As a mom, she knows what will keep children from being bored to tears.

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I'd complain of being bored out of my mind when my parents would "ooh" and "ah" at the architecture.

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Being bored is not an option for me, that I can assure you.

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During summers in New Hampshire she took away his computer, even as he griped about being bored in the woods.

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And boring was perfectly OK, since being bored at the movies was so much better than being bored at home.

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Later tests found oxygen levels at about 7 percent -- too little to survive -- but that may be because the drill hole drifted as it was being bored, Stickler said.

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If watching all that tired you out, you could retreat to see the Laundrettas, offering hand-washing, gin and tonics and general pampering "because we like dressing as 1950s clothes and being bored housewives".

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Mr Blair has not helped himself by being so obviously bored by Parliament, and so often absent from it.

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The notion of a bored Manhattan wife being hit on by a uniformed Russian brute is just the kind of solid, old-fashioned fantasy that Madonna, in her corseted pomp, would have fed into a pop video.

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However, I share a general scepticism that the greater amount of personal data which are centrally held, the greater the chance of them being lost, stolen, hacked into or accessed by lonely or bored computer geeks.

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