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 » Fun facts about Swiss cheese: The holes are called "eyes." Swiss cheese without the holes is called "blind." And our favorite, trying to steal four huge pieces of Swiss cheese by stuffing them down your pant legs, well, that's cal
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Mental Floss » 14 Fun Scrabble Facts
To celebrate the release of the fifth edition of Merriam-Webster’s The Official SCRABBLE Players Dictionary, out today, here are a few fun facts about the game and the competitions it has inspired. 1. SCRABBLE was invented by an architect. In 1933, New York City architect Alfred Mosher Butts created an early version of the game we know as Scrabble. To … [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Spending time with your grandmother when you're a kid is priceless – especially those days when she takes you shoplifting [Dumbass]
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Mental Floss » Behind the Scenes at Pop Chart Lab
Every week at Pop Chart Lab's downtown Brooklyn office, the staff of 14 —up from just two founders in 2010— sits down for an editorial meeting, where they discuss the next three months of production. And since they try to release a new product every week, there are usually 12 different projects to talk about. If you've seen their stuff, … [Link]
FMyLife » Anonymous says FML
Today, my husband told his parents that he was quitting his job so that he could focus on school. They asked him what he was going to do for money. When I told them that I'd be the one working, they took one look at me and burst into laughter. FML [Link]
FMyLife » beaverfever says FML
Today, I wore a tank top for the first time in a few years. It turned out even worse than the last time. I got insulted by several people over my "Never say never" upper chest tattoo, which I got years ago, before the words ever became associated with a certain douchy Canadian pop "singer". FML [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Time to recalculate your karma, as it turns out hotels actually want you take those little bottles of shampoo, conditioner, and lotion home with you [Interesting]
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Fark.com RSS » Despite being on trial for the deaths of 32 people in the 2012 Costa Concordia disaster, the ship's captain is invited to give a lecture to university students on best emergency practices [Fail]
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Fark.com RSS » NC throws down the gauntlet for white rights [Interesting]
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Fark.com RSS » Old and Busted: smuggling cocaine in submarines and speed boats. New Hotness: smuggling cocaine in the Spanish Navy's 86 year old, four-masted sailing ship [Strange]
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Fark.com RSS » Right-wingers are making their middle names 'Benghazi' on Facebook. The estate of President Ronald Beirut Reagan had no comment at press time [Weird]
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Fark.com RSS » Never mind, you don't need to change all your passwords [Followup]
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Mental Floss » The Missing Links: The New York City Subway Spa
Calm. Serene. Relaxing. NYC Subway. One of those things is out of place, at least until Improv Everywhere shows up. * Bringing Back Brent Ricky Gervais is planning a new movie about his character from The Office. * Teddy Ruxpin. Garfield Phones. Pound Puppies. It’s all here in the 1986 Toy R Us catalog. * HINT: They’re Not What Plants … [Link]
Fark.com RSS » In the US, Monster Crocodile Vs Shark sounds like another B-movie. In Australia, it's just a regular occurrence [Scary]
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Fark.com RSS » Approaching hurricane means stores are running short on water, bread, Spam… wait, what? [Amusing]
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The Onion » Entirety Of Man’s Personal Data Protected By Reference To Third Season Of ‘The West Wing’
ALPHARETTA, GA—Online sources confirmed Wednesday that every piece of 34-year-old Mark O’Connell’s personal data is currently protected by a reference to the third season of long-running NBC political drama The West Wing. 
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Fark.com RSS » Seattle City Council writes FDA calling for an end to blood donation ban on gay & bisexual men. Wait. We still do that? Really? [Asinine]
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Fark.com RSS » What gives "Two-Buck Chuck" its unmistakably complex nose and velvety piquancy? Maybe it's the rodent blood [Sick]
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The Onion » American Voices: Russian Gangsters Steal 1.2 Billion Passwords
A Milwaukee online security firm discovered this week that a Russian crime ring has stolen 1.2 billion username and password combinations from internet users, the largest theft of its kind in history, and are using most of the information to send out spam… 
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Fark.com RSS » AOL still has 2.3M members paying $20/mo for 56k dial-up internet. No, this is not a repeat from 1999 [Sad]
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Fark.com RSS » Photoshop this old fashioned train ride [Photoshop]
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The Onion » Infographic: Dorm Room Essentials
With college right around the corner for millions of incoming freshmen, students across the country are shopping for sheets, towels, shower sandals, decorations, and other essential items to prepare for college life and make their dorm rooms feel like … 
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The Onion » Date’s Flaws Coming At Woman Faster Than She Can Rationalize Them
WILMINGTON, DE—Over the course of their dinner Tuesday evening at a local bar and grill, area woman Melissa Kowalski, 27, reportedly faced a constant stream of her date’s personal flaws so swift and intense that she could not possibly rational… 
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The Onion » Study Finds Blame Now Fastest Human Reflex
WALTHAM, MA—According to a study published Wednesday in the New England Journal of Medicine, blame has now surpassed instinctive responses such as blinking and flinching as the fastest human reflex. 
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Mental Floss » 33 Amazing Facts About Beloved Childhood Toys
When Twister was introduced in 1966, critics denounced the game as "sex in a box." [Link]
Mental Floss » 15 Odd Things We've Sent to Space for Some Reason
If there is intelligent life on other planets with powerful telescopes, they must have been very confused sometimes. [Link]
Mental Floss » Before They Were Famous Authors
Before they make it big, writers have to pay the bills somehow. Can you guess what these famous scribes were doing before they were household names? [Link]
Mental Floss » Quiz: Hunger Games Character or Poisonous Plant?
It’s no secret that author Suzanne Collins drew some inspiration for character names from the greenhouse. Katniss, Primrose, and Hawthorne are all things you might find growing outside – though maybe not in District 12. Are you enough of a Hunger Games fan to separate fact from fiction? May the odds be ever in your favor. [Link]
Mental Floss » The Most Interesting Comics of the Week
Every Wednesday, I write about the most interesting new comics hitting comic shops, bookstores, digital, Kickstarter and the web. Feel free to comment below if there's a comic you've read recently that you want to talk about or an upcoming comic that you'd like me to consider highlighting. [Link]
The Onion » Going-Out-Of-Business Sign Thanks Neighborhood For 3 Months Of No Support Whatsoever
INDIANAPOLIS—Shuttering its doors after an unprofitable 12 weeks in business, local coffee shop Crossroads Café offered a heartfelt goodbye to the community this week with a large going-out-of-business sign thanking residents for their total … 
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Fark.com RSS » "I was called uglier names, I was even called Armenian" -Probably not the sort of person who should be in charge of a country bordering Armenia [Stupid]
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The Onion » New Law Requires Welfare Recipients To Submit Sweat To Prove How Hard They’re Looking For Job
WASHINGTON— In an effort to ensure that those on welfare are actively seeking employment, a new law enacted this week will require recipients of federal aid to periodically submit vials of sweat for measurement by government officials. 
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Fark.com RSS » Meanwhile in Saudi Arabia, all hell's breaking loose because: A) Saudi government found to embrace terrorism. B) Saudi oil is well past its peak. C) They saw a woman's face on TV [Obvious]
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Futility Closet » Stet
“In all the proof that has reached me, windrow has been spelled window. If, in the bound book, windrow still appears as window, then neither rain nor hail nor gloom of night nor fleets of riot squads will prevent me from assassinating the man who is responsible. If the coward hides behind my finding, I shall step into Scribner’s and … [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Here's what happens when an elephant gets an itch and your car is the most convenient thing to scratch it on [Amusing]
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FMyLife » Baustigt says FML
Today, as I was driving, a massive cockroach clicked its way across my windshield. I pulled over to fling it out the window, but it spread its wings and flew around like a hook-armed stabbing machine. I lost it in the dark car and now I can't find it. It's going to be a long drive home. FML [Link]
FMyLife » We raised that fool says FML
Today, I went for a romantic, anniversary meal with my wife. It was amazing, until we had to rush home halfway through because our daughter rang, informing us that her 20-year-old sister had broken her wrist trying to jump from the roof, onto the trampoline and into the pool. She 'miscalculated'. FML [Link]
Fark.com RSS » "California wildfires temporarily suspend search for extraterrestrials" [Strange]
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Fark.com RSS » News: Clearwater Police find pot plants in a car at the scene of a burglary. Fark: Because said pot plants were actually sticking out of the window. With classic, collectable photo [Florida]
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Fark.com RSS » Al Gore was right: Methane plumes of death spotted in the Arctic threaten to kill us all [Scary]
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Fark.com RSS » Lady runner runner uses GPS to 'draw run' pictures of penises, dogs and Space Invaders aliens on Nike+ map [Amusing]
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Fark.com RSS » Remember how it was so cold this past winter that people had to huddle together for warmth and couldn't go out to the drugstore? Pittsburgh maternity wards do [Interesting]
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Fark.com RSS » Possible solution may be on the way for an Ebola virus cure after two American aid workers who contracted Ebola in Liberia become human guinea pigs after having been given an experimental serum – because it appears to be working [Interesting]
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Weird Universe » Giulio Ulivi and the F-rays
Good essay with fotos here. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » News: AZ Secretary of State says that under state law, the name of a state senator who dropped dead while riding his horse over the weekend must stay on the ballot Fark: He was running unopposed [Strange]
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Fark.com RSS » The New York City Subway is infested with something new for a change [Scary]
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Mental Floss » Why Do We Stretch During the Seventh Inning?
Reading about the theories behind the Seventh-Inning Stretch's origin story might take longer than the stretch itself. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » This computer literally knows when 'literally' isn't literally literal. Literally [Obvious]
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Fark.com RSS » Maybe it's time to give up your life of crime if you've only netted $2 in your last four robberies [Dumbass]
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Mental Floss » How to Tell Whether You've Got Angst, Ennui, or Weltschmerz
English never hesitates to borrow words that would lose certain subtleties in translation, and angst, ennui, and weltschmerz have made their way into English by offering a little something extra. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Good news: some states give "safe points" on your driver's license for not having any infractions. Bad news: cops in other states can't tell the difference between "safe points" and the regular kind [Asinine]
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The Onion » American Voices: More Couples Using ‘Wedding Drones’ To Film Nuptials
A growing number of U.S. couples are using small commercial drones to shoot photographs of wedding guests and capture aerial footage of their ceremonies, though the Federal Aviation Administration has warned that the practice is illegal and offenders coul… 
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Fark.com RSS » Don't you hate it when the amusement park you're at closes when you're still on the Ferris wheel and you have to spend the whole goddamn night up there? [Strange]
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Fark.com RSS » Researchers discover the best way to find out if someone is a narcissist is asking, "Are you a narcissist?" [Amusing]
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Fark.com RSS » And now for Something Completely Different – Owls with Human Legs [Amusing]
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Fark.com RSS » A 29 year-old man was arrested for DUI, his blood alcohol level at three times the legal limit. And he had a 6 year-old girl in the truck with him, and it was unclear if the two were related [Florida]
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Fark.com RSS » Sure you might want to take home a souvenir from your vacation, but try not to make it a piece of Pompeii [Asinine]
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Mental Floss » What Does That Dangly Thing in the Back of Your Throat Do?
The uvula is one of the weirdest looking features of the human body. Yet despite its infamy, scientists have spent centuries puzzling over its function. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Sanford is quickly becoming the terrifying epicenter of Stand Your Ground assaults [Florida]
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Fark.com RSS » A look at what $1 can buy you around the world. In India you'll get an unlimited rice meal and in Italy it's a bottle of cheap wine [Cool]
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Mental Floss » Brain Game: The Big Drawback
Can you solve the Word Ladder in today's mentalfloss.com Brain Game Wednesday Wordplay challenge in seven steps or fewer? Prove it! By changing one letter in each step to form English words, and leaving all other letters in their original positions, convert DRAW into BACK in the fewest possible steps. D R A W
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Fark.com RSS » Signs the global warming is real now include the reindeer in Norway going into road tunnels to escape the heat [Scary]
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Fark.com RSS » Six year olds of unusual size? I don't think they exist [Asinine]
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Mental Floss » 5 Questions: Five Easy Pieces
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Fark.com RSS » Proof positive that cannabis is truly a deadly drug: two people dead after smoking it. That's right, TWO people out of an estimated 147 million users worldwide. PANIC to the right [Fail]
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Fark.com RSS » HOA continues to try and remove a therapy pig from their community, thereby destroying the mental stability of a small child and ripping a family apart because in their minds, not even that is worth bending a rule [Florida]
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Fark.com RSS » Why can a grizzly bear eat nothing but bacon, sleep all winter, and not get diabetes like we do? Man, life sucks [Interesting]
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Fark.com RSS » According to NATO, Russia is ready to invade Ukraine as soon as it nabs a few more passwords [Interesting]
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Fark.com RSS » If you killed a koala, stuffed a $50 bill in its mouth, and dumped it in the driveway of a police station, the Victoria Police would like to know WHAT IN THE EVER-LIVING F*CK IS WRONG WITH YOU? Or at least an explanation of the message [Sick]
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Fark.com RSS » The federal government has concluded that there is a new leaker exposing national security documents, according to some guy [Unlikely]
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Fark.com RSS » USDA to Wal-Mart: "Sooo…just how much *did* you earn from food stamps last year? Wal-Mart to USDA: *crickets* [Interesting]
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Mental Floss » Morning Cup of Links: A Felt Corner Store
An artist stocks a convenience store with hand-stitched felt replicas of all the products. * If your band needs to garner some attention, try one of these gimmicks that are proven to work. * Check out these books you should read this month. * Find out what your hair bow says about your love life, according to a 1944 issue … [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Photoshop this young cowboy of yesteryear [Photoshop]
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FMyLife » ditched says FML
Today, I found out my co-workers don't actually like me when they changed the hangout spot after accidentally inviting me. FML [Link]
Mental Floss » Recording Explosions for 'Star Wars'
Star Wars sound designer Ben Burtt explains the difficulty of making convincing explosion sounds in the movies: "Real explosions are really difficult to record, because they're so loud, and quite often they're so sudden. … A normal recording system doesn't get something that's very interesting." To get a movie-worthy explosion, Burtt traveled to military bases and accidentally blew up some … [Link]
Mental Floss » 7 Best Friends Who Shared Incredible Secrets
Best friends can share anything with each other, even their biggest secrets. These seven pairings played it close to the vest for each other to win wars, rescue royalty, and revolutionize literature. 1. Mark Twain and Helen Keller You may not have known they were best friends, but despite their 45-year age difference, the pair boasted a friendship Twain described … [Link]
Weird Universe » Husband For Sale
1935: Mary Ann and Fred Cordes weren't doing too well with their marriage. But instead of just getting a divorce, like normal people, they (well, it was mostly Mary Ann's idea) hatched a plan to sell Fred for $1500 to any woman willing to buy him. Mary Ann hoped to use the money to travel to Ireland, her childhood home. … [Link]
Fark.com RSS » It's come to this: County in Arizona will stop hiring smokers and begin testing all employees for nicotine in their blood [Asinine]
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Fark.com RSS » Omaha has the #1 zoo in the world. Assuming you can navigate the gang-infested streets [Cool]
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Fark.com RSS » Sad: Your mom dies. Sadder: Something about her just doesn't look right at the funeral. FARK: The funeral home buried the wrong woman next to your father [Fail]
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Fark.com RSS » Digital paintings show how 20 years of decay after the fall of humankind might affect some iconic buildings [Cool]
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Mental Floss » Five Easy Pieces
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Fark.com RSS » Will someone buy this woman a ticket to Hawaii already? [Sad]
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FMyLife » cutthroatkait says FML
Today, I picked up an extra shift at the store. It was also the day the store's ventilation system shut down, resulting in carbon monoxide poisoning for me and two co-workers. FML [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Wife blames Jon Stewart for her 87-year-old nudist husband running for sheriff in Washington state [Amusing]
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Futility Closet » Black and White
By W. Timbrell Pierce. White to mate in two moves. Click for solution … [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Someone decides to put up a road sign to honor a 59-year-old nun who was killed in a hit-and-run in the Hamptons. And as usual someone has a problem with this [Followup]
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Mental Floss » The Time the United States Tried to Buy Greenland
Had a Cold War sales pitch worked out differently, Greenland just might have become an American territory. [Link]
FMyLife » spekledworf says FML
Today, as I wandered through the streets of an unfamiliar city, I spotted a cop and darted across the street to ask for assistance. He kindly gave me directions as he wrote me out a citation for jaywalking. FML [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Today's Fark ready police quote: "On a sliding scale we think we may be looking at an idiot rather than an international terrorist" [Amusing]
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Fark.com RSS » Nearly half of US terror suspects are just pissed off folks who are not associated with any terror group [Weird]
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Fark.com RSS » A government website intended to make federal spending more transparent is very good at its job; $619 billion dollars has turned 'transparent' [Fail]
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Fark.com RSS » Always wanted to buy the island the Magna Carta was signed on? Well if you have a measly £3,950,000 lying around, now you can [Interesting]
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Fark.com RSS » Man charged with vehicular homicide. Difficulty: golf cart [Strange]
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Fark.com RSS » Director of County Animal Shelter is spending too much time with dogs, iguanas, and booze: "At that point, they said, Thomas stood up showing his teeth and growling as he attempted to leave the room" [Strange]
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Fark.com RSS » Wisconsin State Fair attempts to enlarge scope of fair food, unveils chicken and waffle cone composed of Cajun fried chicken, bleu cheese coleslaw, beer-candied bacon, homemade rosemary cornmeal waffle cone, and maple syrup [Scary]
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Fark.com RSS » Roommates unsuccessfully try to carve a tattoo off your arm so they set it on fire? I'm not saying it's Juggalos, but [Scary]
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Fark.com RSS » Kentucky State University President donates $90,000 of own salary to lowest paid employees [Hero]
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Fark.com RSS » Change all your passwords now [PSA]
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Fark.com RSS » Egypt to build new Suez Canal parallel to old one. Old one to be moved to museum [Cool]
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Fark.com RSS » Meet the bare-chested Russian Master Of Ducks [Cool]
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Fark.com RSS » Glenn Greenwald publishes classified materials stolen from the US government. This IS a repeat [Followup]
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Fark.com RSS » TV show inspires guy to make a pipe bomb, but he forgets he left it at his ex-wife's house and she's clearing the shed. Uh-oh spaghetti-os [Dumbass]
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Fark.com RSS » Photoshop this speaker speaking [Photoshop]
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