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 » Kurd Kobane rises from the ashes [Sappy]
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FMyLife » Anonymous says FML
Today, I got called to the guidance office, only to be told my boyfriend broke up with me. He wasn't sure how to break the news to me, so he made my guidance counselor do it for him. FML [Link]
FMyLife » Anonymous says FML
Today, my sister had an accident at a stoplight because she was uploading pictures of herself driving onto Instagram. Not long after that, she posted a picture of the crash and commented, "My first crash lol." FML [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Meet the man who has the most severe case of autoeroticism ever [Strange]
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Mental Floss » 10 Discontinued Beverages Coveted by Collectors
These gone-but-not-forgotten libations still have their fan-bases, some of whom shell out pretty serious cash for these vintage potables. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Polar bear breaks into Alaskan home. No word on the quality of porridge, chairs, or beds [Scary]
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Fark.com RSS » Heads up people: 'aggressive mopping' is apparently illegal in Connecticut [Asinine]
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Fark.com RSS » "And if you look out the left-hand window, you'll see crashing cars, screaming people and fire" [Scary]
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Mental Floss » The Missing Links: Just A Little Jump Into the Pool
Jump Right In You haven’t jumped into a pool until you’ve jumped into a pool like this. * Full Bodied Wired explores the world of 3D printed body parts. * A Different Kind of Pong What does a 12 year old kid who dislikes video games do for fun these days? This awesome kid figured out how to do these … [Link]
Mental Floss » 10 Clever Halloween Costumes that Incorporate Amputations and Wheelchairs
Josh Sundquist said, “When life hands you lemons, make awesome Halloween costumes.” That’s just what these folks did, using a physical disability to take cosplay and Halloween costumes to a new level. 1. and 2. The Black Knight 
Redditor whaaaaaaaaales posted a picture of a friend’s Halloween costume from last year. He’s a wounded veteran who prefers to remain anonymous, … [Link]
The Onion » Doctor Informs Kevin Durant He'll Never Dunk Again Without Cane
Doctor Informs Kevin Durant He'll Never Dunk Again Without Cane 
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Fark.com RSS » Catholic Bishops move back and to the right [Obvious]
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Fark.com RSS » Boston certified Ebola-free, so if your ears are bleeding it's probably from the campaign ads [PSA]
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Fark.com RSS » Confident in his constituents' ignorance, Senator Mitch McConnell (R) calls for the full repeal of Obamacare, while vowing to keep the Kentucky Healthcare Exchange because it's been so amazing for the people in his state [Asinine]
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Fark.com RSS » A terrifying look behind the curtain at the dark, long-hidden secrets that envelop the production of NPR's "Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me." Possibly not safe for work [Scary]
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Fark.com RSS » This is what you would call a BFS: A storm that reaches from coast to coast. That is, from the coast of Spain to the coast of Canada, filling the entire north Atlantic basin. HFS [Scary]
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The Onion » American Voices: Facebook, Apple Paying For Female Employees To Freeze Eggs
Facebook and Apple have announced that they will begin subsidizing egg-freezing procedures for female employees, allowing them to pursue their careers and have children later in life. 
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Mental Floss » 6 Cool, Chocolate-Scented, or Otherwise Interesting Maps of Chicago
If you think you completely know a city, you might be looking at the wrong map. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Photoshop this family of bears [Photoshop]
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Fark.com RSS » Don't you hate it when you lock yourself out of your apartment when you're drunk? And naked? And the cops show up? [Florida]
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Fark.com RSS » Seven senior citizens come and go at orgy [Satire]
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Mental Floss » Saving A Snake in Disguise
Christian Fischer via Wikimedia Commons Not every animal is what it appears to be at first glance. African bushveld lizards often move with their backs arched, their legs stiff and their tails pressed against the ground, giving them the appearance of acid-spraying “oogpister” beetles. Some butterfly larvae can puff up part of their bodies, which have spots on them that … [Link]
Mental Floss » Common Answers to "Inside the Actors Studio" Questions
On the TV show Inside the Actors Studio, host James Lipton asks each guest a series of ten questions. The questions are: 1. What is your favorite word?
2. What is your least favorite word?
3. What turns you on?
4. What turns you off?
5. What sound or noise do you love?
6. What sound or noise do you … [Link]
Fark.com RSS » 102 years ago today – Teddy Roosevelt (Bull Moose-NY) gets shot in the chest, shrugs off the wound, gives an hour-long speech, then swims to Africa to strangle a wildebeest bare-handed. But remember, voting for a third-party candidate is a waste [Her
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Fark.com RSS » Ten jobs alcoholics shouldn't do: Number one – An anesthesiologist on a maternity ward [Scary]
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Fark.com RSS » The real problem with Ebola? Whiny Americans and cable news [Obvious]
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Fark.com RSS » Don't worry everyone, we've found the real reason why the United States was so unprepared for the Ebola outbreak: Fat lesbians [Dumbass]
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Fark.com RSS » When you rob women of their cell phones you might want to make sure that you don't take any pictures before checking to see if they are automatically uploaded to the owner's account. Especially posing with the weapons you used in the robbery
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Futility Closet » “The Sons of Our Sons”
In 1919 Russian author Ilya Ehrenburg wrote a message to posterity: The sons of our sons will marvel,
Paging the textbook:
“1914 … 1917 … 1919 …
How did they live? The poor devils!”
Children of a new age will read of battles,
Will learn the names of orators and generals,
The numbers of the killed,
And the dates. They … [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Airline blames state for tourists being too dumb to find its airport [Obvious]
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Fark.com RSS » Are vegetables the new bacon? asked a stupid person [Dumbass]
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Fark.com RSS » It's official: Florida state attorneys are free to call you a crack ho on Facebook [Florida]
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FMyLife » longdrive says FML
Today, I left for a fifteen-hour drive with two guys who won't stop talking in a Yoda voice. Sick of this nonsense, I am. FML [Link]
Mental Floss » Is it Unhealthy to Stand in Front of a Microwave While it is Cooking?
In this week's episode of The Big Question, Craig Benzine talks microwave science. See Also…
Where Does the Dollar Sign Come From?
35 Jobs That No Longer Exist
26 Amusing Facts About Amusement Parks Don't miss an episode—subscribe here! [Images and footage provided by Shutterstock.] [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Don't you hate when you nod off drinking, someone startles and wakes you, so you naturally accelerate into a squad car? Like you've never done it [Dumbass]
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The Onion » Extinction By The Numbers
Extinction By The Numbers 
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FMyLife » JenniferMay says FML
Today, I watched from my office window as a couple maneuvered their car to squash a dead pigeon flat on the road. I then watched as they got out of the car, set up tripods and started taking photos of it. FML [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Now here's a petition that every patriotic American can get behind: replacing Columbus Day with Federal Election Day [Spiffy]
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Mental Floss » 8 Movies That Started Shooting Without a Completed Script
Typically, a screenplay is the backbone or blueprint for a movie—but occasionally, a film will go into principal photography without a finished script, with writers frantically trying to complete scenes for a quick and dirty production. Sometimes, it works, and sometimes … it doesn't. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Base jumpers drop in on a rooftop pool party from the Kuala Lumpur 1200-ft tower. Now THAT is how you arrive at a party [Cool]
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Mental Floss » The City Nicknames Quiz
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Fark.com RSS » Mob mauls man's meat [Stupid]
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The Onion » Guard In Video Game Under Strict Orders To Repeatedly Pace Same Stretch Of Hallway
SIBERIA—Stressing that the edict had come down from the top commanders within the Russian military complex, a video game guard told reporters Tuesday that he was under strict orders to repeatedly pace the same stretch of hallway. 
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The Onion » American Voices: White House Removes Emojis From Millennials Report
The White House quietly removed emojis from a new report called “15 Economic Facts About Millennials,” which used icons of graduation caps, bags of money, and American flags to address college debt, after numerous news outlets reported that yo… 
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Mental Floss » Where in the World is Kim Jong-un's Older Brother?
In 2001, Kim Jong-nam was busted with a fake passport while trying to sneak into Japan to visit Tokyo Disneyland. What's he been up to since? [Link]
Mental Floss » Brain Game: The Starched Brain Game
Today's mentalfloss.com Tuesday Test Time Brain Game asks you to break down an eight-letter word, one letter at a time, forming new words along the way. Are you up to the challenge? By removing one letter from the mix at each step,
and rearranging the remaining letters to form new words,
reduce the word "STARCHED" to the letter "A." S T … [Link]
Mental Floss » 5 Questions: "So"-So
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Fark.com RSS » Giant supermarket would like you to know that just because it stopped labeling meat according to quality recently doesn't mean you're suddenly getting extra quantities of horse, dog, or rat in your steak. Well, not much more extra, anyway [Un
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The Onion » ONN Exclusive: Pop Star Janna Hayspice Confronts The Rumors That She Is Really Just A Writhing, Sentient Mass Of Voles
Drugs. Partying. Unreliable behavior. Can troubled teen star Janna Hayspice save her career? Or is she actually just thousands of small rodents pretending to be a person? Tonight, we learn the truth. 
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Fark.com RSS » "No. Just no" [Stupid]
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Fark.com RSS » If you're going to attempt armed robbery, try not to do it outside of a jailhouse. Or in view of the jail security cameras [Dumbass]
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The Onion » Opinion: There Were Just 2 Ways Out Of My Neighborhood: Basketball Or Anything Else You Wanted To Do With Your Life (by Kyle Anders)
By Kyle Anders 
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The Onion » Man Thinks People Care Enough About Him To Be Let Down By His Failures
COLUMBUS, OH—Saying he felt awful that he was upsetting those close to him, local 35-year-old Jared Cantor reportedly arrived at the mistaken impression Tuesday that people care enough about him to be let down by his personal failures. 
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Fark.com RSS » Ted Williams, the former radio guy turned homeless panhandling addict turned Internet success story, has burned through all his money & is on the verge of financial ruin. Damn you, Internet [Followup]
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Fark.com RSS » CDC survey trailers parked behind a mall to host a National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey send rumor mill into overdrive. Reporter tries to set the facts straight, but irony doesn't penetrate tinfoil hats [Amusing]
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Fark.com RSS » Don't you hate it when you fall down a glacier and crawl to some homes for help but nobody comes out so you limp to the highway and nobody will stop for you so then you hobble into a bar but they think you're homeless [Sad]
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Fark.com RSS » Stunningly brazen thieves steal precious steamroller parts in a "military style attack." In related news, some steamroller parts are "precious" [Interesting]
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Fark.com RSS » Couple discovers builders constructed their beautiful, ocean-view, $680k house exactly as they envisioned it. But on the wrong lot [Florida]
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Fark.com RSS » How do you know you're going out in style? New company offers funerals so big air traffic control has to send out an aviation notice [Cool]
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Mental Floss » Are Special Pumpkin-Carving Tools Safer Than Kitchen Knives?
It turns out they are! How do we know? Researchers at SUNY Upstate Medical University in Syracuse, New York, enlisted a few helping hands. Literally. In a 2004 study, they placed the donated hands of six cadavers in front of a knife-wielding hydraulic press. After calculating how much pressure each carving tool needed to penetrate pumpkin skin, the researchers gauged how … [Link]
The Onion » Researchers: Quality Of Sleep May Be Affected By Abandoning Family In 1994
CHAMPAIGN, IL—According to a study published this week by researchers at the University of Illinois, an individual’s ability to get a good night’s sleep may be directly influenced by having made a decision 20 years ago to walk out on the… 
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The Onion » Police Pleasantly Surprised To Learn Man They Shot Was Armed
LEXINGTON, KY—Following a pedestrian stop Monday night during which they fired their weapons on a suspicious individual, patrol officers for the Fayette County Police Department were pleasantly surprised to discover the man they shot was armed, sour… 
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The Onion » Your Horoscopes — Week Of October 14, 2014
SCORPIO: While it's true there is no plumbing the depths of the human heart, you'll come up with some novel ideas about its heating and electrical wiring. 
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Fark.com RSS » Thief throws dagger at homeowner. DOBBY, NO [Florida]
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FMyLife » I_AM_READING says FML
Today, an elderly woman was crossing the street and dropped her bag of groceries. I got out of my car to assist her, but she beat me repeatedly, yelling that I was "enforcing a stereotype". Sorry for trying to help. FML [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Aside from the panic of passengers, ever wonder how to tell if your plane suddenly has a blown air duct? [Scary]
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Fark.com RSS » "Dear Prudence: My teenage son won't stop masturbating; in his bedroom, the bathroom, the kitchen, the penalty box during a hockey game–I keep yelling at him but he keeps going at it. How can I curtail his self-love?" [Fail]
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Fark.com RSS » A visit to a doomsday prepper camp in North Carolina, a four-day session on surviving super viruses, natural disasters, socioeconomic collapse, world war, and Obama, one would assume [Interesting]
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Weird Universe » Painter of Nuts
Most people see peanuts as just something to eat, but artist Steve Casino sees them as a canvas. He paints them to look like celebrities. And one of his painted nuts costs anywhere between $300 to $1000. Check out more of his work at his website.
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Fark.com RSS » Photoshop Contest, UK Edition: Photoshop David Cameron watching David Cameron [Photoshop]
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Fark.com RSS » Actual headline: Police hunt transvestite robber, feces-smeared partner [Sick]
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Fark.com RSS » If you're stressed out over Ebola, don't look up enterovirus 68, whooping cough, or pneumonia [Scary]
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Fark.com RSS » CONFIRMED: Kim Jong Un-dead [Repeat]
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Weird Universe » Feeling Nuts
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Mental Floss » "So"-So
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Fark.com RSS » Dr. Nancy Snyderman's ebola quarantine has gone from "voluntary" to "mandatory" after she is spotted at a restaurant [Followup]
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Fark.com RSS » Earthquake in Central A-mer-i-ca, damage in Central A-mer-i-ca, one dead in Central A-mer-i-ca [News]
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Fark.com RSS » Rob a Dollar General store and get away with a whopping $22? That's life in prison [Fail]
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Fark.com RSS » Best brother ever shares his $1 million lottery winnings with his brother after making a promise to share any winnings when they were kids. "Sure, I could have headed for Costa Rica, but I kept my promise" [Sappy]
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Mental Floss » Morning Cup of Links: The First Spacewalk
Alexei Leonov made the first spacewalk in 1965 and returned a Soviet hero. Decades later we learn that the mission was a series of emergencies that almost spelled his doom.
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The 25 Most Influential Teens of 2014. They are entrepreneurs, activists, artists, athletes, and scientists, and they’ll soon take over the world.
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Dracula: “I Vant to be a Star.” The … [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Would you sell your cat along with your house if the buyer offered you an extra $140,000? [Strange]
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FMyLife » clumsylobster says FML
Today, my friends and I went paintballing. The instructor showed us the sound of an unloaded gun by shooting at my face. It wasn't unloaded. FML [Link]
FMyLife » Splenda_nauts says FML
Today, while at a red light, I was talking into the speaker of my cellphone. A cop saw the rectangle shape next to my lips and thought it was a beer can. He searched my car for 30 minutes not wanting to admit he had made a mistake. FML [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Deer population on Staten Island (NY) goes from 24 to 800 in just six years. Politicians now hoping to come up with a game plan [Obvious]
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Fark.com RSS » Nurse loses patience, patients [Scary]
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Fark.com RSS » Not content with digging up just Richard III, British archaeologists turn their sights on Harold II, who may or may not have been killed at Hastings [Interesting]
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Futility Closet » Double Jeopardy
On Jan. 30, 1835, as Andrew Jackson was departing a U.S. representative’s funeral service at the Capitol, troubled English house painter Richard Lawrence confronted him, drew a pistol from his pocket, pointed it at Jackson’s heart, and pulled the trigger. “The explosion of the cap was so loud that many persons thought the pistol had fired,” said Sen. Thomas Benton, … [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Millennials are re-shaping how charity and online giving work. That's gotta be worth some kind of trophy, right? [Spiffy]
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Fark.com RSS » ISIS may be using chemical weapons against the Kurds. And just where did ISIS get these chemical weapons? You guessed it, _________________ [Scary]
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Fark.com RSS » Gallant shotguns his wine. Goofus brandishes a shotgun over his stolen wine [Strange]
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Fark.com RSS » If you lose your false teeth in the toilet just let 'em go, man, they're gone [Fail]
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Mental Floss » What Really Goes Into a McDonald’s Burger Patty
“Are there lips and eyeballs in there, Jimmy?” [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Talking parrot missing for 4 years found, now speaks Spanish. "Polly quiere una galleta" [Amusing]
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Fark.com RSS » How to reduce your odds of being given a ticket during a traffic stop. Whining, cringing and sniveling not on list, but subby's not ashamed to admit to them [Interesting]
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Fark.com RSS » Kim Jong Un comes out of his hole and sees his shadow. That means twenty more years of dictatorship [Dumbass]
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Fark.com RSS » *It's probably dumb to expect a little more maturity out of people who would allegedly beat up someone for a cellphone, and yet here we are [Unlikely]
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Fark.com RSS » If University of Kansas Hospital was your pick for 'Next Possible Ebola Patient in Isolation,' step up and claim your prize [Scary]
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FMyLife » prettypanic says FML
Today, my dad asked me who I was texting at 1am. Trying to sound cool, I said "My boyfriend." I've never seen my dad laugh so hard in his life. FML [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Elderly couple says the guy who broke into their home and lived there while they were on vacation did a really nice job taking care of the place. "I would happily put him up in the cellar as our butler" [Cool]
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Fark.com RSS » Fox News' Dr. Manny Alvarez calls for the CDC chief to resign over Ebola. And if you can't trust a Fox News doctor, whom can you trust? [Stupid]
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Fark.com RSS » Photoshop this river surfer [Photoshop]
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