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...home games at Giants Stadium in East Rutherford, N.J. Yet rather than call themselves the New Jersey MetroStars, the team’s torturously contrived name was the “New York/New Jersey” MetroStars. Seriously. To this day, I can’t think of a sillier team name in all of professional athletics. (The rationale given at the time was that the MetroStars represented the entire New York metropolitan area, and not just New Jersey...

Author: By Duncan M. Currie, | Title: Let the 'Joizy' Jokes Begin | 7/3/2003 | See Source »

...Commencement historically has a sillier side...

Author: By Stephanie M. Skier, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: From Bacchanal to the Banal: 351 Harvard Commencements | 6/5/2002 | See Source »

...firm and in control--though, Wayans says, "a bit of a Neanderthal." Creatively, My Wife is one of TV's most nondescript sitcoms, from its familiar suburban-family premise to its plain-as-macaroni title, but its very blandness makes TV's skittishness about black comedy seem all the sillier...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Color Crosses Over | 2/25/2002 | See Source »

...Hugh Hefner, the Socrates of what he called "the Playboy Philosophy," was one of the sillier figures of the 20th century. His philosophy, formulated in Woo Grotto and silk smoking jacket with a thousand Playmates, taught the profound significance and value of his Chicago-based hedonism and the creamy topless lubricities that he published...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Hefner Effect and Serious Journalism | 8/30/2001 | See Source »

...have also veered into the kiddie department. P-Diddy (née Sean Combs) was arrested in Miami Beach for making an illegal lane change on a scooter and charged with driving on a suspended license. Driving a scooter on a suspended license? I suppose it could have been sillier. He could’ve run someone over while using one of those Razor scooter things...

Author: By Daryl Sng, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: In the Mix | 4/20/2001 | See Source »

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