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 » When trying to place blame for the cause of a train accident that killed two people, everybody being high at the time can make the task a wee bit more difficult [Followup]
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Mental Floss » This Valentine's Day, Fall Asleep to Tom Hardy's Sonorous Voice
The British actor is making his second appearance on the BBC's "CBeebies" anthology series. [Link]
Mental Floss » The Actors Who Are Dying to Play Yorick in 'Hamlet'
Some Shakespeare fans want to spend eternity as a prop. [Link]
Mental Floss » 10 Things You Might Not Know About the Chinese New Year
Some celebrants rent boyfriends and girlfriends to bring home to their parents. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Driving while drunk can be very dangerous. For one thing, the county deputy who pulls you over might rob you [Florida]
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Mental Floss » Show
Is this the most heartbreaking cotton sack in history? [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Saudi Arabia's next-generation F-15 warplane looks like an F-18 [Followup]
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Fark.com RSS » In a way, all of us have an El Chapo to face. For some, shyness might be their El Chapo. For others, a lack of education might be their El Chapo. For us, El Chapo is a short, dangerous man who wants to break out of federal prison [Scary]
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Fark.com RSS » Photoshop this '60s-era coffee machine [Photoshop]
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Mental Floss » Restoration Reveals Human Skull in Famed Natural History Museum Diorama
Museum researchers have not been able to trace the origins of the skull yet, so they can’t return it anywhere for reburial. [Link]
Mental Floss » Why Are McDonald's McFlurry Machines Always Down?
A possible explanation for why your local McDonald's can't serve up the soft-serve treat. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » You can try to break into a house with finesse and skill, or you can go find the nearest tractor [Facepalm]
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Mental Floss » It’s Official: Ben
Urban Bourbon is one of three new additions to their lineup. [Link]
Mental Floss » Google Maps Now Lets You See How Busy Places Are in Real Time
Few things are more frustrating than showing up to a restaurant during off hours to find a line out the door. [Link]
Mental Floss » Biologists Grow Human Cells Inside Pig Embryos
The chimeras represent a big step forward in growing human organs for transplantation. [Link]
Mental Floss » 5 Questions: Mary Tyler Moore
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Fark.com RSS » Sweden: Great at making plastic flat-pack furniture. Less good at spotting UFOs [Dumbass]
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Mental Floss » 11 Timeless Entertaining Tips From ‘Joy of Cooking’
America's favorite cookbook contains some essential hosting advice. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Moo… MOO… MOOOOOOOOOOOOOO… moo. *lights cigarette* [Amusing]
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Mental Floss » New Volvo Technology Will Keep You From Hitting a Deer (or Moose)
Large Animal Detection can warn you before a dangerous collision. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Man accused of dressing as woman to rob Bank of America [Florida]
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Mental Floss » Mississippi Newspaper Transforms Crime Reports Into Playful Haikus
The Enterprise-Tocsin's police blotter just got a lot more artful. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » It's best not to ask your Facebook friends if they would like to participate in a mass shooting spree with you [Dumbass]
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Mental Floss » A Linguistics Museum Is Coming to Washington D.C.
Planet Word will be open to visitors of all ages and language backgrounds. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Plano, Texas is getting so busy that they had to add a second light downtown and a second checkout line at the Piggly-Wiggly. Also, Barney has to keep more than one bullet in his shirt pocket [Facepalm]
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Fark.com RSS » Russian Parliament votes 383-3 to give men one freebie a year when it comes to beating their wives so long as they don't inflict SUBSTANTIAL bodily harm [Scary]
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Mental Floss » There's a Wire Above Manhattan That You've Probably Never Noticed
It's 18 miles long. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Man arrested after stolen sex toy falls from his jacket in front of a policeman. No word on whether the officer was careful to always use the indefinite article "a dildo" when writing his report [Fail]
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Mental Floss » The Surprising Literary Origins of Wile E. Coyote
Mark Twain provided the perfect character description. [Link]
Mental Floss » We Can Print Human Skin Now
Well, scientists can. You probably can’t. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Why did a half-naked Kiwi ride a luge down a motorway? Because he was bored and his friends offered him beer of course [Amusing]
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Fark.com RSS » Man stabs cop at casino after wife urinates on herself at craps table. The Aristocrats [Stupid]
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Mental Floss » 13 Rabid Facts About ‘Cujo’
The Stephen King adaptation had its fair share of on-set accidents, crew changes, and rowdy dogs. [Link]
Mental Floss » Data-Driven Duet Charts Lennon and McCartney’s Tumultuous Relationship
An algorithm sampled lyrics from 156 McCartney songs and 131 Lennon songs. [Link]
Weird Universe » The Smell of the Moon
When the astronauts of Apollo 16 re-entered the lunar lander, they reported that the moondust they tracked in with them had an intense smell, like gunpowder.
French perfume designer Barnabé Fillion attempted to recreate and bottle this scent, but not as a perfume. What he created was "a sealed borosilicate glass vial containing scented artificial lunar regolith."
You can buy … [Link]
Overheard In The Office » What, 2016?
Coworker #1: Rio de Janeiro just won the vote to host the 2016 Olympic Games.
Coworker #2: Is that like a perfume? Charles City, Iowa [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Bill allowing 151-proof liquor causes buzz among Virginia college students, future Fark admins [Spiffy]
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Fark.com RSS » Texas still working on Tebow bill which allows homeschooled kids to play for their local actual-school football team [Murica]
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Fark.com RSS » Photoshop theme: Alternative facts [Photoshop]
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Mental Floss » 10 Slippery Facts About Slugs
Their slime is actually liquid crystal. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Student forced to pee in bucket awarded $1.25M, White House job [Strange]
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Fark.com RSS » Man tries to Make Delta Great Again [Dumbass]
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Mental Floss » Mary Tyler Moore
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Mental Floss » Torture Your Valentine With This Passive-Aggressive Card
The perfect gift for all your complicated relationships. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Rush hour traffic stopped by motorists staring at a set of headlights [Giggity]
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Mental Floss » 'Apocalypse Now' Video Game Hits Kickstarter With Cooperation From Francis Ford Coppola
The seminal war movie is being turned into a video game, with a little help from Kickstarter. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Woman who owns a yarn shop bans those vile women's march protesters because… um… well, it's her pink yarn and she has a say in what it's going to be used to knit, dammit [Dumbass]
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Weird Universe » Mink Can Opener
Original ad here. [Link]
GraphJam »
Graph by: publius Tagged: flow chart , hipster kitty was here , internet , Memes Share on Facebook
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Fark.com RSS » Giant Meteor demands a recount [Scary]
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Fark.com RSS » White pastor and his adopted black son denied entry into "XXX: Return of Xander Cage," and not just because no one should be subjecting their children to a Vin Diesel movie [Sad]
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Mental Floss » Your Morning Cup of Coffee Is a Chemistry Lesson in Disguise
There's a whole lot of science happening in your daily mug. [Link]
Futility Closet » A Friendly Greeting
On Nov. 21, 1897, Mark Twain addressed the Vienna Press Club on “The Horrors of the German Language.” He spoke in German; here’s his literal translation: It has me deeply touched, my gentlemen, here so hospitably received to be. From colleagues out of my own profession, in this from my own home so far distant land. My heart is full … [Link]
Mental Floss » 1000-Year-Old Iranian Windmills Still Work Today
They're made of clay, straw, and wood. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » National zoo and Virginia aquarium get into an ugly-ass, ugly-ass off [Sappy]
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Fark.com RSS » Not only is your wood stove killing everyone else, no one knows how much smog-causing particulate it's belching out: "As with diesel engines, the level of pollution measured in a controlled test does not reflect what spews out of them in prac
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Fark.com RSS » When using a web service to fax a fake letter to the jail to get your friend released, do not use your real email address and phone number [Dumbass]
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Fark.com RSS » Ukraine unveils super powerful, terribly rattling and too heavy combat drone [Fail]
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Fark.com RSS » Missouri man finds out it's not a chase them down and stand your ground law [Dumbass]
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Fark.com RSS » A call goes out to the Fark community: There's a chronic shortage of hunky male strippers [PSA]
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Fark.com RSS » Well, there's lowlife, and then there's stealing the van of a family about to take their kid to Disneyland with all of the equipment and oxygen tanks in it [Dumbass]
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Fark.com RSS » Florida man, when asked why he had crack cocaine in his car, says: "Because I smoke it. Don't I look like it?" [Florida]
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Fark.com RSS » Man who saw someone drowning and did not lend a hand sentenced to five-and-a-half years in prison, lifetime of having Phil Collins sung at him [Interesting]
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Fark.com RSS » "The experience should feel like you are in the woods," Anzelone said. "I want people to walk through it and forget, for maybe 30 seconds, that they're in the middle of Manhattan" [Cool]
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Fark.com RSS » Strangely enough, alcohol wasn't involved, but drugs have not been ruled out for naked cyclist [Followup]
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Fark.com RSS » If you steal $120,000 Porsches, consider not bragging about it on a glowing rectangle available to law enforcement officials [PSA]
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Fark.com RSS » Woman steals truck, drives it to Arkansas sheriff's office to see if it was reported stolen, then it gets weird [Weird]
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Mental Floss » French Designers Invent Sleek, Squishy, Ergonomic Smartphone
The voice-activated Alo also projects movies and messages as 3D holograms, because why shouldn’t it? [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Fries, extra crispy. I said, fries, extra crispy. WEED, I want some weed, just put the weed in with the fries and give it to me. What kind of Burger King are you, anyway? [Dumbass]
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Fark.com RSS » After serving time for molesting his patients, surgeon opts to: c) sue his victim for defaming his character [Creepy]
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Fark.com RSS » Photoshop this $300 side table from Pottery Barn [Photoshop]
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Mental Floss » What's the Best Pizza Cheese?
5285440908001 When it comes to pizza, not all cheese is created equal—and research from food scientists shows why that's the case. Buon appetito! [Link]
Fark.com RSS » The State of Michigan was admitted into the Union 180 years ago today. Or as it's known in Ohio, second only to August 26, 1817 as the worst day in the history of the United States [Spiffy]
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Mental Floss » 7 Body Language Interview Mistakes You Might Be Making
An HR manger won't notice your slick suit if they're turned off by your weak handshake. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Do kids in high school even use lockers anymore? At least one does, as this guy turned his locker into an Arduino-based vending machine that can sell soda to his fellow students [Cool]
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Fark.com RSS » Coach MaBone in trouble after incident with students. With a name like that it's gotta be a sex thing, right? [Strange]
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Mental Floss » 12 Surprising Razzie Award Winners
The current president has one. So do a number of Oscar winners. [Link]
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