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 » Blessed cheesemaker who lost rare baby cow finds it nine days later alive in sinkhole and lifts it out, after which, now called Sinky, it ran straight to its mum to feed. AAAWWWWWW [Sappy]
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Fark.com RSS » It's like a RAAAAAAIN of live FIIIRE on your training DAAAAAAAAY (vid) [Ironic]
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Fark.com RSS » Spearfisher with a Go Pro – 1. Great White shark – 0 [Scary]
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Mental Floss » You Can Now Buy a Wire For Wireless Headphones
A company called Spigen has created a wire to keep wireless headphones connected. [Link]
FMyLife » Anonymous says FML
Today, I eavesdropped as my friend tried hinting to my crush that I like him. He replied, "Haha, eww. She looks like a fuckin' garden gnome." FML [Link]
FMyLife » jshum says FML
Today, I bought a new phone. It's shock proof, water proof, you name it. Just not kitten proof, it seems. That's $400 down the drain. FML [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Polish Shipyard accused of using North Korean slaves to build Norwegian oil exploration vessel. Okay, maybe, just maybe this "globalism" thing MIGHT be getting a touch out of hand [Strange]
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Fark.com RSS » Infamous Tewksbury goat spotted by locals again. "It seems as if the goat returned to his daily activities of eating apples, frolicking in the woods around Tewksbury and tweeting, as he continues update residents on his escapades" [Silly]
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Fark.com RSS » "God told me to drive fast, so we're cool. Right, officer?" [Dumbass]
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Fark.com RSS » Gizmodo: BEWARE iOS 10 will brick your phone and tablet [Facepalm]
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Fark.com RSS » Gizmodo: Go download iOS 10 RIGHT NOW [Cool]
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Mental Floss » 6 Math Concepts Explained by Knitting and Crochet
Knit 1, chain 2, master hyperbolic planes. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » It's a serious argument if you end it by using your boyfriend's eye as an ashtray [Strange]
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Fark.com RSS » Latest trouble for New Orleans: Aggressive raccoon gangs [Scary]
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Mental Floss » The 20 Happiest States in America
Using 28 weighted happiness metrics, WalletHub calculated a happiness score for each state. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Japan reports record high of 65,000 centenarians this year, up from 10,000 in 1998 and just 153 in 1963. That's a lot of pancakes [Obvious]
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Fark.com RSS » How does Worst Korea respond to Best Korea's latest nuclear test? By blasting Western pop music across its border. That'll show 'em [Silly]
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Mental Floss » You Could Soon Be Charging Your Cell Phone With Fabric
Scientists have created a textile that can turn sunlight and movement into electricity. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Scientists have successfully created live mice without fertilization, upending 200 years of reproductive science [Spiffy]
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Mental Floss » Has the HMS Terror Shipwreck Been Found in Arctic Canada?
Parks Canada is still confirming the discovery, but all signs point to the wreck being the HMS Terror. [Link]
Mental Floss » Fellowship Lets Cartoonists Live in J.D. Salinger's Former Home
The house is located in rural New Hampshire—and it can be yours for one month. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Did you attend for-profit colleges Ashford University or The University of the Rockies since 2009? Well, A) sorry to hear that; but B) the good news is you probably don't have to pay back your student loans anymore [Interesting]
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Fark.com RSS » Tropical Storm Malakas forms in the Pacific, leading to large gales of laughter from the Greek community [Amusing]
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Fark.com RSS » You may find this hard to believe but candy corn has been made worse [Scary]
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Fark.com RSS » "We're going streaking. We're going up the quad … and to the Walmart" [Asinine]
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Fark.com RSS » It's one thing to go joy-riding without mom and dad's knowledge. It's another when you're 2 [Amusing]
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Fark.com RSS » Photoshop Theme: Celebrities working minimum-wage jobs [Photoshop]
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Mental Floss » 13 Facts About ‘Siskel and Ebert and the Movies’
The balcony closed (for the first time) 30 years ago. [Link]
Mental Floss » Steel Your Stomachs: Olive Garden’s Never Ending Pasta Pass Is Back
A mere $100 gets you seven weeks of all the chicken alfredo you can handle. [Link]
Mental Floss » A New Electric Bus Could Drive a Full Day of Routes on a Single Charge
A new bus model with longer range could make it easier for cities to switch to all-electric bus fleets. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Woman thinks fiance is using his twin brother to cheat on her by having his twin have sex with other women. What? [Unlikely]
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Mental Floss » What's the Difference Between Great Britain and the UK?
All over the world, people use the terms England, Great Britain, and the United Kingdom interchangeably, even though they all mean different things. [Link]
Mental Floss » Disney Once Considered Building a 'Myst'-Inspired Theme Park
Sadly for '90s computer game fans, the idea never reached fruition. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » "Police were carrying out a warrant under the misuse of drugs when the man jumped out of the window wearing only his underpants and made off in the direction of Folly Lane" [Obvious]
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Futility Closet » Math Notes
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Mental Floss » 9 Splendiferous Words from the Oxford Roald Dahl Dictionary
The dictionary goes from aardvark to zozimus because "every dictionary has to start with aardvark; otherwise it would have to start with aback, which is just too boring." [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Photographer sets up camera to automatically take photographs of the elusive and rarely seen female orgasm out in the wild [Spiffy]
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Fark.com RSS » Two divers rescued by sheriff's dive team during lionfish derby. Why they were racing fish is still unknown [Florida]
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Mental Floss » Hawaiian Animal Shelter Lets Tourists Adopt Dogs for a Day
Visitors can get their pet fix and make a pup happy at the same time. [Link]
Mental Floss » The 'Full House' Home Is Up for Rent
When you're lost out there and you're all alone/A Craigslist listing is waiting to carry your home. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » If you live in the Arizona desert and have recently spotted what appear to be seabirds in your community, don't worry, you are not hallucinating [Weird]
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Fark.com RSS » A Saskatoon college party without at least four hospitalizations is considered a dull affair [Dumbass]
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Mental Floss » Don't Miss Amazon's Amazing Tuesday 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, September 13. [Link]
Mental Floss » London's Underground Ads Have Been Replaced With Cat Pictures
The feline takeover at the Clapham Common tube station will last for two weeks. [Link]
Mental Floss » How High Your Salary Has to Be to Buy a House in Your City
Do you earn enough to buy a house in one of these 27 American cities? [Link]
Mental Floss » The New York Public Library’s Rose Room Is Ready to Reopen
It's been closed for renovations since 2014. [Link]
Mental Floss » 8 Regional Breakfast Favorites That Should Go National
Some breakfast sushi or scrapple makes a much better breakfast than plain coffee and toast. [Link]
Mental Floss » Driving Miss Norma: One Nonagenarian's Epic Road Trip
Norma decided the typical late-in-life path—surgeries, nursing homes, assisted living—wasn’t in the cards for her. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Arson unlikely in covered bridge fire. So what, then? Spontaneous huge span combustion? [Unlikely]
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Fark.com RSS » Hillary Clinton 2.0 thinks you whackjobs on the Internets really need to chill out about her coming out of Chelsea's apartment after Hillary's ill-health on 9/11 [Interesting]
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FMyLife » Rabite says FML
Today, I was on a business trip with a co-worker. We had to wait for the train, so I decided to browse a store in the train station while he waited outside. I then got a message on my cell phone, from my co-worker saying, "You are somewhere on this train, right?" FML [Link]
FMyLife » 4fingerdiscount says FML
Today, my bitch of a boss sent out a group text saying she'd had a chainsaw accident and lost the tips of 4 of her fingers and would be out indefinitely. When I told my boyfriend, his immediate response was to grab my phone and reply "I'm stumped, I don't know what to say." She hasn't responded yet. FML [Link]
Mental Floss » Pick the Movie Title Based on the Alternate Description
Take the quiz! [Link]
Mental Floss » 5 Questions: "Cut" Up
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Fark.com RSS » Four paralympians just ran the 1500m faster than anyone at the Rio Olympics final. And not with Pistorius blades. They were normal runners, it's just that they were all blind [Cool]
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Mental Floss » 20 Towns Named for Other Towns But Pronounced Differently
Here are 20 American towns that have really cut the cord from the sources of their names. [Link]
Mental Floss » 27 Fun Facts About 'Pee-wee’s Playhouse'
Paul Reubens takes us back to Pee-wee’s Playhouse [Link]
Mental Floss » 15 Facts About 'Everybody Loves Raymond'
2. Ray Romano didn't love the title. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Ocean man, busted by the man, taken to the van, for some child porn man [Sick]
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Fark.com RSS » Note to amateur cake makers out there: if you make Yoda's light saber the same green color as his skin, it might not look like a light saber when he's holding it a waist level [Amusing]
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Fark.com RSS » Three schools on lockdown because someone popped bubble wrap [Scary]
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Mental Floss » Oskar Puzzles Take Rubik's Cubes to the Next Level
The Over the Top puzzles comes with 1539 parts. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » New report suggests that 20 to 45 percent of students in the US are at least one grade level ahead in at least one subject [Murica]
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Overheard In The Office » 11AM PowerPoint Class
Director #1: [Beth], sit over here!
Director #2: Yeah [Beth], this is the power row. 2111 North Haskell Avenue
Dallas, Texas [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Photoshop these waving flowers [Photoshop]
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FMyLife » livingonmyownfromnowon says FML
Today, after evicting my roommate for excessively not abiding by the lease agreements, he thought he could get back at me by sending me a video of my sister giving him head. FML [Link]
Mental Floss » Oregon Farm Offers Yoga Classes With Goats
Now you can perform downward-facing dog alongside an adorable four-legged farm animal. [Link]
Mental Floss » Watch Kids Test Out 100 Years of Sandwiches
Kids test out the most popular sandwich of each decade from 1900 to 2013. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » U.S. military finally finds a use for the B-1B bomber: Scare the living bejeezus out of Kim Jong-Un [Interesting]
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Mental Floss » A 1975 Physics Paper Was Co-Authored by a Siamese Cat
F.D.C. Willard contributed (in his own way) to a study of atomic behavior in varying temperatures. [Link]
Weird Universe » Reaction of lions to a man in a motorized cage
I'm not quite sure what's going on here. This photo (sourced to AP Wirephoto) ran in various papers (such as here) on June 26, 1963. It had the following caption:
The inmates watch curiously as a Ueno Zoo employee tries a cagey experiment in the lions' den in Tokyo. Completely guarded by iron framework for his physical well-being, the man … [Link]
Mental Floss » 10 of the Oldest Continuously Operated Stores From Around the World
The oldest stores in the world have been in business for hundreds, and sometimes thousands, of years. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » So long and thanks for [Interesting]
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FMyLife » thacupcakeassassin says FML
Today, I woke up from the most satisfying dream I've ever experienced. Sex related? Nah. I just needed two hands to pull a massive booger from my left nostril. FML [Link]
FMyLife » Kelnyquist says FML
Today, I'm a horse trainer and I started working with a lady's horse. After two hours of hard work and sweat, me and the horse in question are tired and I tell her I'll be back tomorrow. I get to the part where she's supposed to pay me and she says, "Oh! I thought this was free!?" FML [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Turns out the "open office bullpen" work environment has some downsides…namely it drives away introverts. You know, those people that actually take time and think about stuff [Facepalm]
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Fark.com RSS » What's that, officer? You de-escalated a situation without killing the suspect? That's a firing [Sad]
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Fark.com RSS » "HI; I want to order a white casket with pictures of angels and the Last Supper and silk lining for my mother." "Here's your dented white casket with no pictures and crepe paper lining." "I want my money back." "Tough.
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Mental Floss » See What 'Mad Max: Fury Road' Looked Like Without Its Visual Effects
George Miller's post-apocalyptic masterpiece depended just as much on practical effects as it did on CGI. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » "Free speech isn't guaranteed," Catholic diocese in New Jersey warns football players who are joining Colin Kaepernick in his protest against institutionalized racism [Murica]
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Mental Floss » "Cut" Up
[Link]
Fark.com RSS » Turns out probably the single biggest challenge facing pilotless airliners is getting people to board the damn plane [Obvious]
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Mental Floss » Swimming Pool Pays Aquatic Homage to Van Gogh's 'Starry Night'
The design is best viewed from above. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Men should not keep their cellphone in their pants [Interesting]
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Fark.com RSS » Suicide rates are now the highest they've been in three decades as people look at the election coverage and say "f*ck it" [Sad]
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FMyLife » Is_This_Real says FML
Today, I hooked up with a friend. I expressed an interest in it becoming something more. He expressed an interest in not telling anyone and pretending it never happened. FML [Link]
FMyLife » Weddingbelles says FML
Today, at the end of my 10-hour shift, my manager made me count exactly how many business cards were left in inventory before I could leave. She didn't believe me when the number came to exactly 3000. She made me count them all again. FML [Link]
FMyLife » Irritated says FML
Today, I was sitting in a drive-thru with my girlfriend waiting for our food and the idiot behind me rear-ended me. I got out of the car to tell him he'd rear-ended me. He then argued with me, saying he "didn't feel it." FML [Link]
FMyLife » kdriver says FML
Today, I'm fostering a very shy cat who doesn't like to be held. I had to move the litter box to another room, but when I picked him up to show him where I'd moved it to, he peed on me. FML [Link]
GraphJam » Also, When I Realize I'm Out of Clean Towels
Graph by: Unknown Tagged: bathroom , Pie Chart , towel Share on Facebook
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Mental Floss » Morning Cup of Links: America's Worst Utopias
Great links for great people! [Link]
Weird Universe » Early Car Bomb and/or Guided Missile
Original article here.
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Fark.com RSS » List of weirdest town names by state–subby's moving to Booger Hole, West Virginia just for the lulz [Weird]
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Mental Floss » Strange Superstitions About 8 Everyday Insects From Around the World
The next time you go to squash a bug, perhaps it's worth pausing to consider if its very presence is trying to tell you something. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » "[T]he baby was born at sea aboard an operational unit." Wait, shouldn't that be "after boarding an operational unit?" [Awkward]
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FMyLife » CoolGuy69 says FML
Today, I studied all night for a big test. I ended up falling asleep on the bus ride there. I woke up in a different province. FML [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Ugly ass baby giraffe born at Abilene zoo. Aw who am I kidding, he's cute as a button [Spiffy]
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Mental Floss » A Brief History of One of the World's Rarest Plants
To our knowledge, there's only one remaining E. woodii specimen in the entire world. [Link]
Mental Floss » More Proof That Sewers Are Full of Medication-Laced Pee
And around colleges, they're filled with caffeine and nicotine to boot. [Link]
Futility Closet » Starting Over
On Dec. 24, 2010, Lori Erica Ruff shot herself to death with a shotgun in Longview, Texas. After her death, her ex-husband’s family discovered a lockbox in her home that revealed that in May 1988 she had stolen the identity of Becky Sue Turner, a 2-year-old girl who had died in a fire in 1971. She had then changed her … [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Five-year-old girl, impatient for her tooth to fall out, completes the process with a bow and arrow as her parents watch [Strange]
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Mental Floss » 8 Ways to Prepare for Your Job Interview
Presented by Allstate. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » NTSB finds that Southwest flight 3472 lost more than just a cowling [Followup]
[link] [104 comments] [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Ever wonder why purple Skittles taste different inside the United States? TLDR: blackcurrant berries are illegal [Silly]
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Mental Floss » 14 of the World’s Coolest Ice Bars
Chill out at one of these bars, where the drinks (and patrons) are always cold. [Link]
Mental Floss » Pokémon Go Players Have Walked More Than 2 Billion Miles
Pokémon Go Players have walked 2.8 billion miles, according to Niantic CEO John Hanke. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Photoshop this man and his pen [Photoshop]
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Mental Floss » Personalize Your Pastries With Embossed Rolling Pins
It's time to brand your cookie dough. [Link]
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