“A really boring remark or conversation is a said-ative.”

Me July 9, 2004.

“Nearly every line he penned was an invitation to slumber.”

Bill Bryson A Short History of Nearly Everything (about “Geological writer James Hutton”)

“Boredom would be a relief after the emotion I’m experiencing now.”

Another of mine (hey, use it or lose it) from March 2004.

“If you don’t knit, bring a book.”

“Dorothy Parker’s advice” for surviving something terminally dull, quoted by John Ivison in National Post February 22, 2005

“Apathy is a big problem, and it’s getting bigger all the time. To make matters worse, nobody gives a d*mn.”

“Charlie McKenzie, former campaign chairman, Rhinoceros Party, quoted in the Nov. 29th Globe and Mail” according to quoted in Overview Vol. 25, #4 (Winter 2000)

“The fast-lane fossil.”

My unkind categorization of a certain type of annoying driver Oct. 10, 2001 (though as with “Today appears to be ‘Drive like a fool day’” it could have happened at any time

“You sit in the park and you watch the grass die... /You ask how I know of Toledo, Ohio/ Well I spent a week there one day/ They’ve got entertainment to dazzle your eyes/ Go visit the bakery and watch the buns rise”

John Denver “Toledo” quoted on the Wall St. Journal’s “OpinionJournal” Jan. 15, 2003

“The situation is not as bad as it seems – it’s worse.”

A Greek Olympic official quoted in Maclean’s July 7, 2000