Yet, more than a few California wine producers have been joking around with their wines for years, coming up with names and labels that, if not exactly funny, are at least silly and occasionally even ridiculous.
Mr. Obama, the least silly of men, was even willing to mug for a silly Facebook-ready picture, grinning and giving a thumbs-up with Medvedev and a goofy-looking Silvio Berlusconi.
But with the right soundtrack, a stupid selfie video can become epic — or at least silly enough to watch.
Today would have been Julia Child's hundredth birthday, and her many fans and admirers have rallied to commemorate her with a new biography, a Google doodle, at least one silly tribute video, and a number of non-silly, moving tributes.
By Rachel Arons August 15 , 2012Today would have been Julia Child's hundredth birthday, and her many fans and admirers have rallied to commemorate her with a new biography, a Google doodle, at least one silly tribute video, and a number of non-silly, moving tributes.
Mr. Lopez's character -- can't they at least have silly dirty-minded pseudonyms, like real porn stars?
Those curious about Alma Mahler would do better to dust off an old Tom Lehrer song, inspired by her obituary in 1964, that was at least intentionally silly.
There is nothing crude about his moralising, and so he attracts the refined; or those who would consider themselves refined, or at least less silly, less hypocritical, less violent than some of his more quietly appalling characters.
Like Psy's pop smash, The Fox is catchy, utterly ridiculous (its lyrics concern the fact no one knows what sound a fox makes) and comes armed with a video at least as silly as its choreographed dance routine.
It's at least as silly as it sounds, but made palatable by gold-plated production values and Cooper's increasingly impressive knack for exposing the bristly self-loathing beneath the glib all-American princes he plays.
Point is, nobody is really is aware of the outside of a car while driving it, so all this talk about controversy is at least somewhat silly.
