1.   But the Whitewater affair is serious stuff although hardly anyone understands the complex issues involved.

2.   I like a newspaper with one or two amusing articles, as well as all the serious stuff.

3.   Please can we get on with the serious stuff please.

4.   Not least that comics are serious stuff.

5.   And then the serious stuff can start.

6.   Baseball is serious stuff around here.

7.   Besides religion, education also is serious stuff in Barbados, and discipline is strongly enforced in the schools.

8.   Beyond the reception dinners and the veils, serious stuff is going on.

9.   All fairly serious stuff, in other words.

10.   All involved go about their tasks with total solemnity, never once suggesting that this yarn is anything but serious stuff.