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.”
Mental Floss » Secret Red Dwarf Theme Tune Lyrics Discovered After 27 Years
by James Hunt, Mental Floss UK Sci-fi sitcom Red Dwarf is one of the UK's most well-loved TV shows, with a cult fanbase that has kept it alive in some form or another for no fewer than 28 years. The show's 11th season has just aired with a 12th due in 2017 – so it's with some surprise that we … [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Old and busted: Drunk ignores flashing lights and hits squad car at accident scene. New hotness: Drunk hits helicopter at accident scene [Fail]
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Fark.com RSS » You know what else your caffeine addiction is good for? Growing a tree to help save the planet [Spiffy]
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Fark.com RSS » Photoshop this proud record holder [Photoshop]
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Mental Floss » Watch an Artist Prepare Tiny Versions of Airline Meals
Singapore Airlines is hopping on the tiny food video trend. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Worst hotel in Australia up for sale. This "festering flophouse" comes with drug dealers, murders and shirtless guests yelling abuse at passers-by while throwing buckets of water at them: "You'd be better off sleeping on a tram" [
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Fark.com RSS » Hacker calls himself "The Jester"; takes down Russian Foreign Affairs website. The FBI, apparently having never seen Batman, calls him "the Batman of the internet" [Fail]
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Fark.com RSS » Store owner displays 'No Clowns Allowed' sign. Naturally, some clowns have a problem with this [Silly]
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Fark.com RSS » How burglar-proof is your place? Why not hire a reformed burglar to test it out? "It took him just three minutes to break into my house" [Amusing]
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Fark.com RSS » Police break into hot car in Suffolk to rescue child inside, surprising owner of car most of all: "I get a call from the police, and I don't have a baby so I'm like, 'Where'd the child come from? Who put the child in my car?'&
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Mental Floss » Watch This Groovy 1960s Tupperware Documentary/Infomercial
One word: PLASTICS. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Pull up a stool and let's have a drink or three at the best Irish bar in the world …which just happens to be in NYC [Spiffy]
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Weird Universe » Mrs. Living Corpse
June 9, 1966: After being buried alive for a week outside of a drive-in theater in Denison, Texas, Lottie Howard married "Country" Bill White. Both of them were "buried alive" practitioners. After she was disinterred, the two left on their honeymoon.
Long Beach Independent Press-Telegram – June 19, 1966
Update: Looks like the marriage didn't last long. Two years later Country … [Link]
Mental Floss » This Week's Best Amazon Deals You Can Still Get
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]
Fark.com RSS » In Japan children ride the subway alone. In Spain children don't have set bedtimes. In Scandinavia children are allowed to sleep outside in the cold. Meanwhile in America, you won't let your child play out front without a whistle around his n
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Fark.com RSS » If you insist on dressing your pet up in a costume this year, make sure you don't use commercial hair dye, don't put rubber bands around his ears, and don't tie ribbons around his neck. Or, you know, you could let your dog be a dog for Ha
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Fark.com RSS » Fark Store Daily Deal: Programming e-learning bundle. C, Java Object-Oriented, Structures and Algorithms, SQL, Python, C++, Raspberry Pi. Instructors from Google and Flipkart. (Sponsored Link) [Plug]
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Overheard In The Office » Condi Rice Finally Loses It
Loud office lady: I don’t need to learn no more. You know money, you know dick, you know pussy — you don’t need to know no more. Government office, 400 Maryland Avenue SW
Washington, DC [Link]
Fark.com RSS » "The mysterious death of a British man at a Spanish airport took a bizarre turn today after it emerged he was found half-naked with a slice of ham on each buttock and his genitals in an open tuna can" [Weird]
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Fark.com RSS » On the bright side, if he gets time off for good behavior, this man may be released from prison as early as the year 3293 AD [Sick]
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Fark.com RSS » Today's mass hysteria over a drug that's legal in 46 states is brought to you by U-47700 or 'Pink' as they call it out on the streets. "If you touch it, you could go into cardiac arrest" [Scary]
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Fark.com RSS » You may have a meth problem if you live in Nebraska and after not sleeping in three days find yourself yelling at a hotel receptionist in Florida about not getting any food because you think she's a counselor and the hotel is a rehab center [Flor
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Fark.com RSS » Photoshop this lonely tree [Photoshop]
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Fark.com RSS » CSB Sunday Morning: Memories of grandparents [CSB]
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Fark.com RSS » Not news: Screams at a haunted house. Fark: Screams at a haunted house after serious injuries [Scary]
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Mental Floss » The Science of Spit
Your spit can tell you much more about your health than whether you should be flossing. [Link]
Weird Universe » Plasticville, USA
Original ad here.
With no trace of modern irony, Plasticville USA was once deemed a grand name for an imaginary town. Somehow I can hear a beatnik of the era saying, "Plasticville, man, that's for squares!"
Wikipedia entry here.
More info and some great pictures on this page.
More images via Google. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » For whatever it's worth, the owner of U-Haul is against recreational marijuana in Arizona [Interesting]
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Fark.com RSS » It's National Drug Take Back day, so go ahead and take all of your drugs back to back. Hrmm, I may have that wrong, but let's go with it [Interesting]
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Mental Floss » Artist's Hand-Hewn Ceramic Mugs Resemble Cardboard
"Pathetic, absurd, antiquated, banal or even garbage are words that best describe the objects I am drawn to," artist Tim Kowalczyk says. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Turkey looks at the coming clusterfark in Mosul and says to themselves, "we want a piece of that" [Interesting]
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Fark.com RSS » 174 escape from the hell that is a Haitian prison only to realize that they still are in the hell that is Haiti [Scary]
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Mental Floss » Relax With a Video Visit to Kew Gardens (in 1942)
From the future cinematographer of "2001: A Space Odyssey." [Link]
GraphJam » At Least It's Original
Graph by: dracula4 Tagged: college , english , Pie Chart , plagiarism , professor , truancy story Share on Facebook [Link]
Futility Closet » Asked and Answered
Image: Wikimedia Commons During World War II, Alan Turing enrolled in the infantry section of the Home Guard so that he could learn to shoot a rifle. After completing this section of his training he stopped attending parades, as he had no further use for the service. Summoned to account for this, he explained that he was now an excellent shot … [Link]
FMyLife » Anonymous says FML
Today, my boyfriend of nearly six months broke up with me. Over text. In a group chat. With the new girl he wanted to date. FML [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Former archbishop admits he probably deserves criticism for that time he covered up child sex abuse. If only there were a lake of fire burning eternally somewhere to show him what he really deserves [Creepy]
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Mental Floss » Watch the Relaxing Process of Creating Traditional Japanese Dolls
Watch dolls emerge from pools of thick, red paint. [Link]
Mental Floss » 10 Quacking Facts About Ducks
“From troubles of the world I turn to ducks, Beautiful comical things” [Link]
Fark.com RSS » ♫ Anything will happen that can. But the last time the Cubs won the National League pennant is no longer the year we dropped the bomb on Japan. ♫ [NewsFlash]
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Mental Floss » How Do Blind People Find Braille Signs?
It's actually pretty simple. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » In Mono County, California you'll find beautiful, mountainous wildland. And sometimes those mountains drop really big boulders onto the road. For the local road workers, those are the best days on the job – because they get to blow that shiat up
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Fark.com RSS » Photoshop this suspicious Schnauzer [Photoshop]
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