Vladimir Putin has boasted that Russia is planning to build a base on the moon. The idea is that astronauts will live there permanently. When they were asked if they really wanted to spend the rest of their lives in a barren, lifeless, empty landscape, the Russians said...

"No. That's why we want to go to the moon."

There isn't enough recognition for the farmer who used his barren field to host the first Bovine Boxing tournament

He gave up an awful lot to see some bulls hit.

There hasn't been enough recognition for the farmer who decided to put his barren field to use and host the first Bovine Boxing tournament

He gave up an awful lot to see some bulls hit.

Vladimir Putin has boasted that Russia is planning to build a base on the moon. The idea is that astronauts will live there permanently. When they were asked if they really wanted to spend the rest of their lives in a barren, lifeless, empty landscape, the Russians said...

"No. That's why we want to go to the moon."

What would you eat if you were stranded on a completely barren deserted isle?

The sand which is on the ground.

NASA's New Horizons probe has shown that Pluto is a remote, hostile, and barren planet...

this means it's now the front-runner to be awarded the next Fifa World Cup.

A horny sailor comes back from a year long journey at sea...

and after many lonely nights, he vows to himself that the first thing he will do once he hits land is to get laid. Sure enough, as the ship comes to port, he heads to the closest brothel.

Unfortunately, the last voyage was a miserable failure, and he returned with less money than he set off with!

The Madame of the brothel asks him, "What'll it be, boy?"

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When he was writing Gravity's Rainbow, Thomas Pynchon lived alone in a tiny motel room in a border town in Mexico, the only decoration a small statue of a pig on his barren, scarred desk.

I guess you might say he was Pynchon pennies.

A barren woman is...

just inconceivable.