Comments on: Your friendly neighborhood boring machine http://boingboing.net/2012/09/25/your-friendly-neighborhood-bor.html Brain candy for Happy Mutants Wed, 22 May 2013 01:50:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: B E Pratt http://boingboing.net/2012/09/25/your-friendly-neighborhood-bor.html#comment-1541609 B E Pratt Tue, 25 Sep 2012 22:37:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=183430#comment-1541609  Nifty little pastiche there :)  Nifty little pastiche there :)

]]> By: Brainspore http://boingboing.net/2012/09/25/your-friendly-neighborhood-bor.html#comment-1541351 Brainspore Tue, 25 Sep 2012 19:42:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=183430#comment-1541351 "This boring bit keeps getting duller and duller!" “This boring bit keeps getting duller and duller!”

]]> By: Robert Cruickshank http://boingboing.net/2012/09/25/your-friendly-neighborhood-bor.html#comment-1541146 Robert Cruickshank Tue, 25 Sep 2012 17:28:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=183430#comment-1541146 Shouldn't this be here? http://www.hanasiana.com/boringboring/ Shouldn’t this be here? http://www.hanasiana.com/boringboring/

]]> By: chellberty http://boingboing.net/2012/09/25/your-friendly-neighborhood-bor.html#comment-1541141 chellberty Tue, 25 Sep 2012 17:25:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=183430#comment-1541141 so when are they going to hit the large pocket of Tedium under ipswitch? so when are they going to hit the large pocket of Tedium under ipswitch?

]]> By: pKp http://boingboing.net/2012/09/25/your-friendly-neighborhood-bor.html#comment-1541130 pKp Tue, 25 Sep 2012 17:17:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=183430#comment-1541130 You, sir, are a scholar and a gentleman. Cthulhu fthaghn ! You, sir, are a scholar and a gentleman. Cthulhu fthaghn !

]]> By: SoItBegins http://boingboing.net/2012/09/25/your-friendly-neighborhood-bor.html#comment-1540980 SoItBegins Tue, 25 Sep 2012 15:36:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=183430#comment-1540980  It isn't, really, but you did beat me to the pun.  It isn’t, really, but you did beat me to the pun.

]]> By: Jenz Seeger http://boingboing.net/2012/09/25/your-friendly-neighborhood-bor.html#comment-1540969 Jenz Seeger Tue, 25 Sep 2012 15:32:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=183430#comment-1540969 Wondering why these humungous machines always have feminine names, Ada & Phyllis in London; in my hometown T.R.U.D.E & V.E.R.A (some boring acronyms - don't ask!). Shoggoth I + II would have been my choice... *evil grin* "It was a terrible, indescribable thing vaster than any subway train—a shapeless congeries of protoplasmic bubbles, faintly self-luminous, and with myriads of temporary eyes forming and un-forming as pustules of greenish light all over the tunnel-filling front that bore down upon us..." H.P. Lovecraft Wondering why these humungous machines always have feminine names, Ada & Phyllis in London; in my hometown T.R.U.D.E & V.E.R.A (some boring acronyms – don’t ask!).

Shoggoth I + II would have been my choice… *evil grin*

“It was a terrible, indescribable thing vaster than any subway train—a shapeless congeries of protoplasmic bubbles, faintly self-luminous, and with myriads of temporary eyes forming and un-forming as pustules of greenish light all over the tunnel-filling front that bore down upon us…”
H.P. Lovecraft

]]> By: beemoh http://boingboing.net/2012/09/25/your-friendly-neighborhood-bor.html#comment-1540937 beemoh Tue, 25 Sep 2012 15:03:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=183430#comment-1540937 Boring machines used, of course, to mine Tedium- the dullest substance known to man. Boring machines used, of course, to mine Tedium- the dullest substance known to man.

]]> By: Harrison Clement http://boingboing.net/2012/09/25/your-friendly-neighborhood-bor.html#comment-1540928 Harrison Clement Tue, 25 Sep 2012 14:55:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=183430#comment-1540928 Boring... Boring…

]]> By: GoatLordMessiah http://boingboing.net/2012/09/25/your-friendly-neighborhood-bor.html#comment-1540914 GoatLordMessiah Tue, 25 Sep 2012 14:45:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=183430#comment-1540914 Based on the headline, I was expecting something else. Based on the headline, I was expecting something else.

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