Looking back years later, members of the Princeton Class of 1993 understood the story of Alexi Santana as a puzzling crime, as an abuse of the admissions process, or as a weird occurrence that had little to do with their own lives.
In other news; a much less important, but nonetheless weird occurrence, went down at the Emmys, when the president of the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences placed Gloria from.
The mobs rushing into the Cooke's In have resulted in some wild, weird occurrences.
In his eclectic collection of "weird" occurrences, Ackland includes the death of his beloved wife Rosemary from motor neurone disease (MND), a rare terminal illness.
Their efforts are obstructed first by a simple misunderstanding -- guests arrive to find their unprepared hostess in her satin dressing-gown -- and then by progressively weirder occurrences involving international drug-smuggling, surprise military exercises and a succession of dreams.
Her intricate and wonderfully weird narratives catalyzed by "everyday occurrences and memories"—always feel authentic, never gimmicky.
Suddenly I realised how fucking weird it is that people, as an everyday occurrence, cram themselves into tiny spaces, like it's a normal situation.
The occurrences are often recalled as being weird or strange, and though the episodes may last only minutes, the sense of helplessness may leave a lasting impression.
Wisniewski and Murphy collected ratings on familiarity (participants indicated phrases they had "heard or seen before"), plausibility (on a scale of 1 to 7 with 1 being very weird and 7 being very plausible), and frequency of phrase occurrence based on number of hits from the Google Internet search engine (similar to the phrase-frequency measure used in the present study).
And then I would just chance upon themes: weird roadside monuments, like the Superman statue in Metropolis, or just strange occurrences in DeKalb, which has a long history of sightings of wild animals that aren't indigenous - kangaroos and alligators".
Indeed, who doesn't lean in closer when someone says, "You know, I had the weirdest dream last night... ......? Dreams are mysterious and intriguing even to those who identify their occurrence by measuring electrical impulses in the sleeping brain.
