Sentences with phrase «such oddities»

That particular mania has spread from blogging to the wider world of social media, resulting in such oddities as the insidious but seemingly serious belief that Twitter, of all things, is useful for anything other than as rollicking a good time as one is able to squeeze out of 140 characters.

From its humble roots as a stylish GTA clone the series has evolved into over-the-top levels of excess, prominently featuring such oddities as lucha libre mafiosi and the ability to engage in skydiving gunbattles in your birthday suit.

Mario's biggest adventure takes him across the world to brand kingdoms away from the confines of all those mushrooms to lands with oceans, dinosaurs, talking forks and other such oddities.

Google's full list of stores includes such oddities as Hayneedle, Jo - Ann Fabric, and Moosejaw.

Now Microsoft continues this collaboration, creating such oddities as this — Lumia phones showing you notifications to your phone through the Fatboy Edison Petit lamp.

Leaving aside such oddities as the Anglo - Italian and Anglo - Scottish cups, this will be the Foxes» fourth foray into continental football, and however their games turn out, the six group fixtures will constitute their longest European campaign.

3 A Two - Timing Universe For nearly a century, physicists have tried to reconcile Einstein's vision of the universe (including three dimensions of space and one of time) with the bizarre realm of quantum physics, rife with such oddities as instant communication at a distance and being in two places at once.

New work that claims to banish such theories not only suggests your brain isn't such an oddity, but tells us which frameworks for the cosmos are the most sound.

Here are five of such oddities, and yes — they're all real!

So why do they do such oddities as self - pet or knead on a blanket?

It is refreshing to know that there are others who are not compelled to interact with locals simply because they are there, and I may not be such an oddity for giving only a smile as a greeting and going about my way.

To that end, even such oddities as the original game's «Pause Trick» and Mega Man 3's «Super Jump» are retained.

In Allen's hands, Wonderland was tackily transformed into a plush extended episode of Fantasy Island, featuring such oddities as Ann Jillian running at the speed of light, John Stamos flipping his pageboy back and forth at a unicorn, Carol Channing turning into a goat after promising a little girl jam tomorrow or yesterday but never today, and Patrick Duffy in furrie - kabuki makeup eating a tin can.

, Kingdom Hearts drinking glasses, a board game based on F - Zero, a red Coca - Cola - branded Sega Game Gear, a prototype version of Final Fantasy II, and other such oddities.

There's even a list of 575 nicknames, including such oddities as Flubadub, Muckle and Two and a Juice.

Now Microsoft continues this collaboration, creating such oddities as this - Lumia phones showing you notifications to your phone through the Fatboy Edison Petit lamp.

Such oddities as the petting zoo at Indian Boundary Park and the pond for competitive casting in Lincoln Park have always dotted the city's parks.

It's a small thing, yes, but such oddities are pleasing to the eye, suggesting as they do that something peculiar is going on somewhere.

The Indians, though, have no such oddities in their streak.

It's a rarity: a summer movie about women, primarily starring women and mostly made by women — and it's time that stopped being such an oddity.

The levels vary from familiar takes on platforming staples — cloud levels and underwater levels — to such oddities as a world based on didgeridoos.

Perhaps because it is such an oddity, Twitter is the repository for a lot of bad lawyer behavior like the kind Sam wrote about.