If you can't get your hips above your knees, sit on as many blocks or folded blankets as necessary until you achieve this position.
Only someone under the influence of strong hallucinogens – or a politician looking for crowd-pleasing legislation – would conclude that the answer lies in this kind of knee-jerk blanket ban.
Despite his claim to be "just as leery of wild-eyed, Pollyanna-ish optimism" as "knee-jerk, blanket rejections," he lands squarely in the gung-ho camp, suggesting that boosted genes might be inserted "into a large number of human embryos".
Covering the clients' knees with blankets, she proceeds with the grand tour.
I moved carefully around the room, fearful of triggering a paperslide, and sat on the room's one empty chair, facing the foot of Gregory's bed, my knees touching the blanket.
In like fifteen minutes, in my brown underwear, green socks up to my knees, and a blanket, I was rushed out to the landing zone where a chopper took me to C.S.H. [Combat Support Hospital] 28, in downtown Baghdad.
From time to time, the cameras would cut to Henry, arms folded on his knees under a checked blanket, his face almost invisible under a woolly hat; the bench might as well have been a bath chair wheeled to a deserted beach.
The reaction of the protestors/protectors was understandably one of fear, considering 500 years of genocide, Wounded Knee, and smallpox laced blankets that wiped out entire populations.
At night I sat by the fire with a blanket over my knee and my glowing laptop and kept in touch with friends back in London – the digital ghosts of my old life.
"You should see our son's recommendations," announced Robert, who was sitting in a folding chair with a mug of coffee in his hand and a plaid blanket over his knees.
