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Here's one for the books!! Is there such a thing as a (left-handed) microphone? I'm asking because either I'm ignorant, or this is one of the best sales pitches I've heard of yet. I was looking on my local Craigslist, and came across a Shure 55S Unidyne Microphone (original). The guy wants $375.00, because he states that it is a RARE left handed model. Can this be possible, am I that ignorant to how microphones work, or is HE a genius??? When I was a carpenter, I played jokes on new people, and asked them to go get my "left handed" screw driver, and then when they came back with one, I say "no, that's a right handed one, I need the "left handed" one. We'd have a laugh, and that would be their initiation into the crew. But CAN THIS GUY BE SERIOUS?

Rosario
Serenity Now Karaoke

A microphone is a microphone. You can hold with your left or right hand - no special set up to make it one or the other. The guy is blowing smoke.

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That's what I thought, but thought I'd give everyone a good laugh. Can you believe it that this guy ACTUALLY posted this on Craigslist. That's his reasoning to charge 375.00, because it's so RARE!!!

Rosario

No just old. You can up the SM55SH - newer model for $179. Probably because they forgot to adapt it for the left hand.

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LMFAO, you're right, they discontinued the "left-handed" option.

Rosario

Sounds similar to the metric adjustable crescent wrench I just bought.

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DJ Tony
Let It Rip Karaoke

well technically it is a Left Handed model... as well as a right handed one

The reason so few people are left handed today is that the majority of left handed people died very young in the past due to a shortage of left handed rocks. Due to natural selection most people today are right handed. Buy them the right handed mic, and you will help undo thousads of years of discrimination.

I see problems with left handed singers holding the mic upside down all the time, not only do they ram the cable into their mouth but the active end of the mic is facing the ground away from their mouth.

THis not only hurts cable life from the kinck in the chord, but it seriously impacts the quality of the sound.

I used to work with this stress-ball hypocondriac of a lady that made our company order her "left-handed pens" for work.

She was absolutely nuts, and got herself fired after about a month for screaming and yelling everytime she was stressed out, but she was ABSOLUTELY CONVINCED that she could not write with a normal pen, and needed the company to pay about a 200% premium to get her left-handed pens.

Craziness!!

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C Mc
KJ, FL

When I lived in England, I was a volunteer on a steam railway. It would attract all sorts of crazies as volunteers. We had one kid who was real easy to wind up. We sent him to get all the usuals - left handed screwdiver, stripy paint etc. The time we sent him looking for a pot full of glass nails and glass hammer was funny, but the absolute best was when the boss sent him for a bucket of steam. He patiently waited for the steam engine to arrive back at the depot and asked the driver to fill his bucket. Containing his laughter, he did so, but the boss couldn't be found for a while, so when he got the steam to him, he was told it was too cold, better go get another bucket - which he did....

Hmmm.
At sixteen I worked as an apprentice for Ford.
I was sent to the stores for a long stand...

I knew a gal that her ex-husband (repaired/painted wrecked cars) sent her out to the auto paint supplies for a quart of "Orange Peel". Apparently the paint stores had a ball with this one & would send her to the next store, calling them ahead of time to make sure they kept giving her another place to go until one of them told her there was no such thing.

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I worked at a pizza place for awhile when I was younger, and the thing to do to new people was send them to another store for a "dough patch kit", for when you slapped out a pizza dough and there was a hole in it.