International Left-Handers Day August 13th – Quiz!
Many years ago, one of my cousins in Ontario was having a beer with me, standing at the bar in Stratford’s Empire, on the corner of Downie Street..
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– alas, a fine place no longer there –
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….when he suddenly observed …
‘Hey, Ross, I never knew you were a lefty!’
Since we had been discussing family history ( since we were actually located in a watering-hole founded by an ancestor!) I was taken aback and began to mouth an indignant denial.
Then I realised he was referring not to ideology but to which hand I was using to raise my glass of Molson’s beer.
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I had never heard the word used in a non-political sense!
However, many political people are left-handed, and not all of them have been on the left.
Here’s a quick quiz!
Which of the 10 US Presidents since 1960 are or were left-handed?
( not counting President Trump, because I don’t know about him)
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Answers at the bottom of the page
Barack Obama, Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton.
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