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.”
FMyLife » sickened says FML
Today, I had a garage sale, and had amongst my clothing a few sets of underwear. A old man came up and asked to buy all of them. I'm so poor, I couldn't say no to the pervert. FML [Link]
FMyLife » FMLMallow7 says FML
Today, I took a bite of my apple, looked down, and saw half a worm inside. FML [Link]
FMyLife » Need Clothes Now says FML
Today, I flew across country to college. My luggage did not. FML [Link]
FMyLife » royallymessedup says FML
Today, I heard what sounded like high-pitched feminine moaning coming from my son's room. I knocked and walked in, expecting to catch him red handed with a girl. He'd just beaten his high score on Flappy Bird. FML [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Within five years we could all have a digital twin who is capable of making decisions, filling out forms, talking to your family and friends, satisfying your wife, letting friends know when you die, taking over your life and raising your children [St
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Fark.com RSS » Dashcam popularity taking off in Australia and is quickly pertaining to Fark's interests. Today's topic from Down Under: Instant traffic karma [Amusing]
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Fark.com RSS » A new app called Cuddlr allows strangers to meet up for random hugs in public, or private. What could possibly go wrong? [Weird]
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Fark.com RSS » Letting your child play outside? Yeah that's a visit from the police [Asinine]
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Fark.com RSS » Morris dancers barred from Hyde Park pub due to their fancy dress. "We are a group of Morris dancers – it's not like we were going to cause trouble" [Asinine]
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Fark.com RSS » We've secretly replaced Secret Service agents with Border Patrol agents at the White House. Let's see what happens [Followup]
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Fark.com RSS » ISIS' new video "isn't that horrific or extreme, but it is bizarre. It's three and a half minutes of Grand Theft Auto 5, cut and edited in a way to try and recruit new, young members into the extremist organization" [Interesting]
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Fark.com RSS » Photoshop this high-quality latex mask [Photoshop]
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FMyLife » MikaykayUnicorn says FML
Today, a guy told me I "kind of look like a girl" if he looked at me from the right angle. Well, I am a girl, and this is the closest thing to a compliment that I've gotten in years. FML [Link]
FMyLife » Sinnersinner says FML
Today, I was having sex with this amazingly hot guy. Things got pretty intense, and right as I was about to orgasm, the gold crucifix came flying off his necklace and sliced my eyelid open. Message received. Well played, God. FML [Link]
FMyLife » RuinedTheMood says FML
Today, my fiancé and I were having sex in the early hours of the morning. He said "Morning sex is the best thing to wake up to." Without thinking, I responded "Yeah, unless you're in prison." He lost his erection due to laughing so hard and now can't look at me without laughing. FML [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Like buying energy efficient houses? Have an extra $1.05 million burning a hole in your pocket? Well now is your chance to buy this 'Net zero' home which produces as much energy as it uses (with pictures) [Spiffy]
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Fark.com RSS » Um…what was that you said? [PSA]
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Weird Universe » The Cartoon that United Morey Amsterdam and Zsa Zsa Gabor
Get the whole fascinating story at this blog.
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Fark.com RSS » The last weekend of summer saw things wind down in Chicagostan, with only thirteen shootings and one murder. You can tell fall is here when the gangs start to spend more time inside [Followup]
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Fark.com RSS » Are you single and unmarried? Congratulations, you are responsible for the decline in available Social Security funds [PSA]
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Fark.com RSS » Police conduct a no-knock raid; homeowner kills an officers; charges dropped because it was self defense. Same thing happens six months later, but this time prosectors want the death penalty. What do you think the difference is between the two shoote
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Fark.com RSS » This is what online news has come to: one of the most popular stories on one the most popular "news" sites in the world today is about a girl. A girl riding a zebra. That's it. Weep for humanity [Fail]
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Fark.com RSS » There's no need to soft pedal this, when you steal a cop's bike, don't getaway down a dead end alley [Amusing]
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Fark.com RSS » It's all fun and games 'til you try to steal whiskey from the cabin crew area of the plane you're on and break through four sets of plastic handcuffs while yelling obscenities to the stewardess' and stewards [Fail]
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Fark.com RSS » Man suffered with insomnia and depression following the death of his wife. Then, late one strange and divine night as he lay awake, lost in the depths of despair, he was struck by a profound compulsion to make marmalade, and then everything changed [
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Fark.com RSS » Why is Massachusetts switching to all electronic tolling with no cash option? Because any glitch could mean a jackpot for the state and a five figure bill for you [PSA]
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Fark.com RSS » We're going to need a bigger shelter (because this one is way too dusty) [Sad]
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Fark.com RSS » Florida, where bundt cakes became cool again [Florida]
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Fark.com RSS » Marijuana users turn to dating sites that cater exclusively to pot smokers. Not surprisingly, all profile pictures suffer from red eye [Interesting]
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Fark.com RSS » Safety experts want to kick distracted pedestrians to the curb [Obvious]
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Fark.com RSS » What's the surprise? Surgical billing surprise [Scary]
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FMyLife » rabid_otaku says FML
Today, I had to stop at a gas station to go to the bathroom. A sign on the door told people to knock since the door didn't lock. As I was peeing, a lady walked in on me. Rather than simply saying sorry and shutting the damn door, she opened it wider and stepped in to apologize. FML [Link]
Mental Floss » Remembering the Battle of Marathon
In 490 BCE, the epic battle of Marathon took place in Greece. 600 Persian ships invaded and delivered a massive army to battle 11,000 Athenians. The Athenians proceeded to beat back the Persian army at Marathon, then marched all the way back to Athens in full armor, where they blocked a second Persian army from invasion. In the meantime, legend … [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Caption this Mediterranean Mantis saluting the sun [Caption]
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Fark.com RSS » Are you behind the ape ball? Do you feel your life is nothing more than a vicious circus? Well, welcome to the world of malapropisms and mangulation of the English language [Fail]
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Fark.com RSS » Photoshop this emphatic tennis shot [Photoshop]
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Weird Universe » How to be envied by every boy in town
Boys' Life – Dec 1916
Little Folks Children's Magazine – Dec 1918
via RETROspect [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Multi-millionaire who was so happy that his wife recovered from cancer that he gave away his £16m fortune and sold all his belongings and sold their home. Unfortunately that led to his wife leaving him [Sad]
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Fark.com RSS » If you're looking to break into a building to find a warm place to stay, a police station works as well as anywhere else I guess [Dumbass]
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Fark.com RSS » Want your kids to eat their vegetables? Go to college [Interesting]
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Fark.com RSS » The cruel inhumane ingenious bastard who invented the sweet savory brain-freezing torment of our childhoods, has passed away at the way too young age of 74 [Sad]
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Weird Universe » News of the Weird (September 21, 2014)
News of the Weird
Weirdnuz.M389, September 21, 2014
Copyright 2014 by Chuck Shepherd. All rights reserved.
Lead Story
New Frontiers in American Vacuousness: The WE cable network disclosed in August that it had ordered a nine-episode adaptation of a British series, "Sex Box," in which a couple enters a large opaque chamber on stage and has intercourse. The pair, pre- … [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Australia pays man to go undercover and have sex at brothels. "I was given three jobs to complete, for the same council, in the same week and I'm not as young as I used to be" [Interesting]
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Futility Closet » Occupational Hazards
In 1974, British physician Elaine Murphy read a letter in the British Medical Journal regarding “guitar nipple,” a form of contact dermatitis found in some guitarists. Thinking the letter was a joke, Murphy composed a letter of her own and sent it in over her husband’s signature. To their surprise, the journal published it: SIR, — Though I have not … [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Time to fix the windows: Cop runs into Dunkin Donuts [Ironic]
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Fark.com RSS » Uh oh, the Germans just found out about Hipster Hitler, and they are a little pissed off [Obvious]
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Fark.com RSS » Jet with more than 100 tons of supplies for Ebola victims en route to Africa. HURRY BOY THEY'RE WAITING THERE FOR YOU [PSA]
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Fark.com RSS » Weed pizza sauce kills two birds to get one stoned [Interesting]
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Fark.com RSS » SpaceX Falcon 9 launch tonight at 1:52 am EDT. Link goes to live feed [Cool]
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Mental Floss » Weekend Links: Instant Ramen Hacks
Some of these look rather appealing. Some of these do not. * Russia's even invading the American beer industry now. * An interactive traffic light installation in Lisbon, Portugal encourages pedestrians to dance it out at the crosswalk, improving street safety while putting smiles on faces. * 3-D printing might be the much-needed solution to America's organ shortage. * These … [Link]
Fark.com RSS » IKEA evacuated at news of guy with a gun; hundreds of individuals successfully assemble themselves outside [Florida]
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Fark.com RSS » Los Angeles denies permit for thousand foot long water slide after 11,000 people point out there's a drought [Obvious]
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Fark.com RSS » The moral of this story is if someone takes you to a residence with a sign out front that says "Pimp Plaza" you should probably run because nothing good will happen in that house [Florida]
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Fark.com RSS » Scuba diver breaks record, staying underwater for 51 hours. He also broke the world record for significant shrinkage [Florida]
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Fark.com RSS » You now need photo ID to buy hair dye in Europe as latest anti-terror laws kick in [Asinine]
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Fark.com RSS » What's worse than sushi? Horse meat sushi [Sick]
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Fark.com RSS » Photoshop these exercise enthusiasts [Photoshop]
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