Word: dulled
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...your clean bowling shirt and they all want to go to the roller disco. "People think they have to be able to discuss everything, enjoy everything. They have an irrational impulse to be interesting." (The quotation was so good Troise later used it in his International Dull Day proclamation last Oct. 16.) That was the kind of folderol that used to fill the air of the Cafe Babar...
...Shall we, the good and dull of the earth, attempt to compete with the attention getters?" "Hurray for meat loaf!" "People who hang-glide are nuts!" "Yeah, you know what's fun, by God? Petting your dog, tuning up the old Chevy Nova." "More beer!" "Beer here...
Lightning had struck the primal soup. A collection turned up $3 for a classified ad in a newspaper called the San Francisco Bay Guardian, and the Dull Men's Club was on its way to becoming as fashionable as the All-Booze Diet or neoconservatism. "Write for information," said the ad. Amazingly, seven or eight people instantly did. One sufferer admitted that hot tubs made his bathing trunks pucker. Someone else cried out in the night: "Help! I'm tired of being the star of the show, the life of the party. Stop me before...
...spiel worked up: "It's the decade of the dull. Mountains are dull, birds are dull, flowers are dull, they don't hang around in fern bars trying to impress people." The producers of To Tell the Truth flew Glanting to Manhattan, where, he says, it felt a little odd to meet "some guy from a beer-tasting club who was going through the same kind of media ride...
...Dullness had struck a chord, as home truths occasionally do, but at the Café Babar they needed new material. One of the TV networks got hold of Troise, who, improvising with some desperation, said that the club was going to create a Pantheon of Dull Heroes in-here he reached into his skull at random for the name of a small town-Carroll, Iowa...