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  • Like the passage in The Magician's Nephew when Digory and Polly return from their visit the Wood between the Worlds accompanied by the utterly terrifying Jadis, Queen of Charn, and Digory's uncle, through terrified of her, can't help but be enamoured at the same time: 'Children have one kind of sillines, as you know,' C S Lewis writes, 'and grown ups have another kind.

    Best-loved books of 2008, #21: Favorite classic revisited Book Nerd 2008

  • Dis sillines! ai klik awn yu bloo tu see yur kittehs nd it taikz me bak tu tawp ub paje. ai luk at yur kittehz sum ubbur tiem.

    no body move… - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2009

  • When YOU surrender to your sillines we will all be better off.

    "We're not winning, we're not losing." Ann Althouse 2006

  • Sometimes sillines and absurdity are are a good antidote for hatred.

    Corrente lambert 2010

  • Sometimes sillines and absurdity are are a good antidote for hatred.

    Corrente 2010

  • Sometimes sillines and absurdity are are a good antidote for hatred.john. halle tarheel-leftist85 vastleft lambert

    Corrente 2010

  • It also seems to generate a lot more random sillines than other, more formal conventions.

    Ecstatic Days 2008

  • While the sillines was funny, it didn’t end up tainting the seriousness of it. i.e: Chris Tucker was indeed being an idiot but none of his stupid actions played a real role in affecting how events rolled out.

    EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - Now THAT’s a future I can get behind 2009

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