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2 unusual facts about Silly


Battle of Mello

This army moved into the Beauvais, preparing to strike at the peasants who had set up camp at the plateau above Mello near Silly-le-Long.

Henri Dumont

As a widower he acquired the substantial benefice of the abbey of Silly near Lisieux in Normandy.


Baltimore accent

Families who migrated out of the city along the Maryland Route 140 and Maryland Route 26 corridors brought the dialect and in some cases pronunciations melded with local colloquialisms such as the word "bixicated" referring to someone who is silly or simple.

Blame Canada

When asked, the Canadian Consul General (and former Prime Minister) Kim Campbell said that she was not offended by the song since it was clearly a silly satirical piece and not intended to insult her country.

Bunnygrunt

Their first release, the Criminal Boy 7", came in the same year, on Silly Moo records. In short order Rene Dullum took over the duties on bass. They continued to release 7"s and EPs, drawing attention for this and for their rapid release schedule, until they recorded their debut full-length in 1995, titled Action Pants!, which would see release on No Life Records.

Château de Carrouges

Tanneguy II lived on his estates at Tillières and left Carrouges to his brother Jacques, abbot of Silly.

Classifications of fairies

The Modern Standard English word silly is also derived from this root and the term "seely" is recorded in numerous works of Middle English literature such as those by Geoffrey Chaucer.

Cool Silly

In late 2010, Cool Silly was invited by the Taipei City government to write and produce a song to reflect the beauty and hope of Taipei City as the theme song of the heavily promoted Taipei City Mayor Hau Lung-pin's "MyWish" campaign.

Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain: LA's Desert Origins

According to Cosloy, he took questions by Pavement's biographer, Rob Jovanovic, changed them slightly, and wrote silly answers for them.

D'Arcy Broderick

:Saint Brendan's Voyage
The Galtee Mountain Boy
New Mown Hay
Streets of New York
Phil The Fluthers Ball
Cliffs of Baccalieu
Jigs: Dr. Keiley-O/Whe're you goin' me silly old man/ Kerry Slide
Black Gold
Shores of Amerikay
Nancy Spain
Daisy A Day
Reels: The leaky roof/ Fiddles on the wall.

David Lammy

On 12 March 2013, Lammy apologised for claiming the BBC made a "silly innuendo about the race of the next Pontiff".

Deniece Williams

Williams is known for hits such as "Free", "Silly", "Let's Hear It for the Boy", "It's Gonna Take a Miracle", and for duets with Johnny Mathis.

Duke Carlisle

"Tune in your television to the Cotton Bowl and you'll laugh yourself silly. Texas is the biggest fraud ever perpetrated on the football public," Pittsburgh sports writer Myron Cope said.

Elmer Elephant

Today, the Elmer Elephant short can be viewed on the Silly Symphonies DVD set in the first wave of the Walt Disney Treasures line.

Eric van Viele

While director Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau was receiving critical acclaim for his award-winning 1927 film Sunrise, van Viele made numerous defamatory statements regarding the director, including calling the director a "stupid know-nothing silly".

Erzulie

In the Steely Dan song "Two Against Nature" (the third track from the album of the same name), the narrator describes Madame Erzulie as a succubus who "bangs you silly but leaves a nasty bite."

Félix Lorioux

A friend of Walt Disney, who admired his work, he was then hired to illustrate Mickey stories for the French market, as well as The Silly Symphony.

Flak tower

The G-Tower, known as Mont Klamott (Rubble Mountain) in Berlin, was the inspiration for songs by singer-songwriter Wolf Biermann and the rock band Silly.

Girl's Best Friend

Martin Lawrence, the star of Blue Streak, appears in the music video as his character's "Pizza Man" disguise, dancing to the song and making silly faces in the camera.

Hannah-Oke

Each families dance the Hoedown Throwdown from Hannah Montana: The Movie with Billy Ray Cyrus shouting out the moves, but when he says something that isn't one of the moves, the audience needs to shout Silly Billy.

Hathi

He is called "Colonel Hathi", and he leads his wife, Winifred Hathi (voiced by Verna Felton), and his son, Hathi Junior (voiced by Clint Howard), in a marching patrol similar to an Army that is so loud it makes some of his herd want to "transfer to another herd" while singing a deliberately silly song authored by the Sherman Brothers entitled "Colonel Hathi's March".

Janet Kay

The chart success of "Silly Games" led to appearances on Top of the Pops; the flagship music program of the BBC.

John Silly

Silly married Jane Cotton, daughter of William Cotton, precentor of Exeter Cathedral.

Killer Kowalski

Kowalski attempted to visit his opponent in the hospital and began laughing along with Eric at how silly the bandages looked, with Kowalski recalling years later, "I swear, the first thing I thought of was Humpty Dumpty on the wall. Yukon Eric looked at me, shook his head, and smiled. I started laughing and he laughed, too.".

Koyote

Kim Jong Min has been notable for being a popular mainstay of many Korean variety shows (such as KBS's Heroine 6 and SBS' Love Letter), as he has become a goofy, naïve "character" known for silly comments and actions.

L'oca del Cairo

to please the Viennese, but abandoned Varesco's libretto after six months because of its silly ending, a farcical travesty of the Trojan Horse legend.

Len Cella

After the Tonight Show, Cella's work was shown on Dick Clark's TV's Bloopers & Practical Jokes under the name Len Cella's Silly Cinema, a moniker that Cella despised.

Music of Final Fantasy IX

Uematsu felt previous games Final Fantasy VII and Final Fantasy VIII had a mood of realism, but that Final Fantasy IX was more of a fantasy, so "a serious piece as well as silly, fun pieces could fit in."

Nikola Nikić

He is often a guest on various TV and radio shows because of his stories about himself being silly in all kind of strange situations.

Nikolai Vlasik

In the memoirs of Stalin’s daughter, Svetlana Allilueva, she characterizes Vlasik as an "illiterate, silly, rough and extremely impudent despot".

Oedipus complex

In No More Silly Love Songs: A Realist's Guide to Romance (2010), Anouchka Grose says that "a large number of people, these days believe that Freud's Oedipus complex is defunct . . . 'disproven', or simply found unnecessary, sometime in the last century".

Paul Castiglia

He has announced an upcoming book, Scared Silly: Classic Hollywood Horror-Comedies, that will include a foreword by actor Daniel Roebuck.

Phil Gallagher

In 2007, he appeared as Silly Billy (Jack's brother) in Jack and the Beanstalk, again at the Theatre Royal in Winchester.

Pillow fight

The Johannesburg-based University of the Witswatersrand's Silly Buggers Society has held an annual Pillow Fight at the East Campus' Library Lawns since 2007.

Priscilla Chan

Chan had a rough 1987, but she rebounded nicely in 1988 with the album 嫻情 1988, and the song "Silly Girl" (傻女, a Cantonese rework version of the Spanish song "La Loca" by María Conchita Alonso) that first confirmed her status as a serious contender in the golden age of Cantopop.

Ralph Lynn

He continued his theatre career in mostly "silly ass" supporting roles, in London and in the provinces, until he achieved stardom in 1922, when Leslie Henson and Tom Walls cast him in Tons of Money, a farce by Will Evans and Arthur Valentine, which ran for two years at the Shaftesbury Theatre.

Roland Silly

In the 1930s, Roland Silly was Secretary of the Federation (or section) of technicians of the CGT and member of the Socialist Party SFIO, led by Paul Faure.

Saint Nicholas: A Story of Joyful Giving

The "Silly Song" segment with Mr. Lunt first appeared in Madame Blueberry with "His Cheeseburger".

Seventh Sanctum

Superheroes/Sentai - including "Silly Superhero Name Generator" and "Sentai Story Generator"

Silly Little Thing Called Love

Silly Little Thing Called Love is a compilation video featuring previous episodes of the animated television series VeggieTales.

Someone Belonging to Someone

In the liner notes to the 1990 box set, Tales from the Brothers Gibb, the Bee Gees describe the song as a "fair ballad from a silly film".

Sosban Fach

This song is alluded to as 'Calcifer's silly saucepan song' in the book Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones.

Space Twins

Initially, the band was a small project in which the two would dress up in Star Trek style outfits with pipe-cleaner antennae, playing silly songs at kids' birthday parties.

St. Valentine's Day at Girton

The cartoon depicted the first girl looking over a Valentine written in ancient Greek and asking the second, "Charming, isn't it? Gussie must have sent it from Oxford?" with the second girl replying, "Yes, it's out of the Antigone-the Love Chorus, you know. How much jollier than those silly English verses fellows used to send!"

Tasty Time with ZeFronk

Dom (Mark Hamill) - ZeFronk's silly Maine Coon neighbour who always steals the food that ZeFronk makes.

A French Dachshund called ZeFronk hosts a healthy cooking show from his doghouse with his assistant, a songbird named Sue, and his silly neighbour cat named Dom that always sneaks away the snacks that ZeFronk makes, and each episode ends with ZeFronk chasing Dom around the prep counter.

The Two Deaths of Quincas Wateryell

To them, Quincas is Joaquim Soares da Cunha, an "exemplary employee of the State Rent Board," who disgraced his family by walking out on them one day, calling Vanda and her mother, Dona Otacilia "vipers" and Vanda's husband Leonardo a "silly ass."

The Unforgiving Sounds of Maow

The album's best-known song, "Ms. Lefevre", is a silly romp celebrating the character "Renee Lefebvre" from Woody Allen's movie What's New, Pussycat? The album also includes covers of songs by Wanda Jackson ("Mean Mean Mean") and Nancy Sinatra ("How Does That Grab You?").

Toby Tortoise Returns

The short features characters from other Silly Symphonies, including The Three Little Pigs and Jenny Wren from Who Killed Cock Robin?.


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