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 » Mobile Fark has a new look – come check it out and let us know what you think [PSA]
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Fark.com RSS » The Parent Television Council has watched hours and hours and hours and hours and hours and hours and hours of naked people on television in order to come up with the conclusion that there are way too many naked people on television [Silly]
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Fark.com RSS » Meet the woman who is the last surviving food taster for Adolf Hitler [Interesting]
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Fark.com RSS » From the "Seriously, what the fark is wrong with people?" File: women increasingly undergoing plastic surgery to remove their "boot bulge" which is basically any suggestion that the human calf is rounded in any way [Asinine]
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Mental Floss » 15 Things You Probably Didn’t Know About 'Kill Bill Vol. 2'
Even if you’ve seen the second half of Quentin Tarantino’s revenge epic, these little nuggets will give you a reason to give it another look. 1. Pulp Fiction spawned the idea. Uma Thurman and Tarantino came up with the character of The Bride while working on the set of Tarantino’s 1994 film Pulp Fiction. Tarantino mentioned he was interested in … [Link]
Mental Floss » 35 Jobs That No Longer Exist
In many cases, that's probably a good thing. [Link]
Mental Floss » 10 Fossils Named for Rock Stars
Fossils rock. So much so, in fact, that paleontologists have named a whole menagerie of prehistoric critters after their favorite musicians. Here’s a rundown of some of the fantastic prehistoric species named in honor of rock stars. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Moving a child from southern Sudan to a wealthy L.A. school reduces their measles and pertussis risk. Wait. Reverse that [Dumbass]
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Futility Closet » Black and White
By Francis Healey. White to mate in two moves. Click for solution … [Link]
Fark.com RSS » There is evil, and then there is "Hell is building a whole new wing just for you": 15 children have reportedly died in rebel-held areas of Syria after receiving vaccination with a measles vaccine that was apparently tainted or deliberately po
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The Onion » American Voices: Study: Liberals, Conservatives Smell Different
According to new research, people with liberal political affiliations and people with conservative views have slightly different body odors, which may make people with similar political viewpoints more attractive to each other. 
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Fark.com RSS » Airline "Passenger Shaming" is now a thing [Amusing]
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Fark.com RSS » Canada has the 'Looney'. The US has the 'Greenback'. What's a good name for an independent Scotland's new currency? [Amusing]
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Fark.com RSS » Worker falls through roof during London fashion show. Models all remain expressionless [Scary]
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The Onion » Infographic: How Public Schools Spend Taxpayer Money
Public school districts in the United States receive billions of taxpayer dollars in state and federal funding every year to pay for teacher salaries, school bus transportation, building maintenance, counseling services, and more. 
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Fark.com RSS » $68 million in meth and heroin smuggled in fish shipment. Customs officials reportedly became suspicious as the frozen fillets were still twitching [Misc]
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Mental Floss » The Missing Links: Westley Reminisces
Westley Shares All Cary Elwes shares stories from the making of The Princess Bride. * Get Some Answers It’s #AskACurator day on Twitter. Ask that burning question you’ve been kicking around in your head for years. * Greatest Halloween Costume of All Time Be Marty McFly for Halloween. This year you’ll be able to get his (pretend) power lacing shoes … [Link]
Weird Universe » Poopy Trap
In Vienna, Austria someone set a bucket full of feces to explode when a line was tripped at a spot where police regularly park to watch for speeders. The police officer who tripped it was covered in poo from six and a half feet away. He wasn't injured except perhaps his dignity. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » You can tell by the pixels, Beyoncé [Fail]
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Fark.com RSS » You may have taken your metal detecting hobby too far when the bomb disposal robot turns up at the door (with awesome Man Cave pics) [Strange]
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Fark.com RSS » Health officials concerned that kids are getting too much physical activity outside [Ironic]
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Mental Floss » Holiday Inn: Along the Journey to Extraordinary [Sponsored]
Each summer MBAs Across America recruits MBAs from the top colleges to work and learn with visionary entrepreneurs all across the country to help change lives. We’re excited to share their journey with you, and glad we could help make it possible. Millions of people come through the doors at a Holiday Inn every year. Every one of them is … [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Sean Hannity: "My dad hit me with a strap and I'm okay" [Unlikely]
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Fark.com RSS » DC Farkers: Let's get everyone's favorite penguin scientist drunk before we have to dump him on his flight home. 3:30PM this Friday, 9/19 @ Gordon Biersch on F St [FarkParty]
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Fark.com RSS » Hospital admits patient even though she drove through the wall instead of paying for an ambulance ride like she was supposed to [Unlikely]
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Fark.com RSS » Fark Coloring Challenge: Master Level [Photoshop]
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Mental Floss » Apocalypse Later: Rapping With Zeke Piestrup About Harold Camping
Harold Camping predicted that the world would end in 2011. One documentarian was there to record the beginning of the end. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Caption Challenge: How many home hazards can YOU find in this picture [Caption]
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Fark.com RSS » Man claims he woke up in a field full of donkeys near Roswell with his memory wiped, which probably had nothing to do with heavy drinking the night before [Dumbass]
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Fark.com RSS » Austrian traffic cop covered in manure by poop bomb planted at speed trap, "crappy day" puns likely to follow [Amusing]
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The Onion » Highly Touted Terrorist Prospect Weighing Multiple Recruitment Offers
AL-BUKAMAL, SYRIA—Saying that he does not want to rush such an important life decision, highly touted terrorist prospect Mansur al-Hawrani told reporters Wednesday that he is continuing to carefully weigh recruitment offers from several radical Isla… 
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Fark.com RSS » Ebola cases could double every three weeks… at least until West Africa is devoid of human life [Scary]
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Mental Floss » 11 Facts Yü Should Know About the Umlaut
1. The word “umlaut” comes from one of the Brothers Grimm. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Don't you hate it when a human head falls out of the garbage bag you are carrying? Don't get mad, get Glad [Dumbass]
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Mental Floss » The Most Interesting Comics of the Week
This week's new comics include Spider-Gwen, plus the latest from Michael DeForge, Boulet, Chris Ware and Charles Burns [Link]
The Onion » BREAKING: Adrian Peterson Deactivated By Family
MINNEAPOLIS—Following mounting allegations of child abuse against the six-time Pro Bowl running back, sources confirmed Wednesday that Minnesota Vikings star Adrian Peterson has been officially deactivated by his family. 
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Fark.com RSS » 'Now, once more, I must ride with my knights to defend what was, and the dream of what could be.' Arthur Uther Pendragon joins the fight to save the Union [Silly]
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Fark.com RSS » Occupy Wall Street finally does something useful [Hero]
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Fark.com RSS » Bertha is stuck in the mud. BORING [Sad]
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The Onion » More Cities Using Text-Based Alert System To Warn Americans If They Are In Range Of NFL Players
WASHINGTON—In an effort to provide the general public with critical safety information in a timely manner, sources confirmed Wednesday that an increasing number of U.S. 
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The Onion » New Health Insurance Law Lets Employers Refuse To Cover Contraceptives If They’re Morally Opposed To Women
WASHINGTON—Ensuring that business owners’ basic freedoms remain adequately protected, a new health insurance law passed Wednesday allows employers to refuse to pay for contraceptives if they are morally opposed to women. The Corporate Conscien… 
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Fark.com RSS » Man litters NYC looking for a date. Why can't he use Craigslist like the rest of the losers? [Silly]
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Fark.com RSS » When your dog goes missing there are two places you need to look: one is "out back" and the other is Florida [Florida]
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Fark.com RSS » Nik Wallenda plans tight rope walk over the Chicago River. Locals: It's a long shot, but we'll get him [Cool]
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Fark.com RSS » Secretary of State walks into a bar in Tel Aviv and orders a beer. The bartender brings him ISIS [Amusing]
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Fark.com RSS » What to do when the local KFC burns down? Have the store manager charter a bus to a KFC in the next town over, of course [Spiffy]
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Fark.com RSS » "How we botched the first predator mission." Damn cloaking devices [Interesting]
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Mental Floss » 5 Questions: Underage
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Fark.com RSS » Al Qaeda's new South Asia wing almost took over a Pakistani frigate, but Pakistani Navy got lucky with a hit on A1 [Followup]
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Fark.com RSS » Victims able to vividly describe attack weapon after being assaulted with cake [Strange]
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Mental Floss » Fact Check: 26 Ladies' Home Journal Predictions for 2001 (from 1901)
A closer look at a 1901 article titled "What Will Happen in the Next Hundred Years." [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Don't you hate it when your beer gets skunked? [Amusing]
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Fark.com RSS » If you're going to pack your bags for a "one way trip" to jihad in Syria, don't burn your passport because you may have a change of heart and someday want to go home [Dumbass]
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Fark.com RSS » Weed be gone [Followup]
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Fark.com RSS » That's odd–Drew never has a second cup of coffee at home [Spiffy]
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The Onion » Opinion: History Will Be The True Judge Of My Tenure As Outback Steakhouse Shift Manager (by Greg Anderson)
By Greg Anderson 
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Fark.com RSS » In Russia, the head of the Orthodox church gets a fighter jet [Cool]
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The Onion » American Voices: Study: Fat Shaming Doesn’t Help Obese People Lose Weight
A new study has found that the practice of “fat shaming,” or discriminating against overweight people by giving them poor service and treating them differently, doesn’t motivate them to lose weight, but rather leads to weight gain. 
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Fark.com RSS » Pornhub, YouPorn, and Redtube team up to fight for Net Neutrality. "No one wants to wait for porn to load. You're almost there and then-buffering. Moment ruined" [Obvious]
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The Onion » David Cameron To Scottish People: ‘I’ll Kill Myself If You Leave’
LONDON—In an emotional public address this morning ahead of Thursday’s national referendum in Scotland, U.K. 
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The Onion » Fantasy Team’s Performance Only Thing Man Holding Himself Accountable For
LAFAYETTE, LA—Saying that he rarely takes on similar responsibility for the litany of issues in both his personal and professional life, sources close to local 31-year-old Timothy Peterson confirmed Tuesday that his fantasy football team’s per… 
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Fark.com RSS » Good news, Washington DC — your own local news channel, ABC 7, has new ownership who is going to turn the station conservative in an effort to shield you from the harm caused by the liberal media's propaganda [Spiffy]
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Mental Floss » How Does a Wi-Fi Signal Work?
You zip into Starbucks looking for a latte and a Wi-Fi connection. Your MacBook does a little dance and connects so you can go online. But how does it actually work? What’s the magic? [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Los Angeles Unified School District: "Okay, we'll give back the grenade launchers, but we're keeping the rifles and the MRAP" [Weird]
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Weird Universe » Money in Hamsters!
One of those vintage ads that promised easy money by starting a home animal-breeding program, such as raising giant frogs. I wonder if anyone who responded to one of these ads ever did end up making money from the hamsters or frogs. Source: Popular Mechanics, 1950
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Fark.com RSS » Frustrated baker ends up in court for head-butting sausage roll machine [Stupid]
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Futility Closet » Apropos
Washington University philosopher Roy Sorensen dedicated his 2003 book A Brief History of the Paradox “to those who never have a book dedicated to them.” [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Corinthian Colleges accused of victimizing students, forcing them to manufacture soft leather products for Chrysler Cordobas [Interesting]
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Fark.com RSS » First date ends with man dead, woman hospitalized, pick-up truck crashed. Mama and dog inconsolable [Scary]
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Fark.com RSS » A look at how prisons got taken over by gangs [Scary]
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Mental Floss » Brain Game: It's Good!
Can you solve the Word Ladder in today's mentalfloss.com Brain Game Wednesday Wordplay challenge in five 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 KICK into BALL in the fewest possible steps. K I C K
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Fark.com RSS » Schools are shut down and residents on edge as multiple agencies search for the "survivalist" shooter of the PA state trooper barracks. Bonus -4,600 link with factual and grammatical errors [Followup]
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Fark.com RSS » If police have video of you right before you assaulted two gay men, you might want to delete homophobic slurs from your Facebook wall, along with check-ins and photos of you at a nearby restaurant in the same clothes from the video [Dumbass]
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Fark.com RSS » Photoshop this big blue marble [Photoshop]
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Fark.com RSS » If a monologue from Glenn Beck about Ebola includes the phrase "Call me crazy," you can bet that it will be [Stupid]
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Fark.com RSS » Texas judge cited Walter Sobchak in a legal decision, also adding, mark it zero [Cool]
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Fark.com RSS » There's a new crime fighter in Oakland, and his name is Buddha [Interesting]
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Mental Floss » Underage
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Mental Floss » Morning Cup of Links: The Blue-Blooded Octopus
Why is octopus blood blue? If you guessed it’s antifreeze, you're in the right ballpark.
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A blind cat was adopted by a man who takes her hiking in the mountains. She gets to explore the great outdoors and know she’s always safe.
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Speaking of cats running free, here is MIT’s electric cheetah-bot running offleash. It's comforting to know … [Link]
Fark.com RSS » When you break into a tattoo parlor, cover the piece the owner did last month [Dumbass]
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Weird Universe » Fire Maidens of Outer Space
Wikipedia entry here.
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Fark.com RSS » What better way to save dogs than to erect a giant billboard with a picture of a golden retriever that says "KILLTHISDOG.COM" [Florida]
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Fark.com RSS » Grab your pitchfork, the American Gothic house up for rent again [Cool]
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Fark.com RSS » Our long national nightmare is over as the ceremonial key to Wellington, New Zealand has been returned after being stolen [Followup]
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Mental Floss » The Gibson Girls: The Kardashians of the Early 1900s
Forget about Kim, Khloe, and Kourtney. At the turn of the 20th century, it was all about Evelyn, Camille, and Irene. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » In 1964 grocery store managers received a message that this Pop-Tart thingy should in no way be thought of as a breakfast cereal. Now it turns fifty [Interesting]
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Futility Closet » Day Job
Despite being a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, Wallace Stevens held down a full-time career as an insurance lawyer. He took a job at the Hartford Accident and Indemnity Company in 1916, at age 36, and worked there until his death in 1955. He composed his poems on hour-long walks that he took during his lunch break, stopping periodically to scribble lines … [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Headline: Global warming likely to cause colder and snowier winters. Come on, you're just screwing with us now, right? [Cool]
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FMyLife » Anonymous says FML
Today, my husband and I broke the news that I'm pregnant. Our 8-year-old son's reactions so far have been crying inconsolably, trying to punch me in the stomach, and swearing that he won't let me give him a brother or sister. FML [Link]
Mental Floss » 17 Photo Illusions You Have to Stare at to Understand
Sometimes photos make accidental optical illusions. An arm becomes someone else's really long arm, or a bunny becomes a bird when flipped to the side. This video cycles through 17 examples of how images are not always what they seem. [Link]
FMyLife » I need a new ballsack. says FML
Today, I'm at that age where sitting down carries a 50/50 chance of turning my balls into scrambled eggs, a fact confirmed yet again today. Third time this week. I think it's time to switch to briefs. FML [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Formerly cute young French lady loses fight with high-pressure hydraulic line, it would seem based on the first photo [Scary]
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Fark.com RSS » Stop when flashing red [Florida]
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Fark.com RSS » In a slight variation on the theme, man chokes wife over chicken [Florida]
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FMyLife » Anonymous says FML
Today, in college, we were asked at what age girls tend to become physically attractive. Wrongly thinking the answer was in relation to puberty, I said "Umm… 11 or 12?" Now everyone thinks I'm some kind of pedophile. FML [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Yesterday the newly-built USS AMERICA arrived at her new homeport. A year ago today the man who designed her set sail for his own [Hero]
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Fark.com RSS » Man repeatedly calls 911 to complain that he doesn't have a refrigerator. DUDE, CHILL [Florida]
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Fark.com RSS » Scottish things that really aren't fecking Scottish at all [Interesting]
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Fark.com RSS » "Vultures have the common courtesy to fly off when the bones are cleaned, unlike Duke," said FL State Rep. Dudley. Duke still sucks [Florida]
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Mental Floss » BRIKA and The Bill, Hillary,
The ivory trade has long been a problem that has led to the steady decline of elephants in Africa. In 1989, the sale of elephant tusks was banned worldwide, and ivory sales finally started to decline. Unfortunately, this didn't stop poaching; 20 percent of the African elephant population has been wiped out in the last three years. That's 96 elephants … [Link]
FMyLife » Anonymous says FML
Today, my dad picked me up from school, something he'll be doing while my broken leg heals. He thought it'd be hilarious to arrive early and ask the staff where his "crippled" son was, loudly saying I'd broken my leg in a "masturbation-related accident". FML [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Dallas bar threatens to boycott NFL games in response to domestic abuse scandal [Interesting]
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Fark.com RSS » There is a fine line between "devoutly religious" and "unmedicated." Claiming that NASA's Voyager space probe proved that homosexuality was an abomination before God probably crosses that line [Dumbass]
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Fark.com RSS » Orange is the New Black Eye [Interesting]
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Fark.com RSS » Photoshop this war-weary military man [Photoshop]
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