Life, explained...

[j4]

In case people haven't already seen this:

http://www.aldaily.com/life_explained.jpg

(I want this on a t-shirt, captioned "SWITCH HITTER".)

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[j4.livejournal.com]

A "switch hitter", in baseball terminology, is a player who is able to bat left- or right- handed. This fabulously monospaced glossary of sexual terms (http://eserver.org/gender/sex-glossary.txt) defines the term (and a myriad other fantastic names for indie bands such as "AGATE", "FIFTH WHEEL", and "SEA FOOD" ... no, wait ...) if the above doesn't make it obvious what it has come to mean.

(I also note with some amusement that it appears in scrabble terminology (http://www.scrabble.org.au/resources/glossary.htm#S), too, which makes me wonder whether they've borrowed the term directly from the baseball, or whether in fact It's All True what they say about people who play Scrabble.)