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Al Angello Eternal Order Collegeville, Pa. USA 11045 Posts 
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In Morocco they eat with no utensils, but what does that have to do with ambidexterity. Finding out how Laurie enjoys eating is just information overload to me.
HAVE FUN Al Angello
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magicalaurie Inner circle Ontario, Canada 2970 Posts
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On 2006-07-16 22:58, magicfish wrote: Choices. To suggest that because a magician raises his/her fork with the right hand instead of the left s/he must be unconcerned with economy of motion as it pertains to MAGIC, is, at least, slightly ridiculous.  |
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RobertBloor Inner circle The Socialist Republic of the USA. 1051 Posts
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Doesn't anyone here know how to spell amibidexterity both ways?
Booooo! (well at least I thought it was funny) :) Robert
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Jonathan Townsend Eternal Order Ossining, NY 27306 Posts
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Nobody gonna try for amgidextrosity? or ambidextrousness?
...to all the coins I've dropped here
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kregg Inner circle 1950 Posts
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Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious.
POOF!
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magicfish Inner circle 7049 Posts
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Hand switchers often have there left elbow on the table as well- so no its not a muslim influence, its just... well I don't wanna be too insulting, but my parents made sure that I could sit and dine with anyone as an adult and my manners could pass any test.
Posted: Jul 17, 2006 8:03pm ----------------------------------------- Okay then I will- people who scoop food with their fork in their right hand and try to cut food with the side of their fork when there is a perfectly good knife there are lazy. You can tell a lot about a person by their table manners.... also something about their parents... or lack thereof. |
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Dannydoyle Eternal Order 21287 Posts
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What is silverware anyhow? What is wrong with me eating with my fingers?
Gawd how you eat with utinsels has NOTHING to do with the kind of person you are. It says you have been taught one way or another. It does not reflect your inner charecter Oh and look up the phrase "path of least resistance". Give you a bit of insight into "lazy" people.
Danny Doyle
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magicfish Inner circle 7049 Posts
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Hmm... in ever pegged you for an elbows on the table kinda guy Danny
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Dannydoyle Eternal Order 21287 Posts
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Elbows, heck yea.
Usually one only though, got to have a hand ready to smack someones hand away from reaching for the last pork chop!
Danny Doyle
<BR>Semper Occultus <BR>In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act....George Orwell |
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Jonathan Townsend Eternal Order Ossining, NY 27306 Posts
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On 2006-07-17 20:11, Dannydoyle wrote: Mickey is selling stuff now?
...to all the coins I've dropped here
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magicfish Inner circle 7049 Posts
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On 2006-07-17 21:41, Dannydoyle wrote: Sounds like you're ready for Jerry Springer, no wait trailer park boys. |
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Bill Palmer Eternal Order Only Jonathan Townsend has more than 24315 Posts
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Shakey's Pizza Parlors all had signs that read:
"Should pizza be eaten with the fingers? No, the fingers should be eaten separately." Works for me.
"The Swatter"
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Moyle with Parkinsons Loyal user Australia 281 Posts
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Man this thread has changed topics so many times I don't even know what we are talking about it anymore. Was it monkey's on typewriters with poor spelling who eat with their fingers and elbows on the table? That was it wasn't it and I'm sure there was a sponge ball involved somehow
Moyle
"Signatures cause far too much trouble!" an original quote by Moyle With Parkinsons.
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ed rhodes Inner circle Rhode Island 2889 Posts
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On 2006-07-17 22:25, Bill Palmer wrote: I remember a place in California called "Magu's Pizza" that was themed as an old tyme saloon. The menu had odd bits of information. One was a paragraph going on about how only barbarians would sully the taste of pizza with silver!
"...and if you're too afraid of goin' astray, you won't go anywhere." - Granny Weatherwax
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cinemagician Inner circle Phila Metro Area 1094 Posts
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Re: Elbows on the table
I heard that in the middle ages the reason for keeping elbows ON the table was so that some one could not reach the sword in their scabbard to chop someone's head off in case an argument escalated to violence. ?
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magicalaurie Inner circle Ontario, Canada 2970 Posts
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Interesting. Still applicable, apparently.
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cinemagician Inner circle Phila Metro Area 1094 Posts
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LOL.. Just don't want to blamed for the suggestion...
Remember Laurie TAP into your higher self!
(the keyboard is mightier than the sword)
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CJRichard Special user Massachusetts 542 Posts
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As a point of history, the fork was very late to develop. Even during the 1770s many forks had just two tines and were used for holding meat in place while cutting it. You don't read about it much in history books, but George Washington ate with his fingers. Abigail Adams ate with her fingers. If God had intended us to use forks, he wouldn't have given us fingers. Getting food to the mouth is what fingers are for.
Spoons developed in prehistory, though. Because you can't eat soup with your fingers. That's a short excerpt from my "Fort Phoenix Minuteman Tour," which I present a couple of times a week all summer in my hometown.
"You know some of you are laughin', but there's people here tryin' to learn. . ." -Pop Haydn
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Dave V Inner circle Las Vegas, NV 4824 Posts
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CJ,
I can't seem to confirm it, but somewhere years ago I heard the American style of the fork in the right hand was a sort of underground "signal" that the person you were eating with was an American sympathizer, sort of like the story about the early Christians and drawing the fish symbol in the dirt. Have you ever heard of this?
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CJRichard Special user Massachusetts 542 Posts
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Dave,
Haven't heard it. It could be, but it seems unlikely. Widespread use of forks seems to have been promoted by French aristocracy around the time of the French Revolution as a sign of class distinction. Individual place settings came about around the same time. Here, at the time our our Revolution, it was still common to share knives and spoons around communal bowls and trenchers. And since were were doing away with many old-world traditions, such as wearing powdered wigs, etc., I'm not sure that the handedness of fork use would have been used as a signal. Lots of those "secret signal" things turn out to be old wives tales.
"You know some of you are laughin', but there's people here tryin' to learn. . ." -Pop Haydn
"I know of no other art that proclaims itself 'easy to do.'" -Master Payne Ezekiel the Green |
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