Boring

[Mince]

In another topic, Roger posted: God, I'm boring.

This is topic is for everyone to list all the things they have a passion for but which bore the pants of other people.

[Mince]

1. Numbers bigger than infinity.

2. Roman and Greek strategy and weapons.

3. Brain in a Vat.

4. Relativity and Quantum Theory.

[Mince]

5. English Grammar.

6. Object Oriented Programming.

[Tarquin Thunderthighs lll]

Those are excellent choices, Mincey; I got bored just reading the list.

I'll have to come back to this though - I have too many interesting things to do at the moment.

[Mince]

I'll have to come back to this though - I have too many interesting things to do at the moment.

They're probably only interesting to you.

[Malc]

Vocal impressions of my old teachers.

My theories of why the universe has picked me out for special treatment.

Which way the goalie will dive in a penalty shootout and why.

Six Degrees Of Separation.

Foreign Players In The SPL And How all the Lisbon Lions Were Born Within Thirty Miles Of Celtic Park.

The innumerable ways my wife does not understand me.

Whether or not I should have a nose job, and does it really matter when the rest of my face is no great shakes?

[Mince]

7. Why "Pop Idol", "X Factor" and similar shows are utter rubbish and why this strangely does not apply to "Grease is the Word" which I watch with my sister-in-law every Saturday.

[The Peepmaster]

Whether or not I should have a nose job, and does it really matter when the rest of my face is no great shakes?

I've seen your photo on the cartoonists' forum, Malc. Your left eyebrow isn't that bad.

[Mince]

Your left eyebrow isn't that bad.

Yes, but not all of it.

[Roger Kettle]

As has been established, I can be spectacularly boring about Custer, The Little Bighorn, Crazy Horse, The Old West and Montana. Here are some other sleep-inducing topics I can launch into:
The importance of verbal rhythm in comic strips.
The creatures in Loch Ness.
The HISTORICAL Jesus.
Shark attacks.
Coleridge and Wordsworth were hippies.
Soup.
Why pyramids appeared in South America and Egypt.

I'd like to think I can be boring on a wide variety of subjects.

[Tarquin Thunderthighs lll]

Sorry, Roger - I can't make Birmingham after all...

[Tarquin Thunderthighs lll]

No, but really...the first three in that list are completely fascinating to me also...and it'll probably be time to go home by the time we get around to shark attacks.

[The Peepmaster]

I've always thought it quite interesting that some people are called Johnston, while some are called Johnson and others Johnstone. I also walk round thinking "Jackson", and feel I'm probably affected by names commencing with "J". I wrote a poem about it once:

Jim, Jim, Jim, Jim, Jim, Jim, and Jamie,
Were all most erstwhile friends of mine
Whose names were all the samey.
But Jack, Jo, Jeff, Jules, Jenny, Jill and Jed
Had differing names - although they shared
The letter with which they led.

I'm also quite fascinated by fish that don't have an "s' on the end when spoken of in the plural.Some do, but they're vastly in the minority. We discussed this once before, and I think Roger did a Beau Peep strip about it even. I remember he named a trout, Nigel. I have the original artwork from one of those strips.

Collective terms for animals and birds is great too. A murder of crows is a killer.

I like real ale too, but haven't had any for a while.

[Roger Kettle]

The interest in shark attacks stemmed from one of the few books available in my Primary School "library". It's weird how stuff like that sticks with you. I still remember the name of a kid attacked in Matawan Creek, several miles upstream from the ocean, in a series of incidents that inspired Benchley's "Jaws". (Lester Stillwell).
God, I really AM boring. When we meet up in Birmingham, I promise to talk about the golden days of St. Johnstone.

[Roger Kettle]

Sorry, Nige---we seem to have been posting at the same time. Love the poem.
And I agree---why isn't it "salmons"?