Odds and sods I look at regularly, just because they amuse me. I hope they do the same for you. Incidentally, I found this page’s title on Greg Ross’s Futility Closet (it’s somewhere on this page) in a mini-article which also includes the delightful sentence in Icelandic: Barbara Ara bar Ara araba bara rabbabara. Ross points out that this, “besides being fun to say, is spelled with only three letters. It means “Barbara, daughter of Ari, brought only rhubarb to Ari the Arab.”
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University Website
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Frogger
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The Onion
Letters To The Editor: Oil Change
Dear The Onion, I'd just like to say there's no reason to change your oil every 3,000 miles. Your car can make it to 5,000 easy. Don Schwarting, Saginaw, MI
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Several NBA Teams Interested In Shaq As A Person
NEW YORK—Officials from the Hawks, Celtics, and Heat expressed interest in Shaquille O'Neal as a person Wednesday, confirming league rumors that they believed the free agent center would be highly suitable for a long-term friendship.
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Tiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiin ROOF… busted [Amusing]
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Photoshop this crushed catcher [Photoshop]
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Weird Universe
Robo-Boss
A company called Anybots is coming out with a workplace robot for the office. An employee, or the boss, can remotely control the robot from home with a laptop. Wi Fi is the only necessity for operation. The robot sends video and audio to the user and verbally communicates the users words. The CEO of Anybots uses one to work … [Link]
Melodic Death Metal
Isn't "melodic death metal" a fine oxymoron? What could it possibly sound like? Well, here's a sample, as identified by THE METAL ARCHIVES.
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mental_floss Blog
Last Week’s Most Popular Stories
In case you weren’t obsessively refreshing mentalfloss.com all week, here’s what you missed: 
1. The Quick 10: 10 Bizarre Name Changes, by Stacy Conradt
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2. Drink Up! The Stories Behind 11 Regional Soft Drinks, by Scott Allen
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3. 7 Different Seven Wonders of the World, by Will Treece
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4. Niche Blogs: The English Language, by Miss Cellania … [Link]
My first _flosser sighting!
I’ve lived in Los Angeles for five years. I’ve also been writing for mental_floss for five years. Somehow it took five years to spot my first _flosser on the streets! I was parking my car on Beverly Blvd when I saw this nice, young gal walking toward me in one of our best-selling tees. Her name is Jennifer and she … [Link]
PassiveAggressiveNotes.com — funny (if not necessarily "passive-aggressive") notes from pissed-off people
Exes and Ohs
It all started when Erin in Toronto sent her uncle a Christmas card. Actually, scratch that — it all started three years ago, at Erin’s wedding, the last time Erin actually saw her uncle in person. Before the wedding, Erin explains, “Linda (my uncle’s girlfriend) RSVP’d that she’d attend, and then then didn’t bother to show up, meaning we had … [Link]
Little Dippers and Effeminate Stationery, Inc.
Spotted by Kelly at gas station somewhere between Los Angeles and Monterey, California: a prime example of why notewriters (and corporations) cannot live on spell-check alone. 
related: Stupid is as stuiped does
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Ironic Sans
Stop Moose and Squirrel
I really hoped there would be some sort of statue or monument when I got there. But no.
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How much for lower case?
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FMyLife
badeyebrows says FML
Today, I got my eyebrows done for the first time. I didn't like the results at all, and when I came home, I told my mom that they made me look angry. Her response was I always look like that. FML [Link]
Frustrated says FML
Today, I found out that my parents are constantly using me as an example for my younger brother. The bad example. Whenever he says or does something they don't like, they tell him he'll turn out exactly like me if he carries on. Cheers mum and dad. FML [Link]
Odd News | newslite.tv
Scantily-clad women distract male drivers
Men are more likely to be involved in a car accident over the summer – because they're distracted by scantily-clad women, it has been found.
A recent study discovered that in 2009, men made 16.4 percent more car insurance claims during the summer than women.
25 percent of blokes also admitted to having had a summertime crash at some point in the … [Link]
The Hoosiers to release record-breaking long song
A British band are set to become record breakers when their new single is released — because it's 43 minutes long.
This means 'Stop Giving Me Verses' by The Hoosiers will be the longest pop song ever to be released as a single in the UK.
It’s thought the release will also be the longest downloaded single in history.
The lengthy ditty was … [Link]
Cool Site of the Day
Cool Site of the Day – 7/31/10: Hoarding of Animals Research Consortium
Today’s Cool Site of the Day is Hoarding of Animals Research Consortium An informal group of individuals concerned about human and animal welfare, and interested in exploring the problem of animal hoarding to find more effective and humane solutions for this very problematic and poorly understood behavior. See it and rate it here (ONLY on the day featured. Otherwise, click the … [Link]
Test Post
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The Oatmeal – Comics, Quizzes, & Stories
Why Captain Higgins is my favorite parasitic flatworm
Dicrocoelium dendriticum, I salute you.View [Link]
Hungover Aliens
Two aliens having a nice discussion about their evening. View [Link]
Futility Closet
That Answers That
THE CHICKEN CROSSES THE ROAD is an anagram of SHE CHECKS CORN AT OTHER SIDE [Link]
“Remarkable Signature”
I send you what I regard as one of the most remarkable signatures ever devised by a writer. It is one which I have seen on hundreds of Government papers at Washington, D.C., where the man who uses it was for some years Expert Computer of the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey and Astronomer of the Carnegie Institution. His name … [Link]
Dilbert Daily Strip
Comic for July 31, 2010
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Comic for July 30, 2010
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Oddee –
10 Craziest Soccer Goal Celebrations
From fishing to boxing, meet ten of the coolest goal celebrations in soccer. [Link]
World's Coolest Bathrooms
People sometimes don't pay much attention, but a bathroom is the most important room in a building. Meet some of the craziest ones. [Link]
Featured Stories
Best in Blogs: WikiLeaks Revelations, Google Games Rumors, Facebook Answers – and Re-Leaking LeBron
The BP oil leak in the Gulf always seemed so remote and inaccessible. But this week we got a Web-friendly leak anybody can dive into: WikiLeaks' release of over 90,000 secret US military reports on the war in Afghanistan. This spew of new goo isn't just on the Anderson Cooper show. "The Diary is available on the web and can be … [Link]
Chelsea Clinton and the Biggest Wedding Ever
The biggest event of this weekend is Chelsea Clinton and Marc Mezvinsky's wedding, which will take place this Saturday, July 31 in Rhinebeck, New York and "will reportedly set back former President Bill Clinton and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton to the tune of $3-5 million" (via Bitten & Bound). Rhinebeck is a no-fly zone: The Daily Nightly notes … [Link]
Overheard in the Office
I Think I'd Find That Tough to Swallow, Sir.
Boss to subordinate: Hey, you should come back to my place for a big load!Newmarket
Ontario
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Only If I Can Take Photos
Office worker to secretary, in raspy voice: I need something to suck on, my throat is killing me.Reston, VirginiaOverheard by: Geoff Alsome | Thumbs up | Thumbs down | wtf? Link · Email · Quote this! · Del.icio.us · Posted 2010-07-30 [Link]
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