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> I am not a native English speaker, so in a first moment I interpreted "boring machine," not as a machine that makes holes, but as a machine that... makes you bored (it does not amuse you). :-)

Lol! I had a similar reaction. A good source of playing with words...

Boring Tunnel Machine
Turing Machine (Turing being a contraction of Tu[nnel] [Bo]ring).

G.