Re: The Superior Dexterity Offended

Malcolm Lawrence (malcolm@wolfenet.com)
Tue, 06 Jan 1998 20:30:20 -0800

Bananas252 wrote:

> I think that in Latin, the word for left-handedness is somewhere along the
> lines of sinistre. sorry

(Funny you should send this right now. I'm right in the middle of a bag of
banana chips. :) )Well, yeah, depending on how much research you want to do
you can trace us all the way back to Satan. Those damn lefties. Don't they
realize if they just cut off their hand they'll be closer to God? Speaking of
hands, i only recently found out that the reason wedding rings are worn on the
fourth finger is because the Romans discovered that the vein in the fourth
finger goes straight to the heart. The vena cava.