# Today I Did Nothing **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 10, 2015, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-i-did-nothing/737216 "2015-11-10T19:19:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![harmonicamoon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/65b543/32.png) [@harmonicamoon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/harmonicamoon)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2015, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-i-did-nothing/737216/21 "2015-11-11T04:29:34Z")
Reminds me of this song, “Nowhere to go and all day to get there”. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/iKGmk64Sc7I/maxresdefault.jpg "❝NOWHERE TO BE & ALL DAY TO GET THERE❞ ❛The BILLS❜ Western CanadaTour 2013") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKGmk64Sc7I) ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2015, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-i-did-nothing/737216/22 "2015-11-11T14:16:39Z")
> [@madsircool](#): > > You posted on the derp. Are we really nothing? I spend a fair number of days blissfully doing absolutely nothing. On such days, reading and posting on the derp is just my default background noise behavior. Note, though, that for the purposes of this discussion, I don’t count taking a pee (which happens several times _every_ day) as doing something. ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2015, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-i-did-nothing/737216/23 "2015-11-11T14:19:25Z")
Wasn’t there a farmer mentioned in Joseph Heller’s _Catch-22_ who scrupulously spent all day every day doing nothing, and was paid by government to do so? I think it was Major Major’s father, IIRC. ETA: There’s also Wally. ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2015, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-i-did-nothing/737216/24 "2015-11-11T14:22:20Z")
> [@SaharaTea](#): > > They don’t happen too often, but some of the best days of my life were the ones where I never bothered to change out of [pajamas.](http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-3312106/Hunger-Games-star-Woody-Harrelson-Twitter-hero-lazy-dressers-turning-Mockingjay-premiere-PYJAMAS.html) Didn’t Mae West once remark that she did some of her best work in bed? ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2015, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-i-did-nothing/737216/25 "2015-11-11T14:26:15Z")
> [@CerebrAl](#): > > Goofing off is a lost art. 😉 No, not entirely. There are still many practitioners, of varying skill levels. The art is a closely guarded art among the masters, who only admit a few promising apprentices now and then. It takes many many years for apprentices to attain the skills of the masters, since they all just sit around doing nothing. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2015, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-i-did-nothing/737216/26 "2015-11-11T16:03:15Z")
> [@Cabin\_Fever](#): > > OK, I clicked my mouse thingy button. I actually lifted a finger today! > Yea me! Was it worth it? ---
**Author:** ![BubbaDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bubbadog/32/333_2.png) [@BubbaDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BubbaDog)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2015, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-i-did-nothing/737216/27 "2015-11-11T16:55:50Z")
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