1.   The silly season is upon us.

2.   Then that silly season when the oil rigs blew like bottles in a crate of excited stout.

3.   Those parliamentary gossips still in London enduring the boredom of the silly season waited in happy expectation for the scandal to break.

4.   As an institution, the silly season is probably all washed up in America.

5.   But the Fourth of July weekend is the peak of the silly season in movies.

6.   Calendrically speaking, this is what the British used to call the silly season.

7.   Carter, the car owner, said this silly season may not be end up being any more active than in previous years.

8.   Has the silly season really arrived?

9.   Has the silly season just come early this year?

10.   I think the silly season should end, and we should all move on to the business of governing.