And everybody around them is doing peculiar things — they throw buckets of water and everybody laughs.
And so it doesn't — at least not the Glasgow of his previous mysteries, which exist in some surreal universe where strange people are forever doing peculiar things.
"The thing about clowns is that they look a bit like human beings, but they also look peculiar, and they do peculiar things.
There are always people who will do peculiar things, and think that they are doing things in the name of their religion.
Yes dear, your having participated in that hideous, sexist anachronism beauty pageants, and your having played a children's school-recess game, certainly shows your hardscrabble work ethic, as does your lying around tanning and letting Natalie do peculiar things to you with hand tools while all about you, everyone else is actually working.
They found that their yo-yo, jacks, Slinky and mechanical mouse did some peculiar things in the weightlessness of space flight.
Sometimes we can be found doing quite peculiar things, like lovingly documenting the grave sites of fossil whales with 3-D laser scanners.
Even if he was not the cold-blooded murderer that the indictment purported him to be, he had done very peculiar things.
And after the defendant — accused of ordering her husband's murder in 2007 and facing life in prison — decided to testify, the judge forbade her to explain why she did certain peculiar things, like buy a spy camera and secretly record conversations.
Pioneer has done a peculiar thing, which is to put a Southern Comfort cocktail, the Yellow Desert Rose, on its menu.
