"So, I'm wondering: You know how people use ""serious"" as an adverb, meaning ""profoundly meaningful""? Specifically in terms of quantity; e.g. ""That's a serious amount of corn flakes.""

Do you think it's ok to use that modifier for a collection of things which, by their very nature, are not serious by any stretch of the imagination. As an example: ""That's a serious number of rubber chickens."" I feel like the inherent conflict created by that phrase makes it unusable."