# boring **URL:** \ **Category:** Cecil's Columns/Staff Reports\ **Created:** [June 7, 2003, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boring/180248 "2003-06-07T04:08:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![dontcare](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a183cd/32.png) [@dontcare](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dontcare)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2003, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boring/180248/1 "2003-06-07T04:08:38Z")
Why cant he just answer the questions ‘yes or no’ and then why. i hate reading this whole spill on pigeons when he can just say ‘i dont know’. I go to [bored.com](http://bored.com) to find something to do, like read this. but even this is boring me! ---
**Author:** ![Achernar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e274bd/32.png) [@Achernar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Achernar)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2003, 6:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boring/180248/2 "2003-06-07T06:02:12Z")
So, the column bored you, but if he had just said “I don’t know” _that_ would have been exciting? 😕 ---
**Author:** ![Kat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b19c9b/32.png) [@Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kat)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2003, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boring/180248/3 "2003-06-07T17:13:21Z")
I assume you’re talking about [Why do pigeons bob their head?](http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a1_016), although you may be talking about [Where are all the baby pigeons?](http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a2_069b)…I just wonder, if you didn’t want to read “this whole spill on pigeons” why click on a link to a question about pigeons? Especially when there’s sixty bazillion other questions you could have looked at. ---
**Author:** ![Arnold\_Winkelried](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2003, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boring/180248/4 "2003-06-07T17:28:12Z")
Welcome to the SDMB (I think) and thank you for posting your comment. Please include a link to Cecil’s column if it’s on the Straight Dope web site. To include a link, it can be as simple as including the web page location in your post (make sure there is a space **before** and **after** the text of the URL). Cecil’s column(s) can be found on-line at the link(s) provided by Kat. The columns can also be found on page 16 of Cecil Adams’ book «[_The Straight Dope (1984; reissued 1986, 1998)_](https://securesite.chireader.com/cgi-bin/dopestore/buystuff.bat#tsd)» and on pages 69-71 of «[_More of the Straight Dope (1988)_](https://securesite.chireader.com/cgi-bin/dopestore/buystuff.bat#motsd)». * * * moderator, «[**Comments on Cecil’s Columns**](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/forumdisplay.php?forumid=1)» ---
**Author:** ![Loopus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loopus/32/15343_2.png) [@Loopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loopus)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2003, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boring/180248/5 "2003-06-07T18:49:54Z")
Perhaps you’ll like [this column](http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a1_003b.html) better. ---
**Author:** ![Achernar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e274bd/32.png) [@Achernar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Achernar)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2003, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boring/180248/6 "2003-06-08T02:00:53Z")
I was always fond of [this one](http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a4_015a.html) as well. ---
**Author:** ![Mac\_Guffin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/2bfe46/32.png) [@Mac\_Guffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mac_Guffin)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2003, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boring/180248/7 "2003-06-08T17:03:07Z")
Yes, and thank you for registering just to tell us that, instead of clicking the little “x” in the upper right corner of the window, and returning to your regularly scheduled drooling.