The reason is not in the five albums that Thomas recorded apart from his band, Pere Ubu, during the 1980's, although they offer many wonderfully odd moments.

Western Beef, perhaps best known among grocery aficionados for its wonderfully odd logo of a cactus wearing a cowboy hat, has occupied the site for the past 20 years.

It's not like Stoppard, where you play with words or everybody hides emotions through wonderfully odd sentences.

This is a wonderfully odd, powerful, thoughtful show.

No, Nash thought, it felt wonderfully odd to have someone so obviously excited for him.

And then there's "Breaking the Waves," in which he creates this wonderfully odd character and then spends the last half of the movie torturing her.

It is a wonderfully odd, theatrical coincidence.

But for this visitor Cezanne was no less Poussinesque, and no less distinctly himself, in the wonderfully odd and unpredictable "Pigeon Tower at Bellevue."

While I consider myself a "grocery aficionado," I can't be the only one for whom the chain's "wonderfully odd" logo is irrelevant.

The expression sounded wonderfully odd, with its suggestion of sedentary desk-life.