# help I so bored!
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-i-so-bored/231272
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion
**Created:** [February 26, 2004, 11:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-i-so-bored/231272 "2004-02-26T11:15:53Z")
**Posts on this page:** 9
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### Author:  [@The\_Griffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Griffin)
#### Post date: [February 26, 2004, 11:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-i-so-bored/231272/1 "2004-02-26T11:15:53Z")
I’m at work and I’m really bored I need some interesting websites to read while I pretent to work.
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### Author:  [@Small\_Clanger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Small_Clanger)
#### Post date: [February 26, 2004, 11:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-i-so-bored/231272/2 "2004-02-26T11:48:00Z")
Rob Cockerham’s site
[http://www.cockeyed.com/](http://www.cockeyed.com/)
Check out the how much inside adventures.
There’s new stuff every couple of weeks.
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### Author:  [@dwc1970](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dwc1970)
#### Post date: [February 26, 2004, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-i-so-bored/231272/3 "2004-02-26T13:51:11Z")
Well, there’s _this_ site, for starters. 😃
If you’re into movies, check out IMDB and Rotton Tomatoes.
A few others I frequently visit for boredom cures:
The Onion
The Smoking Gun
Fark
Tech Tales
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### Author:  [@The\_Griffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Griffin)
#### Post date: [February 26, 2004, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-i-so-bored/231272/4 "2004-02-26T14:55:07Z")
Thanks for those!
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### Author:  [@yellowval](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yellowval)
#### Post date: [February 26, 2004, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-i-so-bored/231272/5 "2004-02-26T15:14:38Z")
I’m a newspaper reporter, and found a site I love called the journalist’s toolbox. It has a section called “cool sites” that has a bunch of fun links.
[http://www.journaliststoolbox.com/newswriting/cool.html](http://www.journaliststoolbox.com/newswriting/cool.html)
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### Author:  [@Genghis\_Bob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Genghis_Bob)
#### Post date: [February 26, 2004, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-i-so-bored/231272/6 "2004-02-26T15:51:43Z")
Not to be mean or anything but have you considered actually, well. . . _working_?
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### Author:  [@The\_Griffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Griffin)
#### Post date: [February 26, 2004, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-i-so-bored/231272/7 "2004-02-26T16:03:59Z")
> [@rimshotgdansk](#):
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> Not to be mean or anything but have you considered actually, well. . . _working_?
Yes I have! believe me I’d love to, but I dont have to do much work each day to escape the notice of my superiors, so I want to do as little as possible otherwise they will just expect more all the time. The way I see it is in most jobs targets are too high and you end up with too much. I have the opposite “problem”.
If I were actually to get any credit for doing more I would but I dont, so there is absolutely no point.
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### Author:  [@Small\_Clanger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Small_Clanger)
#### Post date: [February 26, 2004, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-i-so-bored/231272/8 "2004-02-26T16:13:30Z")
Oo!, forgot about this one:
[The Internet Oracle](http://cgi.cs.indiana.edu/~oracle/index.cgi)
Tho’ if you’ve been surfing a while you’ve probably already seen it.
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### Author:  [@Hampshire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hampshire)
#### Post date: [February 27, 2004, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-i-so-bored/231272/9 "2004-02-27T04:01:15Z")
Bored you say?
Then try [bored.com](http://bored.com)!