fumble-fingered

Each page needed to be numbered, usually at the top right hand corner, and it was a good idea to put your name or the title or both up there, too, in case some fumble-fingered assistant editor dropped a couple of manuscripts and had to try to reassemble them.

Dinosaur Twitches Steve Perry 2010

Each page needed to be numbered, usually at the top right hand corner, and it was a good idea to put your name or the title or both up there, too, in case some fumble-fingered assistant editor dropped a couple of manuscripts and had to try to reassemble them.

Archive 2010-06-01 Steve Perry 2010

I was right — those fumble-fingered boys from the machine shop had been in such a hurry that they had forgotten to attach one of the propellers.

I Was Sealed Alive in an Oil Tank « Official Harry Harrison News Blog 2007

If you have fumble-fingered kids or are a gearhead, you'll be happy to know that the ShamWow did hold slightly more spilled milk and used motor oil than sponges and cloths.

ShamWow fails to wow in Consumer Reports tests 2009

If you have fumble-fingered kids or are a gearhead, you'll be happy to know that the ShamWow did hold slightly more spilled milk and used motor oil than sponges and cloths.

ShamWow fails to wow in Consumer Reports tests 2009

So while my previous statement still holds re dropping a Saturn V into one not wildly affecting the gravitational field it emits, such a fumble-fingered moment would make for a fair bit of radiation.

story idea, rubber science Holly 2007

And take heart – as I said to my students – you cannot be more fumble-fingered than me.

Tigers & Strawberries » Pastry for Butterfingers 2005

Faithful readers may remember my admission that I am fumble-fingered when it comes to pastry, and that I had vowed within this year to become better able to make pies that not only tasted good, but looked like something other than a map of Australia, or worse, like something a cow stepped in.

Tigers & Strawberries » Sweet Success 2005

It also provides how-to diagrams to help the fumble-fingered master shapes like the Cagney, the Presidential and the Puff.

Tip Sheet 2007

It also provides how-to diagrams to help the fumble-fingered master shapes like the Cagney, the Presidential and the Puff.

Tip Sheet 2007