Since today is the 17th, that means that only vehicles with license plates ending in odd numbers are allowed on the roads.

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She notes that in pictures of Thomson in the playoffs, there is some odd bunching of the fabric around the number 3 on the back. (He wore number 23 for the Giants.) Rousseau says that the severe process used to dry-clean jerseys at the time often caused odd distortions at the point where the numbers met the uniforms.

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Ours is an odd and paradoxical nation, where 50 states of varying size get proportional numbers of electoral votes, yet get two U.S. senators each.

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Starting in 2008 and continuing to the present day, we read of increasing numbers of cases involving so-called trading platforms, FOREX scams, and all sorts of odd investment opportunities offered by registered persons to their brokerage firm customers.

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