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 » Teen who posted threats on Instagram after his friend was arrested over gun at school joins said friend in jail cell [Florida]
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Mental Floss » Mars Missions May Cause Dementia-like Symptoms in Astronauts
In August 2016, astronauts Stephanie Wilson, Karen Nyberg, and Rick Mastracchio (L to R) conducted testing in a model of the Orion spacecraft at the Johnson Space Center to gather the crew's feedback on the design of the docking hatch and on post-landing equipment operations. Orion will eventually carry a crew to Mars. Image credit: NASA
An American space mission … [Link]
Mental Floss » The Next Step in Malaria Prevention May Be to Make People Taste Bad
Scientists say the brains of malaria-carrying mosquitoes combine smell and taste when considering who to bite. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Mmmmmm Leg of, Leg of, Leg of, Leg of, Leg of, Leg of Lamb [Awkward]
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Fark.com RSS » Newly discovered trove of documents and photos reveal t. s. elliot's views on detective fiction, poetry publishing, his 'dread' of the u. s., and why he never replaced his shift key [Spiffy]
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Fark.com RSS » Canada has a problem with softwood. I believe they have a pill for that nowadays [Misc]
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Fark.com RSS » Restaurant chain's "Grab her by the Taco" campaign ends badly [Fail]
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Fark.com RSS » Cruise missile fired at U.S. warship in Red Sea for second time in four days [News]
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Mental Floss » 10 Creative Halloween Candy Dispensers
Halloween candy dispensers can be simple or very complicated. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Teen installed a stripper pole and threw wild drug parties while dad stayed out in the shed [Strange]
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Fark.com RSS » Former Springfield nuclear power plant employee of the month almost murders a man [Scary]
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Mental Floss » Recharting Old Territory: Explore This New Interactive Exhibit of a 1507 World Map
The Library of Congress partnered with the Galileo Museum to create a comprehensive interactive exhibit, allowing the famous map to be viewed all over the world. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » After being blown up, beaten, tied up, and drug into the river, the Grigori Rasputin Memorial Bridge has finally come down [Followup]
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Mental Floss » The Most Popular TV Show in Each State
What show is your state loving the most this year? [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Campus preacher arrest for turning a student's other cheek…with his elbow [Dumbass]
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Fark.com RSS » What's your favorite line from a movie? [Silly]
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Futility Closet » A Long Swim
Just an oddity — in Nature, June 5, 1919, Cambridge zoologist John Stanley Gardiner notes that a Fiji harbormaster had informed him of a saltwater crocodile that had landed alive on Rotuma, 260 miles to the north and 600 miles east of the New Hebrides. “It certainly did not come from Fiji or any lands to the east, as crocodiles … [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Coming soon: Fallout 5 [Scary]
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Mental Floss » 7 Ways to Break Your Technology Addiction
Want to detach your phone from your hand? We promise this will only sting a little. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Yes officer, the drugs are mine, but I swear the guns belong to my 4 year old [Dumbass]
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Fark.com RSS » Photoshop this hand dancer [Photoshop]
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Fark.com RSS » Wife has to plead with her husband before he'd allow 20-year-old woman to join their bed. Yeah, how long did that take? [Unlikely]
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Mental Floss » Get Wednesday's Top 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, October 12. [Link]
Mental Floss » One-Word Pixar Clues
Take the quiz! [Link]
Mental Floss » Why Do We Call General Knowledge “Trivia”?
Pull apart the word "trivia," and you’ll be left with two fairly familiar Latin roots. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » British town council meeting comes to a screeching halt after one politician accuses another of wearing "intimidating trousers" [Strange]
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Mental Floss » 'Doctor Who' is Getting the 'Mr. Men' Treatment
How perfectly British. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Flight attendants: "Beverage service will be put on hold since we have a dead passenger in the aisle" [Awkward]
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Fark.com RSS » In shocking turn of events, 30-year-old teacher teams up with 18-year-old sophomore to steal beer, get high, and absolutely nothing else [Unlikely]
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Fark.com RSS » 45-year-old bookstore known for its radical left-wing politics to shut down in San Francisco due to sky-high rent [Ironic]
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Fark.com RSS » Dispelling reports that Britain's currency is next to useless, someone has discovered you can play records with the new fiver [Silly]
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Fark.com RSS » The three most dangerous cars in America. "The Forenza received the lowest possible rating for its side impact crash safety, citing a high likelihood of pelvic fracture to the driver and brain injury to the passenger" [Scary]
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Fark.com RSS » Remote village on the north-west coast of Alaska is being terrorised by walruses [Scary]
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Fark.com RSS » ♪♫We all live in a LEGO submarine♪♫ [Amusing]
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Fark.com RSS » "Thrown in jail and left to rot" is usually just a figure of speech [Sick]
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Fark.com RSS » Fark Store Daily Deal: BULLET 2.0 Bluetooth stereo earbuds and charging case. Oh wow my cats are going to love these… (Sponsored Link) [Plug]
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Mental Floss » Ronald McDonald Is Keeping a Low Profile Amidst Creepy Clown Sightings
Anti-clown sentiment has put the McDonald's spokesman on the bench. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » FBI investigating a plane deliberately crashed in East Hartford CT that killed one person. It may have been targeting a Pratt & Whitney jet engine plant [Scary]
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Fark.com RSS » The reason baristas write your name on your cup is to guilt your ass into recycling it when you're done [Obvious]
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Fark.com RSS » Let's re-gender the New York City Subway map and see if anybody notices [Interesting]
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Mental Floss » Introducing 'Fantastic Beasts'-Inspired Twitter Emojis
Celebrate your love for the Harry Potter spin-off on social media. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Australian city bans porn and asks its residents to promise not to watch it [Unlikely]
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Fark.com RSS » So you and your friends are planning to run up to Canada next year for your 21st birthday and celebrate with some legal marijuana, are you? Subby suggests that you hold off on making your reservations for now [Interesting]
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Mental Floss » 5 Questions: George Harrison
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Fark.com RSS » There once was a man on Fark, who started this thread on a lark, though he was mad, and probably a 'lil sad, there's now a writer's thread of snark. THIS is your Fark Writer's Thread [CSB]
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Fark.com RSS » Onboard GPS data shows city school bus drivers routinely speed. Schools Chief Operating Officer admits no one looked at the data until a TV station asked for and analyzed it [Asinine]
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Mental Floss » 13 Running Facts About ‘The Fugitive’
As befits a movie with an unnecessarily complicated plot, the behind-the-scenes story of the 1993 blockbuster is just as twisty. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Fark-ready headline: "Ronald McDonald forced to keep low profile amid 'creepy clown' epidemic" [Murica]
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Weird Universe » Don’t guess about your future… Analagraph it!
The Mutual Benefit Life Insurance Company marketed its electronic analagraph service from the late 1930s to the 1970s. They described it as "a scientific device that lets you chart the family and its retirement needs." They even had an "analagraph school" in Newark, New Jersey where their employees would be sent to get trained as analagraphers.
More recently, Electronic Development … [Link]
Overheard In The Office » 4PM Call Client (Again!)
Co-worker #1: Are you okay?
Co-worker #2: I’m okay. But if I could slap people through the phone, others wouldn’t be okay. 515 North State Street
Chicago, Illinois Overheard by: Peter Gibbons [Link]
Mental Floss » Egypt Welcomes Its First Solar-Powered Village
The sandstone structures blend seamlessly with the surrounding desert. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » **ring ring** "Hello?" "Is your refrigerator running?" "Why yes it is." "Then you better go catch it before it falls on top of somebody outside a New Jersey deli [Strange]
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Fark.com RSS » Photoshop what lurks in this creepy tunnel [Photoshop]
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Fark.com RSS » One of the DNC hacked emails was a question regarding why one has to add broth slowly to risotto rather than all at once. "Why can't you just add one or two cups of stock at a time b/c the arborio rice will eventually absorb it anyway, right?
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Weird Universe » Polka Dotted Poliwampus
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Fark.com RSS » Airplanes: Not as gross as you might think, but still pretty gross [Sick]
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Fark.com RSS » Louisiana stops marrying immigrants because they lost the war on same sex marriage [Murica]
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Mental Floss » George Harrison
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Fark.com RSS » Oh nothing, just China shipping a nuclear reactor to the South China Sea. Happens every day, ya know [Interesting]
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Mental Floss » Show Off Your Country Pride With These Foodie Maps
For lovers of food, typography, and travel. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » San Antonio police officers: These Trump hats go great with our uniforms. Police Chief: They also pair well with disciplinary hearings [Obvious]
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FMyLife » lululand315 says FML
Today, I was threatened with eviction over $6.25. They waited three days to tell me and left me one business day to get it done. Six fucking dollars and 25 goddamn cents. FML [Link]
Mental Floss » Morning Cup of Links: The Rise of Pokemon
We have links for everyone! [Link]
GraphJam » I Just Wanna Party Like a Rockstar
Graph by: VivaLaAmber Tagged: band , infographic , rock star , rockstar , Statistics Share on Facebook
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GraphJam » Silly Rapper!
The pie chart says it all. Graph by: AttackOfMEME Tagged: lil wayne , money , Music , Pie Chart , rap Share on Facebook
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GraphJam » I Don't Want to Live on this Planet Anymore
Graph by: Ventilator Tagged: Bar Graph , gaga , hitler , i-dont-want-to-live-on-t , the biebs , the internets , whatdoestheinternetthink Share on Facebook
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Futility Closet » Pow!
Cartoon laws of physics: Any body suspended in space will remain in space until made aware of its situation. Daffy Duck steps off a cliff, expecting further pastureland. He loiters in midair, soliloquizing flippantly, until he chances to look down. At this point, the familiar principle of 32 feet per second per second takes over. Any body in motion will … [Link]
Fark.com RSS » 73-year-old sues four grown children for failing to care for her, demands alimony. "For the purpose of spreading legal knowledge, the circuit court decided to hear the case on a piece of open farmland. The event attracted nearly 100 spectators
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Mental Floss » Cold Seltzer Quenches Thirst Best, According to a New Study
People needed less water to satisfy their thirst when it was cold and carbonated compared to warm, still, or sweet water. [Link]
Mental Floss » 7 Things You'll Need to Pack Before You Hunt the Yeti
Presented by Travel Channel. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » This is my rifle. There are many like it, but this one is mine. It is my life. I must master it as- *BANG* OWW…DAMN YOU RIFLE [Dumbass]
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Fark.com RSS » If a nutjob is in your yard stabbing your inflatable sports mascot, maybe you shouldn't just walk out and confront him [PSA]
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Fark.com RSS » Poor quality housing in China results in death of the poor. Logical when you think of it [Sad]
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Fark.com RSS » When a girl Porsche driver races her boyfriend in a Lamborghini, the loser's the Buick driver he hits head-on [Florida]
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Fark.com RSS » "One of the most annoying myths about news gathering and reporting comes from the guy waving his cellphone at you and saying, "I don't read newspapers. I get all my news from Twitter.' No you don't. Social media reacts to news, th
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Fark.com RSS » To really live up to your reputation as Britain's worst railway, you have to make conditions so bad that frustrated passengers start fighting one another instead of your staff [Scary]
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Fark.com RSS » Person of Walmart became people of Walmart while waiting to check out [Misc]
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Fark.com RSS » What do Spice, Killer Smeg, and Spongebob have in common? [Stupid]
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Fark.com RSS » Baptist church in Texas gets mad at them eevil craft beer drinkers, buys ad in local paper proclaiming "Craft Beer Is The Devil's Craft." Taprooms now accepting it as dollar-off coupon [Amusing]
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Fark.com RSS » Michael J Fox claims a seventh victim [Dumbass]
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Fark.com RSS » You're doing it wro… no, wait… that's actually right. Thanks, mate [Amusing]
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Fark.com RSS » Navy sailor who was far from ship-shape arrested after his upside-down car nearly hit a child's bedroom: "I just looked out the window. I'm like, 'Oh, there's a car on my door'" [Dumbass]
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Fark.com RSS » Even in the UK, where the cops don't normally carry guns, if you point a crossbow at one, a cop is going to shoot you [Obvious]
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Fark.com RSS » 12-year-old boy doesn't want to go to school so he A: Fakes being sick? B: Intentionally misses the bus? or C: Shoots his mother? [Scary]
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Fark.com RSS » It is better to be a girl in Kazakhstan than in the US. Very nice [Fail]
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Fark.com RSS » It's the Great Pineapple, Charlie Brown [Strange]
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Fark.com RSS » Russian prostitute who claimed Eliot Spitzer raped her has been arrested for blackmail by NYPD [Followup]
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Mental Floss » The Answer Begins With 'S'
Take the quiz! [Link]
Fark.com RSS » So it turns out that the U.S. Navy wasn't quite as passive during the attack on the USS Mason as was initially thought [Followup]
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Fark.com RSS » Airbus upset with Poland for backing out of helicopter purchase, presumably due to lack of ejection seats [Interesting]
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Fark.com RSS » Demolition crews attempt to bring down bridge, bridge has other ideas [Awkward]
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Fark.com RSS » If you are reading this…… I am dead [Cool]
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Fark.com RSS » Thankfully there was a good (and drunk) guy with a gun there to stop that zombie [Stupid]
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Mental Floss » 5 Surprising Facts About Swearing
A new book by cognitive psychologist Benjamin K. Bergen delves into the profane side of language to reveal a host of interesting and entertaining things you might not realize about our relationship with naughty words. [Link]
Mental Floss » One Trick for Starting Off On the Right Foot With a New Boss
Remember, your new boss has a lot of catching up to do. [Link]
Mental Floss » Researchers Reclassify Itsy-Bitsy, Prehistoric 'Beardogs'
Two specimens of the Chihuahua-sized animals have just rearranged the branches of the carnivore family tree. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Daycare worker in trouble for trying to film a live version of South Park [Dumbass]
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Fark.com RSS » Photoshop these healthy drinks [Photoshop]
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Fark.com RSS » "We should scrap sex education and just make schoolchildren watch pornography in the classroom" [Obvious]
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