Talk:Silly season

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[edit] When is it?

Hey!? I thought the silly season more had to do with the festive season?

Examples:
http://www.health24.com/dietnfood/Weight_Centre/15-51-736,15429.asp
http://au.smallbusiness.yahoo.com/switzer/business/06122005/silly_season_strategies.html
http://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/media/archives_2003/silly_season
(Unsigned comment from 155.143.18.13)

Nope. In the UK it's definitely the period when Parliament is in recess and in the absence of big political stories, the media start scraping the barrel.

Because this article needs a reference, I just went to check and found it in both Brewers and Brewers 20th century (see Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable). I am not sure how much of a definition we are allowed to quote in the article: I wish we could include all of this because it's great:

An old journalistic expression for the part of the year when Parliament and the Law Courts are not sitting (about August and September), when, though lack of news, the papers had to fill their columns with trivial items, such as news of giant gooseberries and sea serpents, and long correspondence on subjects of ephemeral or little interest.

Not sure how much we could/should use in the article, but updated the article with references.

--Telsa 09:49, 15 December 2005 (UTC)