A wander in the halls in costume may garner you a hall costume award and might be more fun than mere goggling at the other costumed revelers.
What I remember about it was that the skateboard belonged to a special category of toy that went beyond mere fun.
It's not a mere "fun fact" that the only two N.F.L. starting quarterbacks who are not over 6 feet are Michael Vick and Drew Brees.
The music would be mere fun if it did not delve at crucial points into darker modes, when we hear soft, strange, wrong-note chorales, harmonically unhinged ruminations, Stravinsky-like pummelings.
But the material is so clearly fantastical as to be mere fun.
Scientists may try to spoil the fun with news of mere oxygen on Pluto, or herbs on Jupiter, or Martian stones that grow on Earth only in the carbon monoxide of car exhaust, but what we want are human beings, who, if necessary, have pointed ears, but who are definitely able to speak.
Yet, the sharpness soon gives in to mere foolish fun, and from a potentially deep comedy, the story simply becomes a roller coaster of silly affairs, as all the characters exchange lovers (including a couple black maids with a couple white upper class dudes), but for what point is not clear.
But while pettiness can be humorous at times (I confess, I can be quite petty), there is more going on than mere light-hearted fun.
High quality, fun coloured socks for a mere $3.23.
For Dr. Kim, figuring out which rumors are real and which are mere dreams is the fun part.
