Squander Two has an amusing article about British customer service. Everything he says is true with knobs on.
I think this is best described as shooting yourself in the foot, with knobs on!
Timbre and volume are controlled by switches and knobs in a drawer on the left side of the instrument.
Eno could summon cathedrals out of matchbooks with a few twists of the studio knobs.
Unfortunately, he rambles on the microphone just as often as he twists the knobs backstage.
When cooked, remove the skin and place the fish in a pie dish in layers with the sliced eggs, knobs of butter, pepper and mace.
Marks eliminated some of the dated look just by removing the wooden window scallop and replacing the knobs with metal handles.
The birds were backlit by the rising sun, but as far as I could tell they were plain brown with heavy, decurved bills that did not have knobs.
I've spent a lot of time twisting the knobs, getting the mix almost right before going too far and scrambling the hues again.
I understand what my camera will do if I twist the dials, knobs and winders under certain conditions.
Adjustment knobs allow the rifle to be sighted in at, say, 100 yards and then reset to zero.
The classically shaped knobs reinforce the house's Mediterranean character.
I can't walk into a nuclear power plant and start fiddling with knobs and dials, without causing a nuclear meltdown.
Chrome is also used on other surfaces, ranging from the shifter ring to the door handles to the control knobs.
Frosted bezels have been added to control knobs on many of the new season's models to update the look and to allow for easier cleaning.
Debuting here is GE's newest 48-inch range, with die-cast knobs, dual-flame stacked burners, and dishwasher-safe grates.
See where your body fits in relation to all the moving parts and adjust the machine accordingly, using the knobs and pulls.
After the glue has hardened, rub fine-grain sandpaper across the surface of both knobs, making their surfaces smooth.
Police say thieves are most intent on stealing audio equipment followed by car parts, including parcel shelves, wheel trims and gear knobs.
If you plan to reuse the hardware, clean and store all the pulls, knobs and their screws in plastic bags.
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Updating a scheme can be as simple and economic as painting, replacing or removing unit doors, or updating accessories such as knobs and handles.
Cool water ran over his hands, and he adjusted the knobs above the sink until the water became warm and comforting.
Other highlights include handstitched doorknobs and door levers and a wide range of cabinet pulls and knobs.
It's part of the new Schlage Accents Collection, which offers complete handle sets, knobs, levers, and deadbolts for any decor.
There were so many dials and knobs she didn't know how anyone could ever figure it all out.
A few lights shone on a figure alternately twiddling knobs on various mixers and tapping keys on his computer or midi keyboards.
Select a cooking surface with control knobs at the front or side of the appliance.
I began to run the water for the bath, adjusting the knobs to reach my desired temperature.
The burner and the grill have separate control knobs, and each side can produce 10,000 BTUs at the same time.
The mountain is rife with couloirs, spikes, boulders, cornices, and knobs, and a majority of its leaps are manageable by most advanced skiers.
There's air conditioning, a CD player, computer-navigation system and there are loads of buttons and knobs.
Random pipes and spirals, and a control panel of unmarked knobs and sliders completed the B-movie feel.
The keyboard has 40 buttons and knobs, and it's so complicated I'm sure flying Concorde would be easier.
The doors were a type of pinewood with small rectangular windows above the silver knobs.
The interior was spacious, with easy ingress and adequate access to all buttons, knobs and switches.
On the downhills, the big, widely spaced cornering knobs cut through deep dust, greasy mud, or loose talus.
She painted the oven doors periwinkle blue then touched up knobs and dials in a bright orange enamel paint.
Still, if a referee is going to fall for that kind of prima-donnish behaviour you might as well give it to him with knobs on!
The young woman then began to adjust a few knobs on the consul.
He required others to open doors for him because he so abhorred touching the knobs or other metal objects.
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The utterly charming Mr Vass who runs the shop has a terrific range of door knobs, handles and basically everything you could ever need in brass and general ironmongery.
For example, the handlebar end plugs are unsightly rounded black rubber knobs, rather than the attractive chrome-look plastic buttons that some companies supply.
The toilets are fitted with high cisterns, while old-style metal radiators and old doors with brass knobs are fitted throughout the house, giving it a touch of character.
Meanwhile, Ant sat before a desk studded with countless knobs and dials, lit by the glow from a monitor that sat by a complicated-looking keyboard.
And all controls are push buttons instead of switches and knobs.
On the other hand, even though old-fashioned knobs and dial-controls are sturdier, they are harder to maintain as dirt can easily accumulate in them.
Dot with small knobs of butter and bake quickly in a 400 F oven.
Little knobs of teal, our smallest native duck, appear out of nowhere.
The drawback with extended warranties is that they tend not to be worth the paper they're written on and in this case I fear that applies with knobs on!
In other words, independence ceases to be a big bang and becomes devolution with knobs on, an incremental process by which the existing Scottish parliament extends its powers.
The fruit has a smooth, yellowish skin without the knobs or reticulations which are characteristic of its tropical relatives such as the cherimoya, sugar-apple, and sour sop.
The promising new sole looks to be more durable with beefier knobs and optional screw-in studs for gobs of traction on steep hike-a-bike sections.
My ribs are like a xylophone, and the knobs of my spine stick up like ponderous cairns in the landscape of my back.
But specific features such as bedknife-to-reel knobs on the walk-behinds and an offset cutting-unit design on the triplex mowers can ensure you get the best cut possible.
I don't want to see any more square-headed blokes twiddling knobs.
If you offer gear shift knobs, steering wheels and other interior components in a variety of colors, you have to have the parts available in all the colors to make repairs.
Garish handles, knobs and bases cast from Victorian lamps and furniture decorate her works, parodying the stultifying ornateness that marked the era.
Other keyless devices consist of rotating knobs on the slide mechanism.
Controlling your digital audio system with real knobs and faders is a joy.
The regional physiognomy is characterized by broad ridges and rugged dissected stream valleys cutting through sedimentary rocks and scattered igneous knobs.
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Stalactite-like structures were common in the Black Sheep pocket, forming knobs and fingers of matrix covered with druzy quartz, fluorite, and galena crystals.
The semicircle of his high, wide forehead swung down to the protuberant knobs of his cheekbones, and then tapered, concaving to the pointy bulb of his chin.
If you're careful you can measure to locate holes for pulls and knobs.
The door opened a foot. Parker squinted out, looking like death on a Popsicle stick. With knobs on.
But I feel like 40 miles of bad road. I pull the sleeping bag over my head and curl my body around knobs of rock and tussocks of blueberries.
Side-focus knobs allow us to focus the reticle to the same focal plane as our target, a process crucial to accurate shooting past 300 yards.
The head and lower jaw are covered with knobs called tubercles, which are hair follicles and are characteristic of the species.
For example, hardware on doors was discarded, and stock wood knobs and snuggers were used.
Hendrix usually turned all of the amplifier's control knobs to the maximum level, which became known as the Hendrix setting.
Supplied with U-bolt fittings, it also had circular plastic knobs for quicker operation, but no tyre locators.
If the machine is really broken, noodling with the knobs is not going to fix it.
Schmitt said that, when looking at the different chemistries, several control knobs can be used.
Don't make any wrenching, heaving movements on rigid door knobs and tight screw-top jars.
The grooves between the knobs trap a consistent film of air, making it an excellent sound mirror.
The grooves between the knobs trap a film of air that is consistent whatever the orientation or depth of the whale, making it an excellent sound mirror.
A 12-gauge shotgun cartridge is now available that is designed specifically to breach padlock hasps and deadbolts, knobs and hinges on wooden doors.
Tortoises also shed skin, but dead skin is allowed to accumulate into thick knobs and plates that provide protection to parts of the body outside the shell.
Place whole, unpeeled knobs of ginger in a zipper-lock freezer bag for up to 3 months. Slice or break off what you need and return the rest to the freezer.
Individual knobs are polymorphic among strains of both maize and teosinte.
Expanding an extensive collection of designs, we bring the Serendipity collection with two knobs and three lengths of pulls in Black Iron and Iced Tea Nickel finishes.
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But it went through her like a flash of hot fire when, in passing, he lurched against the dresser, setting the tins rattling, and clutched at the white pot knobs for support.
In all, the Push Pull Rotate line features more than 100 combinations of keyed entry and interior knobs, levers, handlesets, dummy knobs and levers, and deadbolts.

Ennis, tensing to spring toward Ruth, saw the two priests at the gray mechanism swiftly turn the knurled black knobs.
But next morning, when they were dressing, what does the stranger do but carefully hang his breeches on the knobs of the tallboy!
Perforated knobs often take the place of the loops, and unperforated nodes and projections of varied shapes are not unusual.
No distinct tufts of scales or knobs appear, and the ocellated region is traversed by four or five dark longitudinal lines.
He threw his overcoat into a chair, and touched the brass knobs behind the door.
They are all covered with cloth and rubber and are fastened with glass or porcelain knobs.
The two knobs with drum are mounted on an axle a, which in its central portion is enlarged and provided with a worm gear.
She could not see the wych-elm tree, but a branch of the celebrated vine, studded with velvet knobs had covered the perch.
In this moss, the paraphyses are inflated at the summit into little knobs, or they are capitate.
There's glass knobs on all the doors as will show every finger mark, and will keep me busy wiping from dawn to dark.
Upon the hearth of the Franklin stove, high andirons smile a fireside welcome from their burnished brass knobs.
Frisch conjectures that it may have arisen from Pistillo or Stiopo, because pistols used to have large knobs on the handle.
Pasticcio di Maccheroni is an excellent macaroni pie, and gnocchi di Patele are little knobs of paste boiled like macaroni.
When this spark occurs at least four kinds of waves pass out in all directions from the spark gap between the knobs.
He took a piece of charcoal, as he spoke, and brought it into contact with two of the knobs.
He further draws attention to the occurrence of irregular knobs two to three lines in height which consist, in part, of azurite.
To the ends of the umbilcus were added knobs, sometimes gilded or painted a bright color.
What if knobs and the hooked nose man with the limp were in a partnership of crime?
Fig. 225 shows the edge of the door with the three knobs in place.
I remember what a kindly wink the knobs of our big, old bureau used to have, and there was one chair that always seemed like a strong friend.
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Its surface is dotted all over with little conical prominences, looking not unlike the knobs, on an antiquated church door.
Uriah stopped short, put his hands between his great knobs of knees, and doubled himself up with laughter.
He leaned back in it, resting his hands on the knobs of the arms and looking at Madame de Bellegarde and Urbain.
She opened all the drawers, pressed all the knobs in the carved brasswork.
Anklet with two knobs, formed of two pieces screwed together.
Buckstone gives notice of the thieving knobs University job.
The white petals re-entered their red cases, the flowers faded as I looked, and the bush changed into a block of stony knobs.
Prochaska bent over the radarscope and fiddled with some knobs.
The moss grew over it thicker and thicker, until at last it looked almost like a soft green seat, with only a few gray knobs of granite peeping out.
The Germans returned presently to find him already generously smutty and touching and testing knobs and screws and levers with an expression of profound sagacity.

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