Stringer early on startedd talking up 3D, while wearing a silly looking pair of 3D glasses.

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And while the device is silly-looking, it does address a major market and a major problem.

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Quests for Weber-style socio-cultural explanations of economic fortunes leave most practitioners looking silly.

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But there is a real danger that he will end up looking silly.

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Yet both ended up looking silly, which put a ceiling on their careers.

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The perma-bears are looking mighty silly and are certainly the poorer for it.

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Of course, analysts come out looking most overly bullish and almost silly when recessions hit or bubbles burst.

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But with the one-size-bigger Countryman hitting dealerships now, and a Mini coupe and roadster coming soon, plus the likely Paceman crossover coupe, Mini to me is looking more and more like a wad of Silly Putty being stretched and deformed into too many shapes.

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For a while now, skinny and narrow has been de rigueur (thanks to Hedi Slimane, formerly of Christian Dior fame), but that has left men with, ahem, wider thighs, bigger bottoms and thicker waists looking, well, uncomfortable at best and rather silly at worst.

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