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Then they cracked Polish jokes. Churchill said: "The difficulty about the Poles was that they had unwise political leaders. When there were two Poles there was one quarrel." Stalin replied: "Where there was one Pole, he would begin to quarrel with himself through sheer boredom...
Papik discovers that whites are also baleful. He sees naked greed in an organized seal slaughter, intolerable boredom in a job at an automated fish-processing plant, and true lunacy in the fact that white oil explorers live by their clocks. The whites "are so crazy," he concludes that "they believe they alone make sense." In a glorious scene, he fashions a knife out of his own freezing excrement. When it is rock hard, he kills two huskies with it and builds a sled of pelts and bones. Then he triumphantly carries his family off to a free life...
...Diary of a Mad Housewife. Others, after following the green light to a dead end, acted rather miffed and wanted their money back--the squares as yet uneducated in the hows and whys of this latest language of appreciation. And then there were the climbers fidgeting in barely disguised boredom waiting for clues...
Personally, I find billboards on the highways more offensive than porno books and movies. At least with porno books and movies a person has the option to either look or not, depending on his own taste or boredom threshold...
...House is mostly historical and comparative (Jane Fonda stars in yet another film of the play that is scheduled to be released in the fall). One emerges from it suffused with a feeling of duty done, a debt paid to cultural history. It is a mood entirely indistinguishable from boredom...