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 » What's worse than waiting until the last day to do an assignment? Coming home drunk and then remembering it's due in a few hours [Awkward]
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Fark.com RSS » Don't bring a milk crate to a knife fight [Dumbass]
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Fark.com RSS » When all else fails it's time to bean bag the moose [Interesting]
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Mental Floss » How You Can Use Your Long Commute to Your Advantage
Use the time to focus on your professional goals. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Thieves snatch 100 pairs of underwear from Victoria's Secret [Giggity]
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Fark.com RSS » Prison decides inmates' own writing is too dangerous for him to read [Facepalm]
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Mental Floss » 15 Royal Facts About 'The Fisher King'
Studio note: Robin Williams is too hairy. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Lawyer arrested after forcing two female inmates to have sex while in jail. Police grew suspicious when conference room lights were off, lit by candlelight instead [Florida]
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Fark.com RSS » The great thing about the Dollar store, is you don't have come down off your heroin high like you do at Walmart [Sad]
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Mental Floss » See Literary Figures Rendered in Byzantine Icon Style
What would Walt Whitman look like as a religious figure? [Link]
Mental Floss » Conservationist Recruits RC Cars to Protect the Desert Tortoise
Each "Guardian Angel" rover can be controlled from the web. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Six-year-old appeals for Obama's help in his human trafficking scheme [Sappy]
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Fark.com RSS » Cop racially profiles black teen coming home from his job in an industrial park, tosses him in back of squad car, and stereotypes him as too poor and black to afford his own bike [Murica]
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Mental Floss » Scientists Decipher Charred Biblical Scroll Using 'Virtual Unwrapping'
The scroll was reduced to charcoal 1400 years ago. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Anti-intellectual paranoia hits new low as two passengers are removed from a flight simply for writing on the plane [Dumbass]
[link] [69 comments] [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Is it time to leave Seattle? Absolutely yes: the weather is horrible, the traffic is worse, the people are icy, and you would be much happier in California, I guarantee [Amusing]
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Fark.com RSS » Fark Food Thread: Here comes the harvest and pumpkin spice everything. Don't be late to the party.. Share your favorite fall favorites and other tasty recipes that welcome the new season [Interesting]
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Fark.com RSS » Tulsa DA files first degree manslaughter charges against police officer who shot Terence Cruther [News]
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Mental Floss » 9 Amazing Statues You Can Only See Underwater
Across the world statues have been sunk into the oceans for a variety of reasons—as memorials, to offer protection to a fragile marine environment, or simply as beautiful art. [Link]
Mental Floss » Image Test
Low Res: [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Have a dented car door? You could always fix it … or call an artist to paint a real cool mural over it [Cool]
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Fark.com RSS » Police cameras may not be a panacea, but they certainly do help bring bad cops to justice sometimes. Like, say, when the video appears to show a St. Louis cop, now charged with murder, planting a "drop gun" on the suspect he'd just shot [
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Mental Floss » Better Change That Password: Yahoo Confirms Hack of Over 500 Million Accounts
The company confirmed a hack has affected hundreds of millions of accounts. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » This Is the Iceman's Voice, Ötzi broke his silence with a deep male voice after 5,300 years [Interesting]
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Fark.com RSS » Da Chicago accent is dying. GOOD [Spiffy]
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Futility Closet » Unquote
Image: Wikimedia Commons “It is odd that the skeleton of a house is cheerful when the skeleton of a man is mournful, since we only see it after the man is destroyed. … There is something strangely primary and poetic about the sight of the scaffolding and main lines of a human building; it is a pity there is no scaffolding … [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Photoshop this young lady's trash can [Photoshop]
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Mental Floss » Up for Auction: A Gilded Age Mansion With a Storied Past
Wyndclyffe Castle in Rhinebeck, New York, is said to have inspired the phrase "keeping up with the Joneses." [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Collegian, 21, charged with criminal possession of an avocado [Amusing]
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Fark.com RSS » Charlotte police chief confirms that the video of Keith Lamont Scott's shooting shows no gun in his hands [Followup]
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Fark.com RSS » Mysterious illness overcomes 11 students at Fort Rucker Elementary School after exercise during recess. Could it have been … playing outdoors? [Obvious]
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Fark.com RSS » Bomb threat shuts down all schools in remote Canadian territory of Nunavut. School reports that its student is disappointed [Dumbass]
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Mental Floss » If You Want to Stay in a 5-Star Hotel for Cheap, Go to Reno
A new survey finds that the Nevada city is the cheapest place to get a luxury hotel room in the U.S. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » The 'God told me to' legal defense rarely works when you set fire to your mom's house [Unlikely]
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Fark.com RSS » The 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that you can discriminate against Rastafarians in the workplace [Interesting]
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Fark.com RSS » Reporter goes a whole week without jackin' it. Let's just say it was not a pleasurable experience [Obvious]
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Mental Floss » Solved: The Mystery of Identity Thief Lori Erica Ruff
A six-year cold case was just cracked by a former nuclear physicist. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » After someone mashed up "Short Shorts" and "Boot to the Head" in Turkey, women are now performing their own version of "Legs" [Followup]
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Fark.com RSS » Canadian man fights off bear attack with a wine bottle. Try that with your fancy boxed wines, you hosers [Unlikely]
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Mental Floss » 7 Things Your Homeowners Insurance Likely Doesn't Cover
Should the unexpected happen, you want to make sure you know what's covered—and what's not. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Police arrest man pretending to be cop, demanding women provide ID, get into his vehicle. Never mind rolls of plastic painter's drop cloth, shoe guards, clear plastic poncho in back seat [Florida]
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Fark.com RSS » Joan of Arc's sword missing, search centered on San Dimas Mall [Strange]
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Mental Floss » You Can Turn Your Deleted Food Photos Into Real Meals for the Hungry
Clean out your Instagram library for a good cause. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Fark Store Daily Deal: Handy cleaning service, 50% discount. Misogynistic joke deleted here. (Sponsored Link) [Plug]
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Fark.com RSS » "The seagulls are huge, they were fully grown adults and they just swooped down and attacked. It could have had my eye out. It was horrible. I was too scared to go outside of my house for three days" [Scary]
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Mental Floss » Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan Commit $3 Billion to Eradicating Disease
Physician, educator, and philanthropist Priscilla Chan and her husband, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, have announced a wildly ambitious $3 billion plan to “eliminate, cure, or prevent disease” by the end of this century. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » You can make your people live under sanctions and listen to a de facto dictator, but if you block Pornhub you're going to have a problem [Giggity]
[link] [41 comments] [Link]
Mental Floss » Bill Murray Has Launched His Own Golf Clothing Line
The actor wants to make the sport a little less stuffy. [Link]
Mental Floss » A Yahoo Hack Could Affect Hundreds of Millions of Users
The company is due to confirm a 2012 hack affecting hundreds of millions of accounts. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » New Yorkers are more afraid of bedbugs and roaches than ISIS [Obvious]
[link] [65 comments] [Link]
Mental Floss » The Self-Building Concrete Block System Anyone Can Use
This clever puzzle system could help solve low-income housing challenges in Mexico. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Sheriff's department arrests kid for exposing teacher to chalk. Deadly, deadly chalk [Asinine]
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Mental Floss » 6 Movies That Ruined Their Studios
George Lucas's first post-'Star Wars' movie was one of two films that signaled the end for one studio. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Tiangong, when the satellite fell [Repeat]
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Mental Floss » Netflix Knows Exactly When You Got Hooked on 'Stranger Things'
You probably didn't start really binging until episode two. [Link]
Mental Floss » Out of This World: An Oral History of 'ALF'
He was invited to the White House. He sold $250 million in merchandise. And he nearly caused an actor to have a nervous breakdown on set. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » No, it's Becky [Interesting]
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Mental Floss » Grab Thursday's Best Amazon Deals While They Last
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 22. [Link]
Mental Floss » Activity Trackers May Not Help You Lose Weight, Study Finds
That wearable on your wrist might be less effective than previously believed. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » New York DMV figures out they can still charge parking tickets to license plates that they have destroyed. Previous owner would like a word [Asinine]
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Weird Universe » The Existentialist Hat
In 1948, the existentialist Parisian milliner Jean Barthet debuted the "existentialist hat" which was topped by a pair of floppy hands that were supposed to symbolize the hovering "hands of fate."
For some reason, Barthet's hat didn't capture the popular imagination as a symbol of existentialist angst in the same way as, for instance, Edvard Munch's The Scream did.
However, … [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Donald Trump criticizes police officer who shot and killed an unarmed man, unlike all the other times he supported cops for doing the same thing. That's a bold strategy, Cotton, let's see if it works [Ironic]
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Mental Floss » A Man Forged 31 Boarding Passes, Spent 18 Days at the Airport
Raejali Buntut missed his flight and decided to vacation in Singapore's Changi Airport. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » The Washington DC Capital beltway or a Mad Max dystopia? Why not both? [Scary]
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Overheard In The Office » Aren’t You Worried about Flooding?
Job interviewer: So, when exactly are you moving here?
Job interviewee: As soon as we find a place to live. We’re looking for an apartment or a condom. 602 West University Avenue
Urbana, Illinois [Link]
Mental Floss » The Origins of 25 Fall Traditions
When you stop to think about it, many of our autumnal traditions—like scooping out pumpkin guts, asking strangers for candy, and wandering aimlessly through cornfields—are pretty bizarre. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » There's something you'll never forget about those times when your grandma took you for a ride in her truck. Especially that time when she overdosed on heroin and drove up against a stack of propane tanks at the gas station [Sad]
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Mental Floss » Scientists Discover World's Oldest-Known Fishhooks in Okinawa, Japan
The hooks are about 23,000 years old. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » U.S. General says North Korea WILL build nuclear weapons that could reach the U.S., despite the fact that it's coming from a country where they're still working on getting electric power and indoor plumbing [Scary]
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Mental Floss » Art Exhibit in San Francisco Is Meant to Simulate Synesthesia
You can watch a VR video of the experience. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Just another day in Anchorage Alaska where police are chasing a bear through the city. Can we get Yakkity Sax please? [Misc]
[link] [31 comments] [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Photoshop these captive dinosaurs [Photoshop]
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Mental Floss » The 'Hamdog' is The Burger and Hot Dog Hybrid of Your Dreams
Now you don't have to pick just one. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Make America 28 Again [Fail]
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Mental Floss » 17 Books That You Should Drop Everything To Read Right Now
Let this list serve as a fall book club guide. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Charlotte protester homages North Carolina's rich wrestling history by piledriving CNN reporter on-camera [Scary]
[link] [340 comments] [Link]
Mental Floss » AI System Composes Beatles-Style Pop Song
Sony has released a pop song inspired by The Beatles created by an artificial intelligence system. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Beer keeps you hydrated, makes you happy and friendly, provides iron, and other things you need to keep telling yourself to avoid accepting the fact that you're a raging alcoholic [Interesting]
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Fark.com RSS » The new Ford GT prototype is so advanced its drivers can reach twice the posted speed limit in Colorado [Dumbass]
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Mental Floss » Why Computer Scientists Created a Database of 10,000 Torsos
It's unofficially called the Torso Computer Club. [Link]
Mental Floss » 5 Questions: Sparks
[Link]
Mental Floss » Bangkok's Unicorn Cafe Is Possibly the Most Magical Place on Earth
Pastel rainbows as far as the eye can see. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » When there's a lane closure there are always a few jerks who speed up and cut into the remaining lane. It turns out they're the ones merging correctly. "When people merge early, they create a more severe backup because they leave a lane u
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Fark.com RSS » Having a bunch of extra cops on high alert at the National Museum of African-American History grand opening should make everyone feel safer [Interesting]
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Weird Universe » Big Knob (Grange Fair) in Beaver (County)
Yes, here is a post for every twelve-year-old boy in WU's audience–even if you are fifty years old, or female.
Beaver County, PA, features a site named Big Knob.
They have an annual fair that looks like fun.
[Link]
Mental Floss » Morning Cup of Links: Operation Babylift
Great links for the first day of autumn! [Link]
FMyLife » ANON says FML
Today, I visited my Aunt in hospital. Another patient got jealous, so she threw a tantrum. She threw things at us, pulled her drip out, threw herself to the floor, screamed, pounded the floor with her fists and pissed herself. My aunt is still waiting for a new room, and the staff blame me. FML [Link]
FMyLife » Emyka says FML
Today, at my job of 2 months, I'd taken it upon myself to water the plants around the office every day since they all looked a little sad. My boss then asked why so many of the fake plants were getting mouldy. My co-workers had watched me water plastic plants for 2 months and nobody bothered to tell me. FML [Link]
Mental Floss » 10 Eye-Popping Facts About Mantis Shrimp
They have four times as many color-sensing photoreceptors as humans. [Link]
Mental Floss » Watch Musicians Play the 'Harry Potter' Theme on a Glass Goblet Harp
GlassDuo's version of "Hedwig's Theme" is an eerie homage to John Williams's original score. [Link]
Futility Closet » Resolution
In June 1918, frustrated novelist Sherwood Anderson sent this letter to his day job at a Chicago advertising agency: Dear Barton: You have a man in your employ that I have thought for a long time should be fired. I refer to Sherwood Anderson. He is a fellow of a good deal of ability but for a long time I … [Link]
FMyLife » swee t says FML
Today, I got a bill from my former attorney for the call he made to me begging me not to turn him in for stealing all my money and almost causing me lose my home. FML [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Montana man discovers what may be the world's largest and most magnificent elk. And kills it [Obvious]
[link] [139 comments] [Link]
Mental Floss » A Retired Teacher Built a Scale Map of China in His Backyard
Cai Mingxing used shrubs and tiles to create a masterpiece of terrestrial cartography. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Man mugged at an ATM returns minutes later and hits the robber with his car, takes his money back from out of the thief's pockets and leaves the bloodied suspect lying in the street. Behold the power of a Chevy Cobalt [Spiffy]
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Fark.com RSS » Siri, where am I? [Fail]
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Mental Floss » 11 Spooky Skull Products for Halloween
Get in the Halloween spirit. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Hull: It's better than you think [Unlikely]
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Fark.com RSS » Retired Marine, retired sheriff's deputy argue over who's first in line at elementary school drop-off. Hilarity ensues [Florida]
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FMyLife » nekal says FML
Today, I tried to sneakily leave my boyfriend's house at 3 a.m. without his parents knowing. I had a flat tire. FML [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Londoners wait in line for hours to get a taste of the old In-N-Out [Amusing]
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Fark.com RSS » The Boston Massacre of DuckBoats continues, as this year's 4th dramatic accident proves why roads are for cars and amphibious assault vehicles and sidewalks are for humans. Subbys friend was the driver [Amusing]
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Fark.com RSS » There's an affordable housing crisis in L.A. but this is ridiculous [Asinine]
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Fark.com RSS » Theme of Farktography Contest No. 594: "Talk Like a Pirate, Walk Like a Pirate". Details and rules in first post. LGT next week's theme [Farktography]
[link] [20 comments] [Link]
Mental Floss » The Autumn Equinox Happens on September 22
At least in the Northern Hemisphere. (In the Southern? Happy first day of spring!) [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Protester shot and critically wounded by another civilian in Charlotte. Three wounded including police transported to hospital. State of emergency has been declared [Scary]
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Fark.com RSS » Manatee-riding man talks smack to cops, arrested [Florida]
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Fark.com RSS » From the state that brought us such horrors as beanless chili and Rick Perry, behold the bizarre monstrosities that are Texas homecoming "mums" [Strange]
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Fark.com RSS » University of Missouri will let you put any name you want on your diploma; I. P. Freely, M. D [Weird]
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Fark.com RSS » Wedding party ends with fight over something called "leftover liquor." I know the individual words, but combined they make no sense at all [Dumbass]
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Fark.com RSS » Sure the ugly-assed baby elephant that was just born at the Dublin Zoo is god-awful ugly …but the real question is why are they born looking 90-years-old with wrinkles? [Silly]
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Fark.com RSS » A San Diego resident contracted Zika while traveling, the solution, spray down the entire neighborhood (but only after it stops raining) [Misc]
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Fark.com RSS » Bankrupt British soccer players increasingly becoming Catholic priests to dodge tax arrears (Not safe for work) [Weird]
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Fark.com RSS » St. Louis University's newly updated Billiken mascot looks like it came straight from the planet Venom [Strange]
[link] [14 comments] [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Man says he doesn't recall firing a gun in the air and kidnapping his ex, instead passed out and woke up next to police robot that he assumed was a bomb. Bonus dumbass for kidnap victim being given the gun and deciding best response is to sit on
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Fark.com RSS » SEC charges hedge manager with insider trader, could potentially suffer severe wrist slap if convicted [Dumbass]
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Fark.com RSS » White House science advisors: Those forensic techniques used to secure convictions may not be scientifically sound; maybe you should rethink using some of them. Attorney General Loretta Lynch: Go be smart somewhere else [Scary]
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Fark.com RSS » You know that you're a serious addict when your house is on fire and you choose to save your drugs over your dogs [Florida]
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Fark.com RSS » Texas: Okay, here's the $1.9 mil we agreed to to settle the Sandra Bland death thing. Lawyers: What about the other agreement we made? The one about retraining the police? Texas: Do what now? [Asinine]
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Fark.com RSS » Chelsea bomb journal recovered by police. DC Comics options screen rights [Interesting]
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Fark.com RSS » North Texas college student Tweeted after her dismembered body was found. Authorities are suspicious, but that's the least suspicious thing about this case [Stupid]
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Fark.com RSS » Cosmo designs a ladycar, "a place for impromptu karaoke performances, last-minute wardrobe changes, dramatic gossip sessions and emergency lunch-hour kips." What the fark is a kip? [Fail]
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Fark.com RSS » Florida man leads police on low speed chase [Florida]
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Mental Floss » Study Finds Harmful Compounds in Household Dust
Ninety percent of samples taken from homes, schools, and daycare centers contained dangerous chemicals. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Woman finds big ball of nope in her bathtub after illegal snake breeder moves out of downstairs apartment [Scary]
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Fark.com RSS » OK, sure, your job is bad. But is it "get a horse out of a septic tank" bad? With video of the various attempts and final success [Spiffy]
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Fark.com RSS » Two-headed calf on born farm named 'Lucky' Will eat twice as much and become veal twice as fast [Strange]
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Fark.com RSS » If you're drunk enough, your Costco card works as a driver's license, sure [Dumbass]
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Mental Floss » Why Don't Airlines Have Parachutes for Passengers?
Passengers aren't trained to use them, for starters. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Detroit Fire Department in trouble for making a light beer commercial [Giggity]
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Fark.com RSS » Photoshop theme: Greeting cards that don't exist, but should [Photoshop]
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Mental Floss » The Spiciest Chip in the World is Only Sold One at a Time
The serving size might seem skimpy, but it's a necessary precaution. [Link]
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