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Straight guys don't watch beauty pageants. That's because pageants take a normal pastime--ranking women by how they look in bathing suits--and turn it into something boring, with dance numbers. Plus, all the contestants are teenagers who look like 40-year-old anchorwomen and talk a lot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miss Get-Me-the-Hell-Out-of-Here | 3/12/2001 | See Source »

"At a time when plays were set in New York, I decided that I could make the boring Australian suburb humorous," he said.

Author: By Andrew M. Reider, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: 'Dame Edna' Creator Graces Kirkland Stage | 3/12/2001 | See Source »

So I waited - and I waited. I don't know for how long, but it must have been at least a year or two. The boring school hours came and went, the casual brutality continued, and my unhappy childhood days played themselves out like the least imaginative, longest-running soap...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Monkey On My Back | 3/9/2001 | See Source »

So they had the new cars and a brand-new $2.4 billion network TV contract, and the last thing NASCAR officials wanted at their showcase event was a repeat of the boring 2000 Daytona, which featured only nine lead changes and a walkaway win by Jarrett. Last autumn they experimented...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DALE EARNHARDT: 1951-2001: The Last Lap | 3/5/2001 | See Source »

At 2 a.m. on a Saturday, big and his fellow bikers from the Do It Yourself Happy Homes are preparing for a night of bike racing by smoking more yaba and then, as if to get their 125-cc bikes in a parallel state of high-octane agitation, squirting STP...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Need for Speed | 3/4/2001 | See Source »

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