The slow month(s)

[Joel S. Berson]

At 8/11/2010 06:02 AM, Lynne Murphy wrote:
>In British English, this even has a name:  the silly season.
><http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silly_season>

Ah ... any relation to the "Silly Nights" (if I have the name right)
at the Palladium at the end of the movie "The 39 Steps"?

Joel

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