A phrase used to describe long, pointless stories that go nowhere and provide no entertainment value whatsoever.
The term originated from an extermely boring story concerning boiled rice at a Chinese restaurant, a story which is said to have cured insomnia countless times.
Michelle: ...So like basically there was a half of a cup of water in the house, with stuff floating in it.....it was time to go to Tesco.
Me: WTF? I don't want to hear about boiled rice.
When you eat out your wife or girlfriend's hot, juicy, sweaty and mungy ass after she's been seated at an outdoor event in a hot stadium seat for a few hours. Very popular during the summer baseball season.
After another great Cardinals victory on a hot July day, Frank got his wife back home right after the game and she fed him a juicy boiled ham dinner.
A night-owl radio operator who has been operating all night until morning or routinely does so. Often aged, but not always, and unlike the unrelated description of a female human, this definition has little to do with appearance other than that it may be disheveled and more to do with a ragged state of body and mind. "Boiled" ostensibly due to heat and radiation from the transmitter(s) as well as suffering the effects of excessive coffee and cigarettes. An official image of a Boiled Owl exists on the cover of December 1923 "QST" magazine.
The "Order of Boiled Owls": The official order of same. A limited and specific club of amateur radio operators in New York. Specialty is contests and "DXCC". Call sign KW2O, meets monthly in members homes, membership limited to about 15 persons as that is what can fit in a typical home. No doubt of the kind who stay up all night feverishly operating high powered radio equipment in order to make as many "contacts" as possible.
Harry felt like a Boiled Owl after operating all night to Australia.
The radiomen were a bunch of Boiled Owls after operating that global disaster for 27 hours straight.