11.   How did hundreds of dot-com companies based on dumb ideas, backed with millions in venture capital and without any products or revenue, sucker so many investors?

12.   I mean, to the unenlightened mind it just sounds like a really dumb idea.

13.   In fact, any kid standing in line for a Jim Carrey movie could tell you that a romantic comedy with Albert Einstein sounds like a dumb idea.

14.   It is easy to assume, too, that fewer dumb ideas would come out of the Legislature if fewer people were around to hatch them and nurture them.

15.   It sounds like a dumb idea to me.

16.   Really dumb idea.

17.   Recently, its producer, Scott Rudin, went on record saying it was a dumb idea to remake that classic.

18.   Some people regard this as a dumb idea, akin to vowing to resign as soon as you get the hang of the job.

19.   So go ahead and dismiss it as a dumb idea.

20.   Spinning variations on one dumb idea with impressive ingenuity, Seward has produced a funny, touching theater of human striving, frustration and folly.