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 » I'll see your "Cop hit with wet tampon" and raise to "Man disfigured in fight over Minute Maid" [Florida]
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Mental Floss » 5 Salary Myths That Are Killing Your Earning Potential
If you’re only thinking about your next paycheck when making a counter offer for a new job, you’re doing your wallet a huge disservice. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » If there's a term for 'fear of scarecrows', this guy in Glasgow definitely has it. Except more 'lacks empathy for and goes into a dissassociative state and commits atrocities against scarecrows' more than a true phobia, really [In
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Mental Floss » Eating Shellfish Likely Means Eating Plastic, Scientists Say
The amount of plastic in our oceans—and thus in our seafood—is rising. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Caller: "I just killed somebody. They're in there breathing their last breath." 911: "Who did you kill?" Caller: "I'm not going to tell you" [Florida]
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Fark.com RSS » He once wrote an entire novel using only words that rhyme with 'orange.' He writes haiku . . . in iambic pentameter. He is the most interesting writer on Fark, and THIS is your Fark Writers' thread [CSB]
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Mental Floss » New Museum Wants to Recreate Sailing—and Sinking—on the Titanic
Guests will be able to experience the disaster without leaving land. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » The Baby Box provides many items new parents need, however it should not be used to ship an infant across the country despite its appearance [Amusing]
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Mental Floss » This Tiny Wearable Disk Archives 1000 Languages for 10,000 Years
Free from any digital degradation, the disk will allow people thousands of years from now to learn about "ancient" languages. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Driver uses the old 'wind was pushing me' as the excuse for speeding. What was he driving a sailboat with wheels? [Dumbass]
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Fark.com RSS » Is that a Fender Stratocaster in your pants or are you just glad to see me? [Dumbass]
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Mental Floss » 15 Memorable Quotes from Mary Tyler Moore
“You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen to you." [Link]
Mental Floss » The World's Tiniest Art Biennale Will Eventually Sink Into the Sea
The event takes place on a tiny island off the coast of Guadeloupe that's slowly succumbing to rising sea levels. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » "William, you have the weed right?" "No, Luis I though you had the weed. Well then you must have the weed, right Susana?" "No, I thought one of you guys had the weed" [Dumbass]
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Fark.com RSS » Prince executed in Kuwait. Proving he had to get far away from Paisley Park to make his overdose death seem legit [Interesting]
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Fark.com RSS » Photoshop this woman's reaction to a protest [Photoshop]
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Mental Floss » What Happens to Usain Bolt's Stripped Olympic Medal?
When an athlete loses a gold medal, do they actually have to give it back? [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Not News: Delivery truck overturns, spilling its contents on the road. Fark: 100 puppies [Scary]
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Fark.com RSS » Protesters who climb construction crane surprised to find out they won't be getting paid time-and-a-half [Stupid]
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Mental Floss » There Are Almost No Roads in Giethoorn, Holland, Just Waterways
It’s a little slice of Venice in northern Europe. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Somewhere in San Diego, there is a guy who is getting paid to smoke marijuana and drive in a simulator for science [Cool]
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Futility Closet » Art and Science
Alexander Fleming, the discoverer of pencillin, grew “germ paintings” of living bacteria on blotting paper. He made this 4-inch portrait, titled “Guardsman,” in 1933. “If a paper disc is placed on the surface of an agar plate, the nutrient material diffuses through the paper sufficiently to maintain the growth of many microorganisms implanted on the surface of the paper,” he … [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Pub owner named Pat Mustard, caught masturbating at barmaid, claims patron beat him up with baseball bat. Confused? You won't be after this week's episode of Father Ted [Strange]
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Fark.com RSS » God has decided that he needed someone who can take a nothing day and suddenly make it all seem worthwhile [NewsFlash]
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Mental Floss » 8 Ways Domestic Cats Are a Serious Threat to Nature
We adore them too. Really. But this is a major problem. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Driver leads cops on high-speed chase. Weird: He was trying to buy soda. Fark: He's 10 [Spiffy]
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Fark.com RSS » Buffalo, NY 1894: "Far out, man" [Strange]
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Fark.com RSS » Queens sanitation worker posed as his dead twin to reap nearly $600,000 in welfare benefits for 19 years [Dumbass]
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Mental Floss » Scientists Grow Mouse Organs Inside Rats, Then Transplant Them Into Mice
The study suggests the potential to someday grow human organs in other animals. [Link]
Mental Floss » An Algorithm Can Now Recognize Skin Cancer From Photos
It performed as well as 21 human doctors in tests. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Mysterious booms heard in San Diego; Natrone Means unavailable for comment [Obvious]
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Mental Floss » Everything That's Leaving Netflix in February
Choose Life. Choose a job. Choose a career. Choose a family. Choose to watch 'Trainspotting' before it leaves Netflix in February. [Link]
Mental Floss » 5 Questions: "Room" of Your Own
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Mental Floss » Match the Quotation to the Movie
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Mental Floss » Can You Name All The Countries Starting With 'D'?
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Mental Floss » Can You Name These 'U' Answers?
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Mental Floss » Where Are These European Landmarks?
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Fark.com RSS » Elderly woman flies through tornado in a bathtub, lands in nearby woods. Add some wings a few more struts, and she might have made it into space [Scary]
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Fark.com RSS » Florida lags behind in mental health funding. Obvious tag so outraged it ragequit Fark and went to Pets.com to work for their sock puppet [Florida]
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Fark.com RSS » I knew Detroit was attracting some hipsters, but there must be more than I thought if they're planning an indoor velodrome [Weird]
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Mental Floss » Android Users Can Now Store Their Netflix Downloads on SD Cards
It just got easier to binge-watch on the go. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Bus taking protestors to D.C. has mechanical problems, driver kindly leaves her Facebook open to the public displaying her intentions to fake mechanical problems [Asinine]
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Mental Floss » 12 Facts About Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater
The home is built directly over a waterfall, integrating it with nature. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » There are good times to be naked, and then there's "while riding a bike in sub-zero temperatures and being chased by the police" [Dumbass]
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Fark.com RSS » These are the hobbies that make you attractive to the opposite sex. Executive summary: go outside, talk to some people you find there [Obvious]
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Mental Floss » Pick the Capital City for Each European Country
Take the quiz! [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Investigators seek tips after discovering wolf poaching. Well, for one, put a capful of vinegar in the hot water, and don't overcook [Sick]
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Fark.com RSS » Students in caffeine study accidentally given doses equivalent to 300 cups of coffee instead of three, singlehandedly double what scientists now consider the lethal dose of caffeine and they haven't slept since [Hero]
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Mental Floss » Is This America’s Oldest Condom?
“In terms of its dimensions, it’s clearly the right shape and everything,” Sara Rivers-Cofield told mental_floss. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Everybody back to the suburbs; we have reached peak millennial [Obvious]
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Fark.com RSS » The disturbing, secret details of the final battle of Vietnam have finally come to light [Followup]
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Fark.com RSS » If you left your pet Tarantula at a hotel in Puyallup on Jan. 17 Metro Animal Services would like to have a word with you [Sad]
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Fark.com RSS » Speeding commuter train slams into FedEx semi-trailer, slicing it in two, at rail crossing in North Salt Lake, Utah. Is there video? You bet there is [Scary]
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Fark.com RSS » Unable to accept the reality that he lost the popular vote by 3 million votes, Trump calls for a "major investigation" of massive voter fraud. In related news, the president orders the FBI to investigate the boogey monster that lives under hi
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Fark.com RSS » Dog saves dog … or maybe he just wanted the stick. Good boy either way [Hero]
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Fark.com RSS » Featherless rescue bird is happy and playful, despite sort of looking like a freshly shorn scrotum [Sappy]
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Fark.com RSS » Woman charged with aggravated battery for pelting police officer with a 'deadly weapon' – her wet and used tampon. Officials are investigating a possible string of crimes [Florida]
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Mental Floss » We May Be Able to Make Plastic Sustainable Using Pine Needle Waste
The new type of polymer would replace crude oil in mostly sustainable plastic. [Link]
Mental Floss » 9 Surprising Secrets from Vancouver History
A haunted island, margarine bans, and severed feet. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Wait, the trench run in Star Wars wasn't along the Death Star's equator? [Interesting]
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Fark.com RSS » Owner of floating strip club fined $10,000 for dumping human waste off the side of the barge that held his business. Hmm, strip club human waste. No thanks, you can do the testing on that, Bob [Sick]
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Fark.com RSS » If a man is struck by a car and he doesn't remember it, does it make a sound? [Florida]
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Weird Universe » Name That List, #36
What is this a list of? The answer is below in extended.
A pair of Howdy Doody earmuffs A hundred thousand ladybugs A recording of humpback whales at play A fat lady willing to do a nude dance on a trampoline The words and music to "Methodist Pie, Sugar in the Gourd" Two fleas in a wedding dress A gasoline-powered … [Link]
Weird Universe » Artwork Khrushchev Probably Would Not Have Liked 1
Inspired by my earlier post about Khruschev's distaste for modern art, I am moved to launch this occasional series about modern art that was made prior to his premiership (1958) that would have likely offended him. I will focus on less-famous works.
If this is not an esoteric thread, I'm not sure what is!
In any case, we start with … [Link]
Mental Floss » Every New Movie and TV Series Coming to Netflix in February
Ricky Gervais's 'David Brent: Life on the Road' drops on February 10. [Link]
Mental Floss » "Room" of Your Own
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Fark.com RSS » Man blows shiat up to announce the gender of his baby. Surely he will be a responsible parent in the future [Murica]
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Mental Floss » Freshen Up With Jane Austen and Sigmund Freud-Themed Toothpastes
Because nerds need clean teeth too. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Otters of unusual size? I don't think they exist [Scary]
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Fark.com RSS » If you drive an Audi and think you can park on someone else's driveway and take up 2 parking spots, you may one day understand the concept of karma and that it drives a Skoda [Amusing]
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Fark.com RSS » Trump is bringing back the good old days when a restaurant owner can kick somebody out of his establishment simply for being black [Scary]
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Fark.com RSS » California regulators, "Well, let's not start sucking each other's aqueducts quite yet" [PSA]
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Fark.com RSS » Your son has committed suicide, so what is more traumatic than getting an automated call from his school informing you he has been absent? A second automated call on the day of his viewing [Asinine]
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GraphJam » GraphJam: Facial Hair Chart
Graph by: deadmeat1492 (via Graph Jam) Tagged: best of week , facial hair , hitler , wizard Share on Facebook
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Fark.com RSS » President Trump says that if Chicago doesn't get its shiat together, he is going to "send in the feds." Or release the dogs. Or the bees. Or the dogs with bees in their mouths, so when they open their mouths, they shoot bees at you [Stupi
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Mental Floss » Take a Tour of the 'Star Wars' Galaxy's Best Vacation Spots
Cultured travelers will appreciate Coruscant, while nature lovers may enjoy Hoth. [Link]
Mental Floss » Artist Transforms Sentences From Classic Literature Into Constellations
Nicholas Rougeux turns first sentences from books like "Peter Pan" and "Dubliners" into star charts. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Hi, I'd like the Orange Chicken, Genghis Khan Beef, White Rice, and the $30.95 "Seen Rat" discount [Fail]
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Futility Closet » No Connection
In a garden in Ōtsuchi, in the Iwate prefecture on Japan’s east coast, stands an inoperative phone booth that’s nonetheless been used by more than 10,000 people since the 2011 earthquake and tsunami that killed 15,000 people and displaced hundreds of thousands more. The booth, known as the “Kaze no Denwa Box,” or Phone Booth of the Winds, was built … [Link]
Fark.com RSS » High school principal, vice principal on administrative leave after their plans to make their campus great again get leaked out [Murica]
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Fark.com RSS » Pets are being treated more like children in divorce cases; your dog wants steak and joint custody [Obvious]
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Fark.com RSS » Ugly ass baby hippo born at the Cincinnati Zoo [Cool]
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Fark.com RSS » At long last, Flint might be finally getting the lead out [Followup]
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Fark.com RSS » Knockoff bongs may be delivering nothing but fake news to your lungs [Interesting]
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Fark.com RSS » California high school bans critically-acclaimed 1940s play No Exit because it features a lesbian character. Hell is other people [Stupid]
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Fark.com RSS » Toyota announces a recall of Tundra trucks. The rear step may break if anyone ever actually uses their truck for something other than driving around and hogging up lanes but if you need to move they are all "Oh no, sorry I'm out of town that
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Fark.com RSS » Weirdo: "I'm best friends with my husband's ex – just don't call me weird" [Weird]
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Fark.com RSS » "You know, I enjoy a beer now and then, but it just doesn't taste enough like ice cream to suit me" [Sick]
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Fark.com RSS » If you live in Columbus, IN and are missing 5.5 lbs of pot, the police would like to let you know it was delivered to the wrong address and you can come claim it as long as you have a valid ID [Amusing]
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Fark.com RSS » Person arrested for impersonating a police officer; personal pronouns to be determined [Interesting]
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Mental Floss » Wolf-Sized Otters Once Prowled Prehistoric Swamps
Researchers were digging through an ancient lake bed in China’s Yunnan Province when they found a sizable fossilized skull that resembled that of a modern otter’s. [Link]
Mental Floss » 7 Fun Cold Weather Activities Beyond Snowmen
Have fun outside, no matter how cold it is! [Link]
Mental Floss » 'Harry Potter' Bubble Bath Makes Relaxing Even More Magical
Even mere muggles can have enchanted tub reads. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » "Trucks falling through the ice" season came early in MN this year [Cool]
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Fark.com RSS » Comparing CMIP5 and observations. Or, for you laypeople, this is the spaghetti which will kill us all [Scary]
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Mental Floss » Nikola Tesla Wi-Fi Statue Pays Tribute to the Great Inventor
5285374719001 Nikola Tesla dreamt of building wireless systems of communication—but while he laid the groundwork for future inventors to carry out that vision, he himself never lived to see it. So in 2013, Silicon Valley entrepreneur Dorrian Porter decided to pay tribute to the great inventor by building a statue of Tesla that provides free Wi-Fi to the surrounding area. … [Link]
Mental Floss » Is an Island Off Cuba the Last Surviving Piece of East Germany?
A long, skinny island off the Bay of Pigs might be home to more than memories of the GDR. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Domino's delivery driver trainer botches the 'Hail of Bullets Evasion' demonstration [Sad]
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Mental Floss » 10 Ways to Master the Danish Art of Hygge in Your Home
Long, dark winter nights and stormy weather have us craving a roaring fire, fluffy slippers, and a soft blanket to curl up under. As the Danes would say, we want to get hygge. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Actual headline: Coyote found on Dat Dog balcony [Strange]
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Fark.com RSS » Photoshop J-Lo on a rainy day [Photoshop]
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Fark.com RSS » The reason you look so old is because you sit so much [Unlikely]
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