Then instead of tedious Cabinet reshuffles, leaders could introduce their team with: 'This is Mrs. Armitage from the newsagents.
"Ugh, more tedious DRS controversy" is an often-repeated line for those of us on over-by-over duty at the Guardian.
Those hoping for more, however, are likely to be disappointed, as Van Rompuy has denied rumours that he occasionally scribbles new verses in tedious EU meetings.
Perhaps you'd be happier to plough your way through three hours of tedious Hallmark stodge starring Sam Neill, Helena Bonham Carter, Miranda Richardson twice and James Earl Jones as a pile of narky gravel.
And I was sad that, for Americans, Philip Pullman's evocative "Northern Lights" became the tedious "Golden Compass".Often, though, one has no idea that the title one knows and loves has been dreamed up by a translator.
Much of his music uses only one pitch, and his abrasively tedious Fifth Quartet centers on F. Notes held over long periods are shaded with microtonal fluctuations and abruptly interrupted by staccato segments.
Following the flop of electoral reform, these contests are the most significant constitutional change the coalition is introducing – far more important than the tedious House of Lords reform that looks likely only to bring in more party jobsworths.
As subscribers to the view that even the most tedious Champions League group game automatically trumps the FA Cup, they will doubtless be a little puzzled by Steve Clarke's outburst.
On one level, there was an etiolated form of disco represented here by Will Powers' tedious "Adventures In Success"; but more significant breakthroughs were being made by Talking Heads with the itchy precision of "Born Under Punches", and particularly by their spin-off project The Tom Tom Club, whose "Genius Of Love" was an early electro-funk milestone.
For years, it seemed, women in science were like Alice Through the Looking Glass, racing frantically alongside that tedious Red Queen only to be told, sorry, m'dear, "it takes all the running you can do to keep in the same place".
