Boing is boring?
April 1, 2005 3:12 AM   Subscribe

BoringBoring a directory of dull things. [not via BoingBoing]
posted by dabitch (38 comments total) 1 user marked this as a favorite
 
LOL
posted by Pigpen at 3:22 AM on April 1, 2005


"Click Here FARM"

This is excellent.
posted by tpl1212 at 3:28 AM on April 1, 2005


This is so well done... I love how the sidebar info and ads are carried through as part of the whole parody (this "HOWTO: Get a link posted to Boring Boring" page, for example).

*Dear person who made this site: Please do MeFi next time? Please? Pretty please?*
posted by taz at 3:29 AM on April 1, 2005


Studious Girls!
posted by fixedgear at 3:30 AM on April 1, 2005


"Jesus helps me bore people."

I laughed.
posted by Faint of Butt at 3:35 AM on April 1, 2005


Grrrr
posted by seanyboy at 3:36 AM on April 1, 2005


Haha... that's rad.

The amount of work that must've taken is... disturbing. Even the links are awesome.
posted by ph00dz at 3:47 AM on April 1, 2005


oops, sorry seanyboy I honestly didn't see that you posted in it the thread there. Here go make an FPP out of this: googlegulp. :)
posted by dabitch at 3:52 AM on April 1, 2005


(do'h! even that is linked in the FPP to which you point. dang, more coffee for me.) By the way, the boringboring.org url is a dud now.
posted by dabitch at 4:06 AM on April 1, 2005


I was determined to think this was lame, but it's so well executed. It made me laugh repeatedly.
posted by Plutor at 4:35 AM on April 1, 2005


seanyboy, chill out dude. you're being obnoxious.
posted by mokey at 4:38 AM on April 1, 2005


*giggle*
posted by monaco at 4:39 AM on April 1, 2005


mokey: Everything I say is with a completely straight face. When I said Grrrr to dabitch in BIG LETTERS, I was being completely serious. I consider the fact that he posted one of my comments as a FPP one of the most serious Internet transgressions I have ever seen. I'm appalled. I'd phone 911, but for some reason, they're busy dealing with Burger King Managers.
posted by seanyboy at 5:03 AM on April 1, 2005


"Grrrr" is just shorthand for "Grrrreat Post!", right?

btw, seanyboy, dabitch is a girly type
posted by taz at 5:16 AM on April 1, 2005


seanyboy: As an unbelievably earnest denizen of metafilter, I totally believe you. I have never heard of sarcasm. I don't even have any idea what I just said.
posted by rusty at 5:16 AM on April 1, 2005


Even when Boing Boing takes the joke well, I feel like they're really grinding their teeth. Maybe Xeni and Cory just use too many exclamation marks.

seanyboy: I assume you meant that seriously as well and I will blog this and report you to your professor.
posted by NickDouglas at 5:17 AM on April 1, 2005


dabitch: sorry!
No, please God no! Not the professor!
/spends futile minutes searching for non-Simpsons related "professor of sarcasm". Fails.
posted by seanyboy at 5:30 AM on April 1, 2005


Even when Boing Boing takes the joke well, I feel like they're really grinding their teeth.

I see no evidence of that.
posted by nthdegx at 5:36 AM on April 1, 2005


I love the link for 'Cory's DRM talk translated back into English.'
posted by jacquilynne at 5:48 AM on April 1, 2005


Ahahaha.. The wallmod. Gorgeous.
posted by cell at 5:50 AM on April 1, 2005


it's funny because it's true!
posted by crunchland at 5:52 AM on April 1, 2005


The Hipster PDA has been well and truly parodied, and I couldn't be happier or more honored by the accuracy and earnestness.

Very funny stuff, although I think the fake ads are even better.
posted by merlinmann at 6:17 AM on April 1, 2005


The Hipster PDA has been well and truly parodied, and I couldn't be happier or more honored by the accuracy and earnestness.

It's the earnestness that makes this one a killer, Merlin. ;-)
posted by 327.ca at 6:30 AM on April 1, 2005


Very good post, very good parody. I loved the DRM talk into English best. It's funny how easy it is to come up with a typical front page for BB, which may be why I don't really read it much anymore.

I was disappointed there wasn't some (moderately) sexy thing like many of Xeni's posts.
posted by OmieWise at 6:51 AM on April 1, 2005


Sitting at work with boingboing on my left screen and boringboring on my right screen - it's uncanny...
posted by runkelfinker at 7:04 AM on April 1, 2005


Damn, I hope they keep this up. They could easily keep this clever for another two weeks at least.
posted by NickDouglas at 7:20 AM on April 1, 2005


Our first five years' worth of posts in one file — without line breaks.

Yep, the attention to detail is great.
posted by pmurray63 at 7:23 AM on April 1, 2005


"TiReD: Lessig On Why Your Whole Life Sucks" Ha! This is awesome.
posted by everichon at 7:44 AM on April 1, 2005


The parody missed using rather as an adverb, e.g., I rather think that one who writes sentences quite like this one sounds a bit like a blowhard.
posted by tomharpel at 7:47 AM on April 1, 2005


"Bang the DRM slowly" haha.
posted by fungible at 8:11 AM on April 1, 2005


I love how the Boing Boing people don't seem to get that this is actually rather vicious and wouldn't be worth doing if the original didn't suck.

(although the real BB is beyond parody, especially if you have an RSS reader that shows deleted posts - they often post incredulous ravings about things that obviously aren't true and then delete them when someone smarter points out how easily their goat is got)
posted by cillit bang at 8:24 AM on April 1, 2005


Surprisingly Awesome.
posted by Robot Johnny at 10:01 AM on April 1, 2005


there's another parody ... gakker.

If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, what does it mean if both of these imitations extoll the tediousness of the source?

Wake up call for Cory & the gang, I think.
posted by crunchland at 10:15 AM on April 1, 2005


BoingBoing gets DMCA takedown notice?
posted by steef at 12:42 PM on April 1, 2005


Big scoop on an animation blog: "Passion High".
posted by wendell at 2:53 PM on April 1, 2005


i liked the newest entry
"...use of search and replace (which we just learned about last week over at Sony's Lifehacker) "

I think they probably thought of doing lifehacker, but it would have just been too easy.
posted by Iax at 6:36 PM on April 1, 2005


Can you parody lifehacker?
posted by Bugbread at 9:13 PM on April 1, 2005


Personally I love the ads, "Eh - plain white shirts" is genius.

/ hugs mokey, dances with taz and whacks seanyboy on the behind with a wet towel.
posted by dabitch at 1:43 AM on April 2, 2005


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