But the family seemed, if anything, exceedingly normal.
They looked so exceedingly normal and suburban, it was easy to transplant that image on to families I know.
But, and it is a big but, there will be something exceedingly normal about the whole endeavour.
But, if the social mainstream is mapped by The Simpsons (as good a guide as any, I reckon) then the procedure has become exceedingly normal.
It's an exceedingly normal four-door that just happens to sever the umbilical cord that tethers our cars to a region of political instability, the Middle East.
When I profiled Li in 2008, I was struck, as people usually are, by his weirdness, and then surprised to discover that he was accompanied off-stage by an exceedingly normal wife: Kim Lee, a tall brunette from Florida who had met him on a business trip to China.
But "normal" in Washington now means new bulletins of anthrax discoveries, and so today was exceedingly normal -- anthrax spores in a mailroom at the Supreme Court building, anthrax in a mailroom at the State Department, anthrax in a federal building that houses the Voice of America, then another warning from the government about the potential for terrorist attacks.
Why do they assume it's true?" Fortuny calls himself "a normal person who does insane things on the Internet," and the scene at dinner later on the first day we spent together was exceedingly normal, with Fortuny, his roommate Charles and his longtime friend Zach trading stories at a sushi restaurant nearby over sake and happy-hour gyoza.
They're also exceedingly normal dudes, which helps.
Hawkeye is an exceedingly normal American man, and thus, he is definitely cut.
