"Jimmy Savile was regarded by a great many people as odd - a bit peculiar, " said Mr Entwistle.
And yet, says Rajat Nag, the ADB's managing director, for the past 20-odd years a pan-Asian conversation about the benefits of deeper integration has only grown.
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In fact it is anomalous that a group of 30-odd countries with a small fraction of the world's population should be calling the shots.
The probability of a tie (or, if the voter count is odd, a one-vote margin) would be the probability that when you flip a coin 5.2 million times you get exactly 2.6 million heads and 2.6 million tails.
Mr Blass had a few lessons at an art school, and was taken on as an artist and odd-job man by a clothes manufacturer.
"We were lucky to get some bounces there but again there was a couple of odd-man rushes we didn't even get a shot on net, " he said.
F. contingent, including forty-odd contractors supplied by DynCorp, a Virginia-based private military company, which has a number of large U.S. government contracts in Iraq, Afghanistan, and other parts of the world.
It might seem a bit odd that Cypress hosts a start-up within its walls.
Sound quality was solid, but speaking into a pen admittedly felt a bit odd -- you may not draw as many stares as you would if speaking directly into a 10.1, but the seemingly unusual action may still turn a few heads.
Nothing was exactly square in North Beach -- a neighborhood of odd intersections and acute hillside corners -- because Columbus sliced through the street grid diagonally, from the office buildings downtown, north and west to Fisherman's Wharf.
The SE-208BW combines an external ODD with a wireless module to provide wider end-user benefits.
Passengers will be able to leap on and off the city's 500-odd old-fashioned buses at least until a European directive on accessibility comes into force in (gasp) 2016.
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The final 20-odd percent was a contested block from the market, and that was done over one weekend before the stock market opened Monday morning.
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In the dining room I am working on, I plan to hang a single fantastic picture on one wall and smother the opposite wall with pictures a mix of Hugo Guinness paintings, the odd flea-market oil painting, a vintage poster and vintage sandpaper pictures I found in Paula Rubenstein's Manhattan shop.
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Anganwadi centres also provide daily pre-school child care and education, as well as keeping a dozen-odd registers recording everything from children's weights to financial accounts.
Mr Wang's rethink was triggered by a spate of 200-odd strikes last year in the Pearl River delta that began in May with workers downing tools at a Honda car-parts factory in Foshan, near Guangzhou.
The camp was set up like a kraal, with thirty-odd trucks parked in tight groups to form a large, fanlike defensive circle.
Other theatrical adventures involve entering a wardrobe to find a secret room where an actor will dress you up in odd clothes, entering a 15-minute relationship or taking the chance to interrogate characters taken from the morning's newspapers about their role in the story.
In 1997, according to the Feminist Majority Foundation, a pro-choice group, almost a quarter of America's 900-odd abortion clinics reported attacks.
The newly formed Citicorp Information Technology Industries Ltd. (Citil), with young Hukku at the helm, inherited Microbanker, an early back-office software package, and a crew of 100-odd employees.
His dream: to invite his 60-odd new supporters to a housewarming party in his new place.
Those scales were perched on the stage of "Tiger, " a nightclub in the centre of Helsinki - a slightly odd venue for such an occasion.
"Thirty-odd incidents is quite a lot, " said Insp Hillson.
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Additionally, the company is also working with the My City Way apps, which cover 40 cities in the US and that many abroad, offering traffic cameras, POIs, and even public transit info -- a little odd for a car company.
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Even America is thinking again: in 20-odd states that require utilities to generate a proportion of their power from renewable sources, waste-to-energy plants count towards the goal.
When they acquired a crowned head, it was one of an odd kind: a descendant of a freedom-fighter against the king of Spain.
Yet, a hundred-odd days from polling day, three potential pitfalls still lie in Mr Sarkozy's way.
Crossed cultures and cross-dressing meet in this blissfully funny romance and odd-couple movie, set in a Canadian backwater.
Last week opposition leader and former foreign minister Tzipi Livni published a very odd op-ed in The New York Times.
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