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From: tigershark7...@aol.com (John C.)
Newsgroups: rec.games.roguelike.adom
Date: 29 Dec 2002 19:47:37 GMT
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Subject: Re: Left-orium
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Andreas Grates wrote:
>
>Juho Julkunen wrote:
>> Andreas Grates (aCnHdArOeSas.Gra...@public.uni-hamburg.de) wrote...
>> 
>> 
>>>Some words to go: I'm quasi left-handed, for some tasks I can do better 
>>>with me left hand, especially ones, that take some strength of hand.
>> 
>> 
>> Yeah, people always forget about us. I'm mostly right-handed, but throw 
>> with the left hand. (Well, I tend to throw Frisbee with the right, for 
>> some reason.) I wear watch on my right wrist, and tend to pick knife and 
>> fork the wrong way around when not thinking about it. (Mannered, I am.)
>> 
>> What comes to marksmanship, shooting handguns is one thing I can do 
>> equally well with both hands. Might have something to do with me not 
>> having a dominant eye. (Until we were asked to check which eye was 
>> dominant in the army I didn't even know there was such a thing.)
>> 
>> JTJ
>
>You'd be amazed what kind of things you too might have: There's even 
>something like a 'dominant leg'! You automatically try to take off from 
>that one if attempting to jump. Try. You'd be amazed.
>There's a phrase for that in German: 'Schokoladenbein'. 

Chocolate leg? I'm going to assume that something was lost in the translation
here.

-John

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You are like totally dead man! 
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