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 » Surely the admins won't green light a story about green lights [Interesting]

Saturday 15 October 23:24:20 UTC 2016

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Mental Floss » 15 Mummies You Can See Around the World

Saturday 15 October 23:15:00 UTC 2016

This list is for the more macabre among you. [Link]

Fark.com RSS » "Hello, police? Yes, I'd like to report my wife for raising our kids vegetarian" [Facepalm]

Saturday 15 October 22:22:56 UTC 2016

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Mental Floss » 15 Actors Who Refuse to Watch Their Own Movies

Saturday 15 October 22:15:00 UTC 2016

Turns out seeing yourself projected on a 40-foot-tall screen can be kind of awkward. [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Drug, alcohol, fark admin appointments on the rise for 7th graders [Obvious]

Saturday 15 October 21:41:56 UTC 2016

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Fark.com RSS » Stupid science continues to make dinosaurs more lame every day [Interesting]

Saturday 15 October 21:31:56 UTC 2016

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Fark.com RSS » US in top 10 of empathy. That's good. Empathy is not necessarily a good thing. That's bad. Saudi Arabia also high in empathy. That's good. No, wait, bad. No, good. Subby gives up. That's good, trust me [Murica]

Saturday 15 October 20:49:56 UTC 2016

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Fark.com RSS » Because young adults today aren't already infantilized enough, now chiropractors are recommending they start crawling for exercise. "It's the new planking" [Stupid]

Saturday 15 October 20:17:40 UTC 2016

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Mental Floss » 15 Places You Can Visit to Celebrate the Life and Work of William Shakespeare

Saturday 15 October 20:15:00 UTC 2016

Wherefore art thou Bill? [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Photoshop Theme: If minifigs ruled the world [Photoshop]

Saturday 15 October 20:00:01 UTC 2016

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Fark.com RSS » Town in Italy now has a wine fountain where people can get free wine at all hours of the day. FARK PARTY [Cool]

Saturday 15 October 19:32:56 UTC 2016

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Mental Floss » 15 Swinging Facts About Léon Foucault (and His Pendulum)

Saturday 15 October 19:15:00 UTC 2016

7. He was chummy with Napoleon III. [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Alcohol-free cocktail you'll want to try, maybe like next time you're approving the fark queue [Interesting]

Saturday 15 October 19:12:56 UTC 2016

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Fark.com RSS » Your chances of getting a green light today are great with drunk admins in play [Amusing]

Saturday 15 October 19:09:39 UTC 2016

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Fark.com RSS » Faith can move mountains, but it'll take a lot more than that for Norway to move one to Finland, thank you very much [Interesting]

Saturday 15 October 18:39:08 UTC 2016

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Mental Floss » 15 Facts About Elections Around the World

Saturday 15 October 18:15:00 UTC 2016

Presented by GEICO. [Link]

Mental Floss » Get in the Halloween Spirit With a 1970s Kids’ Book on Ghosts

Saturday 15 October 18:00:00 UTC 2016

For anyone who's ever "shivered at shadowy figures in the dark, heard strange sounds in the night, or felt the 'presence' of something mysterious." [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Disabled Marine stands guard for three days over downed power line along popular path, warning neighbors, kids of live wire arcing in standing water. "I just perched there with water and Gatorade" [Spiffy]

Saturday 15 October 17:56:38 UTC 2016

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Fark.com RSS » Where to ride out World War III [Interesting]

Saturday 15 October 17:06:13 UTC 2016

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Mental Floss » 15 Cookies from Around the World to Try This Cookie Month

Saturday 15 October 16:15:00 UTC 2016

Presented by GEICO. [Link]

Fark.com RSS » The secret to a healthy life? Eat more chocolate [Spiffy]

Saturday 15 October 16:14:17 UTC 2016

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Fark.com RSS » Don't rock the plane (rock the plane), don't tip the plane over (rock the plane), don't rock the plane baby [Scary]

Saturday 15 October 15:16:31 UTC 2016

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Mental Floss » 15 Strategic Reserves of Unusual Products

Saturday 15 October 15:15:00 UTC 2016

While many countries keep stockpiles of the obvious things, like petroleum or gold, you might be surprised to hear what others have been collecting in their federal reserves—and why. [Link]

Mental Floss » Get the Weekend's Best Amazon Deals While You Can

Saturday 15 October 15:00:00 UTC 2016

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 15. [Link]

Weird Universe » Blue Jean TV

Saturday 15 October 14:42:00 UTC 2016

In the 1970s, it was widely believed that any product could be improved by adding denim to it. One example of this, already featured on WU, was the AMC Gremlin "Levi" Edition — an economy car upholstered with Levi jeans. It debuted in the early 70s.

Another example is the Zenith "Sidekick" Blue Jean TV, which hit the market in … [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Sorry men but apparently women would rather cuddle with their smartphones more so than you [Interesting]

Saturday 15 October 14:32:40 UTC 2016

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Mental Floss » 15 Twisted Facts About Rubik's Cube

Saturday 15 October 14:15:00 UTC 2016

The yellow squares were once considered a serious health risk. [Link]

Fark.com RSS » The Saturday Morning Book Club wants to know what was the strangest book you've ever read, and what made it so strange to you [Strange]

Saturday 15 October 14:00:00 UTC 2016

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Mental Floss » 9 Great Bosses Worth Working Overtime For

Saturday 15 October 14:00:00 UTC 2016

These top brass actually deserve that "World's Best Boss" coffee mug. [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Normally I make the Roomba do its business outside. Today, I left the bathroom door open and I found a huge mess. Apparently, the Roomba got the TP stuck to it and now I have 300 feet of TP throughout the house. How does your Roomba ruin your day? [F

Saturday 15 October 13:33:33 UTC 2016

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Fark.com RSS » Having the exact same name as another patient in the hospital is something to laugh about. Unless a surgeon mistakenly removes your kidney instead of theirs [Fail]

Saturday 15 October 12:57:40 UTC 2016

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Futility Closet » Climbing Chains

Saturday 15 October 12:22:33 UTC 2016

Princeton mathematician John Horton Conway investigated this curious permutation: 3n ↔ 2n 3n ± 1 ↔ 4n ± 1 It’s a simple set of rules for creating a sequence of numbers. In the words of University of Calgary mathematician Richard Guy, “Forwards: if it divides by 3, take off a third; if it doesn’t, add a third (to the nearest … [Link]

Mental Floss » 15 Incredible Moments in the History of Facial Hair

Saturday 15 October 12:15:00 UTC 2016

Presented by GEICO. [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Woman confined to a hospice had only one wish – to snuggle a kitten. So the local SPCA brought her a whole basket full of kittens, which turns out to be just what the doctor ordered on Caturday [Caturday]

Saturday 15 October 12:00:00 UTC 2016

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Fark.com RSS » Today's Fark ready headline: "Troopers: Man on LSD saves dog from imaginary fire" [Amusing]

Saturday 15 October 11:56:47 UTC 2016

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Fark.com RSS » In 1965, woman buys plaid dress for her daughter for picture day at school. Since then, every girl in the extended family has worn that same plaid dress on picture day. One day, they plan on washing it [Cool]

Saturday 15 October 10:55:50 UTC 2016

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Mental Floss » 15 of the Longest-Running Scientific Studies in History

Saturday 15 October 10:15:00 UTC 2016

Some experiments require time. Lots of time. [Link]

Mental Floss » A Brief History of Pencil-Making

Saturday 15 October 10:00:00 UTC 2016

Henry David Thoreau changed writing forever, and not just by hanging out by Walden Pond. [Link]

FMyLife » car trouble says FML

Saturday 15 October 8:32:10 UTC 2016

Today, my dad refused to pick me up because he didn't want to get off the couch, so I had to walk for an hour and a half to get home. When I finally got home, my dad had gone out to pick my sister up from her friend's house. Her friend lives a 3-minute walk away. FML [Link]

The original is in the first video at the 3:40 mark.

Here's the guy, now revealed to be Bill Clement, still stuck in the tent fifteen years later.

But most recently, he (or a younger … [Link]

Mental Floss » 15 Examples of the Most Dramatic Metamorphoses from Youth to Adult

Saturday 15 October 6:15:00 UTC 2016

There are many animals besides butterflies that undergo dramatic transformations from youth to adult. [Link]

Fark.com RSS » "Jesus Christ, I drunkenly applied for my student card and it asked for a photo, so I picked one with a Snapchat filter. Why did they accept this? I can never use this as ID" [Dumbass]

Saturday 15 October 6:01:39 UTC 2016

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Fark.com RSS » The US is considering a cyber attack to 'embarrass' Russia over alleged hacking of the DNC – they announced at 5pm Friday [Weird]

Saturday 15 October 2:51:26 UTC 2016

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Fark.com RSS » Having a hipster beard and moonwalking through a convenience store probably won't get your name and picture in the paper. Doing it with heroin in your pocket will [Dumbass]

Saturday 15 October 2:50:05 UTC 2016

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Fark.com RSS » Electric cars could be given priority at traffic lights, because people who have enough money to buy Teslas sure don't care to spend time sitting in traffic behind your crappy Kia [Asinine]

Saturday 15 October 2:47:26 UTC 2016

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Fark.com RSS » How do you protect political lawn signs from being stolen? One person uses dog waste but that is putting on top of [Amusing]

Saturday 15 October 2:36:19 UTC 2016

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Fark.com RSS » Company unveils meatless burger that bleeds like beef [Creepy]

Saturday 15 October 2:10:03 UTC 2016

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Fark.com RSS » Delta Flight Attendant: "Is there a doctor on the plane?" Woman: "I'm a doctor." Attendant: "But, you're black?" [Facepalm]

Saturday 15 October 1:46:48 UTC 2016

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John Gordon Ross

A Man for All Reasons