# Poll: When was the last time you raised an eyebrow? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [November 2, 2004, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-when-was-the-last-time-you-raised-an-eyebrow/272588 "2004-11-02T19:00:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Terrorcotta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/dbc845/32.png) [@Terrorcotta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terrorcotta)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2004, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-when-was-the-last-time-you-raised-an-eyebrow/272588/21 "2004-11-03T13:24:10Z")
I am left-browed but right-handed. Sadly, I raise my brow all the time where I work. Just a few minutes ago as a matter of fact because a sales rep had written in an ad form that they wanted "A Real Broked Spring’ pictured in the ad. ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2004, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-when-was-the-last-time-you-raised-an-eyebrow/272588/22 "2004-11-03T14:42:51Z")
> [@lieu](#): > > Mens Room > > Left Eyebrow > > Right-handed And nobody asked why? Oh, wait, it’s **lieu**. (This is literally the thought process that went through my mind, along with the phrase _prehensile rectum_.) ---
**Author:** ![cornflakes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9d8465/32.png) [@cornflakes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cornflakes)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2004, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-when-was-the-last-time-you-raised-an-eyebrow/272588/23 "2004-11-03T23:20:14Z")
Well, I probably raised a few when I got caught outside doing kinky sex in the Rockies and… oh, sorry. I raise my left eyebrow sometimes when I hear or read something suspicious. The last time was probably fifteen minutes ago, or so. I’m right handed, FWIW. ---
**Author:** ![GillianBoardman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bc79bd/32.png) [@GillianBoardman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GillianBoardman)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2004, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-when-was-the-last-time-you-raised-an-eyebrow/272588/24 "2004-11-04T00:24:13Z")
I also raised my right eyebrow when I read the thread title…I just couldn’t help it. I do it several times a day, and tought myself to do it back in elementary school because I was fascinated by another student who could do it. I’m right handed, I don’t think I tried to teach myself to use the left. ---
**Author:** ![pasunejen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/58956e/32.png) [@pasunejen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pasunejen)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2004, 5:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-when-was-the-last-time-you-raised-an-eyebrow/272588/25 "2004-11-04T05:10:10Z")
Well, I raised my eyebrow(s) as I read the OP, to figure out what felt most natural. But excluding that…about an hour ago, when my boyfriend claimed to possess a pure and innocent mind. Upon introspection, I discovered that I raise either my right eyebrow or both at once. Handedness data for me is useless, as I write with my left hand but do everything else with my right (but am not ambidextrous for any task). ---
**Author:** ![Marsie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/34f0e0/32.png) [@Marsie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marsie)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2004, 7:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-when-was-the-last-time-you-raised-an-eyebrow/272588/26 "2004-11-04T07:10:13Z")
I raised my left eyebrow today. Here’s why: I took a short ride around our local cemetery and noticed that several graves were decorated with Halloween decorations. Not just seasonal flowers/pumpkins/gourds, but ghosts! The sight of cartoonish ghosts on posts sticking out of graves was quite a sight. I can understand grief-stricken people wanting to leave a “little something” to decorate a grave…but, ghosts??? Very creepy… ---
**Author:** ![jellyblue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e480ec/32.png) [@jellyblue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jellyblue)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2004, 8:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-when-was-the-last-time-you-raised-an-eyebrow/272588/27 "2004-11-04T08:17:17Z")
I raise mine all the time. I consider it a clinical tool that comes quite in handy when, say, someone doesn’t think that a quart of vodka a night and 4 DUI’s constitutes a drinking problem (_cue eyebrow_). My ex really envied this particular skill 🙂 . I raise the left, only. I’m righthanded. ---
**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2004, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-when-was-the-last-time-you-raised-an-eyebrow/272588/28 "2004-11-04T19:24:51Z")
I’ve got an eyebrow I raised up from a lash. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tellmei_mnotcrazy/32/3419_2.png) [@TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TellMeI_mNotCrazy)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2004, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-when-was-the-last-time-you-raised-an-eyebrow/272588/29 "2004-11-04T20:03:22Z")
> [@Miabella](#): > > I can raise my left eyebrow but not my right. I am right handed. Ditto. And I do it frequently. ---
**Author:** ![Podkayne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/edb3f5/32.png) [@Podkayne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Podkayne)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2004, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-when-was-the-last-time-you-raised-an-eyebrow/272588/30 "2004-11-04T20:28:42Z")
I can’t actually raise my eyebrow, but I do it all the time . . . _in my mind_! It was a bit embarassing finding out that I couldn’t do it. When I was in high school, I practiced for a long in front of a mirror and taught myself how to do it. Then years later in college, I was chatting with a friend who is a master-eyebrow-lofter, and told her “Well, I raised an eyebrow at _that_, let me tell you . . .” She said, “You can actually raise your eyebrow?” “Sure,” I said. “See?” “See what?” And naturally, she lifted her eyebrow at that. “See? Lifting one eyebrow. Ta-da!” “Um, sorry to tell you this, Pod, but you’re not doing it.” “_What_?” “You’re just raising them both halfway.” I ran off to a mirror, and indeed, when I _thought_ I was raising one eyebrow, both of them were going up. I haven’t been able to retrain myself to raise just one, but I’m still in the habit of doing what to me feels like I’m raising one eyebrow. It’s the left one that I _think_ I’m lifting, in case it makes any difference whatsoever, and I’m right handed. ---
**Author:** ![JohnBckWLD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d6d6ee/32.png) [@JohnBckWLD](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnBckWLD)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2004, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-when-was-the-last-time-you-raised-an-eyebrow/272588/31 "2004-11-04T20:29:29Z")
When: A few seconds ago (Presumably a lot more recently than John Kerry has been able to): Reading a thread & review about the BBC2 series ‘The Power of Nightmares’ _Why_: I felt like doing a mystified vulcan impersonation Which: Left R/L: Righty - But being a product of the late 60’s, my Mom broke me of my left handedness the moment I picked up a ball or pencil with the wrong hand. She was worried I would be called a communist. ---
**Author:** ![FilmGeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b19c9b/32.png) [@FilmGeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FilmGeek)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2004, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-when-was-the-last-time-you-raised-an-eyebrow/272588/32 "2004-11-04T21:57:11Z")
I can’t raise my eyebrows independently. No one in my family can. I thought one eyebrow raisers were the odd ones, until I met Ardred. Seems most everyone he knows can. He can too. He likes to do it to make me mad. :mad: [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-when-was-the-last-time-you-raised-an-eyebrow/272588.md?page=1)