# Slow news day?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/slow-news-day/399351>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [April 9, 2007, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/slow-news-day/399351 "2007-04-09T18:56:00Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![zelie\_zelerton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/59ef9b/32.png) [@zelie\_zelerton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zelie_zelerton)\
**Post date:** [April 9, 2007, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/slow-news-day/399351/1 "2007-04-09T18:56:00Z")

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[BBC NEWS | UK | England | Wiltshire | Crowds turn out to see duck race](http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/wiltshire/6539201.stm) :rolleyes:

So what has your favourite media provider shared with you that was totally mundane and pointless?

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**Author:** ![Arrimus\_2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f08c70/32.png) [@Arrimus\_2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arrimus_2)\
**Post date:** [April 9, 2007, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/slow-news-day/399351/2 "2007-04-09T19:08:16Z")

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What? You don’t like duck races?

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**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\
**Post date:** [April 9, 2007, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/slow-news-day/399351/3 "2007-04-09T19:23:21Z")

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About a year ago, the San Francisco Chronicle had a full page story about it being foggy.

That’s right. Fog, in San Francisco. _Sun_ would have been newsworthy. Fog? Not so much.

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**Author:** ![zelie\_zelerton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/59ef9b/32.png) [@zelie\_zelerton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zelie_zelerton)\
**Post date:** [April 9, 2007, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/slow-news-day/399351/4 "2007-04-09T20:41:46Z")

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[QUOTE=Arrimus\_2]  
What? You don’t like duck races?  
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Awww c’mon! They didn’t even say who won!

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**Author:** ![Garfield226](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Garfield226](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Garfield226)\
**Post date:** [April 9, 2007, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/slow-news-day/399351/5 "2007-04-09T20:47:05Z")

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Doesn’t apply so much to the Web, but in the newspaper business…when there’s space to fill and not a lot to fill it with – that’s what you get.

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**Author:** ![mnemosyne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c4cdca/32.png) [@mnemosyne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mnemosyne)\
**Post date:** [April 9, 2007, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/slow-news-day/399351/6 "2007-04-09T22:14:32Z")

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That’s a very smart idea for a fundraiser! Especially in a bigger city… you could make a lot of money organizing a duck race in a place like Montreal. Just think of the headlines “Rubber ducks take over St-Lawrence river”

I am _so_ suggesting this to the teachers I know!