So you have to throw a rock or two, and that works, until they get bored again.

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And children were "bored rigid" by the same lesson structure again and again, she added.

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But Ping Ke, a former radio DJ who quit because he was bored playing the same songs over and over again, says that the Internet has changed everything.

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Unfortunately, all signs are that POTUS will once again delivery a laundry-list SOTU, leaving the larger TV audience alternately bored and mystified.

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