The fact that he was a man interested in handicraft struck others as odder still.
But it is, perhaps, no odder than the position of the Gurkhas in their own country.
The timing of the controls makes Dr Mahathir's cries of victory sound even odder.
There may have been odder cases of satellite cross-breeding, but probably not many.
BBC's new channels, it seems odder still to argue that Britain's biggest broadcaster should not try out good new ideas.
That number looks even odder considering that according to Pro Football Focus, no quarterback threw deep more often than Denver's Tebow.
This makes it all the odder that, on June 8th, Oscar Goodman should have won election as the city's mayor by a landslide.
Odder still is that he should have said this at a time when private philanthropy may be entering another golden age in America.
An even odder thing about this bunch of demonstrators is that they seem to be out of step with their country's general sentiment about globalisation.
Traditional non-digital cinema, meanwhile, offered Cannes some brighter, if odder, moments.
But unless you are particularly interested in the fineries of European intellectual property law, you can be forgiven for missing one of the odder entries in the field: Wimdu.
Odder still, Capcom has a long relationship with Sony and a PS3 exclusive release of a brand new Monster Hunter game seems like a no-brainer for everyone involved.
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But in recent years knots of people often gathered there to watch an odder creature creeping, by feet and hands alone, across the high sheer face of boulder, buttress or cliff.
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We got out and walked around, and people pointed and laughed at the odd mechanical animals, the ever odder mechanical humans, the constellation of lights on the lawn and on the roof.
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Odder still are the sharp gains by shares in car-parts manufacturers such as Dana, Eaton and, perhaps most remarkable, Delphi, a former subsidiary of its largest customer, embattled General Motors.
Their decision to lend to the UK looks even odder, when you look at the respective public-sector deficits - the gap between their spending and tax revenues - of the UK, Spain and Italy.
An aside: Skorny came to the meeting with one of the odder computers I have ever seen: a MacBook Air on which he has has ripped out the Mac OS completely and installed Microsoft Windows 7 instead.
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His book "Voices From the Moon" is based upon interviews with the surviving Apollo astronauts, and he concludes there's no "lunar syndrome" that's sent the moonwalkers down paths odder than any dozen former colleagues in other lines of work.
One of the odder distinctions within Conservatism is the disagreement about whether it is an ideology at all, worthy of a capital C, or simply a disposition or identity, with a small c, which can tolerate an awful lot of difference.
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Rather, to point out that large areas, almost all in fact (except Ricardo and some of the odder implications of Keynesianism which I and many others are not sure make sense at all, let alone the common sort) of economics is based on such logical concepts that can be derived from simple if thorough contemplation of the world around us.
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