You have to know the Silly Season has officially arrived when this sort of story creates an international flap.
You know the silly season is in full swing when Metallica decide to release a double album of covers.
It is time to begin pondering these and other questions as Silly Season begins, even if only reluctantly and with a knowing half-smirk.
August may be the silly season for newspapers, and traditionally a quiet time in politics, but Plaid Cymru won a by-election in Barry.
"This is where we start getting into silly season in politics, " Obama replied, saying Patrick is a friend who suggested he use the lines.
After all, this is the Super Bowl silly season for advertising.
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Last week, right in the middle of the silly season when most people aren't paying attention, there were seismic events which changed the face of the technology landscape.
In the olden days, you may recall, golf merrily drifted off into its Silly Season come fall, ceding the stage once the four majors were done to football and the baseball playoffs.
Sadly, facts like these are not enough to avoid the silly season altogether, or to persuade the USDA to ignore the self-serving indignation of the meat industry and keep a reasonable suggestion on its site.
So if I were in Obama's shoes, I would have the Democratic National Committee develop a focused campaign aimed at making Cheneyism synonomous with Republicanism well before the election silly season gets into full swing.
We've officially entered the silly season of pre-CES rumors, so take this with a grain of salt, but the Wall Street Journal reports Sony has approached "several big media companies" about distributing their channels over the internet.
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