There are now no more straight boring roads, and the deadly humidity of Missouri and others states are behind me.

现在不再有那些笔直单调的长路了，密苏里和其它几个州的湿热也留在了我身后。

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One group of subjects did a boring activity first, while the others went straight to the creative task.

一组受试者首先做了一项无聊的任务，而另一组则直接去做创造性的任务。

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At dinner, I made polite, boring talk at the table - no mention of our past, of my feelings, of what was really on my mind. I was in Straight Steve mode.

吃饭的时候，我很客气地说了些无聊的话——没有提到我们的过去，没有提到我的感觉，没有提到自己内心真实的想法，那时我处于直人史蒂夫模式。

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Welcome to the world's newest Monaco, a haven for the ultra-rich in what until recently was mocked as one of the most straight-laced, boring cities in the world.

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"Rabbit Hole" is a complete about-face, a modest, restrained, introspective piece, so self-effacing you wonder if it might be the work of some other John Cameron Mitchell -- his boring, straight father, perhaps?

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To be sure, the Web hasn't been overly kind to the scribe who brought us such pearls as "News flash you stupid c---s: FRATS DON'T LIKE BORING SORORITIES." Shannon's send-up has been joined by other parodies, from a straight-faced version from Alison Haislip of "The Nerdist" to this dramatic reading by a Barbie doll.

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