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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Authors Davidson, Bondi and Smith point out that the odd pairing of global and local sensibilities is part of what attracts Westerners to fast food restaurants abroad.

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But purely from a domestic point of view, it seems beyond odd that Warner Bros. seems to keep tempting fate by attempting to open expensive summer movies during a period where audiences have rejected their pictures in favor of the summer kick-off film again and again.

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Theorists of such a conspiracy can point to the release this week of a very odd Cain campaign video.

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All of which brings us to a sort of starting point for this article, which begins with the odd situation of a consolidated FINRA arbitration.

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But I guess there must come a point in time when it would be, you know odd if you were, if there was a huge proportion of your funding coming from one particular source.

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However, three drivers lined up in last year's final race with a chance of winning the championship, with the Finn eventually grabbing the checkered flag to pip McLaren's odd couple team-mates Lewis Hamilton and Fernando Alonso by a point.

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She made a point of steering away from exotic herbs, edible flowers and other "odd stuff" that might be hard for people to find.

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And as the odd-lot investor theory goes, small buyers of stocks usually come into the market during the high point, and sell in the low point.

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