Nothing gets me more excited about making money in the market than very boring stocks.

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If we didn't have these talking points, though, football would be very boring indeed.

BBC: World Cup 2010: Tabarez looks forward after draw

It was a very long and very boring process.

BBC: Women bishops vote: media reaction

This was all of a sudden very boring.

NEWYORKER: A Tiny Feast

How very boring of them, say I.

BBC: How sci-fi moves with the times

And that's very boring for an actor.

WSJ: Max von Sydow | His Silence May Be Golden | Cultural Conversation by David Mermelstein

It all sounds so very boring.

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Armed with this advice you may now go away and write the great epic novel of the 21st century, or at the very least stop boring your mates at parties.

CNN: Uncovering the secrets of storytelling

Here are all their boring, not so boring and unfortunately very seldom scandalous posts.

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Science enthusiast Johnny Ball criticised the national curriculum for being too "thin" and he said lessons were "boring gifted children very early".

BBC: NEWS | UK | Education | Become scientists, PM urges young

However, boring will be very attractive when bond prices start to melt.

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Respectable, boring, the very picture of righteousness.

NEWYORKER: Luda and Milena

If nothing else, it's going to inject some new life into a product niche that until very recently had just started to look boring and short on new ideas.

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Investors who like to get their hands a little dirty (or who simply find stock market investment boring) can buy homes at very reasonable prices in most American cities.

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Boring, yes -- but probably also very profitable in the business fleet market segment where WinMo tends to thrive.

ENGADGET: Windows Marketplace taking app submissions on July 27, coming to WinMo 6.0 and 6.1 later this year

This very clearly implies that what we consider good weather is boring.

FORBES: When the Levee Doesn't Break -- What's Wrong With the Media's Weather Coverage

But travelling abroad, like a good cup final, very rarely follows the script - and wouldn't it be boring if it did so?

BBC: Welcome to Moscow

It just does boring things like email, calendar and contact management in a very secure and fast way.

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Sharp has just wrapped a rather dry press conference at IFA, where it announced very little, but did rattle off a series of fairly benign and boring numbers (which we will spare you from).

ENGADGET: Sharp's IFA presser features giant 1-inch thin LCD (and little else)

"I think WAP is very worthy and -- I shouldn't say this -- a little bit boring, " Potter said.

CNN: Palm, Psion see affordable 3G wireless coming