R there any left-handers here...? other than me, of course
I'm a leftie... did u know that Aug 13th 2002 is Left Handers' Day. Left-handers are also called SouthPaws, esp. in sports like boxing.
A left-hander was supposed to be unlucky, awkward and clumsy!!!
Some even go to the extent of calling lefties "evil"
because
sinister is latin for
left!!!
But then this "clumsiness" is because most of the items in this world are made specifically for the right-handed man, right from scissors to doors(try opening hinged doors which open towards us with both hands individually, see with which hand it is easier to open... got it? The leftie has the door comin onto him, while the rightie has the door openin beside him!!!
)
But then as we all know, lefties do have a distinct advantage in sports, esp. the likes of cricket & boxing. Also a common belief suggests that left-handed people are more intelligent or creative than right-handed people and some studies have demonstrated a small positive correlation between left-handedness and creativity/intelligence.
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Author's note:
In my own honest opinion (no bad feeling righties, u r still the majority), a leftie is more intelligent (or to be frank, he grows more intelligent over time). 
Why?
Because he has to cope up with the challenge of facing a right-hand oriented world, using all right-handed items and then mastering them to equal the rightie. Thus a leftie's brain is worked upon more number of times than a rightie's, even minute things in life (say... the before-said jobs like using scissors, opening doors) have to be thought of and effectively utilized by the leftie... making his brain-cogs chuggin all the time... this leads to creativity. This could be why left-handedness is related to intelligence.
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There is a "visual simultaneous vs. linear sequential" theory according to which, right-handed people are thought to process information using a "linear sequential" method in which one thread must complete its processing before the next thread can be started; while Left-handed persons are thought to process information using a "visual simultaneous" method in which several threads can be processed simultaneously. Alternately, left-handed people have an excellent ability to
multi-task. (
So we are the Core-Duo processors, unlike our right-handed Single-Core brothers
) Perhaps the anecdotal evidence that suggests they are more creative stems from this ability to multi-task.
As well as possible intelligence advantages, being left-handed can also bring about other benefits, including:
*Brain hemisphere division of labor: The premise of this theory is that since both speaking and handiwork require fine motor skills, having one hemisphere of the brain do both would be more efficient than having it divided up. [citation needed]
*Advantage in hand-to-hand combat: Left-handers have a 'surprise' factor in combat, since the majority of the population is right-handed.
Psst: It is a common legend that most polar bears are left-handed.
Now lets look @
some famous left-handers:
US Presidents: Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush Sr., Bill Clinton
Benjamin Franklin, one of the Founding Fathers of the United States and a leading author, politician, printer, scientist, philosopher, publisher, inventor, civic activist, and diplomat.
Steve Forbes, the editor-in-chief of business magazine
Forbes as well as president and chief executive officer of its publisher, Forbes Inc.
Alexander the Great (does he need any intro)
Julius Caesar, Roman general
Napoléon Bonaparte, French emperor
Joan of Arc, French war heroine
Ramses II, Egyptian pharaoh
Queen Victoria, Prince Charles & Price William of England
Fidel Castro, Cuban leader
Henry Ford, automobile manufacturer
Helen Keller, advocate for the blind
TV Hosts; David Letterman &
Jay Leno
Authors; James Baldwin, Lewis Carroll,
Mark Twain, H.G. Wells
Musicians; Phil Collins, Jimi Hendrix, Paul McCartney & Ringo Starr of The Beatles, George Michaels, Joe Perry of Aerosmith, Robert Plant of Led Zepplin, Seal
Actors;
Amitabh Bachchan, Charlie Chaplin , Marilyn Monroe, Angelina Jolie, Julia Roberts, Slyvester Stallone, Bruce Willis, Tom Cruise, Nicole Kidman, Robert DeNiro, Keanu Reeves, Peter Fonda, Greta Garbo, Oprah Winfrey, Whoopie Goldberg, Cary Grant, Goldie Hawn, Tim Allen, Matthew Broderick & Kermit the Frog!!!
Sportspersons;
Pelé-Edson Arantes do Nascimento, Diego Armando
b, Alan Border, Gary Sobers, Saurav Ganguly,
Sachin Tendulkar(ambidexterous, writes with left-hand!!!), Mark Spitz, James "Gentleman Jim" Corbett, Oscar de la Hoya, F1 Ayrton
Senna, Valentino
Rossi, Jimmy Connors, John McEnroe, Goran Ivanesivic, Martina Navratilova(ambidexterous),
Monica Seles,
Nadal
Artists Michelangelo, Raphael &
Leonardo da Vinci !!!
Also listed
somewhere else:
Gandhi, Leo Tolstoy, Pablo Picasso, Bill Gates, singers
Eminem, 50 Cent,
Jay-Z, Natalie Imbruglia, Ricky Martin, Kelly Osbourne, P!nk, actors
Matt Dillon, David Duchovny (Mr.X-Files), Laurence Fishburne(Morpheus in The Matrix), Morgan Freeman(the God in Bruce Almighty, Kiss the Girls, War of the Worlds),
Scarlett Johansson(The Island, Lost in Translation, The Horse Whisperer, Home Alone 3),
Hugh Jackman(Wolverine of XMen, Van Helsing, Swordfish),
Milla Jovovich(model, actress, singer, The Fifth Element, The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc, Resident Evil, Resident Evil: Extinction, Ultraviolet), Julianne Moore(Assassins, Hannibal, The Hours, Evolution), Sarah Jessica Parker(HBO television series Sex and the City,Dudley Do-Right),
Denise Richards(Wild Things, The World Is Not Enough, Scary Movie 3 as real-life hubby Charlie Sheen's screen wife),
Rebecca Romijn Stamos(another model-cum-actress, Shape-shifter Mystique in XMen, Femme Fatale, The Punisher, Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me), Kurt Russell(Tango & Cash, Poseidon, Escape from LA & New York, Big Trouble in Little China), Ben Stiller & Owen Wilson(both acted in Night at the Museum, Meet the Fockers, Meet the Parents, Starsky & Hutch, Zoolander), Billy Zane (Kate Winslet's vile fiancé in Titanic, The Mummy), Chris Tucker(Rush Hour series, The Fifth Element), director
James Cameron(Terminator I & II, Aliens, Titanic, True Lies), scientist Neils Bohr, Marvel comics
Stan Lee, Mike Tyson(started left, later learnt right), chess player Gary Kasparov, tennis player
Rafael Nadal, cricketers
Wasim Akram, Curtly Ambrose, Chris Gayle,
Adam Gilchrist, Matthew Hayden, Inzamam-Ul-Haq,
Sanath Jayasuriya, Lance Klusener,
Brian Lara, Graeme Smith, Sir Gary Sobers, Mark Taylor, Yuvraj Singh,
wrestlers "HBK"
Shawn Michaels, John Cena, Kevin "Diesel" Nash, Viscera, Kool Carlito, William Regal, SandMan, Shane McMahon,
Torrie Wilson,
Sable.
Elsewhere online, I came to know that
Albert Einstein, Isaac Newton, Ludwig van Beethoven, Bob Dylan & Bobby Fisher were also lefties!!!
[BOLDed MY FAVOURITES] 
Those infamous are Jack-the-Ripper,serial killer and Osama Bin Laden,mega killer!!!
Now can anyone make a formidable right-handed list matchin the greatness of these exemplary men & women? From the looks of it, almost everyone famous were lefties!!! A list with just a few of them are equally worthy than the whole list of right-handers, take just Gandhi, Einstein, Da Vinci, Alexander, Napolean, Charlie Chaplin, AB, Bill Gates and they r definitely better than any list of super-men in the right-handed world! I'd vote on the fact that even a rightie will agree with me!
Note: This list I collected in no bad intention towards our brothers, the righties. Just a vague interest which arouse @ the end of the year. Anyone with doubts can just google for the <person name> with the term <left hand*> to verify the contents, which r 99% true. The 1% I leave to the above persons themselves in case they fell it to be untrue. Please don't take it to heart, righties. After all we r all of the same species. This is also in interest of pepping up some lefties who might have been mentally put down by the society. It is true that even today, in many societies (including India) the lefties are looked upon in a negative sense, which is degrading, considering that we r of the same mud God created.
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