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The best rule of thumb for detecting corked wine ( provided the eye has not already spotted it ) is to smell the wet end of the cork after pulling it: if it smells of wine, the bottle is probably all right ; ;
The economist Walter Block observed critically that while The Road to Serfdom is " a war cry against central planning ," it does show some reservations with a free market system and laissez-faire capitalism, with Hayek even going so far as to say that " probably nothing has done so much harm to the liberal cause as the wooden insistence of some liberals on certain rules of thumb, above all the principle of laissez-faire.
One common example has to do with the phrase rule of thumb, meaning a rough measurement.
An urban legend has it that the phrase refers to an old English law under which a man could legally beat his wife with a stick no thicker than his thumb ( though no such law ever existed ).
This is supported by evidence from the sayings of Muhammad where he mentions that " a hole has been made in the wall containing the Ya ' juj and Ma ' juj ", indicating the size of the hole with his thumb and index finger.
Detailed computer analysis has been done to determine the ideal strategy, but this requires memorizing large tables ; a close approximation can be done with only a few rules of thumb: when playing in a casino and in doubt, a player can always ask that his hand be set house way.
The polo mallet has a rubber-wrapped grip and a webbed thong, called a sling, for wrapping around the thumb.
Like the giant panda, it has a “ false thumb ” that is an extension of the wrist bone.
Nevertheless, as if to thumb their nose at Allenby the British press continued to celebrate his victory over the Ottoman Empire by printing cartoons of Richard the Lionheart looking down on Jerusalem from the heavens with the caption reading " At last my dream has come true.
The index finger is placed through the loop, the other string has a tab that is placed between the thumb and forefinger.
Tempera adheres best to an absorbent ground that has a lower " oil " content than the tempera binder used ( the traditional rule of thumb is " fat over lean ", and never the other way around ).
It is such considerations that lead even act utilitarians to rely on ‘ rules of thumbas Smart has called them.
Linguistically, it appears that the original sense was to include the thumb as a finger: the word is derived from *‍ penkwe-ros ( also rendered as * penqrós ) which was, in the inferred Proto-Indo-European language, a suffixed form of * penkwe ( or * penqe ), " five ", which has given rise to many Indo-European-family words ( tens of them defined in English dictionaries ) that involve or flow from concepts of fiveness.
" Your face is the same as everybody hasthe two eyes, so < s > </ s >" ( marking their places in the air with his thumb ) " nose in the middle, mouth under.
Moles have polydactyl forepaws ; each has an extra thumb ( also known as a prepollex ) next to the regular thumb.
While the mole's other digits have multiple joints, the prepollex has a single, sickle-shaped bone which develops later and differently from the other fingers during embryogenesis from a transformed sesamoid bone in the wrist, independently evolved but similar to the giant panda thumb.
As a rule of thumb, senior debt usually has interest margins of 3 – 5 % ( on top of Libor or Euribor ) and needs to be paid back over a period of 5 – 7 years, junior debt has margins of 7 – 16 %, and needs to be paid back in one payment ( as bullet ) after 7 – 10 years.
Once air tightness is achieved, it has often been sufficient to choose the thickness of the insulating layer based on rules of thumb.
The precise width of the etzba ( thumb ) has been a subject of controversy among halakhic authorities.
The rule of thumb is: A slope that is flat enough to hold snow but steep enough to ski has the potential to generate an avalanche, regardless of the angle.
Before long, Tym has got everyone under his thumb and created his own comedic dictatorship.
One of the rules of thumb in human resources is that if an individual who has an ADA-defined disability cannot take a test, then nobody can.
The sabre or saber ( see spelling differences ) is a kind of backsword that usually has a curved, single-edged blade and a rather large hand guard, covering the knuckles of the hand as well as the thumb and forefinger.

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Oneida Lake, to the northeast of Syracuse, New York, is sometimes included as the " thumb ," although it is shallow and somewhat different in character from the rest.
Over the course of the next two years, the props were continually repaired and modified, with some additions being a new thumb slider design and different colours of wires used in the clear channel when extended.
With intervals like minor 2nds and major 2nds fingered on different strings, the charango player can play sustained melodies at rapid speed with an alternating thumb / finger pattern.
The difference in phenotypes may be subtle ( e. g., having a hitchhiker's thumb and a straight thumb, eyes of slightly different colors, differential hair growth on opposite sides of the body, etc.
A different form of the right-hand rule, sometimes called the right-hand grip rule or the corkscrew-rule or the right-hand thumb rule, is used in situations where a vector must be assigned to the rotation of a body, a magnetic field or a fluid.
A comb with teeth of unequal length, capable of producing different notes when picked, eventually evolved into the thumb piano and musical box.
The thumb pianos are made of different woods, either with only a sound board or often with a resonant chamber.
While the arrangement of notes on a thumb piano is considerably different from those on a piano or guitar, their arrangement is fairly intuitive, and it is considered to be an instrument easily learned.
While the lake has a similar geologic structure ( a very long, narrow valley ) to the Finger Lakes to the east, it is not considered one of the Finger Lakes ; its direction runs perpendicular to the westernmost of those lakes ( much like an opposable thumb ), lies in a different watershed, and was likely formed by a different process.
There are several different ways to grip a two-seam fastball, the most common of which is to place the index and middle fingers along the seams where the two seams are closest together ( where the horseshoes point in towards each other ) with the thumb placed directly below on the leather with the rear of the thumb just touching the bottom near seam.
The following list gives a rough " rule of thumb " for the amount of amplifier power used in different settings:
Like many other central African countries, Zambia once had a vibrant tradition of so-called " thumb pianos ," each with a different name depending on tribal origins: the Tonga kankobela is one such thumb piano, the Mbunda " kathandi ", the Lozi " kangombio ", the Lunda " chisanzhi ", the Nsenga " kalimba ", etc ..
It also could be used to hook the thumb while holding the weapon backwards, to allow different techniques such as punches and blocks, very similarly to a sai.
In antiquity, systems of measurement were defined locally, the different units were defined independently according to the length of a king's thumb or the size of his foot, the length of stride, the length of arm or per custom like the weight of water in a keg of specific size, perhaps itself defined in hands and knuckles.
In the episode, Homer's rush to the hospital to re-attach his severed thumb, Lisa's rush to school to win the science fair, and Bart's run-in with an illegal fireworks scheme are interconnected as each act tells the events of the same day, but from a different point of view.

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Olczyk missed most of 1993 – 94 season recovering from a thumb injury suffered in a game vs. Florida on January 3, 1994 ; he would, however, recover to play in one playoff game and win the Stanley Cup with the Rangers that season ( although he and Mike Hartman's names were initially, and controversially, not engraved on the Cup for having not met the league's minimum playing time requirements for eligibility ).
Nintendo thumb, known also as gamer's grip, Nintendinitis and similar names, is a video game-related health problem classified as a form of repetitive strain injury ( RSI ).
Each in turn names the person they think pressed their thumb.

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