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Message 1545912 - Posted: 22 Jul 2014, 15:07:18 UTC

Yep, the sun comes out & the silly people forget their hats...

...brain cells overheating hence the silliness.

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Message 1545924 - Posted: 22 Jul 2014, 15:45:19 UTC

I've never heard of this phenomenon. In reading the associated names for it, I don't know why the noble pickle has been chosen as it's mascot.
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Message 1545936 - Posted: 22 Jul 2014, 16:04:14 UTC

Here in California it's in November, every year, it's called an election.
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Message 1546059 - Posted: 22 Jul 2014, 22:09:52 UTC - in response to Message 1546046.  

Looks like the silly season all the time in a certain thread then

Yep, seeing as much of the frivolous political posturing and hyperbole tends to appear in the silly season itself...

In case anyone gets worried this is NOT a return to Politics.

42 hours later...

If 142 Israelis and 154 Arabs are fighting over 69 acres of land for 5 days, who won? To get the answer, you multiply 14215469 by 5, turn the calculator upside down.

In the Europe thread, how silly when there is an Israel/Palestine thread.
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Message 1546068 - Posted: 22 Jul 2014, 22:41:13 UTC
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Is this the sort of thing you mean? :) Not that I think it's silly at all - as my twin and I regularly did the same with shongolola's... though we never put flags on their backs...
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Message 1547140 - Posted: 25 Jul 2014, 3:59:44 UTC - in response to Message 1546993.  

Hi Anniet. You mean African millipedes? Yep, when there isn't much real news about the media turn to frivolous stories to earn a crust.


Yep :) posted a picture of one in the bug thread awhile ago... if they decide to get a wiggle on, they're MUCH faster than snails :)
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Message 1547185 - Posted: 25 Jul 2014, 5:33:01 UTC - in response to Message 1546059.  

Looks like the silly season all the time in a certain thread then

Yep, seeing as much of the frivolous political posturing and hyperbole tends to appear in the silly season itself...

In case anyone gets worried this is NOT a return to Politics.

42 hours later...

If 142 Israelis and 154 Arabs are fighting over 69 acres of land for 5 days, who won? To get the answer, you multiply 14215469 by 5, turn the calculator upside down.

In the Europe thread, how silly when there is an Israel/Palestine thread.

spell012? That's about what it looks like on My phone when upside down...
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Message 1547207 - Posted: 25 Jul 2014, 6:10:58 UTC - in response to Message 1547185.  
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Looks like the silly season all the time in a certain thread then

Yep, seeing as much of the frivolous political posturing and hyperbole tends to appear in the silly season itself...

In case anyone gets worried this is NOT a return to Politics.

42 hours later...

If 142 Israelis and 154 Arabs are fighting over 69 acres of land for 5 days, who won? To get the answer, you multiply 14215469 by 5, turn the calculator upside down.

In the Europe thread, how silly when there is an Israel/Palestine thread.

spell012? That's about what it looks like on My phone when upside down...

Mine reads "SHELLOIL"
Which does me no good, as I have stock in Exxon and Chevron but not Royal Dutch/Shell
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Message 1547213 - Posted: 25 Jul 2014, 6:15:27 UTC

I also get Shelloil out of it. (For what it's worth.)
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Message 1549718 - Posted: 30 Jul 2014, 6:35:25 UTC - in response to Message 1549381.  
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Silly!


:) Expensive lapse. I have a cat that likes to run off with my watch when I'm in the bath and then bury it in the litter tray. Minx! :/
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Message 1549853 - Posted: 30 Jul 2014, 14:25:37 UTC

I am happy to report that here in Canada
we have no "Silly Season". The heavy price
we pay up here for the shear joy of living
here in our "Happy ever after Land" is, we
gave up silly.
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Message 1550145 - Posted: 30 Jul 2014, 21:03:21 UTC - in response to Message 1549853.  

I am happy to report that here in Canada
we have no "Silly Season". The heavy price
we pay up here for the shear joy of living
here in our "Happy ever after Land" is, we
gave up silly.


:))))) Oh - sorry - you're being serious :) It's because you've got moose isn't it...? :)

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Message 1550215 - Posted: 30 Jul 2014, 23:33:14 UTC

Gee, I was just trying to share.......



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Message 1550437 - Posted: 31 Jul 2014, 11:49:14 UTC

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Message 1550462 - Posted: 31 Jul 2014, 12:55:18 UTC - in response to Message 1550215.  

Gee, I was just trying to share.......




:))))))

I love it when you share! :)
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Message 1551027 - Posted: 1 Aug 2014, 17:45:22 UTC

Another definition of silly season: the ever-lengthening stretch of time when TV remote controls' mute buttons get the most use.
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Message 1555546 - Posted: 12 Aug 2014, 7:43:24 UTC

cute :)

Nice mousse Chris :)
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Message 1569650 - Posted: 9 Sep 2014, 15:19:42 UTC - in response to Message 1569615.  

Oh no!!! They will be making fireguards next .....

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Seriously... having gone out in public with five maltesers pasted to my rear end I could have told them it would hang together long enough to make idiots out of themselves. Ooh anniet... that's a bit harsh don't you think? :( erm... what I meant to say was... that... um... I could have saved them some time :)

Mind you, I have been sucked into scientific studies of my own on occasion which haven't really added anything useful to... well... the world. Just things like how many drops of wine can you get out of freshly emptied bottles of red and white. 14 and 11 I think were the consistent results (or was it 13 and 9? *hard-think frown* (or 11 and 9?) but I can't be sure and I can't remember which way round either because I had been party to the prior emptying of the bottles...

...and then there was my scientific study into the optimum dunking time for a variety of biscuits... but I don't think I was psychologically cut out for that one... too many palpitations :)
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Message 1570059 - Posted: 10 Sep 2014, 18:20:51 UTC

The current season is putting serious strain on the mute button on my TV remote.
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Message 1602552 - Posted: 19 Nov 2014, 15:32:20 UTC

You know, the second smartest person
here knows who the smartest person is.....



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