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 » The presidential race is heating up and October is full of surprises guaranteed to grab you right in the whatever as Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton face off Town Hall style in the second presidential debate, 9 PM ET on pretty much every major chann

Sunday 9 October 23:46:33 UTC 2016

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Fark.com RSS » Bad: Water pipe bursts in underground car park. Good: Expanding foam lifts cars out of water. Worse: And crushes them against roof [Strange]

Sunday 9 October 22:03:17 UTC 2016

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Fark.com RSS » "When you think about it, being on board an aircraft is really one of the only situations in which it's vaguely socially acceptable to day-drink by yourself. So people do" [Obvious]

Sunday 9 October 21:02:55 UTC 2016

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FMyLife » TomorrowMaybe says FML

Sunday 9 October 21:02:03 UTC 2016

Today, I got my new smartwatch that I ordered for myself on the promise that I would use it for tracking my new exercise routine. Instead, I used it for playing Pong whilst eating cake and drinking wine. FML [Link]

Fark.com RSS » As God as my witness, Arkansasians are a bunch of dumbasses [Followup]

Sunday 9 October 20:04:57 UTC 2016

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Mental Floss » Restaurant Serves Food Prepared by Grandmothers From Different Cultures

Sunday 9 October 20:02:48 UTC 2016

Because nothing beats Grandma's home cooking. [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Photoshop this mysterious gold object [Photoshop]

Sunday 9 October 20:00:01 UTC 2016

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Fark.com RSS » Head of anti-stalking charity charged with…. go on, guess [Dumbass]

Sunday 9 October 19:49:46 UTC 2016

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Fark.com RSS » You're not cool until your favorite cereal is Quisp. Understand this importance in life [Obvious]

Sunday 9 October 19:39:48 UTC 2016

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Fark.com RSS » Graffiti artists complain Detroit is no longer the graffiti capital of the world: "Detroit was considered by many to be the graffiti capital of the US, and perhaps the world-a vast playground where writers could paint undisturbed in broad dayligh

Sunday 9 October 19:31:42 UTC 2016

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Fark.com RSS » It is fall in Manhattan and the annual migration of the lox slicers is underway [Spiffy]

Sunday 9 October 17:33:38 UTC 2016

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Mental Floss » Visit California City, the Largest City Never Built

Sunday 9 October 16:47:56 UTC 2016

The third-largest California city by area only has 15,000 residents. [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Man explains apartment fire with perfectly logical explanation [Awkward]

Sunday 9 October 16:04:31 UTC 2016

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Fark.com RSS » That's a mighty expensive drink [Stupid]

Sunday 9 October 15:54:28 UTC 2016

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Fark.com RSS » What cuss words are most popular in your state? Here's a handy f*cking map [Amusing]

Sunday 9 October 15:39:37 UTC 2016

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Fark.com RSS » Report your under-aged daughter's sexts to the police? Congrats, you're on the sex offender register [Asinine]

Sunday 9 October 14:53:32 UTC 2016

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Fark.com RSS » Hurricane Matthew may have just eradicated Zika from Florida, so think positive, I guess [Florida]

Sunday 9 October 14:51:41 UTC 2016

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Overheard In The Office » She Appeared to Me in a Vision and Said “Try the Other Hole”

Sunday 9 October 14:20:04 UTC 2016

Boss: Jamie Lynn Spears?
Worker: No! Jamie Lynn DiScala. Meadow from The Sopranos.
Boss: Omg, I saw her when I was getting pregnant! Park Ave
New York City, New York [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Don't want your neighbor's house to look like a football stadium? Sue 'em [Murica]

Sunday 9 October 13:23:34 UTC 2016

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Fark.com RSS » Photoshop Michelle Obama's new armrest [Photoshop]

Sunday 9 October 13:00:01 UTC 2016

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Fark.com RSS » CSB Sunday Morning: I'm never drinking again [CSB]

Sunday 9 October 13:00:00 UTC 2016

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Weird Universe » Earrings on a deer

Sunday 9 October 12:58:05 UTC 2016

Bettie Phillips' fifteen minutes of fame involved her decision to put earrings on a baby deer. It happened back in 1997 when she found a two-month-old deer stranded by the side of a road and "thought it would be pretty" if it had earrings. So she pierced its ears by hand, pushing the posts of two earrings through its ears. … [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Forget the steak for now, your dog wants pot [Interesting]

Sunday 9 October 11:18:16 UTC 2016

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Weird Universe » Styled in California

Sunday 9 October 11:17:00 UTC 2016

My personal choice is the pants with different-colored legs worn by the young lad.

Can you say "sunburst terry twosome" three times fast? [Link]

Mental Floss » What the Donald Trump Caterpillar Teaches Us About Animal Survival

Sunday 9 October 11:00:00 UTC 2016

That long, luscious-looking orange hair serves a purpose. [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Woman throws a party after taking her faithful companion to get neutered [Amusing]

Sunday 9 October 10:03:10 UTC 2016

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Mental Floss » Can You Solve the Prisoner Boxes Riddle?

Sunday 9 October 9:00:00 UTC 2016

This one's a stumper. [Link]

Fark.com RSS » The Coast Guard just rescued five fishermen from a sinking boat, including the dyslexic fisherman who like to fish for crap [Scary]

Sunday 9 October 8:00:00 UTC 2016

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Futility Closet » For Short

Sunday 9 October 7:59:10 UTC 2016

Telegraph companies generally charged by the length of a message, so enterprising customers started using codes in place of common phrases. Here are some sample codes, from the ABC Universal Commercial Electric Telegraphic Code of 1901: Nalezing – Do only what is absolutely necessary
Nalime – Will only do what is absolutely necessary
Nallary – It is not absolutely necessary, … [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Due to car trouble our host isn't in the studio tonight, but for your listening enjoyment here is an archived Livingston Stapler Company Presents show from September 28, 2014 [Spiffy]

Sunday 9 October 4:01:12 UTC 2016

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John Gordon Ross

A Man for All Reasons