"That's silly, " she said when I told her this after we were married.
"That's silly, " says Simon Cao, the chief technology guru at Avanex.
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.
If there's a silver lining to the SEC's silly decision, it's that markets are global, and if U.S. regulators are too immature to understand the importance of price discovery and the short-seller's role in it, other global markets will take the trading volume that our SEC intends to repel.
She said she told her two children that they will remember Kyle's silly side, Texas twang and the prayers they prayed together.
It's silly to conclude that because one poll found 90% support for "background checks, " that translates into a like level of support for this particular piece of legislation.
"It's silly to think that giving up vacation is going to make your colleagues think how important you are, " says Connie Thanasoulis, a career services expert at the job search website Vault.com.
We were all ready to start harshing on the Top Tag Pet ID--a USB thumb drive that contains vital info about your pet--because it seems pretty silly to assume that a lost animal's rescuer would know what the hell to do with that small piece of plastic dangling from Tinkerbelle's collar.
"I just think it's just silly to think that the timing of it would be at all related to any other events that are going on, " he said.
And that's really the question we should be dealing with now, not this silly debate that is, again, Mitt Romney going back -- being influenced by the extreme right of the party and going back on a defense he's had in place for years.
Apple responded by saying the lawsuit was "silly" and that Cisco's trademark registration was "tenuous at best".
That's a lot more interesting than the silly games they'd be playing on the retreat--like "trust falls, " where you close your eyes and fall backward, hoping your teammates catch you.
Public views, especially among the young, hold that discrimination is not only wrong, it's silly.
It captures a universally held sentiment in the silly sophisticated way that distinguishes this magazine's talented humor contributors from others'.
It all might seem a bit silly except for the fact that many of today's big Web trends have appeared first at past ETechs.
It's a silly penalty, a silly mistake now and again that has cost us.
But I say to all of those who sit on the sidelines and who like to comment about the insubstantial matters, asylum, crime, health, that's what people talk about, they don't talk about silly nonsense such as Amanda Platell.
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V, the only character with sufficient magnetism to hold the narrative together, drops out for an extended period while Evey endures a hellish imprisonment that's contrived in more ways than one, and in the end awfully silly.
I'm all for a dress code, but it has always struck me that golf's way of doing things was antiquated, punitive and not a little silly.
"During the course of this presidency, I've been disappointed at times by the silly name-calling that goes on in Washington -- it's really not necessary, " Bush said.
But in democracies that bent can lead to silly policies such as the new government of Thailand's subsidized rice price, designed to aid farmers but imperiling a huge export market with artificially high supply costs.
We'd been hearing rumors that the Motorola Sholes on Verizon wouldn't be running MOTOBLUR because it's to be a "Google Experience" device, and while that seemed silly at first, it certainly looks like the device Verizon CEO Lowell McAdam was waving around this morning was running stock Android.
Mr Gore's only hope is that prosecutors and judges will decide that the letter of this law is too silly to enforce.
They are as formidable and as entangled a trio as tennis has ever witnessed as silly as it is to get into generational comparisons, it's fair to say that the great three of Borg, McEnroe and Connors (26 combined Slams) are on the run, in their flowing hair and short-shorts.
Swisher was asking about Pinterest's mobile efforts, and Silbermann suggested that in the very near future, asking such a thing would be borderline silly.
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