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01 Nov 08 - 11:59 AM (#2481661) Subject: BS: I'm so bored I could just... From: Little Hawk 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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01 Nov 08 - 12:06 PM (#2481667) Subject: RE: BS: I'm so bored I could just... From: CarolC 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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01 Nov 08 - 12:16 PM (#2481676) Subject: RE: BS: I'm so bored I could just... From: Bill D 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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01 Nov 08 - 12:17 PM (#2481678) Subject: RE: BS: I'm so bored I could just... From: Rapparee Probably be the other way around: Chongo walking a knuckle-dragger on a leash. |
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01 Nov 08 - 12:21 PM (#2481683) Subject: RE: BS: I'm so bored I could just... From: Stilly River Sage Maybe a trip to California to visit Winona? Hasn't she been inviting you to make the trip? |
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01 Nov 08 - 12:52 PM (#2481705) Subject: RE: BS: I'm so bored I could just... From: Bill D 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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01 Nov 08 - 12:53 PM (#2481707) Subject: RE: BS: I'm so bored I could just... From: Little Hawk 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 I have to get my danged passport renewed, it's out of date.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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01 Nov 08 - 12:54 PM (#2481709) Subject: RE: BS: I'm so bored I could just... From: Little Hawk Bill? Do I hear your momma calling you? |
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01 Nov 08 - 01:05 PM (#2481723) Subject: RE: BS: I'm so bored I could just... From: Bill D You just might...she died 20 years ago. |
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01 Nov 08 - 01:16 PM (#2481739) Subject: RE: BS: I'm so bored I could just... From: Little Hawk Oh, I see. |
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01 Nov 08 - 03:14 PM (#2481793) Subject: RE: BS: I'm so bored I could just... From: Little Hawk Hmm. Well, we seem to have killed this one dead with that last exchange. Like I said, I'm bored.... |
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01 Nov 08 - 03:22 PM (#2481796) Subject: RE: BS: I'm so bored I could just... From: Megan L 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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01 Nov 08 - 05:26 PM (#2481886) Subject: RE: BS: I'm so bored I could just... From: Cluin 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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01 Nov 08 - 05:28 PM (#2481888) Subject: RE: BS: I'm so bored I could just... From: Megan L he he he |
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01 Nov 08 - 05:30 PM (#2481891) Subject: RE: BS: I'm so bored I could just... From: fat B****rd LUXURY !! |
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02 Nov 08 - 06:49 AM (#2482320) Subject: RE: BS: I'm so bored I could just... From: Sandra in Sydney SHOEBOX? |
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02 Nov 08 - 07:28 AM (#2482340) Subject: RE: BS: I'm so bored I could just... From: wysiwyg 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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02 Nov 08 - 09:14 AM (#2482392) Subject: RE: BS: I'm so bored I could just... From: topical tom When I'm bored I take a nap-I take a lot of naps. |
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03 Nov 08 - 02:15 AM (#2483006) Subject: RE: BS: I'm so bored I could just... From: Gurney 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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03 Nov 08 - 04:30 AM (#2483070) Subject: RE: BS: I'm so bored I could just... From: John MacKenzie I keep reading the title of this thread as 'I'm so bored I could rust...' XG |
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03 Nov 08 - 08:38 AM (#2483181) Subject: RE: BS: I'm so bored I could just... From: SINSULL 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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03 Nov 08 - 10:23 AM (#2483294) Subject: RE: BS: I'm so bored I could just... From: Little Hawk "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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03 Nov 08 - 10:37 AM (#2483314) Subject: RE: BS: I'm so bored I could just... From: SINSULL I must live in a different universe from yours, Little Hawk. I am surrounded by people who interact. Lucky me. |
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03 Nov 08 - 10:39 AM (#2483317) Subject: RE: BS: I'm so bored I could just... From: wysiwyg US and Canadia are different. But I can be bored AND Busy at the same time. ~S~ |
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03 Nov 08 - 11:21 AM (#2483350) Subject: RE: BS: I'm so bored I could just... From: Little Hawk 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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03 Nov 08 - 03:25 PM (#2483599) Subject: RE: BS: I'm so bored I could just... From: Gurney 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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03 Nov 08 - 04:04 PM (#2483649) Subject: RE: BS: I'm so bored I could just... From: Little Hawk 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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12 Aug 10 - 04:19 PM (#2963838) Subject: RE: BS: I'm so bored I could just... From: VirginiaTam I was bored last night so I made this mudcat mascot |
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12 Aug 10 - 04:35 PM (#2963845) Subject: RE: BS: I'm so bored I could just... From: gnu Get bored more often. |
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12 Aug 10 - 05:52 PM (#2963897) Subject: RE: BS: I'm so bored I could just... From: VirginiaTam aww thanx |
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12 Aug 10 - 06:04 PM (#2963907) Subject: RE: BS: I'm so bored I could just... From: Joe Offer ...take a nap. Ahhhhh! G'nite. -Joe- |
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12 Aug 10 - 06:37 PM (#2963943) Subject: RE: BS: I'm so bored I could just... From: Ebbie 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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12 Aug 10 - 06:41 PM (#2963946) Subject: RE: BS: I'm so bored I could just... From: gnu Thought but not. For, you is a lIdy you is. |
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12 Aug 10 - 06:57 PM (#2963956) Subject: RE: BS: I'm so bored I could just... From: frogprince 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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12 Aug 10 - 07:04 PM (#2963958) Subject: RE: BS: I'm so bored I could just... From: frogprince Actually I prefer Kipling; I could Kiple all day and never get bored. |
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12 Aug 10 - 07:17 PM (#2963964) Subject: RE: BS: I'm so bored I could just... From: Little Hawk I'm at the point now where I just an average of five times a day out of sheer boredom! |
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12 Aug 10 - 07:28 PM (#2963973) Subject: RE: BS: I'm so bored I could just... From: Ebbie I think of it as 'jousting'. A bit beyond me nowadays but still exciting. |
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12 Aug 10 - 07:31 PM (#2963975) Subject: RE: BS: I'm so bored I could just... From: GUEST,kendall Watching flies die on the window sill gets old pretty quick. |
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12 Aug 10 - 07:33 PM (#2963978) Subject: RE: BS: I'm so bored I could just... From: Little Hawk Yeah, but think how the flies must feel. |
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12 Aug 10 - 08:03 PM (#2963994) Subject: RE: BS: I'm so bored I could just... From: Ebbie Exciting for them. |
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12 Aug 10 - 08:41 PM (#2964025) Subject: RE: BS: I'm so bored I could just... From: Bobert Ahhhh, I'm married to the P-Vine, thank you... Nuff said... B~ p.s. No snow blower, Eb??? |
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12 Aug 10 - 08:42 PM (#2964027) Subject: RE: BS: I'm so bored I could just... From: Smokey. Watching flies die on the window sill gets old pretty quick. Try sellotaping crumbs to the inside of the window. |
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13 Aug 10 - 02:22 AM (#2964137) Subject: RE: BS: I'm so bored I could just... From: Sandra in Sydney that'll drive 'em out of their tiny little minds! |
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13 Aug 10 - 05:38 AM (#2964194) Subject: RE: BS: I'm so bored I could just... From: GUEST,Patsy 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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13 Aug 10 - 07:21 AM (#2964224) Subject: RE: BS: I'm so bored I could just... From: Ed T "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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13 Aug 10 - 07:43 AM (#2964232) Subject: RE: BS: I'm so bored I could just... From: Ed T You could travel to Moncton, and join Gnu, to watch the tidal bore? |
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13 Aug 10 - 09:32 AM (#2964291) Subject: RE: BS: I'm so bored I could just... From: gnu 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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13 Aug 10 - 01:02 PM (#2964418) Subject: RE: BS: I'm so bored I could just... From: Little Hawk Just a complete bore now, is it? |
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13 Aug 10 - 01:08 PM (#2964431) Subject: RE: BS: I'm so bored I could just... From: Amos 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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13 Aug 10 - 01:18 PM (#2964445) Subject: RE: BS: I'm so bored I could just... From: Little Hawk 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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13 Aug 10 - 05:16 PM (#2964644) Subject: RE: BS: I'm so bored I could just... From: GUEST,leeneia When I get bored, I go on YouTube and search for 'yodel.' I recommend it highly. |
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13 Aug 10 - 05:17 PM (#2964646) Subject: RE: BS: I'm so bored I could just... From: GUEST,leeneia but if you want something sexier, search for 'baton twirl.' |
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13 Aug 10 - 05:25 PM (#2964652) Subject: RE: BS: I'm so bored I could just... From: akenaton 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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13 Aug 10 - 07:53 PM (#2964736) Subject: RE: BS: I'm so bored I could just...PLOTZ From: Donuel |
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13 Aug 10 - 08:00 PM (#2964742) Subject: RE: BS: I'm so bored I could just... From: kendall Gnu still has the magnetic hill. It is an optical illusion but it is fascinating. |
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13 Aug 10 - 08:20 PM (#2964756) Subject: RE: BS: I'm so bored I could just... From: Ed T "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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13 Aug 10 - 08:38 PM (#2964770) Subject: RE: BS: I'm so bored I could just... From: Joe_F The only thing that can bore me is a movie. |
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13 Aug 10 - 09:49 PM (#2964802) Subject: RE: BS: I'm so bored I could just... From: Ed T Put purple hat on and pretend you are Boy George |
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13 Aug 10 - 09:59 PM (#2964809) Subject: RE: BS: I'm so bored I could just... From: frogprince 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! |
