# I'm feeling bored and boring.....
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-feeling-bored-and-boring/66527
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [May 26, 2001, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-feeling-bored-and-boring/66527 "2001-05-26T00:04:01Z")
**Posts on this page:** 13
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### Author:  [@DRY](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DRY)
#### Post date: [May 27, 2001, 8:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-feeling-bored-and-boring/66527/21 "2001-05-27T08:55:25Z")
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> \*Originally posted by The Mermaid \*
> \*\*Just for the record, I only kill airborne animals; land mammals aren’t much sport but since I aim to please just tell me where you’re located and I’ll drive by round 2:30 or so and see what I can do. \*\*
Ah, so it’s the **sport** of it all! (And this from someone who’s profile indicates she’s a registered nurse!) :eek:
My own professional airborne animal hit person! I’m touched! 🙂
[sub]Now all I have to do is get my enemies in front of **The Mermaid** ’s car…[/sub]
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### Author:  [@callie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/callie)
#### Post date: [May 27, 2001, 12:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-feeling-bored-and-boring/66527/22 "2001-05-27T12:34:40Z")
Ok **Northern Piper** - thanks for all that info. Um - is that football as in football or football as in soccer? 🙂
Hey where has **Odie** gone? Why hasn’t he come back to tell us if we’re succeeding in keeping him entertained? And - has anyone recognized my song lyrics yet? 😃
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### Author:  [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)
#### Post date: [May 27, 2001, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-feeling-bored-and-boring/66527/23 "2001-05-27T15:34:19Z")
**callie** - I regret that I do not recognize your song. Anyone else yet?
It’s football as in Canadian football - similar to US football, but bigger field, bigger ball, three downs instead of four, no fair catch rule, and the rouge. Great fun!
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### Author:  [@GingerOfTheNorth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GingerOfTheNorth)
#### Post date: [May 27, 2001, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-feeling-bored-and-boring/66527/24 "2001-05-27T16:53:32Z")
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> \*Originally posted by callie \*
> \*\*And - has anyone recognized my song lyrics yet? 😃
> \*\*
EASY! (When you’re old and remember nothing but trivia).
I’m not gonna give it away. DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince. That’s all I’m gonna say.
Ginger
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### Author:  [@callie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/callie)
#### Post date: [May 27, 2001, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-feeling-bored-and-boring/66527/25 "2001-05-27T22:28:14Z")
Congrats **GingerOfTheNorth** - you’ve guessed it! Anyone else care to venture the songs name? It was from the 80’s - pretty popular I think.
Thanks again **Northern Piper** - I’m afraid to ask what “the rouge” is. Do you play? Or is it just fun to watch? Or both?
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### Author:  [@lolagranola](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lolagranola)
#### Post date: [May 27, 2001, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-feeling-bored-and-boring/66527/26 "2001-05-27T22:33:10Z")
Would that be Parents Just Don’t Understand?
Used to love that song.
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### Author:  [@callie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/callie)
#### Post date: [May 27, 2001, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-feeling-bored-and-boring/66527/27 "2001-05-27T22:44:59Z")
Ding ding ding ding ding! We have another winner! Congratulations to **lolagranola** for correctly naming the song.
[sub]sorry Odie - now I’m just getting plain silly in your thread[/sub]
:: thinking of something else I could entertain Odie with 😃 ::
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### Author:  [@Odieman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odieman)
#### Post date: [May 27, 2001, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-feeling-bored-and-boring/66527/28 "2001-05-27T22:50:23Z")
Thank you…I am feeling much better now :D…I would like to thank Lola for the Snoopy dance…and I am playing Linus and Lucy for you. Callie for all her efforts…I am sure you can come up with something else to entertain me…, and Northern Piper for mentioning the Green and White…, and everybody…including Moi for using the Ms Piggy voice…OK…if you are inspired you can still carry on 😉
Keith
P.S. I would like to thank everybody on the boards on the occasion of my 1700th post 🙂
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### Author:  [@lolagranola](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lolagranola)
#### Post date: [May 27, 2001, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-feeling-bored-and-boring/66527/29 "2001-05-27T23:10:44Z")
Congrats, Odie. You look awfully good for 1700.
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### Author:  [@Jester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jester)
#### Post date: [May 27, 2001, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-feeling-bored-and-boring/66527/30 "2001-05-27T23:17:36Z")
[curmudgeon]
Yeah, well, the only way that he got to 1700 was by filling his posts with all that “intelligence” and “niceness” stuff. Bastard, has no IDEA what posting is about…
grumble, grumble…
[/curmudgeon]
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### Author:  [@callie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/callie)
#### Post date: [May 27, 2001, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-feeling-bored-and-boring/66527/31 "2001-05-27T23:24:12Z")
wow - 1700 - you’ve been busy!
And Odie honey - I’ve already thought of something else to entertain you with but this is not the appropriate place… 😃
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### Author:  [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)
#### Post date: [May 28, 2001, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-feeling-bored-and-boring/66527/32 "2001-05-28T02:50:18Z")
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> I’m afraid to ask what “the rouge” is. Do you play? Or is it just fun to watch? Or both?
The rouge is a little quirk of the CFL. You see, the goal posts are actually on the goal line, unlike in the NFL, when they’re set back. On a field goal attempt, the defending team is allowed to have players in the end zone. If the kicking team misses the field goal, the ball is live. The defenders have to catch the ball and run it out. If the kicking team stops the defending team from running it out, the kicking team scores one point - the rouge. It’s not very common, but last year the Winnipeg Blue Bombers won one of their games by one point - on a rouge.
Do I play? are you crazy? get run over, tackled and generally maimed by 300 lb behemoths? A man could get killed :eek:
I leave that to professionals. 🆒
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### Author:  [@callie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/callie)
#### Post date: [May 29, 2001, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-feeling-bored-and-boring/66527/33 "2001-05-29T01:21:10Z")
ok **Odie** - now I’m bored - you entertain me. 😃
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