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 » Goose… goose… DUCK [Scary]
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Fark.com RSS » Two are dead and twenty others have been shot since Friday as Chicago looks to take back its 'murder capital of the U.S.' title after the long and harsh winter [Scary]
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Fark.com RSS » A hot lesbian starts a business in conservative flyover country, only to be hounded and run out of town. Just kidding… "I never felt so accepted and so helped, from Day 1" [Cool]
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Fark.com RSS » Five things you should always buy used. Sorry, Pervy McPervyson, but panties aren't on the list [Obvious]
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Fark.com RSS » CBS would like you to know that we are all about to die a screaming bloody death [Scary]
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Fark.com RSS » A look at why certain regions have developed incorrect dialects that allow them to say words with unstressed syllables, like "Probly" [Sick]
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Mental Floss » A No-Spoilers Review of Tonight's "Game of Thrones" Premiere
Jaime Lannister has a new haircut! [Link]
Fark.com RSS » The first rule of Church Fight Club is NEVER talk about Church Fight Club [Silly]
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Fark.com RSS » Two Orlando-area entrepreneurs develop smartphone application that disables the texting function on phones when they are in motion, hoping to put an end to dangerous driving, walking [Florida]
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Fark.com RSS » Girl who sued her parents to pay for college finds another way. No, it's not porn [Followup]
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Fark.com RSS » There have now been three different ships that have picked up signals from the Indian Ocean. However, before everyone gets their hopes up, "What we've got here are fleeting, fleeting acoustic events … that's all we've got" [Foll
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Fark.com RSS » Stop me if you've heard this one: Armed "pro-Russian demonstrators" attempt to seize government buildings in cities in Eastern Ukraine [Scary]
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Fark.com RSS » 79-year-old substitute teacher quits her job rather than delete all her Facebook friends [Asinine]
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Fark.com RSS » Photoshop this wall of bugs [Photoshop]
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Fark.com RSS » Armed robbery suspect was wearing white pants, a long plaid coat.. Detectives and fashion police are on the lookout [Stupid]
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Fark.com RSS » "How the NSA sees the world" interactive graphic. Subby's email was just forwarded to the NSA for submitting this [Interesting]
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Weird Universe » D U FLY?
As you can see a goose flew right into the windshield of a car shattering the windshield, and the goose as well, from the look of it. Seeing as this happened in Golden, Colorado it makes one wonder if the goose may have been flying drunk. Where is Avians Against Drunk Fliers when you need them?? [Link]
Fark.com RSS » "I now pronounce you man and wife." And then the hellfire erupted [Fail]
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Fark.com RSS » Cop pulls gun on children because building a tree house is 'hazardous'. Which is true when you take into account the gun-wielding power trippers who hate childhood [Asinine]
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Futility Closet » Unquote
Image: Wikimedia Commons “[John] von Neumann gave me an interesting idea: that you don’t have to be responsible for the world that you’re in. So I have developed a very powerful sense of social irresponsibility as a result of von Neumann’s advice. It’s made me a very happy man ever since. But it was von Neumann who put the seed in … [Link]
Fark.com RSS » The most photographed places on earth, besides your mom's bedroom [Interesting]
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Fark.com RSS » Body language can be tricky for the untrained observer to read, despite the widespread belief that it's easy to tell when someone's lying. Are you sure you could spot a liar without knowing if they were elected to Congress or not? [Interestin
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Fark.com RSS » EU to require electric vehicles to emit noise to alert pedestrians of their presence. Subby wants his car to make that Jetsons's bloop-bloop-bloop- bloop sound [Interesting]
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Fark.com RSS » If it walks like a Rembrandt and talks like a Rembrandt… It's probably a Rembrandt [Spiffy]
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Fark.com RSS » No, no it isn't [Sad]
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Fark.com RSS » 20,000 kids began to riot when the Santa Barbara police react to the annual Deltopia party by shooting rubber bullets into the crowd. Well, as you might expect, it pretty much went downhill from there [Obvious]
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Fark.com RSS » "An argument between two men at Chuck E. Cheese escalated into an all-out fist fight, forcing Chuck E. Cheese Cast Members to break away from their normal job and break up the fight." So, Chuck E. Cheese is now Thunderdome [Silly]
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Fark.com RSS » If you need another reason to avoid eating at Chili's, the company supports the National Autism Association and is donating 10% of all customer checks to the NAA on April 7th. The problem? NAA is notoriously anti-vaccination [PSA]
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FMyLife » lamemom says FML
Today, my friend saw a stamp on my hand and asked me which club I had gone to last night. I was so desperate to seem cool that I lied, instead of admitting it was actually from a children's play group that I took my kids to. FML [Link]
Fark.com RSS » 180,000 eggs poached [Florida]
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Mental Floss » Weekend Links: A Photobooth Mystery
Talk about self(ie)-obsessed: One man patronized a photobooth 445 times over 30 years, and we have the pictures to prove it. * One very skilled seamstress has made sure her daughter’s dress-up box blows every other child’s out of the water, constructing over a dozen replica Disney costumes (princesses, villains, and Mary Poppins alike) in miniature for a child who … [Link]
FMyLife » FaceTime issues says FML
Today, I called my mom to ask for some help with my dishwasher. Somehow, the call got turned into a video call. I was wearing a bathrobe, and she was naked in her bathroom. Most awkward call ever. FML [Link]
Fark.com RSS » More doctors than patients are in favor of legalizing marijuana. And if you thought your waiting room time was long now, just watch [Interesting]
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Fark.com RSS » "Some of our stories are heartbreakingly tragic. But so many are also mind-numbingly strange. In Florida, we do weird the way Kansas does wheat" [Florida]
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Mental Floss » Michigan State Offers a Course on How to Survive a Zombie Apocalypse
Our institutions of higher education are finally teaching students things they'll actually need in the real world. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Malaysia and Australia vow not to give up until there is closure on the missing Malaysia Airlines jet. CNN to continue its place as the Crash News Network [Followup]
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Fark.com RSS » Ivan Hurtado Lopez, who was in the army and even stationed at Fort Hood would like to let everyone to know that he is not and never has been a Fort Hood shooter [Followup]
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Fark.com RSS » If you plan on transporting fifteen pounds of heroin from California to Oklahoma then for the love of FSM follow traffic laws so you don't end up like this woman [Dumbass]
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Fark.com RSS » 50 ways to reuse your garbage. Keep this list handy for the next time when your siblings show up unannounced at your door and throw a surprise intervention to try and convince you that you're a hoarder [Spiffy]
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FMyLife » Crackroom says FML
Today, I went to Six Flags. As I watched the people on a rollercoaster go around the loop, a man's hat fell off his head, but as they came to the bottom of the loop, he caught it. I now have to live with the fact that I will never be as cool as that guy. FML [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Cornell University student decides to find out the most painful place to get stung by a bee. The answer may surprise you. Fark: The only test subject was himself [Stupid]
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Fark.com RSS » OMG after 14 hours baby is coming out now #inlabor #ouch [Scary]
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Fark.com RSS » The hazmat team is going to be real busy if they have to be called out every time a suspicious powder in found in a college dorm room [Interesting]
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Fark.com RSS » There is a new front opening in the microbrewery/megabrewery battle [Florida]
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Fark.com RSS » Photoshop this fighter/mage [Photoshop]
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Weird Universe » Windostep
[Click to enlarge]
I'd like to see anyone trust their life to this thing above the first floor of a house.
And what a weird come-on. "Live in a house?" No, a barn!
Original ad here. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » "Guns are a part of our lives" says man who is outraged that pictures he sent to People Magazine of his wife for a beauty contest were rejected because she was holding a gun (with beauty contest pics) [Fail]
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Fark.com RSS » Dumb: Taking a 1 year-old on a sailboat in an attempt to circumnavigate the globe. Dumber: Taking her even though she was sick before you left. Fark: Spending money rescuing these people [Asinine]
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Weird Universe » Bug Invasion
In July 1957, Hastings Minnesota was invaded by fish flies. Millions of them. So many that they piled up on roads in enormous drifts and prevented cars from getting through.
From the History of Hastings blog:
The cops were called. The Fire Department was called. State highway sanders were useless against the combined efforts of the millions of fish flies … [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Not news: man tries to climb on roof of car. News: man tries to climb on roof of MOVING car. Scotland: man tries to climb on roof of moving POLICE car [Strange]
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Fark.com RSS » Sick of high casualty rates on away missions, Red Shirts threaten civil war [Interesting]
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Fark.com RSS » Tree camera captures a "young Yowie", also known as the Australian Bigfoot, creeping around in the woods at night. Sleep tight Australian farkers (w/creepy video) [Weird]
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Weird Universe » News of the Weird (April 6, 2014)
News of the Weird
Weirdnuz.M365, April 6, 2014
Copyright 2014 by Chuck Shepherd
Lead Story
“The trucks full of paperwork come every day,” wrote the Washington Post in March, down a country road in Boyers, Pa., north of Pittsburgh, and descend “into the earth”–into a reconditioned former limestone mine–to deliver federal retiree applications to the eight “supermarket”-sized caverns 230 feet … [Link]
FMyLife » Anonymous says FML
Today, I had to take a drug test for a new job. I ended up spilling the cup of pee all over myself. I had to explain what had happened, then go sit in a waiting room full of disgusted-looking people, while I kept drinking water to fill my bladder back up. FML [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Strawberry chocolate shrimp chips: For when you want sweets plus seafood and/or are pregnant [Interesting]
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Futility Closet » Langton’s Ant
Set an ant down on a grid of squares and ask it to follow two rules: If you find yourself on a white square, turn 90° right, change the color of the square to black, and move forward one unit. If you find yourself on a black square, turn 90° left, change the color of the square to white, and … [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Coming up live at the top of the hour it's Livingston Stapler Company Presents. Two hours of eclectic music from Juneau, Alaska, hosted by a farker [Spiffy]
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Fark.com RSS » "Officers found Nicole Elizabeth Huey, 29, at the wheel with a hamster on her lap… Three officers chased the loose hamster before one could trap it with a container made from an evidence tube. Huey was arrested on an accusation of DUI" [Fol
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Fark.com RSS » The Atlanta Archbishop had a sweet multi-million dollar crib all to himself, until that meddling Pope Francis came on the scene with all his "church for the poor" and "live modestly" crazy-talk [Interesting]
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FMyLife » as-salamu alaykum, motherfucker says FML
Today, I was having my birthday party. My dad showed up late, blind drunk, and drove his car straight through my garage door. FML [Link]
FMyLife » Anonymous says FML
Today, a week after moving into my new house, I'm seriously considering suing the previous occupant. He failed to mention how the neighbor has his own band and rehearses every other day until 2am. Their music is so bad, it sounds like the wailing of a cat being tortured to death. FML [Link]
Fark.com RSS » So I'm guilty, eh? Whatever. Can I get a drink? [Dumbass]
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FMyLife » =( says FML
Today, I had to tell my ex that I'm pregnant with his baby. I sent him a casual "Hey :)" text to try to ease into things. He replied, "WHO THE FUCK IS THIS?" and ended up threatening to make my life hell if I don't tell my new boyfriend that the child is his. FML [Link]
Fark.com RSS » A handy chart to show you how much you should have for retirement by now. For those under 35, 'retirement' is a thing that used to happen at 65, after working at the same job for 35 – 40 years. Now… lunch break is over, back to that fryer [
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Fark.com RSS » A rival kindergarten has better enrollment. Do you A) advertise more B) educate better or C) poison students of rival school? [Sick]
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Fark.com RSS » Muslim parents are worried that Christians are trying to recruit their children through Easter Egg hunt propoganda distributed in schools [Unlikely]
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Fark.com RSS » NYC Police: car flips into Queens creek; four killed. Hey, I've got an idea – let's leave the colon out of the headline [Fail]
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Fark.com RSS » Two hot chicks take selfie during riot. Let's photoshop them [Photoshop]
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