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.”
Mental Floss » 18 Epic Facts About ‘Dances With Wolves’
The movie that turned Kevin Costner into Oscar-Winner Kevin Costner is 25 years old. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » The mole people are attacking Manchester again [Scary]
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Fark.com RSS » After fifty two years, John F. Kennedy is still dead [Sad]
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Fark.com RSS » Belgium PM: Threat level stays at 4/4 in Brussels, Schools, Universities and the Subway will be all closed tomorrow [Followup]
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Fark.com RSS » Photoshop this happy couple [Photoshop]
[link] [19 comments] [Link]
Mental Floss » 15 Delicious Facts About Doughnuts
From the city with the most doughnut shops to the origins of the doughnut hole, these 15 facts will whet your appetite. [Link]
Mental Floss » Who's in Space Right Now?
Five ways to keep tabs on our spacefaring friends! [Link]
Fark.com RSS » What do you do with a drunken sailor? [Obvious]
[link] [92 comments] [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Menus of the 1850s. Why the hell don't we have Breakfast Wine? So much for progress [Interesting]
[link] [206 comments] [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Not news: Woman named Maura goes to the city to prevent landlord from turning building's laundry room into a public use laundromat. Fark: Landlord installs mounted sign over laundromat's door reading, "Maura's Laundry" [Asinine]
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Fark.com RSS » Cheating accusations mar Zimbabwe's Mister Ugly competition, winner "too handsome" to win [Strange]
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Fark.com RSS » Behind on your taxes? You could lose your passport. Thanks, Obama [Scary]
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Fark.com RSS » If you live in Phoenix and are convinced the military is buzzing your home with low-flying helicopters, for once you're not just being paranoid [Interesting]
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FMyLife » ugh, why says FML
Today, I walked in on my brother jerking off to a breast cancer awareness advert. FML [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Massachusetts family celebrates National Adoption Day by adopting four children. Angelina Jolie seen lurking in the shadows, taking notes [Sappy]
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Fark.com RSS » Landslide in Myanmar leaves 60 dead and 100 missing [Scary]
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FMyLife » Anonymous says FML
Today, after having my tonsils removed, I coughed so hard in my sleep that I woke up spitting blood. Turned out I'd ripped my throat. They had to put me to sleep and cauterize the damaged area. Now I'm in even worse pain than before. FML [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Sit down children, today we will revise what turkey day is about …again [Interesting]
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FMyLife » gas money says FML
Today, I found $100 on the ground. My mom is taking $40 because she was there. FML [Link]
Fark.com RSS » That's not a knife. This is a knife [Amusing]
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Mental Floss » 12 Intense Facts About ‘Platoon’
'Platoon' made waves by showing the Vietnam War from the perspective of someone who fought in it. [Link]
Weird Universe » Wrong Signature Montblanc
In the mid-1990s, Montblanc began selling a limited-edition pen engraved with the signature of Alexandre Dumas, author of The Three Musketeers — at a price of $750 for a fountain pen or $375 for the ballpoint version. But in 1996 the company admitted it had made a mistake and recalled all the pens. The engraved signature was from the wrong … [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Organ donation is one of the greatest gifts you can give, but rarely has the impact been expressed so beautifully. Behold the best thank-you note ever … as written by an eight year old [Followup]
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Fark.com RSS » Photoshop this catch [Photoshop]
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Fark.com RSS » CSB Sunday Morning: Turkey-day disasters [CSB]
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Fark.com RSS » Pro tip: When finding a daycare for your child you might want to make sure they aren't storing guns, drugs and counterfeit cash in the next room [Scary]
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Mental Floss » Scientists Pinpoint Where Happiness Lives in the Brain
Are the brains of happy people different from those of unhappy people? [Link]
Weird Universe » Corpse by Mail
Original article here.
Was she found innocent or guilty?
The answer is here.
[Link]
Fark.com RSS » Donors *ding ding ding* are outraged *ding ding ding* that the Salvation *ding ding ding* Army's finance *ding ding ding* manager would *ding ding ding* steal donations *ding* [Obvious]
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Fark.com RSS » Students allegedly attacked for having red hair, eating Eric Cartman's cheesy poofs [Scary]
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Fark.com RSS » Southwest Airlines refuses boarding of two U.S. citizens for appearing too Arabic. No word on if hummus dip is still available in first class [Asinine]
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FMyLife » Anonymous says FML
Today, I sliced my finger on a frozen chicken cutlet. FML [Link]
FMyLife » elena02 says FML
Today, my house is so cold that I chipped a tooth from chattering so hard. FML [Link]
Mental Floss » Neil DeGrasse Tyson Explains Sex in Space
You'll need leather straps, for one. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Bad news everybody, Futurama may have been right about the anchovies [PSA]
[link] [47 comments] [Link]
Fark.com RSS » King tides are coming to the pacific coast. Thank you very much [Interesting]
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Mental Floss » Watch Ultra HD Video of a Colorful Water Blob in Space
Behold our new blobby overlords! [Link]
Fark.com RSS » ♫ Oh, there's no place like home for the holidays…♫ Unless your apartment complex just got evacuated due to an epic bedbug and cockroach infestation [Sick]
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Fark.com RSS » Family recalls how welcome they felt as refugees from a war-torn country in the USA. "America's the best" [Ironic]
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Fark.com RSS » Members of Eagles of Death Metal open up about the Bataclan massacre [Followup]
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GraphJam » They Should Never Look Better Than the Bride
Graph by: amberwindchime Tagged: bridesmaids , dresses , Line Graph , wedding Share on Facebook
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GraphJam » Benefits of Being a Father
Graph by: Unknown Tagged: benefit , child , Father , good , Hall of Fame , legos , morals , Pie Chart , playing , values Share on Facebook
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GraphJam » I Saw One Once, But It Got Away
Graph by: (via Pleated Jeans) Tagged: best of week , bigfoot , comics , dragon , forever alone , girlfriend , loch ness monster , mythical creature , unicorn Share on Facebook
[Link]
GraphJam » Circle of Gas
Graph by: Unknown Tagged: dinosaur , gas , oil , Sad Share on Facebook
[Link]
Fark.com RSS » It is a matter of some gravity when you drive off of a parking garage [Obvious]
[link] [20 comments] [Link]
Overheard In The Office » Why Superheros Only Change Into Their Costumes When They're Fighting Crime
Warehouse manager to engineer: Hello, Vice President tight pants! (salutes) Aliso Viejo, California [Link]
Fark.com RSS » After forty years, Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still dead [Cool]
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Fark.com RSS » Half a mile of NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE [Scary]
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Fark.com RSS » Free yoga class at Ottawa University canceled because of cultural appropriation complaint. Yoga teacher says complaint came from a "social justice warrior" with "fainting heart ideologies" in search of a cause celebre [Stupid]
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Fark.com RSS » Dog wants steak, bellyrubs and maybe a painkiller or two after getting impaled by a stick while on a hike with his owners [Misc]
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Fark.com RSS » Today's emergency landing is brought to you by *spins the wheel* an abandoned electronic device [Strange]
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Mental Floss » 13 Facts For Abigail Adams’s Birthday
The celebrated First Lady was—in several respects—lightyears ahead of her time. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » One man's attempt to park a car ended with damage to cars, garage …. boats [Fail]
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Futility Closet » Home Free
A baseball poser from Clark Kinnaird’s 1946 Encyclopedia of Puzzles and Pastimes: “In a spring training game with the Dodgers at bat, the first man up hit a triple, the second man hit a double, the third man hit a double, the fourth man hit a single, the fifth man hit a single, the sixth man hit a single. Yet … [Link]
Fark.com RSS » How to talk to your crazy uncle without stabbing him with the ceremonial Thanksgiving knife. Pass the gravy please [Interesting]
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Fark.com RSS » The Paris attacks made the Archbishop of Canterbury doubt the existence of God [Sad]
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FMyLife » angelisa says FML
Today, I finally felt ready to lose my virginity with my boyfriend. Unfortunately he was too embarrassed to go and buy some condoms, and suggested in all seriousness that we use a sandwich bag instead. FML [Link]
FMyLife » Anonymous says FML
Today, my deadbeat dad threatened to press charges against me for harassment if I ever contact him again. I've contacted him twice in the last two years, once to tell him he was going to be a grandfather, and once to send him a birthday card from my son. FML [Link]
Overheard In The Office » That’s the Last Time I Let Uncle Walter Take Me on a Cruise
Newly married office girl: Swallowing is not my idea of a vacation. Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania Overheard by: these walls are thin [Link]
Overheard In The Office » Sure, Emperor — Sure
Boss: Just because I don’t wear my clothes to work doesn’t mean I don’t have them. 55 Elk Street
Albany, New York Overheard by: clothed employee [Link]
Overheard In The Office » 10AM Fix Time Machine
Boss: Does anyone need this 2005 calendar?
Grunt: No thanks; my time machine is broken. 414 South Main Street
Independence, Oregon [Link]
Overheard In The Office » So When You Called Me a Bitch…
Tax guy, planning baby shower and creating a gag gift: Hey Laurel, I need your six nipples first thing in the morning! Kansas City, Missouri Overheard by: Erin [Link]
Overheard In The Office » …Oh Wait, Now I See.
Peon looking over supervisor's shoulder at computer screen: Why'd you…name it “gay sex”? Media Services
Bethlehem, Pennsylvania Overheard by: CW [Link]
Overheard In The Office » Just Put in Your Social Insurance Number
Technician: Enter the password the Linksys tech gave you.
Customer: He told me to enter whatever I wanted for the password.
Technician: You don't just make up your own passwords. I don't know what that tech was smoking! Kingston
Canadia [Link]
Overheard In The Office » I’m Also a Little Vague on What We Do Here
Boss to assistant: Well, I don’t remember what all I had, um, asked you to do before I went on vacation, but did you, like, um, do it? Non-profit agency
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Overheard by: steeleskillz [Link]
Overheard In The Office » They’re So Cute When They’re Young
Boy piano student #1, pencil poised under buttocks: Dare me to sit on this?
Boy piano student #2: You’ll hurt your testicles.
Girl piano student: Guess what? Dr. Evil’s dad made him shave his testicles!
Boy piano student #2: But testicles don’t grow hair. Piano studio
Florida [Link]
Overheard In The Office » I Won’t Even Sleep with a Man Who’s Had Braces
Grad student: I’m just incapable of mounting anything remotely straight. 3400 North Charles Street
Baltimore, Maryland Overheard by: LabCat [Link]
Mental Floss » 21 Amazing Options for Your Next Ugly Sweater Party
Delight and disturb your family members with one of these impossibly silly sweaters. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Russian cops send French cops ugly ass German Shepherd puppy to replace K9 unit killed in Paris [Spiffy]
[link] [55 comments] [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Our host is out of town on a work-related trip so he won't be in the studio tonight. Instead here is an archived Livingston Stapler Company Presents show from November 11, 2012 for your listening pleasure [Cool]
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Fark.com RSS » Condo board will demand DNA samples of all condo owners' dogs if people don't start picking up dogshiat [Florida]
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Fark.com RSS » Empty your piggy bank to help a vandalized mosque? That's an iPad from a lawyer on behalf of the entire American Muslim Community [Cool]
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Fark.com RSS » According to employers, the real reasons Millennials are struggling to find jobs is because they lack soft skills, like the ability to communicate well, do math, work in teams, solve complex problems and use their skills in the real world [Scary]
[link] [131 comments] [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Schools in Columbia, Missouri would like parents of students to know that they can monitor their children's activities on their school-issued iPads after 30 of the iPads have ended up in the hands of law enforcement due to illegal activities [Sca
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Fark.com RSS » Woman who stabbed her pregnant friend to death and then cut the baby from her womb, says it was in self defense [Unlikely]
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Fark.com RSS » Armed terrorists gather at Texas mosque [Scary]
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Fark.com RSS » Wait – you mean there really is money trapped in a Nigerian bank? [Interesting]
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Fark.com RSS » Your babysitting career is officially over the day authorities find on the side of the road the two-year-old girl you were supposed to be watching. And she's naked, her head is shaved and there are cigarette burns on her body [Sick]
[link] [45 comments] [Link]
Fark.com RSS » While a HOA may be terrible, at least they don't have the ability to arrest and jail you… unlike this small town [Asinine]
[link] [60 comments] [Link]
Mental Floss » How Eratosthenes Calculated Earth's Size Using a Well
Math, legwork, and a deep well helped figure out the circumference of our planet. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Toenail clipping hoard found [Sick]
[link] [53 comments] [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Photoshop this giant baby [Photoshop]
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FMyLife » Anonymous says FML
Today, I was house-sitting for my friend. He was late to return and I ended up falling asleep on the couch and having a dream where I violently shat myself and suddenly developed a six-pack. When I woke up, I found the dream was half true. FML [Link]
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