Friday, August 2, 2013

Left-Handed Thunderdome.

This is Comment Home. Or Comment Thunderdome? As Tina Turner (Almost) Said: What Do Comments Have to Do With It?

As Ike Turner Replied: Everything, My Beloved Love. Would You Kindly Pass Me a Salty Crumpet and Then I Will Rub Your Tiny Feet with Langour?

The Horn Section Always Has a Crumpet Player.

In England.

Well.

In an Earlier Post creeley23 said...

"...Most people had such dreadful experiences of poetry in high school that they go into a trance of learned helplessness when they see a block of compact language with a ragged right edge."

I Love This: Love This. Compact Language, Referenced Compactly and With a True Ragged Right Edge: Not What He Was Necessarily Inferring, But -- After a Moment -- Nick Cave Came to Mind:

On a gathering storm comes
a tall handsome man
in a dusty black coat with
a red right hand

-- also --

Darcy said...

" Love Eskimo pies."

 That Was From the Post: ""Who Doesn't Like an Eskimo Pie?"

Nick Cave Also Sang:

The man at the rodeo
And the lonely old Eskimo says
Babe, I'm on fire
Babe, I'm on fire

Obviously the Connection is Clear: Eskimos are Left-Handed.

So:

In a World Dominated By Right-Handed Non-Eskimo People tell Us Why You are -- at Least Spiritually -- Fiercely Left-Handed?


(Quinn Will Jump for Joy)


22 comments:

Bender said...

Love Eskimo pies

What is it with all the pies? I can't believe the pie-guy - everything has to be made like a pie - has gotten as far as he has on Next Food Network Star and he hasn't made a single good one yet. I don't know, maybe put some eskimos in the next pie and maybe it will be good this time.

rcocean said...

Another obvious call out to Darcy. Betamax = flirt machine.

I will bow out now.

rcocean said...

I like Eskimo pies too.

chickelit said...

What is it with all the pies?

Isn't "Comment Home" sort of a Pie-In-The Sky" blog?

Someone should put up a "what's your favorite pie" poll.

betamax3001 said...

Re: "Another obvious call out to Darcy. Betamax = flirt machine."

I Am a Flirt Robot.

I Think -- On Volume -- I Flirt More with rhhardin, Statistically.

To Flirt is To Live, in Sexy Underpants. I Might Have Messed Up the Translation from the Japanese.

Another Way of Saying:


I Am All For Whomevers' Milkshake(s) Bring Whichever Boys to the Yard.









Basta! said...

Что ж мне делать, слепцу и пасынку,
в мире где каждый и отч и зрач?

What am I to do, blind stepson that I am,
in a world where all have fathers and can see?


--- Marina Tsvetaeva

Perhaps lefties feel somewhat similarly. If not as dramatically.

My two brothers are lefties --- the only ones in the whole family. They went to the same Catholic primary school, but at some point between the entry of the older and the younger into first grade, the nuns stopped beating the left hand of those who were using it to write, forcing them to use their right hand instead. Because the left hand was truly sinister.

So now the older one writes with the right (which was the focus of the nuns) but does everything else with the left, whereas the younger is a full-on leftie. He lived with me for a while and I saw that it's true, all those tools like scissors and can-openers really are designed for the right handed.

Guildofcannonballs said...

What is most important, what matters more than anything else, is this idea of a hillbilly listening to the "I ain't never had too much fun" song by Daryle Singletary (who else right?) and becoming angry.

Who are these dastardly jerks having too much fun when everybody knows there ain't even hardly enough fun to go 'round in the first place.

Titus said...

I have been thinking about Crack's big black cock.

tits.

Guildofcannonballs said...

Crack had a good post up about Orson Welles today.

Trooper is still, still to this day, advocating "you" wearing more of those fuckin' sweathers! (sic).

Backhead eyes.

ad hoc said...

Basta! said -

all those tools like scissors and can-openers really are designed for the right-handed.

Include car ignition, door handles and knobs, controls for appliances, such as the microwave and keurig and you get the idea. We are merely the sinister ones living in a right-handed world.

betamax3001 said...

Re: "We are merely the sinister ones living in a right-handed world."

What if the Chinese Were to Unilaterally Make All Their Cheap Goods and Appliances Oriented* for the Left-Handed?

How Long Would it Take for America to Succumb to The Change in Dexterity?


*China, Oriented: I Saw That.

Basta! said...

It all has to do with orientation.

Benjamin, or ben yamin, "son of the right hand/the south", because the Semitic people oriented themselves to the east. You face the east, your right is southside. Which makes the left side north, BAD YOU because (or so I've heard) north is where the dark and cold live.

And the Eskimo. And maybe the worst of the demons.

rcocean said...

RH = Midwestern Professor Higgins + dog.

Theme song: "Why Can't a women be more like a Man?"

rcocean said...

"Crime is a left handed form of human endeavor"

More Right-handed bigotry.

ad hoc said...

Re: "How long would it take for America to succumb to the change in dexterity?"

Dexterity - haha, very funny. More right-handed bigotry.

I have heard that lefties are more likely to incur injuries and/or death from injuries, but I don't recall seeing actual statistics.

Chip Ahoy said...

You've seen Obama sign something, always a big deal. He takes the whole table the full arm is lifted above the table then lowered upon it, the elbow place in the far left corner and behaves as a lever arcing the full length of the forearm so the hand clawing a pen swings mechanically scratching a large name schwing schwing schwing zip zip zooooop ta daaaaaaa, he writes his name, and something takes over, a power from above seizes my body and I automatically go flying in imitation of that exaggerating the actual movements outrageously behaving the spaz, I honestly lose track of the real thing and I am so immature and so out of control of myself that I do that every single time. Obnoxious as all h-e-double hockey sticks. Him signing a paper is all it takes for me to lose control and fall into absurd imitation, I am not fit to be out in public.

Guildofcannonballs said...

yeah Chip, that's what she said.

rcocean said...

"I have heard that lefties are more likely to incur injuries and/or death from injuries, but I don't recall seeing actual statistics."

What can we do for this new minority? Affirmative action?

yashu said...

Oh hey NotquiteunBuckley, as an Orson fan, I guess you might have read or will read this book, which just came out?

I haven't myself, but it seems like a great time-- as close as we'll ever get to hanging out with the big man himself.

Mitch H. said...

I am left-handed because I drop things and write like a three-year-old if I use my right hand. At least with my left, my writing makes it into grade school.

rcocean said...

Lunch with Orson - I have it on order. Looking forward to reading it.

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