Boring

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Boring typically means uninteresting or tiresome, as in

• Boring, an adjective used to describe a person, place, or act that induces boredom

It has other descriptive meanings:

• Boring (mechanical), a mechanical engineering term referring to the formation of a cylindrical hole in a solid material
  • Tunnel boring machine (TBM) and Microtunnel Boring Machines (MTBM), machines used in boring tunnels or shafts
  • Earth-boring dung beetles, a family of beetles that excavate burrows in which to lay their eggs
• Boring (calibration), the process of calibrating a gun
• Boring club, a bidding system in contract bridge designed by Lucas Smid of the Netherlands

It is used as a name:

• Boring Business Systems, a Central Florida based office supply company
• Boring, Oregon, and the nearby Boring Lava Field
• Edwin G. Boring, one of the first historians of psychology
• Wayne Boring, comic book artist best known for Superman in the 1940s and 1950s

Authors use boring in titles:

• Boring, the 3rd episode of British sitcom The Young Ones, broadcast in 1982
• Being Boring, a single by the British pop group the Pet Shop Boys
• David Boring, the title character of Daniel Clowes's graphic novel of the same name
• Heartache Is Boring, the debut album by singer Ainjel Emme, released in 2003
• History of a Boring Town, a single by Less Than Jake
• The Boring Report, a four-part series originally broadcast on Melbourne's Channel 31

[edit] Note

Machines for boring holes in engineering materials such as metal and concrete are sometimes incorrectly called drills or drilling machines. Boring is different from drilling in that it uses a single cutting point revolving around a fixed axis to create a round hole. Drills use two or more.

[edit] See also

• Raising Skinny Elephants Is Utterly Boring, a mnemonic for remembering how to reboot a near-frozen Linux computer
• Ivan Boring on Swedish Wikipedia