How many left handed people on the board?

[Peacedog]

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[Ron Panunto]

I was at recent military conference for people in the international affairs arena and about half the people there were left handed.
So that got me to thinking, how many people here are left handed?
Peacedog

All throughout history left handed people were considered dishonest and untrustworthy. The word "sinister" comes from the Latin for left-handed. People greet each other by shaking with their right hands. This gesture showed that your strong (weapon) hand was open and contained no weapons. The Chinese have a similar salute, except that instead of shaking open hands, they cover their right fist (weapon) with their left hand to show the other person that they won't punch them. The problem with left-handed people is that when they follow this universal convention, their strong weapon hand has not been nullified by the greeting ritual, but rather is still available to strike the other person at will. You usually see this when your left-handed "friend" shakes your hand with his right and then stabs you in the gut with a knife he was expertly wielding with his dominant left hand.

Lefty's must repent for their past transgressions (actually, my sister was the only lefty in an otherwise normal family).

[Ron Panunto]

One other thought. Since all the Chinese MA forms are right handed (including all the weapons forms), it is obvious that the great masters of the past had little time for lefty's either.

[nianfong]

http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Which_Preside ... eft-handed
9 of 44 US presidents were left-handed. these include Ford, Reagan, Bush sr, clinton, and obama.
interesting, no?

[Steve James]

Some famous martial lefties:

Alexander the Great
Charlemagne
Julius Caesar
Napoléon Bonaparte
Queen Victoria
King George II ...
King George VI of England
Prince Charles of England
Prince William of England
Fidel Castro, Cuban leader

oh, does Ben Franklin count?