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geodeticman · 06-04-2006, 04:48 AM

Jessie-Joe, I am still submitting the following answer to the "sound" Gord tried to make on "Ghosts of Cape Horn", despie as I see today,
the answer got posted by Suzi (hats off ma'aam) in between me writing the following, putting my laptop on hibernate with the draft in pre-submit status. I then re-started windows as was, and it went right to my posting I never sent. I then accidently hit submit versus preview-post, and wound up in a vaporous mirror-in-a-mirror problem and it defies logic if this makes it in. JJ I wrote this long blah-blah to brighten your day as a bit of humour, hope you like it. Since old-time scriveners used to get paid by the word (hmm I wish they still did...), I will say the following superfluous two words as they did:
to wit:

J-Joe, I recall on that taping Gord saying he was trying to sound like a "Tin Whistle", and asked the audience' forgiveness in his common self-deprecating fashion of humility, as in he thought his whistling was less than accurate-sounding. Worked for me !

The subject of left-handed-ness as you mention JJ ,and ambiguities of hand dominance thereto came up interestingly in a thread on another matter recently. Since I am a south-paw, too, I offer the following for humour only, and wish to offend no-one.

You sound as though your left-handedness is similar to mine. I golf RIGHT-handed, but in baseball - get this - I THROW and CATCH lefty, but... BAT righthanded.

Further muddling this odd hemispherical brain oddity (all my life), that is too say left and right hemisphere of the brain that I understand controls these issues of left and right-handedness, is the fact that although as said I THROW a baseball lefty, I throw a FOOTBALL righty. Go figure.

I like to think I am parallel processing ! LOL , I wish. I got a bad feeling I am wired in series and am waiting for all autonomic controls to be determined by my brain one-by-one until I am free to... think... or some reasonable facsimile therof LOL.

JJ did you know that southpaw , or left-handedness, has some rather odd superstitious origins. Rather than blathering on with a treatise of this ( which I only know orts of..) I have heard simply that it it harkens back to biblical matters including the "right hand of God" [ don't worry folks.. this is not religious, only historical interest I hope..

].

Having read this pearl in history books, it seems that ancient peoples thought of the right hand as ..devine..?...leaving us poor southpaws to be by default.. heathen it was said.., or dastardly, or some such hilarity, with further superstitious origins that support this flotsam of wisdom.

And what of ambidextrous people, as in folks like you and I J-Joe, who use both hands. I rekin' we got it covered both ways, comin' and goin' LOL

You figure ? I like to think my brain is a "Hemi" for the diagonal corrolation that they say exists between the right side of brain controlling the left side of body, etc, and so forth, and of the unique matters that the different sides of the brain handle ( you know, one side reason, logic, math, pragmatic behaviour etc., and the other being... Liberal [ j/k really ] no really , other side being art, philosophy, creative thought, music, South Park, and probably the loquacious quackery of my ramblings....

.

Actually J-Joe, I figure you and me, being ambidextrous as it sounds like you are too.. must need to get our tires rotated in diagonal versus straight back LOL. Or, we are neither heathen nor devine (j/k) , and can't blame our being left-handed for off-behaviour as these ancient people did. Maybe..... maybe... we have to be responsible for our own behavior.. oh no ! LOL

I figure if they ever do brain surgery on me, being the map-maker and all that I am , they will op0en up my hopefully reasonably full bean and see a big "X" marks the spot.. . Its been said X "never marks the spot". If not, then what mon-ami ? Are we ambidextrous doomed to never vote in primaries for lack of favouring left or right ( politics only joking) ?

Or are we blessed with open-mindedness, are you and I the great peacemakers, the mediators ? naaaah, you and I cause too much trouble by accident I think ( J/K J-Joe

) as in tilt us too far too one side too far and all our brilliant ex-cogitations will spill out on the floor, leaving us centrists, or at "zero" on the integer scale. LOL
I think we got it made J-Joe, since you, me, and my dear departed father are, or were ambidextrous. He could write on a chalkboard in college while professing and pipe-smoking with both hands simultaneously, driving students limited sadly to their left or right hemispheres to try and keep up..true story 'bout my Dad !

We therefor are maybe the chosen ones to sit on a couple stumps and dispense wisdom and widely-cited exhortations quoted round the world... LOL

, and be hailed as the new illuminati or cognoscenti. At least be able to give anyone either the evil eye, or the comforting nod of approval that only we.. the benevolent despots, can bestow.

And all for not being completely left or right handed. Such a deal ! nod, while we humbly smile inwardly and know the answers that ....someday.... we will dispence on the minions at an assimilable rate for their poor assymmetrical brains. You rekin' Jessi ? I am on ly kidding my friend.... just letting you get to know my hyperbolically-warped sense of humour..

.

Oh - and as to the already astutely-answered gun-shots Q, my response would have been that of John Wayne, who remember we are admonished to watch movies of lest we forget the plains in Gord's "Drink Your Glasses Empty" on WFY : "In that 6-shooter, Pilgrim, you'd better put five bullets in, and let the hammer rest on an empty chamber for safety.. because if can't get the job done with 5 bullets, you'd better get the he** out, Pilgrim..." LOL what a great Icon that old curmudgeon was. OK J-Joe, my head is spinning now too. Thanks for the fun quiz questions. I hope I get the cigar, or the tomato on the Cape Horn whistling thing Q ...

LOL
- geo Steve

[ June 04, 2006, 05:39: Message edited by: geodeticman ]

06-04-2006, 04:48 AM	#56
geodeticman Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Colorado Rockies- Rampart Range Posts: 261	Jessie-Joe, I am still submitting the following answer to the "sound" Gord tried to make on "Ghosts of Cape Horn", despie as I see today, the answer got posted by Suzi (hats off ma'aam) in between me writing the following, putting my laptop on hibernate with the draft in pre-submit status. I then re-started windows as was, and it went right to my posting I never sent. I then accidently hit submit versus preview-post, and wound up in a vaporous mirror-in-a-mirror problem and it defies logic if this makes it in. JJ I wrote this long blah-blah to brighten your day as a bit of humour, hope you like it. Since old-time scriveners used to get paid by the word (hmm I wish they still did...), I will say the following superfluous two words as they did: to wit: J-Joe, I recall on that taping Gord saying he was trying to sound like a "Tin Whistle", and asked the audience' forgiveness in his common self-deprecating fashion of humility, as in he thought his whistling was less than accurate-sounding. Worked for me ! The subject of left-handed-ness as you mention JJ ,and ambiguities of hand dominance thereto came up interestingly in a thread on another matter recently. Since I am a south-paw, too, I offer the following for humour only, and wish to offend no-one. You sound as though your left-handedness is similar to mine. I golf RIGHT-handed, but in baseball - get this - I THROW and CATCH lefty, but... BAT righthanded. Further muddling this odd hemispherical brain oddity (all my life), that is too say left and right hemisphere of the brain that I understand controls these issues of left and right-handedness, is the fact that although as said I THROW a baseball lefty, I throw a FOOTBALL righty. Go figure. I like to think I am parallel processing ! LOL , I wish. I got a bad feeling I am wired in series and am waiting for all autonomic controls to be determined by my brain one-by-one until I am free to... think... or some reasonable facsimile therof LOL. JJ did you know that southpaw , or left-handedness, has some rather odd superstitious origins. Rather than blathering on with a treatise of this ( which I only know orts of..) I have heard simply that it it harkens back to biblical matters including the "right hand of God" [ don't worry folks.. this is not religious, only historical interest I hope.. ]. Having read this pearl in history books, it seems that ancient peoples thought of the right hand as ..devine..?...leaving us poor southpaws to be by default.. heathen it was said.., or dastardly, or some such hilarity, with further superstitious origins that support this flotsam of wisdom. And what of ambidextrous people, as in folks like you and I J-Joe, who use both hands. I rekin' we got it covered both ways, comin' and goin' LOL You figure ? I like to think my brain is a "Hemi" for the diagonal corrolation that they say exists between the right side of brain controlling the left side of body, etc, and so forth, and of the unique matters that the different sides of the brain handle ( you know, one side reason, logic, math, pragmatic behaviour etc., and the other being... Liberal [ j/k really ] no really , other side being art, philosophy, creative thought, music, South Park, and probably the loquacious quackery of my ramblings.... . Actually J-Joe, I figure you and me, being ambidextrous as it sounds like you are too.. must need to get our tires rotated in diagonal versus straight back LOL. Or, we are neither heathen nor devine (j/k) , and can't blame our being left-handed for off-behaviour as these ancient people did. Maybe..... maybe... we have to be responsible for our own behavior.. oh no ! LOL I figure if they ever do brain surgery on me, being the map-maker and all that I am , they will op0en up my hopefully reasonably full bean and see a big "X" marks the spot.. . Its been said X "never marks the spot". If not, then what mon-ami ? Are we ambidextrous doomed to never vote in primaries for lack of favouring left or right ( politics only joking) ? Or are we blessed with open-mindedness, are you and I the great peacemakers, the mediators ? naaaah, you and I cause too much trouble by accident I think ( J/K J-Joe ) as in tilt us too far too one side too far and all our brilliant ex-cogitations will spill out on the floor, leaving us centrists, or at "zero" on the integer scale. LOL I think we got it made J-Joe, since you, me, and my dear departed father are, or were ambidextrous. He could write on a chalkboard in college while professing and pipe-smoking with both hands simultaneously, driving students limited sadly to their left or right hemispheres to try and keep up..true story 'bout my Dad ! We therefor are maybe the chosen ones to sit on a couple stumps and dispense wisdom and widely-cited exhortations quoted round the world... LOL , and be hailed as the new illuminati or cognoscenti. At least be able to give anyone either the evil eye, or the comforting nod of approval that only we.. the benevolent despots, can bestow. And all for not being completely left or right handed. Such a deal ! nod, while we humbly smile inwardly and know the answers that ....someday.... we will dispence on the minions at an assimilable rate for their poor assymmetrical brains. You rekin' Jessi ? I am on ly kidding my friend.... just letting you get to know my hyperbolically-warped sense of humour.. . Oh - and as to the already astutely-answered gun-shots Q, my response would have been that of John Wayne, who remember we are admonished to watch movies of lest we forget the plains in Gord's "Drink Your Glasses Empty" on WFY : "In that 6-shooter, Pilgrim, you'd better put five bullets in, and let the hammer rest on an empty chamber for safety.. because if can't get the job done with 5 bullets, you'd better get the he** out, Pilgrim..." LOL what a great Icon that old curmudgeon was. OK J-Joe, my head is spinning now too. Thanks for the fun quiz questions. I hope I get the cigar, or the tomato on the Cape Horn whistling thing Q ... LOL - geo Steve [ June 04, 2006, 05:39: Message edited by: geodeticman ]