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 » News: Newton County, Texas Sheriff Eddie Shannon turns himself in after a warrant for his arrest was issued. Fark: After threatening to shoot all the officials at a commissioners court meeting and saying he wouldn't investigate the shootings [Fai
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Fark.com RSS » It's all fun and games 'til you get charged with second-degree disorderly conduct and first-degree criminal trespass [Dumbass]
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Fark.com RSS » Pro-tip: When breaking into a house, do not make pot-laced brownies at said house [Dumbass]
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Fark.com RSS » Woman is shocked, SHOCKED that a limo company that she booked a deal with using a coupon would cancel her ride and take a full paying customer instead [Obvious]
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Fark.com RSS » SeaWorld forced to become "whale truthers" in light of increased public and PETA scrutiny [Florida]
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Fark.com RSS » The NYPD gets caught on video choking someone to death. Do you A) conduct a thorough internal investigation, B) fire the police officers involved or C) arrest the guy who recorded the whole thing? [Asinine]
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FMyLife » SirTalkaton says FML
Today, I had to give a video presentation. My video was on animal abuse, but I somehow played a video of myself singing Britney Spears in my room. FML [Link]
FMyLife » Anonymous says FML
Today, while I was waiting for the train, a woman sat next to me. Her dog jumped up between us and I started petting it. She took this to mean we were now close enough for her to tell me in detail about her experience so far going through the menopause. FML [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Finally, a landlord who understands you [Silly]
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Fark.com RSS » The terrorists have discovered eggnog [Scary]
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Fark.com RSS » The day will come when you find yourself standing naked under the midday sun on a road near Monkey Junction. When that day comes, and it most definitely will, don't spit blood at the police [Dumbass]
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Fark.com RSS » The first weekend of August is here, and Chicago only had nineteen people wounded by gunshots and only two dead in gun violence. Looks like gun progress has come to Chiraq [Followup]
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Fark.com RSS » This just in: Children don't want to eat their vegetables while at school, just like they don't want to eat them at the dinner table [PSA]
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FMyLife » Anonymous says FML
Today, I should be spending my birthday with my boyfriend of 8 months. Instead he's visiting his ex, who's pregnant with a baby that "may or may not be" his. FML. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Photoshop this drill crew [Photoshop]
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Fark.com RSS » An Amtrak train leaves New York City at 9AM, headed for Washington DC without its passengers. How long does it take before the conductor is fired? [Fail]
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Weird Universe » Last Week in Weird (August 3, 2014)
Last Week in Weird
datelines (mostly) 7/25/2014–8/2/2014 (Part I)
[Links, chronological, on Extended page]
Copyright 2014 by Chuck Shepherd. All rights reserved.
[Ed. Note: There’s no coding here. I hate to code. However, Links to each story (14 in all) are on the Extended page, in chronological order. Yeah, yeah, I know it’s failing to exploit the blogging technology. Tough.] … [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Death toll in powerful Chinese earthquake rises to 0.0000109974% of its population [Scary]
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Fark.com RSS » Somebody had British people fill in all of their American stereotypes on maps of the US. Come for MS: "Named by a cat walking across a keyboard", stay for RI: "Tiny; Stoned Students; Not a real place; Not in Rhodes; Not an Island" [Am
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Fark.com RSS » Scottish pioneer creates haggis nachos to transform national food into symbol of both tradition and change. "Scotland is not about old white men in kilts stirring pots to make haggis. My team is multicultural. We use state-of-the-art equipment
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FMyLife » Anonymous says FML
Today, at work, an old man was having trouble using his credit card at the checkout. I told him to "just stick it in", and he replied with "I love it when you talk dirty to me." The whole line at the checkout laughed. FML [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Jewish visitors arrested at Auschwitz for singing "the song of hope" that Jews in the camps sung to defy the Nazis. Is it 1943 again? [Fail]
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Weird Universe » Psychedelic Wurlitzer Ad
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Fark.com RSS » Toledo water crisis, day two bugaloo: still can't consume city water, but healthy adults can shower provided they have a healthy liver. Whew, that was a close one. LGT water distribution information [Followup]
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Fark.com RSS » Humpback Whales appear in Monterey Bay, ask passersby if the nuclear wessels are still in Alameda [Interesting]
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FMyLife » porkabye says FML
Today, upon arriving at a town festival, I was immediately singled out by a rent-a-cop. He began questioning if I had been drinking, saying he smelt it on my breath. He smelt his own breath. FML [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Caption this passel o' possums [Caption]
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Fark.com RSS » Married couple finds photo of themselves playing on the beach as children … 11 years before they met [Weird]
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Fark.com RSS » "A man's desire to take ever more impressive selfies and other snaps of himself to post on social media caused his death when he tried to pose with a live gun – and shot himself in the head" [Fail]
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Fark.com RSS » Ginny Weasley arrested for vandalizing a car with $3,000 worth of mascara damage. Somehow she could afford a little extra mascara for her tear stained cheeks. Surprising for a Weasley [Dumbass]
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Mental Floss » Man Can (Sort of) Live on Pizza Alone
Dan Janssen has eaten cheese pizza, and pretty much ONLY cheese pizza, for 25 years. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Duck Hunt [Sad]
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Fark.com RSS » European gardeners forced to buy collision insurance before they are allowed to use ride-on lawnmowers on their own property [Asinine]
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Fark.com RSS » Video shows mystery beast roaming the streets of Los Angeles suburb: "And I heard about it and I was like…what? And I've been thinking about it…I was afraid to go outside. It looks like a dog, but has pointy ears that lions have…I don&#
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Fark.com RSS » You can now be buried in a custom-made Jack Daniels bottle (pics) [Cool]
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Fark.com RSS » The moral of this story is never be nice to anyone, ever [Scary]
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Fark.com RSS » "Just when police thought they had finally loosened the Mafia's historical stranglehold over Sicily, a new generation of brash mobsters is reclaiming the streets of Palermo – and bragging about it on Facebook" (pics) [Strange]
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Fark.com RSS » Photoshop this subtle message [Photoshop]
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Mental Floss » Weekend Links: Uncensored Children’s Book Reviews
These brutally honest children’s book reviews are no longer for librarians’ eyes only. See what the men and women behind the circulation desk really think of Green Eggs and Ham (“there must be better ways of teaching a child to read than this”). * DreamWorks Animation's Head of Character Animation reveals the secret recipe to create a dragon: a little … [Link]
Weird Universe » Ear Concealers for Women with Large Ears
Found in the American Artisan and Illustrated Journal of Popular Science – May 1867:
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Fark.com RSS » I saw a 150 pound turtle [Cool]
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Fark.com RSS » "For our traffic report watch out for flying axes on the highway" [Scary]
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FMyLife » Shitmetalseller says FML
Today, I managed to not laugh as a potential high-profile Italian client with a heavy accent repeatedly pronounced "sheet metal" as "shit metal". Unfortunately, my boss and a senior colleague couldn't contain their own laughter. We lost that deal, and our jobs are now endangered. FML [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Woman who fled to Mexico because she thought she would be "untouchable" there after she took part in the murder of a 14-year-old boy is deported back to California after being caught by police in Tijuana [Followup]
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Fark.com RSS » My Petting Zoo in Scottsdale, Arizona welcomes an ugly-ass baby Geep (offspring of a female sheep and a goat) named Butterfly [Spiffy]
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Weird Universe » Editor’s Note
I'm trying something new later today. (Again.) Later today, Last Week in Weird will appear (Part I; Part II on Monday). (As we know, I've been down this road before. I think Vegas is skeptical, maybe about +580/-560. They're probably right.) (But, maaayybe . . ..) [Link]
Weird Universe » News of the Weird (August 3, 2014)
News of the Weird
Weirdnuz.M382, August 3, 2014
Copyright 2014 by Chuck Shepherd. All rights reserved.
Lead Story
Facial recognition software, increasingly important to global anti-terrorism operations, is being brought to . . cats. Taiwanese developer Mu-Chi Sung announced in July plans for marketing the software as part of a cat-health device so that owners, especially those with multiple cats, … [Link]
Fark.com RSS » It's all fun and games 'til you eat your roommate's last Chips Ahoy [Scary]
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Fark.com RSS » Local government taking too long to repair damaged road? Just rent a farmer's field and build your own toll road [Cool]
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Fark.com RSS » Free parking is actually quite costly [Ironic]
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Fark.com RSS » A group of 11 black men drove a truck through the front door of KY Fashions and stole dozens of hair extensions before fleeing the scene. Police said to be on the lookout for 11 black men with beautiful hair [Weird]
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Fark.com RSS » Another reason to lose weight: "The more a man's fattening belly grows outward, 'the more it eats their penis.'" Subby hasn't seen his own penis in five years, but he's got a really confused boner right now [Sad]
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Fark.com RSS » Here are a list of states that will allow one to practice law without a law degree [PSA]
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Fark.com RSS » Lose your cellphone in the lake while on a fishing trip with friends? Why not drain the pond to try and recover it? [Amusing]
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Fark.com RSS » The Juneau Police Department is looking for a group of five or six kids, ranging from 7 to 13 years old that made a bomb out of a backpack, two bottles of Axe body spray and a can of Old Spice to set off an explosion behind a middle school [Scary]
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Futility Closet » Carper’s Index
No one knows who devised the cross-references in William Hawkins’ 1795 Treatise of the Pleas of the Crown, but he was either very wry or very cynical: Cattle see Clergy.
Chastity see Homicide.
Coin see High Treason.
Convicts see Clergy.
Death see Appeal.
Election see Bribery.
Fear see Robbery.
Footway see Nuisance.
Honour see Constable.
Incapacity see Officers.
King see … [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Man shot several times while filming a rap video because the group couldn't agree as to which one of them was the star [Fail]
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Fark.com RSS » Coming up at the top of the hour it's Livingston Stapler Company Presents. 2 hours of amazing music hosted live by a farker [Spiffy]
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Fark.com RSS » It's not news when two boxers get into a fight with one another, but it is when it happens at an Italian restaurant over a plate of spaghetti [Florida]
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Fark.com RSS » In America, most of us love our Jesus but we're also thankful he wasn't born here cause the headline woulda' certainly read, "Woman arrested for leaving newborn baby in trash can of business," and that woulda been awkward [Sad]
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Fark.com RSS » The Book of Love says that after calling your new girlfriend by your ex-wife's name you should promptly throw her pet raccoon against the nearest wall [Sad]
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Fark.com RSS » Marion Barry involved in wrong-way crash in DC. Ditch set him up [Interesting]
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Fark.com RSS » Local news station runs story based on cell phone video claiming mom left kids in hot car to get her hair cut. The same video shows the mom begging strangers for help after locking her keys in the car. You'd better believe that's a lawsuit [D
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Fark.com RSS » Texas firearms instructor successfully executes plan to teach family members peril of being careless with their guns, "accidentally" shoots himself in hand during lesson [Hero]
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Fark.com RSS » Roof of the world collapses [Scary]
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Fark.com RSS » Confirmed case of Ebola in Atlanta [Followup]
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Fark.com RSS » Photoshop these medieval stoners [Photoshop]
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