**The Joy of Paper Clips
Celebrities Named Vortigern
Bronson Pinchot: Third-Rate Actor or Third-Rate Comedian?
Post Your Favorite Brussels Sprout Recipes Here!
Twenty-Seven Places to Buy Shoes
How to Cheat at Skee-Ball
manhattan: My Favorite Moderator
Things You’ve Found Stuck Between Your Teeth**
I’d just like to say I thought this was a stroke of purest genius.
Favourite types of scissors
Translating Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason from Finnish to Mandarin. Your help appreciated
It’s done! Link to photo archive of my entire mousemat collection
**Behold the wonder that is my rectum. Pics included!
Why I drink water.
You can eat a cucumber?
Poetry written in FORTRAN.
Yup, I need another magenta ink cartridge.
Are these things shears or scissors?
Henry Kissinger tries his hand at jazz singing. Requires Real Player.
Vanilla Ice sues Vanilla Coke over copyright infringement.
Yesterday my earwax was caramel colored: today it’s khaki. Oh joy, I can wipe it on my pants again.
Which is the more exciting state, Indiana or Arkansas?
My son is the most talented kid in his school.
I’m worried that my penis is too large. Ladies, what say you?
The Lord has spoken to me, and the rest of you are in trouble.
Advice needed – I can’t decide between Clean Rinse Tide and Tide with Bleach Alternative.
Do Buffalo really have wings?
Reinterpreting George Bush – what appears to be idiocy is actually keen ironic wit.
Share your Nazi collectables!
How do YOU celebrate the Feast of All Saints?
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Am I the only one who thinks that at least half of these thread titles sound interesting? I mean, I’d definitely click on “Poetry written in FORTRAN” or “How does air work?” just out of curiousity.
**The AOL appreciators thread
Data you lost during the Y2K problem**
You’re not alone,c_carol.
People, you must bear in mind that boring is a somewhat subjective concept: what’s boring to you is not necessarily the same to someone else. A boring thread subject should arguaby be boring for (mostly) everyone.
And keep in mind that a lot of mundane things will actually generate interest in MPSIMS because it gives other people a reason to talk about their mundane stuff. (LIke jr8’s “Things You’ve Found Stuck Between Your Teeth”)
I think jr8’s
Celebrities Named Vortigern and
Bronson Pinchot: Third-Rate Actor or Third-Rate Comedian?
would pass muster, as would several of the others.
Boyo Jim’s would actually interest me, for some not as a subject but to see what’s in the thread (Do Buffalo really have wings? Hilarious!).
Maybe ‘boring’ should be identified as ‘getting no replies and the least amount of views’? I figure at least one mod would check a thread just to see you’re not up to any mischief.
I’ll give it a shot.
Post your favorite Plotin quotes here
You’re funny.
That one killed me!
I think that the problem is that boring or otherwise lame sounding thread title will sometimes get more views not because people want to read the OP, but because people want to see the responses. And then sometimes people will respond more to the responses than to the OP. Yup, that’s when the signal/noise ratio gets bumped up a notch…
Maybe it wasn’t in the right forum, but my MPSIMS thread Words formed as anagrams of other words (about the etymology of terms in physics and computer science) produced a disappointing zero replies.
That said, I’d really be interested in:
My girlfriend knows all the words to Inna Gadda Da Vida
My postman looks like Ernest Borgnine
What can I do with this stoat?
Recommend me some transvestite bars in North-West Belarus
There aren’t enough words starting “Pse” in English
Belgium isn’t as boring as you think
What is it with the writers of ASIC timing-simulation software?
I have a strange yearning for ugly redheads with squints
**A Day In the Life of Shirley **
Vomit Tales. No, wait, that would be popular.
Looking for ways to sort my nickels
Doesn’t make a lot of sense, very mundane, but not so mundane that people would be tempted to click on it. Very boring.
Then again, maybe coin geeks love that shit.
**Most Popular Skin Diseases
Wow! I Just Took an Aspirin! (Thank you, Homer)
“Gorsh” is Samoan for “Splut”
What flavor are your toes?**
and a guaranteed view-getter:
Every Time You Open This Thread, God Kills a Kitten
Well we have a good sense of humor here.
Here are my attempts:
**Jeffrey Dahmer Appreciation Thread
Favorite 3 Stooges’ Scenes - I Mean the REAL 3 Stooges - Shemp Howard, Joe Besser and Curly Joe DeRita.
Share your favorite carbon paper manufacturing story.
Phil’s Fungus Facts
Damned right - I’m still upset at the Teapot Dome Scandal !!!
Neil Armstrong Stories - Talk about ANYTHING except the Moon.
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Opinions: Don’t have any, please elaborate…
No one TOUCHED my “before and after” thread.
I still think “Mushroom Cloud Nine” is funny.
I thought at least “7 Up Yours” would appreciate it.
Still…hurts…
How about “Close calls with a tape gun”?
“3/4length sleeves vs. bracelet length sleeves”
“I have a hangnail”
“My toe hurts when I walk backwards-Doper Docs?”
This one is just sheer genius. FTR, my money’s on Josquin.
Development of counting systems in Indo-Iranian and Burushaski
Coaster Collecting for fun and profit
Bring back Glagolitic!
Gosh - I think I started a thread in MPSIMS a few months ago titled “I like muffins”. Got a few replies, from what I can remember.
“Looking both ways - left then right, or right then left?”
Susan
“Marcy Rhoades D’Arcy–Feminist Icon?”
“The Wit and Wisdom of ‘Crank Yankers’”
“Who Else Misses the Soviet Menace?”
“Livia Soprano vs. Livia, the Mother of Tiberius”
“HELP! Purple Discharge(s)! (Possible TMI)”
“Ask the Token Booth Clerk”
“You Amerikkkans think Your so Great”
"The League of Extraordinary Gentleman’ Movie was Better Than the Comic Book! Who’s With Me?’
“Nuclear Annihilation: A Simple Yes or No”
Well, my “How do I run an online art contest?” thread died a quick and lonely death…
“Edlin vs. WordStar keyboard shortcuts: Which are worthwhile?”
Sadly, some of those WordStar shortcuts are still in use…
“‘Grass: The Movie’. At what point did it jump the shark?” (and not about pot)
“Silver disulfate: What brand is the best?”
“What color peanuts do you eat?”