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When Hello Kitty...

2012-03-01T11:21:28Z

... silliness becomes "offensive" material, it is time to take my leave.

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The Ten Days of Thanksgiving

2011-12-08T15:32:27Z

This is a D&U tradition.

The first day starts out with water. The second, crutons.

I can't remember the rest and was hoping some of you could help me refresh my memory.

Two days is quite an undertaking in themselves. So, you could imagine the vast dedication and focus required to make this an enduring event.

Have a Happy Ten Days.

-rev. Borfo

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Whose Fish?

2011-12-08T15:29:26Z

Maybe we can play Who Owns The Fish with Olav Saltbones until I become moderator again?

HEY BUDDY, IS THIS YOUR SANDER VITREUS?
Whose Fish?

BY ALBERT EINSTEIN (MAYBE)

This brainteaser, reportedly written by Einstein is difficult and Einstein said that 98% of the people in the world could not figure it out. Which percentage are you in?

There are five houses in a row in different colors. In each house lives a person with a different nationality. The five owners drink a different drink, smoke a different brand of cigar and keep a different pet, one of which is a Walleye Pike.

The question is-- who owns the fish?

Hints:
1. The Brit lives in the red house.
2. The Swede keeps dogs as pets.
3. The Dane drinks tea.
4. The green house is on the left of the white house.
5. The green house owner drinks coffee.
6. The person who smokes Pall Malls keeps birds.
7. The owner of the yellow house smokes Dunhills.
8. The man living in the house right in the center drinks milk.
9. The man who smokes Blends lives next to the one who keeps cats.
10. The Norwegian lives in the first house.
11. The man who keeps horses lives next to the one who smokes Dunhills.
12. The owner who smokes Bluemasters drinks beer.
13. The German smokes Princes.
14. The Norwegian lives next to the blue house.
15. The man who smokes Blends has a neighbor who drinks water.
There are no tricks, pure logic will get you the correct answer. And yes, there is enough information to arrive at the one and only correct answer.

If you get the correct answer, congratulations, you are one of the exclusive group of 121,348,731 people in the world who can.

Send your correct answer and/or complaints to Rev. Joe Borfo on this tribe. Include the phrase "show your work" with the rules for entry but then we figured that any dork who would Google a puzzle like this in order to win would have to live with self-loathing and guilt for the rest of their life and that would far outweigh the value of the prize package. Yes, we are in fact talking to you, Remy X.

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I'm posting this video

2011-11-08T08:27:22Z

I'm speechless...

http://tinyurl.com/d-and-u-video

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I am watching another flop...

2011-09-24T15:44:38Z

so far the most exciting scene in this movie is the face-lifted heroine trying to seduce her old friend who is secretly gay and grieving over his dead lover.

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My Apoligies.

2011-08-06T21:06:42Z

I'm sorry but I can't find enough dull stuff without rehashing everthing again.
So with regrets and a simper.
Bye!

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The Boring Home:

2011-08-02T23:14:57Z

Aaron and Christine Boring of Franklin Park Pa. claimed that Google Maps' Street View feature violated their privacy, devalued their property and caused them mental suffering by posting images of a private road in front of their house. The Borings said that the images of their home must have been taken from their long driveway, which is labeled "Private Road."

http://www.smh.com.au/news/web/boring-couple-sue-google-over-photos/2008/04/07/1207420254269.html

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crickets

2011-06-15T23:23:20Z

the ol' tribe is feeling like a closet of shoeboxes full of photos and concert tix. wut wut?

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Should I join this local group?

2011-06-15T19:54:00Z

What with trying not to watch"A slow work day" and also trying to stay away from even thinking about scrabble, I have found what just might be a suitable past-time. It is a group that has infrequent get togethers and best of all they local, so i don't have too far to somewhere too interesting. On the other hadn, i could just look at their website for a hobby:
http://www.lpmcc.net/gallery/photos_056.htm

As always , there are pros and cons to either idea- what do you think?

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A word about Spring

2011-05-20T20:31:02Z

In the Spring, it rains a lot. The rain is good for growing plants which, being sexuated (I believe it may have been Linneus who first proved this, but am unsure), have flowers. Not to infer that it's only because of increased rain that plants begin to grow in the spring. I suspect many of them grow all year long in ways that are less perceptible to the naked eye. I also don't mean that it's only because of the rain itself that plants grow (more perceptibly). Indeed, there are other factors, which would include increased levels of sunlight and heat.
For many, Spring also raises spirits, as the need for heavy clothing is reduced, making limbs less weighty and (in many cultures and geographic regions, though not all) exposing areas of skin, which likely has an effect on heightened sexual interest. Those suffering from seasonal affective disorder may also find periods of relief - it might be argued that, in a sense, this is a collective effect, particularly among those in urban areas, as mirror neurons possibly react to those in the area whose seasonal affective disorder shows signs of remittance.
I have a feeling Spring isn't capitalized in English, however. My apologies, if this is the case. I am in no way making an argument that it ought to be, if it is not. I simply wanted to post a short essay in honor of a season to which much human poetry and song has been devoted, and to counteract the frequent verbosity and sappiness of the latter with my own, duller version. Please feel free to share your own thoughts on this season, or, if you will, to comment on my choice of capitalization.

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dull cliche phrases

2011-03-25T17:15:00Z

Dan'is delayed Beatle post put to mind somthing my friends mother always said when she asked if she could have her allownace early...."you'll thank me later". Others include;
"That's the way it goes"
"Thank you for shopping at Safeway"
"Better play it safe"
"Three strikes and you're out"
"third time lucky"

Am i boring you yet?

Some more:

"it ain't over till it's over"
"the early bird gets the worm"
"new and improved"
"we'll beat any other offer"

I'm sure there are so many more that are even more boring!

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an inspiration to us all...

2011-02-27T04:21:36Z

if it works. If not, sit back and relax... cut your toenails.

http://chronicle.com/forums/index.php/topic,39671.0.html

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My Mail Story

2011-02-26T23:58:31Z

My house has its mailbox on the wall outside the door. The mailbox was probably installed in the 1980's, judging by the looks of it. I don't know exactly when it was installed, because I've only lived in the house nine months. But it's where the mail carrier always put our mail.

Until yesterday.

When I got home it appeared there wasn't any mail. However when I entered the house I was surprised to find mail on the floor in the entry hall. You see my house also has an old mail slot in the front door, but we never used it before, so I didn’t think of it. Wow. I certainly didn't expect the mail to be on the floor!

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A dull weather report

2011-02-26T22:48:48Z

Nothing beats Los Angeles for dull weather. I always thought it would be delightfully dull to be a weatherperson in Los Angeles, since there is really never anything to report on. Here is the 7 day forcast. I'll follow up with actual temperatures and Real Feel when/if I remember.

Tuesday, Jun 27 - High: 78° F, Low: 63° F
Wednesday, Jun 28 - High: 77° F, Low: 63° F
Thursday, Jun 29 - High: 75° F, Low: 62° F
Friday, Jun 30 - High: 74° F, Low: 63° F
Saturday, Jul 1 - High: 73° F, Low: 63° F
Sunday, Jul 2 - High: 76° F, Low: 64° F
Monday, Jul 3 - High: 76° F, Low: 62° F

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Is the pubic shave in fashion now?

2011-02-25T23:03:04Z

I went to a spa in Germany, with shared nude bathing,. and noticed a lot of people with trimmed or shaved pubic hair. Are the five pillars of Islam taking over Germany or is this some new fashion?

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Can we discuss house cleaning, please?

2010-12-30T05:53:12Z

Japanese houses and gardens are supposed to be spotless by Jan. 1st.
Got any advice on speed cleaning strategies?

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Burning Man: A Possible Dull and Dusty Meet-up

2010-12-30T05:51:04Z

I'm going to take my annual dust bath in Black Rock City, NV again this August.

Will any other D&U members be there this year? We had a meet up there a few years ago. We ate fruit cups together. It was a nice a wholesome change after a night of dodging hippies and ravers.

Any takers?

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Still feeding the monsters in my bedroom

2010-07-27T15:17:52Z

Tjhe monsters in my bedroom have taken another toll: this time they have eaten my ring! I am pretty sure my ring fell into a pile of lingerie and socks that was piled on the floor, together with a few blouses and t-shirts and...I believe my ring slipped off my finger when I was looking for something and one of the monsters living in that pile got it. I rested assured that it would reappear at the bottom of the pile once I did my laundry but it didn't! So chances are that now the sock troll living under my washing machine has it. These trolls are getting kind of expensive here... Do I have to buy a metal detector to go looking for it or do you have any other suggestions what to do?

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Let's start collecting weird, dumb jokes to enhance our boredom

2010-06-13T13:08:37Z

You know, like, when you start browsing out of sheer boredom and you come across the weirdest stuff? So here is Hugh Jackman, who I personally think is hot but now I am having, uh, second thoughts. And he is telling this weird story of the Christmas kangaroo. I know, this is just what you need to hear in early summer. On another site with the same video, someone posted a comment:"I always knew the Australians are nucking futs, and this confirms it."
Watch this:
http://www.funnyhub.com/videos/pages/aussie-christmas-kangaroo.html

Ok, and then you go next, tell us another dumb joke, alroight?

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Do you like sweets?

2010-06-10T13:58:02Z

Well, do ya? I don't. I wouldn't have them if they were free. Oh, once in awhile, like at a birthday party, I'll have a little something but I must wash it all down with a tall glass of water. I once passed out during a glucose tolerance test.

So why is it in my name? You got me. Was somebody drunk when they named me? Probably on a sugar high, I'll bet. And we can't ask them now cos they're in a sugar coma. yecchh. Poor bastards.

Well anyway, am I the only person on earth who doesn't salivate over candy, cake, pie, etc? If only I could feel this way about pizza...

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Tribing hours

2010-06-09T09:51:56Z

Last night I was up until 3.30am. Quite ridiculous, i am almost embarrassed to tell you the reason: I was involved in a lively discussion on a tribe, and every time I closed that tribe, a number of new postings in that tribe were visible on my homepage, so I would go back to read them and that was repeated over and over again...
Thing is, when I am up and running, all of you are asleep. And when I am getting ready to go to bed, you guys awaken and become active here. So, result is, I have been bored to death between 7 and 11pm today, off and on checking whether maybe at least one lonely night owl over there...
I really should get a life, tsk, tsk. Mind you, I spend time living many hours devery day, when all of you lie in your beds doing nothing.
When do you tribe? In bright daylights?

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Sexiest Smile?

2010-05-31T15:56:05Z

Oh my... looks like I'm subscribed to the Sexiest Smile tribe again. I left that thing years ago. I've been gone for 2 or 3 weeks and look what happens. While Tribe breaks down or doesn't let me log in, look what happens.

Now, I'm sure you can see, I do not have a sexy smile, or even a hint of a smile -- right? One might say this 'smile' may fit best in the Dull & Uninteresting tribe. So what gives. Ya got me.

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Garlic

2010-05-30T22:51:23Z

What is a safely un-upsetting, un-exciting way to consume garlic? I am trying to take garlic without all the usual roughage attached, meaning, I pop the cloves into my mouth and chew them, for medical purposes. This, however , leaves me feeling like I am spewing fire, or I have just swallowed something like tiger's breath.
Would roasting help?

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What's your temperature?

2010-05-28T16:52:07Z

I took my temperature yesterday. It was even lower than usual: 95

So, I thought should share this in evidence that I fit in well at this tribe. Let's hope nothing happens to heat me up!

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Bad excuses

2010-05-27T17:00:18Z

So my friend is late for our lunch because she is "in a church community meeting as a full member with the right to vote and she has to stay until the voting while now they are still busy reading their accountant's reports". I could not talk her into leaving early. What is wrong with me?? And what is the world (and esp. my friends) coming to?

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Would you like to be a celebrity? (no thanks, no way....)

2010-05-24T23:44:21Z

"Have you heard what happened to Carla Bruni?" my colleague asked me today.
"No, what?"
"She had some sort of laser treatment that made her face freeze, something went wrong."
"Oh no!"
I have not found that gossip column yet, but I did find this article where some cosmetics specialist analyses every single line in Carla's face and gives reason what caused it. It is almost too depressing to call this dull and uninteresting, unless you consider it as "more of the same" of what people have to put up with.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1258233/Has-Carla-Bruni-little-help-keeping-appearances.html

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All Stand and Applaud my Filing!

2010-05-24T01:07:05Z

No, I did not say "Fling" - I said "Filing" - as in, sorting through about a hundred of 10,000 papers that need to be filed around here. You know how papers turn into piles, heaps, stacks of this 'n that, and then when you need a VIP (Very Important Paper), you can't find it. So I'm just at wit's end around here. I filled up a garbage bag! Unfortunately, I need to fill up about 20 more to really get on top of things.

(And speaking of getting on top of things... "Fling" really does sound better.)

Well, just another report from the life of the Dull & Uninteresting.

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I don't think...

2010-05-23T04:08:09Z

I don't think I should disturb you but I feel a need to share some boredom.
I wiill strive to be netiher here nor there.

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Rental videos and paperback novels

2010-05-23T02:58:49Z

Today I took my first extended walk in the spring sun (see my photo album, if you can bear the excitement, there is a lot of colour)
Then I decided to borrow some lightly entertaining, uplifting movie at the video store, for a comfy evening in the spring chill with my feet up and such. But lo, what a load of crap on the shelf! Nothing but shallow looking American photo models in their twenties, smiling widely with brilliantly white teeth and neat hair styles and "casual" designer jeans, completely devoid of genuine emotion and blatantly lacking in acting skills. Is looking "pretty and neat" enough nowadays to get a role in a movie? Titles like "My brilliant wedding", "The devil loves Prada", "My sweet pink poodle", whatever, it all made me roll my eyes and turn away in ennui. So many movies on Wedding Dreams, I could not believe it. You'd think, history and society has moved retrograde by 60 years. Could irt be the economy? "Let's all get married, that will be one way to pay the gas bills and get a few free emals and dresses thrown in"? Weddings promoted with images of pony tails, poodles on leashes, white teeth and phony happy smiles. Ugh! No wonder so many people are so shallow if they live on a daily diet of this stuff. I also read that the average cinema goer is no older than 14 or 15, so this is the clientele the movie studios are aiming at now.
I finally manage to dig up DVD with two actresses full of of character and depth: Merryll Streep and Vanessa Redgrave, appearing together in one movie! Both greying and wrinkled now, you can still guess their former beauty. Feeling sheepishly old fashioned and outdated as a video customer I went to the cashiers.
Then I moved on to the bookstore. Again, the same scenario.Glossy paperback transcriptions of "Sex and the city", "Confessions of a shopaholic", side by side with the shelf for the male customer which had only politics and economy and such, followed by teenager and kids books. Then, lucky a second time, my gaze fell on a name that rang a very loud bell: Marian Keyes! I went ahead and confirmed it- yes, she is the author of that book that I read under my desk during university test days and that I forgot and had to retrieve by pulling it out from under the table with a puzzled professor looking on in amazement who was teaching the next period after me...that embarrassing title had been "Last chance saloon". Her new novel is called something equally ominous:"This charming man". "his can only mean bad news", i thought, when I read the summary, overly charming men are always trouble, followed by heartache... Ok, so four women all still or formerly madly in love with the same man who is now getting married to one of them. Well, that scenario sounds familiar enough after Turkey, i thought to myself and bought it, in happy antifcipation of my comfy evening with the spring chill and my feet up...

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"A terrorist in a bikini"- well, DUH.

2010-05-21T16:09:23Z

I found this in the Japan Times today and when I came to the paragraph at the bottom of the article where they describe American conservatives calling the Lebanese-American beauty queen a "terrorist in a bikini", "Don't let her exterior fool you, she is still a Muslim and therefore an activist, blablabla.." I thought:"Now I understand how the mind of some people on tribe works".
And of course they all jumped on her pole dancing photos from three years ago instead of publishing her message about inner beauty and whateer else she tried to tell the press.

Miss USA Rima Fakih 'pride' of hometown in Lebanon

AFP/HO – Rima Fakih reacts after being crowned Miss USA 2010 at the conclusion of the LIVE NBC telecast from the … by Jihad Siqlawi Jihad Siqlawi – Tue May 18, 9:52 am ET
SRIFA, Lebanon (AFP) – Newly-crowned Miss USA Rima Fakih is the pride of her native village, with residents saying the Lebanese-American not only brought honour to southern Lebanon but also offered a different image of Shiite Muslims often stereotyped as radicals.

"She is an honour to us, a honour to all of southern Lebanon," her paternal aunt Afifa Fakih Said told AFP in Srifa, the beauty queen's hometown.

Residents of the southern village watched 24-year-old Rima compete in three categories -- swimsuit, evening gown and interview -- before winning the Miss USA title on Sunday.

Proudly showing off her niece's photograph on the front page of local newspapers, her aunt Afifa offered baklava pastries to wellwishers pouring in to her home.

A supersized framed photograph of Rima, whose family is Shiite Muslim, earlier winning the Miss Michigan crown hangs in Afifa's living room.

"We are so often described as terrorists and killers, but we Shiites love life and beauty -- and mainly the beauty of the soul, which is what is so special about Rima," said the veiled 62-year-old, who speaks English and French fluently.

"In this family, we are open to all religions," she said. "We have no political affiliation to anyone."

Srifa falls in an area largely controlled by Shiite militant group Hezbollah, which is blacklisted as a terrorist group by Washington.

In an interview with Lebanese television on Tuesday morning, Hezbollah MP Hassan Fadlallah was asked his opinion on the new Miss USA.

"The criteria through which we evaluate women are different from those of the west," he said.

Rima Fakih, who may represent the United States in the Miss Universe pageant later this year, emigrated from Srifa to the United States when she was seven years old.

She attended a Catholic school in New York until 2003, when her family moved to Michigan.

She went on to earn a college degree in economics from the University of Michigan and was a resident of Dearborn, which is home to a large Arab-American community, prior to her crowning as Miss USA.

Fakih proudly told pageant organisers that her family celebrates both Muslim and Christian holidays.

Her sister Rana, who lives in Lebanon with her husband and children, told AFP the Fakih family was proud of their dual heritage.

"Rima called me from the podium after her win in tears of happiness to tell me she was elected Miss USA," said the 35-year-old. "Our father, who was there with her, kept saying she was an honour for south Lebanon.

"We are both Lebanese and American. In the United States no one asks us if we are Sunni or Shiite Muslims, we are all under the US law," she added.

"In our home, there is none of the fanaticism that exists in some Lebanese households."

Despite her dark, cascading waves and toned body, the new Miss USA has come under fire by right-wing bloggers, who have dubbed her a "terrorist in a bikini."

"Don?t let her lack of a headscarf and her donning a bikini in public fool you. Miss Michigan USA, Rimah (sic) Fakih is a Muslim activist and propagandist extraordinaire," wrote conservative political commentator Debbie Schlussel in her blog.

"It?s a sad day in America but a very predictable one, given the politically correct, Islamo-pandering climate in which we?re mired," wrote Schlussel, who slammed Fakih as a "Hezbollah-supporting Shiite Muslim."

Fakih sparked further controversy on Monday when pictures of her competing in a pole dancing contest surfaced on the Internet, although she apparently did not undress in the all-girls competition.

But others are rallying in support of the young beauty queen.

"It is sad what we have come to in this country when we can't come together and agree that Rima Fakih is just incredibly hot," tweeted "Degringolade."

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Yawn

2010-05-10T11:50:41Z

It's another day. Ho hum. Big deal.
If it wasn't for the lil' date thingie I wouldn't know what day it is.
Like I care.

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I need some advice : P

2010-05-03T05:32:55Z

So we finally pruned the hedge and the trees. The entire garden is now no longer shady and overgrown (small gardens get shady very quickly), but instead we are now knee deep in garden clippings, all over everything. It starts at the place where you put your foot on the ground after stepping off the (also tiny) porch. Branches, twigs, leaves, cut weeds, you name it. Then I went to the DYI store cum garden center to buy those special sturdy garden garbage bags that do not get torn to shreds in two minutes by the twigs and thorns.
And when I get there, the garden center is gone. Poof, disappeared, the whole store, walled up, just an empty parking lot. There will be a new store by the end of July, a man told me.
Now what? I believe , this was the only store in the whole area that sold them. I cannot travel far, as we are out of a car, and thebags are too heavy to carry them through the public transport system. Twenty large sacks made of sturdy plastic sheeting on the subway? Impossible.
If I pile up all those branches and set them on fire, people are gonna think I want to burn the house down. We are not alone here. Besides, they might not burn,this is fresh green. What should I do? Put in two weeks and chop everything into small size garbage by hand, then try to take it out as usual trash? Any better ideas?
I am not a member of the "bad advice on any subject" tribe, so I am asking you.
I thought, spending the weekend just clipping and weeding would be boring enough, and now this...

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April Weather.

2010-05-01T08:02:10Z

It's chilly and rainy and Blah.
Drab. Ain't no sunshine, just grey skies and a chill wind, and drizzles.
It's been like this for five days and the prediction says it'll get chillier tonight and tomorrow more rain showers expected.
Days like these I want to hibernate. Just curl up in bed and stay there. I've got the sniffles, like I needed them to make my day complete and my joints ache. So what?
The cats are grumpy because of the nasty outside and they've been spatting here and there. I haven't had to bounce any off a wall, yet, but I loaded up the squirt gun.
Rebecky's edgy and I'm out of sorts and we're being polite instead of normal so we can get along, y'know? Everybody's edgy.
I guess bad weather, well, it's not really BAD weather, it's just nasty, y'know? Anyway, I guess weather like this beats no weather at all.
I don't have to like it, I just have to deal with it.
Dammit.

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I am "under the weather"

2010-04-23T17:06:52Z

How do you call that in English? In German we say "weather-feely". I once heard a grey haired, sun burned and thorough wrinkled lady living in a beach house on Oahu say "Richard is a bit under the weather today so we cannot attend your meditation weekend".
I never thought this would happen to me but I guess, this must be what it is like. After a couple of weeks of wildly fluctuating temperatures and bouts of frantically peeling off sweaters and socks, and then coming home shivering, in a taxi, bicuycle left behind at the station, wet like a drenched dog, three days in winter clothes and two days in glorious sunny weather etcetc. I wake up on Monday morning, notice ten seconds of misery and then suddenly am in my brightest of moods (as far as I am capable of that at 9am) and full of suprising energy all day.
Come Tuesday and I leave the house without my usual scarf, I end up stiff shouldered, weary and miserable and have to go get a massage after lunch. And am now ready to go to bed (3.30pm) and sleep until the evening job and hide from the cruel world.
They do not even have a word for this in Japan, I am told, but apparently, they understand. The secretary even offered me her headache pills.
What is this? And will it go away?
Are we getting the aftermath of the vulcanic eruption here, in the form of an obscured sun? Has the rainy season moved to April for good, from June? Help!

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Cause for concern?

2010-04-15T14:34:06Z

I purchased a package of ready to heat fried rice this evening, on my way to work. I thought that should be a safe choice. Yet now the label indicates that it is a "new and improved recipie." Should I be concerned? Should I perhaps write the manufacturer, and ask that they not jar our sensibilities in this fashion and that could they not just continue with the old, trusted and true recipie?

All these notions of novelty and change. One just never knows.

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list your lone socks here

2010-04-12T00:16:50Z

I know that starting a new post is not to be taken in haste, but after much thought, I am convinced that listing lone socks could be quite a soothingly dull thing to do. I will list only a few of ours at a time, so as not to overtax myself with the effort and to also avoid unneccesary stimulation to others.

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THE RULES (archive)

2010-04-11T08:29:51Z

1) No member shall use exclamation points in posts.
2) No member shall mention the republic of France in posts.
3) Betting on Scrabble games is strictly prohibited, as if any other form of gambling whose results are not fixed beforehand.

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Umm.

2010-04-11T07:10:45Z

Nothing new here except my bike seat was wet this morning.
Oooh. Such sensation I still feel woozy thinking about it. Cold, wet, and uncomfortable in all the right places.
And It was still raining when I got home from the beer store I stopped by on my way from work.
Then I sat on the porch and watched the rain fall and get the yard all wet and drank several 'after work' beers, then I went to bed and slept 4 1/2 hours.
I'm considering the exciting bliss of some banana yogurt before a nap.

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Bureaucracy and red tape

2010-04-06T05:17:20Z

(from my blog)
Today I went to the bank. I had been told that I must get the Japanese transcription of my name on my bank book changed, otherwise the social insurance office cannot transfer money to it that they owe me. "Please tell the bank to change your name from "Asutorito" to "Asutoritsudo" and your last name should not end in an "o with a long stroke" but rather in an "ou".
Obediently I went to my bank, was led upstairs to a special section, and asked the teller to change my first name to "Asutoritsudo". I expplained the problem with the document at the social office in the city hall. "Yes, but do you have a document with you that can certify that your real name is 'Asutoritsudo'?" "No, I don't", I said, "because my real name is not written in Japanese, my name is Astrid and not any of this, but every Japanese transcribes it any way he wants because Japanese cannot pronounce it anyway." "Please show me your alien registration card", she said. We found that on my card it said that me, the alien, was called Asutorido which was different again, both from the bank and from what the social insurance had on me. "I can only change your name to Asutorido because this is what your ID says", said the teller. "Can't you go to the city hall and ask them to change your name in their document to Asutorido so that it will be same as here in the bank?" "I'd rather not", I replied, "the man in that office is unbelievably uptight, last time he told me that my alien registration card is not an ID, and made me get him a copy from the family register to identify myself. Would you mind if I call them and you talk to them yourself and explain the problem here at the bank?" So we worked it out on my mobile phone, and the bank teller finally agreed to change my first name to "Asutorido", while the person in the city hall agreed to compare their document which said "Asutoritsudo" to their copy of the family register that I had produced to identify myself since they would not accept my ID card as an ID and confirm that it was ok to change my name on their document to Asutorido, also, so that now they would be able to transfer the money to my bank account which said "Astrid" in alphabet on the front page but this did not count because it was not written in Japanese. Whew! Now it will only be a matter of days, I hope, until the money arrives...

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One thing a day.

2010-04-03T13:17:44Z

Unwittingly, I have embarked on a new diet (results as yet unknown).

With four day weekends, I rarely leave the house. When I do, it's usually to procure a single food item that strikes me. The result: for 3 days now I've eaten only one thing per day.

Day one: plain rice (I was so hungry I ate a lot... then I didn't feel like eating anything else all day)
Day two: a large tub of yogurt.
Day three: a pot of hummus.

So far, no ill effects. Though I may break my diet tonight and spice things up with a tomato.

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Umm.

2010-03-29T21:37:03Z

Another Saturday night and I ain't got nobody...
Ooop, this Thursday?
Excuse me. I'll get back to you later.

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A dreary day.

2010-03-20T21:02:37Z

Typical spring moring. Cloudy, chilly and a drizzling rain.
I guess dreary weather is better than no weather.
I'm just glad I don't have to work on the trucks exhaust pipe.

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Dull Haiku

2010-03-15T21:51:45Z

Reading Snert's dreary day post, I thought why not some haiku extolling dullness and drabness?

A gray and damp day
Not yet out of my old socks
Still wet with dawn's dew

- or -

Another dull day
Frosted flakes with milk and tea
Eaten with ennui

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Dumb stereotypes

2010-03-15T01:26:46Z

Fill in the blanks of the following sentence, listing all the expressions of utter stupidity that make your life gloomy and unintersting:

All ............ are ...................... .

For exemple:

All English people are terrible cooks.

All Germans are nazis.

All French are better lovers than us.

All Turks are armed with a knife in their boot, and may loose their temper any moment.

All Italians sing and are flakey.

All...

(over, continue, please)

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Housekeeping

2010-03-08T13:22:47Z

My flatmate and I have been housekeeper-less since our last one got curiously pissed, threw her cellphone at us, and stormed out.

So, I have been learning to clean. Things. Cleaning things is fun. I don't get very far in a single bout, however. I prefer to take little tasks, one day at a time.

I'm very good at vaccumning, I find. I only vaccumn a corner at a time, but I'm very, very careful to go over every surface. Little things collect in gaps in the parquet or under the mouldings. Sometimes I think I find things that have been there for a long, long time, perhaps even before we moved in, or maybe even before I was born. After I finish a corner, I generally stop, and leave the vaccumn cleaner where I stopped, so it will be handy for when I decide to move on the next time. This bothers my flatmate. But it's sort of like a pool-cleaning robot, just in slow motion.

This week, I also ironed two shirts, all by myself. If anyone has advice on this, I would love to hear it. I think I remember hearing something about doing the sleeves either first, or last. But how long should it take? I spent half an hour, and had results that were markedly better than when I started. I would not wear the shirts I ironed to work, but I like to hang them in my closet and look at them and remind myself that they do look better than when they came out of the washing machine.

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a duller alternative to burning man

2010-03-04T20:44:54Z

I would like propose a much duller, safer party in the portland region of the northwest. We'll call it Raining Man. Participants would huddle under tents where bass free easy-listening played nonstop and trade varying cans of fruit cup mixture and sock folding techniques. Instead of the frightful excitement of alcohol, we could have slow moving vehicles with umbrellas (gray, of course) serving Postum or Ovaltine.

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Olympics

2010-02-27T17:56:04Z

I really like that the Olympics have been predictably dull.

I fell asleep during the opening ceremony. It seemed those old men droned on for hours. There was a hint of excitement with the malfunction of the torch lighting, but thankfully it didn't get crazy.

One can always count of Canada for a healthy dose of blandness.

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doldrums, malaise, or ennui?

2010-02-16T17:01:46Z

doldrums, malaise, or ennui?

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Flu Cafe

2009-10-05T20:20:07Z

Well, I dunno about Boring Man (all those fruit cups, all those calories, had to skip this year), but I just moved into a new place, and there's a place down the street called the "Flu Cafe."
I had to go. It was pretty dull. Friday night. One couple in a corner sort of half-assedly making out... and me.
But it got me thinking.
Evidently, there's a flu season. So when is it? Isn't every season flu season?

Any tips on hand-washing? I wash my hands like a violin-maker, but what kind of soap is best? And what products to use during those moments where the sink isn't available? Should we have a tribe-wide "Wash your hands month?" But when?

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Back to Boring Man

2009-09-28T23:34:49Z

I will be returning to the dusty city once again.

My Address: Planet Earth, in the 9:00 Plaza at Biology

Planet Earth is a dance camp, exclusively playing '80s music. Nothing new or shocking here. Only tried and true favorites you've heard for the past 20, or so, years.

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Marriage Help

2009-07-14T17:46:54Z

Hi. This is regarding rather a... er... intimate personal problem.
I've started a tribe to promote same-gender marriage rights.
Marriage, in my opinion, should be boring, and I am trying to guage content on my tribe to reflect this reality.
However.
Due to a high number of evidently promiscuous gay individuals who do seem in earnest in their desire to promote equal human rights, the "Related tribes" section on the left of the tribe's main page is full of photos of frolicking naked men engaging in less than matrimonial behavior - often with more than one partner at a time.
You can help.
Please join my tribe and bring some dullness back where it belongs - to marriages, whether between people of different sexes or the same sex.
Hopefully, if enough dull people join, our collective interests will override the salacious photos now plagueing this tribe's main page.
Many thanks and best regards to all.

http://tribes.tribe.net/65ca4bde-0272-47ba-9837-297a41b8d9dd?_click_path=Application%5Btribe%5D.Tribe%5B65ca4bde-0272-47ba-9837-297a41b8d9dd%5D

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The nature of navel fluff

2009-07-04T00:19:19Z

"Hard facts on a soft matter! ... The hypothesis presented herein says that abdominal hair is mainly responsible for the accumulation of navel lint, which, therefore, this is a typically male phenomenon. The abdominal hair collects fibers from cotton shirts and directs them into the navel where they are compacted to a felt-like matter. The most abundant individual mass of a piece of lint was found to be between 1.20 and 1.29 mg (n=503). However, due to several much larger pieces, the average mass was 1.82 mg in this three year study. When the abdominal hair is shaved, no more lint is collected. "

From the materials and methods: "The author first observed the accumulation of navel fluff in his early 20s. Despite thorough body hygiene including a daily morning shower, the navel filled with lint over the day. The author collected 503 pieces of navel fluff since approximately March 2005 with a total weight of almost 1 g... ...In order to investigate the role of the abdominal hair, the author also shaved his belly for this study."

Steinhauser G.

Vienna University of Technology, Atominstitut der Osterreichischen Universitäten, Stadionallee 2, 1020 Vienna, Austria. georg.steinhauser@ati.ac.at

Hard facts on a soft matter! In their popular scientific book (Leyner M, Goldberg B. Why do men have nipples - hundreds of questions you'd only ask a doctor after your third martini. New York: Three Rivers Press; 2005), Leyner and Goldberg raised the question why "some belly buttons collect so much lint". They were, however, not able to come up with a satisfactory answer. The hypothesis presented herein says that abdominal hair is mainly responsible for the accumulation of navel lint, which, therefore, this is a typically male phenomenon. The abdominal hair collects fibers from cotton shirts and directs them into the navel where they are compacted to a felt-like matter. The most abundant individual mass of a piece of lint was found to be between 1.20 and 1.29 mg (n=503). However, due to several much larger pieces, the average mass was 1.82 mg in this three year study. When the abdominal hair is shaved, no more lint is collected. Old T-shirts or dress shirts produce less navel fuzz than brand new T-shirts. Using elemental analysis, it could be shown that cotton lint contains a certain amount of foreign material, supposedly cutaneous scales, fat or proteins. Incidentally, lint might thus fulfill a cleaning function for the navel.

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Birmingham

2009-06-12T23:10:14Z

Any ideas from you Brits on things to do in Birmingham? I've been through it once on a bus, but this time I have a full weekend, replete with a conference hosting 50 narratologists. My day schedule looks to be pretty dull. But what am I going to do in the evenings?

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My Remote Stopped Working

2009-06-08T20:56:30Z

Yesterday, my remote control stopped working. It was a pretty new one. I went to the store and got another one of the exact same model. Then I got a $5 coffee at the coffee shop. I went home and opened the remote. I typed in the Samsung code and started flipping channels. About ten minutes later, it stopped working. Today, I returned that remote to the store and got a different, slightly more expensive, one. Then I got a $5 coffee at the coffee shop. I went home and tried to program the new remote. It had ten possible three-digit codes. I had to push Code Search, then TV, then the three-digit code, then Power, until the TV turned off. I tried all the combinations, but the TV never turned off. Then I tried the manual code search, as per the instructions. To do this, I had to press Code Search, then TV, then Power repeatedly until the TV shut off. The instruction booklet warned me that I might have to push Power up to 200 times before I would find the right code. I pushed Power 200 times, but the TV didn't turn off. I repeated this process two more times (400 more Power pushes). Then I tried the list of ten codes twice more. It didn't work. I took the new remote back to the store. The clerk wanted me to try another one, but I decided not to. I went to Safeway and bought a whole can of hot chocolate powder for $5 so that I could make my own cafe mochas at home and I would not have to pay $5 per coffee. I have to change the channel by getting up and changing it on the TV. Some of the channels aren't programmed into the TV, so I can't watch them anymore.

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Best Repetitive Songs

2009-06-08T16:40:32Z

The La's - There She Goes

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what did I miss?

2009-06-06T08:03:38Z

I've been gone a long long time. Did I miss anything?

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Update

2009-06-06T05:53:49Z

No new tales to tell.

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I'm back

2009-06-05T09:09:12Z

It's been two years.

I've been living in a cave.

I ate raw pistachios for many months until I developed allergic reactions from eating too many.

So then I moved on to beetle droppings. It's not that bad actually.

...

So that's about it.

Now I'm back.

Did I miss anything?

-Borfo

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and these look like coconuts

2009-06-05T08:36:44Z

while listening to the tin foil hat song, I also found another D&U activity.

http://www.holistech.co.uk/haggis.php

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Vacation

2009-03-10T18:40:51Z

I recently took a quiet vacation to Germany and Switzerland, and am pleased to report I kept it very dull. I did not partake in sausages, beer or yodeling.

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Pre retirement course

2008-12-05T17:49:39Z

I have started a pre retirement course - never to soon consider these things. We were asked to list the things we could spend our (remaining) time doing. Here are my first thoughts. Maybe this group can come up with some more things.

1) Do all my shopping at the supermarket between noon and 2pm.
2) Repeat myself over and over.
3) Drive about aimlessly at 25ph in the evening rush hour.
4) Dither.
5) Have a permanent doctors appointment for 5.30pm every work day.
6) Repeat myself over and over.
7) Have my hair cut on Saturday mornings.
8) Talk in stage whispers about the fashions of young 'uns (Does he know his underwear is showing - must she show her belly?)

Please write your suggestions in BIG LETTERS!

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oh,do,let's.I nominate you to head the Committee for Special Concerns Regarding the Appointment of Committee Members.

2008-12-02T22:37:49Z

Well after very careful consideration, I have decided to accept the afore mentioned nomination. So how shall we proceed from here? Would statistical graphs be appropriate? Perhaps we should think about secret ballots. There are also numerous important issues that I have thus far held back on mentioning and the wiehgt of these matter weighs heavily. Moreover,it is always best to ponder at length before introducing any new thoughts, ideas or even topics here.

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Toaster Museum

2008-08-05T12:12:36Z

http://www.toastermuseum.com/scripts/toastercollection/collection01.html

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Dusty

2008-08-03T15:01:24Z

Who among us will be attending the annual desert festival i like to call "Boring" Man? We should meet up and go to deep playa to get away from all the stimulation the city offers. We can partake in fruit cups.

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I posted a picture of a coconut in the sand

2008-07-29T18:15:16Z

Yes, its very exciting. Or it was. Til the little guys left. They got bored. And therefore, it counts.

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69 members

2008-07-17T08:12:12Z

this is all too much for me today.

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hey,

2008-07-17T07:07:38Z

i just found a coconut in the grass.

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I'm here

2008-06-24T20:02:55Z

I know...who cares.

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I lost my

2008-06-24T19:56:30Z

toenail clippers and had to resort to using an emery board. I forgot how much I like useing an emery board on my toenails. It's ok on my fingernails but even more fun on my toenails. Toenails are soo thick, and you have to sand and sand and sand and sand away. Actually I like talking about it as much as I like doing it.
I thank myself for sharing.

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I posted a picture of a coconut in the grass

2008-06-23T08:21:24Z

http://tribes.tribe.net/boredandproud/photos/ed3e8cfc-0730-4352-a3aa-47e96dd4538d

see it .

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Daily Literature

2008-06-21T07:51:09Z

Start at Chapter 1 -

http://www.online-literature.com/tolstoy/war_and_peace/

Enjoy.

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no?

2008-06-03T23:42:42Z

hmmm.....

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French food

2008-05-14T16:00:54Z

After 10 years in France, now that I've left it, I find myself missing not the pastries, or the sauces, or the chocolate, but ...
the frozen fish.
It used to come (sigh) in cardboard boxes, and inside each box were four neatly packaged, perfectly identical, perfectly rectangular, perfectly white blocks of the most tasteless perch. It was lovely to bake it and to eat perfectly rectangular fish... but it was even nicer to spend a quarter of an hour watching them thaw in a saucepan of cheap white wine.
It was nice to have an excuse to drink half the wine while waiting.
It was nice to hack the thawed pieces to bits for a bouillabaise.
It was nice serving the dish without anyone but me knowing that an hour ago, the fish had been perfectly rectangular.

Second, perhaps, only to eating straight from a can of tuna. Mmm.

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Moreover and Furthermore

2008-04-10T04:50:08Z

Further to our discussion of dull words.
I'm having a terrible time between these two, deciding which is less interesting. Which is quicker to induce sighs when it appears at the opening of a sentence?
I'm leaning toward Furthermore, but perhaps just because it's longer. Can you believe it's just three sylables? Phonetically, it's the equal of Chicago, Mexico, Hannover, or India, all of which look much less cumbersome.

It's the word that announces you're in for more than you probably want (or really need) to hear by its very structure.
And that your rhetorical point, although already acheived, has more weight behind it that you were too lazy to organize into your argument, and will now tack on ad-hoc, even though by this time your argument is, technically, already complete. In short, announcing the word "furthermore" is the linguistic equivalent of forcing someone to read endnotes and the bibliography. Which, seen in that light, I'm sure gives us all pause to think.

So make it "furthermore" for me, friends.
After all, why ever say "and" again, when you can say "furthermore?"

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Eggs

2008-04-09T11:09:54Z

Easter got me thinking about the color of eggs. As a child I thought all eggs were white. Then came easter, and the practice of dying eggs garishly. Later my mother began to purchase brown eggs. It was all very distressing. Now I that I buy my own eggs, they're brown, as this is what my store sells. I've become accustomed to the color, I suppose.

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Perhaps

2008-03-24T20:19:51Z

I thought perhaps I might start a new thread dedicated to the word "perhaps," after noticing that my using it twice in the same sentence in another thread dramatically increased the dullness of said sentence's tone.

In this thread, perhaps we might all endeavor to use the word "perhaps" at least once in each and every sentence (or perhaps even more often), while focusing discussion on the word itself, but perhaps without limiting ourselves solely to said subject, leaving the framework of our discussion open to other conjunctions.

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bacon cups - yay or nay?

2008-03-05T00:19:46Z

new product testing for the d&u market -

http://www.notmartha.org/archives/2008/02/27/bacon-cups/

(sans the lettuce and tomatoes )

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bacon cups

2008-03-03T22:20:30Z

sans the lettuce and tomatoes - http://www.notmartha.org/archives/2008/02/27/bacon-cups/

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to all fellow rats....

2008-02-28T11:48:07Z

happy new year. chinese, that is. :|

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My boyfriend likes my family more than he likes me

2008-02-06T17:15:49Z

And they're dull!
Please excuse the exclamation point.
We just spent a week in a ranch house in North Carolina, and he found it all fabulous, the enormous fridge, the giiant cars, the five pound sirloin steaks and homemade pesto and wireless everything... he should have been bored... but wasn't! He actually preferred it to New York.
I was left feeling.... dull. Next to my mother, in pearls, serving meat loaf.
He amused himself endlessly with the "poetry" magnets on the refridgerator, and the maggot-infested stuffed animals in the rec room.
Help!
How can I convince my boyfriend I'm interesting again when he's in love with a bunch of redneck hoodlums and now he thinks I'm a snob just because I ignored the security service man at the airport who sias we can't park and smoke at the same time when loading luggage?!
I'm more interesting than my family, damnit. But he loves them, and not me!

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Please remember to keep 2008 safe and boring

2008-01-25T12:43:03Z

Now that the razzamatazz(to be avoided!) of the "holiday season "is over, I hope each and every one of you will do all in your power to stay true to the D & U ethos in the coming year..Hopefully some of you even managed to maintain them even during all the festivities, even if it meant hiding. . For my part, I managed to leave a bar before midnight on New Years eve in order to be home before all the merriment & excitement broke out.

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my new D&U activity

2007-12-27T08:04:19Z

I have taken to looking daily in Craig's list, in the free section. I find it quite interesting what people will give away. Today someone was giving away a jar of pickles. They even had a picture. I love it when people include pictures. Sometimes I will spend a great deal of time just looking at every picture of every free item there is.
There was someone giving away manure today also, but no picture very disappointed.
But there are several people giving away free dirt. And their photos do keep me amused.
I have included on particularly nice one for your enjoyment.
http://portland.craigslist.org/mlt/zip/483551142.html
Have a very dull thanksgiving.

~tumbles

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A good role model

2007-12-27T07:58:59Z

The following story is a message we would all do well to embrace- the last 2 sentences are the perfect D & U motto to live by, even in the face of unbrindled high drama and heroics. Please read this carefully:

Driver's quick thinking prevents head-on crash on GG Bridge
John Cote, Chronicle Staff Writer

Wednesday, November 28, 2007

(11-27) 22:25 PST San Francisco -- A Mill Valley man prevented a potentially serious crash on the Golden Gate Bridge today by using his pickup truck to guide a sport utility vehicle - in which the driver had gone unconcious - away from oncoming traffic, the California Highway Patrol said.

A 62-year-old Tiburon woman driving south over the bridge at 6:50 a.m. slumped over her steering wheel after suffering a medical condition from which she later died.

John Beatty, a 50-year-old electrician who was driving to work across the bridge as he's done almost every weekday for the past 30 years came up behind the Jeep Grand Cherokee stopped in the second lane from the center divide.

"I nearly hit it, and the car behind me nearly hit me," Beatty said. "All of the sudden the vehicle in front of me starts to drive to the left very slowly."

The Jeep was headed toward oncoming traffic.

"You never know what you're going to do when something like that happens," Beatty said. "I didn't think about it. I just did it."

Beatty drove up along side the car, saw the woman slumped over the wheel and acted quickly. He maneuvered his Ford F350 pickup in front of her vehicle to block it from moving into the oncoming cars.

"I let her hit me," Beatty said.

Then - with the Jeep still moving - Beatty used his truck to guide it across two lanes of traffic to the right hand curb as other cars passed, he said.

"They were going crazy all around us, but as soon as they saw what I was doing they left me a big hole to do this maneuver," Beatty said. "Everybody just kind of stopped to let me slowly pull off to the right to park her."

The CHP credited Beatty with selfless act that prevented a potentially "extremely serious" headon collision on the bridge.

Beatty said he called the CHP and pounded on the woman's windows.

But she was unconscious and the doors were locked, Beatty said.

A CHP officer arrived on the scene and smashed a window to unlock the woman's door, and a paramedic found a pulse and began CPR, Beatty said.

The woman was taken to California Pacific Medical Center in San Francisco, where she later was pronounced dead, authorities said.

"When you think about all the lawsuits and liability that goes on today, I probably wouldn't have done it," Beatty said. "But you don't think. I saw she was going into oncoming traffic, and it would have been a horrible accident."

Beatty said that afterward, he pulled off into a parking lot to calm down for an hour as his adrenaline raced.

"I lead a kind of low-key life. Excitement's not my bag," he said.

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Good D& U tasks

2007-11-21T12:47:40Z

In the last 2 weeks I have had the luck to be able to:

Unpack 2 suitcases and 2 travel bags after 2 weeks away. Isn't nice how it was all predicatbly the number two? Glad to report thaty we managed to go to Florida and NOT go to any major attractions but did have several forays to Walgreens.

Spend an hour on hold listening to muzak, to report that our cable tv was out of service.It is now fixed, so have to avoid the too stimulating programs now. Perhaps we should have stuck with the 5 basic channels.

Got to sort a huge pile of invoices into day, month and year order. Since I am too efficient that task ended all too quickly.

What D & U tasks have you undertaken latlely?

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I am moving

2007-11-20T02:14:02Z

I August To Portland. LA is far too exciting. It will be very D&U there.

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Desert Vacation

2007-09-09T10:07:51Z

I'm going on a week long camping trip in the Nevada desert. I was wondering if anyone else had similar ideas. It's a dry lakebead, and nothing grows on it. Should prove very dull, indeed.

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listless listings list...

2007-08-24T19:51:22Z

1. florescent lighting

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ALL Hail Diana.....

2007-06-25T18:08:49Z

phewww..... it's over.

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Why?

2007-05-21T11:35:24Z

Why oh why do I always find out too late about these things:

http://www.daytondailynews.com/p/content/gen/sharedoh/photos_galleries/news/local/051707hamventionpast.html

Perhaps it's not too early to start making arrangements to attend the next one. In fact I think Dayton could be a D & U goldmine. It would probably make a suitable locale for a convention.

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audio/media

2007-05-18T18:22:52Z

My ex says, "This is funn."

http://www.jetset.nl/lostformats/01.html

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Corn Sporks

2007-05-17T02:09:50Z

http://www.biodegradablestore.com/cip/cip_utensils.html

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parking meters

2007-05-16T01:48:25Z

Things were a little slow today at the artists co-op I work at, so I started thinking about the parking meters outside the store.
Have you noticed how expensive time has become? We used to get an hour for a quarter outside the store when it first opened. Now we get 15 minutes.
I added up the parking meters just in our block. There were 32. If each meter collects a dollar an hour per meter, and the meters charge from 10am till 10 pm each day, how much would the city make per block in one week? We will assume they are constantly being used, just because we can.

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2007-05-08T20:36:02Z

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History of tiny handwriting

2007-05-08T18:27:25Z

From the new issue of Cabinet Magazine, the history of micrography, or man's attempt to write ever more words in ever smaller amounts of space.

http://cabinetmagazine.org/issues/25/foer.php

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alphabetizing

2007-04-24T23:07:23Z

I have a long list that has to be alphabetized.
Naturally, I'd love to get to work on it right away, but I have too much tribing to do, and also I need to find something for my assistant to do - she's bored out of her mind and has taken to locking herself in her office with Gothic novels. I approve of this, naturally, but I do feel my role as her supervisor should include seeing that she profit from learning the joys of alphabetizing.
However, when I presented her with this work, she seemed uninterested.
How can I inspire her to appreciate the joy of alphabetization? Frankly, I think she might need something to make it seem more interesting.

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100 Things to See Before You Die

2007-04-21T08:12:37Z

I'm having a hard time thinking of any.
Help?

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vs.

2007-04-17T23:59:50Z

work & financial debt vs "the american dream"

difference?

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i heart lysol

2007-04-12T07:15:06Z

after a painfully exciting evening, i had the most astoundingly boring time cleaning the grout on my bathroom tiles. they are white now. lysol disenfectant cleaner foams and makes a pleasant crackling fizzy sound. i'll attack the shower tonight if i have time. 4am cleaning sessions are such a way to dull oneself into sleepiness. i think you all should try. it will quickly take away the excitement of family stuff during the holidays.

it was, in fact, the second 4am session in a row cleaning my bathroom. one of my housemates exploded in the sink, and the toilet, and well, all over everything. it was almost exciting. to avert unnecessary stimulation, i made the task as boring and arguous as possible using t-shirt scraps and one sponge and few paper towels (not the brightly colored brand kind; the boring costco kind). an hour or so later, the sink drained again and all befowling materials were flushed or trashed. i'm giving myself a saintly DU badge for the cleaning so diligently.
I think i'm going to reward myself with a Swiffer. Should I get the wet or the dry kind?

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Group rules

2007-04-09T23:30:43Z

I've only just woken up to this group. Are there any rules?

Do I get thown out for posting more than once a year?

If so I'll be back in 2011.

Let that be a warning to you all.

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The Boring Store

2007-04-04T07:40:37Z

A place for us at last?

http://www.methodsreporter.com/2007/02/27/826chi-boring-store-eggers/1/

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