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 » Steven Soderbergh redoes Raiders of the Lost Ark in stunning black-and-white, and replaces dialogue with Trent Reznor. Prepare to have your face melted [Cool]
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Fark.com RSS » Normally a list of sex tips can be pretty erotic. Unless it's a list of sex tips from the Duggar family [Strange]
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Mental Floss » 15 Great F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes For His Birthday
Though he was just 44 when he died, F. Scott Fitzgerald left us with a wealth of wisdom and no shortage of quips. In honor of his birthday today, here are 15 of our favorites. On writing: "Cut out all of these exclamation points. An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke."
(via) "You don’t write because you … [Link]
The Oatmeal – Comics, Quizzes, & Stories » Nikola Tesla Dood
I teamed up with Sarah Donner to create an animated video about Tesla.View [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Cops say that "forensics" were instrumental in capturing a burglar and by that they mean he left his shoe behind [Dumbass]
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The Oatmeal – Comics, Quizzes, & Stories » Buy a brick for the Nikola Tesla Museum
Have your name engraved and placed on the grounds of Nikola Tesla's laboratory.View [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Heavily armed vigilante militias are raiding marijuana farms in Northern California. What could possibly go wrong? [Scary]
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Mental Floss » 11 Things You Might Not Know About 'The Little Mermaid'
Not included? The alleged "phallus" on the VHS box. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Pull over and stop, ma'am. It will take me a few minutes to find out what kind of ticket to write you for giving me a ride on your hood [Scary]
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Fark.com RSS » Want to get votes to win the election? Cocaine should do the trick [Dumbass]
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Fark.com RSS » Before you finished reading about what the Khorasan Group in Syria is, we may have already killed their leader [Cool]
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Fark.com RSS » Photoshop this stratospheric selfie [Photoshop]
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Mental Floss » KLM Uses a Beagle to Deliver Lost Items to Passengers
Traveling by airplane can be an exhausting and terrible experience, but Sherlock the beagle is there to make it a little better. [Link]
Mental Floss » The Missing Links: To Spoil or Not to Spoil?
Take Your Chances The Netflix Spoil Yourself app will ruin all kinds of shows for you. Can you resist the urge? * A Warm and Fuzzy Sports Story Metta World Peace, the basketball player formerly known as Ron Artest, plans on changing his name yet again, this time to "The Pandas Friend." He also will play the upcoming basketball season … [Link]
Fark.com RSS » "Mr. Wank, you should know better than to do that in public" [Weird]
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Fark.com RSS » There's a scientific reason why all bunny rabbits look alike but you look nothing like your sister [Interesting]
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Mental Floss » 10 Twenty-First Century Bestsellers People Tried to Ban (and Why)
The fact that classics such as To Kill a Mockingbird and The Catcher in the Rye were banned when they were first released is now as commonly taught in schools as the books themselves. But that was the ‘60s, a time when racial segregation was still legal and sex education was barred from schools—we wouldn’t think of banning books for … [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Timid (and lost) Brit journalist has trouble navigating NYC subway, compares it to a sadistic fever dream like The Hunger Games [Amusing]
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Fark.com RSS » Scared about jihadis returning to the west after fighting in Syria? Don't worry, France has Inspector Clouseau on the case [Fail]
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Fark.com RSS » Every Stephen King novel summarized in 140 characters or less [Silly]
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The Onion » American Voices: Obama Faces Backlash For ‘Beverage Salute’
President Obama faced backlash on Twitter after stepping out of Air Force One yesterday and saluting Marines with a styrofoam cup in his right hand when his arms were full, which many have called disrespectful. 
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Fark.com RSS » You humans have it sooooo easy on your daily commutes, you should see what us Zebras have to go through just to cross a river [Scary]
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The Onion » Parents Considering Second Child So Daughter Can Have Someone To Grow Apart From
PORTSMOUTH, NH—Saying they did not want her to miss out on the experiences of a sibling relationship, local parents Cathleen and Eric Patterson told reporters Wednesday they are considering having a second child to give their daughter someone to gro… 
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The Onion » What Mom Would Have Wanted Evolving Over Course Of Funeral Planning
NAMPA, ID—From the photos she would have wanted displayed beside her casket to the song the organist should play as mourners arrive, the posthumous wishes of Evelyn Palantz have changed markedly during the planning of her funeral, sources reported W… 
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The Onion » Sources: NFL Knew What Evil Lurking Within Heart Of Man
NEW YORK—Amidst reports that high-level executives lied to the public in order to cover up their complicity in a number of scandals currently plaguing the league, sources confirmed Wednesday that officials in the NFL front office have long been awar… 
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Fark.com RSS » Bank error in your favor. Collect $100,000 (and then blow it all in a week-long gambling spree) [Dumbass]
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Futility Closet » Of Thee I Sing
The editors of the Journal of Organic Chemistry received a novel submission in 1970 — Brown University chemists J.F. Bunnett and Francis Kearsley wrote their paper “Comparative Mobility of Halogens in Reactions of Dihalobenzenes With Potassium Amide in Ammonia” in blank verse: Reactions of potassium amide
With halobenzenes in ammonia
Via benzyne intermediates occur.
Bergstrom and associates did report,
Based … [Link]
Fark.com RSS » You can take your hand off your wand now. It was just a hoax [Followup]
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Fark.com RSS » Well, we all knew it was going to happen. Ebola victims reported to be reanimating in Africa [Scary]
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Fark.com RSS » School District takes away wrong lesson from Ferguson coverage [Fail]
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Fark.com RSS » Frustrated by douchebags hogging two spaces with their luxury cars? Meet your new champion [Hero]
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The Onion » Man Given 3 Months To Live Throws In One Or Two Non-Sexual Things To Do
MILFORD, DE—Informed by doctors that he suffers from a terminal form of cancer and has only 12 weeks to live, local man Stephen Hewitt told reporters Wednesday that he plans to toss one or two non-sexual activities onto his list of things to do befo… 
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Fark.com RSS » If all fifty states legalized marijuana, it would create three billion in new annual tax revenue. Why that's almost enough to buy three F-22 Raptors [Interesting]
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The Onion » Woman Worried Student Loans Could Prevent Her From One Day Owning Entirely Different Kind Of Crippling Debt
PHILADELPHIA—Lamenting that she will spend the foreseeable future paying off her college expenses, local 23-year-old digital marketing assistant Ashley Orlinsky expressed concern Wednesday that her student loans will prevent her from ever owning an … 
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Fark.com RSS » Khorasan Group plotted attack against U.S. with explosive clothes, toothpaste. TSA prepares to ban clothes on flights [Strange]
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Fark.com RSS » Quinoa is over. Same with Beets. Kale and Ramen are still rising in trendiness. Welcome to the theory of "The Fried Calamari Index" [Interesting]
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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. 
1. Barbarella By Jean-Claude Forest with English translation by Kelly Sue DeConnick … [Link]
FMyLife » Anonymous says FML
Today, I went to use the porta potty at the construction site I work at and found two homeless people having sex in it. I almost got fired, because my advisor blamed me. FML [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Nude bronze statues in downtown Houston are getting a rise out of many residents. "I don't think they should put it up there. To me, it's porn" [Amusing]
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Fark.com RSS » Seattle PD no longer investigating burglary. Apparently, all the officers are tasked with shooting random civilians instead [Scary]
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The Onion » Man Stuck In Dead-End Body
SAN MATEO, CA—Saying this was not at all how he had pictured himself at age 42, local resident Jonathan Cooper confirmed Wednesday that he has nonetheless found himself, in his middle age, stuck in a dead-end body. Cooper, who reportedly spent years… 
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Fark.com RSS » Pope takes strong stand against covering yourself with other people's various bodily fluids [Obvious]
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Fark.com RSS » There is now a sunblock available that doubles as a jellyfish sting soother, just in case you don't have any human urine available [Interesting]
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Fark.com RSS » Here are before and after photos of ISIS targets in Syria that were hit by US-led air strikes and missiles. Looks like she blowed up real good [Followup]
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Fark.com RSS » Kids are drinking a potentially dangerous cocktail of prescription drugs and soft drinks called a Dirty Sprite, which is not to be confused with Purple drank, which is not to be confused with Sizzurp, which is not be confused with Codeine Cola [Stupi
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Fark.com RSS » Sons of Anarchy, Florida Warlocks style [Florida]
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Mental Floss » Little-Known Punctuation Marks for National Punctuation Day
Because sometimes periods, commas, colons, semi-colons, dashes, hyphens, apostrophes, question marks, exclamation points, quotation marks, brackets, parentheses, braces, and ellipses won't do. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Afghani deported by the Netherlands to Norway. Says he's not from there [Sad]
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Fark.com RSS » Unjustifiably fired from a job you were recruited and moved to another country for? That's $31,326 in lost wages, $7000 for humiliation, loss of dignity and injury to his feelings and $766 in reimbursement for changes he had to make to his work v
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Fark.com RSS » Thinking of taking off running across the White House lawn? The Secret Service has just added another hurdle [Followup]
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Fark.com RSS » British Airways pilot takes layover too far while in India [Sick]
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Fark.com RSS » Well, I'm hot blooded, check it and see. I smeared myself with P-A-I-N-T [Florida]
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Fark.com RSS » You know it's been a successful panty raid when the chief has to call on his villagers to "desist from evil practices" [Amusing]
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Fark.com RSS » Not news: Family celebrates arrival of their first baby girl. FARK: In 101 years (w/pics) [Sappy]
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Fark.com RSS » Best not to show up for a meeting with your probation officer with the Honda you carjacked and used for a bank robbery earlier [Dumbass]
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Fark.com RSS » Obviously a whack job [Florida]
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Mental Floss » 12 Famous Actors Who Were Completely Cut From Movies
Big names that landed on the cutting room floor. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » 39-year-old woman fatally runs over man in middle school parking lot, appears to have been a meth teacher [Scary]
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Mental Floss » Pinokio, the Robot Lamp That Wants Your Attention
I've seen dogs that wanted less attention than this lamp. [Link]
FMyLife » hahaohyeahwow says FML
Today, my boyfriend and I were planning on having sex. He first excused himself to the bathroom, then returned with a sad face saying he had fumbled with himself in the bathroom to get "ready" and accidentally came. He said, "I was thinking of you though." FML [Link]
FMyLife » youonlyneed2squares says FML
Today, as I was lying in my bed eating my dinner, my roommate says to me: "I don't know how to say this, but we need more towels. The room is flooding." FML [Link]
Mental Floss » Fulgurites: The Petrified Physical Evidence Of a Lightning Strike
Lightning flashes—while terrifying—appear and vanish in less than a second. Yet, occasionally, passing strikes memorialize themselves with a rocky calling card buried in the earth. Such structures are called fulgurites, also known as “petrified lightning.” During thunderstorms, the air surrounding a given lightning bolt can get incredibly hot—temperatures exceeding 50,000⁰ Fahrenheit (27760⁰ Celsius) have been recorded. To understand just how … [Link]
Mental Floss » 5 Questions: Birth Day
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Fark.com RSS » Don't go trick-or-treating here. Springfield apartment building consists entirely of Level 3 sex offenders [Sick]
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Fark.com RSS » Indian Supreme Court rules that not allowing a spouse to have sexual intercourse for a long time amounts to mental cruelty and can be grounds for divorce [Interesting]
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Fark.com RSS » And the hottest sport in Afghanistan right now is paintball [Interesting]
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Fark.com RSS » Protect Wildlife… until it starts eating our pets [Obvious]
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The Onion » American Voices: New Cuddlr App Helps Strangers Meet For ‘Platonic Cuddling’
A new smartphone app called Cuddlr uses GPS technology to help users find people in the nearby area who would like to meet up for “platonic cuddling.” What do you think? 
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FMyLife » SinkingShip says FML
Today, it's been two months since I started a three-year contract at a new job. So far, 5 people have resigned. Pretty sure I've joined a sinking ship. FML [Link]
Fark.com RSS » "God was with us" says woman moments after her car was destroyed by a boulder flung by God [Amusing]
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Fark.com RSS » Caption challenge: Nostalgia [Caption]
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Fark.com RSS » It turns out that the Alaskan reporter who abruptly quit her job on live television smokes so much weed, her neighbor's daughter once got ill from all the second-hand smoke that seeped through the walls [Followup]
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Fark.com RSS » 17 years after its first flight, 9 years after entering active duty, and nearly $70B later, the F-22 Raptor has finally flown its first active combat mission [Sad]
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Mental Floss » How Chinese is Chinese Food?
This story originally appeared in the September 2014 issue of mental_floss magazine. Subscribe to our print edition here, and our iPad edition here. If you showed one of these iconic white pails to people in China, they might scratch their heads. The little boxes were patented on November 13, 1894 in Chicago by the not-so-Chinese inventor Frederick Weeks Wilcox (who … [Link]
Weird Universe » Virgin Mary Barbie Doll
Created by Argentinian artists Pool Paolini and Marianela Perelli as part of a "Barbie, The Plastic Religion" exhibit. Their idea was that, "If there’s a Barbie doctor, a teacher and a police officer, why shouldn’t there be a Virgin of Luján Barbie?” So they've created 33 different Barbie and Ken dolls portraying various religious figures from Catholicism, Judaism, Buddhism and … [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Photoshop this precarious path [Photoshop]
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Fark.com RSS » CDC tells airlines to treat all bodily fluids as though they are infectious. Just like passengers treat the food [Scary]
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Fark.com RSS » Leonardo DiCaprio addresses the United Nations and demands urgent action on climate change. It's like he thinks he's king of the world [Strange]
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Weird Universe » Chevrolet Leader News
Calling this "news" is highly generous. [Link]
FMyLife » Tag says FML
Today, my psychotic, very jealous ex-boyfriend appeared out of nowhere and punched a male store clerk who was helping me look for azaleas in a garden center. FML [Link]
Fark.com RSS » He's faster than a speeding waistband, more powerful than boxer shorts and can leap over a tall building without getting a wedgie. He's also at the top of the list of books that have been targeted with removal in libraries and schools [Intere
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Fark.com RSS » Mother worried about getting ticketed for not having a car seat for her 5 month-old does the sensible thing and puts the kid in the trunk while she drives around [Florida]
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Fark.com RSS » This is why you join stuffy historical societies: to drink century-old bourbon [Cool]
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Mental Floss » Morning Cup of Links: Creepy Movie Children
The 10 Creepiest Kids in Movie History. Children as villains are the worst, because we aren’t supposed to kill them.
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The Ultimate List Of Challah Recipes. Try one (or two) out for Rosh Hashanah.
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35 Totally Magical Disney Tattoos. They must have cost a pretty penny, too.
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Confronting My Temptation to Ban Books. Opposing censorship comes with … [Link]
Mental Floss » Birth Day
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FMyLife » Anonymous says FML
Today, after a solid month of hard work, I finally finished modeling and animating a 3D insect character for a scene. After presenting it to the rest of my team, one of my teammates pointed out that it looks exactly like a flying penis. FML [Link]
FMyLife » disconnected says FML
Today, we spent an entire day without being able to do work because our internet connection was down. Turns out, only the router had crashed and nobody bothered to reset it "to avoid doing further damage". FML [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Another reason to avoid Florida? The crocodiles are breeding in record numbers [Florida]
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Fark.com RSS » Russia decides that what it REALLY wants to do is build a big expensive new naval base in Novorossiysk. You know, in case anything should ever happen to the one in Crimea. Not that anything ever would of course. But just in case [Obvious]
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Futility Closet » The Long View
In redesigning the Bank of England in the early 19th century, British architect Sir John Soane presented the governors with three sketches of the building he planned: one as it was new, another as it was weathered, and a third as a 1,000-year-old ruin. That vision became a reality sooner than he realized — his interiors were demolished in the … [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Shots fired, stores looted in Ferguson. This is not a repeat [News]
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Fark.com RSS » Weirdest tattoo mugshot you'll see all day [Weird]
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Fark.com RSS » "Come on Our Lady of Guadalupe, let's go party." Ah-ah-ah, yeah [Amusing]
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Mental Floss » The Secret Emotional Lives of 5 Punctuation Marks
Punctuation marks accept their utilitarian roles, but they too carry feelings, and they express them in subtle ways that are sometimes easy to miss. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » The rate of Type 2 Diabetes cases has been leveling off since 2008. Thanks, Obama [Interesting]
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Mental Floss » Elva Zona Heaster: The Ghost Who Helped Solve Her Own Murder
The only known case in which testimony from a ghost helped convict a murderer. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » I arrested a turtle [Amusing]
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Fark.com RSS » Yummy oatmeal stout, Hefeweizen and a tasty IPA. How about making them spreadable you say? Why not? Well, meet beer jelly [Cool]
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Fark.com RSS » So, it's come to this: Pumpkin Spice Hummus [Sick]
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Mental Floss » Architecture Explained by Hairstyles
Can't remember the difference between Brutalism and Beaux Arts? When paired with distinct hairstyles, untangling the following architectural schools and movements is a breeze. 1. Jeffersonian / Tonsure Although the most noticeable details hang around the edges, it’s all about the dome on top. 2. Art Deco / Jheri Curls 
Wikimedia Commons / Getty Images These bold, shiny shapes may … [Link]
Fark.com RSS » You can't fight City Hall, but hauling in the Mayor's stepson on drug, weapons & stolen property charges at hizzoner's house is a cinch [Dumbass]
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Fark.com RSS » Mary bit a little Lamb, his face was white as snow. And the reason Mr. Lamb got bit, well his penis was where it shouldn't go [Sick]
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Fark.com RSS » SpaceX facility in Brownsville promises to let people get the fark out of Texas faster than ever before [Ironic]
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Fark.com RSS » "Snap, crackle, pop" — good for cereal, bad for porn [Scary]
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Fark.com RSS » Young mothers posting baby pics online should check out Instagram's new "Hand That Rocks The Cradle" MMO [Weird]
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Fark.com RSS » Photoshop this Heineken-themed lounge [Photoshop]
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