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 » And one time at Man Camp [Interesting]
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Fark.com RSS » New Tate Modern Museum exhibit proving popular with visitors, unpopular with subjects of the exhibit [Awkward]
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Fark.com RSS » "To The Good Citizens of Callisto, I crossed the Rubicon River. Today I did five houses. My backpack had fifteen apples in it, three apples per house. I've broken a few windows, but that happens rarely," [Strange]
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Fark.com RSS » If you're a school bus driver, no matter how rowdy the kids get pouring water on them is not going to quiet the situation [Dumbass]
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Fark.com RSS » No [Obvious]
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Fark.com RSS » Turns out there's one thing Scots won't eat, even if you deep-fry it [Sick]
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Fark.com RSS » 15 Sea Scouts fail to earn their "Don't sink the boat" merit badge [Dumbass]
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Weird Universe » News of the Weird (September 4, 2016)
News of the Weird
Weirdnuz.M491, September 4, 2016
Copyright 2016 by Chuck Shepherd. All rights reserved.
Lead Story
The recently concluded Olympics included a few of the more obscure athletic endeavors (such as dressage for horses and steeplechase for humans), but U.S. colleges compete in even less-heralded "sports," such as wood chopping, rock climbing, fishing, and broomball. University of Alabama … [Link]
Fark.com RSS » The Stanford rapist's house is surrounded by a bunch of people openly carrying and making threats; the police chief is pictured calmly chatting with the armed, white protestors. Damn, this story is sure to evoke calm, rational discussion [Interes
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Fark.com RSS » Eight taken to hospitals after gravity-defying ride doesn't defy gravity [Ironic]
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Fark.com RSS » ♫ Bed bugs, bed bugs, whatcha gonna do? Whatcha gonna do when they come for you. ♫ [Sick]
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Fark.com RSS » Geek Dad asks if Stone Farking Wheaton w00tstout is just a Geek Beer or the Geekiest Beer Ever? [Cool]
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Fark.com RSS » More and more restaurants are banning tipping as most customers are too cheap to leave the standard 20% [Interesting]
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Fark.com RSS » The 14th edition of Art Tattoo Montreal is kicking off, and here are the top five artists to consider when you finally get that snake put on your face [Cool]
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Fark.com RSS » Don't bogart that joint, my friend, pass it over to me [Amusing]
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Fark.com RSS » Mum admits she still wipes her 12-year-old son's bum after a poo, which earns this response. "He is physically capable, he can do it at home as well as at school. You're not the a***-wipe fairy" [Facepalm]
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Fark.com RSS » Photoshop this photobomb [Photoshop]
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Mental Floss » Readers Still Prefer Physical Books to Digital
Print isn't dead—far from it. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » When two tribes collide (Not safe for work) [Interesting]
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Fark.com RSS » A year after the President made a historic visit to Alaska's Exit Glacier, it looks drastically different because it has thawed so much. Thanks, Obama [Followup]
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Fark.com RSS » What better way to celebrate the 350th anniversary of the Great London Fire than with fire gardens? [Interesting]
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Fark.com RSS » Facebook-hating UFO intentionally blew up the SpaceX rocket [Unlikely]
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Fark.com RSS » This story has it all: terrorism, blackmail, a Rube Goldberg/Heath Robinsonesque arson conspiracy involving LogMeIn, a printer and a piece of string. Everything except a decent headline [Interesting]
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Fark.com RSS » Proving once again the superiority of America's disaster readiness network, FEMA issues accidental evacuation notices for millions [Dumbass]
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Fark.com RSS » Think you're having a bad day? At least you weren't left behind by your tour boat as you went scuba diving in shark-infested waters in the Indian Ocean in the middle of a tropical storm [Scary]
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Fark.com RSS » Wait my turn? That's-a-shootin' [Scary]
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Mental Floss » Sea Urchins Pull Themselves Inside Out to be Reborn
Beautiful, bizarre, and pointy. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » You think you've got a bad neighhbor? At least yours doesn't sneak into your garage to steal a bottle of Jägermeister and then when you call police she drinks it all before they arrive [Weird]
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Fark.com RSS » Old and busted: the "knockout game." New hotness: the "Choking Game." Michael Hutchence unavailable for comment [Followup]
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Fark.com RSS » How crass have politics become this season? C-SPAN had to add a three-second delay to its call-in shows to prevent obscenities from making it on air [Sad]
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Fark.com RSS » Know what is faster than a motorcycle going 111 MPH in a 65 zone? A police radio, that's what [Dumbass]
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Mental Floss » This Week's Best Amazon Deals You Can Still Get
As a recurring feature, we 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 » Is fat shaming or slut shaming more appropriate for 9 year olds? [Asinine]
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Weird Universe » 8-year-old Undertaker
It sounds like Duana Grant was a very practical-minded young girl. At the age of 8, instead of being squeamish about death, she was learning how to be a mortician, in preparation for taking over the family business at the appropriate time.
And it seems that her childhood ambitions became reality. When she was older she married Wilbur Elder and … [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Family of five, whose father disappeared for several days, may have been suffering from a group schizophrenic event, which is doctor for "these people are kooky" [Strange]
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Fark.com RSS » Photoshop this master of phones [Photoshop]
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Fark.com RSS » CSB Sunday Morning: Pet sounds [CSB]
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Fark.com RSS » Boob phone helps stop a kidnapping [Boobies]
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Weird Universe » UFO Noodles
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Mental Floss » Scientists Make Lasers Out of Human Blood
Apparently that’s a thing we can do now. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » High school janitor uses floor stripper to get job promotion the old fashioned way. No, not by hard work, silly. By poisoning [Florida]
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Fark.com RSS » Protip: Running over students can be minimized by obeying school bus stop signs. (Warning: Graphic Video) [Scary]
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Fark.com RSS » If you're going to set fire to your ex-boyfriend's car, do your research on said car before torching it [Florida]
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Mental Floss » How Holocaust Survivor Martin Greenfield Became a Famous Master Tailor
Greenfield, 88, has dressed four U.S. presidents. [Link]
GraphJam » The College Mentality
Nevermind that expensive meal plan you had to purchase, there are UNLIMITED breadsticks! Graph by: thenomnomkitty Tagged: bread , breadsticks , food , free , Pie Chart Share on Facebook
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GraphJam » What users do when they press 'shuffle' on their mp3 player
Graph by: Cyberblade Tagged: button , forward , hear , ipod , mp3 player , Pie Chart , randomly , shuffle , song , wanted Share on Facebook
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GraphJam » Superhero Mathematics
Graph by: Unknown Tagged: batman , best of week , equation , iron man , math , Spider-Man , superhero , superman Share on Facebook
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Mental Floss » Why Can't Mules Have Babies?
…And how come in super-rare cases, they can?! [Link]
Futility Closet » Here and There
In 1976, Australian monkey trainer Alex Brackstone declared his four-hectare property northeast of Adelaide to be the independent Province of Bumbunga and named himself its governor-general. He was concerned that Australia was drifting toward republicanism and wanted to be sure that at least a part of the continent would always be loyal to the British Crown. To underscore his devotion … [Link]
Mental Floss » Pronghorns Are More Closely Related to Giraffes Than to Antelope
Though they’re colloquially called the “American antelope,” pronghorns aren’t related to antelope at all. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Coming up at the top of the hour it's the Labor Day weekend edition of Livingston Stapler Company Presents. Two hours of eclectic music hosted live by a farker (9PM AKDT/10PM PT) [Live]
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Mental Floss » Introducing a Company That Lets Children Wear Their Own Drawings
Your kids will be a lot more excited to get dressed if they designed the clothing themselves. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » South African murder rate passes 'Detroit' and heads for 'Chicago' [Scary]
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Mental Floss » The Man Who Travels the World to Review International McDonald's Locations
Wonder what “American Vintage” cheese fries at a Japanese McDonald’s taste like? What about a McBanh Mi in Vietnam? [Link]
Fark.com RSS » I hop you Oregonians enjoy your legal marijuana before Japanese Beetles eat it all [Sad]
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Fark.com RSS » When someone asks what you're in for, don't tell them "overdue 'Hunger Games'" [Asinine]
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Fark.com RSS » Let me ruin that four-day weekend you get for the Labor Day holiday [Facepalm]
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Fark.com RSS » Toddlers get behind wheel of an SUV, wreck on the way to see grandma [Scary]
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Fark.com RSS » "911, what's your emergency?" "FML I dunk 2 much LOL" [Weird]
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Fark.com RSS » Photoshop these rock feet [Photoshop]
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Mental Floss » On This Day in 1935, Humans Exceeded 300 mph on Land
301.1 miles per hour, to be exact. [Link]
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