Monday, August 13, 2007

HAPPY LEFT-HANDER'S DAY!

Left hand holding digital organizer (© Pete Pacifica/Getty Images)

Aug. 13 is Left-Handers' Day. Lefties deserve a special day. After all, history hasn't been kind to them; we're all familiar with the strong association between the left and very bad things, such as, say … Satan.

Not that long ago, many young lefties schooled under stern nuns were forced to write with their right hands or their knuckles would pay the price.
A Web search for other anti-left myths and behaviors bears much fruit:

The word "sinister"is derived from a Latin word that means "left."

A left-handed toast amounts to a curse, not a well-wish.

In some cultures, eating with the left hand is impolite.

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