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 » Could you climb every 4,000 foot mountain in New Hampshire? In a month? Could you do it all over again the next month? 12 months in a row? Or would you rather sit inside and read this article? [Cool]
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Fark.com RSS » Don't tweet me, 'bro' [Followup]
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Mental Floss » How to Make the Big Kahuna Burger From 'Pulp Fiction' at Home
This is one tasty burger. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Man fined for driving with unsecured load of snow; city working out rain fines for spring [Asinine]
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Fark.com RSS » Five things never to say to your child about food. "You have to finish off that third double espresso before you start on that case of Pixy Stix" conspicuously absent [Amusing]
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Fark.com RSS » Since Drew has been told he resembles Czar Alexander III, photoshop him some other possible relatives so he won't be lonely. (link goes to the Czar) [Photoshop]
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Fark.com RSS » Great. Global warming has created hipster fish [Obvious]
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Fark.com RSS » Ghost rivers haunt city. Would have gotten away with it if not for those meddling developers [Interesting]
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Mental Floss » Can Mental Disorders Predict Physical Illnesses?
"The most substantial associations with physical diseases preceding mental disorders included those between heart diseases and anxiety disorders, epilepsy and eating disorders, and heart diseases and any mental disorder." [Link]
Mental Floss » Visit a Squirrel Hospital (Video)
Come for the cute squirrels, stay for the good work. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » The largest armed U.S. military brigade to be deployed to Europe since the end of the Cold War has just arrived in Germany. Hmm…this means something [Interesting]
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Fark.com RSS » Council cancels Meals On Wheels because it's too expensive, starts feeding prison food to the elderly instead [Scary]
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Fark.com RSS » Uh, yeah [Obvious]
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Mental Floss » This Week's Best Amazon Deals You Can Still Get
From the Smart Shopping Team… [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Self-driving wire spool debuts in Pennsylvania [Strange]
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Fark.com RSS » Meanwhile, in Michigan… [Dumbass]
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Fark.com RSS » Woman drives into river to avoid police, continues drinking beer as car floats. Good thing it was a light beer [Dumbass]
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Fark.com RSS » It's cool when somebody spray paints graffiti on the rocks along a popular hiking trail as long as the messages is positive. "I actually did a snapchat of it because I thought that's really cool to see something that I think the world rea
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Fark.com RSS » Photoshop this crossing chicken [Photoshop]
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Mental Floss » 20 Memorable Elvis Presley Quotes
“Values are like fingerprints. Nobody's are the same, but you leave 'em all over everything you do.” [Link]
Fark.com RSS » CSB Sunday Morning: Hangouts [CSB]
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Weird Universe » The Voice of Snow White
Snow White and Adriana Caselotti (source: The Disney Wiki)
I came across a story in a 1938 newspaper about how Adriana Caselotti got the job of being the voice of Snow White in Disney's 1937 movie:
Three years ago when Adriana Caselotti, above, was 18, she was a naughty little girl who listened in on the phone calls of her father, … [Link]
Weird Universe » Envy
Wikipedia page says:
Envy received generally negative reviews from critics. On Rotten Tomatoes the film has an approval rating of 8% based on 117 reviews with an average rating of 3.1/10. The site's critical consensus reads, "Jack Black and Ben Stiller fail to wring laughs from a script that's essentially one extended poop joke."[3] On Metacritic, the film has a … [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Aiden, Adderall most popular baby names. Bonus: best "man on the street" type interviews providing excuses for dumb baby names [Asinine]
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Fark.com RSS » Fort Lauderdale shooter to FBI: I'm being mind controlled by the CIA to force me to watch ISIS videos and I'm thinking of committing terrorist acts. FBI: Nope, no problem here. Oh btw, here's your gun back [Followup]
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Fark.com RSS » The Sandusky case has cost PSU $237,000,000, so far [Fail]
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Mental Floss » This Hat-Shaped Colander Lets Chefs Channel Their Inner Charlie Chaplin
Wear your love of cooking on your sleeve, and on your head. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Man shot in laundromat fight. Let's see how agitators in the media try to spin this one in the next news cycle [Interesting]
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Fark.com RSS » Man who stole a remote control for a TV sentenced to 22 years in prison because Illinois [Awkward]
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Fark.com RSS » Mark Hamill reads a Trump tweet in the Joker's voice [Murica]
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Fark.com RSS » Trump turns down Obama's swing offer [Awkward]
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Fark.com RSS » Busty Australian twins want to marry the same guy, who they currently share as a boyfriend [Giggity]
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Mental Floss » On This Day in 1968, Jacques Cousteau's TV Adventure Began
Come for the science, stay for the adorable red hat. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Omaha man dies in most Nebraska way possible [Sad]
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Fark.com RSS » Man arrested for having less than 13 lbs of kitty litter [Facepalm]
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Futility Closet » New Light
Our legal system assumes that a defendant is innocent until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. But what constitutes a reasonable doubt? Law professors Ariel Porat and Alon Harel suggest that an “aggregate probabilities principle” might help to determine whether an accused party is innocent or guilty. Suppose we’ve decided that the evidence must indicate a probability of 95 percent … [Link]
Mental Floss » Artist Creates Monochromatic 'Abandoned' Mansions With LEGOs
The eerie homes look like they're crumbling from disrepair. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Coming up at the top of the hour it's the first Livingston Stapler Company Presents show of 2017. Two hours of eclectic music hosted live by a farker (9PM AKST/10PM PST) [Live]
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Fark.com RSS » There's no better way to improve morale than by simulating a plane crash [Interesting]
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Fark.com RSS » Waving a giant inflatable penis at your neighbors may not be seen as polite, but it's a pretty good way to get on Fark [Amusing]
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Mental Floss » Can You Solve the Counterfeit Coin Puzzle?
This classic math problem can be maddening. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Photoshop these wet ones [Photoshop]
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Fark.com RSS » Western civilization, please rethink your importance, it seems a 3,500-year-old Greek tomb will disagree with you [Interesting]
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