# Happy International Left-Handers Day
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-international-left-handers-day/194974
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [August 13, 2003, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-international-left-handers-day/194974 "2003-08-13T18:41:04Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@DogMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DogMom)
#### Post date: [August 13, 2003, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-international-left-handers-day/194974/1 "2003-08-13T18:41:04Z")
From a Leftie to all you other Lefties out there!
Happy [international Left-Handers Day](http://www.left-handersday.com/)
[Sousa]
Be kind to your left-handed friends…
[/Sousa]
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### Author:  [@auntnut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/auntnut)
#### Post date: [August 13, 2003, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-international-left-handers-day/194974/2 "2003-08-13T18:51:28Z")
Me too!!!
As one of MANY lefties on this board (there’s a bunch of us here) I will raise my “right” hand (the left one, of course!) and stand and be counted…
2…
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### Author:  [@CuriousCanuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CuriousCanuck)
#### Post date: [August 13, 2003, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-international-left-handers-day/194974/3 "2003-08-13T19:05:41Z")
3!
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### Author:  [@Second\_Star\_to\_the\_Right](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Second_Star_to_the_Right)
#### Post date: [August 13, 2003, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-international-left-handers-day/194974/4 "2003-08-13T19:15:41Z")
4 🙂
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### Author:  [@romansperson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/romansperson)
#### Post date: [August 13, 2003, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-international-left-handers-day/194974/5 "2003-08-13T19:29:39Z")
Yay us!
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### Author:  [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)
#### Post date: [August 13, 2003, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-international-left-handers-day/194974/6 "2003-08-13T19:56:17Z")
6! (counting **romansperson** as 5)
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### Author:  [@Sister\_Vigilante](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sister_Vigilante)
#### Post date: [August 13, 2003, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-international-left-handers-day/194974/7 "2003-08-13T20:21:50Z")
7 🙂
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### Author:  [@Palikia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Palikia)
#### Post date: [August 13, 2003, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-international-left-handers-day/194974/8 "2003-08-13T20:26:22Z")
7!
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### Author:  [@Palikia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Palikia)
#### Post date: [August 13, 2003, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-international-left-handers-day/194974/9 "2003-08-13T20:29:47Z")
Ok, Jean Grey can be 7. I’ll be 8!
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### Author:  [@sirtonyh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sirtonyh)
#### Post date: [August 13, 2003, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-international-left-handers-day/194974/10 "2003-08-13T20:34:11Z")
9!
All the smartest people in the world are left handed, so I’m reliabilty informed
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### Author:  [@Draelin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Draelin)
#### Post date: [August 13, 2003, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-international-left-handers-day/194974/11 "2003-08-13T20:35:55Z")
That makes me 9! Woo hoo!
And as a tribute, let us have a moment of silence for the roughly _two thousand_ lefties a year who are _killed_ using products made for those in their left minds. You ever seen a left-handed chainsaw?
So, in the name of school desks that go all the way across your lap, scissors that can cut more than dirt, and electric can openers, Happy Lefties’ Day!!!
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### Author:  [@Draelin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Draelin)
#### Post date: [August 13, 2003, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-international-left-handers-day/194974/12 "2003-08-13T20:38:20Z")
Damn! Make that 10. 🙂
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### Author:  [@Lwaxana](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lwaxana)
#### Post date: [August 13, 2003, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-international-left-handers-day/194974/13 "2003-08-13T21:09:04Z")
12!!!
Sadly when I was a kid my 3ed grade teacher told my gram and pap that because I was left handed I must be mildly retarded. What a pisher!!!:rolleyes:
but it would explain a few things if it were true…
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### Author:  [@gotpasswords](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gotpasswords)
#### Post date: [August 13, 2003, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-international-left-handers-day/194974/14 "2003-08-13T21:58:13Z")
I can’t do math too well with a fever, so hopefully someone else is keeping track and knows what number to assign to me.
How many of us lefties can’t use left-handed scissors?
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### Author:  [@Atreyu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atreyu)
#### Post date: [August 13, 2003, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-international-left-handers-day/194974/15 "2003-08-13T22:56:15Z")
14!
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### Author:  [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)
#### Post date: [August 13, 2003, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-international-left-handers-day/194974/16 "2003-08-13T22:57:19Z")
erm 14?
I can’t use ‘formed’ scissors or left handed scissors.
I know a lot of lefties still mouse with their right hands. I don’t.
I am a nuisance at work - moving the mouse to the other side. I am also colour-blind, so I have to have one of our monitors set on red only (red full, green and blue 0) otherwise I can’t tell the difference between certain things)
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### Author:  [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)
#### Post date: [August 13, 2003, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-international-left-handers-day/194974/17 "2003-08-13T22:58:29Z")
Nope. 15 dammit.
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### Author:  [@chattywine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chattywine)
#### Post date: [August 13, 2003, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-international-left-handers-day/194974/18 "2003-08-13T22:58:40Z")
14 🙂
Can’t use lefty scissors either. Can’t dial the phone or open combination locks w/ LH either, well I physically can, just can’t remember the number/combo.
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### Author:  [@chattywine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chattywine)
#### Post date: [August 13, 2003, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-international-left-handers-day/194974/19 "2003-08-13T23:00:29Z")
fine, 16!
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### Author:  [@photopat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/photopat)
#### Post date: [August 13, 2003, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-international-left-handers-day/194974/20 "2003-08-13T23:09:24Z")
17 here. I must not have gotten the newsletter this week. See you all at the meeting next week. Remember the password is _sinistral_.
I’ve got lefty scissors that I bought 8 years ago. They’re great. I specifically marked them so none of the righties at work would use them and complain. Also left footed and left eye dominant.
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