HG Wells had seemed fit to have the Martian invader lay waste to London and southern England.
In his public appearances he has seemed fit, if doddery and occasionally forgetful.
Perhaps it was inevitable that with so much emotion accompanying this memorial match, the Welsh players would be unable to mark the occasion with the win which would have seemed so fitting.
But those rules have seemed a poor fit for the nation's rural communities and sparsely populated Western regions, experts said.
And until a few years ago, he might have seemed an odd fit for Manager Joe Torre's clubhouse because he had earned a reputation as a player who complained out loud in his efforts to force management's hand when it came to getting a new contract or a trade.
Yet the gesture, which could have seemed lazy or cheap, fits in with the basic generosity of the staging: the opera, with its first two acts reordered and shortened, is projected as a dream/nightmare of a young, contemporary Asian-American boy who, with the help of his laptop computer, is questioning his origins.
Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, said it seemed "fitting to have such a gleaming talisman to watch over our city during this fantastic Olympic year".
Yet, to the makers of the ad, with its vague celebration of ethnic diversity and patriotism, the Ali clip may have seemed like a perfect fit: an African-American son of Louisville proudly representing his country abroad.
The University of Chicago's economics department had a famous unifying theme -- the Gospel of Free Markets, with a conservative twist -- and would therefore not have seemed the most likely fit for Levitt.
The group's recurring subject matter of suburban despair and alienation might have seemed like an odd fit for Glastonbury's peace and love ethos, but there is an optimism and belief in humanity at the core of their music.
