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 » Facebook Tests New Job Recruiting Features
Job seekers can now submit applications within the site. [Link]
Mental Floss » Marvel and DC Formal Wear Is Here
Just in time for the holidays: airbrushed muscles on a two-piece suit. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Behold the power of this fully operational play room. Tag is for subby's nephew who is the cancer patient in the article [Hero]
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Mental Floss » 8 Ways to Achieve a Better Work-Life Balance
Our jobs are more demanding than ever—how do we find the time to relax and have fun? [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Australian man faces $9000 fine for using a drone to pick up sausage at hardware store. In other news: You can buy sausage at hardware stores in Australia [Weeners]
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Fark.com RSS » Man faces animal cruelty charges after learning why you should always put your teeth up on the windowsill [Dumbass]
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Fark.com RSS » Photoshop the Zippomobile [Photoshop]
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Fark.com RSS » If you had placed a £5 treble bet on Leicester winning the title, the UK voting for Brexit and Donald Trump triumphing in the race to be President of the United States, today you'd be counting up a staggering £15million ($18.6 million)
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Fark.com RSS » Are you living in a third-world country and looking forward to your World Series Champions Indians t-shirts? Well, bad news. Also, how are you reading fark right now? [Sad]
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Mental Floss » Why Do We Get a Lump in Our Throats Before We Cry?
When you're sad, so angry you could cry, or trying not to weep at that ASPCA commercial (again)… [Link]
Mental Floss » Don't Miss Wednesday'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, November 9. 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 » Did recent experiments at CERN's Large Hadron Collider cause the recent earthquakes in Italy? No, of course not. But that's never stopped the conspiracy theorists [Stupid]
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Mental Floss » Exceptionally Well-Preserved Shipwreck Discovered in Lake Superior
Even some of the ship’s dishes remain on the shelves. [Link]
Mental Floss » Tropical Birds Are in More Trouble Than We Thought
A new study finds significant discrepancies between actual risk and the IUCN’s Red List of endangered and threatened species. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Typical train delays: weather, livestock, stuck track switching. Atypical train delays: naked guy performing a rap song on the tracks [Weird]
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Fark.com RSS » Dewey defeats Truman. Again [Fail]
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Mental Floss » One of the First Self-Driving Cars Was a 1986 Carnegie Mellon Van
The university was working on self-driving cars long before Silicon Valley. [Link]
Mental Floss » It's Deer Season: Here’s How to Stay Safe on the Road
Remember to be extra cautious this November. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » New study says that dangerous driving runs in families. Which means we should immediately revoke the driver's licenses of the children of Nick Nolte, Mel Gibson and Billy Joel [Scary]
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Mental Floss » How the Elements of the Periodic Table Are Used in Daily Life
Some elements are no-brainers, but others might surprise you. [Link]
Mental Floss » 5 Questions: President
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Mental Floss » 10 Unusual Observation Towers From Around the World
Sometimes, the building you're looking out of is as interesting as the view itself. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » How to move to Canada [Advice]
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Mental Floss » 13 Enchanting Facts About ‘Moonstruck’
Cher’s career made her more famous for singing than acting, but on December 16, 1987, Moonstruck arrived in theaters and transformed her into a full-fledged movie star, and a few months later she won the Best Actress Oscar for her spellbinding performance. Cher plays Loretta Castorini, a widow living with her Sicilian family in Brooklyn. Despite being superstitious about love, … [Link]
Fark.com RSS » New AI robot developed that has a "brain" and can learn like human children. So don't be surprised when you come home one day to see a machine sitting on your couch playing video games and eating junk food [Followup]
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Fark.com RSS » "Only in Toronto could 20 people witness a man having his penis cut off followed by five gunshots and no one saw or heard anything" [Scary]
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Mental Floss » Man Finds His Wedding Ring Around a Carrot Three Years After Losing It
He plucked it right from his garden. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Have you ever walked through an art gallery and thought "this experience would be better if I could take my pants off"? Well you're in luck [Strange]
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Weird Universe » Butter Dance
Melati Suryodarmo's Butter Dance is well known — almost 2 million views on YouTube — but somehow this classic of modern performance art has, so far, escaped the attention of WU. So for all who haven't seen it yet, here it is.
(My favorite moment is at around the 1:45 mark).
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Weird Universe » Mr. Omelet
I am very sad that the original "Mr. Omelet" pan which debuted in 1976 has been rechristened as simply "Rolled Omelet" pan, and lost its wooden handle.
I am even sadder that I can learn nothing about its illustrious inventor, Robert S. Bardin, and that the only image I have of him is a featureless smudge.
Original ad here.
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Overheard In The Office » Her Neck Rises Up Out of a Clearing
Woman #1: I don’t want to show you guys my hairy back!
Woman #2, singing: Hairy baaack, hairy baaack! Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Photoshop Theme: If rock stars were really gods [Photoshop]
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Fark.com RSS » I'm not saying that how we're imagining aliens is wrong, but how we're imagining aliens probably is wrong [Weird]
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Fark.com RSS » New Jersey couple stuffs highway toll baskets to prevent coins from dropping, goes back later to pick up the money, forgets that there are surveillance cameras rolling [Fail]
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Fark.com RSS » Press censorship under President Trump has just begun [Scary]
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Mental Floss » 7 Unattractive Facts About Blobfish
They don't look half bad underwater. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » There's a special place in Hell for anyone who steals from a woman while she's in labor [Florida]
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Fark.com RSS » Samsung offices raided in investigation involving a dressage horse gifted to the daughter of the president of South Korea [Interesting]
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Fark.com RSS » Man who attacked a grocery store clerk told a responding officer that he was a "vampire, ghost rider, Captain Jack Sparrow from Pirates of the Caribbean, Mr. Miyagi from the Karate Kid, and a leader of a band [Dumbass]
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Fark.com RSS » Cheer up California, Massachusetts, and Florida farkers. At least you can stay stoned for the next four years [Cool]
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Fark.com RSS » Caption this canine's thoughts [Caption]
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Fark.com RSS » Orange is the New Black thread 2 – Orange Harder [Live]
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Mental Floss » Morning Cup of Links: The Human Towers of Catalonia
Distract yourself with these new links! [Link]
Fark.com RSS » What 2016 has taught us: Hate Sells [Obvious]
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FMyLife » toametru1 says FML
Today, I mockingly made "President Trump" jokes all day to my friends, knowing Clinton was bound to win the election. FML [Link]
FMyLife » mycountryisdumb says FML
Today, my country elected a man who thinks global warming is a hoax. FML [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Trump Brexits the world: Asian markets crater, U.S. markets fall, currencies dive, Peso falters, Fear Proxies such as the U.S. dollar, gold and bonds rosey-cheeked and sunny at prospect of battening on the USA's bleaching bones. Thanx, dumbasses
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Fark.com RSS » …and Trump supporters have already begun firing their guns in the air across America [Sad]
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Fark.com RSS » Meanwhile, Canada has ebola [Scary]
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Fark.com RSS » Not trying to instill U.S. panic, but the Canada immigration website has just crashed [Scary]
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Mental Floss » Meet Khanzir, the Only Pig in Afghanistan
The swine may be lonely, but he's also famous and well-cared for. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Canadian government proposes draining an entire lake in Banff National Park for the winter to save the trout who live in it [Weird]
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Fark.com RSS » Orange is the New Black [NewsFlash]
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Fark.com RSS » We're running out of headlines… but we're still going… Election Thread #10 right here for ya [Live]
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FMyLife » birthday blues says FML
Today, it's my birthday. The only time people have contacted me is to ask who I voted for. FML [Link]
Futility Closet » “A Postal Problem”
Browsing the Post Office Guide in June 1891, Lewis Carroll discovered an ambiguity that produces “a very curious verbal puzzle” — he sent this pamphlet to friends and interested parties: The Rule, for Commissions chargeable on overdue Postal Orders, is given in the ‘Post Office Guide’ in these words, (it is here divided, for convenience of reference, into 3 clauses)— … [Link]
Mental Floss » 18th Century Books Stolen in the Late '50s Found in a Locked Wardrobe
The historic books were taken from the London Library and never returned. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » The crazy train rolls on…. Election Thread #9 [Live]
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Fark.com RSS » The Canadian Immigration website has crashed, but we haven't. It's your 2016 election thread #8 [Live]
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Fark.com RSS » Alec Baldwin sighs, pulls out the wig and make up, asks Lorne if he can broadcast from Canada. It's your Election Thread #7 [Live]
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Fark.com RSS » Every year some hunter gets mistaken for a deer and accidentally shot. However, they're usually not halfway up a tree at the time [Sad]
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Fark.com RSS » The Fark Thunderdome continues…. Election 2016 thread #6 [Live]
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Fark.com RSS » Ohio man charged with trying to go to Libya to join ISIS, says at least the weather would be nicer than in Cleveland [Fail]
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Fark.com RSS » The Not a Damn Horse Race is a horse race again, as Americans start wondering how easy it is to sneak into Canada without being noticed. It's the Election Day Discussion Thread Part 5: Don't stop drinking [Live]
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Fark.com RSS » Hotel guests sleep with a dead body under their bed for at least a week after a woman's body is discovered by cleaners. Thankfully the hotel did not charge the guests for an extra occupant [Scary]
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Fark.com RSS » As demonstrated by the rise of Trump, zombies could overrun a city in no time [Interesting]
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Fark.com RSS » Turns out nasty women really are nasty [Interesting]
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Fark.com RSS » Women claim man who romanced them under guise as war hero, doctor, lawyer, professor was really an imposter. Sounds like typical pick-up lines, less being member of Mossad [Dumbass]
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Fark.com RSS » Hillary Clinton threatening to grab defeat from the pussy of victory. It's the Election Day Discussion Thread Part 4 [Live]
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Fark.com RSS » Headline: "Mint worker accused in rectal gold theft looks jovial on video". Well, who wouldn't? [Followup]
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Fark.com RSS » The house dressing comes on the side… the table… the ceiling… the carpet… the walls… the dress [Scary]
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Fark.com RSS » Disney apparently planning to massacre guests for Christmas with new holiday drone program [Scary]
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Fark.com RSS » An hour-by-hour guide to watching election night returns. Spoiler alert: You'll be passed out drunk before we even reach hour 2 [PSA]
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Fark.com RSS » FYI in Alaska you can't post a selfie of your ballot, but you can open-carry to the voting booth *unless the property owner posts a sign [Murica]
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Fark.com RSS » The first waves of polls are closed, the weak livers are failing. It's the Election Day Discussion Thread Part 3: It's Time [Live]
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Mental Floss » 7 Spam Dishes Eaten Around the World
The appeal of the porky product transcends borders. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » No country in the world requires wedding photos to have a thick topping of Photoshop more than Russia [Interesting]
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Fark.com RSS » Photoshop this flummoxed owl [Photoshop]
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Fark.com RSS » I'm not saying it's Godzilla, but it's Godzilla [Scary]
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Fark.com RSS » And the F-35's latest trick: Catching fire in mid-air [Scary]
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Fark.com RSS » Two polling places on lockdown due to active shooter situation [Scary]
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Mental Floss » The Strange Custom of Setting Pianos on Fire
Playing a burning piano until it can no longer make music is a tradition that goes back decades. [Link]
Mental Floss » Middle-Aged Bonobos Become Farsighted, Too
Primatologists noticed older bonobos grooming their kin from a distance, like a person holding a restaurant menu at arm’s length. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Man loses wedding band in garden, finds it three years later after it has grown an extra carrot [Amusing]
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Mental Floss » 8 Centuries-Old Etiquette Rules for Talking Politics
"Retain, if you will, a fixed political opinion, yet do not parade it upon all occasions, and above all, do not endeavor to force others to agree with you." [Link]
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