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#121 | |
Fowl Administrator
Join Date: Dec 1999
Location: Calgary or Edmonton, Canada
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Didn't anyone catch the self-contradictory irony of my "God help us" quote above... oh well, sigh.
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#122 |
Half-Elven Princess of Rabbit Trails and Harp-Wielding Administrator (beware the Rubber Chicken of Doom!)
Join Date: Sep 2002
Location: Not where I want to be ...
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Yes, actually I did, but I was rather chary of commenting on it because I was afraid it would be taken in the wrong manner. Here is what I was going to post, but didn't, but now will:
God will probably be able to save a lot more of us if the religious right takes over! ![]() ![]() ![]()
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The Buckleberry Fairy/Captain
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: Washington State again (I miss Texas).
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Re: Italy. YES!!! Let's go right now!
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#124 |
Half-Elven Princess of Rabbit Trails and Harp-Wielding Administrator (beware the Rubber Chicken of Doom!)
Join Date: Sep 2002
Location: Not where I want to be ...
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Well, go "choate" that paper and we'll say "ciao" to California and Canada, and "buon giorno" to Italy!
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. I should be doing the laundry, but this is MUCH more fun! ![]() "How lovely are Thy dwelling places, O Lord of hosts! ... For a day in Thy courts is better than a thousand outside." (from Psalm 84) * * * God rocks! Entmoot : Veni, vidi, velcro - I came, I saw, I got hooked! Ego numquam pronunciare mendacium, sed ego sum homo indomitus! Run the earth and watch the sky ... Auta i lómë! Aurë entuluva! |
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#125 | |
The Insufferable
Join Date: Aug 2001
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![]() I just wonder if it would have been such a big deal if everyone knew that a 'cubit' is equal to two (hand) spans or six Handsbreadths. Measurements like that aren't exactly scientific.
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#126 |
The Buckleberry Fairy/Captain
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: Washington State again (I miss Texas).
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Something of interest for all of the Commanists, and Spellinazis out there: www.spellingpolice.com
I don't think they would cite message boards or web logs, do you?
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#127 |
Sapling
Join Date: Nov 2002
Posts: 13
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Surprisingly, I am very atune to spelling and grammar mistakes. I have to be, but I often don't practise what I preach. These mistakes don't bother me (even though I do have to correct them), as long as ebonics is not used. I find ebonics ridiculous, and ignorant.
Well, that is all!
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#128 | |
Fowl Administrator
Join Date: Dec 1999
Location: Calgary or Edmonton, Canada
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You know, I've been thinking that sometime or other, I'll learn to handwrite from scratch - with my left hand. I think that kind of thing can be trained, and that right/left-handedness isn't something you're born with. Besides, being ambidextrous will help my piano playing. ![]()
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#129 |
The Buckleberry Fairy/Captain
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: Washington State again (I miss Texas).
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I'm pretty good at writing with my left hand, but only mirror script. It's completely backward so if you hold it up to the mirror it reads forward. The only problem is that if I write like that for too long, the letters turn around in my brain and look forward, even though I'm writing them backward. Very scary.
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#130 |
Long lost mooter
Join Date: Apr 2002
Location: Florida
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I think handedness is a trait with which one is born, but one can teach oneself to use the other hand almost as well as the dominant hand, but only with a lot of practice. The books say you cannot tell if a child is left- or right-handed until they're about 2, but I could tell much earlier which hand each of my sons would use.
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#131 |
I Antha
Join Date: Sep 2002
Location: You expect ME to know?
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I agree with Azalea. My Grandfather was left handed but when he joined the army they made him learn to be right handed for his mission. Next summer I am going to try and teach myself how to right with my left hand.
I make a lot of mistakes when typing but i try not to and fix them if I catch them.
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#132 |
Sapling
Join Date: Nov 2002
Posts: 13
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Actually, being right or left handed shows which side of your brain you use more. If your right handed, you use your left side of the brain, if your left handed you use right side of the brain.
Left side: Logic, math, motor skills, and the like Right side: Creativity, Imagination, musical skills, and the like. ![]()
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Where are we going, From where we have been? How will we get there? And do you know when? Paths that are travelled And paths that are sought. Great expectations, Are sometimes for nought. Goals that we set, And prices are paid. Love that may flower, And flowers that fade. It seems to me sometimes, That sought after things. Are sometimes best left As matters for dreams |
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Domesticated Swing Babe
Join Date: May 2002
Location: Reality
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If you listen on the phone with your right ear, are you right earred? I try to change these things from time to time, trying to keep Oldtimers disease at bay! Gotta keep opening up new neural pathways!
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#134 |
Slacker
Warrior Admin Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: Alabama
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So if the left side of the brain controls the right side of the body, and the right side of the brain controls the left side of the body, left handed people are the only people in their right mind.
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The Chocoholic Sea Elf Administrator
Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: N?n in Eilph (Belgium)
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Wasn't being left-handed a sign of the devil a few centuries back?
note: My sister is left-handed. ![]()
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#136 |
Domesticated Swing Babe
Join Date: May 2002
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note: my son is left handed!
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#137 | |
the Shrike
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: San Francisco, CA <3
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#138 |
Empress of the Writewraiths
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Running around somewhere inside my head. So what are YOU doing here?!
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Note: I am left-handed.
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#139 | |
The Chocoholic Sea Elf Administrator
Join Date: Jan 2002
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#140 |
Empress of the Writewraiths
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Running around somewhere inside my head. So what are YOU doing here?!
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Is there a lefty thread somewhere? If not, then there should be.
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