Comments on: a tale of two cities

a tale of two cities

LeLiLo — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 07:35:03 -0800

Officially Dull and Boring.

By: zamboni

zamboni — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 07:38:23 -0800

MML: "Residents of the Scots village of Dull have proved they have a sense of humour by forging a plan to create formal links with the US town of Boring."

By: Dr Dracator

Dr Dracator — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 07:39:43 -0800

Fucking, Austria needs to get in on this pronto - the League of Fucking Dull and Boring would be a force to be reckoned with.

By: Burhanistan

Burhanistan — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 07:40:06 -0800

That's really exciting.

By: phong3d

phong3d — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 07:41:41 -0800

And still no sister city agreement between Intercourse, PA and Fucking, Aus... DAMMIT Dr. Dracator

By: zamboni

zamboni — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 07:43:55 -0800

Fucking, Austria needs to get in on this pronto And although you may have heard otherwise, there hasn't been a Fucking name change.

By: The Whelk

The Whelk — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 07:44:36 -0800

Man no one wants to give Blue Balls, PA a hand....

By: griphus

griphus — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 07:47:03 -0800

Next, the royal wedding of King of Prussia.

By: Faint of Butt

Faint of Butt — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 08:22:17 -0800

There's a Boring, Maryland too. I like to drive through and see the Boring Volunteer Fire Company.

By: Faint of Butt

Faint of Butt — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 08:22:45 -0800

Dammit. Boring Volunteer Fire Company.

By: k5.user

k5.user — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 08:32:39 -0800

So where are the towns of White and Nerdy ?

By: Mister Fabulous

Mister Fabulous — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 08:40:54 -0800

Man no one wants to give Blue Balls, PA a hand.... Intercourse, PA will surely help out.

By: jocelmeow

jocelmeow — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 08:43:31 -0800

An old Northern Virginia joke: Did you hear that Manassas and Dumfries are going to be combined into one town? They're going to call it Dumbasses.

By: kdar

kdar — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 09:25:36 -0800

You can take the road from Virginville, PA to Intercourse, PA while heading through Blue Ball, PA (and coincidentally my hometown of Wyomissing en route).

By: komara

komara — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 09:26:07 -0800

It's a short trip from Difficult to Defeated (at least if you live in Tennessee).

By: rodeoclown

rodeoclown — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 10:00:33 -0800

Okay, I mostly read here and seldom actually post, but I do have an actual Boring story. My fiancee and I had moved to Portland after college, and my dad came out to visit us for the first time (probably 1995). We took him on the 'tourist triangle' drive: east down the beautiful Columbia River Gorge, past Multnomah Falls, to the town of Hood River... then south to Mt. Hood and Timberline Lodge. Had a great day. From Mt. Hood, it's a ~90 minute drive west-northwest back to Portland. At that time, we lived a bit south of the city, so there was a logical place where we could jump off the main Portland road and cut through Boring for a straighter shot home. When we pulled into the literally sleepy town (it was past dark at this point) my dad went wild with excitement: "They've gotta have some Boring, Oregon souvenirs here!" I rolled my eyes, as kids do, but promised to stop so we could look. About the only place that appeared to be open was a small mini-mart... no luck. Dad came out, crestfallen, and sadly got back in the car. We then saw the "Boring Tavern" and Dad got, if anything, more excited... "We have to stop!" The two of us walked into one of the most surreal moments in my life. I'm pretty sure there was not one of those awkward record-scratching-into-silence sounds, but it definitely felt like one. Like Pee-Wee Herman in the private club of the 'Satan's Helpers'... this was a rough, locals-only joint. Looking back, the dudes, in and of themselves, were not particularly scary. The thing that put the situation over the edge was that, next to the pool table and quite near the front door, was a 100% stark naked woman doing a desultory dance near a couple of (as far as I could tell) uninterested customers. And this did not appear to be an actual strip club... there was no stage. No DJ. No music, even. She was attempting to writhe erotically on the floor of the bar. As I stood open-mouthed next to my dad, paralyzed in the entryway, it dawned on me that she must be attempting to do some kind of "freelance" stripping, for rent/meth money or whatever, and that this was the kind of place that (while it may have not actively promoted it) was conspicuously not discouraging it either. Somehow my dad decided to forge his way up to the bartender to ask if they had any Boring souvenirs; I'm pretty sure I hissed "Dad, no, come on!" and tried to grab him by the back of the shirt. He predictably struck out, but thankfully did not get stabbed and/or a bottle broken over his head, as my now-runaway imagination envisioned. We found ourselves safely outside again, with wide eyes, hustled back to the car where my fiancee was patiently waiting, peeled out of the parking lot and then burst out laughing. To this day, whenever "Boring, Oregon" is uttered in our family, it's always done in a low, hushed tone with respectful pauses before and after. Postscript: Google results infer that the Boring Tavern apparently institutionalized stripping (and started printing Boring T-shirts, damn it!) later in the decade; we clearly witnessed the innovator firsthand.

By: idiopath

idiopath — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 11:16:59 -0800

I was once unemployed for a year (Portland, where young people go to retire!) and I made a point of bicycling from my close-in Portland apartment to Boring and back a few times a week to keep myself from going stir-crazy between having no discretionary money and no particular place to be. The first time I was in boring I stopped by the corner store and asked if there was anything in particular I should check out or do while I was there. The tension as they held back from making the obvious quip before shrugging and saying "no not really" was palpable.

By: Sys Rq

Sys Rq — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 11:18:19 -0800

Dildo.

By: Burhanistan

Burhanistan — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 11:18:30 -0800

> The tension as they held back from making the obvious quip before shrugging and saying "no not really" was palpable. Maybe he just thought you were looking for meth?

By: LeLiLo

LeLiLo — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 11:22:12 -0800

We then saw the "Boring Tavern" and Dad got, if anything, more excited... I drove around town sometime in the early 1980s looking for signs like the tavern's to photograph. I think my favorite said "Boring Rural Fire District No. 59." The sign out by the highway with the arrow pointing to "Boring Oregon City" also is pretty popular.