedy, actor
Nicole Kidman, actress
Val Kilmer, actor
Albert King, blues guitarist
Ted Koppel, newsguy
Sandy Koufax, baseball star
Lisa Kudrow, actress
Michael Landon, Little Joe
Hope Lange, actress
Tommy Lasorda, baseball manager
Rod Laver, tennis star
Peter Lawford, actor
Cloris Leachman, actor
Jay Leno, comedian
Cleavon Little, actor
Christopher Lloyd, Jim Ignatowski
Kenny Lofton, baseball star
Greg Louganis, olympic athlete
King Louis XVI of France, king
Shirley MacLaine, psychic
Melissa Manchester, singer
Howie Mandel, comedian
Chuck Mangione, musician
Marcel Marceau, {; - |}
Mary Stuart Masterson
Wink Martindale, game show host
Harpo Marx, harpist
Marsha Mason, actress
Don Mattingly, baseball star
Bill Mauldin, cartoonist
Andrew McCarthy
Paul McCartney, musician
John McEnroe, tennis star
Robert S. McNamara, statesman
Kristy McNichol, actress
Steve McQueen, macho actor
Michaelangelo, renaissance man
George Michael, singer
James Michener, author
Demi Moore, Bruce's wife
Julia Moore, actress
Marilyn Monroe, actress
Rick Moranis, comedian/actor
William R. Moses
Edward R. Murrow, newsguy
Stan Musial, baseball star
Martina Navratilova, tennis star
LeRoy Neiman, artist
Kim Novak, actress
Ryan O'Neal, actor
Peter Nero, conductor
Ed O'Neal, actor
Mel Ott, baseball star
Gary Owens, Laugh-In
Estelle Parsons, actress
Pele, soccer guy
Ron Perlman, actor
Anthony Perkins, actor
H. Ross Perot, financial wizard
Luke Perry, actor
Pablo Picasso, artist
Joe Piscopo, comedian
Brad Pitt, actor
Robert Plant, singer
Michael J. Pollard, actor
Cole Porter, composer
Paul Prudhomme, chef
Richard Pryor, comedian
Dennis Quaid, Randy's actor brother
Randy Quaid, Dennis' actor brother
Anne Ramsay, actor
Maurice Ravel, composer
Lou Rawls, singer
Robert Redford, actor
Ronald Reagan, the Gipper
Timothy Reed, actor
Keanu Reeves, actor
Don Rickles, comedian
Julia Roberts, actress
Pat Robertson, evangelist/actor/politician
Mickey Rourke, actor
Babe Ruth, baseball star/beer drinker
Christie Sager, dancer/basketball star
Eva Marie Saint, actress
Scott Saftler, Sultan of Select
Deion Sanders, football star
Gayle Sayers, football star
Telly Savalas, Kojak
Wally Schirra, astronaut
Albert Schweitzer, humanitarian
Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf, general
Vin Scully, sports announcer
Richard Simmons, buns of silicone
Paul Simon, musician
Jerry Seinfeld, comedian
Christian Slater, actor
Dick Smothers, comedian
Warren Spahn, baseball star
Brent Spiner, Data
Mark Spitz, olympic athlete
Ringo Starr, musician
Casey Stengel, baseball manager
Fisher Stevens
Darryl Strawberry, baseball star
Greg Swindell, baseball star
Roscoe Tanner, tennis star
Terry-Thomas, actor
Alan Thicke, actor
Tiny Tim, musician
Rip Torn, actor
Rachel True, actress
Harry Truman, president
Mark Twain, author
Peter Ustinov, actor
Brenda Vaccaro, actress
Karen Valentine, actress
Fernando Valenzuela, baseball star
Rudy Vallee, crooner
Dick VanDyke, Rob Petry
Bill Walton, basketball commentator
Wil Wheaton, actor
Paul Williams, songwriter
Treat Williams, actor
Bruce Willis, actor
Oprah Winfrey, talk show hostess
Scott Wolf, actor
Joanne Woodward, actress
Joel Wyner, actor
Keenan Wynn, actor
Steve Young, football star
Ian Ziering, actor
A lot of very talented people are left handed.
LOL!!
Also, I always am forced to sit on the outside of the booth when we go to dinner. 
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