1.   Mike just cats around and never gets serious with any woman.

2.   Is it serious with that one, Rory?

3.   And perhaps getting a little more serious with eight regular-season games left.

4.   Belfour put a tepid hit on Lowry, then got serious with Burr and Ragnarsson.

5.   If I get serious with some of these kids, they will call their mother.

6.   If Republicans ever want to be taken seriously about foreign policy again, they will have to go back to being serious with it themselves.

7.   It was long past time to get serious with Saddam Hussein, person after person on the streets of cities across the country said.

8.   JFK Jr. is tired of being a sexy dilettante, and is getting serious with a new career as a magazine publisher.

9.   Now I am serious with you.

10.   Right now is a good time to get serious with the Bosnian Serbs.