I can't wait to share how clever and silly this book is, often in the same sentence – a supernatural being thinking, "That Hieronymous Bosch.
For great tunes, full-throttle patter and virtuosic straddling of the line between clever and silly, "H.M.S. Pinafore" is the best of them.
And so we hereby present, from A to Z, the most clever, important, silly and just plain weird innovations we carried back from all corners of the thinking world.
And so we hereby present, from A to Z, the most clever, important, silly and just plain weird innovations we carried back from all corners of the thinking world -- ideas from science and art, politics and policy, technology and engineering, zombie studies and... well, whatever you call it when someone tries to figure out whether a full or an empty beer bottle makes for a better blunt-force weapon.
More reasons for its longevity: It can be scary, clever and silly in equal measures, and when it's firing on all cylinders, it's generally a whole lot of fun.
Me in 10 words: I am silly, clever, kind, thoughtful, cunning, smiley and friendly!
"Seeing Victoria Wood on TV – working-class, bookish, silly, clever, doing standup, singing, acting – made me think 'girls can do this'".
The satire is not altogether fresh, but the jokes are at once sufficiently clever and sufficiently silly to keep things moving, and to point up the ridiculousness of American racial politics.
Clever old us, silly old them.In Mr Fowden's telling of the story, by contrast, the response from Christians and Muslims to Aristotle's newly rediscovered genius was never as simple as rejection or acceptance; there was a spectrum of reactions with many points.
Still, there is comedy too, with a royal fool or clever commoners as silly yet truthful commentators.
