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 » If you didn't celebrate New Year's Eve with 200 other people in an elevator shaft rave, you wasted your night [Strange]
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Mental Floss » Get an Up-Close Look at a Toilet Seat Art Museum
In San Antonio, Texas, a retired master plumber has created a bizarre roadside attraction known as Barney Smith's Toilet Seat Art Museum. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » You may be feeling just about partied out today, but Scots have just begun their annual three-day national festival of drinking whiskey, setting stuff on fire and jumping in rivers [Cool]
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Fark.com RSS » Ya know, that gag gift you got, the cell phone shaped like a gun? Not so darned funny now that you're in the middle of a police standoff [Dumbass]
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Fark.com RSS » Woman rescued after falling into fissure. Repeat from 2011, 2013, 2014 and 2015, although the three most recent incidents involved the same fissure. Fissure [Strange]
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Fark.com RSS » After 100 years of construction, NYC's 2nd Avenue subway opened this morning, immediately cristened with trash and vomit [Spiffy]
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Fark.com RSS » Lake Superior State University unveils its annual list of banned words, which includes "bigly," "fleek," and for some reason "bête noire," which was a damned fine Bryan Ferry album [PSA]
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FMyLife » Darthstormer says FML
Today, I had my daughters for New Year's Eve, since my ex-wife and her boyfriend were laid up with bad colds. According to Facebook, however, they were having a great evening out at the bar toasting in the New Year. FML [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Photoshop this antelope somewhere over the rainbow [Photoshop]
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Fark.com RSS » Man who forgot where he parked and spent five days looking and then gave up gets reunited with his lost vehicle–six months later [Followup]
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Weird Universe » News of the Weird (January 1, 2017)
News of the Weird
Weirdnuz.M508, January 1, 2017
Copyright 2017 by Chuck Shepherd. All rights reserved.
Lead Story
The Hästens workshop in Köping, Sweden, liberally using the phrase "master artisans" recently, unveiled its made-to-order $149,000 mattress. Bloomberg News reported in December on Hästens's use of superior construction materials such as pure-steel springs, "slow-growing" pine, multiple layers of flax, horsehair lining … [Link]
Mental Floss » Benedict Cumberbatch is Related to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Researchers at Ancestry.com made a not-so-elementary discovery. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » The strange world of fake academia costs unwitting scholars and grad students untold amounts of money and time. "You just rent a hotel, make up a name and stand around while everyone is reading their papers. It's easy money" [Strange]
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Fark.com RSS » Finally, the most pressing question in Iowa gets answered: What was the state's most popular liquor in 2016? [PSA]
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Fark.com RSS » Now that pot is legal in California, Hollywood officially changes its name to Hollyweed [Spiffy]
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Fark.com RSS » After she "safely fired a round in the air in an attempt to scare the robbers who were in the process of getting in their vehicle," Georgia Waffle House waitress is now "actively seeking work" [Dumbass]
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Fark.com RSS » Well, SOME people will be glad when Uber goes driverless. Tag for driver [Hero]
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Mental Floss » 211 Years Ago Today, the French Abandoned Their Decimal Calendar
It used ten-day weeks…until Napoleon gave it the axe. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » LA's popular holiday light display called Candy Cane Lane may go dark next year after being overrun with street vendors hawking junk. This is why we can't have nice things [Sad]
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Fark.com RSS » Best Korea will soon test an ICBM, according to Kim Jong Un. Pacific Ocean put on alert, still wonders what it did to anger the Best Koreans [Unlikely]
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Fark.com RSS » In honor of National Hangover Day, here are 10 hangover myths that are just not true [Interesting]
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Mental Floss » 16 Epic Facts About 'Spartacus'
There's a reason why Sir Laurence Olivier sounds kind of like Sir Anthony Hopkins. [Link]
Weird Universe » Astro-Face of the Year 2017
According to beauty experts in 1967, the women of 2017 would wake up in the morning and make themselves beautiful by applying a paste-on "Moon Maid Mask" that would "change the structure of a face from neckline to hairline."
Other 21st-century beauty enhancements would include:
Toss in the Wash Wigs: A second or two in the supersonic laundry of tomorrow … [Link]
Overheard In The Office » Not That We Were Expecting Bloody Geniuses
Client: I’ve talked to some of these people applying online. They’re a little scary — it’s not like they’re Menses candidates. Portland, Oregon [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Photoshop this icy path [Photoshop]
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Fark.com RSS » CSB Sunday Morning: New Year's Day [CSB]
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Fark.com RSS » Massachusetts drunk drivers say "I love 'I love this bar'" [Interesting]
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GraphJam » Never Gonna Give You Up
Graph by: Tagged: Music , Pie Chart , repeat , rick astley , Songs Share on Facebook
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Mental Floss » WWI Centennial: Rasputin Murdered
Erik Sass is covering the events of the war exactly 100 years after they happened. This is the 261st installment in the series. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Aren't you supposed to close the back gate of the ferry BEFORE you start the trip? [Fail]
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Mental Floss » 10 Famous Birthdays to Celebrate in January
Do you share a birthday with one of these famous people from history? [Link]
Weird Universe » Happy New Year, 2017!
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Fark.com RSS » Utah lawmaker wants to allow people to sue porn producers for "actual damages" from watching their products. So basically the cost of a single sock or a hairbrush [Asinine]
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Fark.com RSS » Say hello to my little sweater [Florida]
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Mental Floss » Learn Expert Strategies for Counting on Your Fingers (Video)
These fingers go to 11 (and beyond). [Link]
FMyLife » Darthstormer says FML
Today, I had my daughters for New Year's Eve, since my ex-wife and her boyfriend were laid up with bad colds. According to Facebook, however, they were having a great evening out at the bar toasting in the New Year. FML [Link]
FMyLife » pegsue89 says FML
Today, it's New Year's Eve, and I'm waiting at the pharmacy for antibiotics for a sinus infection. A week ago, on Christmas Eve, I was in the exact same spot waiting for antibiotics for strep throat. Could I please have one holiday without being sick? FML [Link]
FMyLife » anonymous says FML
Today, I landed myself a date with a cute guy. Once I got to the location, after driving 20 minutes, he texted me and cancelled. Happy New Year. FML [Link]
Fark.com RSS » The Titanic was brought down by a fire [Ironic]
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Mental Floss » 39 U.S. City Name Origins
So that's why there's a Kansas City in Missouri. [Link]
Mental Floss » 16 Offbeat Holidays to Celebrate in January
Start the year off right with January's quirkiest celebrations. [Link]
FMyLife » Brupopy says FML
Today, I found out that my mother has been pretending that I'm a woman so that she doesn't have to tell her colleagues that she has a gay son. Apparently this has been going on for the past four years. FML [Link]
Fark.com RSS » So what are you doing for New Year's Eve? Will you countdown with the crowd? Who will you kiss once the clock strikes midnight? It is your New Year's Eve thread, and Happy New Year to you all [Live]
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Fark.com RSS » Meanwhile in London, a train station has been evacuated … because a Tube worker burnt his dinner (Not safe for work content in sidebar) [Facepalm]
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FMyLife » JiggilyJoe says FML
Today, while on a flight, another passenger pulled their carry-on out of the overhead. They forgot about the filled, metal water bottle clipped to the outside until it nailed me on top of my head. FML [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Prison guards find out why the footballs and basketballs don't bounce [Interesting]
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Mental Floss » Watch Computer Experts Discuss the Y2K Problem in 1999
"The Windows 98 Y2K Patch fixes all these issues." -Don Jones, Microsoft [Link]
Fark.com RSS » What's not to like about this recipe for 'wine cheese shots'? *hork* [Weird]
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Fark.com RSS » Well, grandma, you have been charged with shoplifting $105.00 worth of school uniforms for your grandkids. Your bail is set at $150,000.00. We'll bring you to court in a couple of months [Murica]
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Fark.com RSS » Stronger beers will get you drunk faster [Obvious]
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Fark.com RSS » One place you don't want to visit: Venice at low tide [Awkward]
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Fark.com RSS » The crew noticed the pilot was behaving "oddly" right before takeoff – and by "oddly," they mean passed out drunk in the cockpit [Scary]
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Fark.com RSS » Photoshop what this cyclist is pointing to [Photoshop]
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Fark.com RSS » At least 35 killed in nightclub shooting in Turkey. Unclear whether this counts as a parting shot by 2016 or an early start by 2017 [NewsFlash]
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FMyLife » texaskitty86 says FML
Today, my mother got married. My siblings and I only found out when the pool hall she held the ceremony at posted the news on Facebook. FML [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Another whale has arrived in the East River, presumably to avenge the death of its cetacean counterpart [Followup]
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Fark.com RSS » The biggest trend in parenting this year? Chilling the f*ck out [PSA]
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