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Mel Boring
... Mel Boring (born 1939) is an American children's author specializing in non-fiction ... of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators, Boring has produced works such as Incredible Constructions and the People Who Built Them Caterpillars, Bugs, and Butterflies and Guinea Pig Scientists Bold Self-Experiment ... Boring also travels the world to speak to students about book writing and publishing while he wears a Cat-in-the-Hat costume ...
Hand Drill (hieroglyph) - Hand Drill Hieroglyph and Tool Explanation
... drill in hieroglyphs The hand drill was a vertical type of weighted, and counterbalanced boring bar, (used today in horizontal lathe-work boring, for ... and the artisan simply supplies the rotational motion of the tool, for boring the hole ... a form of a vertical lathe-using gravity-weights, with the boring bar doing the cutting ...
Boring, Maryland - Boring Gas Engine Show and Flea Market
... Aside from its name, Boring is well known for the annual Boring Gas Engine Show and Flea Market, held in June by the Boring Volunteer Fire Department ...
Featherproof Books - Books
... Your Permanent Record by Susannah Felts (ISBN 978-0-9771992-4-2) boring boring boring boring boring boring boring by Zach Plague (ISBN 978-0-9771992-5-9) AM/PM by Amelia Gray (ISBN ...
The Space Place - Episodes
... When The Lights Went Out Nancy to the Rescue Julie's Stunt Show What's That Awful Noise Boring, Boring, Boring! Arggh That Hurts! I'm Very Fond Of That The ...

More definitions of "boring":

  • (noun): The act of drilling a hole in the earth in the hope of producing petroleum.
    Synonyms: drilling, oil production
  • (noun): The act of drilling.
    Synonyms: drilling

Famous quotes containing the word boring:

    “It’s like a jumble of huts in a jungle somewhere. I don’t understand how you can live there. It’s really, completely dead. Walk along the street, there’s nothing moving. I’ve lived in small Spanish fishing villages which were literally sunny all day long everyday of the week, but they weren’t as boring as Los Angeles.”
    —Truman Capote (1924–1984)

    “There is no topic ... more soporific and generally boring than the topic of Ireland as Ireland, as a nation.”
    —Ezra Pound (1885–1972)

    “Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.”
    —Frank Zappa (1940–1993)