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 Mother's Day . . . did you forget? . . . that's OK . . . mothers like gifts any day of the year . . . "I ♥ Dull Men" caps make good gifts . . . now available not only in classic gray but also black and pink . . . click here
   
   
check box Accountant changes stripes . . . scientific cooking is not always dull . . . it is exciting at The Fat Duck . . . click here
check box A handy dull man in the house . . . closes and seals bags of crisps without even using a clip . . . click here
check box Lady from Canada emails us about advantages of dull men over more interesting men . . . trust is a leading advantage . . . click here
check box A reader from Perth asks about coffee table books about roundabouts . . . click here
check box An old wives' tale tested . . . opening an umbrella indoors brings bad luck? . . . click here
check box Napping Day . . . a day to lie down and be counted . . . click here
check box PI Day. . . click here
check box Aftermath of February's earthquake in Lincolnshire . . . click here
check box Matt in the Daily Telegraph . . . wife apologizes to husband, thanks to Chancellor Darling . . . click here
check box From London . . . the Budget Speech . . . a favorite event each year for dull men . . . click here
check box Warning about a new T-shirt . . . a T-shirt not for dull men . . . click here
check box The way to a woman's heart? . . . do the dishes . . . click here
check box Proof that a dog is man's best friend . . . click here
check box A Swedish-American member speaks out [exclamation point removed]. . . click here
check box Dulling down of Garfield . . . click here
check box New meaning to "A Working Stiff" . . . click here
check box Petrol station signs . . . past and present . . . a great new Museum in Cyberspace in the making . . . click here
check box Whalenap instead of Catnap? . . . new research catching whales napping . . . Extreme Napping? . . . click here
check box A world-famous never-ending job will be ending? . . . it is happening at the Firth of Forth . . . click here
check box A dull man who doesn't mind being mediocre . . . click here
check box Man who thinks he may be the most boring man in the world is awarded a certificate . . . click here . . . anyone else think they qualify? . . . click here to tell us why
check box A frog that communicates not by croaking but by waving . . . "The Waving Frog" . . . (watch out Royal Family, you've got competition) . . . click here
check box Museum of Pocket Calculating Devices . . . stunning pictures of 3,002 calculators . . . there's even one for Valentine's Day . . . click here
check box A candidate for membership? . . . but so far a flaw . . . click here
check box Slough versus Scranton . . . a raging transatlantic controversy . . . click here
check box Offshore wind farms . . . how do they get there . . . click here
check box Important information about lead . . . click here
check box A website of Freight Trains of West Australia . . . an absolute must for dull men to view . . . click here
check box A new type of joy found at airport luggage carousels . . . click here
check box A dull man finds critiquing masons' work to be very stimulating . . . click here
check box One Cold Hand . . . cold no longer due to a new website that matches up missing gloves . . . click here
check box Lost Gloves Archives . . . a fascinating website . . . pictures of 102 lost gloves . . . click here
check box A new opera staring vacuum cleaners, dryers, and parking meters . . . click here
check box A beige penguin? . . . what is this, a penguin custom made for dull men to adore? . . . but it needs help . . . it's being discriminated against by other penguins . . . click here
check box A facinating website for travelers . . . airlinemeals.net . . . click here
check box Watching frost thaw . . . duller than watching airport luggage carousels . . . carousels move . . . click here
check box A dull man successfully downloads our Certificate of Achievement . . . he likes being recognized like this . . . click here
check box Portland's 42 Avenue . . . change name to Douglas Adams Boulevard? . . . a reader would like to this happen . . . click here
check box Microscope fun . . . watching crystals forming . . . click here
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Legislating apostrophes in Arkansas . . . American's Bill of Rights provides for freedom of religion . . . shouldn't there also be freedom of grammar? . . . click here
check box A dull man finds more to do at airport than watching luggage carousels . . . click here
check box Dangers of House Building . . . how to deal with them . . . click here
check box Speed Dialing? . . . Dan from Bristol perfers Slow Dialing . . . click here
check box Searching for Repeating Patterns . . . keeps a Dull Man busy for hours . . . click here 
check box A reader finds our Approved Links to be priceless . . . The Exciting World of Furnace Filters revisited . . . an appropriate thing to be thinking about this time of the year . . . click here
check box A dullatot suggests some new safe excitement . . . Pritt Stick Rolling . . . click here
check box Researching for a book on napping . . . click here
check box More on collecting boarding passes and luggage tags . . . click here
check box More Joys of Defragging . . . click here
check box Pokey Award . . . the slowest bus in New York City . . . the year's award announced . . . click here . . . then, if you are a dull man, go to New York to enjoy riding on this bus
check box Extreme Pumpkins . . . interesting, of course . . . but too exciting, too scary, for dull men? . . . click here
check box Collecting Airline Boarding Passes? . . . a good idea? . . . or not a
good idea? . . . click here
check box Formula 1 no longer boring, now that Lewis Hamilton is doing so well? . . . click here
check box Extreme Ironing? . . . our Grover doesn't get it . . . click here
check box SoHo, SoSo, HoHo . . . click here
check box The Queen's Rubber Duck . . . click here
check box New excitement in toasting . . . Toaster Schnitzel . . . German creativity reaches new heights . . . click here
check box More about Soho versus SoHo . . . click here
check box A new Appreciation Society we like . . . Dust Cap Appreciation and Promotion Society (Tyre Air Valve Caps) . . . click here
check box A reader recovers from a very stressful situation by viewing our website . . . click here
check box An IgNobel prize, well-deserved, awarded for a stunning breakthrough in the exciting field of Indexing . . . click here
check box We made a blooper in our History of London Squares. . . Soho is not SoHo . . . click here
check box Motto for Britain . . . a contest . . . click here
check box We've pulled together our Agenda of Important Issues . . . do you have any to add? . . . click here
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check box Blackwing 602 . . . The Holy Grail of pencils . . . bring it back, please . . . click here
check box Paddington Bear switching from marmalade to Marmite? . . . click here
check box A lady in California, a devotee of dull men, marries one . . . click here
check box The Transparent Toaster . . . it may soon be arriving . . .so we can watch toast toast . . . wonderful Safe Excitement for us . . . but public funding is likely to be needed . . . click here
check box Our Website Graveyard . . . do you have any websites, now departed, to add to this? . . . click here
check box The Amazing Ironing Cam . . . does this web cam still exist . . . or does it belong in our Website Graveyard now? . . . click here
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Flossing is not a new form of Safe Excitement . . . Neanderthal men did it . . . 63,400 years ago . . . click here

check box Dull lodgings . . . click here
check box We appreciate biscuits . . . and wonder whether the present controversy about them might not be a controversy but a healthy discussion instead . . . click here
check box A non-addictive sleep aide found in Massachusetts? . . . click here
check box A dull man reports on his new marriage . . . one month on . . . click here
check box BBC4 . . . "The Secret Life of the Motorway" . . . nominate your favorite motorway . . . click here
check box Two new books . . . one on benches and one on queuing . . . click here
check box Britain's contribution to World Cuisine . . . click here
check box A new groaner (dull men like groaners, and we're about the only website that publishes them) . . . this one is about a Thief in Paris . . . click here
check box Hot off the press is news for our marmalade aficionados (see the two links below to emails from Steve and James about favorite marmalades) . . . there will a Marmalade Festival . . . this is the second year for the event, which will now be an annual event . . . click  here
check box Our Marmalade Discussion is underway . . . a vote for Tiptree orange and tangerine . . . click here
check box What's the best marmalade in the UK? . . . as reader asks . . . what are your views? . . . click here . . . (we hope this does not become too controversial)
check box Ten days of watching your breath . . . a suitable activity . . . click here
check box A reader asks whether driving to Mongolia in an ice cream van is a truly dull activity . . . can we help him out? . . . click here
check box Merry-Go-Rounds . . . when is the anniversary of invention? . . . a reader asks for her husband, who together with his dull mates is a merry-go-round fanatic . . . click here
check box Snowmen/women against global warming . . . makes sense (dull men like things that make sense) . . . click here
check box Three cheers for UPS . . . our favorite delivery service has more than trucks in one of our favorite colors and a tracking facility on its website that is great fun to use . . . it has maintenance engineers with great senses of humor . . . click here
check box Pat Highgate from Bakersfield is about to get married and move to Portland . . . click here to read his exciting email to us about this . . . and how he is able to get along with his future father-on-law
check box Another 50th anniversary, in addition to Helvetica . . . the Frisbee turns 50 . . . click here to read an email to us about this big event
check box Joys of Park Benches . . . click here to read a reader's comments . . . and click here to get to our Park Benches page
check box A new film about a font . . . the 50th birthday of Helvetica . . . a film not to be missed . . . click here
check box A dull man steps out of his routine . . . and pays the price . . . he and his wife try a "Romantic Weekend Getaway" . . . let this be a lesson to all of us dull men . . . click here
check box A dull man visits the doctor . . . hear's how he can be even more boring . . . (but not seriously, it's only a cartoon) . . . click here
check box A lady from London emails us about a snail and a turtle . . . click here
check box A reader, from Los Angeles, thinks he might be a dull man except he gets excited when he watches a hem cam . . . I'd get exciting too, wouldn't you? . . . click here
check box www.dullmen.com is a trove of adventure? . . . a reader thinks so . . . click here
check box To Bob Burlington on a first date . . . click here
check box Bob Burlington is prepared on a date . . . had the right thing tucked away in his wallet . . . to be safe . . . click here
check box Nothing interesting to say? . . . likely to be one of us . . . click here
check box Dull Dieting . . . from Chicago . . . click here
check box Sage advice from New Jersey to Pat Highgate in California . . . advice for Pat's upcoming marriage . . . click here
check box A dull man announces he is getting married . . . he wonders whether there are tips for a dull man in such a situation . . . click here to read his email to us . . . what do our Dear Readers think, any tips to offer? . . . click here to email them to us
check box Subway Napping . . . better than Subway Surfing? . . . a member thins so . . . click here
check box More research needed on BART Surfing? . . . click here
check box Bart Surfing . . . not dull? . . . not Safe Excitement but an Extreme Sport? . . . click here to read about this important issue . . . what do our readers think? . . . click here to email your views to us
check box A lady expresses her views about Grover's name . . . her views surprise us  . . . click here
check box BART Surfing . . . Subway Surfing . . . click here
check box Happy Birthday to a font . . . 50th birthday for Helvetica . . . click here
check box Am amazing collection of units of measurement . . . a Dictionary of Units of Measurement . . . it will keep you fascinated for hours . . . click here
check box Duck racing is not only for big cities like London and Singapore . . . Over Wallop, a village in Hampshire, will be holding a duck race on the 28th of May . . . click here
check box Man thinks he's a dog . . . his shrink tries to help . . . click here
check box Bank Holiday Monday, May 7 . . . Stilton Cheese Rolling Championships . . . click here . . . you won't want to miss watching The Holy Rollers
check box A so-called "Boring Bandit" arrested in San Francisco . . . click here
check box With help from Einstein, a lady defends her cluttered desk . . . click here
check box Dallas from Australia lists the good things about being married to a dull man . . . click here
check box A man who naps is dull . . . his naps obviously are not "power naps" which of course are not dull . . . click here
check box For our women readers . . . we hear from time to time that you like dull men . . . we are compiling a list of reasons why this is the case . . . click here to view the list we have so far . . . and click here to email us any additions (or corrections) you may have . . . thanks
check box IT Help Desk  . . . a short film a reader sent to us . . . a dull guy showing another dull guy how to use a book . . . it's from way back when the convernsions from scrolls to books was taking place . . . click here
check box Herne Bay . . . still dull? . . . a reader would like to know . . . click here
check box David from Prestwood (UK) asks whether anyone can email us reminding us who said that their favourite pastime was sitting in the corner gathering dust quietly . . . any help out there from our readership on this? . . . click here
check box A physicist joins the DMC . . . our membership base is diversifying . . . not all of our members are accountants . . . click here
check box AppleCam . . . watch an apple blossom blossom into an apple . . . for those who find watching the CheddarCam to be too boring . . . cick here
check box Dave from Queensland find a stimulating website . . . a website full of many rulers . . . click here
check box Did you know that one of the original spoonerisms was about a dull man? . . . click here
check box A puzzling blog . . . boardgames . . . or bored games . . . click here
check box Prize winning book . . . "Stray Shopping Carts of Eastern North America" . . . click here
check box Metal Detectors . . . not only for anoraks anymore . . . click here
check box More belt-and-braces suggestions . . . click here
check box Valuable scientific research on the Perfect Bacon Sandwich . . . click here
check box Shed Cam . . . click here
check box Dull men, although often stay at home, sometimes travel . . . Slow Travel . . . click here
check box "Brilliantly Boring" . . . a brilliant article from The Guardian . . . click here
check box A lady from Ontario questions our dull credentials . . . click here
check box The Cable Appreciation Page . . . complex, intricate cabling . . . truly an art form . . . click here
check box Breaking news . . . celery throwing banned . . . click here
check box A startling development with the Cheddar Cheese Cam . . . the cheese to be sniffed and tasted now . . . it's expected that 55,000 viewers will tune in to watch . . . click here
check box BBC News Magazine . . . a (dull) Royal Unveiling of a Road Sign . . . and a PC producing chocolate . . . click here
check box The Joys of Potholing . . . pothole photos . . . the "Buckled Wheel Trophy" . . . the ultimate pothole experience . . . but aren't potholes nature's gift to traffic calming? . . . click here
check box Trabi pictures . . . even a "Stretch Trabi" . . . wow . . . click here
check box More quotes on dullness . . . from Steve in England . . . click here
check box We've found quotations . . . about dull and boring . . . click here . . . do you have any to add to the list? . . . if so, click here http://www.dullmen.com/contact.htm to let us know
check box Dull men like maths . . . and it pays off . . . click here
check box "Suspenders" means something different in the UK than in the US? . . . apparently that's the case . . . which caused some undue excitement . . . click here
check box We should keep mum about the number of exclamation marks we remove . . . David from County Durham thinks we should . . . we don't think so . . . click here
check box Road sign for roundabouts in the U.S. . . . click here
check box Cheddar Vision and beyond . . . "Webcams Celebrating the Ordinary" . . . click here
check box Grover on a blind date . . . click here
check box New roundabouts being guilt in interior Alaska to get to Santa's house at the North Pole . . . click here
check box A Dullest Man Competition? . . . a reader ponders this [dull men like to ponder] . . . click here
check box The boring old broiler turns out to be a superstar . . . truly celebrating the ordinary . . . click here
check box A news-breaking article from The Guardian about Trabi Safaris in Berlin . . . click here
check box Want to take a break from listening to your metronome? . . . how about Trabi Sounds . . . soundbites from a Trundling Trabant, the robust little car from East Germany . . . click here
check box A perception about the our view on bedtime is put to bed . . . by none other than an insurance adjuster . . . click here
check box An anthem for dull men? . . . perhaps a metronome is all we need . . . click here
check box Moby Duck . . . an incredible ocean voyage of rubber ducks . . . click here
check box A safe way for dull men to meet chicks . . . click here
check box Commuting birds . . . "why fly if you can ride?" . . . click here
check box The safe excitement of escalators . . . click here
check box Concern about a nominee for Website of the Year: too much anticipation — therefore too much excitement — when watching “The Pitch Drop Experiment”? . . . click here
check box Why travel to Africa when you can tour Africa from the safety of your home . . . click here to see a tip about viewing a watering hole in Africa from the safety of your home
check box Roll of Honour . . . for Darlington football fans who post the most messages . . . click here

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 Ben from Kentucky asks whether we have "Commandments" . . . good idea . . . do our readers have suggestions? . . . "Thou shalt not cover thy neighbor's red Ferrari"? . . . click here
check box A great video on You Tube . . . Dull tourist . . . dull vacation . . . dull locale . . . Dull Man of the Year -- 2006? . . . click here
check box Sailing: safe excitement for dull men? . . . what to you think . . . click here
check box Safe Excitement: watching a shredder shredding . . . click here
check box Another lady fan . . . this time from Leicester . . . click here
check box Wife appreciates his mild side . . . dependable, tidy, and free of racing motorbike fumes . . . click here
check box Ink Level Watching . . . a new form of Safe Excitement pointed out to us . . . there's a man in Longview Washington who confides to wife that he likes to do this . . . click here . . . are there other Ink Level watchers out there? . . . we'd like to hear from you
check box Dullness as a way to atrtract the opposite sex? . . . recent e-mails to us from young ladies indicate that . . . click here . . . we hope this does not get to be too exciting for dull men, however . . . take it easy you guys
check box Nomination for Website of the Year . . . a website about mushy peas . . . a delicacy in the UK . . . this stunning website not only has pea recipes, it also has a bit about the History of Mushy Peas . . . click here
check box A dull man's way of enjoying his new Jag . . . click here
check box Dullest website ever? . . . certainly a candidate for our Dull Website of the year 2006 . . . click here
check box Female viewer can only sneak peaks at dullmen.com at work . . . if done at home, boyfriend gets jealous . . . click here
check box Allotment sheds explained . . . to a dull postal worker grearing up to be even duller to survive the Christmas volumns . . . click here
check box A new form of Safe Excitement . . . suggested to us by a viewer . . . Watching a Humidifier Humidify . . . click here
check box Let's avoid Extreme Ironing . . . let's try Extreme Napping . . . click here to see how Abid from California does it on a boat . . . do you have an additional way of Extreme Napping we an add to the list we are developing about this?
check box A dull career opportunity in Belgium . . . join the Belgian Cow Police . . . click here to read a bit more about this
check box Married to a dull man for three years . . . enjoys it . . . click here
check box Watching trains too exciting for a viewer of dullmen.com, he prefers watching timber sleepers (railroad ties) age . . . click here
check box Another viewer mourns the Tupperware closing . . . click here
check box "Figs are fascinating" a viewer e-mails us to say . . . she should know . . . she's a receptionist at Valley Fig Growers in Fresno ("Land of the Fig") California . . . click here
check box A viewer from California suggests napping as a topic for us . . . we agree that napping is a good topic . . . and a favorite activity of dull men . . . click here
check box Time for a groaner? We think so . . . click here
check box We’re apparently a cure for insomnia . . . click here
check box Bliss found by a man from Colorado . . . click here
check box Andy in Athens like to watch batteries charge . . . heightened by his new charger that has LCD readouts . . . click here
check box Dullness spans all generations of men . . . even the younger generation . . . could there be such a thing as a Dull-a-Tot? . . . click here
check box How can dullmen.com be dull any longer after being on the Fox News website? . . . click here
check box Feroz from Bangalore has not used an exclamation mark for at least five years . . . this might be a world record . . . congratulations to Feroz . . . click here
check box A new form of Safe Excitement . . . exclamation marks removal . . . click here
check box Safe Excitement by sauntering out to the balcony (dull men like to saunter) . . . click here
check box A viewer of our website says he's too dull to join the DMC? We don't think so. He used an exclmation point in his e-mail to us; click here to see that we removed it.
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 19 year old girl finds that being dull is not as easy as it sounds . . . click here to read her letter to us
check box A reader who feels at home at our website . . . thinks it's awesome . . . click here
check box Fig Power . . . click here
check box Appliances with built-in TVs — interfere with safe excitement . . . click here to read more about this problem
check box The Fly Safari . . . a dull man reveals to us his secret pastime . . . an alternative to fly swatting . . . click here
check box Safe Activities: looking at pictures of trains on a website that is full of them . . . click here
check box Suggestion for a Dull Men Hall of Fame — a good suggestion . . . we are starting one . . . click here . . . do you have any nominations for this honor, to be in this be in this new Dull Men Hall of Fame?
check box Unbearable suspence . . . leaving home at varying times in the mornings . . . click here
check box A Safe Activity: Listening to Classical Musicians Practicing . . . click here
check box An almost-18-year-old . . . woman . . . enjoys our dull pleasures . . . click here
check box Racing cars and jet boats . . . or watching ants . . . click here to read about what a dull man prefers
check box Who needs windows? This dull man doesn't . . . he's got a nice smooth white wall to look at . . . click here
check box Insurance adjuster loves our website (anyone surprised?) . . . and he submits a practical joke (that kept us in stitches for hours) . . . click here
check box Dull men in Lousiana . . . find a suitable pastime following the hurricane disasters . . . watching the U.S. Army's Corp of Engineers rebuild . . . slowly . . . very slowly . . . very very slowly . . . click here
check box A new dull/dumb joke . . . about a neutron walking into a bar . . . click here
check box How does a dull man manage to survive all the cold beer, warm waters, and hot women of Santa Catarina, Brazil . . . click here to find out . . . we like knowing how dull men can get by in exciting locals
check box Joy of downloading files . . . the bigger, the better . . . click here
check box Is watching paint dry too exciting for you?  How about watching c