But the experience is oddly appealing and even addictive, which explains why the Model T has fans all over the world.
Oddly, not even the remote possibility of such an outcome seems yet to have been factored into Microsoft's phenomenally strong share price.
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Yet recently one of his lesser-known investments is starting to take nips out of Microsoft, SAP and, oddly enough, even his own Oracle.
Despite the beard, the blustery rhetoric, and the orange batik print shirt draped over his round belly Stallman is in some ways oddly even charmingly conservative.
Even more oddly, Mr Mundell believes that the planet as a whole is an optimal currency area.
That said, despite Mr Cheney's efforts, the administration still seems oddly reluctant to persuade even likely supporters to back military action.
Yet amid the fighting talk and the predictions of victory, the gathering felt oddly flat at times, even wary.
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Her writing life was oddly self-contained, even if, by the end of the Potter series, she was receiving between one and two thousand pieces of mail a week.
Even with our potentially top player on injured reserve (the Atlantic sturgeon is currently under a commercial fishing ban), companies like Sterling, Tsar Nicoulai and Seattle Caviar are offering subtle, very caviary-tasting roe from the Pacific Coast white sturgeon, the lake sturgeon of the Great Lakes and the Mississippi, and even from the oddly abundant paddlefish, a distant sturgeon cousin.
Oddly, people seem to mind even less about how much information the private sector holds about them.
As for taxes, those who oddly want the feds to collect even more revenues to waste, work legalization will achieve just that.
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But even this less ruthless approach sits oddly with Sinn Fein's demand to be admitted to peace talks.
GM's bonds are already trading at junk prices, even though the ratings agencies persist, oddly, in regarding them as investment-grade.
Over-the-air firmware updates (FOTA) are all well and good, but manufacturers and carriers have been a little slow on the uptake, and even plain ol' PC-delivered upgrades are oddly difficult for the average user to come by.
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Even for those who like math, those figures can seem oddly devoid of joy and life energy.
Oddly, though, young people are increasingly likely to live at home even if they do have jobs.
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Oddly, police have not found either the people who sold the bars or even one of the 150 to whom they were given.
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Thanks to computers, oddly enough, the ability to get on well with other people is going to be even more valuable in future than it has been up to now.
Mr Garten is oddly insistent, despite this, that American CEOs should pursue a broader agenda on the global stage even if they are regarded in some quarters as imperialists.
Congress and regulators have been oddly quiet in reaction, since the news potentially throws a monkey wrench into their plans to scuttle even the Dodd-Frank financial regulations after the elections.
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Oddly enough, the cynical angle of the show which basically revolves around instant fame and celebrity based on notoriety seems even more relevant today as we live in a world chock full of "celebrities" from Big Brother, Popstars, Fame Academy and a host of other reality shows.
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