They consulted a range of experts, who speculated about fusion-powered hovercrafts and "all sorts of fanciful technological stuff".
Mr. Franken's lead lawyer, Marc Elias, called such assertions of ballot stuffing "fanciful and bogus".
Guardians of the Galaxy certainly offers a diversion from the usual superhero stuff: a fanciful, facetious space opera pitched along the lines of Star Wars, with added one-liners and post-Tarantino in-jokes.
And their very livelihoods revolve around reading, thinking and talking about stuff most of us might consider fanciful, bordering on incomprehensible.
For his son, Jonathan, polymer resin is a binder in "Memory Banks," a whimsical jumble of fanciful souvenirs trapped in a tank of the stuff.
Either in response to a rare run of Amazon-bashing - or by coincidence - Jeff Bezos, the company's mercurial boss, last night revealed a fanciful vision of a future in which drones might deliver your stuff in 30 minutes.
The fanciful fallas, made of papier-mâché, wood and wax and stuffed with firecrackers, are paraded by bands of merrymakers in traditional dress and then set afire.
A fanciful writer might describe a correct, honest restaurant as having the right stuff.
