It also helps to explain something I found a little odd a couple of months back when I did a piece for them.
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"My mother said I was a little odd as a kid, " says Lauper, 59.
At first glance, having that type of department might seem a little odd for a semiconductor manufacturer.
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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Spooky, a loner, odd and a ghost in the tightknit, upstate New York hometown his family had lived in for generations.
"Jimmy Savile was regarded by a great many people as odd - a bit peculiar, " said Mr Entwistle.
Asked about it on the Today programme in January he said: "Yes, I am a bit odd" for a politician.
That is a very odd observation from a man who prided himself on his knowledge of history, because, in fact, that is exactly what civilization did remind itself of after it collapsed.
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Of course, it does seem a little odd to create a tax bracket solely for a group of people who could fit onto the love boat (with plenty of room left over for a few of the hoi polloi).
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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.
The SE-208BW combines an external ODD with a wireless module to provide wider end-user benefits.
It might seem a bit odd that Cypress hosts a start-up within its walls.
It is odd that a Labour government should be introducing a similar scheme for young people.
All of which is sort of odd for a band that broke up a few years ago.
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On the surface it is just odd that a single debate would have produced such a big shift.
It may seem odd that a meeting with a party front-runner ended up being all about the kids.
On the face of it there is something odd about a materials firm advocating less use of materials.
Even Luigi Turletti, the immigrant Italian caterer, found it a bit odd to be honouring a Cremona native in South Dakota.
To some the reluctance to pronounce publicly might appear odd in a world that assigns such importance to a presence in the media.
Nothing that odd about a buyback, but in this case this is the first time Avnet is repurchasing stock in at least a decade.
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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The car manages to be clunky and graceful, practical and delirious all at the same time--it is beautifully odd in a way only a human hand can create.
It is odd that a city that has been at the forefront of so many radical changes should, more recently, come to be defined by its old world character.
This may sound odd (a theory of mind among hominids?), but as Pagel notes, even two-year-old babies have a greater understanding of what other humans believe than even adult apes do.
Although it may seem odd that a South Korean company would make chips in the US destined to be sent to Asian assembly plants, one analyst said the move made strategic sense.
At the height of its fortunes in the early 14th century, Ravenser Odd was a town of national importance, regularly supplying the king with two fully equipped ships and armed men for his war with the Scots.
The stores that have managed to open are an eclectic blend of what makes the Upper West Side my favorite neighborhood: the obvious (liquor stores), the odd (a shoe store on Broadway), and the adorable (a flower store on Amsterdam).
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While that might seem odd, a number of longtime Democrats have sought waivers or switched parties over the years to try to get the Republican ballot line in the mayor's race, rather than join a Democratic field that's usually more crowded with experienced politicians.
We are in an odd way a very snobbish nation but as Alan Bennett once said, snobbery is an amiable vice when it looks upwards, it's only when it looks downward it's horrible, if you look down on people because, if you admire in some way some style of eccentricity in other people there's nothing that wrong with it.
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.
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