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 » Not just high. Uber high [Scary]
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Mental Floss » 5 Record-Breaking Weather Facts of 2016
We're breaking new records year after year. That's not good. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » "The first black box was found by a remote-controlled underwear vehicle at a depth of 17 metres, one mile from the resort of Sochi." Underwear vehicle? Did it detect skid marks? [Fail]
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Fark.com RSS » Kim Jong Un warns the party operatives against "whining as if falling into the idea of defeatism." I mean everywhere HE looks things are great. He has plenty to eat, nice cars, a hot wife, what is there to complain about? [Facepalm]
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Fark.com RSS » The parts of America that love Duck Dynasty, 16 and Pregnant, Teen Mom, and Pawn Stars are exactly where you would expect them to be located. Modern Family, Mythbusters, etc are almost exactly the inverse. TFA includes handy maps for comparison [Muri
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Mental Floss » 7 Burning Questions About Whiskey, Answered
Consider this your Whiskey 101 cheat sheet. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Fark NotNewsletter: Goodbye to 2016 [FarkBlog]
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Fark.com RSS » Photoshop Tennis Match: Lighthouse Edition [Photoshop]
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Fark.com RSS » Critics slam the Navy's new $475 million Gabrielle Giffords warship, saying it's too expensive and the heads all have holes in them [Obvious]
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Mental Floss » 30 Memorable Quotes from Carrie Fisher
“Leia follows me like a vague smell.” [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Man with too much time and money on his hands spends two days flying through different time zones to make December 25th last twice as long [Strange]
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Fark.com RSS » Fark's 2016 HEADLINE OF THE YEAR contest [HOTY]
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Fark.com RSS » Fark's 2016 Headline of the Year contest: Context headlines [HOTY]
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Fark.com RSS » 6-year-old Alaskan boy: Ninjas killed my family. Need money for Kung Fu lessons [Scary]
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Mental Floss » 3 Reasons Why Your New Year's Resolutions Fail—and How to Fix Them
Heed these three simple tips for fail-proof resolutions. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Michelle Obama's ape-whisperer in West Virginia now has much more time on her hands to practice her 1st Amendment rights [Followup]
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Fark.com RSS » Little boy's teddy bear headstone removed because of a single complaint that it doesn't comply with cemetery rules [Asinine]
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Fark.com RSS » "Canada's border guards could throw a weird and elaborate party with all they confiscated at the border in 2016. Booze, shatter, bacon, guns, porn, a horse, a small plane, and $100,000 of gold jewelry were some of the items people tried to sm
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Fark.com RSS » Heritage without hate, Fifth Harmony's genre switch, and peanut butter jelly crime: These are your Headlines Of The Week for Sun 2016-12-18 to Sat 2016-12-24 [FarkBlog]
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Fark.com RSS » Carrie Fisher has become more powerful than you can possibly imagine [NewsFlash]
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Mental Floss » John Williams Has Never Seen ‘Star Wars’—and Doesn’t Think Much of His Score
"I don’t have an impulse to go to the theater and look at it." [Link]
Fark.com RSS » CNN doubles down on their 2016 efforts to rebrand as "Constantly Not News" by starting off the new year with an entire hour dedicated to the history of the band Chicago [Obvious]
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Fark.com RSS » Oh, how neat- a balloon is landing in my yard. Hey, why is it filled with ashes? [Strange]
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Mental Floss » Every Country’s Most Popular Tourist Attraction—In One Handy Map
How many have you visited? [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Today, for your listening pleasure, we perform a selection of Christmas songs. In the style of goats [Weird]
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Fark.com RSS » When trying to decide the name of your new bar, generally you should avoid calling it something like 'Death,' or 'Employees Only' [Obvious]
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Fark.com RSS » Now that Christmas is over let us remind our Christian Friends that Jesus and all his followers were devout Jews and the term Christian didn't come to many years later, basically today they would be those Jews with the black hats and beards [Obvi
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Weird Universe » Your Feet Are Killing You
In his 1953 book Your Feet Are Killing You, Dr. Simon J. Wikler expounded his theory that just about every medical problem one could imagine (cancer, allergies, tooth decay, etc.) was caused by shoes. His solution was to go barefoot. Ideally all the time.
His theory was summarized in The Quarterly Review of Biology (Dec 1954):
The title of this … [Link]
Mental Floss » 12 Places That Rarely See Snow
If a winter season completely devoid of snow sounds like your idea of heaven, these 12 places are calling your name. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Muslim Man sentenced to one year in jail for attacking core tenet of Christianity [Strange]
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Mental Floss » Read the Beautiful Letter Frank Sinatra Wrote to George Michael
"Dust off those gossamer wings and fly yourself to the moon of your choice and be grateful to carry the baggage we've all had to carry since those lean nights of sleeping on buses and helping the driver unload the instruments." [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Brooklyn bar raises drinking age to 25 because damn kids these days [Strange]
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Mental Floss » As Japan's Population Shrinks, Robot Babies Are Gaining Popularity
Toyota just debuted a robot baby in Japan, designed to "bond" with its owners. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » 🎶On the sixth day of Christmas, my true love gave to meeeeee…🎶 [Sick]
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Fark.com RSS » Baby goes on a transplant list and 40 minutes later there is a match, which is 14 years, 364 days and 20 minutes shorter than most people wait on the list [Sappy]
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Overheard In The Office » Translation: I Do, but I Can't Explain It to You
Confused colleague: Hey Dan, do you understand the difference between plug-in and freeze?
Dan: No. Melbourne
Australia Overheard by: confused but amused [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Photoshop this chilling-out chap [Photoshop]
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Mental Floss » Pollution Can Give You High Blood Pressure
Prolonged exposure to dirty air can lead to an increased risk of hypertension. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » If you're going to hijack an ambulance with a patient inside, at least use the sirens while driving through traffic [Strange]
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Fark.com RSS » 13 times you could blame the smell on New Jersey and not your dog [Weird]
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Fark.com RSS » What ever happened with the Mosul Dam, anyway? [Scary]
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Weird Universe » The Football Nuns
Original article here.
I guess the choice of training camp for the Steelers once necessitated commissary duty by nuns. Plus other help, as seen below.
Not sure when this practice ended.
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Fark.com RSS » Will Amazon pick up that can? [Scary]
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Fark.com RSS » Don't tase me, crew [Obvious]
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Mental Floss » 10 Delightfully Strange Patents
Human ingenuity knows no bounds—as these patents show. [Link]
Mental Floss » Morning Cup of Links: Marine One, the President's Helicopter
Great links to start a great day! [Link]
Fark.com RSS » A stranger on the subway offers you his seat. Do you: A) Thank him and take it, B) Refuse politely, or C) Stab him in the face? [Scary]
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Fark.com RSS » The good news: Salt water crocodiles have made a comeback. The bad news: Salt water crocodiles have made a comeback [Giggity]
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Fark.com RSS » Dear Sir/Madam, we are the daughters of the late Canadian Head of State who died recently. Please, we need your assistance to make this happen and please; You have absolutely nothing to loose in assisting us instead, you have so much to gain [Ironic]
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Fark.com RSS » The average student in Scotland graduates with £10,000 in debt. To put that in perspective, it's about what the average American student spends on textbooks for the average elective [Obvious]
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Fark.com RSS » Halifax, NS would like to kindly remind everyone that flushable wipes aren't so knock it off [Weird]
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Futility Closet » In a Word
Image: Wikimedia Commons obtest
v. to call heaven to witness; to protest against proditor
n. a traitor; a betrayer Is a union breaking the law if it posts a giant inflatable rat outside an employer’s facility? No, it’s not, according to a 2011 decision by the National Labor Relations Board. The Sheet Metal Workers’ Union had sought to dissuade a hospital … [Link]
FMyLife » AmPatt says FML
Today, despite driving extremely slowly and cautiously, we slid off the road due to ice and snow. The car hit a rock and the airbags deployed. We were in my 3-month-old car because the engine in my husband's truck blew last week. Merry Christmas to us. FML [Link]
FMyLife » Anonymous says FML
Today, I dropped the collection basket during Christmas Mass at my Catholic church. Money and checks fell all over the floor and everyone was staring at me. I was too stunned to even pick it up. There were about 1,500 people from our town there and my family won't stop bringing it up. FML [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Three post-Christmas mall food court brawls in three different states. Who knew patronizing Hot Dog on a Stick could be so perilous? [Asinine]
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Mental Floss » 9 New Year's Resolutions to Tackle in 2017
Presented by Allstate. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Man bets coworkers that he can walk across a frozen pond. Since this is Fark, you know what happens to him [Fail]
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Fark.com RSS » Cheetahs are RUNNING OUT OF TIME [Scary]
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Fark.com RSS » Some of the carry-on items the TSA confiscates at airport checkpoints can be considered pretty innocuous… then there are these [Facepalm]
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FMyLife » The hopeful says FML
Today, my ex-boyfriend called me. I was really excited, thinking he wanted to get back together. He just wanted to get back the Christmas present he gave me before we broke up so that he could return it for cash. FML [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Ever wonder what happens to all those dead lab animals full of carcinogens and radioisotopes? Some of them go on to do experiments on New Hampshire residents [Sick]
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Fark.com RSS » Photoshop this spectacled scientist [Photoshop]
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