"Between 1940 and 1954 he played for Beyogluspor, Besiktas, Palermo, Lazio and Galatasaray," writes Özgür Canba, a presenter on Radyo Spor (where even the odd Knowledge contributor can sometimes be heard on Monday evenings).
I row twice a week in the evenings, plus the odd weekend.
The musical satirist Peter Schickele, the self-proclaimed discoverer of "the oddest of Johann Sebastian Bach's 20-odd children," will preside over evenings titled "The 1712 Overture and Other Outbreaks of Musical Violence".
Be ready to have years of long days with odd hours at times; sunrise, sunset, evenings, weekends, and miles of driving and walking.
If you're feeling brave you can sit on a high stool at the Oyster Bar where on Friday evenings you can watch the odd size-zero socialite fall over after having too much bubbly and not enough food.
Jose spends his mornings doing sport in his village near Seville, then hangs out with his friends in the street, with the odd minibike race to liven up the evenings.
I'm not particularly interested in the beach volley ball tournaments the school arranges in the evenings, but feel a bit odd tagging along with the over-sixties to their wine and cheese tasting nights.
Different jobs demand different hourly commitments — some are standard nine-to-fives, while others have odd hours or may require work on evenings or weekends.
So the early-evening Sunday slot, the hagiographic narrative structure, that odd talky bit about religious doubts at the end, suddenly all made sense.
We skip classes or call in sick to work to watch them roar, we wake up at odd hours of the night to cheer them on, we spend countless evenings fighting away on Internet bulletin boards defending our favorites against their critics, we feel elated by their success and crestfallen at their failure.
This seems a bit odd, in particular since the period between 5 30 p.m. and 10 p.m. (evenings) will normally result in more unscheduled admissions than in the period between 10 p.m. and 7 30 a.m.
