In the case of Microsoft, set up in 1975, the surprising thing is that the union between the two men lasted as long as it did given the tension that already underlay their friendship.
Almost the only surprising thing about the scandal is Mr Cronje's involvement.
The most surprising thing is the fact that Apple's CODECs (both H.264 and MPEG2) drop more frames than the beta's for Xvid or Divx.
The most surprising thing about the mess at Supervalu ( SVU), which switched out CEOs this week, is the credentials of the departing Craig Herkert.
Yet perhaps the most surprising thing about the debate on care of the elderly is just how far its basic assumption - that ideally each family should care for its own - is taken for granted by most of Singapore's citizens.
The really surprising thing is that Massachusetts is a deep-blue state, and the House is controlled by Democrats.
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The most surprising thing is that Deming did not do this first in his native America, but in Japan.
The most surprising thing I learned was that Ono still feels as invisible as she did when she was 19.
The most surprising thing for me in all this is that Flipboard for Android is missing a simple code line that checked if the smartphone it was running on was a Galaxy S3 or another Android smartphone.
The only thing more surprising than the fight was that no one moved a muscle, or seemed to think it was unusual.
But the emails do reveal one surprising thing: Weiner has a honest side.
The link between the search for extraterrestrial life and our Earth-based problems is not surprising, because fundamentally it is all the same thing -- understanding how life, whether us or microbes, can be sustained in the cosmos.
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The explanation sounded like it came out of an energy journal, which can't be surprising because that's the kind of thing he apparently enjoys reading.
"The thing about surprises is they aren't really surprising, " notes Hirsch.
These two calls are not so surprising given that both Glass Lewis and ISS recommended the same thing last year, when the proposal got about 40% shareholder support.
And believe it or not, which is a very surprising thing, medical experts are now warning that for the first time in the history of this nation, we're headed for the next generation being on track to have a shorter life span than us.
So, with France and Germany pleading with Portugal to admit they have a problem and three very big sovereign debt auctions coming up, it would not have been surprising to see the buyers stand aside and for the bears to do their thing.
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