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Finally, for a laugh or two, stop by the Silly Tasting Note Generator at gmon.com/tech/stng.shtm which spoofs pedantic wine criticism. You can instruct the program to pour out "normal silly" or "extra silly" comments--maybe even one sillier than "the tightly woven texture of pigeon flesh...
...answer comes in the film’s immense modern relevance: while a few of the 1950s’ sillier notions of sexual behavior have been dispelled—largely because of Kinsey’s seminal study, Sexual Behavior in the Human Male—many continue to regard some natural sexual urges as immoral. Most recently, eleven states voted to ban gay marriage. For those to whom such reactions to homosexuality and bisexuality seem irrational, the film will resonate particularly deeply after the election led eleven states to ban gay marriage...
...ban’s list of prohibited features is even sillier. It defines an “assault rifle” as any semi-automatic rifle with a detachable magazine and at least two of: “a folding or telescoping stock; a pistol grip that protrudes conspicuously beneath the action of the weapon; a bayonet mount; a flash suppressor or threaded barrel designed to accommodate a flash suppressor; and a grenade launcher...
...Could See For Miles" [JUNE 14], essayist Charles Krauthammer repeated a notion we keep hearing from Reagan's sillier admirers: that he won the cold war by forcing the Soviet Union to go bankrupt in its efforts to keep up with the U.S.'s surge in military spending, culminating in the Strategic Defense Initiative, the Star Wars program. Many critics of Reagan's foreign policy have pointed out, however, that as the Soviet Union started to fray, there was a real chance it would end with a nuclear bang rather than a whimper. Had the U.S.S.R. not been lucky enough...
Oddly reminiscent of "Leviathan," both Dan James' "The Octopi and the Ocean," (Top Shelf Productions; 52pp.; $6.95) and Peter Kielland's "Fish" (Kim-Rehr Productions; 72pp.; $8.95) use pantomime and free-associative storylines, but to much sillier ends. "The Octopi" imagines the brainy encepholopods as being at constant war with the brawny sharks. In order to retrieve an important talisman from the sharks, the octopi kidnap a boy by substituting his school bus with an amphibious vehicle driven by a disguised octopus. After bringing back the talisman the boy gets folded into the shape of an envelope and returned...