WHAT WE LOSE: An old-G.M. relic only slightly more exciting than stale milk.
There were none of the Eurovision gimmicks her competitors relied on, just a powerful woman with hair bigger than Estonia belting out a song that, unfortunately, proved to be slightly less exciting than Armenia.
There is just so much that Amy Weller does not know about her boyfriend, Mike Sacks, whom she has not seen for two weeks and who now goes by the slightly more exciting, grownup, and respectable name of michael sacks.
Typically surreal presenters like Miss World ("Ah teenk eet voz Ozcar Walde oo sayed... ") and Julie Andrews, (obviously reminded of slightly more exciting nights at the Albert Hall than this) presided over awards been given out to twentysomething non-entities.
88 mins Ed Poulton says "Staying late at work to catch the end of this thrilling encounter -probably slightly more exciting without seeing the pictures by the sounds of it... .. Go home.
Hailing from Compton, California, rapper Buddy is the latest signing to production duo the Neptunes' label Star Trak, which a few years ago might have been a slightly more exciting prospect than it is in 2011.
MH 7.49pm BST Some random Jack White thoughts 1. Am I alone in feeling that everything he's done since the White Stripes has been a slightly less exciting version of what he did with the White Stripes? 2. And that when he tries to be a team player, he's had his absolutely least exciting?
At the most basic level, it means you can have a first-person narration without the protagonist knowing what's going to happen (although going out on a dangerous adventure is slightly less exciting, because the diarist definitely got back safely to write it up).
We've heard rumblings that it might be the Pet Shop Boys, but then again, this sort of talk is what sent everyone up to the Park stage for Prince or possibly even Coldplay, only to be met with a slightly less exciting "gap between scheduled performances".
Meanwhile in the great plinth debate so beloved of Brian Cloughley, Julia Kite would like to cast her vote for end caps: "As in, they're at the end and they cap off the generally unexceptional aisle with something only slightly more exciting, but ultimately not as great as they seem.
