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 » Because breakdowns and overflowing toilets aren't exciting enough in the Gulf of Mexico, cruise line now offering the same thrills while dodging icebergs in the Northwest Passage [Amusing]
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Fark.com RSS » Topless woman arrested and charged with theft after shoplifting at a local Macy's. Prosecutors are doubtful of getting a conviction as none of the witnesses got a good look at her face [Followup]
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Fark.com RSS » I don't always babysit, but when I do, I prefer Cinco maybe Seis Equis [Dumbass]
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Fark.com RSS » GOP candidate 'disproves' climate change… because thermometers [Dumbass]
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Fark.com RSS » Deaf intern who can only communicate using American Sign Language is suing NPR because they asked her to teach American Sign Language to other employees [Stupid]
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Fark.com RSS » If you really want to save the planet you should be peecycling right now [Strange]
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Fark.com RSS » Video games are bad and make your kids evil and violent and … what's that? Video games may be GOOD for kids? [Interesting]
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Mental Floss » Watch Excavators Play Giant Jenga
This past weekend, I went to a wedding (congratulations, Pat and Lily!) where the second most popular attraction—after the main event itself, of course—was a life-sized game of Jenga, created by an engineer for the groom's father. We played it all weekend, regularly stacking it more than 5 feet high. We dubbed that version of the game Giant Jenga, but … [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Jim Brady dies at age 73, will be buried after a five-day waiting period [News]
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Fark.com RSS » Number of confirmed Ebola cases in US set to rise 100% [Followup]
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FMyLife » baebookboo says FML
Today, I asked my mom about signing up for an online dating site. She took one look at me and said, "Why get rejected online when you can just go outside for the same?" FML [Link]
Mental Floss » 11 Ways Kids Used to Soup-Up Their Bikes
Do you remember personalizing your ride with accessories like these? [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Cop: "Please blow into this breathalyzer." Driver: "Sure, lemme pound this first. I want to see how high that thing goes" [Dumbass]
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Fark.com RSS » Burglar breaks into house by squeezing through dog flap in door, steals bicycle, discovers that he can't ride a bicycle [Dumbass]
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The Onion » Civilian Casualty Flattered To Have Been Mistaken For Hamas Leader
RAFAH, GAZA STRIP—Remarking that he felt honored to be considered so important and influential, Gazan civilian casualty Khalil Said Zahlan told reporters from an emergency aid station Monday that he was incredibly flattered to have been mistaken for… 
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Mental Floss » Who Did It: Dr. Seuss or a Dr. Seuss Character?
Dr. Seuss was famous for his quirky characters, silly settings, and invented vernacular. What many people don’t know is that Theodor Geisel was almost as eccentric as the fantastical fiction he wrote. Can you guess which things Dr. Seuss characters did, and which things Dr. Seuss himself did? [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Nebraska is refusing to re-issue a woman's driver's license because they will not accept her IA marriage certificate to another woman as valid. Also say they are suspicious of anyone who would come BACK to Nebraska voluntarily [Asinine]
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Fark.com RSS » In exchange for taking $3B per year in foreign aid from the US, Israel intercepts our Secretary of State's phone calls and gives the transcripts to Russia [Scary]
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Mental Floss » The Missing Links: The Story of Times Square Costumed Characters
Tyler Merbler “I Never Imagined I’d Be Doing This.” You don’t see "Times Square costumed character" at Career Day. Here is the story behind the people who don costumes in NYC’s tourist mecca. * Take the Quiz How well do you know the national parks? * Just Put That Anywhere Learn about the psychology that drives us to litter. * … [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Presenting the collection of drunks, dopers, and derelicts that together make up this week's Mugshot Roundup [Fail]
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Fark.com RSS » Twenty facts you didn't know about cats, including the fact that they have their own day of the week now (not a slideshow) [Amusing]
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The Onion » Study: Average American Has Over 9 Million Imagined Sexual Partners In Lifetime
CHICAGO—According to a study published this week in the American Journal Of Sociology, the average American has intercourse with upwards of 9 million imagined sexual partners over the course of his or her lifetime. 
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The Onion » Michelle Obama Can Still Hear Their Little Labored Breaths When She Closes Her Eyes
WASHINGTON—Saying that there must be hundreds, if not thousands of them panting and gasping, First Lady Michelle Obama told reporters Monday that she still hears the labored breaths of overweight schoolchildren whenever she closes her eyes. 
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The Onion » Pitiful Man Struggles To Find Reason Not To Watch Rebroadcast Of 2006 Michigan-Ohio State Game
ADRIAN, MI—Noting that the sad, pathetic little man stumbled upon the rebroadcast while absentmindedly flipping through channels Sunday evening, sources confirmed that local 28-year-old Jason Garner struggled to find a single reason not to watch a B… 
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Fark.com RSS » Photoshop this stabby kind of guy [Photoshop]
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The Onion » American Voices: PETA Demands New Ending For Live-Action ‘Dumbo’
After Disney announced it is making a live-action remake of the 1941 animated classic Dumbo, PETA has demanded that producers change the original finale of the film, where Dumbo becomes the star of the circus, to a “happy ending” where … 
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Fark.com RSS » Evidently the US DOES know how to cure Ebola. This shouldn't cause any problems [Interesting]
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Fark.com RSS » See cool looking lighting? Why not try to catch it on video while standing in an open field? Watt could possibly go wrong? [Dumbass]
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The Onion » Employer Totally Botches Job Interview
EVANSVILLE, IN—Worrying aloud that he came across as fidgety and unassertive, local executive Greg Bricker confided to reporters Monday that he completely bombed his latest interview with a prospective employee. 
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The Onion » Onion Poll: Do You Believe Unpaid Internships Are Unethical?
The Onion – America's Finest News Source 
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Fark.com RSS » TSG finds "Jane Earl Ray," the woman who almost killed Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in 1958. She's now 98, and soon to be most famous resident of a Queens, NY nursing home [Interesting]
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Mental Floss » 26 First Names That Ended up in the Dictionary
Sometimes, through some quirk of etymology—and sometimes entirely by coincidence—first names like these find their way into the dictionary as words in their own right, and end up ultimately taking on whole new meanings in the language. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » The newspaper that brought down a President publishes a self-absorbed column on motherhood featuring the words "powerful pregnancy crotch sweat." Somewhere Woodward and Bernstein are rolling over in their graves [Asinine]
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Fark.com RSS » Terrible mother puts her son's life and others' lives in danger… as she packs him PB&J every day for lunch during the school year [Strange]
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Fark.com RSS » Wal-Mart announces plans to begin personalizing each shopper's experience, so if you'd like to see a few more obese ladies in gym shorts or meth freaks in wife beaters and baseball caps, get online and let them know [Spiffy]
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The Onion » Man Under Impression He Went Down Fighting
LOVELAND, CO—Asserting that he’d given a recent work project everything he had but that it wasn’t quite enough, local office worker Tom Janssen is currently under the impression that he went down fighting, sources reported Monday. 
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The Onion » Super Hurricane Said to Be Even More Powerful Than Bogdan, World's Strongest Man
The National Weather Service is warning that Tropical Storm Dennis could rival the strength of Bogdan, with wind louder than his footsteps and waves bigger than his arms. 
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Fark.com RSS » When you throw handfuls of coke out of your driver's side window, you need to make sure the car driving behind you–the one with the flashing blue lights–isn't the police [Florida]
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Fark.com RSS » Minnesota mayor forced out of office in a controversial move. Fark: Mayor was five years old [Silly]
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Fark.com RSS » Animal rights groups outraged as fish take up smoking, normal people just wonder how they can keep the damn things lit [Strange]
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The Onion » Slideshow: The Week In Pictures – Week Of August 4, 2014
The Week In Pictures – Week Of August 4, 2014 
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The Onion » Sex Toy Discreetly Shipped In Plain Dildo-Shaped Box
Medical experts announce that an Ebola vaccine is at least 50 white people away from being developed, a new poll finds a majority of the CIA is now ready to install a female world leader, and a sex toy is discreetly shipped in a plain dildo-shaped box. 
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Fark.com RSS » Japan wants to create a space force because of course they do [Silly]
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Fark.com RSS » Rule #1 on hostage negotiation: shoot the hostage. Even if he's gotten away and is running for his life, shoot the hostage because, hey, rule #1 [Scary]
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Weird Universe » Last Week in Weird (August 4, 2014)
Last Week in Weird
datelines (mostly) 7/25/2014–8/2/2014 (Part II)
[Links, chronological, on Extended page]
Copyright 2014 by Chuck Shepherd. All rights reserved.
America’s World-Class System-Gaming (cont'd): The Federal Highway Trust Fund was re-stocked last week to keep up scheduled maintenance on highways and bridges, but here’s how they did it: They voted to relax federal requirements on how much money … [Link]
FMyLife » Stop_HammerTime says FML
Today, due to a hammer-related incident, instead of receiving glass ornaments as gifts from my trip to Venice, my friends will be receiving novelty postcards of Michelangelo's David's penis. FML [Link]
FMyLife » mother to be says FML
Today, while talking to my sister, I explained to her that the reason I hope I end up having a girl is I want my daughter to love me the way I "used" to love my own mother. I didn't mean to say it in the past tense. My sister told my mom. She's planning my baby shower. FML [Link]
Weird Universe » Andrew “Bossy” Gillis, Two-Fisted Mayor of Newburyport
As intermittent mayor, he ran Newburyport, MA, from his gas station, and when out of office was not averse to punching the current mayor in the face.
There's a good summary of his antics here.
The kind of authentic politician so lacking today. The article from 1937 below gives some of his flavor.
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The Onion » Editorial Cartoon: Con With The Wind
Con With The Wind 
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Fark.com RSS » "What I tried here was a visionary balance for the community. It wasn't all about trying to create any kind of military machine or mind-set…" says police chief who acquired two Humvees and two APCs for his staff of four full-time office
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Fark.com RSS » The best way to make a drug mule give up his stash is (a) time, (b) laxatives, (c) knives [Scary]
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Fark.com RSS » Having gone almost three months, a Bangladeshi ferry capsizes with 200 passengers aboard, per service contract [Sad]
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Fark.com RSS » Don't mind that buzzing overhead. It's just the proliferation of drones in New York City [Interesting]
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Fark.com RSS » Man on the lam for 24 years gets caught after updating voter ID card with current address. "He thought he was safe after changing his address and that he would never get arrested for crimes he had committed so long ago" [Dumbass]
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Fark.com RSS » Birds aren't descended from dinosaurs, they ARE dinosaurs – Randall Munroe [Obvious]
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Fark.com RSS » More women not shaving their pits in what could be a fashion statement, could be an illustration of what it looks when a woman is carrying a couple of sea urchins around everywhere [Scary]
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Fark.com RSS » Teen who may need reconstructive surgery after participating in the viral stunt called "The Fire Challenge" says "It's not a good idea" [Obvious]
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The Onion » American Voices: Company Lets Customers Send Dead Pets’ Ashes To Space
Celestis, a Houston company that has offered a service called “Earth Rise” since 1997 that sends cremated human remains to space, is now extending the same service to deceased pets, allowing pet owners to launch their pets’ ashes into sp… 
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Mental Floss » 8 Real-Life Locations That Inspired Disney Places (And One That Didn't)
Ever watch a Disney movie and feel slightly disappointed that you’ll never be able to visit those wondrous, fantastical places? Good news: The castles, towns, geological formations, and even buildings in many Disney movies were inspired by real-life locations. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » World leaders mark 100 years since Britain thought it would be a good idea to get in on this trendy new war [Sad]
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Mental Floss » 5 Questions: Quality
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Fark.com RSS » For those rare few who have managed to actually finish a Jane Austen novel instead of passing out from boredom fifteen pages in could have learned something about British economics from the Victorian era Stephenie Meyer [Unlikely]
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Fark.com RSS » Drunk vicar crashes car, punches paramedic, spits at cop, and assaults another female paramedic as she treats him– all the while shouting he's an IRA member who will kill them all. This guy brought his 'A' game (pics) [Dumbass]
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The Oatmeal – Comics, Quizzes, & Stories » My website turned 5 years old so we're having a big sale to celebrate
My website turned 5 years old so we're having a big sale to celebrateView [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Man burglarizes home while his girlfriend and two-year-old wait in the car. If that isn't enough for you, he stole a collection of baby teeth. Wait, people collect baby teeth? [Weird]
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FMyLife » Ew?Really? says FML
Today, my husband was disgusted by me expressing breast milk while we were in the shower together. This is the same man who thinks it's funny to pee on my legs because, "It'll wash off." FML [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Anne Frank was arrested by the Nazis 70 years ago today, but not before she made her final poignant diary entry: "Man, those Samoans are a surly bunch" [Sappy]
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Mental Floss » Brain Game: Math Square #227
Welcome to today's mentalfloss.com Brain Game challenge, Monday Math Square #227. 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). 
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Fark.com RSS » Toledo water crisis day three jubilee: the mayor says, "fark it go ahead and drink the water, farmers are bad, and our system sucks. Oh, and by the way we're going to raise your rates" [Followup]
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Mental Floss » Why Does the Other Line Always Seem to Be Moving Faster?
Because it probably is. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Photoshop this safe swimmer [Photoshop]
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Mental Floss » This Is What Anne Frank's Arrest Looked Like
Anne Frank was captured by the Nazis on this date in 1944. [Link]
Mental Floss » Creating the Lightsaber Sound
When sound designer Ben Burtt was assigned to make various Star Wars sounds, he went straight for the lightsaber. It took a lot of work to dial in that humming, buzzing, swooshing sound…and Burtt was a grad student at USC while doing the work. In this short video, Burtt walks us through how it all happened: For more on the … [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Here's what will happen when California runs out of water, like the mystics and statistics say it will [Scary]
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Weird Universe » Suicide Payoff
If you jump in front of a train, is it the train driver's fault if he doesn't stop in time to run you over? Maybe. Back in 1977, Milo Stephens tried to commit suicide in this way and later sued the New York City Transit Authority for running him over. The TA gave him a settlement payment of $650,000 rather … [Link]
Futility Closet » Podcast: Episode 21
In December 1943, American bomber pilot Charlie Brown was flying a severely damaged B-17 out of Germany when he looked out the cockpit window and saw “the world’s worst nightmare” off his right wing — a fully armed German fighter whose pilot was staring back at him. In this episode of the Futility Closet podcast we’ll follow the strange drama … [Link]
Mental Floss » Quality
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Mental Floss » Morning Cup of Links: AMNH's Adults-Only Sleepover
NYC's American Museum of Natural History threw an "adults-only" slumber party. One hundred and fifty lucky museum goers got to sleep under the blue whale. We're jealous! * A "lost" Dr. Seuss collection is about to be published by Random House. Readers can look forward to more adventures with Horton the elephant. * It turns out some people really do … [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Teenager in Aurora, Colorado trots around town carrying a shotgun, says he's free to do what he wants and to hell with everyone still concerned about the theater shooting; he has the Second Amendment on his side [Sick]
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FMyLife » scared says FML
Today, my elderly mother explained that, "I don't need my glasses to drive, I just need them to see." FML [Link]
FMyLife » really though? says FML
Today, I was taking an order for a patron at the casino. The policy is to "pay first." After explaining this to him, he still refused to pay. After years of being polite, I finally cracked and said, "You are making this really f-ing difficult". This particular patron was our CEO's son. FML [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Do you like your bacon extra salty? [Strange]
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FMyLife » lovethyneighbour says FML
Today, my neighbour casually mentioned that he sold my car's GPS that I'd let him borrow. He figured I wouldn't be needing it anymore since I lost my license. FML [Link]
Futility Closet » Private Line
The Barossa Reservoir dam in South Australia is a “whispering wall” — sound hugs the arc of the dam, so two people at opposite ends of the 140-meter span can have a conversation that’s inaudible to those in the middle. There’s a whispering arch outside the Oyster Bar in Grand Central Station — a feature that has some creative uses: … [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Reno police devise new strategy to explain increase in bicycle thefts: blame the hippies [Dumbass]
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Fark.com RSS » Parents have no issue with sending their children to a school that received an "F" rating, but tell them they may have to get uniforms for their underachieving students and suddenly they give a damn [Florida]
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Fark.com RSS » Do you have $199,999 burning a hole in your pocket? Well then you could own the smallest house on the market in Tampa Bay (with pics) [Florida]
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Fark.com RSS » Fatima Noor risks her life day in and day out in Pakistan, going door-to-door to ensure that as many of the nation's children as possible receive live-saving vaccinations [Hero]
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Fark.com RSS » Nine-year-old boy breaks away from the Central Park Zoo only to get picked up by the cops in Times Square, says it's the best day of his life. Parents still recovering from cardiac arrest [Amusing]
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Fark.com RSS » Not news: Two girls from Kansas hold a bake sale. News: With half the proceeds going to an animal shelter. Fark: And the other half going in to a fund to have a wedding for their dogs. And they do. Bonus: Their babysitter was the minister [Spiffy]
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Fark.com RSS » Honey, would you see who's at the front door? OH CRAP [Florida]
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Mental Floss » Adorably Perplexed Kids React to Typewriters
"Please tell me there's a copy and paste button." [Link]
FMyLife » ew says FML
Today, I painted my nails in the car. After I finished, I stuck my hands out the window to let them dry. When I pulled my hands back in there were live bugs stuck in my nail polish. FML [Link]
Fark.com RSS » You like that pasta? Good. How about that yummy cake? Great. Here, try this bread. Like it? Cool. Guess what, they're all made with crickets. Here, use this [Strange]
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Fark.com RSS » Scientists determine that to look fashionable, you must dress like a hipster [PSA]
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Fark.com RSS » Photoshop this humble guy [Photoshop]
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