Boring Conference Still Vows: We Will Not Rock You

Posted by timothy on Saturday December 1, 2012 @11:29PM from the boring-like-good-birth-control dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The Boring 2012 Conference, the celebration of unexciting things served with dry British humor, now belongs to the wastepaper basket of history. Correspondents at the third annual London conference report that speakers covered a range of such dull topics as supermarket self-service checkouts; a photographic survey of results produced by breakfast toasters; a web site tracking the physical heights of celebrities; and the use of Google Maps to the chart the location of IBM cash registers around London." Funny thing is, the talks described actually sound fascinating.

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misread by ipquickly · 2012-12-01 23:45 · Score: 4, Funny

I accidentally misread "a photographic survey" as "pornographic survey" and for a fraction of a second this article became more interesting.
Then I re-read it and the feeling subsided.
Wait until you read by Neil_Brown · 2012-12-01 23:50 · Score: 3, Funny

my 677 page summary of proceedings — it's in point 8 Times New Roman, three columns to the A5 page.
1. Re:Wait until you read by pr0nbot · 2012-12-02 00:09 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  I invite you to submit it to the prestigious Journal of Universal Rejection for peer review.