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  • Airport Luggage Carousels
    • National Drinking Straw Day (USA) — January 3
    • Manhole Cover Report — Golden, Colorado
    • Best ever practical joke — by Norman Cousins
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    • Introduction
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    • Tallin
    • Airport Luggage Carousels — comments
      • Excitement at Heathrow airport - - my bag arriving
      • Airport Carousel Report — Menorca, Spain
      • Greensboro, North Carolina — Airport Luggage Carousel Report
      • Kaunas, Lithuania — Airport Luggage Carousel Report
      • Isle of Man — Airport Luggage Carousel Report
      • Airport Carousel Report: Yangon, Myanmar
      • Airport Carousel Report: Chisinau, Moldova
      • Airport Carousel Reports: Reno/Tahoe, Nevada and Maceio, Brazil
      • Spokane, Washington — Airport Luggage Carousel Report
      • Happiness at Heathrow Airport yesterday
      • Mumbais new Terminal 2
      • "Happiness, when I'm on a trip, is seeing my bag arrive"
      • New Facebook Group for "Airport Luggage Carousels"
      • Comedian's Luggage Problem
      • Billund (Legoland) Denmark
      • "Bag's journey through Sea-Tac Airport"
      • Malaga — Airport Luggage Carousel Report
      • Airport Luggage Carousel Report — Pellston Michigan
      • Our airport luggage carousels report on TV
      • Airport Luggage Carousel Report — Bellingham, Washington
      • Airport Luggage Carousel Report — Southampton, England
      • Airport Luggage Carousel Report — Flores, Guatemala
      • Postcard from Paris: Luggage Carousel Report from Orly
      • Airport Luggage Carousel Report — Munich
      • New airport carousel reports
      • Airport Luggage Carousel Report — Nikos Kazantzakis, Greece
      • Airport Luggage Carousel Report — Tallinn, Estonia
      • Airport Luggage Carousel Report — Belfast
      • Airport Luggage Carousel Report — Norfolk Virginia
      • Airport Report: Kosovo
      • Airport Luggage Carousel Report — Veracruz, Mexico
      • Portugal's Algarve - A Bus Stop
  • Apostrophe Patrol
    • Apostrophizing Mistakes — 5 on one sign — a world record?
    • Apostrophe Patrol
  • Appreciation Societies
    • Monday, January 27 — Bubble Wrap Appreciation Day
    • Telegraph Pole Appreciation Day — Saturday 21 September
    • Telegraph Pole Appreciation Society — Martin Evans — North Wales
    • KNOLLING — you might not be aware you are doing this
    • Stuart Sharp is Winner of Thread of the Week #1 — SHEDS
    • Top 10 rubbish bins worldwide — 2023
    • DMC member Kevin Beresford — Roundabout Appreciation Society — featured in Thompson Reters video
    • Schnitzel Appreciation Society — a new Facebook group we created
    • Tamed-down video games — right up our alley — shootouts, car chases, fierce competitions are not for us
    • Casting Call for 2024 calendar — looking for PEOPLE who are passionate about things often regarded as dull — and EVENTS that Celebrate the Ordinary
    • Anorak of fhe Year for 2018 — Kevin Beresdord — veers off roundabouts to visit car parks
    • "Appreciation Societies — Intro & Table of Contents"
    • Boot Scraper Appreciation Society
    • Skipton Sheep Day — 7 July in Yorkshire
    • iPhone holder inserts into cup holder
    • CloudSpotter — new iPhone app from Cloud Appreciation Society
    • Hand Dryers
    • Corduroy Appreciation Club — Unraveled
    • Turkey Vulture Society
    • Car Parks
    • Letter Boxes
    • Rhubarb
    • Cup Holders
    • Hedgehogs
    • Biscuits
    • Clouds
    • Introduction
    • Pylons
    • Roundabouts
    • Traffic Cones
    • Apostrophes
    • Corduroy
    • Pork Pies
    • Dust Caps
    • Saunas
    • Robin Hood
    • Park Benches
    • Umbrellas
    • Cheese
    • Semicolons
    • Coriander
    • Curry
    • Jam
    • Water Towers
    • Baked Beans
  • Blog
    • Today is World Turtle Day — Monday, May 23
    • Perfect Days
    • We present two awards every year
    • DMC Person of the Year — Lee Maxwell: "Antique Washing Machines"
    • DMC Anorak of the Year — Emma Gardner: "Taming Social Media"
    • CASTING CALL: Birmingham area (U.K.)
    • Stoic?
    • Our mascot, a turtle, evacuating LA fires—luckier than most—was able to take his home with him
    • Dull Men's Club Calendar 2025: Events Celebrating the Ordinary Worldwide
    • National Pie Day (USA) was January 23 — how did you celebrate?
    • New Year's Eve — many of us stayed home — practiced writing 2025
    • Yarnbomber bombs lonely tree with 51 Christmas baubles (balls)
    • Boring Christmas Tree Lighting — in Boring, Oregon (20 miles east of Portland, population 2,300)
    • breaking news from The Times (London)
    • 2025 calendar spans world: from Royal Swan Upping on Thames to threshing festival in Nebraska
    • Running of the Sheep in Te Kūiti, New Zealand
    • How long to dunk an Oreo?
    • Einstein's quote about a calm and modest life instead of constant restlessness
    • 'Dullsters': The anti-influencers celebrating the ordinary
    • Dulling down of pub life
    • Grant Wood had lucky timing when he painted "American Gothic." The iPhone was not available yet. Had it been, the couple could have done without him
    • Peter Drucker quote about people not prepared — what can they do to be prepared?
    • DMC Certified Dull certificate — do you qualify for one?
    • Mount Rushless — a DMC suggestion
    • ITV's Judge Rinder — DMC wins (from our archives)
    • Writing things on to-do lists after you've done them — then the joy of ticking them off
    • Bristol International Balloon Fiesta — 9-11 August — its 46th year
    • If you attended this, can you send us a report and photos?: World Snail Racing Championships — Saturday 6 July — Congham, Norfolk
    • DMC Word Factory
    • Quirky Passions — silly or sensible?
    • Running of the Sheep — Sunday 30 June — Skipton, Yorkshire
    • Anorak of the Year — passing the baton — 2022 to 2023
    • We're looking for results and photos of the World Snail Racing Championships held Saturday 6 July at Congham, Norfolk
    • Postcard from recent DMC Meetup in London
    • June 26 was the barcode's 50th anniversary
    • World Turtle Day — May 23 (same date every year)
    • These two go together nicely
    • Merch on Redbubble
    • KNOLLING — you might not be aware you are doing this
    • Wheat Harvest on TV — watched by dull-a-tot and grandfather
    • DMC Caps — USA and UK
    • James Jamfs' post wins — Thread of the Week #2 DISHWASHER LOADING
    • Stuart Sharp is Winner of Thread of the Week #1 — SHEDS
    • Josh Widdicombe — in our 2024 calendar — passionate watcher of "Neighbours"
    • DMC Calendar 2024 — price cut
    • The DMC welcomes women to join us in Celebrating the Ordinary
    • DMC Person of the Year 2023 — Jim Leuenberger and his Barn Quilts — Shawano County Wisconsin
    • Anorak of the Year 2023 — Tim Webb and his Pothole Art — Orpington (southeast London)
    • Top 10 rubbish bins worldwide — 2023
    • From 1988 — DMC Velveeta letter was NYT food editor's favorite in year end wrap-up
    • Union Pacific grain train — passing by Chappell Nebraska — home of DMC's back office
    • Health Benefits of Vacuuming ("hovering" in UK)
    • New Year's Eve — many of us stayed home — practiced writing 2024
    • Special Christmas Tree — The Orphanage (orphaned cars) in Yuma Colorado
    • Back cover of our 2024 calendar — where to buy
    • Map of calendar participants
    • Intro page to our 2024 calendar
    • Views we like of apartment buildings in New York City
    • Mount Rushless
    • French Supermarket Trolley Garages
    • Life imitates art
    • Cows — amused by watching dog fetch stick
    • DMC on German radio program — on WDR, Germany's leading radio and TV network
    • DMC member Kevin Beresford — Roundabout Appreciation Society — featured in Thompson Reters video
    • BBC Radio Leeds — interviews our Grover Click about survery to find Britain's Most Boring Things
    • Schnitzel Appreciation Society — a new Facebook group we created
    • Rachel in The Guardian's Lifestyle section
    • Dustbin Dave — completed London Marathon wearing dustbin as backpack
    • Ironman — a verson for us
    • Brick collector Neil Brittlebank (1935-2019)
    • following instructions
    • All you've always wanted to know about alleys
    • Tamed-down video games — right up our alley — shootouts, car chases, fierce competitions are not for us
    • following instructions
    • Dull-a-tot
    • Another dull-a-tot
    • DMC Person of the Year — 2022 — Duane Hansen
    • A COVID catchup — 2021 DMC Person of the Year — TJ Fallon, visited graves of all presidents, vice presidents, and signers of Declaration of Independence and Constitution
    • Anorak of the Year 2022 — "Dustbin Dave" — Dave Clark from Caister-on-Sea, Norfolk
    • Award for Plumber of the Year
    • Beige: why isn't it ever color of the year?
    • BBC Shipping Forecast –
    • Best of Bins from around the World — Part 3
    • Jeremy Paxman — certifiably dull now?
    • "Embracing a Life of Mediocrity" by Crispin Thurlow – TEDxBasel
    • A chase scene right up our alley
    • Where's the book "50 Shades of Beige?" All we can find is the cover
    • 2023 calendar — CAR PARKS — by DMC member Kevin Beresford (Anorak of the Year 2018)
    • DMC Handshake
    • "Talk of the Town" — Nebraska town gets its first automated door, town where our back office is
    • Reporting on the DMC meetup in North Wales Saturday 15 October
    • Tim Barker's Toy Soldiers
    • Steve Silberberg and his airsickness bags from our 2022 calendar featured in Washington Post
    • sequel to the TV series "The Queen"
    • TJ Fallon — Presidential Grave Visitor
    • A groaner
    • Bin collection day calendar September 2022 - September 2023 arrived
    • Five local DMCs in Massachusetts held annual BBQ — safe excitement for all
    • A catwalk that's being true to its name
    • Our folly expert, Gwyn Headley, in FT article "Hello Folly"
    • Casting Call for 2024 calendar — looking for PEOPLE who are passionate about things often regarded as dull — and EVENTS that Celebrate the Ordinary
    • Supply chain shortages everywhere we look
    • Appreciating life’s simple pleasures, what we have right in front of us
    • Diane Keaton — is she one of us?
    • Plant Stroller
    • Riding through car wash: safe excitement
    • Local DMC at Southborough Massachutts returning to in-person meetings
    • "If I hand-wash the dishes every night before going to bed, will I become a billionaire?"
    • We don't always need — or want — to be in first place
    • Apostrophizing Mistakes — 5 on one sign — a world record?
    • Coffee cup that points out why a donut should not go with it
    • DMC interviewed by BBC Radio Essex about U of Essex's discovery of world's most boring person
    • European Tree of the Year announced — it's the "Oak Dunin" in Poland
    • QUIRKY PASSION: Collecting four-leaf clovers
    • Storm Eunice turned into Storm Ewenice by these clever thinkers
    • Curling is our favorite winter olympic sport
    • "I wonder how long it takes for a Giraffe to throw up?"
    • Auditioning for DMC membership
    • Camouflage jacket for sale
    • Age old problem when writing checks in early January every year
    • New Year's Eve — stayed home — practiced writing 2022
    • Park benches overlooking nowhere
    • Private Event
    • Rachel Williamson, Yarnbomber — Anorak of the Year 2021
    • Our classic beige cap available again now on Amazon UK
    • Clean Off Your Desk Day was Monday, January 14 — what did you find?
    • Dull Men's Club Calendar 2022: Quirky Passions
    • Kevin Beresford — author of "Benches of Redditch" — on front cover of this book
    • DMC Christmas Card — snowmen on airport luggage carousel
    • Rachel Williamson — Yarnbomber in Rhyl, Wales
    • Park Benches — all of a sudden people are noticing them more, thanks to Kevin's "Benches of Redditch" calendar
    • Stonehenge: still working at moving stones back an hour
    • 3,181 Airsickness Bags — Steve Silberberg — Hull, Massachusetts
    • Dull Men's Club Calendar 2022: QUIRKY PASSIONS — back cover
    • Art in Bottles — Keith Brown — Covina, California
    • CYCLING JERSEY CURATOR — Ton Merckx — Netherlands
    • Jim Reinders (1927-2021) — Creator of Carhenge — in our 2022 calendar
    • Manfred Heinze's 'EiBrot' — same breakfast every weekend for 60 years — 1,000 photos on Instagram
    • Tiger Hood, golfing in Greenwich Village — Patrick Barr — New York City
    • Museum of Miniature Chairs — Barbara Hartsfield — Stone Mountain, Georgia
    • Sneaky Russians
    • Reader's Digest — July/August 2021 issue
    • 2021 calendar — price drop — to £5.50 (UK) and .50 (USA)
    • Duck Tape Festival typically taking place about now in Avon Ohio has been cancelled
    • Shopping bag collector from New York seeking U.K. bags
    • Another brilliant interview — BBC Radio WM 95.6 — Mollie Green interviews Jacky Smith 'The Barbed Wire Lady'
    • Extreme car park visiting
    • Can someone find and send to us the results from the O. Henry Pun-Off in Austin?
    • Wife tells husband to put pie in oven at 120 degrees
    • Park Bench in Austria
    • "Find My Phone" — safe excitement — tracking lost iPhone from Dulles airport to my house in Nebraska
    • Dog enters high school foot race — wins — warning: might be too exciting for you to watch
    • Self-Isolators of the Year Award (instead of our usual Anorak of the Year Award)
    • Breaking News from Martha's Vineyard: roundabout turns out to be a success
    • BBC West Midlands' Mollie Green interviews Steve Wheeler and his milk bottles in Malvern
    • BBC Radio West Midlands' Mollie Green interviews Liz Woolley and her manhole covers in Oxford
    • Five-Star Reviews of our 2021 calendar (reading reviews like this causes too much excitement for us dullters?)
    • Map of dullsters in 2021 DMC calendar — Brits and Americans — are they The New Normal?
    • Not cut out for Ice Fishing? What about Ice Drinking?
    • Another 5-star review of our 2021 calendar — key info in first paragraph
    • Winnipeg Free Press — columnist discovers he might be one of us
    • Did doctors celebrate National Handwriting Day, which was January 23?
    • Steve Reszetniak — Cacti — fun to watch grow, they grow so slowly
    • National Oatmeal Month (USA) [porridge in UK]
    • Growing list of group's members' posts of resolutions
    • Dull man on New Year's Eve — doesn't go out — instead stays home getting ready for the new year
    • BBC Radio Devon interviews Chris Cole — "The Puzzle Man" — has assembled over 8,000
    • "talkRADIO" interview with James Folta, collector of #10 envelopes with intriguing graphic patterns inside that block view from outside
    • "EiBrot" Part 2 — More about Manfred Heinze and His Egg Sandwich
    • "EiBrot" (egg sandwich) Part 1 — for breakfast every weekend for 60 years
    • "The Sun" in London
    • Dull Men of Great Britain: Celebrating the Ordinary — new copies or our 2015 book available again now on Amazon UK
    • Hand shaking — not native to America — "comical" was how Native Americans viewed it
    • History of Christmas Crackers
    • "Greetings" — introduction to 2021 calendar
    • Postcard from France — lockdown gives rise to obsession with shutters — and amazing photos
    • Sad News from Covent Garden: The Great Christmas Pudding Race 2020 has been canceled
    • Husbands of Target
    • Palette Moments — Opportunities Beckon
    • PONDERABLES — a question about clocks to ponder
    • Sunday November 1 — Check Batteries Day — USA and Canada
    • Monday November 2 — Fill Staplers Day — USA and Canada
    • Shevaun Fergus — Dollhouses based on Terry Pratchett's novels
    • Newsletter sign-up form
    • Group Rules
    • Facebook group change: now we're at "The Dull Club" group instead of the "Dull Men's Club" group
    • Johnnie Meier's "Classical Gas Museum" in New Mexico — in our 2021 calendar
    • Wrapped Up: A Member's Lockdown Staycation Recap 
    • Anorak of the Year for 2018 — Kevin Beresford — veers off roundabouts to visit car parks
    • Postcard from Silicon Valley — impact of a pandemic — wet floor signs repurposed
    • Kevin Beresford — Car Parks Photographer — in lockdown, it's business as usual, mostly
    • Pratchett-themed Dollhouses — Shevaun Fergus — Purley (London)
    • POSTCARD COLLECTING — Mark Routh — Southend-on-the-Sea, Essex
    • Christmas Crackers — 2020 roundup so far, any favorites to add?
    • "The Puzzle Man" — Chris Cole — at Mare & Foal Sanctuary charity shop in Devon
    • Wet Floor Signs — fascinating variety of pictograms
    • Drainspotter Archie Workman broadens his repertoire
    • Elisabeth Blanchet in Marseilles — post-war (WW2) prefab housing curator — 'new lifestyle to keep up after lockdown'
    • Minigolfers competing internationaly from living room during lockdown — Richard and Emily Gottfried
    • Did you know in Rome there was a Goddess of Hinges — Cardea?
    • Archie Workman, drainspotter and road sign restorer in Cumbria — 'I kinda like this new routine'
    • We've been trendsetters all along? Our way of life is now the 'new normal'?
    • Security envelopes — amazing array of patterns
    • DMC cap — now available in a stunning gray — in our USA Shop
    • Estate Planning by a dull man
    • Going batty over lockdown
    • The Sunday Times — 'finally the rest of the world is catching up'
    • Norman Cousins — best ever practical joke
    • Swiss Spaghetti Harvest
    • Our Facebook Group — hub of much of our activity
    • Which came first — the chicken or the faucet?
    • Blue Badge parking and the "Crunchy Minted Bisquit"
    • Ear Muffs Patent Anniversary — March 13
    • A dull man gets himself organized
    • Grammar Police — they've been around for ages
    • Railings — stunning photos of some
    • Drainspotter Archie Workman, 'Anorak of the Year', interviewed by BBC Radio Cumbria
    • 1500 to present: amazing animated graph showing changes in cities' populations
    • Cluttered desk or empty desk?
    • Are we "Improving Ourselves to Death"? New Year's Resolutions should be avoided?
    • Learning curve and help desk from Middle Ages
    • Local DMC — Beaverton Oregon
    • Christmas Crackers — 2019 — time to put back in barrell for another year
    • DMC cap and book available in California — Santa Monica — Ye Olde King's Head Shoppe
    • The Secret Life of Sheds' — Financial Times
    • Apostrophe Patrol
    • Jokes some think are stupid are actually funny, at least that's what we think
    • 'Vapiano' means 'He who goes slow will go safe and far'
    • Seneca (4 BC - 65 AD): not addicted to checking mail (sail-mail, not e-mail)
    • "moreitis" — Socretes' way of dealing with it
    • "Mike the Mailman"
    • DMC's classic beige cap
    • Do you have photos or articles about this event you can email to us?: World Black Pudding Throwing
    • Photos or news articles about the World Pea Throwing Championships held Sunday 4 October in Lewes, East Sussex?
    • Why only women's names — Alexa, Siri, Cortana?
    • Shed Fest on Isle of Wight — media coverage
    • ?How to Organize Your Pins
    • "Appreciation Societies — Intro & Table of Contents"
    • Video of Pitch Drop Experiment and Prof Mainstone
    • OK to coin new words ?
    • Shed News — police arrest shed burglars — eventually
    • England — charge royalties for using English?
    • DMC visits Luxembourg City
    • Best vests for dull men? Vests are our mobile roll top desks
    • More blog posts — how to get to them
    • Manhole Cover in Mosow: see what happens when Five Year Plan not followed
    • Now over 34,000 members of our Facebook group
    • Haircut
    • Norman Cousins and the nurse — and it wasn't even April 1
    • Welcome to newcomers to our Facebook Group — turn off "Notifications" and other things you might like to know
    • TV Casting Call — couples wanted where one partner's lifestyle, hobby, or quirky passion is annoying to the other
    • Golden Rule — around the world
    • "Slow motion gets you there faster," Hoagy Carmichael
    • More praise for boredom
    • Fencespotting
    • Water Freezing Video
    • "Happy Ever After: Escaping the Myth of the Perfect Life" by Paul Dolan
    • Music is too exciting for you? — then listen to a metronome instead
    • Our favourite colour in the news: "Grey is UK's favourite car colour for first time"
    • Skipton Sheep Day — 7 July in Yorkshire
    • FAQs — "It's OK to Be Dull"
    • You might be a dull man if . . . .
    • This is our new, redesigned website — parts of it are still under construction
    • New Year's Resolutions — already abandoned? — decided you're OK the way you are?
    • Facebook Group — Dull Men's Club — becoming hub of much of our activity
    • Walking is good for us
    • DMC contributes blurb to "This Book Will Put You to Sleep"
    • Iconic attire
    • Practicing for the real Ironman Competition
    • Day 10 of 12 Days of Christmas Gifts — Ironing Board
    • Day 12 of 12 Days of Christmas Gifts — Pencil Sharpener
    • Trivia Day — January 4
    • Einstein's Worst Nightmare — "are we there yet"?
    • New Year's Eve — practice writing 2019
    • 2018 Ugly Christmas Sweater Wrap-up
    • Christmas card — snowmen riding on airport luggage carousel
    • Duller Christmas card
    • 2017 calendar — on Judge Rinder show — copies leftover from 2017 still available
    • More Christmas Crackers
    • Day 9 of 12 Days of Christmas Gifts — "The indispensable bedside classic"
    • Blind leading the blind
    • Field Trip to Toy Soldier Show — London
    • "Happy Boxing Day" — includes explanation for viewers outside UK
    • Joining in the fun
    • Day 7 of 12 Days . . . Level
    • Day 4 of 12 Days of Christmas Gifts — Sock Organizer
    • Manhole Cover Photographer — Howard Libauer from Burnsville, Minnesota
    • Viewers in UK: last-minute (dull) stocking stuffers — from DMC UK Shop
    • Day 8 of 12 Days of Christmas Gifts — Dust Pan — dull men love them
    • Day 3 of 12 Days of Christmas Gift Suggestions to give a dull man — Dental Floss
    • Day 2 of 12 Days of Christmas Gifts — for a dull man
    • Day 5 of 12 Days of Christmas Gifts — Battery Tester
    • Day 6 of 12 Days of Christmas Gifts — gifts for dullsters — Snow Globes
    • Day 1 of 12 Days of Christmas Gifts — for a dull man
    • "The Week in Good News" — new feature in The New York Times
    • What if phone had been invented after email and texting?
    • test post for link to Blog categor
    • We do more than watch paint dry
    • London's Bollards — Phylogenetic Tree
    • PC Pro magazine — DMC member Steve Morton 'Mr Philofaxy' is cover story
    • lagom, hygge, ikigai
    • "Quest for Loose Change" — interesting and gratifying way of celebrating the ordinary
    • Big Ben — history, workings, architecture
    • New Year's Resolutions — do dull men need to make any?
    • Christmas Crackers — squirreling away soon for next year
    • History of Wrapping Paper
    • 12+ days of Christmas gifts — you have more?
    • Christmas Card — dulled down
    • Dulled-down Christmas card
    • T-shirts available now on Amazon in US
    • Happy Thanksgiving — 2017 — USA
    • Clocks changed in USA and Canada — leaving Daylight Saving Time
    • Halloween Groaner
    • Volvo traktor — is member of band playing "Sweet Georgia Brown"
    • No longer need to buy stuff — rent instead?
    • National Walk Your Dog Week — starts today
    • Pondering can be helpful (dull men like to ponder) — especially if there's work in progress to ponder
    • National Punctuation Day
    • "Dull, Boring Summit" — Tuesday 14 November — Preston, Lancashire
    • Just the right amounts on hand for breakfast — "lagom" in Swedish
    • coming up soon — next Saturday, 5 August — DMC get-together at Platform 5 Cheadle Hulme rail station (near Manchester)
    • International Cheese Awards — underway now
    • "Baa Baa Land" — 8 hour movie starring sheep
    • Cutlery Sculptor — Wilffred Maw — "silver lining behind every cloud"
    • Breaking news from Wales — sheepdog pushed off cliff — by a sheep
    • World Pea Shooting Championships
    • Golf Cart Parade — 4th of July — North Shore Lodge at Lake Mac, Ogallala Nebraska
    • Dull Men's Club get-together — Platform 5 at Cheadle Hulme rail station (near Manchester) — 5 August, Saturday
    • World Sauntering Day — Monday, June 19
    • 20th London Open Garden Squares Weekend — 17-18 June
    • World Sauntering Day — June 19
    • Park Bench with only half a back — High Street, Winchester
    • Donald Duck's 83rd birthday — June 9
    • National Yo-Yo Day [USA] — June 6
    • Dull men not immune from terrorist attacks
    • International Clothesline Week — begins Saturday, June 3
    • National Donut Day [USA] — Friday, June 2
    • Invitation to DMC BBQ — Friday June 16 — Northborough Massachusetts — 4th annual meetup of 4 local DMCs
    • "Dullfies"
    • Submarine Racing — very suspenseful
    • World’s 1st Telegraph Message Sent – May 24, 1844
    • World Turtle Day
    • Ordinary People: focus honours system on them rather than overpaid TV celebrities?
    • Rhubarb Festival — 33rd year — Intercourse, Pennsylvania
    • Our book doubles as a children's book?
    • British Sandwich Week — May 14-20
    • Jane Austin knew about us?
    • Mothers
    • Pun-Off World Championships — May 13 — Austin, Texas
    • National Windmill Day (Holland) — May 13 & 14
    • Breaking news in Kidderminster, Worcestershire — "Noisy Gate Replaced"
    • No complaints so far about this detour
    • Rochester Lilac Festival — starts May 12 — Rochester, New York
    • National Receptionists Day — May 10
    • International Compost Awareness Week — May 7-13
    • Reader's Digest
    • National Doughnut Week (UK) — May 6-12
    • Stilton Cheese Rolling — 1 May, bank holiday Monday
    • North Carolina Pickle Festival — today, Saturday, April 29
    • in “Waitrose Weekend” — Stuart Searle and his backyard rail station
    • Watching Paint Dry — victim of "fake news"?
    • Today is World Penguin Day
    • Today is "Hug a Plumber Day"
    • Grandpa's pants
    • Barbwire Show — April 7 — Devil's Rope Museum, Route 66
    • National PB&J Day
    • Best ever practical joke — try it today, April Fool's Day (if your in a hospital)
    • Paper clips — a fine pastime
    • National Pencil Day
    • Where do pencils go for vacation?
    • Problems with our printer are nothing new
    • Magazine right up our alley — "Spreadsheet Enthusiast"
    • Fill Staplers Day — Europe
    • "Do you stock neutral colors?"
    • 2:00 a.m. Sunday 26 March — clocks change to daylight saving time — Europe
    • Today — Marmalade Festival — March 18 and 19
    • Reading Amazon Kindle's terms and conditions: 73,198 words, 8 hours 59 minutes
    • Pi Day — March 14
    • Today is Fill Staplers Day in US and Canada
    • March 13 — anniversary of patent for ear muffs
    • Check Batteries Day — USA and Canada
    • 2:00 a.m. Sunday morning March 12 — change to daylight saving time — USA and Canada
    • Apostrophizing skills lacking at Hampton Inn?
    • Oops
    • Spring is just around the corner?
    • Dulled-down Valentine's Day card
    • Breaking news in Daily Mail — boring lunches — ham sandwich every day for 20 years
    • Postboxes of Lancaster
    • FT Magazine: Mark Leigh, lost glove photographer
    • Ketchup — fierce debate sparked — cupboard or fridge ?
    • Orangutans — now have their own dating app
    • Today is "Setsubun"- Bean throwing festivals throughout Japan
    • Dull Man in training?
    • pop . . . pop . . . pop . . . today is Bubble Wrap Appreciation Day
    • Underway now — 2017 Big Garden Birdwatch — "It's for the birds?"
    • Signing White House guest book
    • 100 potholes — most potholed roundabout in Britain?
    • Boredom: valid defense when arrested for shoplifting?
    • how's this for proofreading?
    • door handle obviously not installed by a dull man
    • January 26 – date Franklin sent letter about turkey instead of eagle for national bird
    • National Pie Day [USA]
    • National Handwriting Day [USA]
    • Breaking news from Vienna: straßenbahn hijacked
    • Breaking News from Washington — umbrellas now allowed at inauguration — but only short ones
    • Breaking News from Norfolk — "The" being might be deleted from street names
    • Gravedigging Championships — Central Europe
    • Today: National Nothing Day — what will you not be doing?
    • A few favorite dates in history for us dull men
    • National Geographic's Short Film Showcase: Top Ten Picks for 2016
    • Young man in Czech Republic proves it - we can read anywhere anytime
    • Knitter's ingenious way of touring the world
    • January 9: National Clean Your Desk Day
    • New Year's Resolutions — where are yours now?
    • Happy New Year
    • New Year's Resolutions — do dull men need to make any?
    • New Year's Eve — what to do? — practice writing 2017?
    • 12 Days of Christmas Gifts — add more to the list?
    • Christmas card - snowman's baby picture
    • Southboro DMC — demonstration by International Guild of Knot Tyers member
    • Christmas card — gray
    • Underdog Day
    • 12 Months of 2017 calendar: "Cutlery Sculptures by Wilfred Maw"
    • Today: 148th Anniversary of 1st traffic light in UK
    • Today is 100th anniversary of tow trucks
    • Gripping discussion about sock drawer
    • Christmas Crackers — here's our list from 2015, let's add more
    • Escalator Heathrow Terminal 2 — wonderful minute and a half ride
    • November 28 — Luke Howard's birth anniversary — he gave names to clouds
    • IAD — Dulles International Airport — November 26, 2016
    • Dull? — collecting swim fins and making art with them
    • BREAKING NEWS from Lancashire—tin foil stolen from Poundland—police seeking info about shoplifter as roll worth £1
    • "Event of the Year" in Bosnia: president takes journalists on official tour of new sidewalk in front of presidency
    • "We do more than watch paint dry"
    • Thanksgiving — what are dull men thankful for?
    • International Pickle Festival
    • Phone Booth and Post Box Calendar for 2017
    • Highest “Bungee Dunking” — Guinness World Record — but not my cup of tea
    • "A Man Called Ove" — instantly qualifies for DMC membership
    • Highest "Bungee Dunking" — Guinness World Record — but not my cup of tea
    • Homemade Bread Day
    • News from Australia: Army vehicle disappears
    • Following up on news from April - anyone know if hat was reclaimed?
    • Practical joke ?
    • Salt Lake City — explored using TRAX ("Transit Express" — light rail)
    • Clean Out Your Fridge Day
    • Coastline — tide out, tide in
    • Before alarm clocks:
    • Disturbing news in Macclesfield Express
    • Today — "Fill Your Staplers Day" — USA and Canada
    • Breaking News from Lancashire — Carnforth Civic Hall purchases new vacuum cleaner
    • Notary Public Day [USA] - November 7
    • Today - Check Your Batteries Day — USA and Canada
    • Clocks change - "falling back" - USA and Canada
    • BBC Weather Watcher's first anniversary
    • Park bench on BBC Breakfast this morning - Sutton Coldfield Park
    • Launch Party tonight — at Stanfords in London — on Long Acre, near Covent Garden
    • Breaking news: women in 2017 Dull Men's Club Calendar—Great Britain
    • "NAPFLIX" . . . "NETFLIX for dull men
    • Putin Calendar — competing with our 2017 Great Britain calendar?
    • "Marmite Diplomacy": pricing issue arising from pound plunging has been resolved
    • Breaking News: Marmite extracted from Tesco's shelves due to Brexit
    • News (mews?) of safe excitement in Wall Street Journal: "Watching Silly Cat Videos Is Good for You"
    • The three local Dull Men's Clubs in Massachusetts in the news
    • Better than watching paint dry? — today on BBC News
    • Today — National Punctuation Day (USA)
    • Hot off the press: "Best Magazine" interviews 3 wives of "Dull Men of Great Britain"
    • Queuing: mathematician formulates techniques for picking shortest queue
    • Raging battle in England: who should close train doors?
    • Breaking news in England: severe shortage of church bell-ringers causing concerns
    • Redesign of Apple logo after adverse €13 billion EU tax ruling ?
    • Bank Holiday Monday (29 August): Great Overton Duck Race
    • Attention dull men in Sydney: newspaper reporter is looking for you
    • Take a Break magazine —
    • Seniors' groups — be careful which one you join
    • World Championship Cardboard Boat Races — Saruday July 30
    • International Cheese Awards
    • "Royal Swan Upping" — counting the Queen's swans — starts today
    • Breaking news for dulldom: 'Trainspotting Live', new on BBC Four
    • Petition to UK parliament: women should not be forced to wear high heels
    • Where white man went wrong?
    • This Saturday 9 July 2016: World Pea Shooting Championships
    • Breaking news from Times Square: Kellogg's "Cereal Cafe" has opened
    • Amazing videos of power washing - 13 short episodes
    • Sunday 3 July: Skipton Sheep Day
    • Brexit: little if any affect on ability of dull men to "Celebrate the Ordinary" in UK
    • Starts today: National Marble Championships, Wildwood New Jersey
    • Today: World Sauntering Day
    • Starts today: London's Open Garden Squares Weekend
    • "LONDON TUBE: A RADICAL IDEA FOR ESCALATORS"
    • Garages of Chervonograd (Ukraine)
    • Royal Bun Throwing on Queen's Birthday - Abingdon's 255 year-old tradition coinciding with royal events
    • Queen's 90th birthday picnic on The Mall — "very British"
    • Today is National Yo-Yo Day in America
    • Father's Day gift ideas
    • Grave Digging Championships in Hungary
    • Today: 78th annual National Donut Day in America
    • Most exciting news from Switzerland so far this year: world's longest tunnel opens
    • Breaking news: Marks & Spencer turns off its Muzak
    • Today: 172nd anniversary of first telegraph message
    • Tortoise in baby carriage in Central Park
    • today is World Turtle Day
    • today is National Miniature Golf Day in the UK
    • today is National Windmill Day - in Holland
    • Breaking news from Washington: "Flower Thief Nabbed"
    • "Celebrating the Ordinary - The Advantages of Being Dull" by Prof Peter Toohey
    • This is "International Compost Awareness Week"
    • Today: 90th annual Stilton Cheese Rolling
    • Starting Sunday May 1 – available in US: “Dull Men of Great Britain: Celebrating the Ordinary” –
    • Starting today Sunday May 1 - available in US: "Dull Men of Great Britain: Celebrating the Ordinary" -
    • Today - April 25 - is "Hug a Plumber Day"
    • Today — April 25 — is "World Penguin Day"
    • Coming up: Rubber Eraser Day, April 15
    • More legendary April Fool's jokes
    • Scientists are Cornell have developed levelheaded humans that are now being placed in communities
    • Sunday 27 March: clocks changing to Daylight Saving Time in Europe
    • Breaking news from England: Shakespeare's head gone from grave
    • World Water Day — March 22
    • Breaking News from Scotland: Ben Nevis gains a metre in height
    • Tortoise and Hare
    • Fill Staplers Day in USA and Canada
    • "Spring Ahead" at 2:00 a.m. Sunday March 13 in USA and Canada
    • Inventor of email, Ray Tomlinson, passes away
    • Exclamation marks: instructions for young people — a lively debate
    • Japan's fancy manhole covers: collectors' cards
    • "Flying Scotsman," built in 1923, running again after £4 million restoration
    • Happy Leap Day
    • Starts today: "Oscars" of Water Tasting — Berkeley Springs, West Virginia
    • Customers livid that now only straight croissants at Tesco
    • Breaking news from England: Tesco now selling only straight croissants
    • Ding-dong issue ringing throughout England: is bell-ringing a sport?
    • Ding-dong issue ringing throughout England: is bell-ringing a sport?
    • 18th annual Great Backyard Bird Count — February 12-15, 2016
    • "World Whale Day" — it's today — February 13
    • 18th annual Great Backyard Bird Count — February 12-15, 2016
    • For dull men's valentines
    • Yesterday was 146th anniversary of America's National Weather Service
    • Today: 106th anniversary of Boy Scouts of America
    • Battle of the Oranges: use Brussel sprouts instead?
    • Proofreading: its importance illustrated
    • Proofreading: its importance illustrated
    • Photograph of potato — sells for £750,000
    • UK film censors now watching 2-day-long movie of paint drying
    • Bubble Wrap Appreciation Day ——— today
    • Today has been National Handwriting Day (USA)
    • National Pie Day in America - today
    • National Pie Day ——— today
    • National Pie Day ——— today
    • National Pie Day ——— today
    • National Pie Day — today
    • Today is National Pie Day
    • Today is National Pie Day
    • Today is National Pie Day
    • Breaking news from New York: cow out on streets captured by police
    • Dulling down Davos World Economic Forum
    • Breaking news from England: police mistakenly question 10 year old Muslim boy living in terrorist house
    • Longest-serving weather watcher (85 years) dies at 103
    • "His" and "Hers" compost bins?
    • Free haircuts - - - for tall trucks - - - "11foot8.com"
    • Excitement in Newcastle: "Puddle Watching"
    • Shocking news from Isle of Man: M&S's "Luxury Extremely Chocolaty" biscuits are actually custard cream
    • Spreadsheet for choosing wife — from Paul McKenna
    • 2016 resolutions, OK to be only moderately successful?
    • Dull man on New Year's Eve - - stays home, practices writing 2016
    • Breaking news from UK: sales of avocados now exceed sales of oranges
    • "The Sleigh Ride" - Slow TV
    • News from Iceland: decline in popularity of eating fermented fish
    • Christmas Crackers: squirreling away now for next year
    • "Where's the Panda" . . . can you find it?
    • "Andy Murray is more boring than Worthing"? Is this comment unfair to Worthing?
    • BBC Four's Christmas Eve treat for dull men: two-hours watching reindeer pulling sleigh
    • Dulled-down Xmas card
    • Christmas Dinner — 2015
    • Today is Underdog Day
    • Last-minute stocking stuffers
    • Oldest Christmas Trees (artificial ones) in England - 78 and 95 years old
    • 12 Days of Gifts - - - for a dull man
    • "Worcester Telegram" reports on local chapter of Dull Men's Club
    • Patience (70 years of it) needed to hear back from Santa
    • Today: 148th anniversary of 1st traffic light in UK
    • Xmas cards for dull men to send
    • Breaking news: Dippy the penguin, now arthritic, is moving to new home
    • This Saturday — 35th annual Great Christmas Pudding Race — Covent Garden, London
    • Man enjoying some Safe Excitement
    • Today, 28 November: birth anniversary of Luke Howard - he gave names to clouds
    • British film censors to watch paint dry for 14 hours
    • Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade
    • Thanksgiving - dull men are grateful for what?
    • Turkeys - clever
    • Train crash in Indiana, logs scattered everywhere
    • Facebooking - old-fashioned way
    • Today: Mickey Mouse's 87th Birthday
    • Security breach at G20 Summit - cats break through tight barricades, walk on stage
    • I Love to Write Day
    • Breaking News from Massachusetts: colander is "religious" headgear allowed for driving license photo
    • Clean Out Your Fridge Day
    • Sunday Times: our upcoming offer to Jeremy Corbyn
    • Notary Public Day — November 7
    • Winchester Short Film Festival — 'Born to Be Mild' showing in it
    • Watching sheep change seasons
    • No fun for dull men here — nothing to watch
    • Jehovah's Witness Training Center
    • Today is 'Fill Your Staplers Day' in Europe
    • "Pie: A Global History"
    • Last night we stayed up late for some safe excitement — watching clocks change
    • Breaking news from Apple: hot dog emoji now available
    • Dogged delivery service by KLM's Lost & Found
    • Breaking news from Oxford: residents concerned about 7 inch hole in street
    • Breaking news from China: McDonald's burgers now in grey buns
    • Woolly Worm Festival starts today — worm racing
    • Twitterizing Twitter CEO's memo to employess
    • 'My Life in the Gutter'
    • Facebook - trying it offline
    • Top Ten Holiday Reads
    • Breaking news from New York — governor's office begins Fall Foliage Report this year
    • Collecting discarded shopping lists, fine hobby — but recipes from them?
    • Dull Men's Bake Off — thrill of watching bread rising
    • "Pie: A Global History"
    • Resting and nesting — replacing rocking and rolling
    • World Pea Throwing Championship - yesterday at Lewes, East Sussex
    • Joy of doing same thing over and over again
    • World Pea Throwing Championship - yesterday Lewes, East Sussex
    • Joy of doing same thing over and over again
    • Kentucky Apple Festival — 53rd year — but the apples are fresh
    • World Pea Throwing Championships
    • National Walk Your Dog Week
    • Archie Workman, our drainspotter, in the news this morning
    • Woodpile's role in advising on potential husbands
    • Ben Johnson, British painter — concentration
    • Rugby dulled down — 'Walking Rugby' — OK now for dull men to play?
    • 11th annual National Punctuation Day
    • Watching Paint Dry — Guinness world record set in Indiana
    • Looking for gift for a sheddist?
    • Breaking news in UK: Pylons to be removed
    • 50 Shades of Hay
    • Multitasking — do dull men do it?
    • Car's iPhone dock not working properly
    • Helicopter made from drones and garden chair - too exciting?
    • Our next travel destination: Siberia — visit bus stops
    • Biggest model ship made with LEGO bricks — 2nd place winner is Jim McDonough in Scotland
    • National Waffle Day
    • From Norway — more hardcore Slow TV — migrating reindeer
    • Not everyone appreciates Colin's snaps like we do
    • Warren Buffett's biggest (and boring) deal
    • Radio ham in shed talks to space station
    • August is Napping Month
    • Roundabouts catching on in US
    • Today: birth anniversary of inventor of Tupperware, Earl Tupper
    • starts today: International Cheese Awards
    • Today: 29th annual World Championships Cardboard Boat Races
    • This week: Royal Swan Upping on the Thames
    • Today has been Get Out of Dog House Day
    • Today is International Chess Day
    • Breaking news from Washington: Goat Map released
    • Today: National Ice Cream Day (USA)
    • Breaking news from Melbourne: trees receiving emails
    • Today: World Pea Shooting Championships
    • Tickertape Parade today in New York - actually it's a Confetti Parade
    • Confederate Flag - now causing more excitement than
    • Running of the Bulls? - how about Running of the Sheep instead?
    • Today is a longer day, one second longer - how will you spend the extra time?
    • Plastic Pink Flamingo's creator passes away
    • Breaking News from New York: musical turnstiles in subways
    • Breaking news from Germany: shopkeeper thwarts robbery with vacuum cleaner hose
    • This weekend's highlight: 12th Annual Duck Tape Festival - in Ohio
    • Today is World Sauntering Day
    • Jeb's exclamation point - will lose votes from our members?
    • Today: London Open Garden Squares Weekend
    • Mystery bench - rustic one - where is it?
    • Yesterday, July 9, was Donald Duck's 81st birthday
    • Excitement at G7 Summit: Merkel singing"Sound of Music"
    • American Pharaoh wins Belmont but not Spelling Bee
    • 'Born to Be Mild' in Brooklyn Film Festival
    • Friday June 5 was National Donut Day
    • The other Breaking News from Switzerland: Swiss Cheese Holes Mystery Solved
    • 3D Printing
    • Breaking News from Australia: world's first motorised cooler championships
    • Today, in 1844, the first telegraph message was sent
    • Today is World Turtle Day
    • Shed of the Year 2015 — finanlists
    • "Still a dull boy"
    • Dogs are helpful in so many ways
    • Finding comfort in old technology
    • Churchill's speeches - if metricated?
    • Today is National Coconut Cream Pie Day
    • Architecture of Railings - new Facebook Group
    • The 'other election' in UK yesterday, also hotly contested — national bird
    • Interview from Washington DC
    • Headline news in Australia: source finally discovered for strange radio signals baffling astronomers for 17 years
    • Slow TV coming to UK
    • Justice in Canada: fine cancelled for 91 year old lady making too much noise in rocking chair
    • Today is the start of International Compost Week
    • High-Wire Wedding - groom obviously not one of us
    • Coming up: Bank Holiday Monday - Stilton Cheese Rolling
    • 'It's a girl' - dullards camping outside hospital to hear this
    • "The Park Bench Statesman" - posting for 2 appreciation societies: PLAQUES and PARK BENCHES
    • Breaking tech news: Apple Watches malfunction on tattooed wrists
    • My first day without an Apple Watch
    • More breaking news from California: water sprinklers malfunction in Sacramento
    • April 29 was 102nd anniversary of zippers
    • Breaking news from California: new curb ramps installed throughout shopping centre in Turlock
    • The Watch
    • Breaking News from Antarctica: giant iceberg breaks off - coming up soon: "extreme ice melting watching" for dull men
    • Headline of the week from Scotland: sheepdog drives tractor
    • Breaking News: high-end Spam now coming to food trucks
    • National Organise Your Files Week (USA)
    • Etchings - as dealt with by dull man on date
    • Breaking news from Minnesota: Lindström gets umlauts back - victory for Swedes
    • World Snooker Championships on now in Sheffield
    • Yesterday - McDonald's 60th Anniversary - did you celebrate?
    • Rubber Eraser Day
    • Pylon of the Month
    • Tonight on BBC 2 — 7:00 p.m. (UK time) — Cuckooland on "Collectaholics"
    • Norman Cousins joke with nurse - good one for April 1
    • Breaking news from Turlock, California: new ATM on Gear Road
    • Fill Your Staplers Day - Monday 30 March in Europe
    • Clocks changed - we stayed up to watch
    • Breaking news from WTOP, Washington DC: new evidence for toilet paper "over/under" debate
    • Breaking news from North Yorkshire: hat found in tree
    • Breaking News: "Bandstands of Britain" in today's MailOnline
    • Breaking News: "Bandstands of Britain" in today's MailOnline
    • Boys' Toys — but perhaps over the top for dull men?
    • From @boringtweets: excitement at breakfast time
    • Breaking news from Yorkshire: same valentine given to wife 37 years in a row
    • Dullest Valentine's Day Card ever?
    • Breaking news from Birmingham: study reveals exactly how to load dishwasher
    • Breaking news from Seattle: dog rides bus by itself
    • Last night — New Year's Eve — what did dull men do?
    • New Year's Eve: what will dull men be doing?
    • New Year's Resolutions
    • From Scandinavia - first recorded IT professional
    • Breaking tech news: "Experience the Power of IKEA's bookbook"
    • "Fields" calendar: dull men will enjoy this
    • Breaking news from Aberdeen: "Injured Parrot Rescued"
    • Alternative Christmas Card - duller
    • Christmas Greetings . . . from the Dull Men's Club
    • Days 7 thru 12 — of 12 days of (dull) gift suggestions
    • Day 6 — of 12 days of (dull) gift suggestions: “Lists of Note”
    • Day 5 — of 12 days of (dull) gift suggestions: "See-Thru Toaster"
    • Day 4 of 12 days of (dull) gift suggestions — "Snow Globe"
    • Day 3 of 12 days of (dull) gift suggestions — “Artisanal Pencil Sharpening”
    • Evidence that women ready for Army's front line
    • Breaking news from Wales: Cilybebyll Community Council looking into getting email account
    • Breaking news from Canada: Missing Jacket Found
    • Day 2 — of 12 days of (dull) gift suggestions — "Sock Tidy"
    • Day 1 — of 12 days of (dull) gift suggestions — "String Dispenser Tin"
    • Russian prisons — looking for jokes — to remove prisoners' stress
    • Saturday 6 December: 34th annual Great Christmas Pudding Race — Covent Garden, London
    • Billionaire lives like us
    • Carousels as roulette wheels . . . at JFK Terminal 5
    • Luke Howard birth anniversary — he gave names to clouds
    • Same suit worn entire year by TV anchorman — we dull men are grateful for his experiment
    • Breaking news from Wales: "Tree of the Year" is blown down tree
    • Sunday, November 23: 17th Annual International Pickle Festival
    • German TV — shoots us and calendar
    • November 17 was Homemade Bread Day — we watched bread rise
    • Available on Amazon in USA now: "Dull Men of Great Britain—2015 Calendar"
    • Breaking news from Paris art gallery: "Looking for Needle in Haystack"
    • Breaking news from Sweden: National Font
    • Today is "I Love to Write Day"
    • Today is "Clean Out Your Fridge Day"
    • Breaking news from London: park bench from Rik Mayall's "Bottom" sitcom returns to Hammersmith
    • How to sharpen pencils - instructional video
    • Persistence — typical trait of dull men
    • Watch paint dry: red phone boxes repainted green
    • Being with boring people can be very soothing
    • "Moreitis" — Socrates' way of dealing with it
    • Launch Party for Calendar — exclusive photos from Birmingham
    • German TV filming yesterday at Stanfords
    • Yesterday was Aid and Abet Punsters Day
    • Dull Men of Great Britain - map
    • Today: clocks change
    • Today is Checklists Day
    • National Needlework Archive
    • Breaking News from Malvern: Steve Wheeler's shed extension underway now
    • "Dull Men of Great Britain—2015 Calendar" at Stanfords in London and Bristol and online
    • "Dull Men of Great Britain———2015 Calendar" ——— preorder now on Calendar Club UK
    • "Dull Men of Great Britain" calendar now on Amazon
    • Issue that's splitting Norway - bark up or bark down?
    • Caravan Show, UK's largest - this week in Birmingham
    • "How to open a door" - instructional video from Finland
    • "Dull Men of Great Britain—2015 Calendar" — where to buy
    • Today: World Pea Throwing Championships - will 44 meter record be broken?
    • Breaking News - after 31 years, Ploughing Championships finally return to Hampshire
    • Today is World Egg Day
    • First trainspotter? . . . BBC News reports on who may have been the world's first one
    • Hugh Barker, "Hedge Britannia, on ITV London News
    • "Dull Men of Great Britain" on ITN 5:00 evening news
    • Stone Skimming - world championships underway now - we're looking forward to seeing who wins
    • iPhone 6 queues: men only?
    • Breaking news from Harvard: slipping on banana peel wins prestigious Ig Noble prize
    • Nuuk Greenland airport luggage carousel: counterclockwise
    • Breaking News from Ramsbottom: results in from World Championship Black Pudding Throwing Champtionships
    • Toy Box - would it have made a difference?
    • "Adventures in Stationery" ——— new book that's right up our alley
    • Breaking News from Oxfordshire ––– Bees prefer cities over countryside
    • Warning labels ––– remove them?
    • Submarine Racing ––– more exciting than watching tide
    • DMC BBQ in Massachusetts - in the news
    • Big day today in Ontario -- Binder Twine Festival
    • Big day today in Ontario: Binder Twine Festival
    • Commas: more proof that women are so different from men
    • Starting Friday: annual conference of Society of Indexers (UK)
    • Crisis in Germany: pretzel bakers threaten strike for Oktoberfest
    • Quiz: how boring are you?
    • Fascinated with stationery, especially staplers
    • Apostrophe Protection Society's founder to be "Mr. October" in Dull Men of Great Britain calendar
    • Breaking news from Connecticut: corn thieves caught, clue was tassels in hair
    • Teacher arrested at airport . . . carrying weapons
    • Boring jobs here
    • Monkey respond to U.S. Copyright Office
    • Breaking News: trainspotting 80 years older than previously thought
    • Don't do today what you can put off to tomorrow?
    • U.S. federal government invents wine opener
    • New 007? ——— or at least 006.5?
    • Breaking News from Gibraltar: monkeys being deported, "too cheeky"
    • Disappointment at Big Ben? --- not really
    • Watch Big Ben being cleaned
    • Clarinet made from carrot - great use made of something so ordinary
    • Master's degree awarded for whisker research
    • Sad day for Sweden: nation mourns passing of it’s oldest eel
    • Man achieves goal of being a toll collector?
    • Colston Bassett Stilton top winner at International Cheese Awards
    • Breaking news from Oregon: August 9 declared "Boring and Dull Day"
    • Breaking News: "Shed of the Year" announced
    • Waiting for faucet to stop leaking
    • LAPD, well-known for car chases, and now a tortoise chase
    • Edinburgh Fringe — "Born to Be Mild" shown
    • BBC Cumbria - new DMC member inducted - drainspotter Archie Workman
    • Breaking Oyster Shucking News from Canada
    • Today: Pear Fair - Sacramento River Delta
    • Lightning Map - Safe Excitement
    • Turlock, California - where watching the grass grow is headline news
    • “Keep Calm and Carry On” continues to go viral . . . has now reached Ogallala, Nebraska, with a margarita
    • Breaking News: 5-year-old’s snail wins today’s World Championship Snail Race
    • Breaking News: 5-year-old's snail wins today's World Championship Snail Race
    • "Beans: A History" - likely to be a gripping read, at least for us dull men
    • Breaking News: "Shed of the Year" finalists announced
    • "Couch Kartoffeln" [couch potatoes] - in Berlin stadium watching football from their sofas
    • Big day tomorrow - sliced bread's 87th birthday
    • Yorkshire's ready for Tour de France - as its street art demonstrates
    • "Battle of the Period [full stop in UK]" breaks out concerning Declaration of Independence
    • Declaration of Independence - new info about Franklin's role
    • Street Art in York and Leeds — gearing up for Tour de France
    • Breaking News from Cheltenham - Banksy Street art saved, at least temporarily
    • "Dull Down" - - Yorkshire's warning to Tour de France cyclists
    • Breaking news from Hong Kong: egg tarts added to cultural heritage list
    • Today is World Sauntering Day
    • Stamp collecting is dull? Not always, stamp sets world record price of .5 million
    • Breaking News from Turlock, California: laptop left on table at Starbucks for several minutes still there when owner returns
    • Breaking News on BBC: washing chicken is dangerous
    • Two more noncandidates for DMC membership
    • Clearly not eligible for DMC membership
    • Breaking News from Switzerland: to shake off "most boring" label resort resorts to stone-skimming
    • Open Garden Squares Weekend - 14 & 15 June - but what's the square truth about these squares?
    • Breaking News from Finland: elk romps thru central Helsinki during rush hour
    • New York's first Miss Subways, Mona Freeman, dies - age 87
    • Donald Duck turns 80 today - something to quack about indeed
    • Essential Trivia: what did "D" in "D Day" stand for?
    • Pulp Fiction Appreciation Society — warning to dull men — don't join
    • Essential Trivia - "poronjusema" - do you know what it is?
    • Minding own business - - some learn the hard way
    • Dentists expanding client base: Orangutans
    • "Worry is like a rocking chair"
    • Big disappointment: Skipton Sheep Day cancelled - due to Tour De France in Skipton High Street
    • Despite our warning about Gloucester Cheese Rolling, we like cheese, especially watching it age
    • Gloucester Cheese Rolling - yesterday - not for dull men
    • NY man kills wife for cooking wrong dinner
    • Today: World Turtle Day
    • Episode 4 of "Potato Fields of Norfolk"
    • Episode 3 of "Potato Fields of Norfolk"
    • Meeting Postponed (with an apostrophizing error?)
    • Detox Diets: waste of time and money?
    • Episode 2 of "Potato Fields of Norfolk"
    • Solution to cell phones at meals - - a multitasking approach
    • "Potato Fields of Norfolk" - - episode 1 of groundbreaking new four-part series
    • Square People - - us?
    • Excitement at Heathrow airport - - my bag arriving
    • "Be Nice to Nettles Week" - - it's underway now
    • Will Rogers, one of our favorite philosophers
    • You think a good education is too expensive?
    • If it ain't broke . . . .
    • Groaner about rabbits
    • Stopped by the cops enforcing vehicle code section 339472
    • The Horse
    • Breaking news from U. of Vienna: yawning not caused by boredom but by temperature
    • Airport Luggage Carousel Report from Vilnius, Lithuania
    • Speak ill of others?
    • "The Distance" - - long-lasting businesses - - that have gone the distance
    • QWERTY
    • Photos are rolling in - - from yesterday's cheese rolling in Stilton
    • Leica makes most boring commercial ever? 44:43 minutes of man in factory polishing new Leica
    • Breaking News from London: escalator is working at tube station
    • Tomorrow April 29: zipper's 101st anniversary
    • This weekend: California Poppy Festival
    • This weekend: Great American Pie Festival
    • "Work Worth Doing": is it the secret to happiness for you?
    • Are you aware that today is World Penguin Day?
    • Today is Hug a Plumber Day
    • This would not happen to a dull man
    • NIH announcement about women's weight
    • Stoics? . . . are we dull men stoic?
    • Wife with problem: husband reading her emails
    • Housework-challenged husband
    • Administrative Professionals Week
    • Cemeteries people not dying to get into
    • Do we need Zebra Crossings for deer?
    • Grey - - colour of the decade
    • Today is McDonald's Anniversary
    • Today is Rubber Eraser Day
    • Inside the growing tiny house movement
    • Would this provide relief from boredom?
    • "Love at first sight"
    • Obnoxious coffee snobs
    • “Accent Tour of U.K.”
    • Riding thru car wash: scary for toddler
    • Today is National PB&J Day
    • "I love green grass" says House Speaker Boehner as he mows lawn
    • German Potato Museum - - refreshing break from Germany's usual glitz and glam
    • U.S. government could save millions each year by using different font
    • Slow TV again - - in France this time - - 9 hour walk across the country - - backwards
    • Google Naps, wonderful new maps for best places to nap
    • A boring activity is irritating you? Then call it “meditation”
    • April 1 - - jokes
    • Engineering for successful popping popcorn
    • In the Doldrums - - happening to DMC member now
    • Yo Yo Convention - - underway this weekend in Wisconsin
    • Breaking Biscuit News: which side up?
    • John Major's Birthday
    • Isn't this an incentive for remaining dull ?
    • Today is "OK's Birthday" . . . 175 years ago today "OK" first appeared in print
    • This weekend and next weekend: 56th annual Schmeckfest
    • Breaking news from BBC: "Things you didn't know about earwax" (more info than we need?)
    • Sophie, bulldog puppy, loves rolling down hills
    • Today is Grover Cleveland’s birth anniversary
    • Elevators (Lifts) - - unsung heroes
    • "Fill what's empty . . . ."
    • Today is National Quilting Day
    • Breaking News: yawning not due to boredom but depends on age, older folks yawn less
    • Amelia Earhart - - find her also when they find MH370 ?
    • Today is Pi Day
    • Dripping Tap - - "Sound of Music"?
    • "Papers Please" - - boring game about Immigration Officers now a smash hit
    • Today is anniversary of day U.S. patent obtained for ear muffs
    • We wish WWW a Happy 25th Birthday
    • Cruise ship "Crown Princess" - - carpeting
    • Fill Our Staplers Day - - a success, we think
    • Packing suitcase - - a riveting video
    • Today is Middle Name Pride Day
    • Nick Clegg sings Britain's praises: queuing, shipping forecast
    • Busy Sunday and Monday coming up for dull men in USA and Canada: clocks change, check batteries, fill staplers
    • Today is National Day of Unplugging (USA)
    • Why send newsletter on Saturdays?
    • Completion Addict instead of Idea Addict
    • Questions to ponder (we like to ponder)
    • Watching Tide - - now from comfort of home
    • Suggestion for improving IQ of world
    • Today in Chicago: CHIditarod, a shopping cart race
    • Starting today: 10th annual Marmalade Festival - - Dalmain Mansion & Gardens, Cumbria
    • Bureaucratese - - penned by UK's Inland Revenue
    • Kid's chores - - today's way to get 'er done
    • Roundabout - - stunning view from Parkwood gym in Salisbury
    • Carpets for Airports - - flying carpet tour around the world
    • Water Tasting Winners - - 24th annual Berkley Springs International Water Tasting
    • Levi Strauss (1829-1902) Birth Anniversary . . . composed jeans
    • Wiring . . . brains wired differently for men than for women?
    • Googling -- not all that long ago
    • Curling's aftereffects - - a cleaner world after Winter Olympics
    • Farewell to Norway's Curlers and Those Pants
    • Curling — final day for men — Friday 21 February
    • MacBook Air back from repair shop - - gotta remember it's not touchscreen
    • Books - - arrange by color?
    • "Try to" versus "Try and" - - topic for dull men to ponder
    • Grumpy Older DMC Member
    • Local Council meetings . . . dull? . . . not always
    • Curling - - reader comments that it's wonderful, amazing, scary
    • Conference Call
    • Travelators - - duller to ride, especially when escalators are too scary for you
    • Drainspotter Archie Workman
    • Groundhog Day and Super Bowl - - that sense of belonging
    • Curling - - our favorite Winter Olympic Sport
    • Groundhog Day 2014
    • Breaking News from Germany - - cows breaking wind start fire in barn
    • Gladys - - on Ellen - - doesn't get out much - - loves Jesus but drinks a little
    • Breaking News from England: formula for perfect toast revealed
    • 30th - - Happy Birthday Mac
    • Hollande - - de facto first lady has returned from hospital
    • 515th Anniversary of Marmalade Imported into England
    • Trailer for "Born to Be Mild" - - a documentary about the DMC
    • Flat Stanley and Sir James ("Man with Golden Flute") about to ride up long escalator on way to Turkey
    • Dull Man Trying to Nap - - disturbed in a much too exciting way
    • National Nothing Day - - Thursday, January 16, 2014
    • Andrew Dowd - - has photographed all 2,548 of Britain's railway stations
    • Stockpiling Velveeta - - willing to share
    • Tortoise Vision - - Franky's wearing a webcam
    • Joel Comm riding escalator at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas.
    • Breaking News - - possible Velveeta shortage
    • Mud Art - - by Ruddy Muddy in Norfolk - - on white vans
    • Breaking News - ultimate multitasking invention - (a) Desk (b) Exercise Bike (c) Power Generator
    • Bad News: Cancellation of 19th Annual Fruitcake Toss
    • BBC Radio 4 - - "The Slow Coach"
    • Beige: the secret to John Lewis's increased sales results
    • Abbey Road - - Beatles changed their minds?
    • Trivia Day - - January 4
    • There's power in being boring
    • Joys of Park Benches - - caught on video
    • Hoping for Schumacher recovery
    • Resolved for 2014 - - each day we will try to:
    • New Year's Eve - - what will dull men be doing?
    • New Year's Resolutions - - do DMC members actually need any?
    • Vacuum cleaner collector James Brown - - nominated for our Dull Men of Year list
    • Abbey Road - - zebra crossings
    • Day 12 - - "50 Shades of Gray" - - free iPhone app from the DMC
    • Merry Christmas again - - using dull card this time
    • Day 11 - - Swiss Army Knife
    • Day 10 - - Artisanal Pencil Sharpening
    • Christmas Crackers - - 2013
    • Humor Hurts? - - laughter might not be best medicine according to British Medical Journal
    • Visiting Holtwhites Bakery in Enfield (north of London)
    • Day 9 ——— the new book "Napism.info" ———— complete guide to napping
    • Merry Christmas
    • Day 8: Show Shovel
    • Breaking News: dogs prefer looking at other dogs instead of at owners
    • For our older members: how to get offspring home for Xmas (and pay own airfares)
    • Day 7: Snowglobes
    • Today is "Underdog Day"
    • Breaking News about Snow Shovel Research — straight or bent shovel handle?
    • Day 6: DMC Caps, T-shirts, Coffee Mugs
    • Day 6: DMC Caps, T-shirts, Coffee Mugs
    • Metronome — Day 5 suggestion on our 12 Days of Christmas Gifts for Dull Men
    • Glapagos Turtles — they never get excited — even during sex — they live over years
    • Day 4 — Sock-of-the-Month club membership
    • Myrrh — Day 3's suggestion on our 12 Days of Christmas Gifts list
    • Perfect Cheese on Toast — mathematical formula
    • Great idea for bike lanes — Washington DC
    • Breaking News from Australia — eagle snatches video camera — films 70 miles flight — ending with "selfie"
    • Day 2 of 12 Days of Gifts . . . "Slippers"
    • Day 1 of 12 Days of Gifts . . . "See Thru Toaster"
    • 12 Days of Gifts — Dull Men's Club Suggestions
    • Husband ——— "lost" while Xmas shopping
    • Thanksgiving and Christmas Turkey — why called Turkey?
    • Riding the Longest Escalator in London
    • There's usually always something to be grateful for
    • Thanksgiving 2013
    • Clever turkeys on day before Thanksgiving — taking advantage of visually impaired farmer
    • November 27 -- Tie One On Day -- [day before Thanksgiving (in U.S.)]
    • Breaking News from Germany: glass recycling bins are Munich's top tourist attraction
    • One-Stop Shopping
    • Handy Tip: lighting candles without burning fingers
    • Penguins out for a jog
    • Leaving Daylight Saving Time ——— we did it overnight ——— not like was the situation years ago
    • Breaking News from Wales ——— 2014 Red Phonebox Calendar ——— No Sales in Wales
    • "esc" key not working
    • Gift Ideas — for "the man who has everything"
    • Today is "Clean Out Your Fridge Day"
    • Korean Post Office — custom making a box — amazing
    • Cow Groaners
    • Updated –—— "The Card Players" by Paul Cézanne
    • "The Writer" ——— a robot built 240 years ago ——— in Switzerland
    • Wind Map ——— fun to watch wind blowing all around America
    • Cheese ——— do you like it "cowy," "catty," "brothy"?
    • Breaking News ——— international league being formed by Dull, Boring, and Bland
    • Advice columns, e.g., "Dear Abby" ——— should men write them?
    • Dull man shows good thinking
    • Ben Franklin’s secret of happiness: “celebrating everyday moments”
    • England's biggest shipbuilders ——— may turn out to be some of our members
    • Safe excitement ——— listening to sound of ocean in seashell ——— goes awry
    • Aspiration of a Dull Man
    • Chicken wire being made ——— fascinating to watch
    • Breaking news from Belgium ——— world record broken ——— tumbling of longest book domino chain
    • Breaking news from Belgium ——— world record broken ——— longest book domino chain
    • Changing Clocks can be exciting ——— Larry King apparently agrees with us on this
    • Reality TV ——— from Norway ——— live knitting show ——— many hours long
    • Another example of "Real Men Don't Read Instructions"
    • "Real men don't read instructions?" ——— apparently horses don't either
    • Excitement at DIA last night: my bag arriving
    • Halloween
    • "Euroflushing" ——— breaking news from Brussels ——— EU flushing to be standardized
    • Queuing: latest stats from England
    • Composer John Cage's contribution to dulldom
    • Extroverted dull man
    • An ordinary day
    • Sainsbury's ——— try using proofreaders today
    • Mayor Bloomberg in Paris ——— a touch of ordinariness?
    • School Buses ——— got me thinking about outsourcing
    • Essential Trivia: 7 amazing words
    • Breaking News from Denver ——— "CroDough" unveiling today ——— fund raiser by Four Seasons Hotel for World Food Day
    • Ian Stevenson's Mindblowing Street Art ——— truly celebrating ordinary, mudane, everyday stuff
    • "Duffingate" brewing in London ——— Starbucks versus local coffee shop ——— Goliath versus David?
    • Another grey painting, this one a bit humbler
    • Tax Audit———interesting one in Australia
    • Hot off the press: Biscuit Research—but with crumbly findings and/or reporting?
    • Breaking News from Wylye Valley, Wiltshire: "Lost Tortoise Totterrs Home"
    • Breaking Rutabaga and Carrot News: world records broken
    • Sam Marmite — that's his name, officially
    • Breaking News from Stonehenge: "I've been sent to photograph a shed"
    • London — Room without a View
    • National Punctuation Day — September 24
    • German election — we like the headlines
    • German election — headlines we like to see
    • German election — headlines right up our alley
    • Tonight — Idler's Ukulele Player of the Year Competition
    • Breaking news about toast ——— groundbreaking new research establishes why it falls buttered side down
    • Velvet Ferrari
    • Breaking News from London Heathrow
    • Breaking Art News: "Grey" by Gerhard Richter on exhibit at Tate Modern
    • New Olympic Game: Wrestling — but what about Tug of War (and a few others)?
    • Squirrel Power [exclamation point removed]
    • Handy Tip: easy way to put key on key ring
    • "Art of Pencil Sharpening" on CBS Sunday Morning this morning
    • "Let Structure Set You Free" — helpful advice from co-founder of Affiliate Summit
    • Some men look like they may qualify for DMC — but don't due to irresistible temptations
    • Cup holder report from Yellowstone — help put out fires in Yosemite?
    • Breaking News from Southborough — local papers report on DMC meeting
    • Jam Cam — senior jam
    • iPhone holder inserts into cup holder
    • "Do we use too many exclamation points?" — asked Elmore Leonard
    • Wanted — boring leader for Fed
    • Breaking News from UK — finally found clear explanation of UK
    • Breaking News from the U.K. — finally found clear explanation of U.K.
    • Breaking News from Switzerland: Alpine horn players set world record
    • Biker Bars — not all of them are exciting
    • Greensboro, North Carolina — Airport Luggage Carousel Report
    • Kaunas, Lithuania — Airport Luggage Carousel Report
    • CNN report on Rooms without Views
    • "Rooms without Views"
    • Dullest town in Britain? — poll underway
    • Interesting new addition to Park Bench Appreciation Page
    • Intereseting additon to Park Bench page
    • Baseball – "snorefest"?
    • New post to test Sticky
    • "Slow motion gets you there faster"
    • Time — why is it such a wonderful thing?
    • Amusing insults — from back when insults were witty
    • "Joy of Clouds" — tomorrow's lecture at The Idler Academy
    • Prince of Cambridge starts easel trend
    • Why aren't Brits as excited as Americans about baby
    • Royal Baby — our favorite headline
    • Breaking Hyphen News: "Jay-Z" changing to "Jay Z"
    • Breaking News: pea shooting results from Cambridge News
    • Breaking News from Scotland: 119-year-old Telegraph Pole Retires
    • Ordinance Survey Bench Marks Database
    • Ever wondered who invented the Eye Chart?
    • Breaking News from Australia: Bland proposing to Dull and Boring
    • Canning Semimar tomorrow — near Washington DC
    • Test — are you a dull man?
    • Breaking News from BBC London: Surge in Slipper Sales
    • Apostrophes in the news again
    • Dr. Johnson — watched hair grow — candidate for postmortem membership?
    • Breaking News from Pitch Drop Experiment — 9th drop expected soon
    • Breaking news from London — 20 mph speed limit for Waterloo roundabout
    • Dull men at work here?
    • Stilton Cheese Rolling — photos are rolling in from Monday's annual event
    • "Data Conversion Operators" — dying breed of U.S. postal workers
    • "The Poetry of Compost"
    • Tap Water Testing — today on BBC
    • There seems to be inherent incentive tha
    • Breaking News from Pitch Drop Experiment — 9th drop may drop soon
    • World Penguin Day 2013 — news about it
    • Penguin Stuff from Amazon
    • Toaster Collectors Convention
    • Lift / Elevator — that uses voice recognition
    • "Zen and the Art of Filing"
    • Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain
    • I do not think the U.S. is an exaggerati
    • Arnold Palmer — how does he order one?
    • Is the U.S. an "Exaggeration Nation"?
    • The shaple of LED Corn Light bulbs are
    • Being kind to a Jehova's Witness — interesting result
    • Link in article not working:Here is
    • What an idea [exclamation point removed]
    • Burned-Out Headlights — a Survey
    • Spray-On Sports Car
    • April 1 prank in the X-ray lab
    • Breaking News — Cheese Heist — 0,000 street value
    • Roundabout Art in Europe
    • April Fool's Joke — for Dull Men
    • Breaking News: Sheep's Easter Egg Hunt
    • Space Commander Hadfield — floating peanuts
    • Southborough DMC — growing
    • Aw.. they picked it up and plunked down
    • Pope Francis — candidate for Dull Man of the Year ?
    • Boxes to mark: sign: place forms in enve
    • New Guinness World Record — for tightest parallel parking
    • This article was adequate.
    • I was wondering how the smoke colors wer
    • "Pearls of Non-perfection": inventions resulting from flaws
    • There is a woman in our office who refus
    • What else is there to say about governme
    • He looks so wonderfully dull. Pity about
    • So in my comfort zone,so orderly [exclam
    • Exciting day today in New Zealand: it's Census Day
    • Great news: arthritic rabbit responding positively to hydrotherapy
    • "The Perils of Perfection" – Silicon Valley eliminating boredom?
    • Berkeley Springs International Water Tasting
    • Great tip for remembering password — from two sprightly, clever ladies
    • We dull men avoid flashy dress — but not all men do:
    • Tips for Starting a Dull Men's Club Meeting — from Pembroke, Massachusetts
    • Local Meetings
    • Wall Street Journal: "A Yawning Need for Boring Professors"
    • Maybe Joan Baez should have shown us how
    • TED Talk: "How to use a paper towel" by Joe Smith
    • That sign looks far too exciting. I am g
    • Pembroke DMC in "American Way" magazine
    • while you were watching the flames shoot
    • Even more boring that someone can't spel
    • Norway is becoming a divided nation
    • Media Multitasking — Stanford study says not good to do
    • Key tips found in "Redneck Book of Manners"
    • Supermarket Shopping Carts — Return Carts Month
    • New Punctuation Mark — "ElRay” — a half exclamation point
    • Garlic Smuggling — what'll they think of next?
    • Kabul Afghanistan — "Cherishing an ordinary life"
    • Bodum PEBO Vacuum Coffee Maker — Product Review
    • Another nomination — Dull Men of Year — Harry Reid, leader of U.S. Senate
    • People Who Appreciate Quality Hand-Dryers
    • Breath — Baited or Bated? — topic for DMC meetings
    • Men Are Happier — so they say
    • White Smoke / Black Smoke — what causes difference?
    • "Concrete" versus "Cement" — topic for DMC meetings
    • "Knock Knock" . . . in NY
    • Waiting for and watching the white smoke
    • Why do women like dull men?
    • Muzak — gone? — or merely renamed?
    • One of our favorite Monopoly tokens — the iron — replaced by cat
    • King Alfred — planning ahead — when found, State Funeral in Hyde Abbey?
    • Richard III's Parking Space
    • Michael . . . you're right about racing
    • As I live in Hyde I wish to claim his "g
    • "The hunt is on" — for King Alfred — now that Richard III's been found
    • One can confirm that Richard III is the
    • Richard III
    • I'm sure I have seen walmart customers w
    • Walmart's instructions for Express Lane
    • Breaking news from Paris: Women now allowed to wear pants
    • "London Review of Breakfasts"
    • Super Bowl 47 — "brain damage"? — that's what comes to mind for a physician
    • Osprey — should it replace eagle as America's National Bird?
    • Valentine's Day Gift Suggestion — Slippers
    • Or getting instructions on how to procee
    • Enfield, North London — do you know what it's famous for?
    • Not everyone is bored in Washington — look at Bill
    • I'm sorry but I have to ask: Does it ha
    • More boredom recently in Washington?
    • New icon for our iPhone app "50 Favorite Shades of Gray"
    • Inaugural Speech — boring?
    • Last Picture portrayed shows the idiot d
    • Or just playing games,checking email,wat
    • The problem with this statement is that
    • Breaking News: DMC local meeting starts today in Southborough Massachusetts
    • Yes! I remember the Fuller Brush Man. As
    • "Nudists Seek Corporate Sponsor Looking for Greater Exposure"
    • Tedd Levy — 8th and Last Nominee for Dull Man of 2012
    • "Pieces of String Too Short to Save" sou
    • "Pieces of String Too Short to Save"
    • Wow. You're not dull at all.Am curio
    • I cooked. Shared it with dad. Got drunk
    • Reports on New Year's Eve — a resounding success
    • Breaking news from New York City — parking signs being revamped
    • I made two resolutions this year. I will
    • Ukelele Lessons, in London — starting tonight
    • Singletasking — needed here
    • Resolutions — being "only" an engineer
    • New Year's Resolutions for Aspiring Entrepreneurs
    • 100 things we didn't know a year ago
    • Preparing — for outcome of those resolutions
    • TOO EXCITING!
    • I LOVE THE CARD and festive colors
    • "Happy New New Year Card" — too exciting
    • No one can find fault with a man who doe
    • A man who can survive trapped in a car u
    • The New Yorker — Snowsuit Issue
    • New Year's Resolutions — none needed for Dull Men?
    • New Year's Resolutions — none needed for Dull Men?
    • DMC Meeting Topic: "Seasons Greetings" or "Season's Greetings"?
    • Gray Santa in Sweden — police called in
    • History of Wrapping Paper
    • "Wrappers' Delight: A Brief History of Wrapping Paper"
    • I believe a dull man would not feel the
    • Snowglobes — Day 6's suggestion on our 12 Days of Christmas Gifts for Dull Men
    • "Schoolroom 2013" — by Norman Rockwell?
    • Seems the Mayans were a little too late
    • Myrrh — Day 5's suggestion on our 12 Days of Christmas Gifts List for Dull Men
    • Metronome — Day 4's suggestion on our 12 Days of Christmas Gifts for Dull Men
    • Bugarach — Balderdash — Not to Worry
    • Gray Men Group — Performing on Authentic Plastic Tubes
    • Gray Men's Musical Group — performing on authentic plastic tubes
    • On two different machines and the three
    • Why 50 shades? Have you heard anytime w
    • Proof that a truly Dull Man does not hav
    • Very clever and logical story. Ropes are
    • One man's experience with "Fifty Shades of Grey"
    • Slippers — Day 3's gift
    • If only more cops were like he is people
    • Christmas Crackers — 2012 Roundup
    • "Vision Toaster" — Day 2's Gift on our 12 Days of Christmas Gifts for Dull Men
    • "Favorite Shades of Gray" — new iPhone app from Dull Men's Club — Day 1's gift in our 12 Days of Gifts
    • I bought my friend a hotel bell. It will
    • LED Light Bulbs series offer the ultima
    • Hostess Bakery—new homes already found for Twinkies, Ho Hos, Cupcakes, Ding Dongs, even for Wonder Bread
    • I am glad i do not work al all
    • Hi, this is a very interesting article a
    • Is cycling OK? Whenever I cycle (not ver
    • I had one left over from a youthful indi
    • Burned the turkey? — be thankful this happened
    • I am thankful I do not workAt any of t
    • I am thankful for my dog.
    • Vanilla — our favorite ice cream — Citibank ad making fun of us?
    • Dull men can be thankful that ovens have
    • In England, you can still give thanks. Y
    • Wow. That sounds scrumptious. And nice t
    • Should I thanksgive? I live in England
    • Canned jellied cranberry served w ridges
    • Predicability is wonderful — for us Du
    • That is is always on a Thursday
    • That's right . . . once inside the round
    • L'etoile in Paris. Good for we dull men
    • Dull men are thankful that nobody asked
    • Key escapee caught on film
    • Snowmen on Carousel Christmas Card
    • "Does a fish know it's wet?" — great topic for DMC meetings
    • A real groaner, but in a very good way.
    • Christmas Card — Dull Men's Club
    • Turkeys — they are clever birds
    • Thanksgiving 2012 — what are dull men thankful for?
    • Felix Baumgartner's 24 Mile Fall — actual sound track
    • Doughboy — a sad passing
    • FEMA — excitement avoidance?
    • No sweat. I already abhor treadmills. I
    • How and how not Dull Men should exercise
    • I would spell "incorrect" half in one la
    • Clever way to remember passwords
    • According to my analysis, millions of pe
    • Felix Baumgartner's Fall
    • Those annoying subscription cards inserted in magazines
    • Make your life more simple take the mort
    • If you want to buy a house, you will hav
    • A notar admite — it's not exciting — but sometimes interesting
    • How would one go about stacking irregula
    • They even have "man symbols" in their tr
    • Bob and Ray's famous radio routine "Mary
    • It's about time [exclamation point delet
    • What a magnificent idea. I'm certain tha
    • Naps — brain goes into overdrive
    • Breaking News from Brooklyn: Chickens Trigger Nimby Battle
    • Zil lanes now for queues: paying to "jump the queue"
    • This is truly good. I enjoyed this. I wo
    • These roundabouts are really cool, but I
    • Pembroke DMC — in news again — "Boston Globe" this time
    • Truckers napping — because got so bored driving across Nebraska?
    • Holgate's "Roundabout 'round a Windmill" — chosen for 2013 Roundabout Calendar's cover
    • Tonight's Debate likely to be dull in at least one aspect: bland clothes
    • Traffic Cop — a great one — we need many more like this
    • Prairie Home Companion — Joke Show next week
    • One-Ton Pumpkin — Holy Grail of Pumpkin Growing
    • This article made me think.
    • A kid's meal of choice: Swanson TV Dinner (some years back)
    • I received my first loan when I was 20 a
    • Catching fog?
    • Lower Expectations
    • "Don't overlook the wonder of the ordinary"
    • Bug Facts — Amazing/Amusing Videos about Pest Control
    • Breakking News from Essex: Man to Build Garden Shed
    • Stockholm Arlanda — Airport Luggage Carousel Report
    • Way too exciting for me
    • Pembroke Dull Men's Club in their town's 300th Anniversary Parade
    • Thank you for give very good information
    • Excitement of Travel — Plugs
    • We're in the "Kent and Sussex Courier"
    • Extreme Gardening
    • Kate Topless—first UK paper to publish—and suitable for Dull Men to view
    • World Gurning Championships 2012 — Mattinson wins 14th year in a row
    • "Two Men in a Boat" — they survived
    • Today: World Gurning Championships
    • Congratulations! So obliging of the pain
    • Love it. 🙂
    • "Bus Stops to Nowhere," photos from Timo Klos
    • My kinda person. Love accounting.
    • "50 Shades of Grey — a bloke's version"
    • "Our Longing for Lists" by Phil Patton
    • Feared "Essex Lion" turns out to be cat
    • 116 years old — secret to her long life?
    • Why Waiting in Line Is Torture
    • Dull Dauly Chores—good for us, they burn calories
    • Gold Medals for Daily Chores—chores burning calories than Olympic events?
    • Truly great (exclamation point omitted).
    • Olympic Sailing — amazing and amusing TV coverage
    • Celebrating the Joy of Metering
    • Facebook Share Debacle: ordinary trumps extraordinary
    • Hi, I think this is a great story! I act
    • Even Al Sharpton is into Snail Racing
    • Olympic Queuing — a medal now for unsung heroes
    • What's wrong with Silver?
    • If a standards were to be set, who wins
    • Hyde Park — Queuing for Big Screen Viewing
    • Hyde Park Viewing Screens — Queuing for Loos
    • Empty Seats — because people stuck in queues?
    • Queuing at Olympic Souvenir Store
    • Queuing Report from Olympic Park—longest is at world's largest McD's
    • Please don't forget Lancashire and the L
    • Not sure I agree regarding rowing, havin
    • Olympic Queuing Report
    • UK PM's wife Samantha Cameron speaks up for joy of accounting
    • "How to Get Things Really Flat" — a man's guide to ironing
    • Seven-Road Roundabout in Massachusetts
    • I always used two in booklets I have pub
    • "The Physics of Sand Castles" — from The Economist
    • I was taught to use 2 spaces in HS but r
    • As far as watching is concerned; I find
    • Olympics: watching them on TV in U.S. is duller than in U.K.
    • LBJ was President ? I beg to differ: I l
    • In today's day and age, one space. Prima
    • In today's day and age, one space. Prima
    • Good meeting topic: after each sentence—one or two spaces?
    • Here because of the NPR story... and bec
    • I had to make a connecting flight in Mil
    • Pole Dancing — Olympic Sport?
    • Olympic Torch Carried through Hampton Court Maze
    • Olympic Sheep Shearing?
    • Four more British sports should be in Olympics
    • I queued up for a queue once to ride an
    • More olympic events
    • Brits are very good queuers, but I'll wa
    • Suggestions for Starting DMC Meeting in Your Town
    • I had to LOL when I read the article in
    • Wall Street Journal writes about Pembroke Dull Men's Club, our website, and more
    • Suggestions of Meeting Topics
    • Celebrate Boring Africa Aid
    • Postcard from Paris: "'Mr Ordinary' impresses French with down-to-earthness"
    • Self portrait of member on park bench in Northern Ireland
    • Running of the Sheep — instead of the Bulls?
    • Golden Rule and Epectitus
    • 50 Shades of Grey
    • "Redefining Success and Celebrating the Ordinary"
    • That's great that we can take the loans
    • London 2012 Olympics—join the most phenomenal queues of the decade, if not the century.
    • Father's Day — I'm always worried when it rolls around
    • Queuing is a wonderful social event for
    • Egg Throwing should be an Olympic Sport
    • Queuing will be an Olympic Sport?
    • The mighty paper clip—invented in 1899, not improved upon since
    • Goldman Sachs mending its ways — is that a DMC member in the cubicle?
    • Equality on the Beach
    • More towns with funny names being unearthed
    • About the lamp-posts in Central Park: I'
    • Breaking news: Boring (Oregon) votes to twin with Dull (Scotland)
    • Clothesline Report from Cornwall — highest clothesline poles in Penzance
    • Paint the Town — and watching it dry?
    • TV Remote Control's Founding Father — we mourn him now
    • Manhattanhenge — Manhattan is center of the universe?
    • "The Household Tips of the Great Writers," by Mark Crick
    • These people may be referred as Acategor
    • this is very interesting
    • Congrats on listing in Chase's Calendar of Events
    • Is France in good hands now?
    • Ant Ballet
    • Plants Have Personalities?
    • Our "Fill Our Staplers Day" accepted for inclusion in Chase's "Calendar of Events"
    • "How to Sharpen Pencils" by David Rees
    • Training Roundabouts — Levels 0.5 and 1.0
    • Central Park's Park Benches
    • Pun-Off Yesterday in Austin — winners?
    • "Uke of Wallington: one man and his ukulele round Britain," by Mark Wallington
    • Dull Man's Guide to New York — Dining — 600 Greek Diners
    • werden.übelkeit,Kopfschmerzen,Sonnenbri
    • Two corrections to website
    • Mother's Day — Grover's Mother — ribbing him
    • Central Park's Carousel
    • Report from Stilton — "A rather soggy cheese rolling"
    • Grid system streets seem far too excitin
    • Cheese Rolling Should Be Olympic Event
    • Dull Man’s Guide to New York — Grid System for Streets
    • Its like you read my mind! You appear to
    • Oh my goodness! an incredible article du
    • Secret Life of Plankton
    • I was studying some of your content on t
    • Groaners from New Recruits
    • Lodge Grill Press, action shots
    • TV Test Cards, an Appreciation Society and Exhibition
    • Dull and Boring, video about proposed twinning
    • Will Boring accept Dull's invitation to twin?
    • I claim credit for the Dinosaur joke. I
    • As a lover of canned fish, Sardines, tun
    • Thats how I found out about the DMC, goo
    • Joys of Tinned/Canned Fish
    • Reporter visits Dull Men's Club of Pembroke Mass
    • Abbott and Costello Enter the Computer Age
    • View from hotel room—Shotgun Willie's or car wash?
    • The New Zealand Herald reports on us
    • Nettles—tasty, nutritious—and free
    • I found the dripping too fast and was gl
    • coco women Gucci Handbags For instance,
    • Dear, friends, summer, and also to welco
    • Next to the Bible, "Quiet: The power of
    • I travel on buses evry day .Do I qualify
    • Knitting joins up with Street Furniture
    • Introverts are needed
    • Biscuit Art
    • Celebrate? Cultivate? or Tend the Common
    • logo
    • Academy Awards—what about the unsung heros, the Movie Extras?
    • Thanks for the post or share information
    • Hey this is a very interesting article!
    • Epic Last Words
    • Hey this is a very interesting article!
    • Thanks for the post or share information
    • Extreme Quotation Marks — or just outright wrong?
    • 34 years in a row — same Valentine's Day Card
    • Submarine Races versus Dewey Decimal System
    • Here is a copy of my answers to your DMC
    • This is certainly a concept which has ne
    • Strive to Be Average
    • Extreme Couponing
    • Strunk & White — what makes it great?
    • Earth is getting lighter?
    • Day in life of Ikea tolley
    • I formally apply for membership after a
    • Extroverted Introvert
    • Queen's Honours: look who's said "No Thanks"
    • When you're in not good state and have g
    • New book out today: "Quiet" — it's about accomplishments of introverts
    • hey dull men, are there other sites that
    • An admirably dull activity for the dull
    • Dull Man on a Date
    • It's understandable that cash makes us i
    • Hamburg's "Minatur Wunderland"—world's largest model railway
    • Hey Grover,Having made the most mino
    • A truly imaginative piece of lexicograph
    • How boobs got their name
    • Do you acknowledge that it's the best ti
    • Typos spotted from Canada
    • British Road Signs — design classics?
    • Top Christmas Gift Recommentation — "Vision" Toaster
    • I was goint to comment, until I realized
    • New thriller: "Deep Sky"—missile kills U.S. president—sent by whom?
    • Charleston Gazette-Mail article about us
    • Cheese Calendar
    • Underdogest Team—wins its first game—Somoa beats Tonga
    • Thanksgiving — Thanks from New York
    • Magnificent History in New England's Stone Walls
    • "Best Place in Britain" — Lincoln's Steep Hill street
    • A window in the oven - to watch the turk
    • Thanksgiving 2011 — what are dull men thankful for?
    • Lost Chimneys of Christchurch
    • The "New Boring" — it's everywhere?
    • It is known that cash makes people free.
    • Tidied-up Art
    • "Hale the Wale" — hailing from London
    • Big $ in dullness: .3 million for photo of featureless landscape
    • Mini Checklist — one sheet of paper each day
    • Wheatley Medal for 2011— for Outstanding Indexing
    • Thames Tide Tweets
    • Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch
    • Pylon design from Denmark wins £5,000 prize in UK Pylon Competition
    • if you totally freeze in order to fart
    • Nomination: Peter Adamson for Dull Man of Year
    • Dull Life of Administrator Awarded Booker Prize
    • "Mr. Ordinary" for President of France?
    • People deserve very good life time and l
    • what's brown and shitty?A shit
    • Amazing Art from Very Ordinary Things
    • Safe Excitment in LA
    • More about Structured Procrastination
    • New Game Invented
    • Awesome Website? Too exciting for us to hear?
    • Dear GroverWelcome back. That sound
    • Ig Nobel Prize for Structured Procrastination
    • Ig Nobel Prizes 2011
    • Have been out of commission
    • More evidence here of the "dulling up" o
    • Calendars
    • tom your story is interesting can you ma
    • Amish Nominees for Dull Men of Year
    • Sorry not boring enough, made me laugh o
    • You can get stapleless staplers now.
    • New Groaner: "What's brown and . . . ?"
    • Staples certainly do come in assorted co
    • How many dull men to change a lightbulb?
    • Some years ago I had the opportunity to
    • "Painting Forth Bridge" no longer job without end
    • A dull man's favorite bar joke
    • Endorsement of Nominee for Dull Men of Year: London Metropolitan Police
    • Franck Muller watches are our specialty
    • What will be talked here is the replica
    • It is possible, however, to enjoy the be
    • The clothes of two people should be boil
    • Timing my boringness
    • My wife and I bought a house 3 years ago
    • Can you ever dull up anywhere?
    • Dull things to do in exciting city: Berlin
    • Where did those naked ladies come from?
    • It is great that people are able to get
    • I think this is a fine idea. I wish I ha
    • Some time ago, I did need to buy a car f
    • if you smile as you read any of these co
    • cool airsunriseleaves in the win
    • London Broom Squad — "Brooms R Us"
    • "The Heady Thrill of Having Nothing to Do" by Scott Adams, creator of Dilbert
    • Left-Handers' Day ?
    • All a bit too exciting for me.
    • DMC member joins the rioting?
    • Looting spreads to Cornwall
    • "The Thrill of Boredom" by Prof. Toohey
    • National Punctuation Day — September 24
    • 2012 Olympics — Logo Redesigned
    • Corridors — do you have a favourite?
    • Mona Lisa recreated with coffee
    • London Rioting — how to dull it down?
    • great idea to show the word the most imp
    • great idea to show the word the most imp
    • That's perfect that we can take the pers
    • Stunning Pictures of Clouds
    • Things learned by journalist
    • Sitting Quietly — Striving to be a Dull Man
    • I agree that measuring buttons must be a
    • Measuring Button Holes
    • Famous Last Words (thanks to Car Talk)
    • "You might be a dull man if . . . ."
    • Let us not be particular, let us be univ
    • U.K.'s Speaking Clock — 75th Birthday
    • Do Nothing Day ?
    • Ready, Steady, Slow — Snail Racing
    • Groaner—Irishman and a Bar
    • I will recommend not to hold off until y
    • The problem of dining in company is the
    • Dining Alone — pros and cons
    • ...if on Friday nights you organize your
    • Porch Sittin'
    • Lively Discussion in UK about "Staycations"
    • A lot of specialists say that loan help
    • Skechers Shape - ups Fitness Shoes and 2
    • Skechers Shape - ups Fitness Shoes and 2
    • Paper clips are so versatile. You can st
    • Do not enough money to buy a house? Worr
    • THE IRONY OF WIMBLEDON By
    • British invasion once again — this time it's roundabouts
    • Summer Vacation Plans
    • Dulling down of warfare
    • . . . if you don't know you're dull
    • New York City's Sky Colours
    • A dull man's obituary — inventor of barcode
    • Barcode Art
    • Typo Eradication Advancement League
    • Steve is showing way too much enthusiasm
    • Decorators trending in our direction? Gray, gray, gray
    • June 18th, 2011Dear GroverConsiderin
    • It seems a bit harsh to ban it. If they
    • very very interesting light!!!
    • Nice Picture of Files (of not dull subject matter)
    • Two Great Museums in Australia
    • Bulb Cam: watching 110 year-old light bulb
    • Yes, this is a brick and mortar museum.
    • Boring films are good for us?
    • Flashlight Museum
    • I love this. So witty. Being dull doesn'
    • I love this. So witty. Being dull doesn'
    • Apple's Product Placement
    • Why exercise doesn't make sense
    • Boring Films—good for you?
    • It's great that people can take the loan
    • Dear DMCNapping is good for you, good
    • Dear GroverFor more on staycations, an
    • Dear GroverAs the title of the book su
    • Dear GroverWhat about this piece from
    • Staycations
    • Rest Areas in France
    • More on Denmark's Marmite ban; and Marmite poetry
    • I used to think it was somewhat "unnatur
    • Denmark clearly has no dull men. Imagina
    • London: a dull man's Bank Holiday Weekend
    • Small Talk
    • And now Australia has also been insulted
    • Thank you Tom. I have done nettle risott
    • Cars and houses are expensive and not ev
    • That is well known that money makes peop
    • All people deserve very good life and lo
    • Some time ago, I did need to buy a good
    • If you're in not good state and have no
    • If you want to buy a car, you will have
    • Following my own investigation, millions
    • Qs & As from/for "Real People" magazine
    • Nettles Pizza
    • Marmite banned in Denmark?
    • The quote here is misleading in the extr
    • Stationary Club, in addition to Stationery Club?
    • Thank you for this lesson in humility
    • Mustache and Beard Championships
    • Safe Sex — for a Dull Man — in Laundromat
    • I go for 20 or 30 minutes too. Often I
    • Napping News
    • Biscuit Appreciation Society — it's crumbled
    • Boredom is good for you, according to recent research
    • Moth Watching (more appealing for us than Bird Watching?)
    • People deserve very good life time and c
    • McVitie’s Digestive Bisquits—Favorite of Dull Men
    • Donald Trump Doesn't Need Google
    • Airport Luggage Carousel Report — DCA and JAN
    • Office Chair Racing
    • Honesty Pays — earns free horse manure for one year
    • Dull Man Spots Fake Lady Liberty on 2 Billion U.S. Stamps
    • We love dullmensclub.com [exclamation point removed]
    • A Dull Man Visits Spokane
    • Review in Times of Boredom: A Lively History
    • Show Jumping—dulled down using cow instead of horse?
    • Review in Telegraph of "Boredom: A Lively History"
    • "Boredom: A Lively History"—about to be released
    • National Flossil Day
    • Readers may be interested in a restraine
    • Job opening for recipe editor?
    • Sausage News: Cumberland Sausage Now Protected
    • Watching aircraft traversing the skies
    • Airport Luggage Carousel Report — Charlottesville
    • Dear DMCAs dull men tend to compromise
    • Staple or Paper Clip? — big decision to make daily
    • Definition of a Decent Woman?
    • u r not boring [three exclamation points removed]
    • Dull joke—another Groaner
    • Defense Minister.He was not dull.We
    • "Dull" in other languages?
    • Roundabout Horror Movie
    • Don't have cash to buy a building? Worry
    • This resignation will help the German ec
    • This resignation will help the German economy
    • Germany's uneconomically named economics minister forced to resign
    • WebCam Traveling: Abbey Road
    • World Potato Congress coming to Edinburgh in 2012
    • Baked beans not baked?
    • The letter G invented — by whom?
    • Six Petrol Pump Museums
    • Groaner: fallout from riots in Egypt
    • Governmentium — newly-discovered chemical element
    • Bollards of London: a "must see" when in London
    • Airport Luggage Carousel Report: Samburgh, Shetland Isles
    • People deserve very good life time and m
    • Boxes and creativity. I am reminded of a
    • Ordinary empty shoe box at Tate Modern attracting attention
    • Collection of Letterheads
    • well...it gives dull men another reason
    • Dull Lunch at MOMA: tuna sandwich and soup
    • Airport Carousel Reports — Roanoke VA & Milwaukee WI
    • Airport Luggage Carousel Report — Larnaca on Cyprus
    • Quote from French novelist/essayist about the obvious, ordinary, infraordinary?
    • Groundhog Day — what's the point?
    • Star Count Week 2011 — 31 Jan - 6 Feb
    • Sistine Chapel—Webcam Traveling at its best
    • Testing Comment Featuer
    • Winter Weather Map used by some civilians
    • test comment
    • Snow—"When life hands you a lemon, make lemonade"
    • Government Staff Education in Stockholm: Pigeon Feeding
    • A dull man's hobby—flashlight beam comparisons
    • Airport Luggage Carousel Report — Tromso, Norway
    • Airport Luggage Carousel Report — Great Barrier Reef
    • 30th Annual Cockroach Race—Australia Day
    • test of commets feature
    • Common miracle: contentment from doing one thing at a time
    • Uneconomic name of Germany's economics minister
    • Milk Bottle Collecting
    • Belt-and-Suspenders: when taking our temperatures
    • Dulling down marahons — now held indoors — marathoners going around in circles
    • What's Up?
    • Essesntial Trivia: where was India Ink invented?
    • Airport Luggage Carousel Report — Gambia
    • More about why women like dull men
    • Poland nabs garlic smugglers—€180,000 collected
    • Belt and Suspenders/Braces — peace of mind
    • Watching Snow Falling — a destresser
    • Comfort from Boring Books especially at wartime
    • Having a dull flight — LHR to IAD
    • How to have a dull time at Christmas time in the U.K.
    • Airport Luggage Carousel Report — East London, South Africa
    • Airport Luggage Carousel Report — East London
    • Weather Weather—inspires boring conversations
    • Resolved that for each day of the new year . . .
    • Broadband — was available in the 1940s ?
    • Dull Men — no need for New Year's Resolutions?
    • January is coming — a fun month for dull men
    • New Year's Resolutions
    • New Year's Eve — what will dull men be doing?
    • Pleasures of Understimulation
    • "I wish you enough" — winning message this time of year
    • Dulled Down Christmas Card
    • Pun-ishment and "One Ronnie"
    • Picture of Keen Christmas Crackers
    • Gift Suggestions for a Dull Man
    • Shoe Consistency
    • More Gift Ideas
    • Underdog List Grows — Madron Football Club
    • Christmas Crackers
    • Safe Excitement — 4 examples
    • Airport Luggage Carousel Report — Akureyri Iceland [AEY]
    • # Octothorpe # ?
    • Airport Luggage Carousel Report — Baku Azerbaijan
    • Airport Luggage Carousel Report — Tauranga New Zealand
    • Airport Luggage Carousel Report — Newcastle Australia
    • Cabbage
    • Adventure at Joburg airport luggage carousel
    • Sun now owned by woman in Spain?
    • Most Boring Day of 20th Century
    • Airport Luggage Carousel Report — Kristiansand Norway
    • Burnt the Turkey? 11 Reasons to Be Thankful
    • Thanksgiving—what are dull men thankful for?
    • Frosty the Snowman's Baby Picture
    • Quote about tranquility and occupation from Jefferson
    • New Congressmen—office paint choices—"from dull to flat-out drab"
    • Spudnik
    • UNESCO-designated Cultural HIghlights — "Celebrating the Ordinary"
    • Boston Tea Party—what was orignial name?
    • Immigrants—working hard doing ordinary things
    • Tea Museum in Germany
    • Quote about the ordinary — and great minds
    • "Celebrate the ordinary things"
    • Things organized neatly — truly "Celebrating the Ordinary"
    • Announcing: Fill Your Staplers Days
    • Cuckooland Museum—so many clocks to change—drives curator cuckoo
    • DMC Press Release — Moderates March on Washington
    • Airport Luggage Carousl Report — Milwaukee Wisconsin
    • Press Release—Moderates Marching on Washington
    • Tortoise Grooming Parlour
    • "Just My Type" — a history of typefaces
    • Nicknames for towns—more truthful than official names?
    • 10th Birthday on 10/10/10
    • Dull Reading — SEO advice columns
    • 101010101010 (October 10, 2010 10:10:10 a.m.)
    • Collections of Subway Maps and Cockpit Photos
    • BWI Luggage Carousels Update
    • Joys of a new butter dish—advice from Prof. Winston
    • Joys of a new butter dish—advice from Prof. Winston
    • Fashions trending away from Gucci, Pucci, Prada
    • Large Hadron Collider — cable work now laid bare
    • Schnitzel Tax — a German bureaucratic absurdity
    • Rally to Restore Sanity — a March on Washington
    • A Scot woke up while watching curling
    • Waiters — with trays, wine, glasses — racing
    • Graffiti — using moss — it's sprouting up more and more
    • The Dull Co-Worker
    • Snails Have Sat Nav — BBC contest produces proof
    • International Talk Like a Pirate Day
    • Libyan Flag Appreciation Society
    • Toast's comforting smell
    • Witch Tax in Roumania
    • Shifting Sand Dune
    • Sloths not slothful?
    • Museum for Masking Tape — 3M Museum — Lake Superior, Minnesota
    • Turbo Entabulator
    • Great British Duck Race — Postponed? — Why?
    • Breaking News: Subway Entrance Reopens in Washington DC
  • Calendar 2021
    • Telegraph Pole Appreciation Day — Saturday 21 September
    • Telegraph Pole Appreciation Society — Martin Evans — North Wales
    • World Premier tonight: Road Sign Spotter, Madeline Adkins, performing at Wolf Trap in Virginia — performing a violin concerto she commissioned about Utah — she will also be appearing, with her road signs, in our 2022 calendar
    • BBC Radio West Midlands' Mollie Green interviews Liz Woolley and her manhole covers in Oxford
    • Five-Star Reviews of our 2021 calendar (reading reviews like this causes too much excitement for us dullters?)
    • Map of dullsters in 2021 DMC calendar — Brits and Americans — are they The New Normal?
    • Dull Men's Club calendar for 2021: Is this The New Normal?
    • "EiBrot" (egg sandwich) Part 1 — for breakfast every weekend for 60 years
    • Our 2021 calendar coming out soon
    • "Greetings" — introduction to 2021 calendar
    • Sad News from Covent Garden: The Great Christmas Pudding Race 2020 has been canceled
    • PONDERABLES — a question about clocks to ponder
    • Sunday November 1 — Daylight Saving Time Ends — USA and Canada
    • Sunday November 1 — Check Batteries Day — USA and Canada
    • Monday November 2 — Fill Staplers Day — USA and Canada
    • Johnnie Meier's "Classical Gas Museum" in New Mexico — in our 2021 calendar
    • VINTAGE WASHING MACHINE RESTORING — Lee Maxwell — Eaton, Colorado
    • Lee Maxwell — selection of photos
    • Pratchett-themed Dollhouses — Shevaun Fergus — Purley (London)
    • POSTCARD COLLECTING — Mark Routh — Southend-on-the-Sea, Essex
    • America's Timekeepers — Demetrios Matsakis and Judah Levine
    • "The Puzzle Man" — Chris Cole — at Mare & Foal Sanctuary charity shop in Devon
  • Calendar 2022
    • Josh Widdicombe — in our 2024 calendar — passionate watcher of "Neighbours"
    • Panini Stickers — in Dull Mens Club Calendar 2022
    • DMC event in North Wales — Saturday 15 October starting at noon — COVID-delayed party for Anorak of the Year 2021
    • Back Cover — 2022 calendar
    • Dull Men's Club Calendar 2022: Quirky Passions
    • Rachel Williamson — Yarnbomber in Rhyl, Wales
    • Back Cover — DMC 2022 calendar
    • 3,181 Airsickness Bags — Steve Silberberg — Hull, Massachusetts
    • Dull Men's Club Calendar 2022: QUIRKY PASSIONS — back cover
    • Want to be notified when 2022 calendar becomes available?
    • CYCLING JERSEY CURATOR — Ton Merckx — Netherlands
    • Humorous Road Sign Spotting — Madeline Adkins — will be in our 2022 calendar
    • Jim Reinders (1927-2021) — Creator of Carhenge — in our 2022 calendar
  • Candidates USA book
    • World Premier tonight: Road Sign Spotter, Madeline Adkins, performing at Wolf Trap in Virginia — performing a violin concerto she commissioned about Utah — she will also be appearing, with her road signs, in our 2022 calendar
    • Carhenge — Nebraska's version of Stonehenge
    • "EiBrot" (egg sandwich) Part 1 — for breakfast every weekend for 60 years
    • Sad News from Covent Garden: The Great Christmas Pudding Race 2020 has been canceled
    • Louis Pearl: "The Amazing Bubble Man"
    • Johnnie Meier's "Classical Gas Museum"
    • Ron Wallace - Guinness World Records for Giant Pumpkins
  • Celebrating the Ordinary in America
    • All you've always wanted to know about alleys
    • Diane Keaton — is she one of us?
    • Wet Floor Signs — fascinating variety of pictograms
    • Louis Pearl: "The Amazing Bubble Man"
    • Demetrios Matsakis: "The Nation's Timekeeper"
  • Collections & Museums
    • Special Christmas Tree — The Orphanage (orphaned cars) in Yuma Colorado
    • Brick collector Neil Brittlebank (1935-2019)
    • Tim Barker's Toy Soldiers
    • Steve Silberberg and his airsickness bags from our 2022 calendar featured in Washington Post
    • Bin collection day calendar September 2022 - September 2023 arrived
    • QUIRKY PASSION: Collecting four-leaf clovers
    • Cycling Jersey Curator
    • Museum of Miniature Chairs — Barbara Hartsfield — Stone Mountain, Georgia
    • Shopping bag collector from New York seeking U.K. bags
    • Security envelopes — amazing array of patterns
    • Estate Planning by a dull man
    • Intro & Table of Contents
    • Fountain Pen Collecting
    • Escalators
    • Breaking News from Smithsonian: manure used as fertilizer earlier than previously believed
    • Museum of Independent Telephony — in Kansas
    • Musesum of Ancient Brick
    • National Mustard Museum
    • Spam
    • Miniature Golf
    • Crazy Golf Museum
    • Broken Relationships
    • Museum of Broken Relationships
    • Towing
    • Flashlights
    • Washing-Up Bowls in Sinks
    • Paper Clips
    • Snowflakes
    • Postcards
    • Horseshoes
    • Shovels
    • Bar Codes
    • Prunes
    • Tractors
    • Apple Mac Computers
    • Cookie Jars
    • Erasers
    • Wallpaper
    • Gravel
    • Traffic Cones
    • Curling
    • Helmets
    • Gloves
    • MANHOLE COVERS
    • Pinball Machines
    • Airsickness Bags
    • Grocery Shopping Lists
    • Washing-Up Bowls
    • Carousels
    • Coat Hangars
    • Hymnals
    • Banana Stickers
    • Water Towers
    • Sand
    • Cigar Bands
    • Okra
    • Jam
    • Hotel Soap
    • Everyday Objects
    • Biggar
    • Needles
    • Rowing
    • Cricket
    • Museum of Museums
    • Vinegar
    • Marmite
    • Fence Posts
    • Light Bulbs
    • Hammers
    • Pavement Patterns
    • Lunchboxes
    • Whales
    • Tuna
    • Tennis Rackets
    • Telegraphs
    • Hovercrafts
    • Sewing Machines
    • Fans
    • Buxton
    • Postcards and Greeting Cards
    • Taxes
    • Miniature Objects
    • Canoes
    • Aprons
    • Electric Shavers
    • Hallucinogenics
    • Staplers
    • Asphalt
    • Lawnmowers
    • Windmills
    • Pencils
    • Salt
    • Barbers
    • Gas
    • Knitting
    • Combs
    • Outdoor Fire Hydrants
    • Caravans & RVs
    • Potted Meat
    • Candy Wrappers
    • Neck Ties
    • Useful Things
    • Nails
    • Dominoes
    • Stained Glass Windows
    • Toilets
    • Sod Houses
    • Shopping Bags
    • Milk Bottles
    • Bagpipes
    • Calculators
    • Bananas
    • Barbed Wire
    • Steam
    • Buses
    • Carrots
    • Dog Collars
    • Vacuum Cleaners
    • Wooden Nickels
    • License Plates
    • Packaging
    • Sugar Packets
    • Biscuit Tins
    • Toasters
    • Toothbrushes
    • Trains
    • Typewriters
    • Milk Cartons
    • Street Signs
    • Traffic Signs
    • Dead Umbrellas
    • Double Blank Domino Tiles
    • Multi-Tools
    • Shopping Carts
    • Egg Cups
    • Underpants Museum
  • Counselling for Slight Predicaments
    • Sunday Times: our upcoming offer to Jeremy Corbyn
    • Dullest Pub Snack?
    • Runcible Spoon ?
    • downsizing logo
    • Portable phone anxiety in Quite Carriage
    • Joys of a new butter dish
  • Decent Women's Club
    • DWC Home Page
  • Drain Covers
    • April 2 — National PB&J Day
    • Archie Workman, drainspotter and road sign restorer in Cumbria — 'I kinda like this new routine'
  • Dull Men of Year
    • DMC Person of the Year — Lee Maxwell: "Antique Washing Machines"
    • DMC Person of the Year 2023 — Jim Leuenberger and his Barn Quilts — Shawano County Wisconsin
    • Anorak of the Year 2023 — Tim Webb and his Pothole Art — Orpington (southeast London)
    • A COVID catchup — 2021 DMC Person of the Year — TJ Fallon, visited graves of all presidents, vice presidents, and signers of Declaration of Independence and Constitution
    • Anorak of the Year 2022 — "Dustbin Dave" — Dave Clark from Caister-on-Sea, Norfolk
    • Anorak of the Year 2021 Rachel Williamson — posted on Rachel's Facebook page
    • Our Dustbin Dave, sporting his DMC cap, was on GB News Live Sunday morning 23 October
    • Rachel Williamson, Yarnbomber — Anorak of the Year 2021
    • Anorak of the Year 2021 — who will it be?
    • Self-Isolators of the Year Award (instead of our usual Anorak of the Year Award)
    • Stocking Stuffers — on Amazon — Dull Men of Great Britain and 2017 calendar
    • "Mike the Mailman"
    • Available on Amazon in USA now: "Dull Men of Great Britain—2015 Calendar"
    • Nomination for our list of Dull Men of 2013 — Harry Reid, leader of U.S. Senate
    • Peter Willis — photographing letter boxes — makes it onto our list of Dull Men of 2012
    • Ken Myers has given same Valentine card to wife for 34 yeaers — now is one of our Dull Men of 2012
    • Goats Have Accents
    • Simon Beck, a snowshoeing Englishman making snow art — qualifies for list of Dull Men of 2012
    • Peter Skyllbert, survived two months in car buried by avalance — he's now one of our Dull Men of 2012
    • Rod Stewart, Model Railroader — one of our Dull Men of the Year
    • Dull Man of Year — 2012 — any additional nominees?
    • Dull Man of the Year 2012 — Nominees
    • 5th Nominee for Dull Man of Year — Peter Willis — photographing all 115,000 letter boxes in U.K.
    • Are you more boring than Peter Willis?
    • "Monsieur Ordinary" — France's President-Elect
    • French Presidential Election, after first round "Monsieur Ordinaire" (a nominee last year for our Dull Man of Year) remains front-runner
    • French Presidential Election, first round today, front-runner is "Monsieur Ordinaire," a nominee for 2011 Dull Man of Year
    • Iggy's Lust for Slippers
    • Dull Man of Year Nominee: Swede Who Survived Two Months Buried in Car
    • Goats Have Accents
    • Dull Man of the Year 2011 Announced (also Runners-Up)
    • Nominees So Far for Dull Man of Year
    • Kindle's weight increases when loaded with books
    • Nominees for Dull Men of Year: London Police
    • Keith Richards—Dull Man after all? — nominee for Dull Man of Year?
    • Dull Man of Year Nominee: Norfolk man moving rocks to fight erosion
    • Nominee for DM of Year 2011: Mr Queue, "cashier number three, please"
  • Dull Men's Shop
    • DMC cap and book available in California — Santa Monica — Ye Olde King's Head Shoppe
    • Stocking Stuffers — on Amazon — Dull Men of Great Britain and 2017 calendar
    • Dull Men's Club Shop
  • Essential Trivia
    • World Pea Throwing Championships — today — Sunday, 11th of August — safe excitement at The Lewes Arms (near Brighton)
    • Essential Trivia: what did "D" in "D Day" stand for?
    • Essential Trivia - "poronjusema" - do you know what it is?
    • "Art of Pencil Sharpening" on CBS Sunday Morning this morning
    • Cornish Pasty — now it's protected
    • Time
  • Event Calendar
    • Today is World Turtle Day — Monday, May 23
    • Sunday March 9 — Daylight Saving Time begins — USA and Canada — Spring Forward
    • Today — March 4 — Shrove Tuesday — Olney Pancake Race
    • Valentine suitable for dullsters
    • Wednesday February 12 — birth anniversary of Peter Cooper (1791-1883) — he invented Jell-O
    • Thursday February 13 — birthday (1891-1942) of "American Gothic" painter Grant Wood
    • Friday February 14-17 — Great Backyard Bird Count
    • Monday, January 27 — Bubble Wrap Appreciation Day
    • How did you celebrate International LEGO Day — yesterday, January 28 ?
    • National Pie Day (USA) was January 23 — how did you celebrate?
    • New Year's Eve — many of us stayed home — practiced writing 2025
    • 12 Days of Christmas Gift Ideas
    • 12 Days of Christmas gifts for dullsters?
    • Christmas Crackers (a British tradition) — here's our annual post — let's add new ones we're hearing this year
    • Boring Christmas Tree Lighting — in Boring, Oregon (20 miles east of Portland, population 2,300)
    • 2025 calendar spans world: from Royal Swan Upping on Thames to threshing festival in Nebraska
    • Running of the Sheep in Te Kūiti, New Zealand
    • Sunday 27 October — Daylight Saving Time ends in Europe (USA and Canada a week later)
    • 57th World Conker Championships
    • World Conkers Championships — Sunday 13 October — Oundle, Northamptonshire
    • Telegraph Pole Appreciation Day — Saturday 21 September
    • Telegraph Pole Appreciation Society — Martin Evans — North Wales
    • Ferret Racing at Ferret Buckeye Bash — today — Saturday, August 24 — Columbus, Ohio — one of the largest ferret events in the U.S.
    • St. Bartholomew's Bun Race — today — Saturday, August 24 — 817th year — Sandwich, Kent
    • Cotati Accordion Festival — August 17-18 — Cotati California
    • Kool-Aid Days — August 16-18 — Hastings Nebraska
    • Boring & Dull Day — Friday, August 9
    • World Pea Throwing Championships — today — Sunday, 11th of August — safe excitement at The Lewes Arms (near Brighton)
    • Today, August 1 — World Wide Web's 35th Anniversary — pros and cons of WWW for dullsters
    • Olympic Queuing — 2012 London — a very British sport — but perhaps not in Paris, no medals for queuing this time?
    • Earl Silas Tupper (1907-1983) birth date — Sunday 28 July — he invented Tupperware
    • underway now — Ukulele Festival of Great Britain — 26-28 July — Cheltenham
    • Royal Swan Upping on the Thames — 15-21 July — did you know the king owns the swans?
    • Bristol International Balloon Fiesta — 9-11 August — its 46th year
    • If you attended this, can you send us a report and photos?: World Snail Racing Championships — Saturday 6 July — Congham, Norfolk
    • Today is World Pea Shooting Championships — Saturday 13 July — Witcham, Cambridgeshire
    • Today is National Beans & Franks Day (USA) — Saturday, July 13
    • Today is sliced bread's 96th birthday — Sunday, July 7
    • Running of the Sheep — Sunday 30 June — Skipton, Yorkshire
    • We're looking for results and photos of the World Snail Racing Championships held Saturday 6 July at Congham, Norfolk
    • June 26 was the barcode's 50th anniversary
    • Last Day — National Marbles Tournament — June 17-20 — New Jersey
    • Today is World Sauntering Day — Wednesday June 19
    • DMC London Meetup — Saturday 22 June — starting at noon at Vapiano restaurant next to Tottenham Court Road tube station
    • Today — National Donut Day (USA) — Friday, June 7
    • This week — International Clothesline Week — June 1-7
    • Today is National Yo-Yo Day (USA) — Thursday, June 6
    • This weekend — 8 & 9 June — London Open Gardens
    • National Paper Airplane Day (USA) — Sunday, May 26
    • World Turtle Day — May 23 (same date every year)
    • Rhubarb Festival — May 17 & 18 — Lancaster County, Pennsylvania
    • British National Doughnut Week — 18-26 May
    • Watercress Festival (UK) — Sunday, 19 May — Arlesford, Hampshire
    • British Sandwich Week — 20-26 May
    • Today — The O. Henry Pun-Off World Championships — Austin, Texas
    • National (Holland) Windmill Day — 11 May
    • Today — National (UK) Miniature Golf Day — 11 May
    • Today is World Penguin Day — April 25
    • Eclipse Chaser Mandie Adams — interviewed on Sky News Australia
    • April 1 — best-ever April Fool's prank —a classic by Norman Cousins
    • Today is World Water Day — Friday March 22 — how will you celebrate?
    • Eclipse chasers from around the world, according to Airbnb map, are heading to America
    • Our fave eclipse chaser — Mandie Adams — from Southend-on-Sea, England — April 8 will be her 14th eclipse visit
    • Sunday March 10 — Daylight Saving Time begins — USA and Canada — Spring Forward
    • Monday March 11—Fill Staplers Day—USA and Canada—day after clocks change
    • Wednesday March 13 — Earmuffs Patent Anniversary
    • Thursday March 14 (3/14) — Pi Day
    • Today is Leap Day — how will you be using it?
    • New Year's Eve — many of us stayed home — practiced writing 2024
    • New Year's Resolutions
    • Back cover of our 2024 calendar — where to buy
    • Christmassy Barn Quilt
    • Today — Saturday, December 2 — is Chester Greenwood Day — Chester invented earmuffs in 1873
    • Coming up soon: November 28, birth date of Luke Howard (1772-1864) — he created names for clouds
    • Happy Thanksgiving — 2024 — USA
    • Today: Boring Christmas Tree Lighting — Sunday, December 3 — Boring, Oregon
    • Sunday 29 October — Daylight Saving Time ends in Europe (USA and Canada a week later)
    • Today, September 24, is National Punctuation Day
    • St. Bartholomew's Bun Run
    • Today is National Merry-Go-Round Day (USA)
    • Today: World Pea Shooting Championships — if you know the results, please email to us — groverclick@mac.com —we'll post them here
    • Today — "Running of the Sheep" — in Yorkshire
    • Ends today: 30th annual convention of the International Coleman Collectors Club — June 22–24 — Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
    • Today is the last day of the National Marbles Tournament — June 19-22 — New Jersey
    • Next weekend, 10 & 11 June — London Open Garden Squares
    • Last week was International Clothesline Week — how did you celebrate?
    • CORONATION postbox toppers — by Rachel Williamson — Rhyl, Wales
    • Swiss Spaghetti Harvest and other legendary April Fool's Pranks
    • Paint That Never Drys — an April Fool's Prank — try it on someone today
    • April 1 — best-ever April Fool's prank, a classic by Norman Cousins
    • This morning — 2:00 am — clocks changed in Europe — springing forward to daylight saving time
    • today is Fill Our Staplers Day — Monday 27 March, the day after clocks change — in UK as well as the rest of Europe
    • March 30, Thursday — National Pencil Day (USA)
    • Yesterday was World Water Day — March 22 — how did you celebrate?
    • April 2, Sunday — National PB&J Day (USA)
    • Another dull-a-tot
    • Safe exciement in Chicago last Saturday, the city's version of Alaska's Iditarod — shopping carts instead of sled dogs
    • Battery Day — February 18, Saturday
    • Monday February 13 was the birth anniversaruy of "American Gothic" painter Grant Wood
    • Finally, New Year's Resolutions are realistically defined
    • It's getting to be that time of the year
    • New Year's Eve — a nice quiet time for many of us who stayed home and practiced writing 2023
    • 12+ Days of Christmas Gifts
    • Dustin Dave on the "Mollie Green Show" BBC WM (West Midlands, Birmingham)
    • 2023 calendar — CAR PARKS — by DMC member Kevin Beresford (Anorak of the Year 2018)
    • Today is Chester Greenwood Day — Saturday, December 3
    • Today is Micky Mouse's Birthday
    • How did you celebrate National Clean Our Your Fridge Day (USA), Monday, November 15 ?
    • Daylight saving time ends in US and Canada
    • Check Batteries Day — Sunday November 6
    • Fill Staplers Day — Monday November 7
    • "Talk of the Town" — Nebraska town gets its first automated door, town where our back office is
    • Reporting on the DMC meetup in North Wales Saturday 15 October
    • DMC event in North Wales — Saturday 15 October starting at noon — COVID-delayed party for Anorak of the Year 2021
    • World Conkers Championships—Sunday 9 October—54th year
    • Today: National Punctuation Day
    • today is the barcode's 48th anniversary — first used June 26, 1974
    • Today, July 25, is National Merry-Go-Round Day (USA)
    • Today is National Hammock Day (USA)
    • underway now: Royal Swan Upping on the Thames
    • Today is National Ice Cream Day — 3rd Sunday of July every year
    • ends today — Antique Doorknob Collectors Convention
    • going on now: 29th International Coleman Collectors Convention — July 23-25 — Austin, Texas
    • ending today: 99th annual National Marble Tournament
    • today: 31st annual Rotary Tiller Race — Emerson, Arkansas — Saturday, June 25
    • Anyone have photos you can email to us of yesterday's Duck Tape Festival in Avon Ohio?
    • Today — June 6 — is National Yo-Yo Day (USA)
    • Father's Day — coming up — Sunday, June 19
    • National Donut Day (USA) — Friday, June 3
    • It's British Sandwich Week — 22-28 May
    • Today is National Paper Airplane Day (USA) — May 26
    • Today — Marmalade Festival in Cumbria — Saturday, 14 May
    • Today — National (UK) Miniature Golf Day — Saturday, 14 May
    • This week is International Clothesline Week
    • Today — National (Holland) Windmill Day — 14 May
    • International Compost Awareness Week — May 1-7, 2022
    • Zipper's Anniversary — patented April 29, 1913
    • Today is World Penguin Day — April 25
    • This week is Organize Your Files Week
    • Great prank earlier this month — April Fool's Day
    • National Tea Day (UK) — 21 April
    • National Gardening Day (USA) — April 14
    • Rubber Eraser Day — April 15
    • April Fool's Day prank — a classic by Norman Cousins
    • European Tree of the Year announced — it's the "Oak Dunin" in Poland
    • Today is Melba Toast Day — March 23
    • World Water Day – Tuesday March 22
    • Sunday 27 March 2:00 a.m. — Daylight Saving Time begins in UK as well as elsewhere in Europe
    • Fill Our Staplers Day — Monday March 28, the day after clocks change — in UK as well as the rest of Europe
    • National Pencil Day (USA) — March 30
    • Sunday March 13 — Daylight Saving Time begins
    • Earmuff Patent Anniversary — March 13
    • Pi Day — 3/14 — March 14
    • Monday February 14 — Fill Our Staplers Day
    • World Book Day (UK and Ireland) — 3 March, Thursday
    • 8th annual CHIditarod Shopping Cart Race — March 5, Saturday
    • Today — Friday 25 February — Wakefield Rhubarb Festival (UK)
    • National Chip Week (UK) — February 20-26
    • Curling is our favorite winter olympic sport
    • Thursday February 24 — National Toast Day (worldwide)
    • Saturday February 26 — Berkeley Springs Int'l Water Tasting (USA)
    • New Year's Resolutions
    • Monday January 31 — Bubblewrap Appreciation Day
    • National Handwriting Day (USA) — John Hancock's b'day — Sunday, January 23
    • Squirrel Appreciation Day — Friday, January 21
    • National Popcorn Day
    • Tin Can Day — January 19
    • National Do Nothing Day (USA) — Sunday, January 16
    • Age old problem when writing checks in early January every year
    • New Year's Eve — stayed home — practiced writing 2022
    • Clean Off Your Desk Day was Monday, January 14 — what did you find?
    • Homemade Bread Day — Tuesday, November 16
    • Micky Mouse's Birthday — 94 years old — November
    • Stonehenge: still working at moving stones back an hour
    • Daylight Saving Time Ends in USA and Canada — Sunday November 7
    • Notary Public Day (USA) — Sunday November 7
    • Check Your Batteries Day
    • Refill Staplers Day — Monday November 8 — USA and Canada
    • National Clean Out Your Fridge Day (USA) — Monday November 15
    • World Egg Day — October 8 — Manfred Heinze celebrated with a triple EiBrot
    • Miniature Golf Day — September 21
    • Telegraph Pole Appreciation Day — September 21
    • World Black Pudding Throwing Championships
    • Royal Swan Upping on the Thames — underway now — 20-22 July
    • Get Out of Doghouse Day — July 19, 2021 — probably not applicable to any of us
    • National (USA) Ice Cream Day — July 18, 2021 — how did you celebrate? Please tell us in the comment section below
    • Int'l Coleman Collectors Convention (lanterns, stoves) — June 23-25 — Berlin Ohio
    • 99th annual National (USA) Marbles Tournament — New Jersey — June 21-14
    • Father's Day gift for last-minute shoppers — for free
    • World Sauntering Day — Saturday June 19
    • Today is National (USA) Yo-Yo Day
    • Today Donald Duck turns 87
    • Duck Tape Festival typically taking place about now in Avon Ohio has been cancelled
    • National (USA) Odometer Day — Wednesday May 12
    • British Sandwich Week — starts Sunday 16 May
    • it's underway now: National (UK) Doughnut Week — started Saturday 8 May
    • Can someone find and send to us the results from the O. Henry Pun-Off in Austin?
    • International Compost Awareness Week — underway now — started Sunday May 2 — ends Saturday May 8
    • National (Holland) Windmill Day — Saturday 8 May
    • National (UK) Miniature Golf Day — Saturday 8 May
    • World Penguin Day — Sunday April 25
    • Tomorrow — April 15 — Rubber Eraser Day
    • Cuckooland interviewed on the Millie Green Show, BBC Radio West Midlands
    • Sunday morning — 28 March — Daylight Saving Time begins — UK and Europe
    • Monday March 15 — Fill Your Staplers Day — USA and Canada — always the day after clocks change
    • How did you celebrate 3/14 — Pi Day ? [you can tell us in Comments below]
    • National Toast Day
    • Today — February 12 — Birthday of inventor of Jell-O, Peter Cooper (1791-1883)
    • New Year's Resolutions — finally they're defined
    • New Year's Resolutions — how're are you getting on with them?
    • National Handwriting Day (USA) — January 23, John Hancock's birthday
    • Did doctors celebrate National Handwriting Day, which was January 23?
    • Squirrel Appreciation Day — January 21 every year
    • Tin Can Day — January 19 [same date every year]
    • National Popcorn Day (USA) — January 19 [same date every year]
    • National Nothing Day (USA) — January 16 [same date every year]
    • Trivia Day — January 4th every year
    • National Drinking Straw Day (USA) — January 3
    • Boxing Day — "listen up" Americans
    • Anniversary of First Traffic Light in UK — installed 9 December 1868
    • King of Crackers — Morrisons Beats Harrods
    • Today: Luke Howard birthday — 28 November 1772 — he gave clouds their names
    • Today is Micky Mouse's 92 birthday
    • Notary Public Day [USA] — November 7 [same date every year]
    • Palette Moments — Opportunities Beckon
    • Beans & Franks Day [USA]— July 13
    • Father's Day — Just Ahead — looking for a stunning gift: DMC cap or T-shirt?
    • Donald Duck’s 86th birthday — today June 9, 2020 — something to quack about indeed
    • Today is National Yo-Yo Day (USA)
    • Today is National Donut Day (USA)
    • Swiss Spaghetti Harvest
    • Change clocks — to Daylight Saving Time — Sunday 29 March — U.K. and Europe
    • Ear Muffs Patent Anniversary — March 13
    • Today is Fill Staplers Day in US and Canada
    • Valentine's Day greeting card — here's one a dull man to give his Valentine
    • The card the dull man can expect in return from his Valentine
    • Valentine's Day — for the dull man looking for somthing over the top for his Valentine:
    • Great Friuitcake Toss — Manitoba Springs, Colorado — Saturday, January 25
    • Bubble Wrap Appreciation Day — Monday, January 27
    • National Pie Day — Thursday, January 23
    • National Popcorn Day — Sunday, January 19
    • National Tin Can Day — Sunday, January 19
    • Squirrel Appreciation Day — Tuesday, January 21
    • National Thesaurus Day — January 18
    • Illinois Snow Sculpting Competition — Wednesday-Saturday, January 22-25
    • National Handwriting Day — Thursday, January 23
    • National Nothing Day (USA) — Thursday, January 16
    • Clean Off Your Desk Day — Monday, January 13
    • New Year's Resoliutions — how're you doing?
    • Are we "Improving Ourselves to Death"? New Year's Resolutions should be avoided?
    • National Spaghetti Day — good day to rewatch the remarkable 1957 bumper crop in southern Switzerland
    • New Year's Resolutions — from a dull man — any to add?
    • Newsletter
    • Christmas Crackers — 2019 — time to put back in barrell for another year
    • safe excitement on New Year's Eve — practicing 2020
    • 12 Days of Christmas Gift Ideas
    • Underdog Day — December 20
    • Last-minute stocking stuffer — DMC cap
    • Day 9 of 12 Days of Christmas Gift Ideas — battery tester
    • 151st Anniversary of first traffic light in U.K.
    • Day 8 of 12 Days of Christmas Gift Ideas — 'DryBrella', umbrella cover quickly drys umbrellas
    • Day 7 of 12 Days of Christmas Gift Ideas — earmuffs
    • Day 6 of 12 Days of Christmas Gift Ideas — snowglobe
    • Day 5 of 12 Days of Christmas Gift Ideas — "level" in U.S., "spirit level" in U.K.
    • Chester Greenwood Day — Saturday December 7 — Farmington, Massachusetts
    • The Great Christmas Pudding Race — Saturday 7 December — London's Covent Garden
    • Day 4 of 12 Days of Christmas Gift Ideas — sock organizer
    • Day 3 of 12 Days of Christmas Gift Ideas — toaster
    • Day 2 of 12 Days of Christmas Gift Ideas — vest (U.S.) — gilet (U.K.) — with many pockets
    • Day 1 of 12 Days of Christmas Gift Ideas — slippers
    • 12 Days of Christmas Gifts — ordinary, run-of-the-mill, practical gifts
    • Cyber Monday — order the DMC classic beige cap?
    • Today — how about a Beige Friday instead of Black Friday ?
    • Beige Friday ?
    • 'Vapiano' means 'He who goes slow will go safe and far'
    • Today: Mickey Mouse's 91st Birthday
    • Today is Homemade Bread Day — November 17
    • Dull event coming up in Manchester — 'Anorak of the Year' — Tuesday 26 November 18:00-20:30 — at the Corn Exchange
    • Clocks Changed
    • Video from Sunday's World Stone Skimming Championships
    • How did you celebrate National Punctuation Day on September 24 ?
    • Do you have photos or articles about this event you can email to us?: World Black Pudding Throwing
    • Do you have photos or articles about this recent event you can email to us?: Valparaiso Popcorn Festival
    • Photos or news articles about the World Pea Throwing Championships held Sunday 4 October in Lewes, East Sussex?
    • Beanz Muzeum — Covent Garden, London — Saturday 31 August — DMC gathering
    • Today — Saturday July 20 — 33rd annual Cardboard Boat Races — in Arkansas
    • Royal Swan Upping on the Thames — underway now
    • Get Out of the Doghouse Day — Monday July 15 [third Monday of July]
    • Any photos, news articles available?: World Pea Shooting Championships 13 July in Cambridgeshire
    • Shed Fest on Isle of Wight — media coverage
    • 30th World Championship Rotary Tiller Races — June 29 — Emerson Arkansas
    • World Sauntering Day — June 19
    • Donald Duck's 85th birthday — June 9, 2019 — something to really quack about
    • London Open Garden Squares Weekend — 8 & 9 June 2019
    • National Donut Day [U.S.A.] — June 7, 2019
    • Today is National Yo-Yo Day
    • DMC speaking at Oxford — Thursday 23 May 7:30 pm — "Benifits of Boredom"
    • National Odometer Day — May 12
    • Now over 34,000 members of our Facebook group
    • Rubber Eraser Day — coming up soon — April 15
    • Norman Cousins and the nurse — and it wasn't even April 1
    • World Water Day — Thursday March 22
    • The Watercress Line — Mid Hampshire (UK) Railway — Spring Steam Gala — 8-10 March
    • British Pie Week
    • Change our clocks to daylight saving time
    • Check Our Batteries Day
    • Refill Our Staplers Day
    • Earmuffs Patent Anniversary — March 13
    • Pi Day — March 14 — 3/14
    • Marmalade Festival
    • Today: Isle of Mann International Festival of Darts
    • Valentine's Day card suitable for dull men to send
    • Valentine's Day — caps and T-shirts for ladies
    • Today is "Bubble Wrap Appreciation Day" — Monday January 28
    • Video Consortium DC chapter's 1st birthday party — Thursday evening January 31 — showing our film "Born to Be Mild"
    • Today 235 years ago — turkey instead of eagle as America's national bird?
    • Today in Colorado
    • today is National Pie Day (USA) — January 23
    • Today is Squirrel Appreciation Day
    • today is National Thesaurus Day — January 18
    • today — National Nothing Day (USA) — Wednesday, January 16
    • Skipton Sheep Day — 7 July in Yorkshire
    • Intro
    • January is National Oatmeal Month in USA [porridge in UK]
    • National Drinking Straw Day (USA) — January 3
    • Trivia Day — January 4
    • New Year's Eve — practice writing 2019
    • National Whiner's Day [USA] — December 26 every year
    • Saturday 8 December — Great Christmas Pudd Race — in London's Covent Garden
    • "Happy Boxing Day" — includes explanation for viewers outside UK
    • Luke Howard's birth anniversary — gave names to clouds
    • Today is Donald Duck's 84th birthday
    • Trivia Day — January 4
    • National Drinking Straw Day [USA] — January 3 every year
    • Happy Thanksgiving — 2017 — USA
    • December 21 is Chester Greenwood Day - he invented earmuffs
    • Events Calendar — being revamped
    • Today: 40th Annual Nantucket Sandcastle & Sculpture Day
    • World Pea Shooting Championships — Saturday, July 13, 2013
    • July is Hot Dog Month
    • No Daylight Saving Time for Arizona
    • Berkeley Springs International Water Tasting
    • 2nd New Year's in Russia
    • January 13 — Alfred C. Fuller's Birth Annivsary—the first Fuller Brush Man
    • Taking it a day at a time
    • New Year's Resolutions
    • What will Dull Men be doing New Year's Eve?
    • Mayan Calendar — Support for Doomsday Forecast
    • Mayan Calendar — Support for Doomsday Forecast
    • Christmas Gift Suggestions
    • Stacking Wood — should be November's Event of the Month?
    • Running of the Sheep—in Madrid—better for us than bulls in Pamplona
    • Getting Ready to Rake Leaves
    • Dripping Sap Video
    • Leap Day 2012
    • Men in Olney Pancake Race?
    • Twelve Days of Christmas — Expensive
    • Getting Ready to Rake Leaves
    • Getting Ready to Rake Leaves
    • Raking
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  • General Content
    • Our mascot, a turtle, evacuating LA fires—luckier than most—was able to take his home with him
    • Quirky Passions — silly or sensible?
    • my blue booties
    • following instructions
    • Happiness from the boring, mundane, repetition — article in The Guardian
    • Storm Eunice turned into Storm Ewenice by these clever thinkers
    • Private Event
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      • We're giving a good name to a four-letter word
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  • Groaners, Dad Jokes, Xmas Crackers, Punography
    • Happiness from the boring, mundane, repetition — article in The Guardian
    • A groaner
    • Christmas Crackers — 2020 roundup so far, any favorites to add?
    • Cluttered desk or empty desk?
    • Christmas Crackers — 2019 — time to put back in barrell for another year
    • Dead Duck
    • More Christmas Crackers
    • Halloween Groaner
    • Groaner about rabbits
    • NY Blizzard — but Broadway's still open
    • Prayer rugs that work
    • Santa's Helpers
    • Christmas Tree Bulb Admits Addiction
    • How did Moses make a cup of tea?
    • Velcro
    • Theatrical performance about puns
    • What did the red light say to the green light?
    • Dead Penguins — why never seen out on the ice?
    • Why do poodles have curley hair?
    • Sherlock Holmes' Yellow Door
    • Broadband — was available in the 1940s
    • Christmas Crackers
    • Halloween Witch joins Anger Management Support Group
    • Snail riding on back of turtle
    • A zero compliments an eight
    • Man Drags Chain
    • Snails Mugged
    • New Pillows Making Headlines
    • Stealing a Calendar
    • The future for calendars?
    • Writing with broken pencil
    • Thief who steals corn
    • Bicycle — can't stay up?
    • Pepper & Salt
    • Number one cause of divorce?
    • Dog's Telegram
    • Two fonts in a bar
    • Termite in Bar
    • Puns for Higher IQs
    • The Broom's Wedding
    • Two Snakes
    • Apartment Criticized
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    • Dull Men's Club Calendar 2022: QUIRKY PASSIONS — back cover
    • World Egg Day — October 8 — Manfred Heinze celebrated with a triple EiBrot
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    • Miniature Golf Day — September 21
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    • Tiger Hood, golfing in Greenwich Village — Patrick Barr — New York City
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    • Duck Tape Festival typically taking place about now in Avon Ohio has been cancelled
    • 2021 calendar — is this "The New Normal"?
    • Another brilliant interview — BBC Radio WM 95.6 — Mollie Green interviews Jacky Smith 'The Barbed Wire Lady'
    • British Sandwich Week — starts Sunday 16 May
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    • Dog enters high school foot race — wins — warning: might be too exciting for you to watch
    • World Penguin Day — Sunday April 25
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    • BBC West Midlands' Mollie Green interviews Steve Wheeler and his milk bottles in Malvern
    • How did you celebrate 3/14 — Pi Day ? [you can tell us in Comments below]
    • Five-Star Reviews of our 2021 calendar (reading reviews like this causes too much excitement for us dullters?)
    • Map of dullsters in 2021 DMC calendar — Brits and Americans — are they The New Normal?
    • Not cut out for Ice Fishing? What about Ice Drinking?
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    • What are New Year's Resolutions, exactly?
    • Winnipeg Free Press — columnist discovers he might be one of us
    • National Handwriting Day (USA) — January 23, John Hancock's birthday
    • Did doctors celebrate National Handwriting Day, which was January 23?
    • Squirrel Appreciation Day — January 21 every year
    • Tin Can Day — January 19 [same date every year]
    • National Popcorn Day (USA) — January 19 [same date every year]
    • Growing list of group's members' posts of resolutions
    • BBC Radio Devon interviews Chris Cole — "The Puzzle Man" — has assembled over 8,000
    • "talkRADIO" interview with James Folta, collector of #10 envelopes with intriguing graphic patterns inside that block view from outside
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    • Postcard from Silicon Valley — impact of a pandemic — wet floor signs repurposed
    • VINTAGE WASHING MACHINE RESTORING — Lee Maxwell — Eaton, Colorado
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    • Why only women's names — Alexa, Siri, Cortana?
    • Happy Birthday Sliced Bread — turned 91 on July 7 — how did you celebrate?
    • ?How to Organize Your Pins
    • Putin hosting new BBC Chat Show, claims he's like us: ordinary, normal — really?
    • DMC cap - variations of logo
    • Norman Cousins and the nurse — and it wasn't even April 1
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    • "Chinese Style Mini Entertainment" produced and directed by Chen Song, cameraman Aijia Wang
    • Day 2 of 12 Days of Christmas Gifts — for a dull man — Toaster
    • "The Week in Good News" — new feature in The New York Times
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    • Happy Thanksgiving — 2017 — USA
    • Breaking news in Kidderminster, Worcestershire — "Noisy Gate Replaced"
    • March 13 — anniversary of patent for ear muffs
    • New Year's Resolutions — do dull men need to make any?
    • Southboro DMC — demonstration by International Guild of Knot Tyers member
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    • Dull? — collecting swim fins and making art with them
    • "We do more than watch paint dry"
    • Clocks change - "falling back" - USA and Canada
    • BBC Weather Watcher's first anniversary
    • News (mews?) of safe excitement in Wall Street Journal: "Watching Silly Cat Videos Is Good for You"
    • 12th annual National Punctuation Day
    • Breaking news in England: severe shortage of church bell-ringers causing concerns
    • Amazing videos of power washing - 13 short episodes
    • Sunday 3 July: Skipton Sheep Day
    • Brexit: little if any affect on ability of dull men to "Celebrate the Ordinary" in UK
    • Trooping the Colour - "Celebrating the Orderly" - safe excitement for us but not for everyone
    • testing jumping
    • Lee Maxwell's Washing Machine Museum
    • National Pie Day [USA] ——— today
    • Breaking news from England: police mistakenly question 10 year old Muslim boy living in terrorist house
    • News from Iceland: decline in popularity of eating fermented fish
    • Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade
    • Facebooking - old-fashioned way
    • Today: Mickey Mouse's 87th Birthday
    • Security breach at G20 Summit - cats break through tight barricades, walk on stage
    • Breaking News from Massachusetts: colander is "religious" headgear allowed for driving license photo
    • Clean Out Your Fridge Day
    • Dogged delivery service by KLM's Lost & Found
    • Ben Johnson, British painter — concentration
    • Watching Paint Dry — Guinness world record set in Indiana
    • Tickertape Parade today in New York - actually it's a Confetti Parade
    • Breaking News from New York: musical turnstiles in subways
    • Yesterday, July 9, was Donald Duck's 81st birthday
    • American Pharaoh wins Belmont but not Spelling Bee
    • 'Born to Be Mild' in Brooklyn Film Festival
    • Friday June 5 was National Donut Day
    • The other Breaking News from Switzerland: Swiss Cheese Holes Mystery Solved
    • 3D Printing
    • Breaking News from Australia: world's first motorised cooler championships
    • Architecture of Railings - new Facebook Group
    • Justice in Canada: fine cancelled for 91 year old lady making too much noise in rocking chair
    • More breaking news from California: water sprinklers malfunction in Sacramento
    • World Snooker Championships on now in Sheffield
    • Tonight on BBC 2 — 7:00 p.m. (UK time) — Cuckooland on "Collectaholics"
    • Breaking news from Turlock, California: new ATM on Gear Road
    • Breaking News from Yorkshire: same valentine 37 years in a row
    • Alternative Christmas Card - duller
    • Day 3 of 12 days of (dull) gift suggestions — “Artisanal Pencil Sharpening”
    • Available on Amazon in USA now: "Dull Men of Great Britain—2015 Calendar"
    • Rhubarb Festival - - 30th year - - Intercourse, Pennsylvania
    • Questions to ponder (we like to ponder)
    • "Find My Phone" - - Apple app that made my day - - safe excitement
    • Dull Man Trying to Nap - - disturbed in a much too exciting way
    • Monday - - January 13 - - National Clean Off Your Desk Day
    • Joel Comm riding escalator at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas.
    • Abbey Road - - zebra crossings
    • Halloween
    • Learn from our dogs?
    • 10 things not to do in the theatre
    • Safe Excitement: testing battery even if don't have meter
    • Piping Live — friend of DMC performing
    • "Excitement in the air" as Bland seeks threesome with Dull and Boring
    • Breaking News about New York Subway
    • Escalator Etiquette — polite riding
    • Breaking News from Australia: "The Pitch Dropped"
    • Breaking News from Southborough, Massachusetts: DMC meets every Friday morning
    • Royal Baby — bringing up "normally"?
    • Running of the Sheep much more up our alley than Running of the Sheep
    • Overton Scarecrow Festival – underway now – it's near Basingstoke in Hampshire
    • "Tour of My Lawn Irrigation System" – an engaging video
    • Safe Excitement: watching popcorn pop
    • Breaking News from England: Alphabet Soup — now in your favorite font
    • Making Mountains out of Hills— an additional type of safe excitement
    • Composting — supplies from Amazon
    • Turtle and rabbit race home
    • Sound of Cement
    • Bubble Wrap — iPhone app provides Safe Excitement
    • Watching Bread Rise
    • Stairs or Esclator?
    • Stairs or Esclator?
    • Stairs or Esclator?
    • Minigolf (much safer for dull men than regular golf)
    • Slinky on Treadmill
    • Pitch Drop Experiment — DMC members still waiting
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    • Pitch Drop Experiment — Truly Safe Excitement
    • Extreme Salad Bar Consuming
    • Watching Paint Dry Championsips
    • Frost: watching it thaw
    • Rocking Chairs — as Safe Excitement
    • Hunker Down — hurricane's coming
    • DWC Home Page
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    • Watching Grass Grow
    • Curling
    • Darning Socks
    • Dull Men's Club Shop
    • Our prayers answered: a see-thru toaster
    • Metronomes
    • Wood Warping
    • Water Freezing
    • Windscreen Wipers Wiping
    • Elevator Riding
    • Thumb Twiddling
    • Shoe Laces
    • Escalator Riding
    • Stone Skimming
    • Weather Channel
    • Cement
    • Defragging
    • Use-By Dates
    • Watched Pot
    • To-Do Lists
    • Listening to Rain
    • Raking
    • Metronomes
  • Odometer Readings
    • 10,000 miles — odometer reading from new member
    • Your odometer readings — posting now in a topic category on our website
    • 23,456 miles
    • 100,000 miles
    • 123,456 miles
    • 135,000 miles
  • Park Benches
    • CASTING CALL: Birmingham area (U.K.)
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    • Park Benches — all of a sudden people are noticing them more, thanks to Kevin's "Benches of Redditch" calendar
    • Park Bench in Austria
    • Drainspotter Archie Workman broadens his repertoire
    • Park bench on BBC Breakfast this morning - Sutton Coldfield Park
    • Dorchester, Dorset, England
    • London
    • Park Benches
    • World's Longest Park Bench
    • New York City
    • Helsinki
    • Geneva
  • Press
    • breaking news from The Times (London)
    • Best Magazine this week . . . it's hip to be dull?
    • Our DMC Facebook Group is the actual Dull Men's Club's group
    • Casting Call — Fungus Pumpkin film "Are You Boring?" — June 2 in New York
    • From 1988 — DMC Velveeta letter was NYT food editor's favorite in year end wrap-up
    • 25% of 2,000 people polled have favourite ring on their cookers
    • Jeremy Paxman — certifiably dull now?
    • DMC interviewed by BBC Radio Essex about U of Essex's discovery of world's most boring person
    • Reader's Digest — July/August 2021 issue
    • Another brilliant interview — BBC Radio WM 95.6 — Mollie Green interviews Jacky Smith 'The Barbed Wire Lady'
  • Pursuits
    • Our DMC Facebook Group is the actual Dull Men's Club's group
    • Ironman — a verson for us
    • Brick collector Neil Brittlebank (1935-2019)
    • following instructions
  • Quotations
    • We don't always need — or want — to be in first place
    • Golden Rule — around the world
    • "Slow motion gets you there faster," Hoagy Carmichael
    • Einstein's Worst Nightmare — "are we there yet"?
    • Common miracle: contentment from doing one thing at a time
  • Races
    • If you attended this, can you send us a report and photos?: World Snail Racing Championships — Saturday 6 July — Congham, Norfolk
    • We're looking for results and photos of the World Snail Racing Championships held Saturday 6 July at Congham, Norfolk
    • Races
    • Breaking News on BBC — snails move faster than previously thought
    • 27th World Championship Cardboard Boat Races
    • Worms
    • Turtle and rabbit race home
    • Squirrel Racing
    • Great British Duck Race — taking place this year?
    • Tortoise challenges hare to race home
    • Turtles using technology to beat hares
    • Second Annual Oxford-Cambridge Goat Race—Cambridge Wins
    • Submarine Racing
    • Donkey Cart Racing
    • Lawnmower Racing
    • Races
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    • Snail Racing
    • Turtle & Tortoise Racing
    • Gold Fish Racing
    • Ferret Racing
    • Rubber Duck Racing
    • Running of the Sheep
    • Pigeon Racing
    • Shopping Trolley Racing
    • Trabant Racing
    • Milk Float Racing
    • Book Cart Racing
    • Time
    • zz
  • Roadside Service & Rest Areas
    • Rest Areas — needed in U.K.
    • Rest Areas — stop closing them in U.S.
  • ROOT
    • Parking Lot
  • Roundabouting
    • DMC member Kevin Beresford — Roundabout Appreciation Society — featured in Thompson Reters video
    • Breaking News from Martha's Vineyard: roundabout turns out to be a success
    • Anniversary of First Traffic Light in UK — installed 9 December 1868
    • Columbus Circle viewed from CVS Pharmacy
    • Roundabout - - stunning view from Parkwood gym in Salisbury
    • Columbus Circle is celebrating today ——— not only Columbus Day but its award as World's Best Roundabout
    • In this week's "Economist"——— Roundabouts, one of Britain's great exports
    • Breaking News: Duck Pond Roundabout in Otford, Kent is Roundabout of Year
    • Vacation Highlight – Roundabouting in Sedona, Arizona
    • Introduction
    • Swindon
    • Columbus Circle
    • Hemel Hempstead
    • Colechester
    • High Wycombe
    • Avon Colorado
  • Safe Excitement
    • How long to dunk an Oreo?
    • my blue booties
    • Wheat Harvest on TV — watched by dull-a-tot and grandfather
    • Eclipse Chaser Mandie Adams — interviewed on Sky News Australia
    • Eclipse chasers from around the world, according to Airbnb map, are heading to America
    • Our fave eclipse chaser — Mandie Adams — from Southend-on-Sea, England — April 8 will be her 14th eclipse visit
    • Casting Call — Fungus Pumpkin film "Are You Boring?" — June 2 in New York
    • Union Pacific grain train — passing by Chappell Nebraska — home of DMC's back office
    • Health Benefits of Vacuuming ("hovering" in UK)
    • Penguins are fun to watch — it's safe excitement
    • French Supermarket Trolley Garages
    • Cows — amused by watching dog fetch stick
    • DMC member Kevin Beresford — Roundabout Appreciation Society — featured in Thompson Reters video
    • Rachel in The Guardian's Lifestyle section
    • Dustbin Dave — completed London Marathon wearing dustbin as backpack
    • CORONATION postbox toppers — by Rachel Williamson — Rhyl, Wales
    • Dull-a-tot
    • DMC Person of the Year — 2022 — Duane Hansen
    • Suggestions for title? How about "Literally speaking turns into literally behaving"?
    • A chase scene right up our alley
    • Our folly expert, Gwyn Headley, in FT article "Hello Folly"
    • We do more than watch paint dry
    • Riding through car wash: safe excitement
    • Dull men have pickup lines too
    • Cuckooland interviewed on the Millie Green Show, BBC Radio West Midlands
    • Which came first — the chicken or the faucet?
    • Blue Badge parking and the "Crunchy Minted Bisquit"
    • 40,000th member — DMC Facebook Group — congrats to Deepak Narayan Puri
    • A dull man gets himself organized
    • Grammar Police — they've been around for ages
    • National Nothing Day (USA) — Thursday, January 16
    • 1500 to present: amazing animated graph showing changes in cities' populations
    • Learning curve and help desk from Middle Ages
    • Video of Pitch Drop Experiment and Prof Mainstone
    • OK to coin new words ?
    • More praise for boredom
    • Water Freezing Video
    • Watching cows graze
    • "Safe Excitement — Intro & Table of Contents"
    • 2018 Ugly Christmas Sweater Wrap-up
    • lost glove photographed in Tokyo
    • Field Trip to Toy Soldier Show — London
    • Joining in the fun
    • Manhole Cover Photographer — Howard Libauer from Burnsville, Minnesota
    • We do more than watch paint dry
    • Holtwhites Bakery visit — part 2 — pastries
    • Baseball – "snorefest"?
    • Breaking News from England: Alphabet Soup — now in your favorite font
    • Making Mountains out of Hills— an additional type of safe excitement
    • Composting — supplies from Amazon
    • Sound of Cement
    • Bubble Wrap — iPhone app provides Safe Excitement
    • Watching Bread Rise
    • Stairs or Esclator?
    • Stairs or Esclator?
    • Stairs or Esclator?
    • Minigolf (much safer for dull men than regular golf)
    • Slinky on Treadmill
    • Pitch Drop Experiment — DMC members still waiting
    • Pitch Drop Experiment — Truly Safe Excitement
    • Extreme Salad Bar Consuming
    • Watching Paint Dry Championsips
    • Frost: watching it thaw
    • Rocking Chairs — as Safe Excitement
    • Hunker Down — hurricane's coming
    • Cheese Rolling
    • Watching Grass Grow
    • Curling
    • Darning Socks
    • Our prayers answered: a see-thru toaster
    • Watching Paint Dry
    • Metronomes
    • Wood Warping
    • Water Freezing
    • Windscreen Wipers Wiping
    • Elevator Riding
    • Thumb Twiddling
    • Shoe Laces
    • Escalator Riding
    • Bubble Wrap
    • Stone Skimming
    • Weather Channel
    • Cement
    • Defragging
    • Use-By Dates
    • Watched Pot
    • To-Do Lists
    • Listening to Rain
    • Raking
    • Metronomes
  • Sheds
    • Shed in Field
    • The Secret Life of Sheds' — Financial Times
    • Shed Fest on Isle of Wight — media coverage
    • Shed News — police arrest shed burglars — eventually
  • Street Art
    • Mount Rushless — a DMC suggestion
    • Anorak of fhe Year for 2018 — Kevin Beresdord — veers off roundabouts to visit car parks
    • Railings — stunning photos of some
    • Painting Stripes on Roads
  • Test Category
    • How to fix this problem with burgers?
    • Photos for Ikigai article
    • Forward by Dr. Mark Coulson to Dull Men of Great Britain
    • Carhenge — Nebraska's version of Stonehenge
    • "The Puzzle Man" — Chris Cole — at Mare & Foal Sanctuary charity shop in Devon
    • Boeing 747 — Daily Mail travel editor looking for personal experiences from people who love this iconic plane
    • Putin hosting new BBC Chat Show, claims he's like us: ordinary, normal — really?
    • "Chinese Style Mini Entertainment" produced and directed by Chen Song, cameraman Aijia Wang
    • Appreciation Societies — appreciating the ordinary
    • Category test post re intro
  • Uncategorised
    • my blue booties
    • The Orphanage (for orphaned and discontinued cars and (hubcaps))
    • Dullster Zoom Meetings
    • DMC Handshake
    • Boeing 747 — Daily Mail travel editor looking for personal experiences from people who love this iconic plane
    • Putin hosting new BBC Chat Show, claims he's like us: ordinary, normal — really?
    • draft book proposal for "JOMO: Joy of Missing Out"
    • "Chinese Style Mini Entertainment" produced and directed by Chen Song, cameraman Aijia Wang
  • Unexciting Travels
    • DMC visits Luxembourg City
    • U.K. Motorway Service Areas
    • Traffic Lights in Ireland (undull)
    • "Mother Mash" — London restaurant specializing in mashed potatoes
  • Webcam Traveling
    • Plane Landing
    • Wisconsin Recall Webcam — draws big audience
    • Jam Cams
    • -o0 Introduction 0o-
    • Portugal's Algarve - A Bus Stop
    • MooseCam
  • Why ladies like dull men
    • Dull men have pickup lines too
    • Wife tells husband to put pie in oven at 120 degrees
    • Husbands of Target
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