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Re: Meeting The Deadline 2016-12-12

Posted: Tue Dec 13, 2016 12:39 am
by FreeFlier
But you have to drop the right hand when you say it.

--FreeFlier

Re: Meeting The Deadline 2016-12-12

Posted: Tue Dec 13, 2016 1:19 am
by AnotherFairportfan
FreeFlier wrote:But you have to drop the right hand when you say it.

--FreeFlier
No - because Moties have three hands.

Re: Meeting The Deadline 2016-12-12

Posted: Tue Dec 13, 2016 9:20 am
by FreeFlier
AnotherFairportfan wrote:
FreeFlier wrote:But you have to drop the right hand when you say it.
No - because Moties have three hands.
Right - third one is the gripping hand, used for heavy lifting, etc., and I believe it's on the right.

--FreeFlier

Re: Meeting The Deadline 2016-12-12

Posted: Tue Dec 13, 2016 9:26 am
by AnotherFairportfan
FreeFlier wrote:
AnotherFairportfan wrote:
FreeFlier wrote:But you have to drop the right hand when you say it.
No - because Moties have three hands.
Right - third one is the gripping hand, used for heavy lifting, etc., and I believe it's on the right.

--FreeFlier
I seem to recall it might be right or left.

Re: Meeting The Deadline 2016-12-12

Posted: Tue Dec 13, 2016 10:12 am
by Catawampus
Dave wrote:Atsali was proud to declare that she intended to avoid the usual Siren behavior and not be a sexual predator...
The stereotypical assumed usual Siren behaviour, that is.

Re: Meeting The Deadline 2016-12-12

Posted: Tue Dec 13, 2016 1:10 pm
by AnotherFairportfan
Catawampus wrote:
Dave wrote:Atsali was proud to declare that she intended to avoid the usual Siren behavior and not be a sexual predator...
The stereotypical assumed usual Siren behaviour, that is.
Exactly.

Re: Meeting The Deadline 2016-12-12

Posted: Thu Dec 15, 2016 2:19 pm
by TazManiac
AnotherFairportfan wrote:
FreeFlier wrote:Right - third one is the gripping hand, used for heavy lifting, etc., and I believe it's on the right.

--FreeFlier
I seem to recall it might be right or left.
Yes and No, as I recall most of them are Asymmetrical on a 'same as everybody else' pattern, but there where a few that were 'Left-Handed', so to speak...

http://scifi.stackexchange.com/question ... pping-hand

Oh, and by the way, 'How Many Kinds Are There?' http://scifi.stackexchange.com/question ... s-of-motie

Re: Meeting The Deadline 2016-12-12

Posted: Thu Dec 15, 2016 9:51 pm
by FreeFlier
TazManiac wrote:
AnotherFairportfan wrote:
FreeFlier wrote:Right - third one is the gripping hand, used for heavy lifting, etc., and I believe it's on the right.
I seem to recall it might be right or left.
Yes and No, as I recall most of them are Asymmetrical on a 'same as everybody else' pattern, but there where a few that were 'Left-Handed', so to speak... . . .
I believe that at one point in The Mote in God's Eye it was expressly stated that there were a few "left-handed" moties, which is what leads me to believe that in the normal motie, the gripping hand was on the right.

And I should have specified ". . . believe it's normally on the right."

--FreeFlier

Re: Meeting The Deadline 2016-12-12

Posted: Thu Dec 15, 2016 10:08 pm
by AnotherFairportfan
FreeFlier wrote:
TazManiac wrote:
AnotherFairportfan wrote:I seem to recall it might be right or left.
Yes and No, as I recall most of them are Asymmetrical on a 'same as everybody else' pattern, but there where a few that were 'Left-Handed', so to speak... . . .
I believe that at one point in The Mote in God's Eye it was expressly stated that there were a few "left-handed" moties, which is what leads me to believe that in the normal motie, the gripping hand was on the right.

And I should have specified ". . . believe it's normally on the right."

--FreeFlier
Speaking as a sinister person, this is important to me.

Left hand lost...