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 » Half of all adults say they've raided their kids' piggy banks for beer money [Obvious]
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FMyLife » Anonymous says FML
Today, my boss sent me a message about a project, via WhatsApp. It's my day off, so I figured it could wait till I was able to give a flying fuck. Literally a minute later, he was spamming me, demanding to know why I'd left him as read and reminding me that he has firing powers. FML [Link]
FMyLife » Anonymous says FML
Today, I walked in on my brother trying to stick his knob into a cola bottle. FML [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Psychics claim cash is possessed, con victims out of $244,800 [Dumbass]
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Fark.com RSS » Photos apparently do not show Anne Frank's missing plane. Helen Keller unavailable for comment [Followup]
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Mental Floss » 15 Fascinating Facts About ‘Forensic Files’
Creator/executive producer Paul Dowling shares some behind-the-scenes secrets of the iconic series, which premiered 20 years ago. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Among casualties of Japan earthquakes: the winding Road of Laputa, so nicknamed because of its striking resemblance to road in classic Hayao Miyazaki anime. "It was a holy ground for motorcyclists" [Strange]
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FMyLife » Ted, E. Vic says FML
Today, my roommate admitted he spent his half of the rent money on a tattoo. It's all good though, we're just gonna get evicted. FML [Link]
Mental Floss » This Earthquake-Proof Building Is Anchored By a Net of Cables
Instead of building a safer structure from scratch, one architect found a creative solution. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Duchess Kate shares photos of Princess Charlotte on her first birthday. Charlotte, sometimes you're just too damn cute [Sappy]
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Fark.com RSS » Manufacturing your own alcohol is now legal in New York State [Followup]
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Fark.com RSS » Photoshop theme: Create new paper money [Photoshop]
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Fark.com RSS » Half the world's farmed fish may be hard of hearing. Bet they didn't see that coming [Weird]
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FMyLife » Fox_Undercover says FML
Today, my dentist pulled the wrong tooth. FML [Link]
FMyLife » foreveryoung says FML
Today, a weird guy approached me and started asking me many questions. I didn't know how to get out of this situation, so I suddenly ran away shouting, "Stranger danger! " I'm 21. FML [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Be forewarned, Americans: Lyme disease is a… ticking time bomb [PSA]
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Mental Floss » 11 Famous Birthdays to Celebrate in May
Have some cake this month on behalf of these historical figures, all of whom were born in May. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Live from the Correspondent's dinner. In the red corner from Fox News we have Jesse "The Ambush" Watters and in the blue corner is Ryan "Reaper" Grim of the Huff Post. Let's get ready to rumble [Amusing]
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Fark.com RSS » ♫ You gotta jump down turn around truck a bale of ganja, gotta jump down turn around truck a bale of weed ♫ [Misc]
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Fark.com RSS » Dubai uses a 200mph Corvette C7 as a fire truck: "It can reach emergency sites faster than traditional heavy fire engines" (pics) [Obvious]
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FMyLife » Worthless Waste of Skin Who Hates Himself says FML
Today, I finally got the courage to talk to this coworker I like and ask her out for a coffee next door. She was dismissive, cold and rude, and filed a complaint with HR. FML [Link]
FMyLife » ShouldICallYouDaddy says FML
Today, I discovered that the "hot, slutty, woman" my room mate has been dating is my mom. FML [Link]
Mental Floss » Watch This Trippy 1977 Apple II TV Ad
"The family can invent their own Pong games!" [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Fark Store Daily Deal: 20 hours of Information Technology Infrastructure Library training. Okay, someone tell me what the heck I'm looking at. Looks vaguely British. Maybe not a bad thing. (Sponsored Link) [Plug]
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Mental Floss » The Best Amazon Deals We Could Find This Week
As a new recurring feature, we’re going to share some amazing Amazon deals we’ve turned up. These items were the ones that were the most popular with our readers this week, and they’re still available. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Workers in Spain unearth MCCC pounds of Roman coins [Spiffy]
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Fark.com RSS » Walt Whitman, moonlighting as an advice columnist on "Manly Health" was a big proponent of neck beards and cold showers [Amusing]
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Fark.com RSS » Today's 'Well alrighty then' headline: Pagans in prison allowed to celebrate festival of lactating sheep [Weird]
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Overheard In The Office » They’d Look Like Mating Coral Snakes
Grunt #1: Jack* and Cindy* both wore maroon shirts and pinstripe pants to work today.
Grunt #2: Don’t you wish they’d just make out already?
Grunt #1: Totally. Wausau, Wisconsin [Link]
Fark.com RSS » In 1847, less than 16 years after the Trail of Tears, the all but penniless Choctaw Nation donated $170 – nearly $5,000 today – to complete strangers starving in the Irish Potato Famine. 168 years later, the Irish have not forgotten [Sappy]
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Fark.com RSS » Now that the nice weather is here again, here's how not to fark up three of the most common handyman DIY jobs. Or you can drink five beers, watch the first half of a relevant YouTube video and grab the chain saw, like always [Amusing]
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Mental Floss » Study Confirms What We Already Knew: Living Near Water Can Reduce Stress
You don’t need a palace by the sea to reap the benefits, either. [Link]
Weird Universe » The Town That Waves
1941: Reasoning that "we don't have much to show sightseers here," the residents of Sayre, Oklahoma found a different way to attract visitors. They all waved at tourists.
The Gettysburg Times – Oct 1, 1941
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Fark.com RSS » Today's Photoshop theme: Something patriotic [Photoshop]
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Fark.com RSS » CSB Sunday Morning: Late Night at the Quick Stop [CSB]
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Fark.com RSS » Bison burger poised to become the official US sandwich. Why isn't there a Delicious tag? [Spiffy]
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Weird Universe » Mystery Illustration 19
What product was this extremely funky individual advertising?
The answer is here.
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FMyLife » Wyomingwannbe says FML
Today, my wife and I are planning a simple team meal for our son's team. We're stuck on pulled pork or meatballs. I've told her I don't care. She's still indecisive. This has been going on for 2 days. We're now not talking, over meatballs. FML [Link]
FMyLife » Bawsack says FML
Today, some random guy decided to wake me up at 5.30am by yelling outside my window. I opened the window and told him to knock it off before going back to bed. It took a good 3 minutes of his laughter before I realised I was naked and he got a close up view of my breasts. FML [Link]
Fark.com RSS » So here is something that might have bothered us all at one point or another: Who discovered coffee? [Interesting]
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Fark.com RSS » Rev. Daniel Berrigan, 94, died as he lived, peacefully [Sad]
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Fark.com RSS » In a statement that many Farkers can relate to, man tells police he makes inflammatory social media posts to help blow off steam [Dumbass]
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Mental Floss » Dubai Is Getting a 935-Foot-High Skywalk
Just in case palm tree-shaped islands and an indoor ski resort weren't enough. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Prophetess never saw it coming [Stupid]
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GraphJam » When you need to remember that important something
Graph by: Regene Tagged: forgetful , important , just remembered , oh crap , Pie Chart Share on Facebook
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Mental Floss » 'Traceroute,' A Documentary about Nerds and Annihilation
"Maybe the physically impossible promise of 'unlimited breadsticks' haunts my skeptical mind." -Johannes Grenzfurthner [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Some cops make the news because they save a baby from a burning car. Some cops leave their firearms and ammunition behind at McDonald's. Guess who made the news? [Fail]
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Futility Closet » The Vague Specific
In Collier’s in 1949, Richard B. Gehman identified a troubling feature of American language — the tendency to refer to specific things vaguely. “Say, what about all those things in the front room?” his wife had asked him, supposing that he knew what she meant. “I didn’t,” Gehman wrote. “For all I knew, ‘those things’ could have been the furniture, … [Link]
FMyLife » Anonymous says FML
Today, I briefly had the coolest boss in the world. He stormed over to a nasty customer who was giving me hell, and he absolutely laid into her. It lasted about 10 seconds before he collapsed from a major heart attack. A coworker's already blamed me for not pacifying the customer in the first place and causing all this to … [Link]
FMyLife » jack the ripped says FML
Today, while examining my busted nose in the mirror, I had a sneeze attack. Now it looks like someone got their throat slashed in my bathroom. FML [Link]
Mental Floss » What Should You Do If You Find a Lost Baby Bird?
In this short animated video, Slate explains what to do if you find a baby bird out of its nest. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Camp Boggy Creek celebrates twenty years of memories, most of which involve Crenshaw, his suspenders, and the creature. The legend, it seems, will always continue [Florida]
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Fark.com RSS » Coming up at the top of the hour it's Livingston Stapler Company Presents. Two hours of music hosted live by a farker in rainy Juneau, Alaska. (9PM AKDT/10PM PT) [Live]
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Fark.com RSS » My life goal is to eat a hot dog in every MLB stadium. What is your goal? [Amusing]
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Mental Floss » 16 Offbeat Holidays You Can Celebrate in May
From May Day to Memorial Day and everything in between, the month of May is full of delightful, offbeat holidays. [Link]
Mental Floss » The Time Pink Floyd's Giant Inflatable Pig Floated Away
"That's my pig," Roger Waters told Coachella attendees as the inflatable swine drifted off into the desert. [Link]
FMyLife » longing for emancipation says FML
Today, my mom claimed that lactose intolerance is a "myth" and told me to drink my damn milk because it's good for my bones. FML [Link]
FMyLife » Anonymous says FML
Today, I gave my boss a report I wrote on my own time, full of suggestions on how to increase productivity and profits at our company. He said my ideas made "about as much sense as pistol-whipping a ghost" and that I was impressing no-one. FML [Link]
FMyLife » Tuture says FML
Today, a learner driver was practicing maneuvers in the parking lot at work. This happens a lot, and my colleagues and I usually have fun watching and laughing. It was all fun and games as usual, until the learner crashed into my car. FML [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Fish house, fish house, rolly polly fish house. Fish house, fish house, arrest them up, yum [Florida]
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Fark.com RSS » Turns out Rick Snyder underestimated the time and cost of replacing Flint water lines. But $27 million is still pretty close to "$55 million and growing", right? [Obvious]
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Fark.com RSS » Photoshop these Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade watchers, 1969 [Photoshop]
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Mental Floss » Remember When HD Movies Came on VHS Tapes?
Yes, we used to cram HD movies onto VHS-style tapes. And it worked! [Link]
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