The Volokh Conspiracy

I'm with uh clem: damn your qwerty-normative puzzles!

While you may normally type the words with both hands, it is possible to type them with just one--use your pinky to hit the shift key and stretch out your hand as needed.

Dustin Ragan -- If we're going to depart from touch typing by using the "wrong" hand to hit the shift key, we might as well depart altogether, in which case all words can be typed with either hand (my Qwerty keyboard's "a" key works just fine when I hit it with my right hand!)

Here's a simple one: What's the only state capital that can be typed exclusively with one hand? It's easy if you look it up, obviously.

If you want more of this, try the book Language on Vacation by Dmitri Borgmann. Sample: the longest everyday word that can be typed using only the top (qwerty) letter row of a typewriter is ... "typewriter"!

Well, maybe for you QWERTY users, but in Dvorak, both those phrases are typed with both hands.

Perhaps you should invest in a left-handed only dvorak keyboard?

http://www.fentek-ind.com/dvorak.htm

The best!

No, the answer is, of course, that none of these have ever been in my kitchen.

Except for "Grade A Eggs", of course. Very few kitchens have never had Grade A Eggs in them.

And, I do remember having on more than one occasion been phoned for an opinion poll on the kitchen telephone. So that one's out.

Come to think of it, the people I bought my house from inherited it from a parent, so estate taxes were once in, or at least associated with, my kitchen.

So that leaves only opium po. . . oh yeah. . . that one time. . .


The correct answer is that all of them have been in my kitchen.

Geek heaven.