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 » House for sale: 3 BR, 2.5 BA, walk-out basement, remodeled kitchen, 2-car garage with mummified body, convenient to shopping and restaurants [Scary]
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Fark.com RSS » Yes puppet! Yes puppet! [Obvious]
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Fark.com RSS » Killing yourself after being arrested for indecency because you wore an assless costume and incurring millions debt to fight the charge is no way to go through–Well, I guess we agree [Awkward]
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Mental Floss » Did Monica and Chandler From 'Friends' Move Into the 'Home Alone' House?
Monica and Chandler somehow wound up in the same house as the McCallister family. [Link]
Mental Floss » Watch Tesla Autopilot “Predict” a Car Crash Before It Happens
Could self-driving cars make roads safer? [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Video captures ghost being a dick [Unlikely]
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Mental Floss » How Much Money Do You Need to Save Each Day to Become a Millionaire?
For twentysomethings, it's less than the cost of a latte. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Turks decide Occam's razor is not for them, go with this mess instead [Facepalm]
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Fark.com RSS » If you left your car next to the Blue Shield Building in San Diego, the police would like a word with you [Dumbass]
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Mental Floss » 15 Historical Hangover Cures
As long as there has been alcohol, there have been hangovers—and dozens of bizarre ways to cure them. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » "I've made alot of bad decisions in my life, but this one really did it," she said after admitting to murdering her children and her neighbor too for some reason [Scary]
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Fark.com RSS » Photoshop this flagstaff [Photoshop]
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Fark.com RSS » Artist creates robots to feed the elderly homeless. No mad-libs were harmed in the making of this headline [Strange]
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Fark.com RSS » Woman's pet duck named Clumsey goes missing, last seen with Donald, Goofy and a bunch of dwarves [Strange]
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Fark.com RSS » Of course you want to see the winners of the annual camel beauty contest in Abu Dhabi [Strange]
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Fark.com RSS » Congratulations to the winners of Fark's 2016 Headline of the Year contests [Spiffy]
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Fark.com RSS » "Making whiskey ain't different than making a pot of soup" [Spiffy]
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Fark.com RSS » Self-driving cars will reduce the number of viable organ donations [Ironic]
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Fark.com RSS » M&M's new flavor is dangerously cheesy [Sick]
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Fark.com RSS » Hang on to your silly hats, party poppers, and those stupid-looking sunglasses with the frames cut like the numbers "2017", those haven't looked good since 2009. It's your final Weird News Quiz of 2016 [Silly]
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Futility Closet » Destiny
Austrian mechanical engineer Gernot Zippe invented the Zippe-type centrifuge. In Hebrew, his name (גרנוט~ ציפה), is an anagram of the word “centrifuge” (צנטרי~ [Link]
Mental Floss » For $200,000, You Can Ring in 2017—Twice
If you've got a burning desire to sing “Auld Lang Syne” twice, a one-way trip from Sydney to Los Angeles is the answer. But it will cost you. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » 4th grade teacher: So, I had the entire class write essays about how their classmate sucks. Was that wrong? Should I not have done that? Because that kid really sucks [Sick]
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Fark.com RSS » 19th Century manual of British "Manly Exercises" found in college archives, which urges gentlemen to move for up to 24 miles a day, and opt for a diet of lean meat, stale bread, and biscuits. Nice to see Brit cuisine hasn't changed [Inter
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Fark.com RSS » Hey, free artwork. On your car. In mustard (pic) [Florida]
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Fark.com RSS » You remember that NYC firefighter who was attacked by a gang of thugs on Christmas Eve who stole all the presents for his family out of his car while he was on his way to a holiday party? Yeah, that never actually happened [Followup]
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Mental Floss » The Most Instagrammed Places of 2016
If you snapped a selfie at Disney World this year, you’re not alone. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » A peek inside an ISIS bunker, which is unsurprisingly roomier than most New York City studio apartments [Creepy]
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Fark.com RSS » No need to panic, the tons of fake rice found in Nigeria was actually real rice and not plastic at all. It is still poisonous though [Followup]
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Weird Universe » Hardware Diet
March 1934: Forty-year-old Mabel Wolf of Brooklyn showed up at Kings County Hospital complaining of acute stomach pain and a loss of appetite. An x-ray revealed the presence of a large clump of metallic objects in her stomach. In a subsequent hour-long operation, surgeons removed 1,203 pieces of hardware from her stomach. The objects weighed a total of one pound, … [Link]
Mental Floss » 10 Fantastic Facts About 'Fantasia'
The experimental film changed the animation industry forever nearly 80 years ago. [Link]
FMyLife » SolarLunix says FML
Today, after a 10-week internship/interview process, I found out that I was passed up for a job I was competing with the other interns for. I also found out that the girl who sat next to me, who constantly borrowed my notes, and who needed help for every task got hired instead of me. FML [Link]
FMyLife » HelloDrMeAgain says FML
Today my girlfriends "sheltered" 15-year-old niece is sharing our tiny home. Shortly after she arrived, I started to pass a kidney stone. I've had 3 hours of vomiting & cold sweating while passing acidic/blood and a stone in absolute agony. The niece is "traumatized". FML [Link]
GraphJam » What is This Magical Reading Device You Speak Of?
Graph by: Unknown Tagged: kindle , newspaper , Pie Chart , reading Share on Facebook
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Fark.com RSS » Virginia lawmaker proposes bill to declare porn a "public health hazard." Your hard drive is now a Superfund site [Facepalm]
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Mental Floss » The Murder of Rasputin: The 100th Anniversary of a Mystery That Won't Die
A century after the assassination of Russian mystic Grigori Rasputin, the legends surrounding him and his death have taken on a life of their own. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Snowden is going to get himself kicked out of Russia. If he is lucky [Obvious]
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Fark.com RSS » Photoshop this plaid clad poser [Photoshop]
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Mental Floss » In 1990, Art Went on Trial in Cincinnati—and Won
Robert Mapplethorpe didn’t live long enough to see his art come under the microscope. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » You'd think a naked man would stop wandering into random homes after getting bitten by a dog in one. Then there's this guy [Scary]
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Fark.com RSS » Conservative columnist who often wrote scathing criticisms about gun control and mandatory firearm safety courses lets teenager handle one of his guns. If you're reading this on Fark, you probably can guess what happens next [Ironic]
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Fark.com RSS » While we all mourn the celebrity deaths of 2016, it's important to also note who didn't die: Bob Barker, George H.W. Bush, and Hugh Hefner [Spiffy]
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Weird Universe » The Egg
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Fark.com RSS » What exactly is the perfect breast? Subby would have gone with "dangling in my face" but would have been wrong. Here comes the science [Giggity]
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Mental Floss » Morning Cup of Links: Large Hadron Collider Discoveries
Check out these links for your New Year weekend! [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Philippines President Duterte, who is serving his purpose as a leader crazier than Trump, now denies that he threw somebody off a helicopter. It was just a joke. This is why authoritarian dictators don't do comedy [Followup]
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Fark.com RSS » Head of Chicago's police union says officers don't want to be disciplined for "hot mic" moments where they say things that might be hateful or racist. Ya don't say [Obvious]
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Fark.com RSS » Flight simulator decides "Inflight fire onboard" scenario isn't real enough, installs actual fire upgrade [Amusing]
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Fark.com RSS » Hunter barely survives bear attack. Bear didn't survive because, funnily enough, another hunter killed the bear and skinned it. Good times [Scary]
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Futility Closet » An Evening Stroll
Maybe this was inevitable: A team of mathematicians have worked out the most efficient pub crawl in the United Kingdom, connecting 24,727 pubs in the shortest possible closed loop, 45,495,239 meters, or about 28,269 miles. Because it’s a loop, a determined crawler can start at any point and eventually find himself back home. Despite the pickled application, this represents a … [Link]
Mental Floss » Domino's Debuts a "Wipeable" Onesie to Protect Your Clothes From Pizza Stains
The pizza giant is allowing you to be a pig without any of the mess. [Link]
Mental Floss » Why Are There 24 Hours in a Day?
Because we told you so. Now go to bed. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Brazil says the Greek ambassador is missing… a few brain cells, cause we just found him down at the Baklava shop, he forgot to charge his phone. It's so funny. Actually, he's been missing for three days [Scary]
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Fark.com RSS » Former PA commissioner charged with breast massaging 103-year-old woman on 3 different occasions. Everybody's got their thing, eh, commissioner? [Creepy]
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Fark.com RSS » The greatest gift of all this season is watching the guy responsible for grounding your flight get tackled by the police as he's being escorted off the plane [Amusing]
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Fark.com RSS » Cup holder or dildo? Why not both? [Amusing]
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Fark.com RSS » Kim Jong-un: "Nobody can stop us." Rest of the world: O_o [Dumbass]
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Fark.com RSS » So, little boy, what would you like for Christmas? A macing? Here you go. Pssssshhht [Fail]
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Fark.com RSS » "So…what did you get arrested for?" "Uh…I smuggled pangolin scales" [Weird]
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Fark.com RSS » John Connor tries to thwart Skynet by attacking some random naked guy in a biker bar [Amusing]
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Fark.com RSS » Woman declines to give a junkie a ride in her junker, so he breaks into it and leaves a little Christmas gift behind on the floorboards [Dumbass]
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FMyLife » OhGodWhy says FML
Today, I caught my coworker masturbating in the bathroom. This was during her shift, while I was mopping the bathroom floors. FML [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Carrie Fisher's lesser known career of making terrible movies slightly better [Interesting]
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Fark.com RSS » Times Square will be ringed in garbage trucks on New Year's Eve so the city can remove all the left over 2016 to the landfill as soon as it's done [Amusing]
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Fark.com RSS » "Sexy" woman picks up men who awake to find watches missing the next day; Kidneys still intact [Florida]
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Fark.com RSS » A peek behind the curtain of the college application vetting process. Prepare to have your illusions shattered. Or not [PSA]
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Fark.com RSS » Toby Keith reportedly devastated [Sad]
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Fark.com RSS » Your move, Drew Curtis [Unlikely]
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Fark.com RSS » British judges slam plan to allow people to plead guilty to minor crimes online because it will put them out of a job: "Designed to save cash, it covers crimes with no victim – like fare-dodging, some traffic offences and fishing without a licenc
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Fark.com RSS » University of Florida student faces possible expulsion after run in with the law, transfer to Hogwarts [Florida]
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Fark.com RSS » Reviews for Veet Men's Hair Removal gel: "Most prisoners confessed within five minutes. Can recommend. Secret Police, Damascus." "I lost track of time, and the foul stench of dissolving clinkers and melting hair brought me to my sense
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Fark.com RSS » Photoshop this soap dispenser [Photoshop]
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FMyLife » mia says FML
Today, I told my mom that I think I'm lactose intolerant, and that I should go to the doctor to get checked out. She said that I was probably just gassy, and then ordered us a pizza for dinner. FML [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Tapestry expert to visit NYC to verify possible Henry VIII tapestry, rescue elderly father [Interesting]
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Fark.com RSS » Today we learn that Romans used to ward off illness with flying penis amulets, thus giving Johnson and Johnson their business model [Strange]
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