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6 unusual facts about boring


Boring, Maryland

Boring is mentioned in Series One, Episode 7 of the TV series Homicide: Life on the Street.

Damascus, Oregon

Incorporated in 2004, the city is located east of Happy Valley and Interstate 205 and west of Boring.

Dull, Perth and Kinross

In June 2012, the U.S. town of Boring, Oregon accepted the proposal of Dull to "pair" their municipalities, in an effort to promote tourism in both places as a play on their names.

Guide Dogs for the Blind

Guide Dogs for the Blind is a guide dog school located in the United States, with campuses in San Rafael, California, and Boring, Oregon.

Lynn Snodgrass

She represented District 10, which included her home town of Boring as well as Clackamas, Happy Valley, Damascus, South Gresham, Estacada, and portions of Oregon City.

Remote, Oregon

Like Oregon communities Nimrod and Boring, Remote is often cited on lists of odd place names.


1774 in Wales

John Wilkinson takes out a patent for cannon-boring at his works in Bersham.

Achatodes zeae

A. zeae gained notoriety in 1927 when many of the species were found boring into the shoots of the common elder bush (Sambucus nigra) in Wisconsin, USA.

Advance Australia Fair

A National Party senator, Sandy Macdonald, said in 2001 that "Advance Australia Fair" is so boring that the nation risks singing itself to sleep, with boring music and words impossible to understand.

Alice Middleton Boring

Alice Middleton Boring (February 22, 1883 in Philadelphia – September 18, 1955 in Cambridge, Massachusetts) was an American biologist, zoologist, and herpetologist.

Anzac Highway, Adelaide

Anzac Highway is mentioned in the song "One More Boring Night in Adelaide" by Redgum on their 1978 album If You Don't Fight You Lose.

Arotrophora

Arotrophora arcuatalis (Walker, 1865) (Banksia Boring Moth)

Arotrophora arcuatalis

Arotrophora arcuatalis, commonly known as Banksia Boring Moth or rarely Banksia Moth, is a species of Australian tortrid moth best known as a pest of Banksia.

Bart's Inner Child

Homer admits that while Marge was right that getting the trampoline was a mistake, he's at least willing to go out and try new things while she's bossy, boring and just nags all the time.

Black-backed Woodpecker

The most important wood boring beetles taken are in the families Cerambycidae and Buprestidae, along with engraver beetles and Mountain pine beetle.

Boring Road

Boring Road (Hindi: बोरिंग रोड), also known as Boring Canal Road, is one of the most important thoroughfare in Patna, India, starts from the corner of Patna Women's College as an intersection to Bailey Road near Patna High Court.

Buprestidae

Buprestidae is a family of beetles, known as jewel beetles or metallic wood-boring beetles because of their glossy iridescent colors.

Can-can dress

For example, in the number "Zidler's Rap (The Can-Can)" in the film Moulin Rouge, director Baz Luhrmann redesigned the can-can dresses into multi-coloured flower patterns, to make the otherwise boring dresses sexually tantalizing to modern day audiences.

Cher... Special

Other segments of Cher...Special include guests Dolly Parton and Rod Stewart, cast as neighbors in an apartment building, performing their hit songs "Two Doors Down" (Parton) and "Hot Legs" (Stewart); Cher and Dolly having a conversation by reciting lyrics from pop songs; and Cher working by day in a boring secretarial job but dancing at night in the discos.

Edgar Ravenswood Waite

Waite accompanied Charles Hedley of the Australian Museum on the 1896 Funafuti Coral Reef Boring Expedition of the Royal Society under Professor William Sollas and Professor Edgeworth David.

Edwin Boring

In the last chapter of his book, Boring introduced Goethe and Johann Herder’s idea of Zeitgeist.

Eels with Strings: Live at Town Hall

Four behind-the-scenes documentary segments (Cribs, Bobby, Jr., Boring, and Another Day at the Office), music videos for "Hey Man (Now You're Really Living)", and "Trouble with Dreams."

Epipompilus insularis

insularis females hunt, usually in sunshine for retreat-making spiders in the concealed places where female spiders retreat to, such as rolled dead leaves; hollow plant stems; flax bushes; dead rolled fronds of tree-ferns; the abandoned cocoons of the bag-moth Liothula omnivora; deserted galleries of wood-boring beetles; and even the empty hatched galls of the moth Morova subfasciata in Muehlenbeckia australis and beneath loose bark on tree trunks.

Facial expression

For example, the expression used for 'carelessly' in ASL means 'boring or unpleasant' in British Sign Language.

Gay Divorce

To take his mind off his lost love, his friend Teddy Egbert, a British attorney, takes him to Brighton Beach, where Egbert has arranged for a "paid co-respondent" to assist his client in obtaining a divorce from her boring, aging, geologist husband Robert.

Hello Rockview

The album yielded two singles, "History of a Boring Town" and "All My Best Friends Are Metalheads", with "History of a Boring Town" reaching #39 on the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks Chart.

Here Comes Garfield

Garfield decides to go home, but when he attempt to warn Jon about Odie, Jon thinks that Garfield is just suffering fleas and Garfield gives up telling Jon, but realizes how boring life is without Odie around, so that night, Garfield decides to rescue Odie.

Herrenknecht

Herrenknecht is headquartered in Allmannsweier near Schwanau, and is the world market leader for heavy tunnel boring machines.

Iwakura Mission

They visited the Elswick Engine and Ordnance Works with Captain Andrew Noble and George Rendell, inspected the hydraulic engines and the boring and turning departments and examined the construction of Armstrong and Gatling guns.

John Reesor Williams

In 2005, veteran legislators Sean Conway and Bob Runciman both named Williams as the most boring speaker they had encountered in the course of their careers.

Lit Hop

Canada's Exclaim! Magazine calls it a "boring album title" but praises the album as a "versatile, skilled debut".

Love Blossoms

Despite this show having fewer quarreling scenes compared to the last two long running Mediacorp serials, Kinship and Portrait of Home, many watchers feel that this drama is boring and draggy, and like its predecessors, copied a lot of The Unforgettable Memory, a Taiwanese long running drama's story and plot.

Matt Bors

His first graphic novel, War Is Boring, a collaboration with journalist David Axe, was published in 2010 by New American Library.

Mesozoic Marine Revolution

The Mesozoic Marine Revolution (MMR) is a term used to describe the rapid adaption to shell-crushing (durophagous) and boring predation in benthic organisms throughout the Mesozoic era, first coined by Geerat J. Vermeij (who based his work on Steven M. Stanley’s).

Neutopia

He said that gameplay and backgrounds remain varied and that "the fire rod weapon is especially fun to wield", but he noted that the things that keep the game from being better than Zelda were repetitive and frustrating dungeon exploring, boring boss battles, long passwords (for those who do not own a TurboGrafx-CD), and several "head-scratching moments" which include references to Judaism and Islam as well as quotes from Star Wars.

Pythagorean tuning

Daniel Leech-Wilkinson (1997), "The good, the bad and the boring", Companion to Medieval & Renaissance Music.

Scientific priority

Boring, E.G., "Cognitive Dissonance: Its Use in Science", Science, Vol.145, No.3633, (14 August 1964), pp.

Silphium laciniatum

The beetle Mordellistena aethiops lives on the plant, its larvae boring into the stems, and it is attacked by parasitoid wasps of the genera Schizopyramnus, Heterospilus, and Tetrastichus.

Stormhouse

Paul Doro of Shock Till You Drop said that "Stormhouse is an example of boring mediocrity".

Stuart Dickinson

O'Brien stated that Dickinson had got it "completely wrong", believing the Italian tight-head prop, Martin Castrogiovanni was boring in on his opposite.

The Hee Bee Gee Bees

Tracks included parodies of Supertramp ("Scatological Song" by Supertrash), Michael Jackson ("Up the Wall" by Jack Michaelson), Status Quo ("Boring Song" by Status Quid), The Police ("Too Depressed to Commit Suicide" by The PeeCees), David Bowie ("Quite Ahead of My Time" by David Bowwow), Gary Numan ("Are Trains Electric?" by Gary Inhuman) and others.

The Million Dollar Hotel

In an October 2000 press conference in Sydney, before the Australian release of the film, Mel Gibson said, "I thought it was as boring as a dog's ass."

Thirteen Tales of Love and Revenge

Both "Three Wishes" and "Secret" appeared on the television series Gossip Girl in the episode "Hi, Society", where The Pierces made a cameo appearance as well; the music video for "Boring" appeared on the DVD of season 1.

Washingtonia filifera

The palm boring beetle Dinapate wrightii (Bostrichidae) can chew through the trunks of this as well as other palms.

Želivského

Extension of the A-line to the Strašnická Station was achieved by boring tunnels from these auxiliary spaces.


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