Boring (disambiguation)

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Boring is an adjective describing something that causes boredom. Boring may also refer to:

• 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 club, a bidding system in contract bridge designed by Lucas Smid of the Netherlands
• An excavation made by an organism in a hard substrate through the process of bioerosion.

As a name:

• Boring, Oregon
  • 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
• William Alciphron Boring, an American architect who codesigned the Immigration Station at Ellis Island in New York harbor.

In arts and entertainment:

• "Boring" (Young Ones episode), 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] 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