I stumbled across the Yellow Pages entry for Boring
while looking for something else beginning with B. I told my brother, at the time working as IT Support for an office of Civil Engineers while studying to become one. He got out his Yellow Pages, photocopied the relevant page and put it on their noticeboard. They then started passing the information on to their fellow Civ Engs.

That was 15 years ago. Every so often someone tells me about it, and I like to think I first publicised it.
( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Wed 14 Jan 2009, 15:15, 1 reply)

Years too late
I studied mechanical engineering from 1982 - 5. The relevant entry from the Yellow Pages was always on display on the departmental notice board - every so often a civil engineer would notice and remove it, only for a mechanical, electrical or chemical engineer to replace it within, ooh, ten minutes or so.

To be fair, though, civil engineers are intensely boring. Not too quick on the uptake, either, since the posted section normally lasted about two weeks between removal/replacements.
(ubergeekian, Wed 14 Jan 2009, 18:20, closed)