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.”

Mental Floss » A Visit With Doctor Laser: New York’s Resident Holographer

Saturday 5 November 20:30:00 UTC 2016

An established pioneer in the field offers a peek inside his colorful laboratory. [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Photoshop this cloud catcher [Photoshop]

Saturday 5 November 20:00:01 UTC 2016

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Fark.com RSS » Good: You get a job where you get to travel the world. Bad: You get stranded in Baltimore harbor, running out of food and water. Good: People try to help bring you food. Fark: Those people are pirates [Weird]

Saturday 5 November 19:09:46 UTC 2016

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Mental Floss » 11 Wonderfully Unexpected Doughnut Flavors from Across the Country

Saturday 5 November 18:30:00 UTC 2016

It's National Doughnut Day — a holiday so important, we celebrate it twice a year. [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Describe this election using only a movie title [Silly]

Saturday 5 November 18:01:50 UTC 2016

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Fark.com RSS » You're not going like this advice but this is why you should give up booze [Obvious]

Saturday 5 November 16:49:58 UTC 2016

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Fark.com RSS » Another day, another Massachusetts police department treating the evidence room as a personal stash [Obvious]

Saturday 5 November 16:32:10 UTC 2016

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Fark.com RSS » New Jersey man leads police on a high-speed walker chase after stabbing [Dumbass]

Saturday 5 November 15:31:20 UTC 2016

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Fark.com RSS » Among the stupidest ideas we've ever saddled ourselves with, daylight "saving" time has to be among the most moronic. It ends tonight (until next Spring)…can't we make it end forever? [Fail]

Saturday 5 November 14:48:06 UTC 2016

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Overheard In The Office » What Did You Just Call Me?

Saturday 5 November 14:20:22 UTC 2016

Prettyish, 20-something salesgirl: I think before the swine flu, no one in this country new what a “swine” even was.
50-something sales manager: Well, that's because it's German. Swinehund! Get it? Schaumburg, Illinois [Link]

Mental Floss » You Need to See This Weekend's Best Amazon Deals

Saturday 5 November 14:00:00 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, November 5. Mental Floss has affiliate relationships with certain retailers, including Amazon, and may receive a small percentage of any sale. But we only get commission on items you buy and don’t return, so we’re only … [Link]

Fark.com RSS » With all the stress and strife in the world, what are your comfort books, the books you go to to chill out and take a mental break from the insanity? It's the Zen edition of the Saturday Morning Book Club [Interesting]

Saturday 5 November 14:00:00 UTC 2016

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Weird Universe » Squirrel Burgers

Saturday 5 November 13:51:58 UTC 2016

Over at twincities.com, Dave Orrick extols the virtues of squirrel burgers, which he says are one of his "favorite ways to introduce people to squirrel meat."

Just get yourself some squirrels (you may have some scampering around in your back yard), skin 'em, run the meat through a grinder, and cook it up. Dave says that squirrel has "a distinct, nutty … [Link]

Fark.com RSS » You can stop hoarding your avocados. The great guac crisis of 2016 is over [Followup]

Saturday 5 November 13:37:24 UTC 2016

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Fark.com RSS » Photoshop this telescopic moon [Photoshop]

Saturday 5 November 13:00:01 UTC 2016

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Fark.com RSS » Don't you just hate it when you beat cancer then violate the dress code by saying you beat its sorry arse? [Stupid]

Saturday 5 November 12:50:45 UTC 2016

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Fark.com RSS » Q, the 'Meowtaineering' cat, should be an inspiration to all you couch potatoes – especially on Caturday [Caturday]

Saturday 5 November 12:00:00 UTC 2016

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Fark.com RSS » Old and busted: Deadly multidrug-resistant bacteria. New hotness: Deadly multidrug-resistant fungi [Scary]

Saturday 5 November 11:31:49 UTC 2016

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Fark.com RSS » Here's the Wikileaked email that definitively proves how much of a monster Hillary Clinton is [Followup]

Saturday 5 November 11:05:16 UTC 2016

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FMyLife » Crushed says FML

Saturday 5 November 10:29:35 UTC 2016

Today, the girl I've had a crush on for months invited me on a group hiking trip this weekend so that she won't be the most out of shape person on the trail. FML [Link]

Weird Universe » Couch Potato Sculpture

Saturday 5 November 10:16:00 UTC 2016

I'm assuming all WU-vies will want to shell out $345.00 for this figurine as the perfect Xmas gift for that lazy brother-in-law, son, uncle, or father.

Home page here.

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Fark.com RSS » Old news: fried foods cause heart disease. Fark: cooked foods cause heart disease [Asinine]

Saturday 5 November 9:14:00 UTC 2016

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Fark.com RSS » Protip for guys making wedding proposals: Don't use a funeral wreath of flowers when you're down on your knee, she will run away [Dumbass]

Saturday 5 November 8:33:57 UTC 2016

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Mental Floss » Fly Through the International Space Station in Ultra HD

Saturday 5 November 8:30:00 UTC 2016

Time to space out. [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Senior citizens in Best Korea are being pressured by their families to kill themselves [Sad]

Saturday 5 November 8:00:00 UTC 2016

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Fark.com RSS » There are still places where you can't buy a mixed drink [Interesting]

Saturday 5 November 7:54:00 UTC 2016

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Mental Floss » The Time Andrew Jackson Won the Vote but Lost the Presidency

Saturday 5 November 6:30:00 UTC 2016

In 1824, Jackson both won the popular vote and got the most votes in the electoral college, but lost the election anyway. [Link]

Futility Closet » Black and White

Saturday 5 November 6:01:45 UTC 2016

From T.R. Dawson, a logic problem posing as a chess puzzle. If pinned men do not check, how can White mate in two moves? SelectClick for Answer The black rook on d4 pins the white rook on d6, so the black bishop on b6 is free to move, and this means that the white knight on c7 is pinned and … [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Because we're not all flinty-hearted jerkoffs here ALL the time, here's the heartwarmingly obscure story of the first president of Botswana and the English woman he fell in love with [Sappy]

Saturday 5 November 5:22:42 UTC 2016

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Mental Floss » The 'Splash'-Themed Disney Bar That Almost Was

Saturday 5 November 3:30:00 UTC 2016

Madison’s Dive, named after Daryl Hannah’s character in the movie, was going to be a themed saloon built at the end of a pier on Pleasure Island. [Link]

Fark.com RSS » British police hope to catch serial cat-killer and cop-shop lunch thief with same operation [Obvious]

Saturday 5 November 3:14:58 UTC 2016

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Fark.com RSS » The Mayor of Turin wants the city to go vegetarian. You'll get my salami when you pry it from my cold dead hands, Mrs. Mayor [Weeners]

Saturday 5 November 3:11:20 UTC 2016

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Fark.com RSS » You know you're getting close to Christmas when you see champagne in the vending machines [Obvious]

Saturday 5 November 3:02:11 UTC 2016

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Fark.com RSS » I've only got $22–can I get a dollop of baked beans, please? [Asinine]

Saturday 5 November 2:50:05 UTC 2016

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Fark.com RSS » Remember the forest fire that damn near destroyed Fort McMurray, Alberta? It's still burning six months later [Followup]

Saturday 5 November 2:31:37 UTC 2016

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Fark.com RSS » Former member comes out of the Illuminati closet, claims governments of the world deliberately create diseases and that Vladimir Putin really runs the world [Obvious]

Saturday 5 November 1:36:14 UTC 2016

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Fark.com RSS » BBC to play Sex Pistols' God Save The Queen at the end of each day's programming [Amusing]

Saturday 5 November 1:17:46 UTC 2016

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Fark.com RSS » Man once again found guilty of illegally possessing dead wild animals, will try to carrion with his life [Strange]

Saturday 5 November 0:59:18 UTC 2016

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Fark.com RSS » Two US military trainers killed in Jordan after allegedly failing to stop at gate to al-Jafr air base. Taking bets now on how this will play in US news, politics [Sad]

Saturday 5 November 0:40:51 UTC 2016

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Mental Floss » 10 Facts About the Miranda Warning You Have the Right to Know

Saturday 5 November 0:30:00 UTC 2016

Not being read his rights didn't allow Miranda to go free. [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Hello 911. I'm drunk and I can't shut up [Asinine]

Saturday 5 November 0:22:23 UTC 2016

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John Gordon Ross

A Man for All Reasons