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 » American Airlines 383: Remember that safety briefing we just had? Time for a pop quiz on emergency evacuations [News]
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Fark.com RSS » Parents of the year asked to rescind their award after they left their 4 year old child at home alone, while they dressed as clowns to prank people [Dumbass]
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Mental Floss » 11 Recipes For Creatively Creepy Halloween Cocktails
For when you want to impress (or frighten) your party guests. [Link]
Mental Floss » Your Friend 'Til the End: An Oral History of 'Child's Play'
How Chucky went from a satire of the Cabbage Patch Kids to a tiny titan of terror. [Link]
Mental Floss » Chicago's Secret Weapon Against Rats: Feral Cats
The Windy City's vermin complaints have increased 40 percent since 2015, and people are taking action by adopting felines. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » But at least you'll have a couple sheets of tin welded to an old truck to protect you from the homemade mortar shells built from old propane tanks [Amusing]
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Mental Floss » Show
In the 1880s, nobody was excluded from elaborate mourning rituals. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » One of Iceland's most notorious criminals has four legs and a taste for dried fish fillets [Amusing]
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Mental Floss » The Origins of 6 Terrifying Urban Legends and Classic Campfire Stories
Did a man with a hook for hand really murder a young couple making out in a car? [Link]
Fark.com RSS » The origins of why black cats are maligned as 'witches' on Halloween and why they need to be kept inside during this holiday [Interesting]
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Mental Floss » FCC Passes a Law to Stop Your Internet Provider From Selling Your Personal Info
This is a major win for digital privacy advocates. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Fark Store Daily Deal: Avantree AptX Low Latency Bluetooth Headphones. (Sponsored Link) [Plug]
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Fark.com RSS » Legal wizzes to determine which bathroom it's legal to whiz in [News]
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Fark.com RSS » Now that Jack Chick has passed, photoshop some new Chick Tracts for the coming years [Photoshop]
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Mental Floss » Why Do Some People Have Unibrows?
It's not your fault. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Death, Taxes, and the Fark Quiz every Friday [Survey]
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Fark.com RSS » Although it took until just 3 days before Halloween, we finally have our first kid this year who got her head stuck in a pumpkin [Amusing]
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Fark.com RSS » Anthony Weiner's smartphone causing embarrassment again [Followup]
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Mental Floss » Find the Antonyms
Take the quiz! [Link]
Mental Floss » How Well Do You Know Your MLB Teams?
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Mental Floss » Complete the Halloween Jokes
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Fark.com RSS » First rule of climbing the George Washington Bridge. Don't fark with the morning commute into NYC [Asinine]
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Fark.com RSS » Branch Dildonians were acquitted because the jury didn't know what the definition of "conspiracy" was [Followup]
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Mental Floss » Machine Can Smoke 10 Cigarettes at a Time—for Science
It's helping researchers study the effects of smoking more realistically. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » 'Clown Lives Matter' rally cancelled amid threats of violence [Obvious]
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Mental Floss » How Acne Bacteria Messes With Your Skin
Scientists say the bacterium exploits imbalances in the skin’s microbiome, causing inflammation and breakouts. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » American and Russian jets get dangerously close over Syria. Details are classified. I could tell you, but then I'd have to kill you. Let's just say the pilots were communicating. Keeping up foreign relations [Scary]
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Mental Floss » The Weird Week in Review
Odd news from all over. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Purse snatcher in NYC picked the wrong holocaust survivor to fark with. Bonus: Her comments about Trump [Cool]
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Mental Floss » Canada's "Baby Box" Program Aims to Lower Infant Mortality Rate
The idea for the initiative was borrowed from Finland. [Link]
Mental Floss » Male Birth Control Is 96 Percent Effective, Study Finds
Men could soon bear some of the responsibility for contraceptives. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Philippines president says God told him to stop swearing. No word when God will ask him to stop murdering people [Asinine]
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Fark.com RSS » Surprise [NewsFlash]
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Mental Floss » Don't Miss Out on Friday's Best Amazon Deals
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 28. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Bundy acquittal so ridiculous even his own attorney is stunned. By U.S. Marshals [Followup]
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Mental Floss » The Harsh Method a Silent Film Company Used to Reject Scripts
Film studios were brutally honest back in the day. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Pope Francis reaches out to religious extremist [Interesting]
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Fark.com RSS » Red-faced council officials have apologised after sending a letter to residents directing them to a porn site to register as voters [Giggity]
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Weird Universe » 1960’s Beatnik Glossary
Contributed by "hotsauce269".
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Weird Universe » Pipilotti Rist Redux
One of WU's most-beloved performance artists, Pipilotti Rist, is back in the news. Why not spend hours of time and the museum entrance fee to "enjoy" her work?
Or just sample it below.
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Fark.com RSS » Fark Food Thread: No, not a trick. There really is a Food Thread this week and it's all about tasty treats for Halloween. Do you make anything festive for parties or for the kids? It doesn't even need to be pumpkin-based [Interesting]
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Mental Floss » Retrobituaries: Charles Fort, Chronicler of Unexplained Phenomena
His books were the real-life X-files. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » 'Lestat's tomb' in New Orleans is getting a much-needed makeover, own CW show [Interesting]
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Mental Floss » Emily and Brendan
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Mental Floss » 13 Hearty Facts about Quaker Oats
That friendly Quaker Oats mascot? His name is Larry. [Link]
Weird Universe » Nixon’s Palace Guard
January 1970: The White House guard (secret service uniformed division) publicly revealed their new uniforms which featured a white, double-breasted tunic with gold shoulder trim and a stiff shako hat with peaked front. They replaced the black uniforms the guards had previously worn on ceremonial occasions.
President Nixon had ordered that a new uniform be designed after he had seen … [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Yes Mr Kim sir, your missile failures are definitely caused by spies. They are absolutely, totally, 100% unconnected with the fact the people building the missiles are slaves who are forbidden from sleeping [Dumbass]
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Overheard In The Office » That Was Fun, but You Just Made an Enemy for Life
Data entry worker #1: So I told her I need special glasses because of my stigmata.
Data entry worker #2: Your what?
Data entry worker #1: My stigmata.
Data entry worker #2: You have stigmata?
Data entry worker #1: Yeah.
Data entry worker #2: You suffer the wounds of Jesus?
Data entry worker #1: What?
Passing supervisor: She means her “astigmatism.”
Data entry worker #2: Like in my eyes. … [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Gators, sharks, pythons, brain-eating amoebas, poisonous lionfish – Why not throw in some dirty, stinky monkeys? [Florida]
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Mental Floss » A Brief History of Witches in America
They've come a long way, baby. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Just another children's beauty pageant – the lavish costumes, the nervous parents, the three-year-old with a fake tan [Stupid]
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Mental Floss » 15 Frightening Facts About 'Are You Afraid of the Dark?'
The midnight dust was non-dairy creamer and the actors were attacked by mosquitoes. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Toronto mayor on the $1.9 million the city spent on penis pills, "It stiffens my resolve." Subby would have gone with , "At least we didn't spend it on hookers and blow this time" [Amusing]
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Fark.com RSS » John Lennon's 'Imagine' called the worst song of all time. "I think it's the whole idea of talking about poverty and misery, while John was actually hanging around in his palatial New York townhouse" [Unlikely]
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Fark.com RSS » Yes it's kind of a letdown thinking you've won $43 million in a slot machine only to find out the machine is actually broken [Awkward]
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FMyLife » Smittynumerouno says FML
Today, I had an old man yell in my face because the boxes in our store only had Spanish words on them. I spent 15 minutes apologizing and trying to explain that the English was on the back side. He stormed out before I could even show him. FML [Link]
FMyLife » Sarah_Mow says FML
Today, I was changing my tampon in a public bathroom. As I was about to put the tampon into the sanitary bin, I dropped it and it rolled under the stall next to mine. It was occupied. FML [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Vladimir Putin says, straight-faced, Russia does not have a propaganda machine like the west does, though he "regrets" not having one [Ironic]
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Fark.com RSS » Photoshop this bedroom scene [Photoshop]
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Mental Floss » New York City Burger King Dresses as the Ghost of McDonald’s for Halloween
Your move, McDonald's. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » You know you're a delicate flower if your hair stylist accidentally scrapes your neck during a cutting and you sue for $5 million because you suffered from pain, shock, and mental anguish [Facepalm]
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Fark.com RSS » High school bans costumes for Halloween after two kids decide the confederate flag makes awesome capes. Stay classy Indiana [Facepalm]
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Fark.com RSS » Bizarre propaganda video from Best Korea shows Kim Jong-Un supposedly flying a plane and shooting guns – all while a breathless narrator tries to suppress her excitement [Strange]
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Fark.com RSS » The "CLOSE DOOR" button on elevators is purely decorative [PSA]
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Mental Floss » 12 Innocuous Facts About Jonas Salk
Long before developing the polio vaccine, Salk had wanted to be a lawyer and politician. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » That awkward moment when you discover Dad was filming your teacher's gyrating buttocks instead of you dancing with your nursery school class [Giggity]
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Fark.com RSS » If you want your kids to excel in math you have to give them the finger [Obvious]
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Mental Floss » The White House Wants to Ban Non-Compete Clauses for Most Jobs
Non-competes severely restrict your employment potential. The Obama Administration wants to change that. [Link]
Mental Floss » Emily and Brendan
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Mental Floss » You Can Now Watch the ‘Mad Max: Black
You can watch it before the theatrical release. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Can't pay your $200 fine? Do not pass Go. Go directly to jail [Facepalm]
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Mental Floss » Morning Cup of Links: An 'MST3K' Halloween
Kick off your weekend with some great links! [Link]
GraphJam » Sausage Rockets and Chicken Guns
What could be better? Graph by: Tagged: adam savage , myth busters , television , venn diagram Share on Facebook
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GraphJam » Lightsabre Graph
Graph by: Jonathan Martin Tagged: color , light saber , Line Graph , movies , star wars Share on Facebook
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Mental Floss » The 13 Most Interesting Comics of October
Each month, we round up the most interesting comics, graphic novels, webcomics, digital comics and comic-related Kickstarters that we think you should check out. [Link]
FMyLife » bagadigi says FML
Today, I was sitting in my old rusty truck in an empty parking lot, when some old lady parks beside me and opens her door, hitting my truck. Having a used up truck, I didn't mind. But you could tell that it made her mad, when she came back with the manager demanding that I pay for her paint job. … [Link]
Mental Floss » Eating Too Much Halloween Candy Can Actually Kill You
Find out just how much sugar is too much. [Link]
Futility Closet » Practicalities
If 6 cats can kill 6 rats in 6 minutes, how many will be needed to kill 100 rats in 50 minutes? It’s easy enough to work out that the answer is 12, but consider what this means. “When we come to trace the history of this sanguinary scene through all its horrid details, we find that at the end … [Link]
Mental Floss » 9 Upgrades to Make Your Home Smarter
Presented by Allstate. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » If you keep robbing the same 7-Eleven over and over again, eventually the cops will figure out the pattern and catch you [Dumbass]
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Fark.com RSS » The most San Francisco crime ever: Spraypainting a person's Tesla with Tesla's after-hours stock price [Facepalm]
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Fark.com RSS » 'Note to bong-smoking hose thieves' [Dumbass]
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Fark.com RSS » These Romanian kidnappers clearly studied at the Dr Evil school of hostage negotiation [Dumbass]
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Fark.com RSS » Today's most spectacular misjudgement by a motorist is brought to you by Britain and the letter U [Fail]
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Futility Closet » In a Word
celsitude
n. height; elevation; altitude faineant
n. one who does nothing; an idler ataraxia
n. a pleasure that comes when the mind is at rest [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Florida Man with "family" tattoo on neck points gun at sister for ruining ecstasy stash (with mugshot) [Florida]
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Fark.com RSS » That feeling when you remember you're supposed to beat the crap out of the shark attacking you [Scary]
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Fark.com RSS » Fark-ready headline: Bisexual Church of England vicar sacked over orgies and prostitutes after wife exposes his double life [Spiffy]
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Fark.com RSS » Eight men charged with stealing 23,000 iPhones worth $6.8M. Luckily, these were only 5 and 6s, as if they'd been iPhone 7s the combination of cop math and Apple prices would have run the universe out of numbers [Florida]
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Fark.com RSS » Mike Pence involved in something he wishes had been aborted [NewsFlash]
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Fark.com RSS » Here is a great story that includes a bachelor party in the woods, a hungry momma dog and her seven puppies, some tough guys giving up their beer money to save the dogs and bacon. What more could you ask for? [Cool]
[link] [25 comments] [Link]
Mental Floss » 9 Halloween-Related Guinness World Records
There's plenty of pumpkins, candy, costumes, and clowns ahead. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » What do you get when you combine a model rocket, a butane lighter, a USS Voyager model, an undying love for "The Fifth Element," and 17 years of effort? Adam Savage's finally completed movie accurate Zorg ZF-1 replica [Cool]
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Fark.com RSS » Photoshop this unusual Halloween mask [Photoshop]
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Mental Floss » Why Good Posture Is So Important —And How You Can Get It
Slouching hurts your muscles, joints, and ligaments, and is linked to a host of other health conditions. [Link]
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