No topic is too small or large. ...
"I have a question," piped up Scott MacInness, a 75-year-old retired machinist. "We have a person living up near where I am who apparently isn't carrying a full sea bag. How do we get this person to stop throwing all their trash in the recycling tub?"
Suggestions ranged from "stand out there sometime" to "get inside the thing and when he opens it, go 'aha!' "
Mr. MacInness hopped up to refill his coffee.
"Can I ask you a question?" another man shouted to him. "Why do you carry a spoon?"
Mr. MacInness tapped his pocket and confirmed that he does indeed faithfully carry a spoon. "Because you can't stir a cup of coffee with that little brown plastic straw! It will not make the sugar mix!"
"What the hell you need sugar for?" shouted another member, igniting a conversation about the taste of black coffee.
July 20, 2012
The "Dull Men's Club."
"Dull-men's groups—and the sentiment behind them—have been around for some time."
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The talk can't get too small for me. Life's in the small things. Useless to tell that to the big dreamin' young.
Is Jackie Vernon a member?
Oh Lord, I want to belong to a Dull Men's Club.
A blog, I must start a blog. A Dull Men's Blog.
Meh. There already is one.
Thank goodness, I say. I am far to dull to start a blog, anyway.
We call it the faculty room.
Was Larry David there?
Go to a local McDonald's most weekday mornings and you'll find the informal "clubs" in action. Inaction?
By my standards, they're flamboyant thrill seekers. Perhaps Adam could give a guest lecture on the creeping menace of unauthorized lawn signs to show them the heights of blandness that real yawn generators can achieve.
Didn't Andy Rooney start it?
I'd like to own a bar named the
Dew Drop Dead.
"Bartender do you serve crab here?"
"Exclusively. Now shut up,sit down,
and order.
Don't bug the other patrons or me with any small talk and smoke em if you got em."
I would keep a baseball bat behind the bar for the first bluenose that complained about the smoke.
What's boring about that?
Ah, people without pretences are not dull, but refreshing.
See, this is why women aren't invited to the Dull Men's Club meetings.
Sounds like an Althouse cafe.
It's hot in Hong Kong today.
Tits.
Where's Titus?
There are at least sixteen ways to skin a cat, but not more than twenty-three.
More research is needed.
Sounds like My Dinner w/ Andre.
How does a meeting of Dull Men go?
[Dull man #1] Hey, how's it going?
[Dull man #2] Eh.
[Dull man #1] That's cool. So you go see that new movie that just opened up?
[Dull man #2] Not really.
[Dull man #1] So how long you been a member here?
[Dull man #2] Not long.
[Dull man #1] So, how do you like it so far?
[Dull man #2] It's okay. Everyone here is so dull.
[Dull man #1] Pretty cool, right?
I got about 3/4 of the way through before realizing it wasn't a below-average Onion article.
I just rechecked, and in my defense, it did say "Area Man" in the title.
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