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 » Great. Now we've got porn-sniffing dogs to worry about [Scary]
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Mental Floss » 15 Things You May Not Have Known About 'The Shawshank Redemption'
The movie that put Zihuatenejo on the map was released 21 years ago today. [Link]
Mental Floss » 7 American Crime and Punishment Museums
If you’re still planning a road trip this summer, you’ll want to add some of the lesser-known stops to your tourist plans. There are crime scenes, prisons, and museums all over where you can learn something new about the sordid history of crime in America. Here are just a few of them. 1. The Villisca Axe Murder House 
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Fark.com RSS » Caption this mascot discussion [Caption]
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Fark.com RSS » This dog has more balls than any of you Farkers will ever have [Cool]
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Fark.com RSS » Nineteen times this article's moronic author wrongly decided there is such a thing as too much bacon [Dumbass]
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Fark.com RSS » British Film Institute imposes diversity criteria on filmmakers. All films must now be about gay black men in wheelchairs [Silly]
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Fark.com RSS » Memphis Police? Error 404. Not found [Scary]
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Fark.com RSS » Student found trying to smuggle €20000 in her knickers for Syrian rebels. Knickers. Giggity [Strange]
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Fark.com RSS » iPhone slips out of farmer's pocket in Oklahoma, gets loaded onto a ship in Lousiana, arrives in Japan, is returned to Oklahoma after eight-month journey. Ta-da [Spiffy]
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Fark.com RSS » Deep fried soup. Surprisingly, not a midwest fair food [Strange]
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Mental Floss » 18 Things We Learned from Buzz Aldrin's Reddit AMA
Today, the second man to walk on the Moon did a Reddit AMA. Here are a few things we learned. [Link]
Mental Floss » The Biggest Blowout in World Cup History
After Brazil's astonishing World Cup semi-final defeat on home soil at the hands of the Germans, they can take small comfort in knowing that it's not the largest defeat in the tournament's history. That dubious honor goes to El Salvador, who lost 10-1 to Hungary in 1982. László Kiss, a Hungarian substitute, managed to score a hat trick in under … [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Not news: Man enters family's home and recites scripture. News: At 2 a.m. by breaking down their front door. Fark: He's naked and tripping balls [Dumbass]
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Fark.com RSS » If you're wearing dark clothing while in a wheelchair without any reflectors and you're at a part of the street where there's only one street light and no marked crosswalk, you might want to wait until daylight to cross [Dumbass]
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Fark.com RSS » Usually composite sketches are pretty encompassing to many people's features. This guy is screwed [Dumbass]
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Fark.com RSS » Diaper thief's crime described as "like a Woody Allen film." So, shiatty and once you've seen one you've seen them all, basically [Fail]
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Mental Floss » Four Floral Posters Featuring 200 Flowers
The latest from PopChart Labs brings a veritable botanical garden of blooms to your wall with a series of four floral posters. After settling on four popular North American flower varieties—roses, sunflowers, peonies and tulips—the creative team drew up a pleasantly-cluttered scheme featuring 50 colorful species from each. Each blossom is accompanied by its delightfully evocative name. Sunflowers can be … [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Darwin visits South Dakota hot dog eating contest [Dumbass]
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Fark.com RSS » Smallpox virus discovered in a storage closet in Maryland [Scary]
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Fark.com RSS » Newest museum in China is entirely devoted to the history and culture of those roast ducks you see hanging in every butchers' window in Chinatown [Interesting]
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FMyLife » anona says FML
Today, I complained to the train company online. I filled in information and added several photos as evidence. I only realised later that the photos I attached were nudes. FML [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Independent survey of news channels' truthfulness finds that about 60 percent of the statements on Fox News come straight from Bullshiat Mountain [Obvious]
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Mental Floss » The Missing Links: Urns for Cheapskates
“Even Cheap People Die” If you were a cheapskate in life, you mind find yourself spending eternity in one of Little Undertaker’s Modest Urns. Check out the commercial—it’s fantastic. * The End of the Redheads? Will climate change cause redheaded people to go extinct? * Wonderful Whoops Here are 10 of history’s happiest accidents. * You Better Walk the Line … [Link]
The Onion » Elderly Man Can’t Wait For Senility To Erase Lifetime Of Regretful Memories
CLEARWATER, FL—Having in recent years noticed the gradual decline in his mental function, local retiree James Latham, 83, told reporters Tuesday that he is eagerly waiting for his encroaching senility to erase a lifetime’s worth of bitter memo… 
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The Onion » Magnanimous Boss, King Of Kings, Allows Employees To Watch World Cup In Office
BOULDER, CO—In a glorious display of his infinite compassion and charity, sources within PLG Marketing Group confirmed Tuesday that the great and magnanimous CEO Daniel Weiss, King of Kings, will allow his employees to freely watch the World Cup sem… 
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Fark.com RSS » Supreme Leader of Best Korea unveils new, more efficient, and juche-based style that looks to ignorant imperialist Westerners like a limp. All loyal party members expected to report to Ministry of Silly Walks to learn new walk immediately [Interestin
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Fark.com RSS » Police kill cop-hating cow that tap danced on their car after fleeing from a Wal-Mart parking lot [Strange]
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Fark.com RSS » Don't you just hate when you're doing your jihadist thing over in Syria and your parents rat you out on your return to Britain? [Dumbass]
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Fark.com RSS » I text when I drive, I know it's dangerous but I do stupid things when I'm drunk. FARK: With 10 kids in the day care van [Florida]
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Fark.com RSS » More than 200 people enter contest to write new Swiss national anthem after existing one criticized as being "too solemn" and mocked as "the Swiss weather report" because of its mentions of the Alps, morning skies and misty valleys [A
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Fark.com RSS » Photoshop this shapely house damage [Photoshop]
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Fark.com RSS » Man who killed his whole family at 14 has trouble finding love due to women learning he killed his whole family at 14 [Obvious]
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Fark.com RSS » Remains of a long-lost temple "dedicated to a supreme god" have been uncovered in Iraq. Archaeologists on the team that discovered the edifice say that, with any luck, they'll have awakened some unspeakable ancient evil by fall [Cool]
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Fark.com RSS » Meet Andy Sidaris, the man who invented the the practice of panning a sporting event's audience with his camera and zooming in on all the hot babes. AKA, the "honey shot" [Hero]
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Mental Floss » 20 Facts About the Russian Tsars
With great power comes great ridiculousness, of course, and each emperor or empress exhibited his or her own brand. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » US label's China's claim to the entire south China sea a "problematic" which is Diplomat-speak for "yeah, no, we're still gonna sail the 6th Fleet through it anytime we want and you ain't gonna do nothing about it but whis
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Fark.com RSS » The Voyager 1 spacecraft which was, then wasn't, then was, then wasn't, is now definitely in interstellar space. Probably [Cool]
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The Onion » American Voices: Crumbs Cupcake Shops Out Of Business
Crumbs Bake Shop, best known for its cupcakes, announced Monday that it would be closing all locations by the end of the day, a move that stunned employees and suggested the cupcake craze of recent years might be over. 
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The Onion » Breaking: LeBron James Leaning Toward Joining Al-Qaeda
MIAMI—After viewing its latest pitch highlighting all he could accomplish with its organization, NBA power forward LeBron James confirmed Tuesday that he is currently leaning toward joining the militant Islamic group Al-Qaeda. 
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Fark.com RSS » Team building exercises gone bad: dropping people in the trust fall, going berserk during paintball, handing out psychedelic mushrooms…wait, what? Story to the left, your stories to the right [Amusing]
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Fark.com RSS » Neighbor launch some fireworks that landed on your roof? Simply impersonate the Illinois Secretary of State and force them into retaking their driver's license tests. It's easier than you think [Dumbass]
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Fark.com RSS » Two drone pilots learn the hard way that NYPD helicopters can outsmart their drones when confronted in the air [Dumbass]
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Fark.com RSS » Not only are America's nuclear weapons reliant on 8" floppies, security patrols still fly Huey helicopters built before subby was born [Asinine]
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The Onion » Few More Items Knocked Off List Of Desirable Traits In Partner As Woman Turns Year Older
SANTA CLARITA, CA—After turning 29 last week, local single woman Denise Palermo reportedly took the opportunity Tuesday to reflect on her current lack of long-term relationship prospects and slash several more items from the continually shrinking li… 
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Fark.com RSS » India's government revises its standards and classifies nearly 100 million more of its citizens as "poor" despite clear evidence that at least some of them own refrigerators [Sad]
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Fark.com RSS » What's the world coming to if you can't have a crossbow with arrow at the ready, pointing straight at the door to fight vampires that are haunting you [Weird]
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Fark.com RSS » No [Obvious]
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Fark.com RSS » Shocking: Woman makes her Tinder profile a burger, learns men will sleep with anything [Amusing]
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Mental Floss » What's on the Other Side of the Ocean?
For anyone who's ever been on a beach and curious. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Man complains his summer house in Romania was stolen piece by piece and gradually replaced with a cornfield, which is what happens in Romania if you just leave houses lying around in the open [Strange]
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Fark.com RSS » The British tried to build a two-million ton aircraft carrier out of ice during the Second World War. Fortunately, someone brought a camera [Cool]
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Futility Closet » Side Effects
From a letter from Gerard Manley Hopkins to his sister Kate, April 25, 1871: We were all vaccinated the other day. The next day a young Portug[u]ese came up to me and said ‘Oh misther Opkins, do you feel the cows in yewer arm?’ I told him I felt the horns coming through. I do I am sure. I cannot … [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Massive angora rabbits with 10-inch-long fur awarded title of "best animal in entire world." With pics to back that assertion up [Spiffy]
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Fark.com RSS » Dog attacks a woman and bites off her ear. NO, BAD TYSON. BAD TYSON [Florida]
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The Onion » German Team Hoping To Lift Nation’s Spirit Following Reports Of 5% Unemployment
RIO DE JANEIRO—Aspiring to provide a boost for the beaten down nation, members of the Germany national soccer team expressed hope Tuesday that a victory over Brazil in the World Cup semifinals will help lift up their countrymen following reports tha… 
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The Onion » Bored Scientists Now Just Sticking Random Things Into Large Hadron Collider
One year after confirming the existence of the Higgs Boson, or “God Particle,” scientists at CERN say they are struggling to find other uses for the giant particle accelerator. 
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Fark.com RSS » Russian priest: The very idea that players can wear colored boots during the World Cup is a "homosexual abomination" that promotes the "gay rainbow" and they may as well be wearing women's underwear. Hangups? He has them [Asinine]
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Fark.com RSS » Pomeranian is so thoroughly outraged by its bad haircut, that it evolves in protest [Spiffy]
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Fark.com RSS » Israel contemplates invasion of Gaza as revenge for rocket attacks which were revenge for killing of militants which was revenge for killing of teenagers which was revenge for something else. Or as they refer to it in the region, Tuesday [Obvious]
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Fark.com RSS » Abdullah Abdullah vows vows to to challenge challenge election election result results [Obvious]
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Fark.com RSS » "New mothers defend right to eat their placentas after European ruling" [Scary]
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Mental Floss » 12 Wonderfully Quirky Words with No English Equivalent
We need to borrow these. [Link]
Mental Floss » A Tiny Spider’s Secret to Taking Down Big Prey
At first glance, the pin head-sized spider Zodarion cyrenaicum seems like its on a suicide mission every time it hunts for a meal. Its preferred prey is a desert ant, Messor arenarius, some three times bigger and six times heavier than itself. But as David and the Red Viper have shown us, size isn’t everything—especially if you’ve got some slick … [Link]
Mental Floss » Inside the Twinkie Factory
Behold: mesmerizing, mechanized assembly of snack products. [Link]
Mental Floss » JägerBonds—The Answer to The Age-Old Question: “What Happened Last Night?” [Sponsored by Jägermeister]
When’s the last time you went out without checking in with or posting on one of your social media platforms? For the generation that aims to always be connected, comes a one-of-a-kind experience brought to you by one of the largest premium spirit brands in the world. Last month Jägermeister, the top-selling imported liquor in the United States, launched its … [Link]
The Onion » Infographic: Inside Harry Potter World’s New Diagon Alley
Harry Potter fans lined up at Universal Studios Orlando today for the opening of Diagon Alley, the highly anticipated expansion to the Wizarding World of Harry Potter theme park, which features new rides, restaurants, and shops based on the fictional street. 
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The Onion » Moon Finally Hatches
WASHINGTON—Several weeks after discovering unusual fissures on the lunar surface, astronomers confirmed today that the fracturing of the moon had begun to rapidly accelerate. 
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Fark.com RSS » Magic Mountain roller coaster riders get the special "tree branch on the track" experience [Scary]
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Fark.com RSS » Leave it to the Christians to take all the fun out of a pagan ritual where unmarried women jump over a bonfire to cleanse their souls and protect them from werewolves and vampires [Interesting]
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Mental Floss » 15 Albums That Cost a Fortune to Make
Sometimes labels pay a very high price when artists earn their chance to make their music "perfect." [Link]
FMyLife » crippled says FML
Today, I helped my dad push our broken-down truck from the driveway onto the tire ramp. Truck didn't make it; neither did my leg. FML [Link]
The Onion » Your Horoscopes — Week Of July 8, 2014
Aries You'll finally discover what you were born to do when you turn out to be the only person at Gorilla Taco who fits in the combination gorilla/taco suit Taurus For the last time: Once your first male child is dead, t… 
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Mental Floss » Brain Game: The Big Move
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 "DISPLACE" to the letter "A." D I … [Link]
FMyLife » OhJoy_777 says FML
Today, my friend found on Tinder the profile of a guy I've been dating and getting quite serious with. I was surprised, not only because he'd told me he didn't do "stuff" like Facebook or Tinder, but because he lied about his job and his surname. Oh, and the fact that he got married in March. FML [Link]
The Onion » American Voices: Study: Psychedelic Mushrooms May Be Good For Brain
According to a study published in the journal Human Brain Mapping, the chemical psilocybin, which produces the hallucinatory effects experienced by people ingesting psychedelic “magic mushrooms,” may also produce feelings of optimism a… 
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Mental Floss » Do People Only Use 10% of Their Brains?
In a 2013 poll, 65% of Americans thought this statement was true. It isn't. Where'd that number come from? [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Japan on high alert as Typhoon Neoguri slams into it. Government urging half a million citizen to seek emergency shelter as the storm brings threats of high winds, heavy rain, flooding and, of course, rampaging Kaiju [Scary]
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Fark.com RSS » Coors Light investigative game promo closes Toronto intersection. Investigation was presumably to try and detect any beer in Coors Light [Fail]
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Fark.com RSS » Religious bakery tells customer it won't bake a Bert and Ernie cake because something.. something about gay marriage [Asinine]
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Weird Universe » Sprayable Caffeine
From the FAQ page of this new product:
Can I use Sprayable Energy on other parts of my body?
While we do recommend using Sprayable on your neck for greatest effect – many users have had success using the product on their inner wrists. As usual, start with 4 sprays (2 on each wrist) and change it up based on … [Link]
FMyLife » SadlyNotMe says FML
Today, I was really upset and the girl I like saw me. She told me what a great guy I am and that I deserve to be happy. With any other girl but her. FML [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Photoshop this showoff [Photoshop]
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FMyLife » rozsrredd says FML
Today, my husband told me he was going to search from store to store in order to find my birthday gift. What was he really doing? His girlfriend. FML [Link]
Weird Universe » Threading the RCA Projector
The latest entry in our boredom contest. This guy's voice is particularly deadly–especially when he repeats the same passage!
However, I now want to say "sprung idler" and "snubber roller" over and over, so the film must have worked!
The fact that this skill is extinct does add a certain piquancy to the boredom, though. [Link]
FMyLife » MaddyN says FML
Today, I almost got fired from work because a customer complained that I "threw up gang signs" at him. I was blocking the sun from my eyes. FML [Link]
Mental Floss » 1960s Dances
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Fark.com RSS » The backlash against gluten free dieting has begun as people who claim to be Celiac are told to eat a pizza once in a while [Obvious]
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Mental Floss » Morning Cup of Links: The World's Tallest Waterslide
Actual humans test out the world's tallest waterslide—and it's terrifying. Looking on the bright side, you cannot accidentally get to the top of Verrückt in Kansas City.
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The Unwritten Rules Of Being Homeless. The culture of the group can make or break you.
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An Interview with Competitive Eater Patrick Bertoletti. “It’s like controlled bulimia. It’s bulimia where you get … [Link]
Fark.com RSS » What your packed lunch says about you. Besides the fact that you're too poor to go eat lunch somewhere [Interesting]
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FMyLife » egged says FML
Today, I had this really high fever and my sister decides I'm hot enough to fry an egg on. So I'm lying in bed now, still terribly feverish but smelling of the egg she cracked on my back. FML [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Couple calls 911 after being trapped inside a room by their cat. This is not a repeat from a couple of months ago [Florida]
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Futility Closet » Squaring Accounts
Ernest Thompson Seton called his father “the most selfish man I ever knew, or heard of, in history or in fiction.” In 1881, on Seton’s 21st birthday, his father called him into his study, took down an enormous cash book from a high shelf, and opened it at E. In the book he had recorded every expense he had ever … [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Not news: Woman arrested. News: After attempting to steal beer from Wal-Mart. Fark: On a horse that wasn't hers. Bonus: NOT Florida [Strange]
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Fark.com RSS » Dr. Jack Kevorkian's assisted suicide minibus is on layaway at a Detroit-area pawnshop, which means that it's a pretty bad time to be a hitchhiker in Detroit. Well, worse than usual, anyway [Sick]
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Mental Floss » How Do You Decaffeinate Coffee Beans?
And what happens to all the caffeine that gets stripped out? [Link]
Fark.com RSS » British police arrest entire ward of mental hospital. Those taken into custody include three Napoleons, two Queen Victorias and all four Jesuses [Strange]
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Fark.com RSS » Two siblings both died playing a game to see who could hold their breath underwater the longest. The game has ended in a tie [Sad]
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Mental Floss » 11 Times Mickey Mouse Was Banned
A number of countries—and even U.S. states—have banned the cartoon rodent at one time or another for reasons both big and small. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » This year's Most Hysterically Bogus Health Statistic Award goes to is Toronto and its board of health, which claims that emissions from auto body shops and dry-cleaning places kill 120 people in city each year and put another 200 in hospital [Unl
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Fark.com RSS » Layies n gnmen bfr leavin sbwy cr hv a lk arnd n mk sre yu hv yr bgs, glases, phn's n bbies. This is the Bronx bound #1 [Fail]
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Fark.com RSS » Studies show humans can taste only 20% of the salt on potato chips. So Pepsi has responded to this taste sensationalism by developing a new "super salt" [Stupid]
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Fark.com RSS » Here is phaylure. Let him that hath Posteth Lath count the number of LP, for it is the number of a thread; and its number is LP 666. LGT the not so weevil LP665 (now available in stereo) [Fail]
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Fark.com RSS » Men should embrace baldness [Unlikely]
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Fark.com RSS » Work hard, play hard, or do hard time; it's the Mugshot Roundup [Fail]
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Fark.com RSS » Man from New Hampshire goes to Kansas, manages to make it onto Fark with a seriously impressive police chase. Fark judges give this one a 9.7 [Amusing]
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Mental Floss » 15 Things You May Not Have Known About 'Lock Up'
The 1989 Sylvester Stallone prison flick had exactly what it needed to be authentic: real prisoners. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Soldiers demand right to bare arms [Obvious]
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Fark.com RSS » Photoshop these thrill seekers [Photoshop]
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