Li ' l Abner has one odd design quirk that has puzzled readers for decades: the part in his hair always faces the viewer, no matter which direction Abner is facing.

It has also been used as a term denoting " The quality of being an individual ; individuality " related to possessing " An individual characteristic ; a quirk.

* Li ' l Abner has one odd design quirk that has puzzled readers for decades: the part in his hair always faces the viewer, no matter which direction Abner is facing.

He has the unfortunate tendency to appear dead while asleep, a quirk that " scares the hell out of everyone.

The band has since maintained the quirk of releasing albums with seven-word titles throughout its career.

Due to a quirk of zoning ordinance, Cannon City has once again seen housing starts beginning in 2001 after decades without new construction.

Honor has become proficient with the Grayson style of swordplay, involving a blade very similar to the katana, which by a quirk of history is used ceremonially by Steadholders and is the center of a martial art on Grayson.

This feature provides an interesting quirk which has become something of a fad among his readership even in mainland Italy.

Another quirk is his tendency to drive golf balls off the roof of his house, enraging his next-door neighbor, who has to contend with the balls smashing his windows.

Mot sets his father up on dates with a string of women, but each one has at least one personality quirk his brothers just cannot stand.

Like Karlen, Fyfe's Loomis spoke with a perpetual stammer – a quirk that has practically become a trademark for the character.

Canadian film-maker Zach Math comments that the American " is an ordinary guy but he has this quirk where he thinks of his penis as a separate entity from his body — Elmo.

However, the egotistical Skullgrin has a surprising personality quirk — he loves Earth and is fascinated by it.

Investigations uncovered a gravitational quirk in one of Zol's giant craters, and the search for the source has begun.

While they watch, Richard receives a call from Susan from the 20th century on Reg's phone, a quirk of the time machine due to the phone company.

In contrast to the honorary cognomina adopted by successful generals, most cognomina were based on a physical or personality quirk ; for example, Rufus meaning red-haired or Scaevola meaning left-handed.

As a result, if an award is to be made, and I believe it should be, it is necessary to amend the existing statute that is currently being processed through the Department .” Rep. Jim Slattery, who drafted the House version of the 1989 amendment to 10 USC § 1128, explained to the House Committee on Armed Services that the amendment was intended to remedy “ a quirk in the law ” that required active armed conflict against an enemy state.

By a legal quirk, however, clergymen operating in the Fleet could not effectively be proceeded against, and the clandestine marriage business there carried on.

Goldsmith and Franklin identified a quirk in American accounting whereby companies with substantial timberland holdings would often carry them on their balance sheets at a US $ 1 valuation ( as the result of years of depreciation ).

In addition, the original MPW C compiler was known for its casual and frequently humorous error messages, a quirk not carried on after the PowerPC transition, when Apple moved to a front-end developed by Symantec.

Refiling and interconnect fraud briefly made headlines in the aftermath of the Worldcom financial troubles ; the refiling scheme is based on a quirk in the system by which telcos bill each other-two calls to the same place may incur different costs because of differing displayed origin.

This restored WITI's audio to the Milwaukee radio dial after a two month break after the digital transition ; as a Channel 6 analog television station WITI exploited the 87. 7 FM audio quirk as an advantage in order to allow viewers to hear the station's newscasts and Fox programming on their car radios.

The most notable quirk is that the shutter speed on the original Kiev 88 should only be changed after cocking the shutter ( spring-loading the shutter mechanism and advancing the film ).

The biggest quirk of the game is the way characters are displayed on screen.

Some Digital Rights Management schemes use hardware overlay to display protected content on the screen, taking advantage of this quirk to prevent the copying of protected documents by way of screen capture.

Grace Dent of The Guardian claimed, upon the characters exit from the soap, that she would " miss Fred Elliott a lot ", and that she'd " miss his blunt common sense, forever flawed by his quirk of proposing to every woman he set eyes on ... his rants about the life-enhancing properties of steak and kidney pudding ... his barely concealed enjoyment of a good gossip with Shelley, Betty, and Violet in the Rovers backroom ... how sometimes Fred would be propping up the bar, saying an unremarkable line in a throwaway scene, but add a wobble of the head or a camp tap of the fag that somehow made it profound.

Some browsers ( those based on Mozilla's Gecko rendering engine, or Internet Explorer 8 in strict mode, for example ) also use an " almost standards " mode which attempts to compromise between the two, implementing one quirk for table cell sizing while otherwise conforming to the specifications.

An off-idle carburetion quirk, known as the " Vision stumble ", meant the first year machines were prone to initial stuttering on part and full-throttle takeoff.

One particularly memorable quirk of the game is the ability granted to players to hold simple conversations with traders, other champions, and even enemies during combat.

By a quirk of fate, it was the only NL game played that day, all others being rained out.

A quirk in the rules can cause the game to become unwinnable.

During Davis ' final year of coaching the team, the Hurricanes finished 11 – 1 and were ranked as the second best team in the country in 2000, but due to a quirk in the Bowl Championship Series formula, the team didn't play in that year's national championship game, the 2001 Orange Bowl.

It is not a medieval mental quirk or an attitude `` unnourished by sense '' to believe that husbands and wives should not be subjected to such a risk, or that such a possibility should not be permitted to endanger the confidentiality of the marriage relationship.

The party enjoyed a considerable honeymoon period with the press, who made much mileage out of their quirk for proffering claret at their functions.

However, a ligature such as " ffi ", which is treated in some typefaces as a single unit, is arguably not a glyph as this is just a quirk of the typeface, essentially an allographic feature, and includes more than one grapheme.

Below ground, the U-Bahn section through Potsdamer Platz had closed entirely ; although the S-Bahn line itself remained open, it suffered from a quirk of geography in that it briefly passed through East German territory en route from one part of West Berlin to another.

They say that this chemical quirk actually makes the question of which came first even more pointless than before.

A further quirk of the system was that while players advanced in levels and hit points, superpowers did not, lending a different feel to characters at low, middle and high power levels.

Suspension of disbelief is also needed when a character is not supposed to age over the course of a series ( because of being a vampire or be eternal / immortal because of some quirk / trait / power of the character ) but the actor eventually does-as seen in Angel and Highlander.

There was a quirk in the DOS 4. 0 environment that prevented that version of DOS from working with Tandy 1000 HX computers.

The island got its name from this architectural ( perceptual ) quirk: Mouse island.

Because of the boycott, and the quirk of participating in the Winter Olympics, he was the only U. S. track and field athlete to participate in the 1980 Olympics.

One of those destined for the pulpit was Thomas ( 1802 – 1851 ), but some quirk of originality set him off into an unusual career.

During the temperance ( anti-liquor ) agitations of the late 19th century, residents discovered that by a quirk of state law, liquor could be sold only in incorporated towns.

This geographical quirk is because the Township was formerly part of Bedford County, and is indeed north of Woodbury Township, Bedford County.

Another quirk of the Calder and Hebble locks is the handspike, a length of timber shaped at one end to provide a comfortable two-handed grip.

One quirk of some Viola is the elusive scent of their flowers ; along with terpenes, a major component of the scent is a ketone compound called ionone, which temporarily desensitises the receptors of the nose, thus preventing any further scent being detected from the flower until the nerves recover.

Comprising yet another quirk, a ladder is attached to the Green Monster, extending from near the upper-left portion of the scoreboard, above ground, to the top of the wall.

One quirk of Tandem was that its customers invariably delayed placing their orders for new or expanded systems until the last weeks of their fiscal quarter.