Steve Ellis

Do they have a Silly Season in your country?

It's August. School has broken up. The customers are on holiday. The traffic is lighter. The floods are receding.

And our British newspapers are full of stories like The Scariest Underwear Adverts, Pigeons Attack Venice, Fifty per cent of Drivers Cannot Read a Map and most absurd of all House Prices to Soar 40% (popular with Daily Express readers).

Do other countries enjoy a Silly Season too?

Or does the internet now get to enjoy its own perpetual Silly Season? Illustrated below by Animal Ear Protectors, the winner of Null Hypothesis' Top Ten Crazy Patents.

Published 06 Aug 2007 by Steve Ellis
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Jim said:

Australia and NZ have January for their silly season - same reason, same inane news focus, same idiotic statements from rogue politicians away from their minders. The Nordics all disappear for a month after midsummer night's eve, but I don't know what they get up to - all I know is you can't get hold of them, which is much the same as down under.
August 6, 2007 22:52

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