What may be silly to you may be important to someone else.
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They called Anthea 'Panther', which seems silly when you read it, but when you say it it sounds a little like her name.
Whenever you get into one of those silly arguments and you come upon a basic disagreement about facts, it can usually be resolved with a quick Google search.
Not you, of course, but people do say silly things, and you too have a family, don't you?
Sure, unless of course, those contract were for rights to the "iPhone, " not the "iPhone 3G" you silly lawyers.
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Salty-tongued waiters charm you silly, but with no solicitous pretense.
While using Facebook as a tool in your job search arsenal might strike you as silly, the research suggests otherwise.
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Well, one reason may be that during your interview, you were asked a number of questions that may have struck you as silly.
And it is those electoral dividends that matter to politicians: who cares about doing something very silly as long as you get re-elected?
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It sounds silly, but when you believe that folks you care about rely on your product or service, you will work harder to make sure they are treated well.
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Sure, that sounds a little silly, but if you bought the first-gen iPhone and wanted to stick with the platform it's the truth -- discounting the fact, of course, that no one's required to buy another Phone after two years, and even then you have to sign a new contract.
You know the silly season is in full swing when Metallica decide to release a double album of covers.
There's a term that's used in economics often as a derogatory term: fine tuning, in the sense that that's a silly thing to try because you can't achieve it.
Or if you prefer, how silly it acts in defence of some national amour propre.
"They give you all kinds of silly stuff and somewhere in there is the meat of it, " DeValerio says.
Of course, you can also navigate the various panels and screens with the usual hand waves and air pinches, should you feel a bit silly talking to your console.
It may seem silly to ask, but, you know, you're pointing out - and, Angelo, I have to mention, you wrote essentially the same piece about the figures affecting the Latino community.
The diving itself is simple -- click to jump out of the airplane, hear the same silly "yeeeehaw" soundbite whether you're the male or female diver, then use a right-mouse-click to go from a spread-eagle position to a tuck, move the mouse left and right to perform various tricks, and finally click the spacebar to pull the ripcord.
Again, this may seem silly, but psychologically, it puts you in charge and will spur the changes you desire.
You have to know the Silly Season has officially arrived when this sort of story creates an international flap.
Expecting a stock to rise because you own it is as silly a notion as believing that we will never have another recession.
After all, a witty intro, a hoodie and a bag of Silly Valley pixie dust can only get you so far with that crowd.
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How about your business: are you using video to engage with customers and prospects, or do you still regard it as silly or unserious?
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Maybe you think this is a silly question, but I think getting the answer right is worth a point or two of GDP, year in and year out.
"SkyMall is perfect for things you don't necessarily need but would make great conversation pieces if you were willing to be silly and whimsical enough to actually buy them, " Barish said.
"The evening only achieves the kind of deliriously silly and joyous lift-off that you really, really want from this kind of show - and more than once - at the encore, " summed up Paul Taylor in The Independent.
To use a silly example to make the point, you may have been laboring so long as so hard on perfecting your idea for a VCR that you fail to see that the world has moved on to digital recorders.
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You know, it was a silly foul at the end that caused them to win the game.
Ms. KIERRA "KIKI" SHEARD (Singer): I'm very silly and I will always say, thank you, Jesus, if I pass a test, or hallelujah, if, you know--just the simple things.
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