<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">The barber usually parts the hair from the back, no? He may have mentally reversed sidedness.<div><br></div><div>Or he could be someone like me who can’t tell right from left on a consistent basis.</div><div><br></div><div>I got confused about it as a little kid and have never recovered.</div><div><br><div dir="ltr">SR Ballard</div><div dir="ltr"><br>On Mar 22, 2020, at 9:45 AM, William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">Beyond stunned. I was getting a haircut and asked the barber how most people parted their hair on the left versus the right. I thought it was on the left, as I have noticed that, or so I thought, being a man who parted his on the right (which might have something to do with my dad being left-handed and me being nearly equal on both sides).</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">Anyhow, he looked puzzled and finally said on the right. I looked it up when I got home and sure enough, 90% of right handers part on the left, and so do 45% of lefthanders.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">My question is: how can someone look at heads all day long for about 40 years and not notice where most people part their hair? When asked, get it wrong.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">So it made me wonder, since the barber was of average intelligence, what I had been missing despite looking at it all my life. I have come up with a few over the years: in the Revolutionary War there was a group called the Green Mountain Boys. I wondered where that came from until I finally got it when I looked at the word Vermont for the thousandth time, and saw it. Then my mind went to : Giuseppe Verdi - Joe Green.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">We look and we look again and for many years we just don't see. I wonder how many abstractions are that way. We know the definition but simply do not understand the concept the way we think we do. When we do, it's a little epiphany.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">bill w</div></div>
</div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><span>_______________________________________________</span><br><span>extropy-chat mailing list</span><br><span><a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a></span><br><span><a href="http://lists.extropy.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/extropy-chat">http://lists.extropy.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/extropy-chat</a></span><br></div></blockquote></div></body></html>