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 » Depressing news. Most Americans who have depression don't receive treatment, a study finds, while most who did receive treatment don't appear to have the disorder [Sad]
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Fark.com RSS » We've secretly switched this pastor's sermons with lots of Metallica references, let's see if anyone notices [Satire]
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Mental Floss » Spiders Tune the Strings of Their Webs
They've evolved to be tiny, eight-legged musicians. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Air China apologizes for warning customers about the dangers of black people in London [Facepalm]
[link] [96 comments] [Link]
Mental Floss » Hasbro Wants Your Board Game Ideas
Nothing is better than Candy Land. But if you think you've got something, Hasbro might give you $25,000. [Link]
Mental Floss » 12 Elementary Facts About 'Sherlock'
It's appointment television for Harrison Ford. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Google's parent company Alphabet is testing drones that will be equipped with payloads of biological weapons [Scary]
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Fark.com RSS » Finally, a cure for guys sticking their junk into those Dyson hand drying machines [Repeat]
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Fark.com RSS » Descendants of slaves sold by Georgetown University respond to the university offering them preferred admission status: "Cool, thanks. How about you throw in a $1 billion foundation for reparations, too?" [Followup]
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Fark.com RSS » Planning on driving cross country? Know your weird traffic laws in each state before leaving. Remember – it's still illegal to travel with a gorilla in Massachusetts [Strange]
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Fark.com RSS » Uber to let you stream your own music for your ride. Article to the left, playlists that will make your Uber driver crash into a lamp post on the right [Amusing]
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Fark.com RSS » FL.Rep angry at Congress' inaction fighting the Zika virus brings a jar of mosquitoes to the floor to demonstrate the threat. If he really wanted action, he should have told his fellow reps the mosquitoes were infected-and then unscrewed the lid
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Mental Floss » Unpublished F. Scott Fitzgerald Stories to be Released in April 2017
The collection is called "I'd Die For You." [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Another previously undiscovered asteroid just buzzed past Earth for the second time in two weeks. What have we done to anger you, space gods? [Awkward]
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Fark.com RSS » Fark Food Thread: Fark quandry – what to serve your guests that doesn't require them to set aside their precious booze? It's Tapas Time here on Fark. Share your small bites and we'll give it some Spanish flair [Interesting]
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Mental Floss » Up for Auction: A Piece of the Berlin Wall, Signed by Ronald Reagan
The historic object is expected to fetch anywhere from $10,000 to $20,000. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Retired pope says stamping out the Gay Mafia at the Vatican was his proudest achievement [Followup]
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Fark.com RSS » Over 100 people trapped in gondola, but at least the weather is nice [Scary]
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Mental Floss » 8 Curious Recipes From the Depression Era
Grab the gelatin and head to the kitchen. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Fasting for several days triggers your immune system to regenerate itself. Welp, we're boned [Sick]
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Futility Closet » Sign Play
Like any language, sign language partakes in jokes, puns, and wordplay. Dorothy Miles’ poem “Unsound Views” observes that hearing people seem to be slaves to their telephones. In English, there’s no obvious pun in the next-to-last line, “They live to serve their telephone God.” But in British Sign Language it runs THEY LIVE RESPECT THAT TELEPHONE
HOLD-HANDSET
THIN-AERIAL-ON-HANDSET AERIAL-MOVES-UP GOD … [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Walmart creates in-store 9/11 Twin Towers tribute completely out of Coke products. If you guessed Florida- claim your prize- a Pepsi [Creepy]
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Fark.com RSS » Irishman dies of auto-erotic asphyxiation inside his purpose-built backyard sex shed after session goes wrong. "He was wearing a gas mask and there was evidence of sex toys" [Weird]
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Fark.com RSS » If you can hold 14 bowling balls at the same time, world glory awaits [Interesting]
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Mental Floss » 5 Annoying Latin Errors from an Ancient List That Predicted Latin's Descendants
Sometime around the 7th century, a grammarian got fed up and started collecting all the annoying mistakes that people kept making in Latin. He wrote them up in the 'Appendix Probi,' a straightforward list of the “say this, not that” variety. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Donald Trump manages to electrify voters. Or at least, the ones stealing signs from this man and his electrical outlet [Scary]
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Fark.com RSS » Photoshop these paint cans [Photoshop]
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Mental Floss » No One Wants to Buy This $5 Million Basket-Shaped Building
The basket manufacturer moving out of its Ohio headquarters might be regretting its bold design choices right about now. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Turns out intelligence officers during security briefing weren't displeased with Obama, they were displeased with Trump [Facepalm]
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Fark.com RSS » Mexico threatens to cancel treaty that ceded Texas and California to US if Trump gets elected [Scary]
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Mental Floss » What Do the Different 'Star Trek' Uniform Colors Mean?
The different colored uniforms aboard the Enterprise are about more than just looks. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » The moral and ethical implications of drone warfare [Interesting]
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Mental Floss » The Odd Grammar Rule Most English Speakers Know But Are Rarely Taught
You know this rule, even if you don't know you know it. [Link]
Mental Floss » Thursday's Amazon Deals You Need to See
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, September 8. [Link]
Mental Floss » ‘Grease’ Fan Theory Suggests That Sandy Is Dead
We’ve got chills… [Link]
Mental Floss » Who Was 'Metroid's' Justin Bailey?
The name is the most famous cheat code of the '80s. But was Justin Bailey a real person? [Link]
Fark.com RSS » On second thought, maybe our Vegas Night party shouldn't have included fake cocaine and razor blades, says the primary school principal [Facepalm]
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Mental Floss » Malaysia-Bound Pilot Enters Incorrect Coordinates, Lands Plane in Australia
Chalk one up to good old-fashioned human error. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » There's an effort called The Archangel Ancient Tree Archive working to clone and propagate some of the oldest trees known – like Sequoias and Redwoods. (One of the climbers/cloners is a friend of subby) [Hero]
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Fark.com RSS » Fark Store Daily Deal: Try the Five-Four Club – clothing shopping service for men. (Sponsored Link) [Plug]
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Fark.com RSS » Find a penny, pick it up, there are thousands here after I crashed my truck [Fail]
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Fark.com RSS » Exercising regularly could save you $2,500 a year [Cool]
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Mental Floss » You Could Be a Tour Guide at Prince’s House
Paisley Park is hiring. [Link]
Mental Floss » We Thought There Was One Giraffe Species—But There Are Four
According to a study of the spotted giant’s DNA published today, Giraffa camelopardalis isn't alone. [Link]
Mental Floss » 15 Chatty Facts About ‘The Oprah Winfrey Show’
The long-reigning queen of daytime made her national debut 30 years ago. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » New Orleans news anchor Anne Cutler would really like Takata airbag haters on Twitter to check their spelling [Amusing]
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Mental Floss » 5 Goals of the Groundbreaking OSIRIS-REx Asteroid Mission Launching Today
Two years from now, the spacecraft will arrive at the asteroid Bennu, use a robotic arm to scoop up a sample, and then head back to Earth with it. [Link]
Mental Floss » 5 Questions: Ready for Some Football?
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Fark.com RSS » Federal government: We have altered the boundary of Yosemite National Park. Pray we do not alter if further [Interesting]
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Mental Floss » Facebook’s Reaction Buttons Have Gotten a 'Star Trek'-Themed Makeover
Give that post a Vulcan salute. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » U.S. government is developing technology that can rewrite genes in the wild. But it's not a weapon, it's an 'anti-weapon', so that's okay [Scary]
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Mental Floss » Conservation Group Donates 400 Acres of Land to Yosemite
The gift marks the park's largest expansion since 1949. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Active shooter situation at Alpine High School in western Texas. One person reported shot, two on the loose [NewsFlash]
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Fark.com RSS » Mexico begins claiming US street corners with deployment of mobile consulate [Cool]
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Mental Floss » Makin' Whoopie: The Ongoing Debate Over the Origin of the Whoopie Pie
So many hands in the whoopie jar. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Health officials running out of ways to treat gonorrhea as cases increase in Indiana, as if you needed another reason to avoid Indiana [Sick]
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Mental Floss » 16 Treasure-Filled Facts About 'Blue’s Clues'
The beloved children's series debuted 20 years ago today. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » A week-long stay at Antarctica's first and only luxury resort costs more than a car. In other news, Antarctica has had a luxury resort for ten years [Weird]
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Mental Floss » The 1866 Chicago Sextuplets Hidden From the World
Jennie Bushnell was terrified her six children would be seen as freaks—so she kept their remarkable birth a secret. [Link]
FMyLife » Loud says FML
Today, at work, I needed to fart and thought it would be fast and silent, so I let it rip. I was wrong. Everyone turned around and looked at me as my fart rolled on for a good 10 seconds. The worst part, I screamed, "It wasn't me!" while I was still farting. FML [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Mother gets her marriage annulled so she can marry her daughter. Her prior marriage was to her son [Sick]
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Fark.com RSS » Christian doomsdayers predict the world will end in 2017, most likely on January 20th – right after Donald Trump takes the oath of office [Unlikely]
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Weird Universe » Cube Lube
If you're serious about the Rubik's Cube, then you might benefit from Cube Lube. "We've got what it takes to really move your cube!!!"
This stuff was introduced back in the 1980s, the heyday of the Rubik's Cube. It was a silicone-based lubricant. So buying a can of silicone spray would probably work just as well.
Cube lubes are still … [Link]
Weird Universe » The Importance of Penmanship
Original article here.
1) Butler steals $350,000 worth of jewelry. (This was in 1937, so really worth $5,849,059.03.)
2) Mails jewels in package to a preset postal drop.
3) Scrawls address so badly, jewels delivered to innocent young girl.
4) Kerblooey. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Photoshop this cardboard queen [Photoshop]
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Mental Floss » A Living Wall of Plants Purifies New York’s New Emergency Call Center
Hydroponic plants will provide fresh air in case of a disaster. [Link]
Mental Floss » The AMNH's Giant Blue Whale Just Got its Annual Cleaning
It takes a lot of vacuum power to keep the 94-foot-long replica clean. [Link]
Mental Floss » 5 Goals of the Groundbreaking OSIRIS-REx Asteriod Mission Launching Today
Two years from now, the spacecraft will arrive at the asteroid Bennu, use a robotic arm to scoop up a sample, and then head back to Earth with it. How cool is that? [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Good: Scientists discover way to prevent cancer caused by booze. Bad: It's exercise [Unlikely]
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Mental Floss » A Crash Course in Basic Traffic Jam Etiquette
Don't succumb to road rage. [Link]
FMyLife » mermaidkeels says FML
Today, after attending lectures for months, studying for weeks, and spending hours writing a 15-page research paper, I was informed that due to technological issues during registration, I was not enrolled in the class. FML [Link]
FMyLife » Thatgirl112 says FML
Today, I went on a blind date. Things got hot and heavy, but when he pulled off my pants and saw the Pittsburgh Penguins logo on my thong he stopped and told me to get dressed and that he refused to sleep with the enemy. He was a die-hard Flyers fan. FML [Link]
FMyLife » Anonymous says FML
Today, I just got my windshield fixed due to a rock hitting it off the highway. Just one hour later on my way home, a large stick flew off the back of a landscaping truck. My windshield is cracked again. FML. [Link]
FMyLife » full moon says FML
Today, it was the first day of school, and I split my pants. In a full class. While on a stage. I'm the teacher, and I wasn't wearing underwear. FML [Link]
Mental Floss » New York City is Building an Oyster Bed Out of 5000 Toilets
New York City is using 5000 old toilets to create a cozy—if slightly gross—home for its new mollusk families. [Link]
Mental Floss » Ready for Some Football?
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Fark.com RSS » Russian fighter comes within ten feet of U.S. Navy plane and Obama doesn't let them shoot it down [Scary]
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Mental Floss » A B
In honor of Wool Week, get a room in this super cozy hotel. [Link]
Mental Floss » The Famous Composer Who Was Obsessed With Trains
Dvořák was a bona fide trainspotter. [Link]
FMyLife » AnxiousCucumber says FML
Today, my boyfriend's dick got stuck in the wrong hole. And by wrong hole I mean the pool filter. FML [Link]
FMyLife » failedparenting says FML
Today, I figured out why I have been feeling so drowsy and lethargic for the past week. My daughter had been slipping sleeping pills into my coffee as payback for taking her phone away. FML [Link]
GraphJam » Our Solar System Planets Not Planets M V E M J S U N P
Graph by: matornot Tagged: Astronomy , no one asked me , pluto , science , solar system , venn diagram Share on Facebook
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GraphJam » The contents of my email Inbox
LoL by: partseal Tagged: email , internet , spam , technology , wife Share on Facebook
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Mental Floss » 7 Ways to Stay Safe When You're Traveling Alone
Take these additional safety precautions when exploring a new place on your own. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Crowdfunded sequel to Super Troopers is filming right meow [Cool]
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Mental Floss » Meet the World's Oldest Mime
At 87, Richmond Shepard is the world’s oldest mime. [Link]
Mental Floss » Lightning Kills 323 Norwegian Reindeer at Once
It’s not unusual for reindeer to be struck by lightning, but this was a particularly deadly storm. [Link]
Futility Closet » Unquote
“As centuries pass by, the mass of works grows endlessly, and one can foresee a time when it will be almost as difficult to educate oneself in a library, as in the universe, and almost as fast to seek a truth subsisting in nature, as lost among an immense number of books.” — Diderot [Link]
Mental Floss » Google Searches Could Predict Future Traffic Jams, Study Finds
A German study finds Google searches for "traffic jam" peak two hours before congestion occurs. [Link]
Mental Floss » 24 Historical Inaccuracies in Disney Movies
Remember those stairs that Quasimodo's mother died on? The real Notre Dame is more or less at ground level without gigantic stairs in front of it. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Man arrested after sending his dog and a gun through the security screening x-ray. Your dog wants a carry permit [Stupid]
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Fark.com RSS » Theme of Farktography Contest No. 592: "Out in Left Field". Details and rules in first post. LGT next week's theme [Farktography]
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Fark.com RSS » New asthma drug approved, and in keeping with the finest pharma traditions will cost as much as a midsize sedan [Facepalm]
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Fark.com RSS » Please note: wearing a mask may give away your bank robbery plans, even if you are an Action Transvestite [Strange]
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Fark.com RSS » September 7 is National Beer Lovers Day. Here's where you can get a free beer (valid in Colorado only) [Cool]
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Fark.com RSS » Police detonate IED in Edmonton. Initial reports suggest it was disguised as the Edmonton Oilers' season [Scary]
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Fark.com RSS » That feeling when you realize somebody at the jigsaw factory hates your guts (pics) [Sad]
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Fark.com RSS » The instructor for the next Fark Kayak Expedition has been located [Hero]
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Mental Floss » Mario Will Star in Nintendo's First Traditional Smartphone Game
Nintendo is taking its first step into the smartphone gaming world, and it's bringing Mario along for the ride. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » County economic development head gets caught at step one [Strange]
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Fark.com RSS » Goodbye NYC, it was nice knowing you when you had your head above water [Interesting]
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Fark.com RSS » Paleontologists announce the discovery of prehistoric turducken [Strange]
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Fark.com RSS » Norfolk City Hall wifi SSID named "Con Public". Other rejected names included "Citizens Are Suckers" and "Pimp Y'all Grubers" [Facepalm]
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Fark.com RSS » Photoshop this poor little princess [Photoshop]
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