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Boring’s Community Planning Organization is due to vote on the idea at a meeting Tuesday, The Gresham Outlook reported.
Meanwhile, excitement is building in rural Perthshire.
Dull community councillor Marjorie Keddie told BBC News that, "everyone has been smiling at the prospect of the very eye-catching road sign this will inevitably require."
The BBC said Elizabeth Leighton, from Perthshire, came up with the idea after a cycling vacation in Oregon when she visited Boring.
Boring - population more than 12,000 - was named after William H. Boring, who fought on the Union side in the American civil war.
Dull, numbering less than 90, is thought to have got its name from the Gaelic words for a meadow or possibly a snare, the BBC said.
There is, inevitably, already a Dull & Boring Facebook page.
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I think Dull, instead of reinforcing their 'dull' image with this union, could brighten it considerably by considering, instead, a partnership with Intercourse, PA.
Dull Intercourse is nothing new.
Perhaps Bright, IN could be considered? ;)
Not with a woman I know who now lives in Boring, OR.! She was great!
I think its fun and cute. What the heck!
I also think intercourse is fun, with the right person!
*Yawn*
I'm living in the shadow of Doubt.
I'm living in the shadow of Doubt.
Well, why are you on this article then, SallyAnn-4595694? Aren't there like a bazillion guys that want to date you right now? Otherwise, we need the ROFLCopter on this story.
I think this article should have been posted on the Facebook page...
When you tell someone to 'Go to Hell', be sure to give directions...it's in Michigan.
And the next logical step is for Fukking, Austria to sister up with Intercourse, Pennsylvania, right? These combinations are almost as fun as Leno's "Headlines" weddings.
Meanwhile, in other news, residents of Sleepy Eye, MN, had considered a similar request from Dull, Scotland, but were too tired to respond...
Bob, too funny. That reminds me of an actual headline in a local Minnesota paper years ago:
"Fertile woman dies in Climax". (Fertile, MN and Climax, MN are about 30 miles apart--one can only imagine what slogans they share when their sports teams play each other!)
If Boring, OR turns them down, they can always invite Boring, MD (in Baltimore County...the Wikipedia link wouldn't post, but you can google it).
Dang, I didn't know Boring had grown so much, I wonder if it has more than a gas station/general store and a blinking red light now. I gots to get back to the West Coast.
It one of the best places to live. The whole west coast is great, but it's starting to get crowded, too many people come here on vacation, then go home, sell out and move here. OR used to have a sign that said "thanks for visiting, now leave." or something on that order.
But every area has its good parts and bad parts, we just don't talk about the bad parts.
Um SallyAnn, last I heard there are 7 Billion people on this planet. The west coast isn't the only place that is crowded. Get over it.
High Point NC is in between Horny Town and Climax. Boy, our ancestors were fun!
Speaking of West Coast, we don't get "Intercourse" or "Climax", but we DO have Humptulips, WA!
PA not only has Intercourse, but Bird-In-Hand, Pillow, Red Cross...and my personal favorite, Rough and Ready. :)
Love this story - but I Heard this over a month ago on NPR--where has MSNBC been.
I also have been to Boring OR, prfetty town. ANd the OR Sign that said thanks for visiting now leave was reputedly on the border with California.
They forgot a very important place in Oregon. Drain, Oregon. Why would you keep the name of Drain for your town?
Fascinating "news" article .....
I am a direct descendant of the founder of Boring, OR - Boring, MD and Boreing, KY. Interesting to see this in the news!
That would be a snappy sign and I'm sure the sister cities would visit each other and get many photos with each other...nice to see a normal story or note of interest reported or in the media.
They could join up with 'pity f***,norway'