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Gweilo or gwailou (Chinese: 鬼佬; Cantonese Yale: gwáilóu, pronounced [kʷɐ̌i lǒu] ⓘ) is a common Cantonese slang term for Westerners.In the absence of modifiers, it refers to white people as White Devils and has a history of racially deprecatory and pejorative use.
A clown with "happy face" painting. In the circus, one of the roles that clowns play is engaging in silliness. When clowning is taught, the different components of silliness include "funny ways of speaking to make people laugh", making "silly face[s] and sound[s]", engaging in "funny ways of moving, and play[ing] with extreme emotions such as pretending to laugh and cry". [7]
Just like Monty Python's Flying Circus, sometimes, discussions on Wikipedia get a little bit beyond the grounds of sensibility, and so sometimes The Colonel needs to make an appearance to urge people to stop whatever they're doing instantly before things get too silly.
Yes it is. No it isn't. Yes it is. No it isn't. That's not an argument, that's just a contradiction! No it's not. Yes it is. An argument is an intellectual process, intended to establish a proposition.
Silly, Belgium, a town; Silly Department, a department or commune of Sissili Province in southern Burkina Faso; Silly-en-Gouffern, French commune in the Orne department; Silly-en-Saulnois, French commune in the Moselle department; Silly-le-Long, French commune in the Oise department; Silly-sur-Nied, French commune in the Moselle department
A gag name is a pseudonym intended to be humorous through its similarity to both a real name and a term or phrase that is funny, strange, or vulgar. The source of humor stems from the double meaning behind the phrase, although use of the name without prior knowledge of the joke could also be funny.
A clown wearing a hat of a ridiculously small and incongruous size. The ridiculous often has extreme incongruity (things that are not thought to belong next to each other) or inferiority, e.g., "when something that was dignified is reduced to a ridiculous position (here noting the element of the incongruous), so that laughter is most intense when we escape from a 'coerced solemnity'."
Antoine de Silly was the son of Louis de Silly seigneur de La Roche-Guyon, baron de Louvois and Anne de Laval dame d'Aquigny and La Rochepot, daughter of Guy XVI de Laval and Anne de Montmorency. The couple were married in 1539. [1] The Silly were part of the noblesse seconde (secondary nobility). [2]