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 » Actual CNN headline: "Arizona officer on leave after punching woman during arrest" [Asinine]
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Fark.com RSS » Homeless man who has a better freeway underpass than subby becomes internet hit [Cool]
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Fark.com RSS » Detective Harris joins Fish and Yemana in the big squad room in the sky. "Barney Miller" star Ron Glass dead at 71 [Sad]
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Fark.com RSS » Dog gets lost on Britain's highest mountain after chasing some deer, then gets found by kind-hearted climbers – who send him on his way home in a taxi [Spiffy]
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Fark.com RSS » Photoshop theme: Star Wars characters moonlighting at their other jobs [Photoshop]
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Fark.com RSS » "Police say in lieu of cash, the robber took a burrito from Chipotle employees" [Fail]
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Fark.com RSS » Police uncovered $30,000 in stolen Nutella as part of an investigation into drug trafficking, car theft and a kidnapping plot. Canada [Weird]
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Fark.com RSS » Old and Busted: Africanized bees. New and Improved: Africanized ants [Interesting]
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Fark.com RSS » U.S. government orders relocation of Native Americans. This is not a repeat from 1830 [Followup]
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Fark.com RSS » Please "furry" community, Tony the Tiger begs you to stop tweeting him porn [Weird]
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Mental Floss » This Visual Prosthetic Helps the Blind See Again
New visual prostheses can help people with progressive retinal degeneration restore visual signals to their brain. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Polly the anxious goat is only calm when she wears her duck costume [Spiffy]
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Fark.com RSS » Why aren't TV Christmas specials as well made as "How The Grinch Stole Christmas"? [Interesting]
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Fark.com RSS » The Saturday Morning Book Club is already suffering from Holiday Induced Short Attention Span Syndrome … so this week we're looking for suggestions on the best short stories of all time [Interesting]
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Fark.com RSS » However we have deployed an Xcom team to investigate [Followup]
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Fark.com RSS » More bars should let customers pick their drinks in a 'Choose Your Own Adventure' style [Obvious]
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Mental Floss » 17 Electric Facts About 'MTV Unplugged'
The atmosphere behind the scenes of MTV's acoustic phenomenon wasn't as mellow as the intimate performances suggest. [Link]
Weird Universe » Make milk a social drink
1960: The dairy industry, noting that coffee, tea, beer, liquor, and soft drinks are traditionally served at parties but milk isn't, started plotting ways to make milk a "social drink."
If you add alcohol to milk it could be considered a social drink. Otherwise, I'd say their campaign fizzled.
Akron Beacon Journal – Dec 4, 1960
Port Angeles Evening News – Mar … [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Fark-ready headline: "Teens sue Detroit cops over botched hooker sting near coney island" [Asinine]
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Fark.com RSS » Photoshop Challenge: Spruce up this classic camper [Photoshop]
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FMyLife » in love with an idiot says FML
Today, my soon-to-be husband showed up with an animal print suit at our engagement ceremony. FML [Link]
Mental Floss » Amazon Is Still Running Great Deals This Weekend
From the Smart Shopping Team… [Link]
Fark.com RSS » National Zoo's ugly-ass giant panda cub Bei Bei receives life-saving surgery [Cool]
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Fark.com RSS » 21 kittens scheduled to be euthanized in Florida just got a second chance after being transferred to Charleston's first ever Cat Cafe, just in time for a happy Caturday [Caturday]
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Weird Universe » Marriage Bureau
Wait a minute–I don't see how the instant Tinder hookup booty-call sex happens! [Link]
Mental Floss » 10 Gloriously Geeky Quilts
Which fandom do you prefer to sleep under? [Link]
Fark.com RSS » In Norway, high school graduates get prizes for having sex in the great outdoors, spend tens of thousands of dollars on pimped-up party wagons and spend three weeks getting drunk (not safe for work) [Interesting]
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FMyLife » StillFriendless says FML
Today, I was so desperate for a friend that I posted a Craigslist ad to find one. Now my phone's filled with spam and I still don't have any friends. FML [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Terrified TV reporter quits after learning businessman she investigated was 'planning to murder her' [Scary]
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Mental Floss » Where Your Favorite British TV Shows Take Place, Mapped
Where exactly is 'The Office' set? Now you know. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Down and out in Victorian London: Street life of the capital captured in extraordinary photographs from 1880s (warning: occasionally some Not Safe For Work images in side ads) [Interesting]
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FMyLife » SupermarketSally says FML
Today, a customer threw a bottle of milk at me because we'd moved our smoke counter 6 months earlier during our renovations. Moved it five metres to the right that is. He marched out of the store, then marched back, grabbed the milk from my hands, threw $5 at me and then left again. FML [Link]
Fark.com RSS » This just in: Corona founder isn't making everyone in his village a millionaire after all [Followup]
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Fark.com RSS » Want something science can't explain? How about why billions of people have the same favorite color and number? [Interesting]
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Fark.com RSS » You know something is very wrong in your city if parking spots are pricier than houses [Strange]
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Fark.com RSS » In Belgium, beer drinking is serious business, so it has applied to have its beer culture listed on UNESCO's Intangible Cultural Heritage List. Stupid Flanders [Interesting]
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Mental Floss » On This Day in 1948, the First Polaroid Camera Was Sold
It would cost $900 in today's dollars. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Yesterday, Don King was a guest at the President Elect's Thanksgiving celebration. And a little earlier than that, they faced off on MTV's Celebrity Deathmatch [Amusing]
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Fark.com RSS » Old and busted: Yelling fire in a crowded movie theater. New outlawness: Yelling somebody has a gun in a crowded movie theater [Dumbass]
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Fark.com RSS » "As the Daily Mail takes its role as the official spokesperson for your old school mate's perennially creepy dad seriously, so brings another dreary day of voyeuristic feculence" [Amusing]
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Fark.com RSS » Subby's brother and long time mug shot round up photoshopper extraordinare, Mini Ditka passed away on 11/20/16. Please join me in raising a glass in his honor one last time. He will be very missed [Sad]
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Fark.com RSS » James Bond would never have done that. Jason Bourne, maybe [Strange]
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Mental Floss » Why Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Daughter Might Become a Saint
In her forties, she rededicated her life to working with the poor and very sick. [Link]
FMyLife » nowbrokevaper says FML
Today, I found out that my boss, who had promised me a raise, is not promoting me. He says I don't have the right 'vibe' and I'm not 'relaxed' enough for the job. FML [Link]
Fark.com RSS » In an effort to curb air pollution, Delhi bans the sale of firecrackers. Millions of cars sitting in traffic still ok [Facepalm]
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Fark.com RSS » You know it's your lucky day when you accidentally leave $10,500 cash in the taxi of Barcelona's most honest cab driver [Spiffy]
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Futility Closet » First and Last
The fifth power of any one-digit number ends with that number: 05 = 0
15 = 1
25 = 32
35 = 243
45 = 1024
55 = 3125
65 = 7776
75 = 16807
85 = 32768
95 = 59049 11/26/2016: UPDATE, after hearing from some readers who are thinking more deeply than I am: First, this immediately implies that … [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Pennsylvania Department of Corrections replacing nutraloaf with wicked pepper steak [Spiffy]
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Fark.com RSS » In hindsight, it probably was a terrible idea to leave your infant in the care of a man with a tattoo of Florida on his face [Florida]
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Fark.com RSS » CIA finally succeeds at assassinating Fidel Castro at age 90 [NewsFlash]
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Fark.com RSS » Barcelona's highest skyscraper surrenders to French Spiderman [Cool]
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Mental Floss » The 12 Most Interesting Comics of November
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. 1. A.D.: AFTER DEATH BOOK ONE By Scott Snyder and Jeff Lemire
Image Comics 
Most wouldn’t expect formal comics experimentation to come from the writers of Batman and the X-Men, but, to be fair, Scott Snyder and … [Link]
FMyLife » anonymous says FML
Today, I was eating lunch on my first date with a really pretty girl, when my ex shows up at the same restaurant and starts telling her how bad of a boyfriend I was. My date left. FML [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Ever driven the FDR in New York City? Well, you're driving on top of rubble from a World War II attack more than 75 years ago [Interesting]
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Fark.com RSS » Everybody is getting in on the Black Friday action, as prostitutes across Britain are offering deals with 25% discounts on kinky sessions [Giggity]
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Fark.com RSS » Black Friday weekend comes roaring out of the gates with 3 shot and 2 dead before midnight. Place your bets on the over/under accordingly [Obvious]
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Fark.com RSS » Jill Stein is going to Make Wisconsin Count Again [Followup]
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Mental Floss » The Publicity Stunt That Convinced People Elevators Were Safe
In 1854, thousands of New Yorkers watched an inventor appear to almost plummet to his death. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Black Friday shoppers left in the dark after a power outage, rendering them incapable of buying discounted items they could have gotten on Amazon [Fail]
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Fark.com RSS » Incredible collection of 19th-century photographs shows what working-class life in Britain was like before people could afford to live in color [Cool]
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Fark.com RSS » Dog rescued by firefighters after getting head stuck in non-slatted chair [Amusing]
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Fark.com RSS » Here are 40 things that science says you never need to do do from flossing to washing your jeans to learning to tell time on an analog clock. And stop taking toothpaste with you on vacation, they sell it where you're going [Obvious]
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FMyLife » idiot says FML
Today, while I was reading on my tablet, my dog wanted to be let outside, so I set down the tablet and let her outside. I returned to the living room to continue reading when I heard a crunch. The tablet had fallen to the floor and I'd stepped on it. FML [Link]
Fark.com RSS » The best maps are the ones that depict UFO sightings in America, Europe on the cusp of World War I, and the bears of Finland [Spiffy]
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Fark.com RSS » Fat Boy rescued by little men [Amusing]
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Fark.com RSS » Iditarod bans mushers from carrying sled dogs in trailers. Doesn't it make sense to carry a spare tire in the trunk? [Silly]
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Mental Floss » Duke Students Have Developed a Robotic Nursing Assistant
The Tele-Robotic Intelligent Nursing Assistant, or TRINA, was designed to aid healthcare workers in high-risk environments. [Link]
FMyLife » Terra says FML
Today, I logged on Facebook and saw my friend who'd been engaged, then broke the engagement, then got back together announce their new wedding date: three days before my wedding. She also sent me a message asking if I'd move my date. We've been planning our wedding for two years. She got engaged six months ago. FML [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Minnesota bus driver hurled racial slurs at a group of children as he ordered them out of the vehicle and left them stranded as punishment for misbehaving. But the way the school tells it, the kids had it coming [Murica]
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Fark.com RSS » Photoshop what's missing from this hallway [Photoshop]
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Fark.com RSS » Canada has come to their senses and decided to remove themselves from the F-35 boondoggle [Hero]
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Fark.com RSS » Dear Kellogg's: Corn flakes have never been cool. Stop trying to make them hipster [Stupid]
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