Luann by Greg Evans and Karen Evans for November 04, 2018

a sinister left-handed here too (pun intended)

In the bad old days, left-handedness was considered a sign of demonic possession.

Now You just KNOW, that this Guy is going to get the absolute WRONG idea about what Luann’s “motive” is here.

Jeepers Creepers, I swear is literally raining men, (“Potential Love Interests”) for the gals, ESPECIALLY for Luann in this here Comic Strip.

UN-FAIR, Greg and Karen!! How ’bout some equal time with some female “potentials” for the guys, especially those two under privileged hob-goblins languishing in the Gulag?? They should have the last bit of “unspent food” cleaned off the ceiling by now and ready for some new “guests”……, ;)

Improvise Luann, improvise. Looks like you forgot your problem already. And thanks for giving puddles the weekend off, Greg.

What happened to Jack?

Is this a problem in colleges anymore? The college classrooms I have seen all have the spots where you plug in your laptop.

“I get by with a little help from my friends…”

Never knew she was a lefty. Potential to be accused of cheating that way though.

I never thought of it but she’s right, that would be hard. Why haven’t they made left sided desks?

I feel your pain.

A fellow lefty

Just need a good place to park the elbow. Problem solved…for her.

Back when Luann and friends were in high school and she was thinking of nothing but boys, lots of people complained. Now that she seems to be thinking of other things, too (like trying to do ok in school, or figuring out a possible career), any time a guy appears (even if only in one frame), people assume he’s her new love interest…

I feel your pain, Luann. Being a lefty is hard at times.

I thought G & K might be throwing another guy at Luann. But he could be just collateral damage – disappearing along with the young lady that sold discount ticket books.

That’s because we have to be more clever than right handers to deal with equipment they designed. They feared us! On a positive, where I went to school the few left handed desks were by the windows or at the back of the room. Don’t know why.

Greg is able to give Luann a cute classmate, but makes Jack her boyfriend. I miss Quill

Being a southpaw myself, I can totally relate. After all, if the left half of the brain controls the right half of the body, then only left handers are in their right minds! And my personal favorite (cuz I made it up): Left handers have God’s permission to do things backwards.

I know a lot of y’all probably have not read the strip from it’s inception or maybe just forgot. Luann was not always a lefty. On March 20, 1985, she is clearly shown sitting at her desk in class very comfortably writing with her right hand. There are several instances a little later on, but this one is the main one I remember. Take a look, if you wish:

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https://www.gocomics.com/luann/1985/03/20

They tried to get hubby to write with his right hand and gave up. He didn’t write the way most lefties did and I recall how he often had to ask me what he’d written. Usually I could read it.

Luann it’s easy just right with your right or improvise.

Why do guys insist on wearing those ball caps backwards?

Always valid, unfortunately.

A teacher might get the idea that she was cheating.

I think we should name this guy Sinister Dexter.

What a great way to meet guys! Notice that she’s writing normally now without scrunching up her hand upside down.

Yeah, how are you supposed to succeed in school if you can’t even figure out how to take notes? You can tie your shoes, right Luann?

As a lifelong lefty, I can totally relate to that problem!! I spent my school years going through the same thing! Thankfully, the world has become a bit kinder to our people! I even had a left-handed computer keyboard when I was working since most of my work was numerical, the 10-key was on my left! I used to laugh when somebody tried to use my computer!! Hey, Luann could use some left-handed products…just saying!

Yes. He noticed you, Luann. But. Players that wear their ballcaps everywhere are usually hiding a receding hair like.

since they both have a piece pf paper and a pencil, I assume it’s test/quiz taking time.

Ok, I can commiserate with Luann – right handers always took the left hand desks because they were in the aisles. I learned to be a contortionist trying to take notes.

My dad and his twin brother are both lefties, as is my brother. Something to always consider when deciding seating arrangements at Thanksgiving.

When I was in college decades ago, the seats on the left side of the auditorium/classroom were usually the seats for lefties, due to the writing desk part being mounted on the aisle side of the seat…

Babe Ruth was raised in an orphanage, and obviously no one tried to make him use his right hand.

I understand, Lu. If you can’t write with your left, there’s nothing left that’s right!

she’s a lefty? awsome!

Lu’s a LEFTY? I knew there was something about her that I loved!

I LITERALLY got into fights over those stupid things when I was in school. The worst ones were right handed half-desks, I practically had to sit sideways to use them. I was also in a weird demographic area, usually only about 10% of the population is left handed, but in elementary and middle school nearly half of my class was lefty.

Tough for the neighboring guy, though, trying to write with an elbow jabbing into his right arm

The thing that continues to frustrate us lefties is all those checkout card readers. None of them were designed to be comfortable for us.

We had a few left-handed desks in the late 50s and early 60s [once we left the ‘single classroom’ days] You didn’t want to be the last person to class – you might get stuck with one of them. lol

The worst thing about being left handed is that it makes you gay. (This nonsense is still generally believed in the American South.)

There are lefty desks usuallyat the end of the isle of large college classes/auditorium. BUT all surgeons use right handed tools so their isn’t a chance of having the “wrong” instrument.Hendrix played left handed using a right hand strung guitar.

A little testimony to the contrary. Both I and my sister went through Catholic schools in the 1950s. She’s left-handed and I am not. She’s still left-handed—in everything, as far as I know. And nobody ever tried to make her anything else.

My dad and I were both left handed. He told me when he was a kid in Catholic school in the 1920’s the nuns would force him to write with his right hand and whack him with a yard stick on his left hand if hey caught him writing with it. He actually became ambidextrous in his penmanship. Thank goodness they had stopped this by the time I entered school in the 1950’s

I came home from the first day of school trying to use my right hand. I told my dad the teacher said it would be “easier” for me. Nothing about being wrong or bad. The next day he want to the school in his clerical collar, fluffed up his Aussie accent, and told them, his daughter was left-handed. “If it’s good enough for the king, it’s good enough for her”. He told my mum “they didn’t know if they should salute or genuflect”. Nothing was ever said about it again.

Always hated those desks when I was in school -was so glad they did away with them by the time I reached high school. Being a lefty was a bit of a pain.

Oh ho ho! I notice she didn’t pick an ugly dude or another girl to bogart on. And left-handed desk-chairs do exist.

Sit in a left-handed desk. Problem solved.

I suffered just like Luann all the way through school… well, after the 6th grade. Until then we had those wide desks screwed to long runners that we could store stuff inside because we had the same class all day. But back then, one teacher tied my left hand behind my back to make me write with my right hand, then complained about my “penmanship”.

Never saw the nuns do any of that stuff in my eight year hitch. Never did it to me. Of course I’m not left handed. : )

Back when I was in 1st grade the popular christian insult at the time was forcing all lefties to adapt to the church’s edict that left-handedness was a devil-inspired trait that had to be immediately corrected. I am now amberdexterous.

Sunday foible, one that is socially relevant, but here the argument is based on source citation? Treating people with hate, exclusion, and opprobrium based on naturally occurring differences from the norm is an unfortunate reality of human history. Back to developing romance tomorrow.

Luann has the superior adaptability all left-handed people possess. A righty (Muggle) in a classroom with only left-handed desks would probably just leave. Being left-handed is my superpower!

This is the second “background” or never-to-be-seen-again male character I’ve noticed in the past several days who is drawn with the body type of an actual young man of that age. (The other one was the guy making out at the party.) This really brings home how most of the male characters are either caricaturized (Jack, still, to an extent, or Knute) or haven’t physically developed or grown much since their high school days.

Annnnd Luann finds a really good work-around! Oh, JACK! Theirs some competition in the field!! ;)

My little knuckles were beaten in first grade because the left hand is the “hand of the devil”. And this was in public school, I understand the local Catholic school was worse. Anyways, I write right-handed now, although I can still write lefty. I am pretty much ambi with most everything else, but some things I can still only do left-handed.

Why didn’t she figure this out back in … say … Fourth Grade?

wow, so many evil mean teachers in people’s pasts! it’s remarkable people can still use a keyboard with their fingers all misshapen. .

So Sunday Night/Monday: Leaving Luann & Jack to play a friendly game of miniature golf, G & K might jump to a new arc. If so, I’m afraid we won’t know what happened to Tara for a while. We might eventually find out via a third party conversation.

On the other hand – G & K could ramp up the romance that has seemed to be brewing for so long. With the miniature golf game done, Luann might say to Jack, “I don’t want to go home.” That would of course start a new era. Don’t know if we’ll ever get there, but it could seem nice if well done.

he’s looking at her exam paper. cheating at the college level is a problem, not to mention it has become a high tech art.

Being a lefty, I used to use two of those right-handed desks—one to sit in and the other to write on. It was a small class, though, and that solution was not always available. The advent of actual left-handed desks did not come along until well after my student days….

So, anyway, I feel your pain, Luann!

Because bumping elbows while writing is so much better.

I just visited my daughter’s college and went to one of her classes. They have all new swiveling desks and accommodate both righties and lefties, laptops, notebooks, what have you… they’ve really come quite a ways since I went to school. I’m a lefty and I always had to sit on the left side of the aisle so I could use the left handed desks.

Swiveling desks are more the norm these days, at least in colleges. Public schools upgrade when they can.

I feel your pain Luann, being the only lefty in my class, and now the only lefty in my wife’s family get-togethers!