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Subject: BS: I'm so bored I could just... From: Little Hawk Date: 01 Nov 08 - 11:59 AM I figure it's American election overload. Or it might be part of the aging process. It could be Amos's fault. Whatever it is, man, something has got to be done about it soon. Even the Walkabouts Verse thread fails to stir my interest. You know it's bad when it comes to that. |
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Subject: RE: BS: I'm so bored I could just... From: CarolC Date: 01 Nov 08 - 12:06 PM Winter's coming. Wouldn't a trip down here to southeastern North Carolina with our beautiful sandy beaches and daytime temps in the 60s and 70s F be a nice way to shake off the boredom? Especially if Obama gets elected. Then it won't be so scary to come south of the border. |
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Subject: RE: BS: I'm so bored I could just... From: Bill D Date: 01 Nov 08 - 12:16 PM Maybe if Shane could be persuaded to take Chongo for a walk, you could follow at a safe distance and watch people's reactions. |
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Subject: RE: BS: I'm so bored I could just... From: Rapparee Date: 01 Nov 08 - 12:17 PM Probably be the other way around: Chongo walking a knuckle-dragger on a leash. |
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Subject: RE: BS: I'm so bored I could just... From: Stilly River Sage Date: 01 Nov 08 - 12:21 PM Maybe a trip to California to visit Winona? Hasn't she been inviting you to make the trip? |
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Subject: RE: BS: I'm so bored I could just... From: Bill D Date: 01 Nov 08 - 12:52 PM I got it! Start a silly thread and laugh at folks attempts to give intelligent responses to unsolvable issues! Nawww... don't bother to thank me... |
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Subject: RE: BS: I'm so bored I could just... From: Little Hawk Date: 01 Nov 08 - 12:53 PM Wow! A lot of great ideas coming in here. Well, let's hope Obama gets elected, eh, Carol? I have to get my danged passport renewed, it's out of date. Shane and Chongo together is a very amusing idea. Shane's reaction to Chongo would be quite disrespectful, I think, while Chongo would regard Shane with absolute disgust and contempt. It would make for an interesting confrontation, for sure. Shane is not particularly courageous, so I'm betting he would back off first...not without a few parting remarks, mind you. |
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Subject: RE: BS: I'm so bored I could just... From: Little Hawk Date: 01 Nov 08 - 12:54 PM Bill? Do I hear your momma calling you? |
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Subject: RE: BS: I'm so bored I could just... From: Bill D Date: 01 Nov 08 - 01:05 PM You just might...she died 20 years ago. |
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Subject: RE: BS: I'm so bored I could just... From: Little Hawk Date: 01 Nov 08 - 01:16 PM Oh, I see. |
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Subject: RE: BS: I'm so bored I could just... From: Little Hawk Date: 01 Nov 08 - 03:14 PM Hmm. Well, we seem to have killed this one dead with that last exchange. Like I said, I'm bored.... |
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Subject: RE: BS: I'm so bored I could just... From: Megan L Date: 01 Nov 08 - 03:22 PM Bored ah'll gie ye somethin tae be bored aboot. Youngsters these days ah dinny ken when a wis a lass we were up for work at 4 am ye didny hae time fur bored. Granny Dom |
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Subject: RE: BS: I'm so bored I could just... From: Cluin Date: 01 Nov 08 - 05:26 PM Up for work at 4 am? You had it easy. We got up for work at 2 am, two hours BEFORE we got to bed from the last shift. |
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Subject: RE: BS: I'm so bored I could just... From: Megan L Date: 01 Nov 08 - 05:28 PM he he he |
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Subject: RE: BS: I'm so bored I could just... From: fat B****rd Date: 01 Nov 08 - 05:30 PM LUXURY !! |
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Subject: RE: BS: I'm so bored I could just... From: Sandra in Sydney Date: 02 Nov 08 - 06:49 AM SHOEBOX? |
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Subject: RE: BS: I'm so bored I could just... From: wysiwyg Date: 02 Nov 08 - 07:28 AM I'm so bored I could just... Mudcat. No, not today-- anyhting but bored in fact! (wanna tell, wanna tell) But there are days.... when I'm HERE because I'm not really anywhere else. ~Susan |
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Subject: RE: BS: I'm so bored I could just... From: topical tom Date: 02 Nov 08 - 09:14 AM When I'm bored I take a nap-I take a lot of naps. |
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Subject: RE: BS: I'm so bored I could just... From: Gurney Date: 03 Nov 08 - 02:15 AM Yes, but if you tell the young folk, they just don't believe you, do they. LH, they are setting on down at the button works. They need moulders, turners, drillers, all sorts. Good eyesight and steady hands a necessity. |
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Subject: RE: BS: I'm so bored I could just... From: John MacKenzie Date: 03 Nov 08 - 04:30 AM I keep reading the title of this thread as 'I'm so bored I could rust...' XG |
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Subject: RE: BS: I'm so bored I could just... From: SINSULL Date: 03 Nov 08 - 08:38 AM Little Hawk, I think I envy you. From the moment I open my eyes until I fall asleep at night I am either doing something or making a list of things to do. I can't remember the last time I was bored. Read a book; read a newspaper; look at what is going on in the Congo. Lose the chimp and get a life. That was harsh - sorry. But I can't imagine any excuse for being bored. The internet has opened limitless opportunites for entertainment, information, communication. We have more to keep us busy than any generation before us. LIVE! SINS, who needs a 32 hour day. |
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Subject: RE: BS: I'm so bored I could just... From: Little Hawk Date: 03 Nov 08 - 10:23 AM "We have more to keep us busy than any generation before us." Ah, well, it seems that way, doesn't it? And yet our lives are (in my opinion) rather empty compared to the lives of people in simpler societies....for one simple reason: instead of dealing directly with relating to other people in basic ways, we are relating with all our fancy gadgets. The computer. The TV. The cell phone. The ipod. The snow blower. The blackberry. The washer. The dryer. The car. The Osterizer. The whatever.... ;-) We lead far more emotionally isolated lives than our ancestors did, because we are overwhelmed with technology and tucked away in our house or our apartment or our cubicle at work...interacting with a damn machine instead of a variety of other human beings. Having been in Cuba and Trinidad and Mexico where people have far less technology and possessions, I can say that we are the ones living in poverty...but it's not material poverty. It's spiritual, social, and emotional poverty. I'm generalizing, of course... ;-) I'm sure there are plenty of you just about to leap on your keyboard and tell me just how WRONG I am when it comes to you! Fine. ;-) Well, I became addicted to using the Internet to keep my mind busy about 3 years ago, and where am I now? I have virtually exhausted the possibilities on the Internet. Yes. I know it sounds incredible, but I can barely find anything on the Internet any longer that stirs my interest, and which I haven't already seen and am done with. We do not have more to keep us busy than any generation before us, SINSULL, it just seems that way. "Busy" isn't the point. The point is an actual level of real emotional engagement with life. Business is how many people cover up their lack OF emotional engagement, in fact. They have to keep moving, because if they were to stop and actually consider where they are, the emptiness of their lives would terrify them. That's why people get so antsy and stressed out when they have to wait for a minute at a traffic light. They're afraid of their own internal emptiness...and that brief forced wait at the light puts in right in front of them, and they can't stand it. |
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Subject: RE: BS: I'm so bored I could just... From: SINSULL Date: 03 Nov 08 - 10:37 AM I must live in a different universe from yours, Little Hawk. I am surrounded by people who interact. Lucky me. |
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Subject: RE: BS: I'm so bored I could just... From: wysiwyg Date: 03 Nov 08 - 10:39 AM US and Canadia are different. But I can be bored AND Busy at the same time. ~S~ |
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Subject: RE: BS: I'm so bored I could just... From: Little Hawk Date: 03 Nov 08 - 11:21 AM That's good, SINSULL. ;-) I was speaking in very generalized terms about cultural differences between the developed world and the Third World, you understand. Yes, Susan, it is definitely possible to be busy and bored at the same time. It's quite common too. |
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Subject: RE: BS: I'm so bored I could just... From: Gurney Date: 03 Nov 08 - 03:25 PM Look on the bright side, LH. You could live next door to Bobert, and wonder if the bear will knock on the door tonight. I take your point about the busy triviality of todays western lifestyle, though. Most people in the world are more concerned about basic survival. Thinking about it, I'll take it western style. If you lived here, you could volunteer to digitise my LPs. Tedium on tedium after the first one. |
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Subject: RE: BS: I'm so bored I could just... From: Little Hawk Date: 03 Nov 08 - 04:04 PM If you lived here, you could volunteer to do the same for mine. ;-) What I noticed in Cuba and Trinidad was...people seemed to be more relaxed. They seemed to have more liesure time and to enjoy it more than their North American counterparts. They seemed to have a livelier social life and more contact with family. The youngsters seemed to be more mature and have a lot more respect for their elders...and they were not spending several hours a day playing video games. Hmmm. Maybe there's a connection there. |
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Subject: RE: BS: I'm so bored I could just... From: VirginiaTam Date: 12 Aug 10 - 04:19 PM I was bored last night so I made this mudcat mascot |
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Subject: RE: BS: I'm so bored I could just... From: gnu Date: 12 Aug 10 - 04:35 PM Get bored more often. |
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Subject: RE: BS: I'm so bored I could just... From: VirginiaTam Date: 12 Aug 10 - 05:52 PM aww thanx |
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Subject: RE: BS: I'm so bored I could just... From: Joe Offer Date: 12 Aug 10 - 06:04 PM ...take a nap. Ahhhhh! G'nite. -Joe- |
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Subject: RE: BS: I'm so bored I could just... From: Ebbie Date: 12 Aug 10 - 06:37 PM I have The computer. I don't have The TV. I don't have The cell phone. I don't have The ipod. I don't have The snow blower. I don't have The blackberry. I have The washer. I have The dryer. I don't have The car. I don't have The Osterizer. Yeah, I got some of The whatever... I'm with Sinsull- I rarely get bored. At least, I'm not bored if I have control over my surroundings. Last week I was at a really, really strange and bizarre, ego-driven event where I eventually thought that if the MC showed up on stage just one more time with her peculiar combination of whine, plea and gushy, I was going to yell something extremely rude. |
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Subject: RE: BS: I'm so bored I could just... From: gnu Date: 12 Aug 10 - 06:41 PM Thought but not. For, you is a lIdy you is. |
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Subject: RE: BS: I'm so bored I could just... From: frogprince Date: 12 Aug 10 - 06:57 PM No matter how bored I get, I don't think I could ever bring myself to just. I find justing absolutely abhorent. |
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Subject: RE: BS: I'm so bored I could just... From: frogprince Date: 12 Aug 10 - 07:04 PM Actually I prefer Kipling; I could Kiple all day and never get bored. |
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Subject: RE: BS: I'm so bored I could just... From: Little Hawk Date: 12 Aug 10 - 07:17 PM I'm at the point now where I just an average of five times a day out of sheer boredom! |
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Subject: RE: BS: I'm so bored I could just... From: Ebbie Date: 12 Aug 10 - 07:28 PM I think of it as 'jousting'. A bit beyond me nowadays but still exciting. |
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Subject: RE: BS: I'm so bored I could just... From: GUEST,kendall Date: 12 Aug 10 - 07:31 PM Watching flies die on the window sill gets old pretty quick. |
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Subject: RE: BS: I'm so bored I could just... From: Little Hawk Date: 12 Aug 10 - 07:33 PM Yeah, but think how the flies must feel. |
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Subject: RE: BS: I'm so bored I could just... From: Ebbie Date: 12 Aug 10 - 08:03 PM Exciting for them. |
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Subject: RE: BS: I'm so bored I could just... From: Bobert Date: 12 Aug 10 - 08:41 PM Ahhhh, I'm married to the P-Vine, thank you... Nuff said... B~ p.s. No snow blower, Eb??? |
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Subject: RE: BS: I'm so bored I could just... From: Smokey. Date: 12 Aug 10 - 08:42 PM Watching flies die on the window sill gets old pretty quick. Try sellotaping crumbs to the inside of the window. |
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Subject: RE: BS: I'm so bored I could just... From: Sandra in Sydney Date: 13 Aug 10 - 02:22 AM that'll drive 'em out of their tiny little minds! |
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Subject: RE: BS: I'm so bored I could just... From: GUEST,Patsy Date: 13 Aug 10 - 05:38 AM I'm so bored I could just go on a shopping spree, then I would be depressed having spent too much....... |
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Subject: RE: BS: I'm so bored I could just... From: Ed T Date: 13 Aug 10 - 07:21 AM "Say what you will about the Ten Commandments, you must always come back to the pleasant fact that there are only ten of them". ~H.L. Mencken That leaves quite a few things you can do, to avoid being bored, if you are a Christian. If not, you may be out of luck? |
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Subject: RE: BS: I'm so bored I could just... From: Ed T Date: 13 Aug 10 - 07:43 AM You could travel to Moncton, and join Gnu, to watch the tidal bore? |
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Subject: RE: BS: I'm so bored I could just... From: gnu Date: 13 Aug 10 - 09:32 AM Unfortunately, Ed, it is. The causeway messed it up. The gates were permanently opened recently but I don't know if if the bore will ever regain it's past glory. |
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Subject: RE: BS: I'm so bored I could just... From: Little Hawk Date: 13 Aug 10 - 01:02 PM Just a complete bore now, is it? |
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Subject: RE: BS: I'm so bored I could just... From: Amos Date: 13 Aug 10 - 01:08 PM Boredom, Good Hawk, is entirely a function of the outlook of the boree. You live in the most intricate, interesting planetary biozone in the known Universe, and have as much to learn about it as any school-child despite all your years of learning;; ifyou are bored, you may want to review your assumptions and see about redesigning them. A |
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Subject: RE: BS: I'm so bored I could just... From: Little Hawk Date: 13 Aug 10 - 01:18 PM Ooooooo...I just hate it when Amos generously donates a little of his time to kindly drop these pearls of wisdom on the unenlightened... (Specially when he's right! Argh!) |
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Subject: RE: BS: I'm so bored I could just... From: GUEST,leeneia Date: 13 Aug 10 - 05:16 PM When I get bored, I go on YouTube and search for 'yodel.' I recommend it highly. |
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Subject: RE: BS: I'm so bored I could just... From: GUEST,leeneia Date: 13 Aug 10 - 05:17 PM but if you want something sexier, search for 'baton twirl.' |
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Subject: RE: BS: I'm so bored I could just... From: akenaton Date: 13 Aug 10 - 05:25 PM I dont have time to get bored.....Oh how I wish I had nothing to do. I could have a long lie in bed, listen to the radio, saunter down to the lochside and catch a few fish for lunch, I can walk for hours and not meet another living human...lovely. Oh no there's the effing phone....off we go again! |
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Subject: RE: BS: I'm so bored I could just...PLOTZ From: Donuel Date: 13 Aug 10 - 07:53 PM |
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Subject: RE: BS: I'm so bored I could just... From: kendall Date: 13 Aug 10 - 08:00 PM Gnu still has the magnetic hill. It is an optical illusion but it is fascinating. |
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Subject: RE: BS: I'm so bored I could just... From: Ed T Date: 13 Aug 10 - 08:20 PM "Gnu still has the magnetic hill" Who knows, it may sooth your arthritis, as much as the Q-Ray bracelets, anyway? |
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Subject: RE: BS: I'm so bored I could just... From: Joe_F Date: 13 Aug 10 - 08:38 PM The only thing that can bore me is a movie. |
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Subject: RE: BS: I'm so bored I could just... From: Ed T Date: 13 Aug 10 - 09:49 PM Put purple hat on and pretend you are Boy George |
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Subject: RE: BS: I'm so bored I could just... From: frogprince Date: 13 Aug 10 - 09:59 PM Then again, maybe... Walkin' Round in Women's Underwear (to be sung to "Walkin' in a Winter Wonderland") Lacy things -- the wife is missin', Didn't ask -- her permission, I'm wearin' her clothes, Her silk pantyhose, Walkin' 'round in women's underwear. In the store -- there's a teddy, Little straps -- like spaghetti, It holds me so tight, Like handcuffs at night, Walkin' 'round in women's underwear. In the office there's a guy named Melvin, He pretends that I am Murphy Brown. He'll say, "Are you ready?" I'll say,"Whoa, Man!" "Let's wait until our wives are out of town!" Later on, if you wanna, We can dress -- like Madonna, Put on some eyeshade, And join the parade, Walkin' 'round in women's underwear! Lacy things... missin', Didn't ask... permission, Wearin' her clothes, Her silk pantyhose, Walkin' 'round in women's underwear, Walkin' 'round in women's underwear, Walkin' 'round in women's underwear! |
