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 » Latest in marijuana slang? 'Don't pull a Maureen Dowd" [Spiffy]
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Fark.com RSS » Judge says there is no constitutional right to cold beer [PSA]
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Mental Floss » 9 Internet-Famous Cats Who Were Adopted
It's Adopt-a-Cat Month! The Internet’s newest superstar could be waiting for you at the local animal shelter. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » The FBI has a hilariously outdated glossary of internet slang words. ROFL [Amusing]
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Fark.com RSS » Chicken pot pie nuggets [Amusing]
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Fark.com RSS » Michael Bay to revise Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles for accuracy; turtle power [Interesting]
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Fark.com RSS » "I'm not staggering, I have back problems." says mother of the year candidate with two teens in the car and an award winning booking photo [Stupid]
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Fark.com RSS » "Sorry, Mom. I'll go to class now" [Sad]
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Fark.com RSS » Denver police frisk suspect four times, apparently decide that anything smaller than a breadbox can't really be very important [Fail]
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Fark.com RSS » Before you start tossing water balloons off the sixth floor of a parking garage and some cyclists below you, first make sure they're not really undercover cops [Dumbass]
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Fark.com RSS » Best Korea develops cruise missile, which experts say could pose a significant threat to large patches of the ocean [Interesting]
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The Onion » Tim Duncan Busy At San Antonio Zoning Office Planning Spurs Championship Parade Route
SAN ANTONIO—Having already filed a special event permit application with the city government, sources confirmed Tuesday that Spurs power forward Tim Duncan has been working diligently at the San Antonio zoning office to finalize the route of the tea… 
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The Onion » Infographic: Understanding The Situation In Iraq
Violence has escalated in Iraq in recent weeks as the Sunni Islamist militant group ISIS has seized control of numerous cities and continued its advance toward the capital, Baghdad. 
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Fark.com RSS » Nest Labs overpriced smoke detector is back on the market, and will no longer set your house on fire [Followup]
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The Onion » American Voices: O.J. Simpson Car Chase Hits 20th Anniversary
Today marks 20 years since the day that football star O.J. Simpson, who had been named as a suspect in the murder of his wife, led police on a low-speed highway chase as 95 million gathered around to watch live on television. 
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Mental Floss » 15 International Menu Items from American Fast Food Restaurants
Would you like a McBeer with your McLobster? [Link]
Fark.com RSS » 72% of Texans think "You want fries with that?" is an acceptable career path, up from 56% in 2010. This explains a lot [Obvious]
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Mental Floss » The Missing Links: The Map of Fictional Places
Where Is Loompaland On the Map? This map plots out a ton of fictional places around the world. * Casey Kasem Counts Down the Letterman Top 10 This video of the late DJ providing the Top 10 list on The Late Show might be my favorite one ever. * Do You Tip the Tablet? Will tabletop tablet computers in restaurants … [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Choose your state and answer seven questions about your political ideology to find out which city you should live in if you ever move out of your mom's basement [Interesting]
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Fark.com RSS » If Greenpeace had invested in oil, they wouldn't have lost $5.2 million [Fail]
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Fark.com RSS » Thirteen sentences that never end well [Obvious]
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Fark.com RSS » Dunkin Donuts to expand California, church shooting leaves one holey, and an alternate universe where we can't implicitly trust strippers: some of Fark's favorite Headlines of the Week for 6/8 – 6/14 [FarkBlog]
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Mental Floss » How Do Soccer Referees Determine Stoppage Time?
Toward the end of each half of a soccer match, the fourth official on the sideline hoists an illuminated sign over his or her head that displays a number. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » From the you have got to be kidding me files: Fox News Praises George W. Bush's Ability To Anticipate Problems In Iraq [Asinine]
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Fark.com RSS » Photoshop theme: Political election attack ad posters using movie footage [Photoshop]
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Fark.com RSS » After your seventh DUI, you should know that shots of whiskey won't stop the breathalyzer from seeing how many beers you drank [Followup]
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Fark.com RSS » Nuns distracted by neighboring strip club [Obvious]
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Fark.com RSS » Everybody's favourite sitcom about a bumbling buffoon's wacky hijinks at City Hall returns June 30 [Spiffy]
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Fark.com RSS » During NBA Finals Game 5, fans in the arena used more then 182GB of bandwidth, including 394,000 social media posts. Did anybody actually WATCH the game? [Fail]
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Fark.com RSS » Independent Iceland turns 70 today; still can't explain Björk's appeal [PSA]
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The Onion » Miami Heat Don’t Have Heart To Tell Devoted Fans They Lost NBA Finals
MIAMI—While admitting that getting it over with quickly would have been the best thing to do, members of the Miami Heat confirmed Tuesday that they simply can’t bring themselves to tell their fans the team lost the NBA Finals. 
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Fark.com RSS » Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri Al-Maliki whose name is apparently Arabic for "Not Helping" defies Obama's calls to reach out to Sunnis and form a more inclusive government, tells the US to make it snappy with the air strikes and troops to save
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Fark.com RSS » Retail electronics sector in Britain enjoying a 30 percent increase in business as soccer fans upgrade their TVs to watch England lose in high-def [Interesting]
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Fark.com RSS » L.A. Mayor at Kings Stanley Cup Rally: "This is a big f**king day". Cue raucous applause [Amusing]
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Fark.com RSS » Passengers complain about arbitrary rules for carry on baggage. Airlines say it's just consistent with their arbitrary policies on ticket prices, delays, cancellations [Fail]
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Futility Closet » Pointing Fingers
Only one of these statements is true. Which is it? A. All of the below
B. None of the below
C. One of the above
D. All of the above
E. None of the above
F. None of the above SelectClick for Answer Consider them in turn. A can’t be true because some of the other statements contradict one another … [Link]
FMyLife » Anonymous says FML
Today, I feel massively depressed, but I can't talk to anyone about it as I'm British. FML [Link]
FMyLife » Teen says FML
Today, I went to CVS to buy some tampons. The cashier said, "Ewwww… You're on your period." FML [Link]
Mental Floss » How Do You Keep Your Ice Cream Creamy?
The American Chemical Society tackles the scientific explanation behind how different methods of ice cream making impact the final form. [Link]
Mental Floss » Strange States: Michigan, the Home of Snurfing
If you want to learn about someplace, you can always pick up a textbook. But if you want to get to know a place, you're going to have to dig a little deeper. And what you find there might be a little strange. The Strange States series will take you on a virtual tour of America to uncover the unusual … [Link]
The Onion » Opinion: Sonny Corleone Would Still Be Alive Today If He Had E-ZPass (by Charles J. Galvin)
By Charles J. Galvin, CEO, E-ZPass Group 
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Fark.com RSS » Do you recognize this tattoo? Because The Detroit Police would like to know who it used to be attached to [Scary]
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Fark.com RSS » Despite being the most expensive, the US has been ranked as having the worst healthcare in the entire developed world [Interesting]
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Fark.com RSS » The 10 weirdest restaurants in the world. If you've ever wanted to eat a meal in a mine, a prison or an active volcano, you're in luck (not a slideshow) [Interesting]
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Fark.com RSS » 'Generally responsible person' dies vomiting out the side of a moving car when her head strikes a telephone pole, lowering the bar for the rest of us who are generally irresponsible [Sad]
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Mental Floss » Bringing Bison Back to Europe
Europe had a healthy population of bison until the early 20th century, when they were hunted nearly to extinction. They are the largest land animal in Europe, but they're nearly gone. In Germany, a project is underway to bring the European bison back on a small scale—and it's just one of many bison-restoration projects across Europe. While the German countryside … [Link]
The Onion » Onion Poll: Should We Allow Human Cloning?
The Onion – America's Finest News Source 
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Fark.com RSS » South Korea takes on US in ridiculous pizza arms race [Unlikely]
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Mental Floss » What Old Sharper Image Catalogs Tell Us About American Life in the '80s
These products were all sold in Sharper Image catalogs in the late '80s. Even the fake cellphone antenna. [Link]
Mental Floss » Where Will Your Pacifico Bottle Take You?
Sponsored by Pacifico [Link]
The Onion » 3 Dozen Chemical, Emotional Responses Activated By Phrase ‘Pigs In A Blanket’
FLIPPIN, AR—Triggering a range of emotional responses that had lain dormant in his psyche for decades, approximately 35 different chemical processes were reportedly activated in the brain of local man Rob Northcutt upon hearing the phrase “pig… 
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Fark.com RSS » "Robert Bergdahl's beard is NOT a threat." I dunno about you, but I remember when that beard flew into the second tower and I WILL NOT FORGET [Obvious]
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Fark.com RSS » Another reason to cut the cable/dish: energy drain. The 224 million boxes in the U.S. use as much energy as produced by 4 nuclear reactors [Interesting]
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Fark.com RSS » "Using methods borrowed from Google, a group of researchers has analyzed all Wikipedia pages and determined that, at least on the English language version of the site, Frank Sinatra is the world's most important person" [Interesting]
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Fark.com RSS » Picasso hid a man in his blue room [Spiffy]
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Fark.com RSS » "Do you think your kunai can defeat my hammer? We'll see. I already killed our other roommate upstairs." (Strange, Weird tags took the brown acid, are currently living out Bruce Lee movies in their heads) [Unlikely]
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Fark.com RSS » America's anniversary porn: "We've just had the 20th anniversary of the Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman murders. Coming up: 25 years since the fall of the Berlin Wall. And it's just going to get worse from there" [Scary]
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Fark.com RSS » Low-budget carrier Ryanair launches more family friendly image with discounts to families travelling with children as its CEO vows to "stop unnecessarily pissing people off" [Amusing]
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Fark.com RSS » Ok e-cigarettes ARE bad for you. We tested them on that monkey named Biggles and he died of lung death, ok? The syphilis story was just a vape-screen. NO MORE QUESTIONS [Followup]
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The Oatmeal – Comics, Quizzes, & Stories » The DOs and DO NOTs of running your first marathon
This is a comic from my upcoming book about running.View [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Thanks to Delta, I learned that posting a giraffe in the internet is racist, or something [Silly]
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The Onion » Your Horoscopes — Week Of June 17, 2014
Aries After three exhausting weeks, you'll be embarrassed and infuriated to learn that the Marine Corps motto is not in fact "Semper Fellatio." Taurus God will sincerely apologize to the rest of the hemisphere … 
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Fark.com RSS » If you're not from Texas, don't bother clicking as the article won't mean squat to you. If you are from Texas, CHECK IT OUT [Spiffy]
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Fark.com RSS » LAPD clarifies it wasn't their drone outside Staples Center during Stanley Cup Final that was taken out by a Kings fan's t-shirt. In other news, Jack Bauer now replaced by Duff Man [Strange]
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Fark.com RSS » Grandma didn't get run over by a reindeer, but she did get accidentally donated to a medical school [Fail]
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Fark.com RSS » It's that time of year again for the World's Ugliest Dog Contest, and this year's entrants are OH MY FARKING GOD, KILL THEM WITH FIRE (pics) [Scary]
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Mental Floss » Brain Game: A Plant Worker
Today's mentalfloss.com Tuesday Test Time Brain Game asks you to break down an eight-letter word, one letter at a time, forming new words along the way. Are you up to the challenge? By removing one letter from the mix at each step,
and rearranging the remaining letters to form new words,
reduce the word "BOTANIST" to the letter "I." B O … [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Police respond to a Winn-Dixie parking lot after a 911 call comes in, find a 70 year-old man sitting on the bed of his truck with a gunshot wound to his foot. "Yeah, my holster broke and I accidentally shot myself" [Florida]
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Fark.com RSS » If you know someone who knows someone who knew someone who had numbers appear on their skin, and died after that number of days… doctors say you're a superstitious idiot in a third-world country [Obvious]
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Fark.com RSS » Machu Picchu named top landmark, halfway-decent porn name by TripAdvisor [Interesting]
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The Onion » American Voices: International Space Station To Get Espresso Machine
Astronauts aboard the International Space Station will be getting a new espresso machine in November as part of the Italian Space Agency’s Futura mission. 
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Fark.com RSS » Mother tries to put out a fire with water from dog's bowl, finds that her toddler filled it with gas [Scary]
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Fark.com RSS » Hottest delicacy in China's restaurants is French rabbit heads. Here's how to eat one – basically it's like a lobster, but way more gross [Scary]
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Fark.com RSS » Fraternity insists it didn't block a pledge from joining because he was gay; they totally had valid reasons, but they just can't remember what they were [Florida]
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Fark.com RSS » How the gore in Game of Thrones is added in post production [Interesting]
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Fark.com RSS » Buffalo Bill's gun and necklace sell for $80,000 at auction. No word on how much his basket and lotion went for [Interesting]
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Fark.com RSS » Protip: If you're going to run from a cop, do it before he takes a photo of you. With 'Oh Fark' pics [Dumbass]
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Fark.com RSS » It can be unnerving to get woken up by an earthquake after a long day of hunting bearded seals [Obvious]
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FMyLife » Anonymous says FML
Today, I was going to the bathroom at work. When I stood up, I noticed a little button on the side. I pressed it and the toilet flushed. I've worked there for nine months and just found out today that our toilets don't flush automatically. FML [Link]
FMyLife » UnhappilyUnemployed says FML
Today, I had a job interview. It went really well until I couldn't figure out how to open the slide door to get out of the room. FML [Link]
FMyLife » FirstDaddy says FML
Today, my daughter told me that she liked her "other daddy" better. I don't know who's she talking about, but my wife is doing a good job telling her to be quiet. FML [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Corporate America soaring to new heights when it comes to twisting the English language into complete horseshiat [Obvious]
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Weird Universe » Upside-Down Artist
Dana Helms calls herself the "upside-down artist" because she completes all of her work upside-down. And then she turns it rightside-up for display.
I guess this might be a useful trick for learning how to draw. Though I suspect my own attempts at drawing would look equally distorted whatever way round I did them.
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Fark.com RSS » Photoshop this monkey dip [Photoshop]
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Fark.com RSS » Chinese World Cup fan dies due to sleep deprivation, because there's no possibility something else might have gone down [Unlikely]
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Fark.com RSS » If you didn't get the message when they bombed two Ugandan nightclubs four years ago, al-Shabaab reminds us that they really hate people who watch the World Cup [Scary]
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Weird Universe » Runaway
Runaway by Cordell Barker, National Film Board of Canada [Link]
Fark.com RSS » 10 most disappointing destinations in the world. Maybe, yes, no, sorta, yes, sorta, maybe, yes, no, and WHA? [Dumbass]
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Fark.com RSS » Man with Popeye sized right arm and normal sized left arm claims to be a professional arm wrestler. Yeah you keep telling yourself that buddy [Strange]
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Mental Floss » Morning Cup of Links: Expensive Game of Thrones Weddings
Here’s the estimated cost of every wedding on Game Of Thrones. You can’t afford most of them, and you can’t even read about them if you’re avoiding spoilers.
*
If one of a married couple gets sex reassignment surgery, should that invalidate the marriage? In allowing one such couple to remain married, the Italian high court may have opened the … [Link]
Mental Floss » 5 Questions: June
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Fark.com RSS » Man tells cops he was "only joking" when he doused his wife with gasoline and tried to set her on fire, then threatened her with knives when he couldn't get a spark. Yeah, that's hilarious [Florida]
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Fark.com RSS » I think the lesson here is make sure the babysitter you have hired to watch your 9-month-old son is not deaf, has an IQ above 65 and knows what the fark they're doing when it comes to babysitting [Florida]
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Futility Closet » Advice
More wisdom from Poor Richard’s Almanack: Thirst after desert — not reward. Gifts much expected, are paid not given. Children and princes will quarrel for trifles. Praise little, dispraise less. The Child thinks 20 Shillings and 20 Years can scarce ever be spent. Industry need not wish. ‘Tis great Confidence in a Friend to tell him your Faults, greater to … [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Omaha employer gives out $61,000 in bonuses to employees–but he did so in the form of $2 bills. Hopefully none of the employees wanted Taco Bell in celebration [Spiffy]
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Fark.com RSS » Man who posted online ad for ladies to come over to an abandoned mansion he was trying to turn into a party den looks exactly how you would imagine [Florida]
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Fark.com RSS » Boy in special-needs school points rolled-up paper "gun" at classmates. You can guess what happens next [Asinine]
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Fark.com RSS » After her daughter was sent home for wearing too short of a dress to class, her mom pulls the ultimate burn by wearing the exact dress to her daughter's graduation. That will show 'em. "Pick on me. I'm an adult. I can take it" [Si
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Mental Floss » 6 Things to Know About the Super Cute Quokka
In which we discover why the quokka is smiling [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Kirk Cameron tries his hand at astrophysics [Fail]
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Fark.com RSS » Old controversy: gays in the military. New controversy: Military at the gay pride parade [Strange]
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Mental Floss » All-American Road Trip: 18 Stops on the Pan-American Highway
Covering almost 30,000 miles, the Pan-American Highway offers the most diverse scenery on the planet—and plenty of pit stops. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Newly released court documents confirm that prisoners who escaped a Quebec prison, were planning an escape attempt [Obvious]
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Fark.com RSS » He knows if you are sleeping, he knows if you're awake, he knows if you've been bad or good and he knows that if you've been molesting his daughter he's going to murder the hell out of you [Scary]
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Fark.com RSS » Duck. It's this week's edition of the Mugshot Roundup [Fail]
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Fark.com RSS » "A topless model who assaulted two police officers has escaped jail after missing her probation meetings so she could get a boob job" (SFW pics) [Amusing]
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Fark.com RSS » Utah has rejected 995 vanity plates for various reasons, including perceived obscenities and overt obscenities. Here's a look at what they found offensive [Silly]
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FMyLife » FMeeee says FML
Today, I decided to tell my family, including my husband, that I'm pregnant. Their reaction was basically a "meh" before returning to watching the World Cup. FML [Link]
FMyLife » Godhelpme says FML
Today, in a last ditch attempt to get away from my psycho coworker, I made my boss transfer me to another branch in the district. My coworker was immediately moved to that branch, because we "work well together". FML [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Man known as 'the Naked Commuter' regularly strips down on his boxers on way to work to protest lack of air conditioning on London subway or some damn thing (SFW pics) [Strange]
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Fark.com RSS » University creates a game like Guitar Hero based on bird songs. I'm going to have to Tweet about this [Cool]
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FMyLife » Anonymous says FML
Today, my laziness reached an all-time high. I had a dream that I was at school and had spilled all the contents of my backpack onto the floor. I then purposely shook myself out of my sleep to avoid cleaning up the mess in my dream. FML [Link]
Fark.com RSS » GM recalls another 3.19 million cars, bringing the total number of recalled vehicles to approximately eleventy brazillian [Fail]
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Fark.com RSS » Photoshop Challenge: Liven Up This Museum [Photoshop]
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