For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears. <\/i><\/p>\n
\u2014II Tim. 4:3<\/i><\/p>\n
551<\/b> Longest Continuous Yawn<\/b><\/p>\n
The longest continuous yawning reported is by a 15-year-old female patient in 1888 who yawned continuously for 5 weeks. <\/p>\n
552<\/b> 25% Alive\u2014Other Times Bored<\/b><\/p>\n
A recent survey found that the average adult spends about one-third of his waking time bored! <\/p>\n
Famed economist Stuart Chase once sat down to figure the calendar of his days. There is, he said, an ascending scale of human values and somewhere on it there is a line between living and mere existing. In how many hours of the week, he asked himself, had he truly and intensively lived? In how many had he just existed? Out of the 168 hours of the week he found that he had been \u201calive\u201d only 40, or about 25% of the total time! <\/p>\n
\u2014Woman\u2019s Day<\/i><\/p>\n
553<\/b> The Doldrums<\/b><\/p>\n
Nothing was so feared by seamen in the days when ocean vessels were driven by wind and sail as the doldrums. The doldrums is a part of the ocean near the equator, abounding calms, squalls, and light, baffling winds. There the weather is hot and extremely dispiriting. The old sailing vessels, when caught in doldrums, would lie helpless for days and weeks, waiting for the wind to begin to blow. <\/p>\n
554<\/b> Bored To Murder<\/b><\/p>\n
Diana Humphries of Houston, Texas, was only a sixteen-year-old pretty blonde, but the routine of everyday living left her tired, wearied, and bored. To \u201cescape the boredom\u201d she ambushed and killed her fourteen-year-old brother Robert with a . 22 rifle. And the reason? \u201cBecause nothing exciting ever happens around here,\u201d she sobbed. She planned also to kill her father, mother, and herself\u2014all to end the \u201calways-tired\u201d routine of the family life. <\/p>\n
555<\/b> Lighthouse Keepers Bored<\/b><\/p>\n
After 46 years of service as lighthouse keepers in New England, Joseph and Charlotte Hindley have retired. Their observation after all those years: It was all pretty boring. About the biggest problem was learning to live with the foghorn. \u201cYou just talked between the blasts,\u201d Mrs. Hindley said. <\/p>\n
\u2014The Calgary Herald<\/i><\/p>\n
556<\/b> Fireman\u2019s Holiday<\/b><\/p>\n
In the firehouses of Norman Rockwell\u2019s bucolic America, fireman passed the hours between alarms playing checkers and showing off the polished brass and bright-red trucks to wide-eyed young visitors. But for the volunteer firemen of Genoa, Texas, in suburban Houston, that was not enough. <\/p>\n
In the past three years, eight bored Genoa firemen have set about 40 fires in abandoned buildings and grass fields. As soon as the blazes were going, the arsonists would dash back to the firehouse and rush off to put out their own fires. <\/p>\n
The Genoa firemen were quite busy until they made the mistake of setting fire to a barn owned by the brother of a Houston fire department official. An investigation of the blaze led to the Genoa firehouse, and the overeager fire fighters were exposed. Explained one of the firemen charged with arson: \u201cWe\u2019d hang around the station on the night shift without a thing to do. We just wanted to get the red light flashing and the bells clanging. <\/p>\n
\u2014Time<\/i><\/p>\n
557<\/b> Doubling Away Boredom<\/b><\/p>\n
During the late 19th century, the small towns of America had grown tired of seeing Uncle Tom\u2019s Cabin<\/i> dramatized for over 40 years. To revive interest and instead of adopting a new play, the various Tom Companies just doubled the cast, having two Uncle Toms, two Little Evas, two Simon Legrees, and two sets of bloodhounds. <\/p>\n
558<\/b> Joy Of Acquisition<\/b><\/p>\n
The noted Count Henri-Francois-Noel of Paris owned a good- sized collection of rare books and loved that collection so much that he got bored with them. To stir up some excitement, he sold his entire library five times at five-year intervals (1837\u20131861) at auction. <\/p>\n
He made certain he attended each auction and succeeded in outbidding all others. Thus\u2014because of boredom\u2014he sold and repurchased his entire library 5 times. The auctioneer\u2019s fee was 20% each time, and he ended up actually rebuying his own library after five auctions. <\/p>\n
559<\/b> Fed Up 68<\/b><\/p>\n
Switchboard operators at the Democratic National Committee headquarters in Washington were harassed one day by a flood of calls on one of a block of 20 telephone lines into the office. The word had spread that if you dialed FED UP 68 you would be connected to the Democrats. More conventionally, the number was 333\u20138768. <\/p>\n
\u2014Anthony Paul<\/p>\n
560<\/b> How To Sleep During Speeches<\/b><\/p>\n
Lancet<\/i>, British medical journal, gives this advice on how to sleep during speeches at public dinners:<\/p>\n
\u201cThe head should rest on a tripod formed of the trunk and of the arms firmly placed on the table. The head should be placed in the hands in a slightly flexed position to allow the tongue to fall forward and prevent stertorous breathing. The fingers should be outstretched over the face and eyes, pressing the skin of the forehead upwards to wrinkle it. This gives an appearance of deep concentration.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2014Maxwell Droke<\/p>\n
561<\/b> Questionnaire: What Are You Doing? <\/b><\/p>\n
Harried alumni often wonder if their class agents have nothing better to do than pester them with questionnaires. Two notables have struck back. The Associated Press reported that Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy (Harvard \u201948) ignored a class questionnaire which asked, among other things, \u201cHow do you like your boss?\u201d And Mr. Lincoln Schuster (Columbia \u201917), the Public Relations Journal<\/i> noted, had his own answer for the time-worn query, \u201cWhat are you doing now?\u201d Replied the book publisher, \u201cI\u2019m filling out a questionnaire.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2014Saturday Review<\/i><\/p>\n
562<\/b> Charging People For Using My Time<\/b><\/p>\n
Sydney J. Harris said that he has suppressed a long-felt desire to mail out a rate card giving his basic fee along with certain \u201cextras.\u201d A few suggested charges are listed below:<\/p>\n
\u201cFor having to listen to a committee report, $5. <\/p>\n
\u201cFor having to listen to a treasurer\u2019s report, $10. <\/p>\n
\u201cFor spending an hour before the talk with the program chairman, hearing all about her parakeet, $25. <\/p>\n
\u201cFor being driven out to view local monument, $15. <\/p>\n
\u201cFor having to sit through slides of somebody\u2019s trip to Hawaii before my talk, $50. <\/p>\n
\u201cFor having to partake of a hotel banquet meal, $10, plus all of the bicarbonate of soda I can consume.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2014Chicago Daily News<\/i><\/p>\n
563<\/b> Diocletian\u2019s Cabbages At Salonica<\/b><\/p>\n
Diocletian had advanced quickly from governorship of Maesia to consulship to command of the palace guards, and to emperorship of the Roman Empire in 285 BC. He then efficiently organized the empire, designating a successor in the West as second-in-command. Furthermore, a third and fourth succeeding positions were created whose occupants would also be sure of eventual promotion to the Imperial Office after a definite term. <\/p>\n
But after 20 years of service, Emperor Diocletian became tired of the pressures around him and in the 21st year of his reign, he abdicated the empire. Maximian begged him to remain, but he rejected the temptation with a smile of pity, observing that if Maximian should see the cabbages which he had planted with his own hands at Salona, he would rather be urged to relinquish the pursuit of power. <\/p>\n
564<\/b> Epigram On Boredom <\/b><\/p>\n
\u2022 If you can\u2019t stand solitude, perhaps you bore others too! <\/p>\n
\u2022 A student\u2019s apt comment about one of his professor\u2019s lectures: \u201cIt took Sir William Ramsay sixteen years to discover helium; the Curies thirty years to find radium; yet in just 20 minutes, he produces tedium.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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