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 » Eleven-year-old Chinese boy Yang Junxi hits the eleven-year-old boy jackpot by finding a 3,000-year-old bronze sword in a river [Hero]
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Mental Floss » 12 Videos of Adorable Animals Fighting
Do the animals we label as “cute” fight with each other? Most of the time, the answer is yes. Sometimes the fights are kerfuffles of snorts and grunts and sometimes they’re bloody and violent, but one thing is clear: adorable animals have aggression too. (Warning: some footage below is graphic.) [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Everyone is suddenly talking about Pumpkin Spice condoms, but they're not as real as the Nutmeg variety [Amusing]
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Fark.com RSS » New emoji app will let you text pictures of delicious sandwiches to your friends [Cool]
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Fark.com RSS » Police: "Random male has turned up at the house we are searching for drugs. He has his own drugs already so will be joining us at custody. Couldn't make it up" [Dumbass]
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Mental Floss » A Gorgeous Guide to Musical Notation
Pop Chart Lab's latest poster is bursting with musical marks that will make musicians of all stripes tremolo with joy, turn after inverted turn. Even viola players have reason to celebrate: the chart even gives the maligned alto clef some much-deserved love. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Lion: Jesus Christ, it's a mongoose, get in the car [Interesting]
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Fark.com RSS » After 72-years together a lesbian couple finally ties the knot, and everything else that's hanging low [Spiffy]
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The Onion » American Voices: Amateur Sleuth Identifies Jack The Ripper
An amateur detective has claimed that he teamed up with a molecular biologist to conduct DNA testing on a bloodstained shawl to identify Jack the Ripper, the infamous London serial killer who murdered five women in 1888, as a then-23-year-old Polish barbe… 
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Fark.com RSS » Police book quadruple murder suspect on charges of aggravated assault on domestic violence, which seems a little like locking up Al Capone for jaywalking [Florida]
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Fark.com RSS » The Reddit user who worked so hard to get all those hacked nude photos out into the world wants to have his privacy back [Ironic]
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Fark.com RSS » Joan Rivers' face dies at 25, Josh Gordon becomes a dealer, and a visit to Lake Flowbegone: some of Fark's favorite Headlines of the Week for 8/31 – 9/6 [FarkBlog]
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Fark.com RSS » Nobody could possibly blame Ray Rice's wife for getting assaulted by him in an elevator. Fox & Friends: Challenge accepted [Sick]
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Fark.com RSS » Photoshop this rain delay [Photoshop]
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Fark.com RSS » This may come as a shock to you, but wine tastes the same regardless of how much you spend of fancy glasses [Obvious]
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FMyLife » Anonymous says FML
Today, I was told by my teacher that she had 'given up' teaching me because someone had told her I have a mental illness, and that I don't understand what she says. FML [Link]
The Onion » Ravens Lauded For Brave Decision To Cut Ray Rice 4 Months Too Late
Ravens Lauded For Brave Decision To Cut Ray Rice 4 Months Too Late 
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Fark.com RSS » FOR SALE: Hamptons-area island, 840 acres w/historic lighthouse, excellent 360-degree views, all amenities, fully self-sufficient, all traces of anthrax, hog cholera and polio virus eradicated far as we know [Interesting]
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Fark.com RSS » Coming in at number 3 on the list of 5 things our parents did that would get them arrested today is letting your kid guzzle beer while riding naked on top of the car. Oh, wait, that's not on the list [Amusing]
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Fark.com RSS » "I hear people crying when I'm showering," so does subby, but subby doesn't live in Susan Powell's old house. She of course, was never found [Interesting]
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Fark.com RSS » Bungling robber has pants on the ground problem during raid [Dumbass]
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Fark.com RSS » Apparently, the idea of hanging out at the airport and shining laser pointers at airplanes hasn't gotten old in Tampa [Florida]
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The Onion » Man Excited To Give Visiting Friends The Real Fort Wayne Experience
FORT WAYNE, IN—Promising to steer them away from the usual tourist traps and show them the sights of his hometown through the eyes of a native, local man Martin Greenbaum pledged Monday to treat his visiting friends to the real Fort Wayne experience… 
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Fark.com RSS » NFL implements lifetime ban for concussions [NewsFlash]
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Mental Floss » 11 Notable People Who Shared Their Names With Famous Contemporaries
You’ve probably met a few perfectly normal people who happen to have the exact same name as some celebrity. Maybe you’re one of them. It’s a common problem. In fact, sometimes, this’ll even happen to a pair of famous figures. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Add your voice to those demanding net neutrality on the Internet, with your input going to the decisionmakers before th…[BUFFERING]…ey go t…[BUFFERING]…CARRIER LOST [PSA]
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Fark.com RSS » Study from ultra-liberal think tank implores businesses to do more to lift the living standard of the American worker. Fark: Harvard Business School [Interesting]
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Fark.com RSS » Dalai Lama says he sees no need for a sequel, but isn't against a reboot [Interesting]
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Futility Closet » Where’s the Father?
A mother is 21 years older than her son. Six years from now, she will be five times his age. Where’s the father? I won’t give the answer to this one — if you do the math, you’ll know precisely where he is. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » You may be shocked to learn that a DA who sent two innocent, mentally-disabled men to death row is kind of an A-hole [Sick]
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Mental Floss » Strange States: Montana's Toxic Lake
This week we head to Montana, also known as Big Sky Country, and the home of director David Lynch, Hollywood cowboy Gary Cooper, and the man who made the phrase “March Madness” famous, sportscaster Brent Musburger. [Link]
Mental Floss » 15 Words Plagued by Unusual Silent Letters
The scourge of spellers, silent letters are often a stumbling block when learning how to write in English. To the modern eye, it's unclear what these letters are doing in the words in question, and learners sometimes simply have to memorize them. But the silent letters are very often hidden remnants of how the words passed through different languages on … [Link]
Mental Floss » 5 Questions: Brad Minus "T"
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The Onion » Opinion: America Cannot Continue To Function As The World’s Stripper Police (by Elliot Koenig)
By Elliot Koenig 
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The Onion » Sportsgraphic: NFL Week One Winners And Losers
Onion Sports presents its winners and losers from the first week of the NFL season 
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Fark.com RSS » Want a lighthouse? Federal government is giving them away for free [Spiffy]
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The Onion » Editorial Cartoon: Sit. Stay. Die!
Sit. Stay. Die! 
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Fark.com RSS » Know anyone who's good at creating chaos? [Amusing]
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Fark.com RSS » EA asked the internet to make Madden GIFs, probably should have seen this coming [Amusing]
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Fark.com RSS » India and Pakistan working together to save people from Kashmir and prevent hearing "Stairway to Heaven" on repeat [Interesting]
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Fark.com RSS » Family of responsible gun owners allow their 5 year-old son to go on an unsupervised hunting trip, seem shocked and appalled to learn the kid managed to shoot himself in the face with a shotgun because "he knew better" [Fail]
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Fark.com RSS » McDonald's may have saved organized labor [Ironic]
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Fark.com RSS » Two idiots in Oklahoma arrested for drenching a Wal-Mart in deer urine: "It's weird. It's very weird and disgusting" (mugshots) [Weird]
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Fark.com RSS » Government to the hungry, drought stricken: hey that sux. better eat some iguanas [Sad]
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Fark.com RSS » Fark NotNewsletter #3: Yes, we're calling it that [FarkBlog]
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Mental Floss » How to Make a Cardboard Yo-Yo
Here's a fun project using household scrap materials: making a cardboard yo-yo courtesy of The Curiosity Show. You just need some cardboard, string, a paperclip, and scissors. Enjoy: As a bonus, late in the video we see how to make a yo-yo with bottle caps, clay, and a fastener. If you're really advanced, check out this video on making wooden … [Link]
Fark.com RSS » John Oliver hits another one out of the park, this time going after for-profit colleges [Amusing]
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Fark.com RSS » Good hiding. Such camouflage [Amusing]
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Fark.com RSS » Couple hitting golf balls into the Gulf of Mexico spark outrage. "I hate to see that Seinfeld episode repeated" [Florida]
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Fark.com RSS » "An elderly church deacon driving to Sunday Mass with a plaque on her windshield that said, 'God is my co-pilot,' fatally struck a homeless man in Brooklyn" [Ironic]
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Fark.com RSS » Famous George Washington painting to be restored, edited to show Greedo shot first [Interesting]
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Mental Floss » Who Invented the Hot Dog?
Every Monday, Craig Benzine answers a question from one of our readers. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » How to open a bottle of wine when you don't have a corkscrew but you do have a blowtorch [Cool]
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Fark.com RSS » Extra leg room in the first-class cabin is appreciated by men, women, centipedes [Scary]
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Fark.com RSS » Canada begins a two week public hearing about mandating à la carte options for TV channels. Finally Canadians will no longer have to subscribe to the Snowmobile Channel just to be able to get the Curling News Network [Spiffy]
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Fark.com RSS » Missing Plane News Network: plane still missing [Obvious]
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The Onion » Every One Of Man’s Priorities Unrecognizable To Grandfather
STOUGHTON, MA—From his aversion to using plastic bags to his refusal to eat bread and other foods containing gluten, every one of local man Joshua Pell’s life priorities is reportedly baffling to his grandfather, Everett Pell, sources confirme… 
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Fark.com RSS » Lake Oswego police are searching for a man who likes to drink beer and touch himself, have narrowed the suspects down to everyone [Interesting]
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Fark.com RSS » If you want to rob a bank, you should at least bring something to carry the money in because police get suspicious when they see money just falling out of someone's pants [PSA]
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Mental Floss » 14 Rock Stars Who Made Cameos in Movies
Rock stars obviously feel relaxed behind the microphone, but occasionally, they'll step outside of their comfort zones and in front of a movie camera. Did you spot these musicians when they made cameos in your favorite films? [Link]
Fark.com RSS » "This Hipster Sex Party was so hip even the guy from MGMT was there. But were we liberated and free? I guess so" [Ironic]
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Fark.com RSS » Whose sovereignty will Russia violate next… spin the wheel… Estonia, step on down [Scary]
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Fark.com RSS » NASCAR fan celebrates 53rd birthday at the racetrack in full 'Hold my beer' style (vid and mugshot) [Dumbass]
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The Onion » American Voices: Study: Action Movies Make People Eat More
According to a new study, people watching action movies eat twice as much food as those watching talk shows, which may be because fast-paced programs can distract viewers from how much food they’re putting in their mouths. 
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FMyLife » Ozomulsion says FML
Today, I was replaced in the symphony I play in. I play the clarinet, and a standard symphony only uses two, so getting into one can be quite competitive. My conductor's reasoning? "I was sure you were going to college." I never mentioned college to him, other than saying I wasn't going. FML [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Italian nuns die in Burundi attack. Why were Italian nuns attacking Burundi? [Sad]
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Fark.com RSS » Harvard to name new health school building 4Chan [Cool]
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Fark.com RSS » Caption this happy Cheetah [Caption]
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The Onion » Slideshow: The Week In Pictures – Week Of September, 8, 2014
The Week In Pictures – Week Of September, 8, 2014 
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Weird Universe » Chocolate Teapot
Science has solved the problem of how to make a chocolate teapot that can withstand boiling water long enough to let the tea brew for two minutes before pouring. And if you don't stir the water in the pot (that's the key — don't stir the water!) the tea comes out with only a slight hint of chocolate. [telegraph] [Link]
Fark.com RSS » How to defeat ISIS- Step 1. Stop giving them weapons [Asinine]
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Mental Floss » Are Bees Really All That Busy?
Some bees don’t really do any work at all. [Link]
Mental Floss » Brain Game: Math Square #231
Begin the new work week with today's mentalfloss.com Brain Game, Math Square #231: 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 » Ever wonder what happens when a tornado meets a volcano? This happens [Cool]
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Fark.com RSS » So it turns out that the Ferguson police chief released the "robbery" tape for exactly the reason we all thought he did it for [Asinine]
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Fark.com RSS » Hikers rescued from Yosemite. No word if the rescuer wore anti-gravity boots and told them God needed a starship [Scary]
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Fark.com RSS » Photoshop these posing robots [Photoshop]
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Futility Closet » Podcast: Episode 25
On Dec. 1, 1948, a well-dressed corpse appeared on a beach in South Australia. Despite 66 years of investigation, no one has ever been able to establish who the man was, how he came to be there, or even how he died. In this episode of the Futility Closet podcast we’ll delve into the mystery of the Somerton man, a … [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Chick-fil-A founder S. Truett Cathy dies at 93. Cathy's last words were "AKKKK" [Obvious]
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Fark.com RSS » Prince William and Duchess Kate expecting a second child, fulfilling the prophecy of the Sith [Sappy]
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Fark.com RSS » Dalai Lama to Putin: Suck it [Hero]
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Weird Universe » Last Week in Weird (September 8, 2014)
Last Week in Weird
datelines 8/28/2014–9/5/2014
[Links, chronological, on Extended page]
Copyright 2014 by Chuck Shepherd. All rights reserved.
The Aristocrats! Another co-worker hoping for a date by . . ejaculating in the lady’s coffee–always a sure way to win her heart! And an F-State flasher, waving his stuff around while in pink panties and bra . . and age … [Link]
Weird Universe » World Carrot Museum
The thrills start here. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » God lets Nicaragua know that He's watching by sending a meteor straight into the capital [Scary]
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Fark.com RSS » 50 years later and the little girl who starred in the infamous Goldwater 'Daisy Girl' political ad still hasn't been annihilated by nuclear bombs [Followup]
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FMyLife » soontobehobo says FML
Today, I was checking my schedule online and noticed that I wasn't scheduled for any shifts next week. Not thinking it was a big deal, I called HR to get it corrected, only to find out I was laid off and they "forgot" to tell me. FML [Link]
FMyLife » Alabamagirl2 says FML
Today, my sister told me the reason why she went with me to a gay pride parade a few months ago was because she thought it would inspire me to come out. FML [Link]
FMyLife » soulebelius says FML
Today, my mother told me that she and my father aren't coming to my wedding if my estranged brother who stopped talking to me two years ago isn't invited. She claims they don't want to choose sides. Brother: 1. Me: 0. FML [Link]
Mental Floss » Morning Cup of Links: Outrunning a T. Rex
Could you really outrun a Tyrannosaurus rex? You’d be surprised at how fast you can run when your life depends on it!
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If the princes from Disney princess movies were real guys …you probably wouldn’t like them very much. Good looks are all that matters when you’re six, but real life is a different story altogether.
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The Inspiring … [Link]
FMyLife » teacher says FML
Today, I started my first teaching job ever. As I was teaching, another teacher interrupted my class about 5 times because she thought it was her class. Not only did she ruin my confidence, her behavior caused my students to laugh at me. FML [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Family creates an exact replica of their living room at a kennel so their dog wouldn't get homesick when the family goes on vacation… Once again proving that some people have way too much money [Strange]
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Futility Closet » Fiction and Feeling
A puzzle from University of Michigan philosopher Kendall Walton: “Charles is watching a horror movie about a terrible green slime. He cringes in his seat as the slime oozes slowly but relentlessly over the earth, destroying everything in its path. Soon a greasy head emerges from the undulating mas, and two beady eyes fix on the camera. The slime, picking … [Link]
Fark.com RSS » If you buy an iPhone 6, your phone bill will increase because your data usage will jump up to 9.1 gigabytes per month. That's 78 craploads of alphabet soup per cubic hectare, if you're not familiar with the metric system [Interesting]
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Fark.com RSS » Who didn't see this coming? Leading anti-marijuana academics are paid by painkiller drug companies. So, who didn't see it coming? The Irony tag [Obvious]
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Fark.com RSS » "We just want people to be safe when crossing the street; that's why we've put these $60 orange flags at crosswalks so they can wave them at cars to say 'hey, there's a person here'" [Florida]
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Fark.com RSS » Crazy: Jumping out of a perfectly good airplane. Really crazy: Jumping out of a perfectly good airplane into a wilderness of flaming bears and hungry trees [Scary]
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Fark.com RSS » "At first, we thought our wedding cake had broken in two when it was being brought to the reception. But then we realised one of the two pieces was missing and the other was covered in claw marks and dog hair" (pics) [Amusing]
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Fark.com RSS » Photoshop this bonding moment [Photoshop]
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