I remember fondly the chess games I played with Dad as a child, and would find it strangely hypnotising as his fingers darted around the pieces on the board while he weighed up his next move.
But if you took someone from the early 1990s and transported them into the political world of 2016, it would seem strangely familiar.
Secondly, it would seem strangely arbitrary, given the moral significance that we give to rights, to insist that the objects of rights can be only goods that individuals can enjoy as independent individuals and never goods they can enjoy only in association with others.
Or would it be strangely pale and unlined, a poor match for the rest of my head?
The great thing about the best punk bands was the way they evolved into other areas so quickly – the Clash into dub and rockabilly, the Pistols into PiL – but strangely we would argue not for BB's progression but regression: if anything, we'd love to hear them becoming even more stripped-down and raw, elemental and unadorned, basic and primitive.
Oak House, rather strangely perhaps, would not look out of place in the trendiest parts of, say, London, Sydney or Los Angeles; nor would its design and construction cost, which came in just short of £1m.
He also mentioned that his cell-mate, Robert Stewart, who had the letters RIP tattooed on his forehead, had been acting strangely: he would stare at Zahid for hours on end without saying a word.
Strangely, if this default occurs, it would have originated domestically by right-wing "tea party" ideologues who are applying an incorrect metaphor to national accounting.
As a casting director, I had often tried to get him roles, but at that time he was having a problem controlling his eye movement and some directors were afraid that it would make him photograph strangely.
Tunnel 4 — and strangely enough it would have a four-degree curve — would bore 297 feet through the same tough rock.
But if you had to make a list of Hollywood actors whose innermost thoughts it would be interesting to get a glimpse of, strangely affable Scientologist Tom Cruise would surely be near the top.
