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Subject: BORED! BORED! BORED! From: Firecat Date: 24 Jan 01 - 10:36 AM What do people do when they are completely, utterly and totally bored? I NEED IDEAS!!! |
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Subject: RE: BS: BORED! BORED! BORED! From: Lepus Rex Date: 24 Jan 01 - 10:41 AM They create threads like this. ;) I'm REALLY bored, too. I've been bored all week. So I guess I'm no help, heh. ---Lepus Rex |
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Subject: RE: BS: BORED! BORED! BORED! From: GUEST,Matt_R Date: 24 Jan 01 - 10:42 AM Me, I hang around on Mudcat. Or Paltalk. Or play music! Yes, music! What a great concept! Wish I could play some now, but as I'm at school, and this puter has no sound card, I'm scumped! |
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Subject: RE: BS: BORED! BORED! BORED! From: wysiwyg Date: 24 Jan 01 - 11:00 AM I do system maintenance while playing good new tunes on the stereo that I want to learn by osmosis. Clean up files, download new software, and so on. Here at Mudcat, I used to do this, and you can too-- set the time filter for the last week's worth of threads and find the Lyr/Chord/Help requests that never got answered. Look for threads with only 1 or 2 posts, and refresh them. Use your back button after each one to get back where you were and avoid long loading times. Where the requestor has asked for an e-mail reply, send them one indicating they need to come back to Mudcat to watch for replies. I used to give the Mudcat URL when I did this so they'd find their way back. Sometimes I'd copy and paste the URL for their thread, but usually just the Mudcat one. I had a message draft I'd reuse sitting on my desktop so I could just copy, paste, and fire away. Oh and tell 'em you're a volunteer and member-- so they don't think they have a staffer permanently at their disposal. The reason for giving the Cat URL is that a lot of times, surfers have left the request in a number of different sites, and have not bookmarked, especially when they think they will get their answer by e-mail. You can cover it in about an hour and a half and the thing is, discovering how to do it efficiently helps with the boredom. Your mind wakes up and you get other ideas of what to do. It's also nice at the beginning of each month to look up the Mudcat Birthdays for that month in the Resources section, and copy-paste the info into a thread. (You have to clean up line breaks, etc.) Otherwise only the Catters who have a good friend who knows their birthday get birthday threads. I have heard from a couple of people that they get really hurt feelings that no one birthday'ed them. Not that it's a duty... just that people have a lot of feelings about birthdays. And no one here does it each and every month. A Welcome New Members thread is also nice-- and when you start one, keep coming back while it's running to acknowledge the people who introduce themselves. This has really made the new members feel welcome enough to post more than they would have otherwise. It often brings lurkers out of the shadows and we all get to discover a new, wonderful friend. I can't think of a single one that has been welcomed like that who became (or was) a flamer, in fact. I guess it's like when a killer is made to realize the humanity of the victim.... the welcome threads re-personalize what gets depersonalized due to the medium of the cyberworld. Another good thing is to start a playful thread when you see a lot of wrangling going on. Not too many-- if there is a strong play-thread already running, wait for another time, or the flamers will get antsy about the amount of BS and this defeats the purpose. But sometimes, you may be just the one to lighten up the atmosphere. An oddball question about music is usually best. Sending cheery PMs to people stuck in flame wars or other troubles, or to new members, is always appreciated. Or you can write posts like this. ~Susan (AKA Praise) |
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Subject: RE: BS: BORED! BORED! BORED! From: GUEST,Matt_R Date: 24 Jan 01 - 11:03 AM Ozzmosis?? Sooz...I never knew you to be an Ozzy fan! |
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Subject: RE: BS: BORED! BORED! BORED! From: McGrath of Harlow Date: 24 Jan 01 - 11:05 AM Go for a walk and look around me. |
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Subject: RE: BS: BORED! BORED! BORED! From: Rick Fielding Date: 24 Jan 01 - 11:20 AM Corny suggestion alert. Do something nice for someone else. Write a bunch of letters to those friends and relatives you haven't communicated with in a while. Take thirty bucks or so and if you live in an area where there are homeless people, give three people ten bucks each...before they ask. My Fave here: Go somewhere and sing a few songs for people in a hospital who are bored EVERY day. Go to a community centre, put up a little sign. "Free beginners guitar lessons" (if you play guitar). Giving the gift of music is just about the best thing we Mudcatters can give anyone. Told you they were corny! Rick |
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Subject: RE: BS: BORED! BORED! BORED! From: Hollowfox Date: 24 Jan 01 - 11:23 AM If worse comes to worse, make a list of things that need to be done that you don't enjoy doing (clean your room, write thank-you notes from Christmas, whatever). If you can get yourself to do the stuff on the list, it may not be fun, but it will pass the time, and you'll get some chore or other out of the way. (I'm a mom). If you're stuck at work, school, or a boring mandatory meeting od some sort, make the list anyway, as well as things you want to get done that you'd do if you weren't there, etc. It will make you look like you're taking notes, and people will think you're diligent. (I get bored, too) |
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Subject: RE: BS: BORED! BORED! BORED! From: MMario Date: 24 Jan 01 - 11:39 AM gahd - I wish I could remember what it felt like to be bored when I wasn't stuck where I couldn't do anything else. Who has time? between transcribing stuff, trying to fit music to tunes, trying to get some of my own tunes on paper, recreating an antique crocheted christening cap for a friend, trying to finish several christmas gifts from LAST year, trying to find time for PalTalk, learning new songs, gaming, dishes, laundry, shopping, cooking... put it this way - the last time I was bored it was a meeting...luckily I was surrounded by about 500 other people who also had glazed looks on their faces. |
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Subject: RE: BS: BORED! BORED! BORED! From: GUEST,Fibula Mattock Date: 24 Jan 01 - 11:50 AM Firecat! You have time to be bored!? After one of your previous threads about too much work!? ;-) Try How Stuff Works.com - it's full of interesting things. Homesickness is my problem at the mo. I'm missing my Other Half bigtime, and PMT doesn't help. My phone bill is going to be astronomical this month... |
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Subject: RE: BS: BORED! BORED! BORED! From: LR Mole Date: 24 Jan 01 - 11:53 AM Think about how to feed someone else. Fall into the well of memory. Silently drill yourslf on the songs you know and might conceivably play soon, or ever.Read. |
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Subject: RE: BS: BORED! BORED! BORED! From: Lox Date: 24 Jan 01 - 11:55 AM Find someone to be bored with. lox |
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Subject: RE: BS: BORED! BORED! BORED! From: GUEST,Matt_R Date: 24 Jan 01 - 11:56 AM Someone is boring me. I think it's me! --Dylan Thomas |
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Subject: RE: BS: BORED! BORED! BORED! From: Firecat Date: 24 Jan 01 - 11:59 AM Fib, I'm bored cos I've got nothing to do. I've done all my college work and I've got about half an hour to kill now before I go to the theatre, where I bet I will be even MORE bored!! My idea of "Entertainment" is NOTsitting in a theatre watching a John Webster play called "The Duchess Of Malfi". I'd never even heard of him before the trip was announced so I'm not looking forward to it at all! Apparently he's a contemporary of Shakespeare and his plays are full of blood and guts and all the revolting things that are inside you, but I am NOT, repeat NOT, into all that kind of stuff! I'm only going cos I have to! |
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Subject: RE: BS: BORED! BORED! BORED! From: kendall Date: 24 Jan 01 - 12:02 PM Yesterday, I did a gratis performance for a group of old folks. They are so appreciative. One cure for my boredom is doing something..any thing. Even if it's wrong. Answer a personals ad! |
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Subject: RE: BS: BORED! BORED! BORED! From: GUEST,Matt_R Date: 24 Jan 01 - 12:04 PM Aw FC...I take it you didn't see Gladiator? |
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Subject: RE: BS: BORED! BORED! BORED! From: Firecat Date: 24 Jan 01 - 12:05 PM I'm also a little bit upset. I've just talked to my parents and our little pussy kitten has had to be put to sleep. Apparently she had meningitis! Oh, well, only 13 mousers left! |
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Subject: RE: BS: BORED! BORED! BORED! From: sophocleese Date: 24 Jan 01 - 12:06 PM Did you ever see Shakespeare in Love? The nasty little boy who feeds mice to the cat is John Webster. Think of him while watching the play. Also think of all the ballads you could write or know that have a similar story to the play you are going to watch. |
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Subject: RE: BS: BORED! BORED! BORED! From: Firecat Date: 24 Jan 01 - 12:07 PM No, Matt, I didn't see Gladiator. I very rarely go to the pictures cos the nearest one to me is i the middle of Doncaster, and that's about 10 miles away so I can't really get there. The last thing I saw at the pictures was Chicken Run! The sad thing is, I enjoyed it!!!!!! |
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Subject: RE: BS: BORED! BORED! BORED! From: Firecat Date: 24 Jan 01 - 12:09 PM Sorry, soph, I didn't see Shakespeare In Love either, but my gran HAS got it on video so I might try and convince her to let me borrow it. |
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Subject: RE: BS: BORED! BORED! BORED! From: GUEST,Matt_R Date: 24 Jan 01 - 12:13 PM I don't know, FC! If you can't handly the goryness of a 450 year old play, can you handle an R-rated movie with lots of depraved sexual acts graphically portrayed???? |
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Subject: RE: BS: BORED! BORED! BORED! From: MMario Date: 24 Jan 01 - 12:19 PM Matt? Did you see the same "Shakespeare in Love" that I did? or are the depraved sexual acts graphically portrayed in "Gladiator"? If so I shall have to revise my decision not to bother seeing it. *grin* |
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Subject: RE: BS: BORED! BORED! BORED! From: sophocleese Date: 24 Jan 01 - 12:25 PM I don't recall seeing a lot of sexually depraved acts in Gladiator, I do recall seeing a lot of blood and gore and viciousness. |
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Subject: RE: BS: BORED! BORED! BORED! From: GUEST,Matt_R Date: 24 Jan 01 - 12:26 PM No there isn't ANY sex or nudity in Gladiator. In fact, even though it's rater R, there is only one use of profanity, which was "shithole" in reference to a small middle eastern town. |
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Subject: RE: BS: BORED! BORED! BORED! From: catspaw49 Date: 24 Jan 01 - 12:35 PM Hey Firecat.........If you do a tenth of the things suggested on this thread, you won't be bored. As to boring meetings or other things that are "required"............get used to it. We all have it happen and sometimes the stuff is just unavoidable. Get creative. Last week, I entertained the staff in the heart catheterization lab by telling long rambling stories of the Neil Young Center for the Terminally Screwed. Even the Doc was laughing and they all agreed it was the strangest cath they had ever done....but it passed the time while I lay there and they ran a tube through the arteries. When it was over I was stuck with the most boring thing you can do........absolutely nothing. You have to lay on your back for 6 hours with your leg completely still (they go in though the femoral artery and if it bleeds, you pump out all your blood in about a minute). So I invented a game....a challenge sorta'. I've had caths and I know I'm ready to go at 4 hours, but they deman 6. I set a goal of 5. I ate lunch, read a book, talked with Karen and then at about 31/2 hours I started calling the nurse for everything. Anytime an aide showed up to check vitals, I'd be mean as a snake. When the nurse would come in, I'd be all sweetness and light. In a very short time, the nurse got tired of being called to check on the bandage or whatever and she was getting fed up with the aide complaining. In other words, although she couldn't figure out what the aide was talking about, I was becoming a pain in the ass to her day. At 4 hours when she arrived, I asked if it might be possible to move a bit and she jumped at the chance to get me out of there. End result.......I left at 5 hours. Look Kiddo, life sucks on a lot of levels. Use your own creativity to invent work (many times you don't have too) or play games or manipulate people (a good skill to learn) or let your mind run free. Watch the play with great intensity and make strange notes that are totally unrelated to it and make sure others see you doing it AND see the nonsensical notes.....meanwhile concentrate on pieces of backdrop and sketch them upside down with arrows going to various parts and letters referencing your notes. If asked, roll your eyes and give them a humorous but curious look as though you can't understand that THEY don't understand. Life's short. Have fun. Spaw |
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Subject: RE: BS: BORED! BORED! BORED! From: MMario Date: 24 Jan 01 - 12:40 PM 'spaw - that sound like my college lecture notes. You been spyin'? |
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Subject: RE: BS: BORED! BORED! BORED! From: CarolC Date: 24 Jan 01 - 12:41 PM Sorry about your kitty, Firecat. My cures for boredom: Play the accordion, travel to Canada, play with words, Mudcat, read a good book. Have you read the Harry Potter books yet? By the way, I enjoyed Chicken Run, too. But I like the Wallace and Gromits better. Also, have you read The Wind in the Willows? That's a sure cure for boredom. Carol |
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Subject: RE: BS: BORED! BORED! BORED! From: GUEST,Matt_R Date: 24 Jan 01 - 12:45 PM Watch Jeeves & Wooster! Listen to Blur! Y-YES! |
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Subject: RE: BS: BORED! BORED! BORED! From: wysiwyg Date: 24 Jan 01 - 12:50 PM A friend told me this AM that in boring meetings, he just reminds himself that it's only the dream of a goldfish. Mouths of goldfish, all around the table, see it??? Goldfish dreaming they were human... which is why things get so screwed up in this world!! Goldfish make lousy humans! ~S~ |
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Subject: RE: BS: BORED! BORED! BORED! From: Sorcha Date: 24 Jan 01 - 01:04 PM When you only have a few minutes, get involved in MMario's Tunefinder Project--we only have a couple thousand tunes to locate for the lyrics already in the DT....... |
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Subject: RE: BS: BORED! BORED! BORED! From: harpmolly Date: 24 Jan 01 - 01:19 PM Hey, I *liked* Chicken Run! Of course, I love anything involving Claymation and/or Jane Horrocks, not to mention the rest of the cast. :) oops...thread creep...er, eh, boredom, eh? hmmm... P.S. Matt: Our computers don't have sound cards either, but I am able to listen to CDs on the cd-ROM with either headphones or plug-in speakers (the kind that plug into the headphone jack). You might try it. I'd go batty without my Kate Rusby cds! Moll |
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Subject: RE: BS: BORED! BORED! BORED! From: Matt_R Date: 24 Jan 01 - 01:29 PM Well that would be cool Moll, but since there is no soundcard, there is no external jack for speakers. |
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Subject: RE: BS: BORED! BORED! BORED! From: harpmolly Date: 24 Jan 01 - 02:12 PM hmmm...not even on the CD ROM? odd. i've got a little headphone jack right below the drive. maybe you've got a different setup. ah well :) |
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Subject: RE: BS: BORED! BORED! BORED! From: Matt_R Date: 24 Jan 01 - 02:17 PM Well yes, there's one on the CD-ROM. But regular 'net sounds don't play through there. |
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Subject: RE: BS: BORED! BORED! BORED! From: MMario Date: 24 Jan 01 - 02:25 PM yeah - most CD drives have headphone jacks on them |
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Subject: RE: BS: BORED! BORED! BORED! From: NightWing Date: 24 Jan 01 - 02:43 PM Matt, I think they meant that you can play music CDs on your CD-ROM drive, by plugging in speakers or headphones to the CD jack. You *are* correct: you can't play web music from there.
BB, |
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Subject: RE: BS: BORED! BORED! BORED! From: mousethief Date: 24 Jan 01 - 02:57 PM When I am otherwise bored, and can't play/sing, I read, or do cross-stitch. I found a great book in the library yesterday that's a history of the Rocky and Bullwinkle Show, and have a birth announcement sampler for my baby niece I'm stitching away on. Spare time passes quite hurriedly under these circumstances. Alex |
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Subject: RE: BS: BORED! BORED! BORED! From: Matt_R Date: 24 Jan 01 - 03:04 PM This is cool! When I'm bored, I engage in tekky talk about sound-card less computers!!LOL! Well...I do! |
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Subject: RE: BS: BORED! BORED! BORED! From: GUEST,Seamus Kennedy Date: 24 Jan 01 - 03:05 PM Are you sure it's boredom, and not depression or SAD? Seamus |
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Subject: RE: BS: BORED! BORED! BORED! From: Amergin Date: 24 Jan 01 - 03:35 PM Hey, Firecat, have you tried the James Herriot books? I can guarantee that they will suck you right in... |
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Subject: RE: BS: BORED! BORED! BORED! From: GUEST,Sofie Date: 24 Jan 01 - 04:14 PM Possible solutions to alieviate boredom: - have sex (with someone else or, by yourself or, buy a Gameboy) - get high - get drunk - sleep - meditate - go shopping - go to a movie - read every thread ever posted here in the last 2 years - change your cat's litter box - clean your house/apartment - call a 1-976 or 1-900 number for an escort or a psychic reading - re-install Windows - practise an instrument - go for a drive - create a crisis and then work to resolve it - get a haircut or a new perm - change your underwear (preferably after you've washed) - bookmark and visit ALL of Bill D.'s links ever posted here - make a financial contribution to Mudcat overdrawing your account to do so. The stress will keep you occupied. - take a spur of the moment trip to visit other Mudcatter's. - find creative alternate uses for a capo - audition for Who Wants To Be A Millionaire, over the phone - clip your nails (or if applicable, get a manicure and a pedicure) - convert to the Bahai faith (it only takes a couple of hours) - compose a song using the touch tone buttons of your phone and perform it in Paltalk - see how long it takes you to escape from a straight jacket, with the William Tell Overature as your background music. - take the Coke/Pepsi challenge - become an enigma |
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Subject: RE: BS: BORED! BORED! BORED! From: McGrath of Harlow Date: 24 Jan 01 - 05:07 PM One of the highlights of my theatre-going experienece was The Duchess of Malfi, an amateur production. All blood and gore and high-flown rhetoric, and then in one seen there's a hand that's been chopped off, and a character throws it at the feet of an enemy. And it was made of rubber, and it bounced...
The old songs are the best songs, and the old plays are the best plays.
The choice between being bored or not being bored is an act of the will.
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Subject: RE: BS: BORED! BORED! BORED! From: catspaw49 Date: 24 Jan 01 - 05:15 PM Then we need to have Will post to this thread Mac! Go get him and see what he has to say. Here's something to do and you can advance your possibilities for getting Carpal Tunnel Syndrome at the same time. CLICK HERE Spaw |
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Subject: RE: BS: BORED! BORED! BORED! From: Little Hawk Date: 24 Jan 01 - 07:06 PM Boredom? Ooooh...that's a toughie. It's horrible being bored. I think it's a symptom of having lost the sense of what your life is really about. A lot of boredom is a form of depression, usually. Many people try to cure it through short term distraction, and many methods of doing that have been suggested above, but they're all just a quick fix, I think. There's masturbation, too, but it only gets you just so far... And then, maybe you're bored again. Plus tired out in certain parts... Yeeesh! Life's a drag sometimes, ain't it? To find an urgent sense of real purpose would totally clear up boredom. This may be one big reason why all of Europe went to war in 1914, and massacred each other for 5 years. My grandmother was living in Vienna at the time, and she said there was absolute celebration in the streets when the war was declared. People were deliriously happy about it, throwing flowers from the balconies on the marching soldiers in the streets, heading off to glory. That's the "precipitating a crisis" cure to boredom. Three years later they were surviving on rats and potatoe peelings, the economy was in a shambles, and their sons were missing or dead. Yup, boredom is a tough one. Here's an idea. Try making someone else feel good...that can have surprising results sometimes. It doesn't have to be anything big. - LH |
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Subject: RE: BS: BORED! BORED! BORED! From: Gypsy Date: 24 Jan 01 - 10:22 PM I'll go along with Rick...corny, but whenever I am doing for someone else, it works. I keep the HD out at all times, and can play whenever there is a five minute interval, in addition to practice time. Or that stray half hour that you made an example of, is a perfect time for meditation. Trust me, boredom is something you definitely outgrow. It will be gone from your life very shortly. |
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Subject: RE: BS: BORED! BORED! BORED! From: walkinman Date: 25 Jan 01 - 07:05 AM Firecat, The good news is that your brave enough to admit that you are bored! I think most divorces, job changes, geographical moves, bathroom remodels, affairs and corvette purchases are merely symptoms of boredom denied. With that in mind, I suggest you drink 5 budsweisers and give me a call...
wm |
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Subject: RE: BS: BORED! BORED! BORED! From: AndyG Date: 25 Jan 01 - 07:24 AM Go out Nun-splitting
AndyG |
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Subject: RE: BS: BORED! BORED! BORED! From: Little Hawk Date: 25 Jan 01 - 02:06 PM Nun-splitting? Sounds nasty! Is it anything like cow tipping? - LH |
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Subject: RE: BS: BORED! BORED! BORED! From: AndyG Date: 26 Jan 01 - 05:31 AM Nun-spitting:
When performed on the streets of Manchester ~30 years ago was done thusly.
Stand around on the street until a pair of nuns appear.
If you haven't got the nerve for this work up to it by practising on pairs of policemen, (they're easier to split).
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Subject: RE: BS: BORED! BORED! BORED! From: GUEST,menzze @web.de Date: 26 Jan 01 - 06:07 AM Ya're What? Bored? Haven't learned yet to enjoy TIMES WHEN THERE IS NOTHING TO DO? I'm on the dole since monday and will be during febuary and march. I don't HaveTO work but can relax and take MY time. Try to open up the eyes that look inside yourself, you'll never be bored again. menzze |