# Bored ?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bored/84622>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [September 30, 2001, 12:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bored/84622 "2001-09-30T12:32:28Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 10\
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**Author:** ![casdave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c6cbf5/32.png) [@casdave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/casdave)\
**Post date:** [September 30, 2001, 12:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bored/84622/1 "2001-09-30T12:32:28Z")

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Here’s where you need to be, a bit silly in places, just my kind of thing.

[http://www.bored.com/](http://www.bored.com/)

Try out the camera, take a picutre of yourself using your monitor.

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**Author:** ![casdave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c6cbf5/32.png) [@casdave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/casdave)\
**Post date:** [September 30, 2001, 12:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bored/84622/2 "2001-09-30T12:51:17Z")

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You just have to try out the dialectizer on a pit thread, I just did it with the \*\*Wildest Bill Yet again[b/] thread using the Redneck translator, it’s just too funny. 😃

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**Author:** ![clayton\_e](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c57346/32.png) [@clayton\_e](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/clayton_e)\
**Post date:** [September 30, 2001, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bored/84622/3 "2001-09-30T19:01:02Z")

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Sadly, once while bored and surfing I went to that site, not through a link, just typed it in.

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**Author:** ![Talkinsquirrel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f6c823/32.png) [@Talkinsquirrel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Talkinsquirrel)\
**Post date:** [September 30, 2001, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bored/84622/4 "2001-09-30T22:15:20Z")

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That’s the site where I first learned of The Straight Dope. Ahh memories.

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**Author:** ![Cougarfang](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c67d28/32.png) [@Cougarfang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cougarfang)\
**Post date:** [October 1, 2001, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bored/84622/5 "2001-10-01T01:47:49Z")

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> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by clayton\_e \*  
> \*\*Sadly, once while bored and surfing I went to that site, not through a link, just typed it in. \*\*

> [@](#):
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> _Originally posted by Talkinsquirrel_  
> **That’s the site where I first learned about The Straight Dope. Ahh memories.**

me too me too… 😃

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**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\
**Post date:** [October 2, 2001, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bored/84622/6 "2001-10-02T01:04:17Z")

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Me three, me three.

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**Author:** ![ThatGuyWithPants](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/df788c/32.png) [@ThatGuyWithPants](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThatGuyWithPants)\
**Post date:** [October 2, 2001, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bored/84622/7 "2001-10-02T01:08:30Z")

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Oh Heck. count me in. #4 here.

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**Author:** ![Speaker\_for\_the\_Dead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c77e96/32.png) [@Speaker\_for\_the\_Dead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Speaker_for_the_Dead)\
**Post date:** [October 2, 2001, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bored/84622/8 "2001-10-02T01:33:06Z")

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I found out about this place from [http://www.jokeaday.com](http://www.jokeaday.com) but I’d already read the books.

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**Author:** ![Anubis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dfb087/32.png) [@Anubis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anubis)\
**Post date:** [October 2, 2001, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bored/84622/9 "2001-10-02T22:35:44Z")

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I’m number five to have found SD on [bored.com](http://bored.com).

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**Author:** ![Mudshark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f04885/32.png) [@Mudshark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mudshark)\
**Post date:** [October 3, 2001, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bored/84622/10 "2001-10-03T01:51:29Z")

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Surprisingly, I found the SD on a Beatles website.

Tried the “take your own picture with the monitor.” Very funny stuff.