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.”
Fark.com RSS » Good news: Author says lawyers will be obsolete soon. Bad news: Because law will be controlled by bitcoin technology [Interesting]
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Fark.com RSS » Double whammy. Step one: forbid food trucks in order to protect the local restaurant industry. Step two: make the law apply to all trucks so churches cannot feed the homeless [Asinine]
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Fark.com RSS » Checking the leaderboard, Switzerland vaults to first-place for "most likely to have a Polonium-210 incident" [Obvious]
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Fark.com RSS » On this date, a day that will live in infamy, Florida became a U.S. territory [Florida]
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Fark.com RSS » Criminal masterminds attempt to deposit three billion fake Euros into a Vatican bank [Dumbass]
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FMyLife » Cult says FML
Today, I found out that my favorite band logo is no longer being used by said band because of copyright issues. I have this logo tattooed on my body. FML [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Crimean Tatars plan to declare autonomous territory in Crimea. Certainly no one would have a problem with this. Heck, barely anyone would even notice, right? [Unlikely]
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Fark.com RSS » The same old story: Man raised in family where father smuggles 50 tons of pot worth $6 million over his career, only to spend the fortune on hookers and blow [Sad]
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Fark.com RSS » Photoshop theme: Euphoria [Photoshop]
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Fark.com RSS » Nørway unimpressed with Mønty Pythøn røad signs [Amusing]
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Weird Universe » News of the Weird (March 30, 2014)
News of the Weird
Weirdnuz.M364, March 30, 2014
Copyright 2014 by Chuck Shepherd
Lead Story
Kevin Walters, 21, staged an emotional though unsuccessful, one-man, chained-to-the-door protest in March to prevent the closing of a commercial rest stop along the Jane Addams Memorial Tollway near Des Plaines, Ill. Ultimately, the “Des Plaines Oasis,” housing shops and fast-food restaurants along with a … [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Where is the best place to install new hiking and biking trails? Why, how about right next to a new hide-speed rail line? [Florida]
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FMyLife » Anonymous says FML
Today, I asked my daughter to buy me two pints of milk. Apparently, the shop only had four-pints, so she got that and poured half down the drain. FML [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Remember that third grader who wanted to make the woolly mammoth the "State Fossil" of South Carolina? Well her bill has just been blocked by two state senators because Jesus [Asinine]
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Fark.com RSS » "The deputy held the bull's head above water for 45 minutes so the 1,000 pound animal wouldn't drown, and another deputy stood by with a gun to watch out for alligators" [Florida]
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Futility Closet » False Alarm
I’ve had some incredible experiences with lyrebirds of late in Sydney’s southwest. Recently on the Old Ford Road, Kentlyn, I observed a male in full display on his mound, going through a repertoire of vocal impressions that would have put Peter Sellers to shame. Among the imitations I recognised were kookaburra, currawong, butcherbird, cockatoo and even a small dog. But … [Link]
Mental Floss » Weekend Links: Beer for Trekkers
Star Trek fans will soon have an official alcoholic beverage of choice with the launch of Warnog, a beer with notes of clove, caramel, and banana, perfect to accompany a rousing conversation in Klingon. * Editors at The American Scholar have compiled a list of their Ten Best Sentences in classic literature: the kind of sentences that “just blew you … [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Did you hear about the guy searching for mushrooms who cut open a dead porcupine looking for rare minerals and found a baby? (Awwww inducing pic included) [Sappy]
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Fark.com RSS » Searchers finally recover mysterious objects in the Indian Ocean, identify them as "fishing equipment and flotsam" [Followup]
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Fark.com RSS » Skeletons dug up by railway tunnel workers in London are now confirmed to have died of the Black Death. And so it begins [Scary]
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Mental Floss » 8 Old Prodigy Ads Explaining Why You Need the Internet
"Prodigy even has a 21-volume electronic encyclopedia that's updated quarterly." [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Deputy shoots man after catching couple having sex in a community pool. To be fair to the deputy, he could see the man was coming right at him [Florida]
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Fark.com RSS » Locked your keys in your car and don't want to wait hours and pay one of those greedy tow truck drivers to come out and pop your car door open? Why not call 911 and tell them you've locked your baby in the car? I'm sure they'll be hap
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Fark.com RSS » A corruption case that involves a bankrupt southern California city, unethical private eyes, bribed politicos and a rural female hillbilly. Philip Marlowe unavailable for comment [Strange]
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Fark.com RSS » Senegal's Interior Ministry: Shut. Down. Everything [Scary]
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Fark.com RSS » ♫ Bang, bang, Maxwell's silver hammer came down upon her head. Bang, bang, Maxwell's silver hammer made sure that she was dead ♫ [Sick]
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Fark.com RSS » Passengers upset after cruise ship changes itinerary because they had to pick up 41 Cubans floating in the sea [Florida]
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Mental Floss » Read '12 Years a Slave' Online, Free
12 Years a Slave won Best Picture at the Academy Awards this year, and for good reason—it's a terrific movie. But it's also a terrific book. The film is based on an 1853 memoir by Solomon Northup. The memoir was republished in 1968 after decades of research by historian Sue Eakin. Now you can read 12 Years a Slave online … [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Typhoid Mary actually has a considerably sympathetic back story if Hollywood ever wanted to make a movie about her. "When, if ever, is it justifiable to sacrifice the liberty of one for the health of many?" [Interesting]
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FMyLife » ohdear. says FML
Today, while searching a woman for contraband as part of my job, she kept making sexual noises throughout. After I finished, she hugged me and went on her way. I really need a new job. FML [Link]
FMyLife » unlucky says FML
Today, I dislocated my shoulder. My doctor failed to fix it, but did succeed in practically dislocating the other one. FML [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Nine edible weeds. That's "edible," not "smokable" [Interesting]
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Fark.com RSS » Believe it or not there is a sick and perverted subculture of humans who actually enjoy volunteering their time to helping complete strangers fill out their tax forms for free [Weird]
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Fark.com RSS » Omaha World-Herald columnist claims to have found the best beer in Nebraska. Chances are, it's just Bud Light [PSA]
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Fark.com RSS » When transporting 15 kilograms of cocaine in a car that is not registered to you, make sure that the tail light isn't faulty and for the love of FSM don't give them consent to search the vehicle using their drug dog, 'cause it never ends
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Fark.com RSS » Photoshop this clunker [Photoshop]
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Fark.com RSS » Danish identical twins are professional gypsy brewers and hate each other, to the extent of one brother designing high-alcohol extreme beer to troll the other. "It's not a beer I'd drink, but it came out excellent, and it gets crazy high
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Weird Universe » The Aswang
Learn about the Filipino vampire known as the "aswang" here and here, then watch the documentary above. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Search teams 'tantalizingly close' to finding the wreckage of missing flight MH370, Bigfoot, Loch Ness Moster [Obvious]
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Fark.com RSS » One state is seeing a battle between feral cats and birds [Florida]
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Fark.com RSS » Teenagers have grown tired of smoking cigarettes and marijuana, have instead turned to smoking…coffee, of all things [Strange]
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Weird Universe » Pregnant by Morning
It's not exactly the most romantic title ever. Available from Amazon
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Fark.com RSS » Small explosive devices found on school playground. And if that wasn't disturbing enough, one of the devices was found inside a toy [Scary]
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Fark.com RSS » I see your beautiful home-schooled wife and raise you my kinky as hell private educated wife [Interesting]
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Fark.com RSS » Although fewer clowns will make most of us feel safer, they fail to see the funny side [Obvious]
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Fark.com RSS » Man who attached a photograph of his penis to his résumé given the shaft [Amusing]
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Futility Closet » In a Word
jubate
adj. having a mane Oliver Herford said that at the New York Public Library one “learned the meaning of the expression ‘reading between the lions.’” [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Subby went to church youth group to meet girls. What's so wrong with that? Ohh….. (with the saddest of mugshots) [Dumbass]
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Fark.com RSS » I don't always fly in a plane, but when I do, I take loads of gorgeous women [Cool]
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Fark.com RSS » If you are told to stay away from alcohol as part of your probation for DUI charges, you probably shouldn't brag about drinking the night before and somehow passing a random breathalyzer test on Facebook [Fail]
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Fark.com RSS » Wal-Mart sues VISA over swipe fees. Say what? Wal-Mart swipes VISA cards? Do they sell them on the black market too? [Interesting]
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Fark.com RSS » Tornado warning in western Butte County, California. Hide yer cornhole, NorCal [News]
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FMyLife » the other guy? says FML
Today, I was watching last week's episode of The Walking Dead with my girlfriend. When the gang leader explained the rules of the group to Daryl, I reached over, grabbed my girlfriend's boobs and yelled, "Claimed!" She shot back, "Yeah, they are. But not by you." FML [Link]
FMyLife » disgusted says FML
Today, my parents and I attended the funeral of my husband's mother. It was open-casket, and my parents went to take a look. My mum muttered, "With a dress that tacky, no wonder she died", and my dad chuckled. A fight quickly erupted, and the police were called. FML [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Americans and others: What, if any, Canadian TV shows do you watch and enjoy? [Survey]
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FMyLife » Galaxy says FML
Today, my girlfriend texted me, telling me to come home quickly, because she had a "surprise" waiting for me. I convinced my boss to let me go home, and rushed out. Turns out the "surprise" was just that she'd bought herself a pet bunny. FML [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Do you really want your grandchildren fighting over who gets your dildo? [Sick]
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Fark.com RSS » Spec's Liquor Stores gets new prescription glasses, realizes they've been hacked the past 17 months [Stupid]
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Fark.com RSS » Now that we have science, do we truly need philosophy? Well, we do need philosophy majors; otherwise, who would staff our Starbucks, our Buffalo Wild Wings, and our Barnes & Nobles? [Obvious]
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Fark.com RSS » Something known as "Earth Hour" is scheduled for 8:30 PM Central. Is that like a big birthday party where everyone drinks? [Silly]
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Fark.com RSS » RIP USS Miami, SSN-755, decommissioned today and headed off to the scrap yard. A boat that proudly served in three different conflicts was destroyed by a lazy shipyard worker who wanted to leave work early [Sad]
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Fark.com RSS » Photoshop this heated ritual [Photoshop]
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