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 » Russia, you've lost another submarine? [Interesting]
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Fark.com RSS » Haters be hatin' the hater word [Obvious]
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Fark.com RSS » Murrieta Mayor, who encouraged his constituents to protest and block buses full of immigrant children because they posed a public threat, demonstrates what a public threat might look like [Dumbass]
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Fark.com RSS » For 10 minutes the world briefly forgot about its current problems when North and South Korea started shooting at each other today [Scary]
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Fark.com RSS » Giant sphinx unearthed in the sands of……….Guadalupe, CA?? [Cool]
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Fark.com RSS » WeHoe Fark Party ~ Friday, November 14, 8pm PT, Hamburger Mary's [FarkParty]
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Weird Universe » News of the Weird, August 19, 2014
News of the Weird
Weirdnuz.M393, October 19, 2014
Copyright 2014 by Chuck Shepherd. All rights reserved.
Lead Story
"Selfie fever" has begun to sully the sacred Islamic pilgrimages to Mecca, according to scholars who complained to Arab News in September. What for centuries has been a hallowed journey intended to renew the spirit of Islam (that all Muslims are called … [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Mississippi goes in to full hysteria over Ebola as parents pull their children from school because the principal visited Zambia… Which is 3,000 miles away from the Ebola stricken countries [Fail]
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Fark.com RSS » Photoshop this throwback [Photoshop]
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Fark.com RSS » There is nothing creepier than a doll that is missing part of her body. Except for taking a tour of a doll hospital that can replace any missing doll part [Weird]
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Mental Floss » 10 Questions for Adam David Thompson
You might recognize Adam David Thompson from his role as Albert, the creepy, lurking serial killer in Liam Neeson’s latest kicking-ass-and-taking-names flick, A Walk Among the Tombstones. It’s the kind of role the actor often finds himself playing. “I typically play these weird, bad kind of guys,” he says. “If I thought about why that is, I’d have a complex. … [Link]
Fark.com RSS » It says a lot about amateur photographers when the railroad companies have to remind them not to stand on the tracks when taking pictures of trains [Stupid]
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FMyLife » problems says FML
Today, I have to make a decision. I either drive my dad around during the day so he can drink, or I let him drink and drive so I can focus on studying for my exams. FML [Link]
FMyLife » Anonymous says FML
Today, I tried to propose to my girlfriend, but I was so nervous that I had a panic attack, fainted and split my head open. My girlfriend then fainted at the sight of the blood. An onlooker had to call an ambulance for both of us. FML [Link]
Fark.com RSS » What weighs over 250 tons, is 186 foot long and takes four trucks to move? Possibly the largest oversize load to travel from Oklahoma to Colorado [Cool]
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Fark.com RSS » What happens when TSA chief becomes college president? Full-body scans to get into library? [Amusing]
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Fark.com RSS » Cruise ship with "potentially" Ebola-infected health care worker docks in Texas, which is now officially America's Ebola colony [Followup]
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Fark.com RSS » Elvis-themed wedding chapel in Vegas says no to same-sex couples in order to protect the dignity of marriage [Asinine]
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Fark.com RSS » Colombian sex trafficking ring busted up with the help of… Laurie Holden from The Walking Dead? Wow. Guess Andrea really was a bad ass [Hero]
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Fark.com RSS » "A woman recorded herself doing heroin and cocaine while making fun of her probation officer, then posted it online." Spoiler: The probation officer saw it [Dumbass]
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Fark.com RSS » You'll want to sit down for this one – Woman awarded $37,000 after falling off a toilet [Followup]
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Fark.com RSS » Michigan's "Isis Coney Island" changing name to "Freedom Coney Island." You want fries with that? [Spiffy]
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Fark.com RSS » In 1990, Storey County, Nevada wanted to ban all outhouses. And that's why to this day there are still outhouse races in Virginia City, Nevada [Strange]
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Mental Floss » Name the Longest Current World Series Droughts
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Fark.com RSS » This is my hatchet. There are many like it but this one is mine [Scary]
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FMyLife » Anonymous says FML
Today, I laughed at my grandma's chihuahua poodle mix, as it barked at me entering the house. "What are you going to do, nibble me to death?" is apparently enough to make it jump and bite me. I needed five stitches. FML [Link]
FMyLife » fizzie101 says FML
Today, I walked in on my boyfriend jerking off to what I thought was porn on his phone. He was actually beating it to Siri's voice. FML [Link]
Fark.com RSS » And the city with the cheapest beer in America is ____________ [Unlikely]
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Fark.com RSS » Maine teacher suspended for three weeks because, A) She was a volunteer treating Ebola patients in West Africa, B) She had close contact with someone with Ebola, or C) She stayed in a hotel less than ten miles away from Texas Health Presbyterian? [St
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Mental Floss » All the "Dudes" in 'Lost' and 'The Big Lebowski'
Let's keep this simple, dude. First, here are all the times the word "dude" is spoken in Seasons 1-5 of Lost (yes, Season 6 is missing). I miss Hurley. And now, all the "dudes" in The Big Lebowski. Note that there are some f-bombs in here: Wait, okay, one more. Here's a mega-supercut showing great "dudes" in recent film history … [Link]
Fark.com RSS » There are five simple reasons why your relationship with that stripper just wasn't meant to be [Obvious]
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Fark.com RSS » Living on minimum wage….in photos [Interesting]
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Fark.com RSS » Thousands of bees drawn to overturned honey truck. Roadway cleanup becomes a police sting operation [Fail]
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Fark.com RSS » Mother is shocked when her snowflake comes home from the supermarket with: a) a gun, b) drugs, or c) a pumpkin carving kit [Asinine]
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Weird Universe » Radish Animals
A new book going on sale soon in Japan teaches the art of making "radish animals." All you need is a pile of grated daikon radish. Then mold it into the shape of whatever animal strikes your fancy. And delight and amuse your guests. [via RocketNews24]
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Mental Floss » Weekend Links: Essential Foreign Viewing
Anyone looking to become better versed in foreign films can't go wrong with a list of movie recommendations compiled by Martin Scorsese himself. * Contact sheets from classic Hollywood photo shoots include some of the most iconic images in cinema history alongside the not-so-great shots that didn't make the cut. * Font aficionados, look away, lest you be irreparably scarred … [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Photoshop this pool noodle-festooned alleyway [Photoshop]
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Weird Universe » Hasbro’s Mr. Carrot Head
Is it just me, or was there more creativity in the old days, when you could use "any fruit or vegetable" with Mr. Potato Head, and arrange the features anyplace on the head, instead of in the pre-drilled slots?
I was also curious if "play doctor" sets were still made, and they certainly are, as you can see in the … [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Never ask a computer technician to wipe off all the porn from your laptop but under no condition should he view any of the photos stored behind a special partition written into the hard drive [Dumbass]
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Fark.com RSS » College kids these days can't even enjoy a simple pumpkin festival without it turning into a full-fledged riot. "People were just throwing everything they could find – rocks, skateboards, buckets, pumpkins" [Stupid]
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Fark.com RSS » If you plan on handing out non-food treats on Halloween in consideration of children with food allergies, you're supposed to display a teal jack-o-lantern so all the other kids know which house to egg [Interesting]
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Fark.com RSS » The five sketchiest foods served in NYC: Ikea spare ribs, strip club pasta, 7-11 pizza, bowling alley roast chicken, and drugstore sushi [Strange]
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FMyLife » Anonymous says FML
Today, my 9-year-old daughter was acting out and wouldn't do her homework. I told her that if she didn't study, she wouldn't get her acceptance letter from Hogwarts. She looked into my eyes, straight through to my soul and said, "Hogwarts isn't real, retard." FML [Link]
FMyLife » yee-whore says FML
Today, I confronted my girlfriend after catching her cheating on me. After she finished crying, she had the brass balls to say she'd understand if I needed a couple of weeks to forgive her, and asked me for bus fare so she could go tell the other guy they could only be friends now. FML [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Drug addict desperate for cash stole toilet valves from area restaurants, flushed with embarrassment after getting caught [Followup]
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Fark.com RSS » You're a team of paramedics transporting a dead body when you realize your shift is over. Do you A) continue to your scheduled destination, B) call your dispatcher for instructions, or C) just dump the body wherever it's convenient [Fail]
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Futility Closet » The Modern Prometheus
By 1958 many of the attributes of living things could be found in our technology: locomotion (cars), metabolism (steam engines), energy storage (batteries), perception of stimuli (iconoscopes), and nervous or cerebral activity (computers). The missing element was reproduction: We hadn’t yet created a nonliving artifact that could make copies of itself. So Brooklyn College chemistry professor Homer Jacobson built one. … [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Owner finds flock of sheep stumbling around making strange noises after feasting on thousands of dollars worth of pot. "Not b-a-a-a-d, dude" [Amusing]
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Fark.com RSS » Rare albino deer sighted and you know how this ends [Sad]
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Fark.com RSS » "A moment later, he realized he was looking not at a brown, furry mammal, but an enormous, puppy-size spider." (With OH GOD IT'S TOUCHING HIS HAND BURN IT WITH FIRE pics) [Scary]
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Fark.com RSS » Body found in search for missing UVA student Hannah Graham [Followup]
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Fark.com RSS » "Whadda we got here, Lou?" " The usual Chief, homemade basement firing range full of guns, drugs and a former NBA player. Typical Friday night" [Weird]
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Fark.com RSS » Photoshop theme: Joe Biden's next job [Photoshop]
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