I've never done anything like this before and, in hindsight, I have realised it was a silly thing to do".
When he read the document which lay out the conditions of the loan in the hearing, Paul called it a "pretty silly document" because the loan was unsecured.
So, in recent years, we've endured 60s, 70s and 80s revivals, punters encouraged to wear silly clothes, like silly music, and generally pretend that crap things were great, a dispiriting travesty of irony, meta-irony, disingenuousness and disingenuity.
Mulligan's conviction that she could succeed as a performer resulted in an introduction to a casting director through Fellowes and then – to her family's surprise – a small but visible part in the 2005 adaptation of Pride and Prejudice, playing the "silly" fourth Bennet sister, Kitty.
"They are a very good mauling side, so it's key that we keep our discipline and don't give away silly penalties so they can maul from the resulting lineouts.
I feared the media would end up playing constant silly word games with me, trying to get me to say the word "tax".
These were luxury clothes, but practical, sexy without being silly.
But how about everyone else? Men who want to look good, hip even, but not silly.
"He just woke up one morning and thought" – he adopts a silly voice – "'This is a good idea, isn't it?' We won't have the World Cup in 2018, and we certainly won't have it in 2022".
But there's a chance that he didn't watch the last two series of The Killing, because they were respectively Sarah Lund v the War In Afghanistan and Sarah Lund v the Global Banking Industry, and they were so silly that they now stand as a valuable lesson to all other television-makers about the value of quitting while you're ahead.
"We all sat and watched a silly film [The American starring George Clooney].
