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 » Newscasters try to explain what various emojis mean without having a clue [Amusing]

Sunday 5 February 22:55:39 UTC 2017

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Mental Floss » The Wildest Turnover in Patriots' History

Sunday 5 February 22:00:00 UTC 2017

Vladimir Putin walked away with a pretty exclusive souvenir after he met New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft in 2005. [Link]

Mental Floss » This Restaurant Is Embedded Into Italy's Dolomites Mountain Range

Sunday 5 February 21:22:21 UTC 2017

It's one of the coziest ways to enjoy the area’s natural beauty. [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Photoshop this sea route [Photoshop]

Sunday 5 February 21:00:01 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Passengers enter NYC subway car filled with Nazi graffiti, are unsure what to do. One guy: "Hand sanitizer removes Sharpie. Who's got some?" Within minutes car full of people are working together to literally wipe out hate [Hero]

Sunday 5 February 20:32:02 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Thieves steal $3.7M worth of engines, but joke's on them because they're Jag engines [Fail]

Sunday 5 February 20:02:57 UTC 2017

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Mental Floss » Inside the Tolstoy Family Reunion

Sunday 5 February 18:30:00 UTC 2017

While most of us spend family reunions eating potato salad and trying to recall the name of our third cousin once removed, Leo Tolstoy's descendants listen to Chopin and have marathon War and Peace reading sessions. [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Breast-feeding may have been involved, but it was probably the Cubs [Weird]

Sunday 5 February 18:07:38 UTC 2017

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Mental Floss » Watch More Adventures in Replying to Spam with James Veitch

Sunday 5 February 17:30:00 UTC 2017

"I'm in." -James Veitch, email hero [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Teen math prodigy lands teaching gig at UCLA. What were YOU doing at 18? [Spiffy]

Sunday 5 February 17:25:53 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » In honor of the day, where Americans of all stripes gather together to stuff their faces, welcome to the first Snack Food Sunday thread. This week: last minute party snacks [Spiffy]

Sunday 5 February 17:00:00 UTC 2017

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Mental Floss » This Week's Best Amazon Deals You Can Still Get

Sunday 5 February 16:30:00 UTC 2017

From the Smart Shopping Team… [Link]

Overheard In The Office » Or at Least Faking a Seizure?

Sunday 5 February 16:29:33 UTC 2017

Female paralegal: I was in the bank the other day and I saw this cop — oh my god, he was so gorgeous. I wanted to hold up the bank just to get his attention.
Male lawyer: Ever think of saying hello? Cafeteria, Supreme Court
Nassau County, New York Overheard by: Big Larry [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Are you sick of going to bed late and waking up tired? Then grab your hiking boots and a tent. Yes, in February [Strange]

Sunday 5 February 15:47:42 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » On the list of places it's never a good idea to break into, police stations are pretty near the top [Dumbass]

Sunday 5 February 15:34:06 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » 1,941 people break the world record for most humans simultaneously floating in the water, topping the old record set in NYC's East River [Strange]

Sunday 5 February 14:30:08 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Man parks truck on top of car to defend family in road rage incident, police say [Florida]

Sunday 5 February 14:29:19 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Photoshop this underwater hula hoop user [Photoshop]

Sunday 5 February 14:00:01 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » CSB Sunday Morning: Friendly bets [CSB]

Sunday 5 February 14:00:00 UTC 2017

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Weird Universe » Home Radiation Detector

Sunday 5 February 13:27:46 UTC 2017

If the crystals are glowing, it's time to get going.

The Opelousas Daily World – Sep 6, 1957 [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Romero Institute releases study which finds that vaginas can be expensive [Obvious]

Sunday 5 February 13:20:10 UTC 2017

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Mental Floss » How Apple's '1984' Super Bowl Ad Was Almost Canceled

Sunday 5 February 12:30:00 UTC 2017

The inside story of the commercial that changed advertising, even though Apple's Board of Directors didn't want to run it at all. [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Trump supporters want to boycott Budweiser because new commercial portrays immigrant founder in a positive fashion [Fail]

Sunday 5 February 11:54:38 UTC 2017

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Weird Universe » 1960s Marx Presidents Set

Sunday 5 February 11:53:00 UTC 2017

Gee, I wonder why they quit adding new presidents after LBJ?

More info here.

Original ad here.

ADDENDUM: WU-vie GES seems to have found a Nixon figure from the final incarnations of this set. [Link]

Mental Floss » Win the Chance to Wear Dorothy Parker's Mink Coat

Sunday 5 February 11:30:00 UTC 2017

A Dorothy Parker fan has launched a Kickstarter to purchase the garment from a private collector and return it to the Algonquin Hotel. [Link]

Fark.com RSS » If an Arizona legislator gets his way, passengers in cars will need to show their ID cards or risk going to jail [Scary]

Sunday 5 February 11:11:21 UTC 2017

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Mental Floss » On This Day in 1971, Apollo 14 Golfers Arrived on the Moon

Sunday 5 February 9:30:00 UTC 2017

The next day, Alan Shepard swung his smuggled six-iron. [Link]

Fark.com RSS » The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit announced, at a time they knew Trump would be wide awake, that they have denied the Department of Justice's emergency motion to lift the travel ban restraining order [News]

Sunday 5 February 9:17:47 UTC 2017

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GraphJam »

Sunday 5 February 8:31:04 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Investigators have discovered the cause of that piano shop fire. You might want to sit down for this. . . It was. . A bad cord. Pianist [Followup]

Sunday 5 February 8:23:15 UTC 2017

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Futility Closet » A Visitation

Sunday 5 February 6:29:54 UTC 2017

The residents of Brattleboro, Vt., awoke to a surprise on New Year’s Day 1856: An angel of snow stood at the corner of Linden and North Main streets, holding a pen and notebook as if ready to record the events of the new year. The artist turned out to be 21-year-old Larkin Goldsmith Mead Jr., the son of a local … [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Coming up at the top of the hour it's the pre-Super Bowl edition of Livingston Stapler Company Presents. Join us for two hours of music hosted live by a farker in Juneau, Alaska (9PM AKST/10PM PST) [Live]

Sunday 5 February 5:56:31 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Arizona Chamber of Commerce president calls teachers "crybabies" for wanting better pay in a state where the average teacher salary is the worst in the country. That's not how to attract good companies to your state, pal [Facepalm]

John Gordon Ross

A Man for All Reasons