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 » Ohio clinic mistakenly tells dozens of people they have Alzheimer's, hopes they don't remember [Awkward]
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Mental Floss » Look Out! Heavy Snow and Strong Winds Are Heading to the Northeast
The dose of intense winter weather will snarl travel and likely bring daily life to a halt through the beginning of the weekend. [Link]
Mental Floss » 12 Highly Specific (and Extremely Delicious) Food Festivals
If you're fanatical about a quirky food item, we've got good news: There's probably a festival for celebrating it. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Don't you just hate it when you're the "Monkey King" minding your own business, driving your bus full of mythological characters around and the police pull you over for a traffic stop? [Weird]
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Mental Floss » Met Museum Makes 375,000 Images Freely Available Online
You can now freely download, edit, and distribute a variety of high-resolution images off the Met’s website, with no copyright restrictions. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Firefighters rescue man trapped in garbage truck. You don't even have to look at the tag to know which state this was in [Florida]
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Futility Closet » Art Appreciation
Vernet relates, that he was once employed to paint a landscape, with a cave, and St. Jerome in it; he accordingly painted the landscape, with St. Jerome at the entrance of the cave. When he delivered the picture, the purchaser, who understood nothing of perspective, said, ‘the landscape and the cave are well made, but St. Jerome is not in … [Link]
Mental Floss » Inflexible Schedules Can Keep Women From Working—This Job Site Aims to Change That
Werk only lists positions with pre-negotiated flexibility. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » The one where the boyfriend gets his girlfriend a cold taco from a taco truck, so she shoots him [Strange]
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Fark.com RSS » Parents decide they don't want the school to post pictures of their kid on social media. Kid gets excluded from pictures. Parents go to media. Media posts story on internet. With pictures of the kid [Ironic]
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Mental Floss » Chan Zuckerberg BioHub Awards $50 Million to 'Risky' Science
The organization granted funding to 47 researchers in biology, engineering, and medicine. [Link]
Mental Floss » 5 Future Oscar Nominees Who Appeared on 'Law
Over the course of 400 episodes and nearly 20 years, the beloved crime series has landed some major stars. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » 6 years on, TEPCO is able to get a robot near one of the reactors at the Fukushima nuclear plant. Let's take a look at the current radiation levels . . . Oh my [Scary]
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Fark.com RSS » Photoshop this winter transportation [Photoshop]
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Fark.com RSS » Bounty hunter marries his wife's teenage daughter while using a fake name to dodge felony drug charges and illegally buy guns, even manages to squeeze in a little Florida [Dumbass]
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Mental Floss » Meet The Man Who's Spent His Life Looking for the Loch Ness Monster
"My life contains freedom, adventure, unpredictability, and the chance of one of the world’s greatest discoveries." [Link]
Mental Floss » Can You Name All the States With an 'H'?
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Mental Floss » Complete These 1986 Movie Titles
Take the quiz! [Link]
Mental Floss » Pick the Sets of Three
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Mental Floss » Can You Pick the 'J' Words?
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Mental Floss » Why is the Passenger Seat Called "Shotgun"?
John Wayne had a little to do with it. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » There are two kinds of writers; those who educate the reader, those who confuse the reader, and those who confuse themselves. Wait, I don't think that's right. Anyway, THIS is your Fark Writer's Thread [CSB]
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Fark.com RSS » Fire breaks out in Samsung Note 7 battery factory [Obvious]
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Mental Floss » You Could Get Paid to Eat Cadbury Chocolate
Cadbury's parent company is looking for a UK-based taste tester. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Sex offender missing after release from prison. He has a long history of bad decisions, in fact it's written all over his face [Dumbass]
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Mental Floss » 7 Wintery Facts About Ice, Freezing Rain, and Sleet
5. Sleet is like snow with an ugly secret. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Daycare worker: Hey, is it okay if I breastfeed your son? Mom: What the?? HELL NO! Daycare worker: *nuck* *nuck* *nuck* *nuck* *nuck* *nuck* [Sick]
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Fark.com RSS » A fire department in Pennsylvania is giving sex toys as prizes in its bingo night. That takes balls [Amusing]
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Fark.com RSS » How a French bartender fought the Nazis by putting on the Ritz [Spiffy]
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Fark.com RSS » Only in Canada can you get pulled over for trying to clear snow from roads with a Zamboni [Fail]
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Mental Floss » 30 of the New Words Added to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary
'Binge-watch,' 'humblebrag,' and 'Seussian' were all included in the more than 1000 new entries. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Until you clean your room, you are grounded [Plug]
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Mental Floss » Yves Klein: The Artist Who Invented a Color
Picasso and his Blue Period have nothing on Yves Klein, who created art almost exclusively in a shade of his own invention. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Seemingly, in a tip of the hat to Fark, Merriam-Webster's first new words to be added since 2014 include both 'Facepalm' and 'Not-safe-for-work' [Cool]
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Fark.com RSS » Medical staff repairs a snail's broken shell. The recovery is expected to be slooooooow [Spiffy]
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Fark.com RSS » Folding your own aircraft tray table isn't exactly brain surgery [Dumbass]
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Mental Floss » Fluency in Sign Language May Sharpen Peripheral Vision
Deaf and sign language-fluent participants in a study had significantly better peripheral vision and reaction time than people who couldn’t sign. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Topless women protest for right to sunbathe semi-nude in ….. and you're gone [Spiffy]
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Mental Floss » Explore the Interconnected World of Mathematics in One Condensed Map
Dominic Walliman traces everything from counting to cryptography. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Watch in horror as this man's £3,000 shed falls into the sea as his back yard disappears in a landslide. Damn, that was a really nice shed [Sad]
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Fark.com RSS » Government agents attempt to conduct an underage drinking sting. Restaurateur doesn't take the bait and tweets pictures of the kids fake IDs. Oh you bet your sweet bippy that's a prosecutin'. Feel safe yet? [Asinine]
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Fark.com RSS » Remember when someone would post a picture, and then someone would photoshop it, and someone else would change it again, and then someone else would photoshop something else to it? Me, either. But here's a picture to get you started [Photoshop]
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Fark.com RSS » Yes, you've had too much to drink when you offer to trade vodka for Girl Scout cookies [Facepalm]
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Weird Universe » No-Roach
She seems a bit too happy to be applying No-Roach. Also, her eyes seem to follow you wherever you move.
The Monroe News-Star – Oct 23, 1967 [Link]
Fark.com RSS » You too can make $270,000 as a San Francisco transit system janitor if you spend part of your working hours hiding in a closet [Asinine]
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Fark.com RSS » Fierce debate rages over the burning question: Where do you store your ketchup? [Stupid]
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Fark.com RSS » Instead of building a border wall loaded with cold checkpoints and icy officials, why not create one that is warm and friendly and invites people to come out and play together? [Unlikely]
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Mental Floss » 5 Questions: Orson's Offspring?
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Fark.com RSS » Google is using data to help design the perfect dress. Will also settle who wore it better [Interesting]
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Fark.com RSS » Sotheby's is putting erotic art on the block. You've fapped to worse. (Not safe for work) [Giggity]
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Mental Floss » Bring Your Wild Side to the Slopes With These Animal Snow Masks
Get down the mountain in style. [Link]
Mental Floss » Morning Cup of Links: Sedna, the Weird Almost-Planet
Thanks for checking out the daily links! [Link]
Weird Universe » Follies of the Madmen #303
Yes, Dumont TV is as destructive and unstoppable as an atomic explosion.
Original ad here. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » China is gearing up for WW3 for no particular reason. You know, just in case [Scary]
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Fark.com RSS » You know you've truly given up as a parent when you enroll your kid in an 'unschooling' program where the curriculum is based on what the child wants to learn. "With unschooling, it really is about what their interests are" [Facep
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Mental Floss » How to Make Latte Art
With a little practice, you, too, can make your morning caffeine habit into a work of edible art. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Sporting goods manager quits after being forced to sell gun to erratic, threatening and potentially dangerous customer. What might have tipped the manager off is when the customer said, "I … hate people like you. People like you should not exis
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Fark.com RSS » In what is absolutely, positively not in any way, shape or form any sort of judgment from an angry god, tornadoes and storms are blasting the bible belt to rubble [Awkward]
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Mental Floss » The Science Behind Why—And How—We Drink So Much Milk
Fun fact: The milk industry produces more than 840 million tons of dairy products annually. [Link]
GraphJam » Believed Maturity of Cursing vs. Age
Graph by: way2odd Tagged: adults , age , children , curse words , cursing , elderly , maturity , old , teens , young Share on Facebook
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GraphJam » Blondes Shouldn't Make Graphs
Graph by: briitney Tagged: Bar Graph , blondes , FAIL , serious graphs Share on Facebook
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Mental Floss » These Bike Path Maps Are Designed to Look Like Subway Routes
To make bike maps truly useful, make them simple. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Vaping is old and busted, "Dripping" is the new rage with teenagers [Dumbass]
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Futility Closet » Split Decision
In December 2013 a U.S. District Court decided that copyright in the fictional characters Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson had expired, but only for the characters as they’re depicted in the earlier novels by Arthur Conan Doyle. Aspects of the characters that are mentioned only in the later novels — such as Dr. Watson’s athletic background, first described in a … [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Want me to hold the spit? Hah, just kidding, Officer Farva [Florida]
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Fark.com RSS » The planet has had enough of our shenanigans and is producing new diseases at a higher rate than ever [Scary]
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Fark.com RSS » Reason to weep for America #34: Publix Supermarkets will no longer offer free slices of meat at the deli counter [Sad]
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Fark.com RSS » First indoor drive-in movie theater. Why didn't someone think of this sooner? [Unlikely]
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Mental Floss » 5 Gross-Out Games for Kids
Warning: Don't bring these out in front of polite company. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Man starts fire, threatens to burn down house, flees, crashes, flees again, the beat goes on [Florida]
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Fark.com RSS » Montana plans to go after deadbeat parents where it hits them the hardest–their rights to huntin' and fishin' [Hero]
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Fark.com RSS » Where can you find the best pizza in America? Phoenix. Duhhhh [Obvious]
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Mental Floss » 11 Amazing Hotels for Book Lovers
Escape reality—both literally and figuratively—by visiting one of these literary-inspired getaways. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Cannabis farm discovered at Legoland Windsor after routine check. Suspicions were raised after the Nexo Knights were spotted raiding the doughnut stand before passing out in Mini-Amsterdam [Amusing]
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Mental Floss » 'Hidden Figures' Is Now This Year's Highest-Grossing Best Picture Nominee
The movie just beat out 'La La Land' as Oscar night looms. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Improve a stock photo by adding yourself; LGT examples [Photoshop]
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Mental Floss » How Were Hieroglyphics Deciphered?
It was a tricky task! [Link]
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