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What is the most boring word/phrase you know?

Started by Lutin, April 13, 2009, 10:45:12 AM

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tekla

I had thought of "business school" or "MBA", but hey, they might be interesting, I'm only judging them based on the people I know who have gone or have one.  "Interactive Game" is right up there too, like if your not interacting with it, is it a game in the first place?

But the winner is "Blog."  It used to be said that if you had a million monkeys typing one of them would recreate Shakespeare, perhaps that's true, but for the most part what we have found out is that the other 999,999 of them would write about how much their life sucks.

Honorable mention to "Twitter."  Really, did I need or want to know any of that stuff?  No. 
FIGHT APATHY!, or don't...
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Jay

Quote from: Janet Lynn on April 13, 2009, 11:33:08 AM
Have a good day.

Janet

I hear that!

How are you?

You are now in a queue, your call is important to us
If its that important you would, hire more people to answer the calls!! GRRR!!


Jay


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Mr. Fox

"Bastion of morality."  Or maybe "Great Expectations"; that was a really boring book, and I'm rarely bored by books.
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myles

Repeat...
Ok I just did it and you want me to do it again?
Myles
"A life lived in fear is a life half lived"
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tekla

Ok I just did it and you want me to do it again?

Yeah, until you get it right.
FIGHT APATHY!, or don't...
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myles

Unless your in the military then you get to repeat it even if you had it right.
Goes with the saying
"hurry up and wait" another great one
Myles
"A life lived in fear is a life half lived"
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Michelle.

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Jaimey

'war on terror'...ugh.

also, 'homeland security'. 

As soon as I hear those words, I tune out.
If curiosity really killed the cat, I'd already be dead. :laugh:

"How far you go in life depends on you being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and the strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these." GWC
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Alyssa M.

Okay, there are political phrases that are irritating, but I don't think that qualifies as "most boring." To really get top dishonors, a phrase has to be simultaneously cliched, awkward, and either easily replaceable or devoid of meaning entirely. Nichole's is one that I hear a lot lately and gets on my nerves. I hope that going forward we can avoid that awful phrase. :P

Here are some more I hate:

Give 110% ... you'd better not unless you have overdraft protection.
At the end of the day ... it gets dark. We call that "night."
Happens to be ... as in, "She happens to be Korean (but I'm such an open-minded liberal that I hardly even noticed)."
All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.

   - Anatole France
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TamTam

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Sophie90

Made up science in adverts...
"Biffidus Digestivus"
"Collegen Bio-spheres"
"100% shinyer"
"Essential oils"


How stupid are people?

Wait: I don't want to know... :P
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Darlene

In god we trust. What the heck does that mean ?
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Annwyn

Quote from: tekla on April 13, 2009, 10:53:42 AM
I had thought of "business school" or "MBA", but hey, they might be interesting, I'm only judging them based on the people I know who have gone or have one.  "Interactive Game" is right up there too, like if your not interacting with it, is it a game in the first place?

But the winner is "Blog."  It used to be said that if you had a million monkeys typing one of them would recreate Shakespeare, perhaps that's true, but for the most part what we have found out is that the other 999,999 of them would write about how much their life sucks.

Honorable mention to "Twitter."  Really, did I need or want to know any of that stuff?  No.

A million wins.


Write a book.
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Jaimey

Quote from: Alyssa M. on April 14, 2009, 12:39:02 AM
Okay, there are political phrases that are irritating, but I don't think that qualifies as "most boring."

No, no.  Those two phrases really put me to sleep.  I find them truly boring.  I feel like they are supposed to be exciting and scary...so it's a little ironic.

Also, "____ was an interesting book."  Someone in a third year collegiate writing class actually started a paper with that sentence.  *snooze*
If curiosity really killed the cat, I'd already be dead. :laugh:

"How far you go in life depends on you being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and the strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these." GWC
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Randy

Quote from: Mr. Fox on April 13, 2009, 12:50:39 PM
Or maybe "Great Expectations"; that was a really boring book, and I'm rarely bored by books.

Amen to that. I literally fell asleep reading that book.

Mr. Fox

Quote from: Randy on April 14, 2009, 09:40:58 PM
Amen to that. I literally fell asleep reading that book.

I'm one of those people who likes books, even when they're boring, or when they suck.  But when both are combined in extreme degree, I can't take it anymore.  Even Charles Dickens fans don't like Great Expectations.  I will say that Miss Havisham was a very interesting character.  But that doesn't justify the writing of a crappy book.
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Jaimey

The only time Great Expectations isn't boring is in Charades...I'm proud to day that my group got it.  I rule at Charades!
If curiosity really killed the cat, I'd already be dead. :laugh:

"How far you go in life depends on you being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and the strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these." GWC
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