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 » Shake and Baked Alaska. 8.0 struck Little Sitkin. Tsunami Warnings from Unamak Pass to Attu Island. Warnings being evaluated for rest of West Coast [News]
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FMyLife » Badatlife says FML
Today, a guy at work pulled me aside to tell me that I probably shouldn't be working a job where I have to interact with customers, because of my autism. I don't have autism. FML [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Man stands naked in window 'in hopes of alarming his neighbors.' Mission accomplished, dude [Dumbass]
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Mental Floss » 11 More Obscure References in Classic Rock Songs Explained!
We hear some songs so often on the radio that we automatically sing along with them, but how much of what we’re singing do we really understand? [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Friends mourn missing 70 year old hiker discovered dead in Mt. Rainier park. "Once she discovered hiking, she never stopped." "Never" might not be the right word [Sad]
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Fark.com RSS » Best idea ever? A trampoline park in an abandoned mine [Cool]
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Fark.com RSS » Famous last words: "None ya haters can bring me down" [Ironic]
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Weird Universe » On A Dare
An American exchange student wedged himself into a sculpture of a giant stone vagina located at the German University of Turbingen. Of course he became stuck and required emergency services assistance. Fortunately there were plenty of passers-by to document the experience for him, ah memories!
Photo from Yahoo Images. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Wife of "dreamy mug shot man" furious about his Internet fame. Fark agrees, points Internet to hundreds of way hotter mug shots [Followup]
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Fark.com RSS » Bull shark that ended up in a freshwater pond had to have been from a sharknado, right? [Florida]
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Fark.com RSS » The rain in Spain may fall mainly on the plain, but the pig trucks apparently fall on bicyclists [Scary]
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Mental Floss » The Missing Links: Before You Visit the World's Great Attractions
Before the Tour You should know these things before you book your tickets to go tour the world’s most famous attractions. * Animated Comments Dorkly put together an illustrated guide to the 7 types of annoying internet commenters. I will be very disappointed if at least a few of these don’t present themselves below just for humor. * Hacking Apart … [Link]
The Onion » American Voices: Pope Excommunicates Italian Mobsters
During a trip to the Calabria region of Italy, the power base of a global drug trafficking syndicate, Pope Francis announced that all Mafia members are automatically excommunicated from the Catholic Church. 
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Fark.com RSS » Trio of ugly-ass black footed cats make debut at Phila. Zoo. Bonus, they're named after Daenerys' dragons (Warning: auto-play video) [Cool]
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Fark.com RSS » A church, a mosque and a synagogue all under one roof. Because if anyone has an established history of getting along, it's Christians, Muslims and Jews [Asinine]
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Fark.com RSS » The best pictures of Sushi Cats you'll see all day [Strange]
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The Onion » Onion Poll: Would You Live With Your Significant Other Before Marriage?
The Onion – America's Finest News Source 
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The Onion » Coalition Of Buzzed Cousins Issues Annual Greatest Nation On Earth Rankings
RIVERTON, WY—Speaking at its annual summit held around the charcoal grill behind the Dillon family home, the country’s leading coalition of slightly tipsy cousins released its 2014 greatest nation on earth rankings to relatives at a backyard b… 
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Fark.com RSS » Tony Gwynn signs with the Angels, Han won't shoot first, and the AV club is finally cool. Suck it, sibs, these are Fark's Headlines of the Week for 6/15 – 6/21 [FarkBlog]
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Fark.com RSS » Having a baby: No big deal. Having heart surgery: Kind of big deal. Having a baby while going through heart surgery: SUPER BIG DEAL [Scary]
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Fark.com RSS » Columnist asks if cities can crack down on smoking e-cigarettes in pubic, then why can't they force restaurants that serve burritos to include a Beano pill with every purchase [Strange]
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Mental Floss » Watch Lightning Strikes in Real Time
As I write this, a line of thunderstorms is crossing Indiana, western Kentucky, Tennessee, and Mississippi. And there's a big storm in the Florida panhandle. How do I know? LightningMaps.org. It shows a live map with lightning strikes popping up a few seconds after they happen. The data comes from a network of monitoring stations and is visualized on top … [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Photoshop this eye-candy [Photoshop]
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Mental Floss » 14 Fantastically Fun LEGO Tattoos
We’ve seen librarian tattoos, ink inspired by Twin Peaks, math-related tats and some of the strangest geek tattoos ever created, but now it’s time to appreciate another geek obsession in ink—LEGOs. 1. Brickbusters 
What’s better than a Ghostbusters tattoo? A LEGO Ghostbusters tattoo like this one, which was inked on Geeky Tattoos reader Daniel’s wife by Heather Maranda of Skinfinity … [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Carjackers thwarted by the bane of all teenagers: the dreaded manual transmission [Fail]
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Fark.com RSS » It's 2014, and being a real-life hipster mermaid is now considered a legitimate life pursuit [Weird]
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Fark.com RSS » Contest held to find least obedient pet in nation. Finally a competition your dog or cat has a chance of winning [Amusing]
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Mental Floss » The Map With Only 38 States
In 1973, a geography professor suggested that the U.S. redraw its antiquated state boundaries. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Why work-life balance is an 'everyone issue' – Or, why the asshat who answers emails at 3am on Sunday is ruining it for everyone else [Obvious]
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The Onion » Magical Office Worker Able To Turn Everything He Touches Into More Work For Colleagues
BLOOMINGTON, MN—Noting that his mystical abilities extend from the most everyday tasks to the largest quarterly projects, coworkers at Oracle Media reported Monday that enchanted office worker Matthew Kosnick is capable of turning everything he touc… 
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The Onion » U.S. Government Sets Aside 600,000 Acres Of Pristine Land For Future Generations To Pollute
WASHINGTON—In what is being hailed as a landmark preservation effort, federal officials announced plans Monday to set aside a 600,000-acre tract of pristine wilderness so that future generations of Americans can pollute it. 
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FMyLife » kennyjhynes says FML
Today, I drove 12 hours with 6 screaming little girls. They were arguing about things that should've been in the Lego movie. They watched it 4 times. FML [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Because nothing says "Heartland of America" like shutting down a nine-year-old kid's little free library [Stupid]
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Fark.com RSS » Local man finally realizes that his kids do indeed, suck [Amusing]
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The Onion » Man Watching World Cup Thought He Would’ve Seen More Bicycle Kicks By Now
SKOKIE, IL—Confused and disappointed by what he has seen thus far of the 2014 World Cup, local 27-year-old Jared Bowman told reporters Monday that he had expected far more bicycle kicks by this point in the tournament. 
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Mental Floss » The Barnum of Baseball
From 1960 to 1980, the Athletics were owned by an eccentric self-made millionaire with no shortage of big, bad, amusing ideas. Mule ride, anyone? [Link]
Fark.com RSS » So you know that joke about the Canadian navy only having one ship? About that [Fail]
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Mental Floss » 17 Joss Whedon Quotes for His 50th Birthday
The man who brought you Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Firefly, The Avengers, and so much more turns 50 today—and he's said some pretty wise words along the way. [Link]
Mental Floss » 6 Tips for Getting the Most Efficient Basement on Your Block
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Fark.com RSS » You are a wealthy plastic surgeon who sees burglars exiting your house as you return home Do you: A) call your insurance company? B) Call the Cops? C) Engage in a high speed car chase with the burglars using your daughter as the wheelman? [Dumbass]
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Fark.com RSS » More than twenty years after he was secretly videotaped smoking crack, Marion Barry still says he never smoked crack. "Never smoked crack – as simple as that" [Unlikely]
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Fark.com RSS » Police catch Kool Aid man, no word on how they will keep him from busting out of jail [Strange]
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The Oatmeal – Comics, Quizzes, & Stories » The evolution of Hugh Jackman's upper body
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Fark.com RSS » According to new study by university ethicists and pediatricians, you do not need to know that your wife is a total slut and the poolboy is the father of your child [Strange]
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The Onion » Slideshow: The Week In Pictures – Week Of June 23, 2014
The Week In Pictures – Week Of June 23, 2014 
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The Onion » Slideshow: Names For William H. Macy Around The World
Names For William H. Macy Around The World 
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Fark.com RSS » Police to Idaho couple: If you wanted that naked, feces-smearing intruder arrested, you should have done it yourselves [Weird]
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Fark.com RSS » Egypt: Stop the presses [Scary]
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Fark.com RSS » Bemused newspaper dutifully reports on the rise of a new crimefighter in Gays Mills, Wisconsin. Someone took their Champions character a little too seriously [Interesting]
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Fark.com RSS » Jogger slips while running and dies after tumbling several hundred feet off a cliff. The lesson here is: never exercise [Sad]
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Fark.com RSS » Hot Spanish model becomes a nun. Well, she was already used to selling an illusion, so it's a logical career change [Interesting]
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Fark.com RSS » ♪ Missile hits a mocking bird ♪ [Spiffy]
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Fark.com RSS » CDC reassigns director of the anthrax mishap to another lab, hopefully to have a SARS mishap, or maybe VX. Anyone up for some mustard gas? [Followup]
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Fark.com RSS » "The crew who spotted the great white reportedly took off when the shark started nibbling at the engine" [Scary]
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Fark.com RSS » Adolf Hitler left a hidden fortune now estimated to be worth more than $5bn. Though he wasn't that bad, he did kill Hitler. Though he also killed the man who killed Hitler [Interesting]
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Fark.com RSS » Relationship expert who has been happily married 25 years offers advice to make long-term relationships work, and it's slightly more constructive than your strategy of 'marry someone you hate and buy them a house' [Amusing]
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Mental Floss » Brain Game: Math Square #221
Here is today's mentalfloss.com Brain Game challenge, Monday Math Square #221. Good luck: Place the digits 1 through 9 in the white blanks so that the mathematical equations work both across and down. Each digit 1 through 9 should appear only once in the main grid (the red square). 
Here is the SOLUTION. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Church gives away two deadly AR-15s to people who have "found Jesus in their hearts." And the church's pastor says he would "give away a thousand more to people who followed Jesus" [Sick]
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Fark.com RSS » Pope Francis isn't a reformer, he's another Pope John Paul II, only with a better PR man [Obvious]
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Fark.com RSS » Photoshop this convicted felon [Photoshop]
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Fark.com RSS » A Wikipedia administrator claims the open-source encyclopedia has a "significant bureaucracy problem." Citation needed [Silly]
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The Onion » American Voices: Study: Kids With Less Structured Schedules More Successful
According to new research, young children who are afforded more flexibility in their schedules to engage in open-ended, less supervised activities like reading and drawing develop better executive functioning skills than those with structured activities l… 
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Mental Floss » Felix Dennis (1947-2014)
On Sunday, Felix Dennis died at his home in Dorsington, England, near Stratford-upon-Avon. He was 67. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Pee-Wee Herman sketch stolen from ice cream shop. Police assume it was probably just jerked off the wall [Strange]
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Fark.com RSS » Judge: "You don't wanna vaccinate your kid? That's your 1st Amendment right. But the state's obligation to all the other kids means you won't be going to school during a chicken pox outbreak" [Obvious]
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Fark.com RSS » British Medical Association votes on whether or not tobacco should be made permanently illegal for all people born after 2000. "If you are 13 or younger now, you will never be able to buy cigarettes in your life" [Stupid]
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The Onion » Editorial Cartoon: Living The Dream
Living The Dream 
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Fark.com RSS » Carma catches up with junkyard thief [Dumbass]
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Fark.com RSS » Paid off your granite countertops yet? Good. Or too bad, whatever. Here comes tempered glass and nanotech finish. Your granite will join laminate in the junk heap [Obvious]
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Mental Floss » Did Ostriches and Emus Ever Fly?
Not recently, of course. But what about their ancestors? The question is: Did the flightless birds of today, a family known as Ratites, evolve from flightless birds of yore or did their airborne ancestors lose the ability to fly over the millennia? [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Fox News host complains that "it's just not fair" to hold Fox News accountable for misinformation, half-assed conspiracy theories and biased commentary made on-air by the network's hosts and contributors. LEAVE FOX NEWS ALONE [Obvious
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Futility Closet » Podcast: Episode 15
Image: Wikimedia Commons In 1900 three lighthouse keepers vanished from a remote, featureless island in Scotland’s Outer Hebrides. The lighthouse was in good order and the log showed no sign of trouble, but no trace of the keepers has ever been found. In this episode of the Futility Closet podcast we’ll explore the conundrum of the men’s disappearance — a classic … [Link]
FMyLife » Boulette says FML
Today, I was on vacation, when a very cute guy starting talking to me and asked me what my name was. Overwhelmed and stressed out, I blurted out that I didn't have one. FML [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Photoshop SOOK, a Swedish fast food joint [Photoshop]
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Weird Universe » Look for the Sanforized label!
From Life magazine – Sep 15, 1941:
JULIA: Gk-gk-stop choking me, you brute!
GEORGE: I've been choking all day in a shrunk-up shirt because you forgot to look for the right label.
JULIA: What label?
GEORGE: The 'Sanforized' label, dumb-puss. The one that says the fabric won't shrink more than a little 1% by standard tests. [Link]
Weird Universe » Ancient Recorded Laughter Used as Movie Promo
The narrator explains the circumstances in the video.
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Weird Universe » Happy Birthday, Patty!
Everyone please wish WU's own resident cougar, the one and only Patty, a happy 50th birthday today!
Many thanks for your witty creativity! [Link]
FMyLife » DJJayLee says FML
Today, I got written up for drinking on the job by a manager who drinks on the job, who was told to write me up by a general manager who drinks on the job, and we are all employed by an owner who drinks on the job. I haven't had a drink in 3 weeks. FML [Link]
FMyLife » callmeclarence says FML
Today, I took my clothes off for a shower at an RV campsite. I started running the water when I noticed there was a pack of hornets in the bathroom. I stood there, stark naked, waiting for a chance to get out, for four hours. FML [Link]
Mental Floss » "-ack!"
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Fark.com RSS » "A charity rappelling event has been delayed amid fears that seagulls would dive-bomb the fundraisers" [Strange]
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Mental Floss » Morning Cup of Links: French Nightclubs by Day
French Nightclubs Photographed During the Day. Photographer Francois Prost’s images show how sunlight strips the magic away.
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Meet Peanut, the Ugliest Dog in the World. He won the title honestly, but his story will touch your heart.
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Star Wars gets a Guardians of the Galaxy-style trailer. All the delights of the 1970s without the fading colors.
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Fark.com RSS » Go home, buffalo, you're trunk [Strange]
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Fark.com RSS » Jumping out of a plane not extreme enough for you? Why not add fireworks [Strange]
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Fark.com RSS » Boomers lose another icon…Steve Rossi of comedy duo Allen & Rossi dies [Sad]
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Fark.com RSS » Researchers find new cancer-causing activity. If you had 'sitting,' get off your arse if you want to live [Interesting]
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Mental Floss » How Teddy Roosevelt Turned Piranhas Into Ferocious Maneaters
The tiny piranha's reputation can be traced back to a surprising source. [Link]
Mental Floss » Did a Cow Really Cause the Great Chicago Fire?
The Great Chicago Fire killed 300 people, left some 100,000 homeless, and destroyed $200 million worth of property. Was a cow really to blame? [Link]
Futility Closet » Lincoln’s Lost Speech
On May 29, 1856, Abraham Lincoln spoke “like a giant enraged” for 90 minutes before a crowd of a thousand people at a political convention in Bloomington, Ill. Strangely, no one knows what he said. According to legend his oratory held the audience so spellbound that no one thought to record a word of it; more likely it was such … [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Oh, btw, Israel just launched air strikes into Syria [Scary]
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Mental Floss » Why Do People Get Ice Cream Headaches?
Ah, sphenopalatine ganglioneuralgia. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » "In the last 10 days alone, we've seen two Statues of Liberty arrested, a Spider-Man convicted of harassing a tourist, and now a third character arrested for groping a woman in Times Square" [Amusing]
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Fark.com RSS » Do you reheat pasta, pizza and soup in the microwave? You're doing it wrong [Interesting]
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Fark.com RSS » Drone films dozens of wild dolphins surfing together and the best part is it doesn't kill a single one [Cool]
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Fark.com RSS » Today's Fark-ready headline: "Student gets stuck in giant stone vagina" [Fail]
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Fark.com RSS » 66% of consumers wrongly believe that when food is lableled "natural" it actually means something. "Under federal labeling rules, the word natural means absolutely nothing" [Sad]
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FMyLife » possibly fucked says FML
Today, my wife bought a strap-on. I'm about fifty miles beyond terrified. FML [Link]
FMyLife » Anonymous says FML
Today, I was at the reading of my grandma's will. Apparently I was removed from it some time ago, and the £2,500 I would have gotten went to my cheating bitch of an ex-fiancée. It seems my grandma adored her, and never forgave me for "driving her away" from the family. FML [Link]
Fark.com RSS » I see here on your resume you spent 17 years on Mars protecting five human colonies from Martians. Well, thanks for coming in; we'll be in touch [Unlikely]
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Fark.com RSS » More and more sharks are gathering off the Atlantic coast and no one knows why [Florida]
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FMyLife » Anonymous says FML
Today, I came back home after a year studying abroad. Imagine my surprise when I found out my mom had gotten breast implants while I was away. All through dinner, I kept catching myself staring at them. No wonder my dad was so much happier than when I left. FML [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Judge who sentenced Saddam Hussein to death gets a much shorter trial [Sad]
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Fark.com RSS » Neighborlady has been driving around on her mower for the last 40 minutes or so without the mower deck down. Should I go and tell her or continue to putter around in my garage and see how it plays out? [Advice]
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Fark.com RSS » Photoshop this balloon bouquet. Difficulty…nevermind [Photoshop]
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