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And, of course, it was like watching paint dry.

But there were still hundreds of hours left, and watching it was like watching paint dry.

After a few minutes of watching the house show, it occurred to me that this really is like watching paint dry.

"It has been like watching paint dry, because in spite of the ad recovery, the numbers just don't seem to be moving."

It would be like watching paint dry."

"Discussing satellite policy is like watching paint dry.

And don't sneer that watching the America's Cup is like watching paint dry, or grass grow.

'Doubt it: this one's said bugger all the whole night Been like watching paint dry.'

Despite mygrande aptitude à la patience it's been like watching paint dry.'

The remake was like watching paint dry while your girlfriend tells you about her latest dream and your mum fills you in on the village gossip.

"Following this company has been like watching paint dry," said Peter H. Oakes, a Merrill Lynch analyst who is bullish on Luby's.

Maybe viewing Michelangelo Antonioni's BLOW-UP (1966) is like watching paint dry at times, but it's great-looking paint.

The plot has also been gussied up with a bit more action, at the suggestion of Mr. Marsden, who complained that "to play a talking head for two hours is like watching paint dry."

"Any business in Treasury paper on Friday will be like watching paint dry," said Mark A. McCluskey, chief Treasury securities trader at the New York branch of Bank Julius Baer of Zurich.

Adrienne McWilliams, a sales representative at WABC Radio who served on the jury, said listening to the evidence "was like watching paint dry - it was document after document, and it was basically pretty boring."