Posted By: Tom Hustler

By Sara LedwithThu Nov 9, 10:48 AM ET

LONDON, Nov 9 (Reuters Life) - Looking for safe excitement?
November is fig month at the Dull Men's Club, a place in
cyberspace for men who feel "born to be mild" and enjoy
watching grass grow and photographing garden sheds.
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"Figs are good for you. High fibre and high nutritional
value ... fat-free, sodium-free, cholesterol-free ... not to
mention the great taste. And they are portable," enthuses the
Dull Men's Club Web site (http://www.dullmen.com) just above
its choice of "Anorak of the Month".

While the rest of the Web teems with hazards -- Trojans,
viruses, bots, phishers, spyware and other people - this
monochrome haven boasts "no violence or scary scenes" and does
its best to exclude exclamation marks.

Instead, an analysis of baggage carousels at 376 airports
globally discovers that 44.8 percent rotate counterclockwise,
29 percent clockwise. The site also reveals the reason for that
orientation.

"Many people - corporate executives and celebrities I've
heard about - enjoy doing the dull things," the site's author
Lee Carlson, also known as Grover Click, told Reuters.

"It's an ordinary subject taken to extremes. Here's one:
take a bucket, fill it with water, put in some wood, and watch
it warp."

For the Dull Men's Club, watching water freeze is stimulus
enough, as is discovering the history of soap.

One of the more adventurous pastimes for members is "Binge
Flossing" - partly because it is "an inexpensive thing to do on
a date".

Visiting museums is a favourite dull men's activity, and
the site contains references to a plethora of resources, from
safety razors through aprons to water hydrants, via a comb
museum in China and Jerusalem's Tax Museum.

"One of the museum's purposes was to be a place to learn
about the routine work of the tax department. Wow ... it
doesn't get much better than that," enthuses the site.

Women are excluded from the site's host society, the
"National Council of Dull Men, Washington, D.C."

Carlson - a semi-retired former tax accountant -- founded
the society with a few friends along the lines of gentlemen's
clubs in London and New York, to share common interests.

"Our view is that women are not dull. Women are exciting.
Moreover, we think women would be offended if we said they were
dull ... that it would be politically incorrect to refer to
women as being dull," the site says.

"We also question what they might do if they were in one of
our meeting rooms. The first thing they probably would do is
rearrange the furniture. We like our furniture where it already
is."

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