1.   Absent a second breathing device, I passed on watching paint dry.

2.   Most people, including financial backers, might consider a series about plants to be about as exciting as watching paint dry.

3.   The Thin Red Line I equate watching this movie to be about as exciting as watching paint dry and equally as emotionally stirring.

4.   To the uninitiated, the idea of watching an on-line auction is about as exciting as watching paint dry.

5.   Watching the Brewers is as exciting as watching paint dry, if the paint is an interesting color.

6.   With traditional phone lines, even using the fastest modems now available, many customers find that surfing the Net is as exciting as watching paint dry.

7.   This difficult task was made harder by the lack of popularity of politics among teenagers, which must rank somewhere between having root canal work and watching paint dry.

8.   Although yachting has been compared to the excitement of watching paint dry, big knots of people form in shopping malls and streets in the land as events progress.