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 » "A man (or woman) who is his/her own lawyer has a fool for a client." Meet the idiot who's suing every homosexual on Earth [Fail]
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Fark.com RSS » If you're left handed, grab a beer and celebrate [Cool]
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Fark.com RSS » This couple has spent 24 years bulding a massive floating home in Canada. They could have done it in a weekend or two if they hadn't refused to use power tools [Obvious]
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Fark.com RSS » I'm sorry. Should we not have named a drink after a serial killer who fed women to his pigs? Was that wrong? [Fail]
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Fark.com RSS » One-way ticket and lots of cash? You'll end the trip minus the cash if the DEA has any say in the matter [Asinine]
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Fark.com RSS » Photoshop this face-to-face meeting [Photoshop]
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Mental Floss » 4 Michigan Lighthouses Are Up For Sale
There’s no better time to make good on those romantic lighthouse keeper lifestyle goals. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » U.S. releases troublemakers near the border in hopes they'll emigrate. Fark: The Canadian Border. Fark Squared: Grizzlies [Ironic]
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Fark.com RSS » American Airlines flight attendant found not guilty by reason of insanity for attacking crew members and air marshals. New slogan: American Airlines – you have to be crazy to fly with us [Weird]
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Fark.com RSS » Cops respond to emergency call reporting "paranormal activities" inside house, witness lights flashing, clothes flying around the room and see dog on top of a hedge. Surprisingly, not a promotion for The Conjuring 3 [Weird]
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Fark.com RSS » Parents go nuts after someone smeared peanut butter all over a playground, raising concern their precious snowflakes could be allergic [Strange]
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Fark.com RSS » "I'm not positive it's him, officer, but his face sure rings a bell" [Obvious]
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Fark.com RSS » Is it okay to wish Uncle Fidel a happy 90th birthday now that we're all buddy-buddy with Cuba again, or are we still referring to him as vicious commie dictator scum? Either way, everyone's good with the Zombie Castro jokes [Interesting]
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FMyLife » lonelyheart4ever says FML
Today, a man finally was flirting with me in a supermarket checkout lane, even offering to help unload my groceries onto the conveyor. Turns out he was just distracting everyone so his partner in crime could steal $200 from the cash register. I had to give a witness statement to the manager. FML [Link]
FMyLife » stinkystinky says FML
Today, after cleaning the whole house, I still couldn't get rid of the foul smell. Later, my roommate revealed his new place to "stash and dry" his socks: The ventilation ducts. FML [Link]
FMyLife » heck says FML
Today, I took a drug test. Not only did I fail the drug test, but I mostly missed the sample cup and got urine all over my pants. FML [Link]
Fark.com RSS » *sad beep* *sad boop* [Sad]
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Fark.com RSS » It's lights out for the Main Street Electrical Parade at Disney World [Sad]
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Fark.com RSS » You don't want your third-grader taking the state's mandated standardized reading test? Well, too bad. Looks like they get to repeat third grade, no matter how well they did [Florida]
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Fark.com RSS » If you're the summer intern at a local newspaper, you can tell the staff really likes you when they make you be the first to eat a s'mores hamburger. "I took one bite and I felt like I needed a shower" [Spiffy]
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Mental Floss » You Need to See This Weekend's Best Amazon Deals
As a recurring feature, our team combs the Web and shares some amazing Amazon deals we’ve turned up. Here’s what caught our eye today, August 13. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Institute for Relentless Killjoys finds that three glasses of milk a day can lead to early death [Stupid]
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Fark.com RSS » Bad news: Southern California is having its worst smog in years. Good news: No one has seen Pacoima since June [Strange]
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Fark.com RSS » The worst thing about having a freeway built near your home in the Arizona desert isn't the construction and it isn't the extra traffic. It's all the displaced scorpions that move into your home [Scary]
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Weird Universe » The High School Hair-Do Code
In the 1940s, American High School girls used hair ribbons to send coded messages about their availability for mating. From Life Magazine – May 15, 1944:
The simple hair ribbon has become a weapon in the battle of the sexes.
In Louisville the color of the ribbon is significant. A yellow ribbon is the symbol of a man-hater. A white … [Link]
Weird Universe » The Bears of Clark’s Trading Post
I would not have necessarily said that a trained bear act would still flourish in today's world, but apparently the one at Clark's Trading Post is still going strong.
I wonder if they had a hand in training Lulubelle back in 1957?
Original ad here.
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Mental Floss » 11 Sharp Facts about Annie Oakley
The "Little Sure Shot" had her first ace shot at age 8. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Today's Fark-ready headline: Butter cow head survives 9 years, 4 stewards, 600 miles [Silly]
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Fark.com RSS » Man jokingly applies to be "wine queen" of German town after no woman applied for the position. And as this is on Fark, you can guess what happened next [Amusing]
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Fark.com RSS » A tour of the United States' biggest icebreaker. Well, biggest if you don't include alcohol [Cool]
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Fark.com RSS » Photoshop this wandering rock [Photoshop]
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Fark.com RSS » Keeping in the spirit of the Olympics, what are the best sports books of all time? It's the gold, silver and bronze edition of the Saturday Morning Book Club [Interesting]
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Fark.com RSS » 19 of the weirdest American supermarket foods, according to an Australian. If Pop Tarts are wrong, I don't want to be right [Amusing]
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Mental Floss » Are Lefties Really More Creative?
Survey says: Maybe. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Woman facing a series of surgeries had no option but to return her beloved feline companion back to the shelter. "It would have been easy to pat the lady on the back, say 'sorry' and move on." But that isn't what happened. Welcome
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Fark.com RSS » Pope Francis visits with prostitutes. This time not the ones in Congress [Hero]
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Fark.com RSS » In latest rural craze, bored Irish teens discover the chicken game. "There is no other way to describe it than utter madness and we would appeal to young people not to engage in this activity" [Obvious]
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Mental Floss » Just How Big Is Alaska? About the Area of 19 Other States
The largest state in the U.S. dwarfs the competition. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Woman sues, wins right to display vanity license plate 8THEIST [Spiffy]
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Fark.com RSS » Word to the wise: a superhero fancy dress carnival expects superhero costumes, not period costumes [Awkward]
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GraphJam » Because "Unite Our Bodies" Sounds Kinda Cheesy In Song
Graph by: jmoskwa99 Tagged: guys , make love , movies , Music , Pie Chart , TV Share on Facebook
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Mental Floss » The Time MythBusters Made, Busted a Million-Brick LEGO Ball
We miss you, MythBusters. [Link]
Futility Closet » Desargues’ Theorem
If two triangles ABC and abc are oriented so that lines Aa, Bb, and Cc meet at a point, then the pairs of corresponding sides (AB and ab; BC and bc; and AC and ac) will meet in three collinear points. The converse is also true: If the pairs of corresponding sides intersect in three collinear points, then the lines … [Link]
Mental Floss » See How the Best Human Athletes Stack Up Against Average Animals
The world's fastest human still has nothing on a warthog. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » In Texas, you can be executed even if you didn't kill anybody [Scary]
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Mental Floss » Feel Your Partner's Heartbeat in Real-Time With These Rings
With the press of a button you can feel more connected to a loved one. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » F-22 Raptor defeated by swarm of drones [Interesting]
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Fark.com RSS » National Hurricane Center has updated its initial hurricane forecast, and it is calling for a better chance of a near-normal or above-normal season – unless it isn't [Obvious]
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Mental Floss » The World Alternative Games Include Wife Carrying and Bog Snorkeling
In the name of equality, there's also a husband-dragging competition. [Link]
Mental Floss » Brazilian Street Artist Goes for Gold With Olympic-Sized Mural
The 30,000-square-foot mural may be a new Guinness World Record. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Just when you thought it couldn't get any worse, Zimbabwe declared the centre of African bagpiping [Scary]
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Fark.com RSS » "Beautiful. Is that Impressionist art?" "No, it's Cremationist, but thanks for admiring" [Creepy]
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Fark.com RSS » Man sleeping in dumpster goes through trash compactor, survives – although his clothes are a little big for him now [Scary]
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Fark.com RSS » While Olympic pools turn green, Olympic volunteers turn invisible [Sad]
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Fark.com RSS » Cops confiscate 44 pounds of psychedelic mushrooms found inside a home under a giant toadstool surrounded by dryads and centaurs locked in a timeless battle with fire-breathing llamas ridden by digital leaf people burrowing out from your mind's e
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Fark.com RSS » Step 1) Residents tell bank they can hear what sounds like tunneling. Step 2) Authorities do nothing. Step 3) Profit [Fail]
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Mental Floss » What Superheroes (and Supervillains) Would Look Like as Flemish Paintings
The Hulk looks good in a neck ruff. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » In world first, hundreds of ugly-ass baby Montserrat tarantulas hatch in British zoo [Sappy]
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Fark.com RSS » Those 95-year-old tortoises are always in the last place you look (vid) [Obvious]
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Fark.com RSS » Sometimes ya gotta grab the bull by the tail. . .and photoshop it [Photoshop]
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Mental Floss » 10 Things We Learned From a Netflix Employee's AMA
8. Employees get unlimited vacations, but they don't get free Netflix. [Link]
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