Whittle It a Little, It’ll Fit

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 » Yes, you too can save your mind, marriage and life … with just a little LSD [Interesting]

Sunday 15 January 23:44:50 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Do you wear underwear to bed? Uh yeah, about that (Not safe for work pic in article) [Scary]

Sunday 15 January 23:05:50 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Thanks Internet … for giving us too much sex [Interesting]

Sunday 15 January 22:31:50 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Want to be happy for the rest of your life? Move to the "happiest place on earth," Costa Rica [Spiffy]

Sunday 15 January 21:58:50 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » 10 days after Pornhub rates them as the the third most porn watchingest country, the Philippines decide to block Pornhub. Sales of National Geographic back issues skyrocket [Followup]

Sunday 15 January 21:09:54 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Photoshop what infests our military bases in New Mexico [Photoshop]

Sunday 15 January 21:00:01 UTC 2017

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Mental Floss » Live Ruby Seadragon Caught on Tape for the First Time

Sunday 15 January 21:00:00 UTC 2017

The species was discovered just two years ago. [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Meanwhile in Canada… Cyclist and car get in a shoving match. Mostly the car really [Fail]

Sunday 15 January 20:42:49 UTC 2017

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Futility Closet » Resolution

Sunday 15 January 20:23:13 UTC 2017

The motto of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is Essayons (“Let us try”). [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Without fanfare, Springfield Missouri recently became home to a giant noodle [Silly]

Sunday 15 January 18:40:35 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » "Prosecutors said that even though Clouse was just a drug mule, he should have known better because of his experience working as a deputy sheriff." YA THINK? [Asinine]

Sunday 15 January 18:08:22 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Today's Fark ready headline: Spontaneous combustion concerns lead to warnings over height of chicken manure piles [Scary]

Sunday 15 January 17:20:44 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » So we're fat-shaming squirrels now? [Scary]

Sunday 15 January 17:19:58 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Prince William to end helicopter pilot career, take on full Royal duties of waving at crowds and… um… waving at other crowds [Followup]

Sunday 15 January 17:01:00 UTC 2017

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Mental Floss » Learn the Basics of Sheet Music with This 5-Minute Video

Sunday 15 January 17:00:00 UTC 2017

What do those dots and lines mean, anyway? [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Remote African tribe laughs when they see a cartoon for the first time, because the humor created when a cat loves lasagna is universal [Amusing]

Sunday 15 January 16:40:06 UTC 2017

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Weird Universe » Japanese Typewriters

Sunday 15 January 16:33:58 UTC 2017

The first Japanese typewriter was invented in 1915 by Kyota Sugimoto. By the 1920s these typewriters had begun to be used by Japanese businesses. The San Jose history blog gives a description of how they worked:

The letter tray, which Sugimoto called a “type-nest” in the patent application, is an array of 70 X 35 cells. Each cell holds a … [Link]

Weird Universe » Molly Lieber and Eleanor Smith, Dancers?

Sunday 15 January 16:33:57 UTC 2017

Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers are so jealous!

They had a recent naked performance in NYC.

Link is to safe-for-work NEW YORK TIMES coverage. [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Brazilians decapitated in prison riot; this is not a repeat of the last two times this has happened. Man, that's a lot of people to be decapitated in a prison riot [Scary]

Sunday 15 January 10:08:28 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » An Indian family attempt to move into an upscale neighborhood in Tampa only to have the neighbors call them 'Farking Ragheads' and threaten to burn down their house [Florida]

Sunday 15 January 10:00:28 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Coming to you from Juneau, Alaska, it's once again time for Livingston Stapler Company Presents. Two hours of music hosted live by a farker (9 pm AKST/10 pm PST) [Live]

Sunday 15 January 5:57:08 UTC 2017

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Mental Floss » These Animal-Themed Socks Pair Unlikely Friends

Sunday 15 January 5:30:00 UTC 2017

These charitable socks teach kids that we can all be friends. [Link]

Fark.com RSS » If you have to set your armpit hair on fire to impress your friends it's probably time to find better friends [Dumbass]

Sunday 15 January 3:51:57 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » A look inside the scariest place in Iowa, the Villisca Axe Murder House [Creepy]

Sunday 15 January 3:31:07 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » No dunking, better fundamentals, lead UCONN women's basketball team to the most consecutive wins in NCAA history. Again [Spiffy]

Sunday 15 January 2:02:22 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Want to help the FBI catch DB Cooper?. Are you good at puzzles? Well then here is a clip-on tie and 100,000 new clues [Interesting]

Sunday 15 January 0:59:22 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » The BBC asks the question on all Farkers' minds: Is it OK to watch porn in public? [Giggity]

Sunday 15 January 0:11:27 UTC 2017

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John Gordon Ross

A Man for All Reasons