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Boring may refer to:

Making holes:

• Boring (earth), the drilling of holes or tunnels in the earth
  • Tunnel boring machine (TBM) machine used in boring tunnels or shafts
  • Microtunnel boring machine (MTBM), machine used in boring small tunnels or shafts
• Boring (manufacturing), a specific type of hole drilling in manufactured products
• Earth-boring dung beetle, a family of beetles that excavate burrows in which to lay their eggs
• An excavation made by an organism in a hard substrate through the process of bioerosion

Places:

• Boring, Maryland, United States
• Boring, Oregon, United States
  • Boring Lava Field

In arts and entertainment:

• "Boring" (Young Ones episode), the 3rd episode of British sitcom The Young Ones, broadcast in 1982
• "Being Boring", a single by the British pop group the Pet Shop Boys
• The Boring Report, a four-part series originally broadcast on Melbourne's Channel 31
• David Boring, the title character of Daniel Clowes's graphic novel of the same name
• Heartache Is Boring, the debut album by singer Ainjel Emme, released in 2003
• "Boring", a bonus song featured on P!nk's 2008 studio album, Funhouse
• "Boring", a song by Blink-182 from Dude Ranch
• "History of a Boring Town", a single by Less Than Jake

Other:

• Boredom
• Boring Club, a bidding system in contract bridge designed by Lucas Smid of the Netherlands

People with the surname Boring

• Edwin G. Boring, one of the first historians of psychology
• Wayne Boring, comic book artist best known for Superman in the 1940s and 1950s
• William Boring, an American architect who codesigned the Immigration Station at Ellis Island in New York harbor.

See also

• Raising Skinny Elephants Is Utterly Boring, a mnemonic for remembering how to reboot a near-frozen Linux computer

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