Whittle It a Little, It’ll Fit

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 » Months-long undercover drug sting nets 5 grams of weed, 2 pills. Congratulations, everyone. That should really put the squeeze on local dope heads [Facepalm]

Sunday 2 October 23:37:25 UTC 2016

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Fark.com RSS » New book reveals the common foods we're all mispronouncing the names of. Except for subby, who is the kind of food prat you don't ask for dinner twice [Advice]

Sunday 2 October 22:33:11 UTC 2016

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Fark.com RSS » Turns out you don't have to be crazy to be shot by police, but it certainly helps [Scary]

Sunday 2 October 22:09:47 UTC 2016

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Fark.com RSS » Syrian refugee terrorizes Canadian crisis, making it dusty in here. An' Coulter agrees [Sappy]

Sunday 2 October 21:38:18 UTC 2016

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Fark.com RSS » Denver police need money to get them through times of more dope more than they need dope to get them through times of no money [Facepalm]

Sunday 2 October 21:17:17 UTC 2016

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Mental Floss » ‘Gravity Sketch’ App Mixes Art and Virtual Reality

Sunday 2 October 21:00:00 UTC 2016

An appealing tool for animators, fashion designers, and ambitious doodlers. [Link]

Fark.com RSS » A Mustang with a douche at the wheel does what all Mustangs do with a douche at the wheel [Dumbass]

Sunday 2 October 20:47:12 UTC 2016

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Fark.com RSS » ♫ Smoke on the water, fire in the sky ♫ [Scary]

Sunday 2 October 20:25:09 UTC 2016

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Fark.com RSS » Photoshop this teeny tiny little house [Photoshop]

Sunday 2 October 20:00:01 UTC 2016

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Fark.com RSS » In other news, the UAE had a navy [Scary]

Sunday 2 October 19:54:29 UTC 2016

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Fark.com RSS » Two injured after e-cigarette explodes on the Hogwarts Express. Apparently, some muggle didn't get the memo that you can't use electronics around wizards [Florida]

Sunday 2 October 19:06:48 UTC 2016

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Fark.com RSS » Woman helps homeless man by giving him: A) a place to sleep. B) money to buy food. C) a gym membership [Strange]

Sunday 2 October 18:33:34 UTC 2016

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Fark.com RSS » "Mommy has a special place for that right here," didn't make the list [Interesting]

Sunday 2 October 17:47:44 UTC 2016

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Mental Floss » How Astronauts Put on Space Suits

Sunday 2 October 17:00:00 UTC 2016

It's a simple zillion-step process. [Link]

Mental Floss » Finish the Country Names

Sunday 2 October 16:45:32 UTC 2016

Take the quiz! [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Pull up a spewed on stool and have a sloppy drink inside Sammy's Bowery Follies, the scuzziest, greatest dive bar of all time [Cool]

Sunday 2 October 16:19:24 UTC 2016

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Fark.com RSS » Fark Store Daily Deal: Zoolz 1TB lifetime cloud storage. Difficulty: There is no Dana, only Zool. (Sponsored Link) [Plug]

Sunday 2 October 16:15:27 UTC 2016

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Mental Floss » This Week's Best Amazon Deals You Can Still Get

Sunday 2 October 16:00:00 UTC 2016

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]

FMyLife » anonymous says FML

Sunday 2 October 15:56:38 UTC 2016

Today, I was with my boyfriend. He got up, shut the blinds and turned around to say, "I don't usually shut the blinds, but no one can see this." Assuming we were going to have sex, I took my pants off. He asked me what I was doing, then sat down to eat an entire tub of ice cream. FML [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Possession of a dairy crate? That's an arresting [Florida]

Sunday 2 October 15:45:43 UTC 2016

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Fark.com RSS » Child born with mark of the devil's 4th cousin, once removed, on forehead [Strange]

Sunday 2 October 15:22:09 UTC 2016

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Fark.com RSS » When the title of a blog piece starts "This is not a humblebrag," you know that's exactly what it is. Now go and make your precious, non-McNugget-eating snowflakes some organic kale chips [Amusing]

Sunday 2 October 15:15:43 UTC 2016

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Fark.com RSS » Want to strike it rich? Here's your world map of seven treasure troves yet to be found. X marks the spot [Cool]

Sunday 2 October 14:43:51 UTC 2016

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Overheard In The Office » Bad Ideas Seem So Harmless in the Beginning

Sunday 2 October 13:45:37 UTC 2016

Drone #1: I wonder how many modifications it would take to convert an old Beetle to Darth Vader’s helmet?
Drone #2: Probably not too many. Metro Park
Alexandria, Virginia Overheard by: I want one. [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Hurricane warning issued for Jamaica, Haiti, Cuba as Matthew churns in Caribbean. "Florida still needs to remain alert," according to the National Hurricane Center [Scary]

Sunday 2 October 13:34:06 UTC 2016

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Fark.com RSS » Photoshop this shy octopus [Photoshop]

Sunday 2 October 13:00:01 UTC 2016

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Fark.com RSS » CSB Sunday Morning: Asking someone out [CSB]

Sunday 2 October 13:00:00 UTC 2016

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Mental Floss » Your Brain Knows You've Quenched Your Thirst Before Your Body Does

Sunday 2 October 12:57:32 UTC 2016

"Thirst neurons" activate when you drink, even though the liquid won't enter the blood for 10 to 20 minutes. [Link]

Weird Universe » Clark Metal Grave Vault

Sunday 2 October 12:57:13 UTC 2016

Rain protection for the dearly departed.

There’s deep consolation… serene through shower or heavy rain… for those who know the casket of a dear one is protected against water in the ground by a Clark Metal Grave Vault.

I found this ad reproduced in Marshall McLuhan's The Mechanical Bride (1951). He comments:

All that music, perfume, science, hygiene, and cosmetics … [Link]

Weird Universe » The Great Scottish Bingo Panic of 1958

Sunday 2 October 12:57:12 UTC 2016

Original article here.

Original text here. [Link]

Fark.com RSS » The definition of a good friend now includes lending your pants to a girl so she can take a school quiz [Amusing]

Sunday 2 October 12:48:42 UTC 2016

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Fark.com RSS » Nearly $30M in emergency aid needed to provide for 600,000 North Koreans in wake of typhoon. If only there were some way their leaders could have reduced other spending and be more able to respond to disasters [Obvious]

Sunday 2 October 12:03:14 UTC 2016

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Mental Floss » This Undersea Museum Helps Conserve Coral Life

Sunday 2 October 11:00:00 UTC 2016

The Museo Subacuático de Arte (MUSA) is a living art installation dedicated to environmental preservation. [Link]

FMyLife » scottyboy says FML

Sunday 2 October 10:46:33 UTC 2016

Today, I started packing up the flat I have been renting. As I took a picture off the wall I also ripped half the wallpaper. That's my deposit gone. FML [Link]

FMyLife » dukemisery says FML

Sunday 2 October 10:46:32 UTC 2016

Today, I was glad to find out that all the bedbugs have been eaten. Now I have a spider infestation. FML [Link]

FMyLife » DezyCoCo says FML

Sunday 2 October 10:46:31 UTC 2016

Today, I spent 2 hours organizing all of my coupons, just to leave out my room for 10 seconds to come back to my 2-year-old crumbling them up and ripping them. FML [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Awwwww… what could be cuter than watching a baby panda sleep? How about 23 of them sleeping with one faceplanting off the stage [Sappy]

Sunday 2 October 10:15:55 UTC 2016

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Fark.com RSS » This conveniently located, three-bedroom apartment comes with unbeatable rent and includes free cable, off-street parking, and a grandma [Spiffy]

Sunday 2 October 9:52:50 UTC 2016

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Mental Floss » Penn

Sunday 2 October 9:00:00 UTC 2016

"It's gonna get pretty loud in here." -Penn Jillette, before firing a .357 Magnum at Teller's mouth [Link]

Mental Floss » In Japan, You Can Sip Classy Cocktails in a Ball Pit

Sunday 2 October 7:00:00 UTC 2016

The Ball Pool Bar Dive is a wall-to-wall ball pit bar. [Link]

Futility Closet » Rotary Jails

Sunday 2 October 6:48:02 UTC 2016

Architect William H. Brown had a curious brainstorm in 1881 — a jail in which moving cells shared a single door: The object of our invention is to produce a jail or prison in which prisoners can be controlled without the necessity of personal contact between them and the jailer or guard. … [It] consists, first, of a circular cell … [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Roads are getting safer, and that's because there are more women drivers than there have ever been before [Obvious]

Sunday 2 October 6:19:23 UTC 2016

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Fark.com RSS » Firefighters rescue woman with her ass stuck in grocery cart [Dumbass]

Sunday 2 October 5:54:12 UTC 2016

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Mental Floss » Meet “The Iron Nun,” an 86-Year-Old Ironman Athlete

Sunday 2 October 5:00:00 UTC 2016

She competed in her first Iron Man at the age of 65. [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Coming up at the top of the hour it's Livingston Stapler Company Presents. Two hours of amazing music hosted live by a farker (9PM AKDT/10PM PT) [Live]

Sunday 2 October 4:57:01 UTC 2016

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Fark.com RSS » The endless debate. East vs. West. In-N-Out Burger vs. Shake Shack – who will win? [Interesting]

Sunday 2 October 3:07:43 UTC 2016

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Fark.com RSS » Instead of using a boot to immobilize a car for unpaid tickets, why not stick on a device that blocks the view through the windshield? What can go wrong? [Stupid]

Sunday 2 October 3:03:58 UTC 2016

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Mental Floss » Ricky Jay

Sunday 2 October 1:00:00 UTC 2016

"Ladies and gentlemen, may I introduce my 52 assistants?" -Ricky Jay, spreading a deck of cards. [Link]

John Gordon Ross

A Man for All Reasons