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 » Planned $10 billion upgrade to JFK airport forgets to include the apparently minor issue of actually getting to where you're going [Ironic]
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Mental Floss » Pup Named After David Bowie (With Eyes to Match) Needs a Forever Home
The dog has reportedly been ignored by potential owners because of his different colored eyes. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » 'I'm a normal guy. I just fancy six-year-olds', says deviant freak who should be in jail [Obvious]
[link] [117 comments] [Link]
Mental Floss » The Game Boy Returns, With a Twist
The classic handheld device is back—but it's not a Nintendo product. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Macomb County declares state of emergency over Fraser sinkhole. Apparently there's not enough tossed salads and scrambled eggs to fill it up [Scary]
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Mental Floss » What’s the Difference Between Club Soda, Seltzer, and Sparkling Water?
They all sparkle. They all bubble. And they’re all water. But they're not interchangeable. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Every citizen in France automatically registered as an organ donor, unless they opt out. Although due to the French lifestyle of fatty foods, wine and cigarettes, doctors shouldn't count on finding many healthy kidneys, lungs, hearts or livers [S
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Mental Floss » Most People's Friendships Fall Into One of Three Categories
Are you a tight-knitter, a compartmentalizer, or a sampler? [Link]
Fark.com RSS » In Japan, small group of genderless hetero young men reject conventional dress codes via clothes and makeup, attracting young women. "He looks like a girl. But when you put that together with his maleness, I see him as a new kind of man" [Wei
[link] [131 comments] [Link]
Mental Floss » 11 Hulking Facts About Green Giant
The Jolly Green Giant wasn't always green. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Are you bored? Here are more than 100 things you can do right now. Strangely absent is surf around on this website [Misc]
[link] [58 comments] [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Fark-ready headline: Chickens are scumbags who trick their partners into sex [Interesting]
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Fark.com RSS » Photoshop these old men [Photoshop]
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Mental Floss » National Historic Park Honoring Harriet Tubman May Soon Become a Reality
It looks as though years of lobbying efforts are finally coming to fruition. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Never count your chickens before they hatch. However, if this becomes a problem, you might want to start buying fresher eggs at the grocery store [Interesting]
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Fark.com RSS » TV report about the girl that ordered a giant dollhouse on Amazon Echo triggers viewers' Amazon Echos to order giant dollhouses [Followup]
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Fark.com RSS » 26-year-old Esteban Santiago from NJ allegedly shot first at FLL [Followup]
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Fark.com RSS » Whale that killed three people will now have to answer for his deeds in the afterlife [PSA]
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Fark.com RSS » We have the best quizzes at Fark. The best, believe me. You're gonna love it, bigly. It's the yuuuuuuuuge Friday Fark Weird News Quiz [Amusing]
[link] [23 comments] [Link]
Mental Floss » The Best Cheese in the World Is From Wisconsin
Cheeseheads, rejoice! [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Turns out consignment stores are a great place to pick up inexpensive hand grenades (pics) [Spiffy]
[link] [25 comments] [Link]
Mental Floss » 14 Behind-the-Scenes Secrets of Florists
Here’s why they hate the holidays. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Leaky pipes are making it hard for Arizona State honors students to learn anything, marking the first time "Arizona State" and "honors students" are used in the same sentence [Interesting]
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Fark.com RSS » Reset the clock [NewsFlash]
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Mental Floss » What the Whole Earth Looks Like With Sunset Shadows
A geographer has created topographic maps of the shadows cast by every mountain in the world. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Seniors turning to "Cane Fu" to defend themselves [Florida]
[link] [56 comments] [Link]
Mental Floss » Get Your Shovel: A Big Storm Will Stun the Southeast Tonight
The storm could produce amounts of snow this region only sees once or twice a decade. [Link]
Mental Floss » A 'Toilet Revolution' Is Coming to Public Bathrooms in China
The country's $290 billion tourism investment will include 100,000 new and upgraded public toilets. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Ottawa program for giving alcoholics hourly drinks garners attention in Aussie research labs, Fark.com staff meetings [Interesting]
[link] [61 comments] [Link]
Futility Closet » Taste
Cheering news from India. My press clipping agency has sent me a letter from the correspondence column of an Indian paper about a cow that came into the bungalow of a Mr. Verrier Elwyn, who lives at Patengarth, Mandla District, and ate his copy of Carry On, Jeeves, ‘selecting it from a shelf which contained, among other works, books by … [Link]
Mental Floss » Alexa Now Offers Voice-Controlled Food Delivery From Amazon Restaurants
"Alexa, get me a pizza." [Link]
Fark.com RSS » In the US, stay away from the yellow snow. In Beijing, stay away from ALL snow [Interesting]
[link] [33 comments] [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Bicyclist struck and killed by van outside Legoland. Police still trying to piece together the accident [Scary]
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Fark.com RSS » Slackliner, no slacker, walks ski lift cable to save "friend of friend's" life [Hero]
[link] [61 comments] [Link]
Mental Floss » 5 Strange News Stories From This Week
Odd stories from all over. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Miniature brain, skull and hair found inside 16-year-old girl's ovary in "monster tumour." Happy Friday, everyone [Weird]
[link] [79 comments] [Link]
Mental Floss » Could Living Near a Highway Increase Your Risk of Dementia?
According to a Canadian study, living near a busy roadway could increase your chances of developing dementia. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Asshat landlord gives leasing agency list of 'unsuitable' tenants. Looks ok so far: smokers, pet owners, single parents, plumbers, battered wives… wait, what? [Dumbass]
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Fark.com RSS » So why are wedding rings worn on the left hand anyway? [Interesting]
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Mental Floss » No Sh*t: People Who Swear More May Also Be More Honest, Study Says
No, we’re not f*cking lying. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Extremely rare 800 pound whale washes up along the Jersey shore, reminding residents that the Governor hasn't been around in a while [Strange]
[link] [47 comments] [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Two brothers try to ambush armored car employee. Since this is Fark, you can guess how that went [Video]
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Mental Floss » Border Control Agencies May One Day Use AI to Detect Travelers’ Lies
If you lie about that fruit you’ve brought back from another country, AVATAR will call you out on it. [Link]
Mental Floss » 10 Events Correctly Predicted by 'The Simpsons'
Matt Groening's animated family has demonstrated an uncanny ability to see into the future. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Good news for the day; rescue dog enjoys swimming with dolphins [Sappy]
[link] [15 comments] [Link]
Fark.com RSS » I'll see your anaconda in a toilet and raise you with a carpet python in a leaf blower [Scary]
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Fark.com RSS » OSHA finds faults with the lack of PPE, thumb jerky, firing employee attempting to dial 911 [Sick]
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Fark.com RSS » Attention Farkers living in Fairfax County, VA: The county's brand-new Civilian Police Review Panel is looking for members. You have one month to apply. Have at it [Spiffy]
[link] [44 comments] [Link]
Mental Floss » 25 Words Turning 25 in 2017
If you were born in 1992, not only are you as old as the Mall of America, the nicotine patch, and Super Mario Kart, you got to grow up with these words, all dated by first citation to 1992 in the Oxford English Dictionary. 1. VACAY It was a time when people started going on vacation before the vacation even … [Link]
Fark.com RSS » After careful study for two years, Chilean navy publicly releases video of a streetlight [Interesting]
[link] [40 comments] [Link]
Weird Universe » Mousetrap Cigarette Lighter
Introduced at the 1941 meeting of the Inventors of America society in New York — a combined mousetrap and cigarette lighter.
The caption on the first image is confusing. It says "a lever sets the mouse in motion," but I assume that's a mistake. It should probably read, "The mouse sets a lever in motion."
Another newspaper offered the following … [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Delta apologizes for relocating crying baby from first class to coach. Next time try the overhead bin [Sad]
[link] [189 comments] [Link]
Mental Floss » Someone Is Strategically Placing Poems Around a British Supermarket
The verse-loving perp left the poem "Deer" in the meat section atop some venison. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Photoshop this idol to a dark god. Well, an orange god [Photoshop]
[link] [24 comments] [Link]
Overheard In The Office » It’s Amazing He Can Be Such a Good Lawyer, Despite Being Blind
Female staffer #1: You know what David* said to me? He said, “In case you know anyone who’s having a vasectomy, I have some advice for you to give them.” And then he told me about how they gave him a jock strap to wear after his surgery to keep everything in place, but that the one they gave him … [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Mom sheds 100 pounds to get back at cheating husband, discovers looking hot is the best revenge [Spiffy]
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Fark.com RSS » Llamas on the lloose [Amusing]
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Fark.com RSS » Empty your gun into a car that's leaving and pump all occupants full of holes because you think they are suspicious? Well, that's fine in the U.S. [Asinine]
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Fark.com RSS » It turns out the easiest diet of them all is to follow no diet [Obvious]
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Fark.com RSS » Trump deposed [Awkward]
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Fark.com RSS » Old and busted: Hipsters making their own beer. New smugness: Hipsters making their own butter [Spiffy]
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Weird Universe » Bowling is for Bored Teens!
[Link]
Fark.com RSS » Second mountain lion killed on same LA freeway in a month. The road is not safe [Sad]
[link] [27 comments] [Link]
Fark.com RSS » The 'Yankee Doodle' song was written by the English to make fun of Americans, but it backfired. And other pasta facts that will leave you scratching your noodle [Interesting]
[link] [35 comments] [Link]
Mental Floss » Is Ben
All signs point to yes. [Link]
Mental Floss » Morning Cup of Links: A Modern-Day Wingwalker
Starting another day with great morning links! [Link]
Fark.com RSS » As the ambulance sped away, one thing stuck in his mind (warning: graphic image) [Sick]
[link] [67 comments] [Link]
Fark.com RSS » It's Texas. Of course you can rent a cowboy boot-shaped house [Obvious]
[link] [18 comments] [Link]
GraphJam » Ten Artists Favorite Colors
Graph by: (via Arthur Buxton) Tagged: artists , favorite color , painting , Pie Chart Share on Facebook
[Link]
Mental Floss » There's No Good Proof That Cough Medicines Actually Work
Yet we still spend billions of dollars on it per year. [Link]
Mental Floss » Want to Kill Your iPhone in Style? Consider Molten Aluminum
Don't try this at home. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Genius beautician comes up with devious plan to keep her driving points down but is foiled when her Facebook post pleading for a patsy is spotted by a cop [Dumbass]
[link] [50 comments] [Link]
Futility Closet » Traffic Planning
Towns A and B are connected by two roads. Suppose that two cars connected by a rope of length 2r can travel from A to B without breaking the rope. How can we prove that two circular wagons of radius r, moving along these roads in opposite directions, will necessarily collide? 
This can be solved neatly by creating a configuration … [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Just a heads up: If the devil enters you, you'd be prone to driving erratically across exits ramps, crashing into half a dozen vehicles, and gleefully telling reporters you don't think you were even wearing a seatbelt [Weird]
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Fark.com RSS » Pet deer named after Bambi's friend shot by evil game warden just because there's a law against having deer as pets, which to be fair, sounds like a really dumb law in rural Kansas [Sad]
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Fark.com RSS » Greta Van Susteren now at MSNBC. Says she would have stayed at Fox if only Roger Ailes had done her like he'd done the other girls. It was very insulting [Facepalm]
[link] [56 comments] [Link]
Fark.com RSS » The story of a man and a rabid bobcat. "To be honest with you I didn't know it was a bobcat. I just thought it was a really really big domestic cat," said homeowner Karen Morse [Florida]
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Fark.com RSS » Austin man caught trying to get rid of cocaine he'd hidden under his fat belly. Guess cocaine doesn't keep everyone from eating [Asinine]
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Fark.com RSS » New study shows that American Christians know about as much about their own religion as most Americans do about world geography [Obvious]
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Fark.com RSS » Dylann Roof: Your honor, I object. The crying by the family members of the people I murdered is excessive and will prejudice the jury against me [Fail]
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Fark.com RSS » Uber booty call? Now more than ever …just an Uber away [Spiffy]
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Fark.com RSS » Is it a bird, is it a plane? No but it is the well known stuntman from Superman vs Batman being caught speeding by police in English town [Fail]
[link] [9 comments] [Link]
Fark.com RSS » M. Lewis and William Clarke headed to Washington after incident while traveling involving sovereignty of Indian Tribes. This is not a repeat from 1806 [Interesting]
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Fark.com RSS » Cyclist carrying a poodle fights man on horseback and you might be surprised who wins [Weird]
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Fark.com RSS » You really think Julian Assange would do that? Just go on TV and tell lies? [Obvious]
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Fark.com RSS » "Come to our garage, where you can give birth while we change your oil" [Sappy]
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Fark.com RSS » Photoshop this life drawing class featuring Iggy Pop [Photoshop]
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Fark.com RSS » "We don't force anyone to stay," [said the Scientologist]. "But I could see why people have that idea" [Creepy]
[link] [94 comments] [Link]
Mental Floss » Former 'Blues Clues' Star Steve Burns Is Making Trippy, Kid-Friendly Music
The former Nickelodeon icon is making music with The Flaming Lips's Steven Drozd. [Link]
Mental Floss » Exposing Babies to Peanuts May Prevent a Deadly Allergy From Developing
There’s “a window of time in which the body is more likely to tolerate a food than react to it, and if you can educate the body during that window, you’re at much lower likelihood of developing an allergy to that food.” [Link]
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