Residents also take a peculiar pride, joking that the plant lends Vernon and its residents a certain incandescence.
It was a demonstration of how peculiar fads, jokes or videos can come out of nowhere and run riot across the web.
Philip Matyszak's "The Classical Compendium: a Miscellany of Scandalous Gossip, Bawdy Jokes, Peculiar Facts, and Bad Behavior from the Ancient Greeks and Romans" doesn't quite live up to its flamboyant subtitle, but it does contain some delectable tidbits.
This was a very popular Victorian and Edwardian "savoury"; it also seems to be one of their peculiar ideas of a joke, a bit like Welsh rarebit.
It's essentially a catalyst for absurd little jokes and peculiar moments, but when added up it's just a funny looking piece of shit.
But on occasion his jokes come at peculiar moments and can be disconcerting.
Mr. Gorman has written a peculiar but intriguing series of jokes with punch lines that often require a second or two to digest (or maybe it's the delivery).
For two days, as Mr. Gore campaigned for Senator John Kerry in Florida, he spritzed little jokes about his peculiar place in history, deflecting anything more than a hint of reflection about what might have been ("Hi, I'm Al Gore; I used to be the next president of the United States," or, "For eight years, I flew on Air Force Two -- now I have to take my shoes off to get on an airplane").
Is it a Mitt Romney tree?" The crowd laughs heartily, which is peculiar given the quality of the "joke" and the fact that, unlike a pantomime, there are few three-year-olds in the audience.
