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 » TSA finds sword in walking cane of woman who's somewhere between 80 years old and immortal [Silly]
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Fark.com RSS » The TSA's own internal documents indicate that it knows that its airport behavior detection program is ineffective and useless, but they'll keep on doing it because it'll aggravate the hell out of you [Obvious]
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Fark.com RSS » Overnight, someone left a bunch of kitties in plastic tubs at the local cat rescue place. This is not the recommended method for offloading your cats [Strange]
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Mental Floss » Indonesian City Considers Erecting a Giant Statue of a Vampiric Ghost
Officials think the spooky attraction would be good for tourism. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » A cow escapes a slaughterhouse and seeks immunity at a Taco Bell fully aware of the fact no real meat is used there [Interesting]
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Fark.com RSS » If you have $3 million sitting around and don't mind living under upstate New York, your next home could be a missile silo (pics) [Spiffy]
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Mental Floss » Palestinian Barber Styles Clients' Hair Using a Blowtorch
Flat irons are for wimps. [Link]
Mental Floss » 10 Weird Planetary Phenomena Discovered by Amateur Astronomers
Some seriously stellar discoveries have been made by at-home stargazers. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Travel company offering safe, supervised trips for teens to volunteer and learn about local culture is absolutely shocked at revelation that the teens are just getting rip-roaring drunk [Obvious]
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Mental Floss » How to Get the Biggest Reimbursement for a Canceled Flight
Use these tips to get back the money you're owed. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Ecclestone defends breastfeeding photos. Sadly, not Bernie Ecclestone [Obvious]
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Fark.com RSS » Angry Asian man tried to throw Molotov cocktail in Hong Kong subway station during rush hour. Lights himself on fire instead [Dumbass]
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Fark.com RSS » Photoshop what washed up on the beach [Photoshop]
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Mental Floss » What Is an Ambivert?
You, probably. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » The 'Cash Me Outside' girl is obviously from Florida and shockingly also has a father. He speaks [Florida]
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Fark.com RSS » Calling a police officer 'dude' is a punishable offense in Austria. To be fair, here in the States, calling an officer 'Bro' is grounds for tasering [Interesting]
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Mental Floss » How Our Eyes See Everything Upside Down
So why doesn’t the world look that way? [Link]
Mental Floss » 30 Little-Used Loanwords To Add Some Je Ne Sais Quoi To Your Vocabulary
Thanks to the Norman Conquest and the vogue for all things continental during the Renaissance and beyond, anything from a quarter to a third of all the words in the English language are said to be able to trace their immediate origins back to French. That said, the majority of French words in English have been present in the language … [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Grandson claims he will be killed if grandmother doesn't send $1000 money gram to him. As you are reading this story here, you know how this ends [Dumbass]
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Mental Floss » Sir Richard Francis Burton's Attempt to Learn Monkey Language
The famed explorer reportedly trained himself to identify up to 60 monkey “words." [Link]
Mental Floss » Artist Sets Guinness World Record for Tallest Sand Castle
It’s a few inches shy of 49 feet. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Nature runs its course after two people clean jewelry with gasoline in apartment while smoking [Stupid]
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Fark.com RSS » If you're missing a £50,000,000 stash of cocaine, it has just washed onto beaches in Norfolk and authorities are holding it for you [PSA]
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Fark.com RSS » Driving drunk and shooting a gun to impress a girl along with dropping your pants in front of police officers is no way to go through life, son [Asinine]
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Fark.com RSS » There's nothing worse than an overly clingy friend who gets in your face. Well, maybe one with tentacles [Scary]
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Mental Floss » Astronaut Records Elusive 'Blue Jet' Lightning From Space
This is the clearest footage ever captured of the rare phenomenon. [Link]
Mental Floss » 7 of the Most Expensive Weapons Ever Sold at Auction
Got a couple million dollars lying around? [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Tourist: You've all been very kind, wonderful hosts. Translator: She said you're jerks [Amusing]
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Mental Floss » 10 Colorful Facts About Coloring Books
The first coloring books marketed to adults came out in 1961. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Let's see how northern California's dealing with the rain. Oh, dear [Scary]
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Fark.com RSS » Probably shouldn't be smoking during an exam. Especially if the proctor is from the FAA and you're in a Cessna [Scary]
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Mental Floss » Opening Your Car Door Like the Dutch Do Can Save Cyclists' Lives
The "Dutch Reach" forces drivers to check for incoming cyclists before a collision occurs. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » There once was a guy named Diz / Who needed to take a whiz / He went for the head / Got sidetracked instead / By the Weekly Weird News Quiz [Amusing]
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Fark.com RSS » Report shows US Army General used government charge card to pay for strippers, instead of wasting the money on guns or ammo or something [Hero]
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Mental Floss » See What Mr. Darcy Really Looks Like
Spoiler alert: He’s no Colin Firth! [Link]
Mental Floss » 15 Facts About 'Wedding Crashers'
Rule #76: Let Owen Wilson and Vince Vaughn work on your script. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » US Navy Plane, Chinese plane have 'unsafe' encounter over South China Sea, where 'unsafe' is apparently two spy planes spying at each other [Fail]
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Fark.com RSS » Hope you enjoyed your $28 million snowstorm yesterday NYC . All mere inches of it [Interesting]
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Fark.com RSS » Being a foster parent is saintly, being a single foster parent to terminally ill children has no words to do it justice [Hero]
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Mental Floss » Jumping Around Can Help Kids Learn Math
A Danish study found that integrating physical activity into math lessons boosted kids’ test scores. [Link]
Mental Floss » Tour the World From Home With This Epic Google Earth Hyperlapse
No passport required. [Link]
Mental Floss » 5 Questions: Pizza My Heart
[Link]
Fark.com RSS » Rustling 65 sheep is easy. Hiding 65 sheep is hard [PSA]
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Overheard In The Office » Says the Woman Who Watches Paris Hilton's My New BFF?
Female admin: I'll be in charge of this project–it'll be my baby.
Safety trainer: Retarded? Storrs, Connecticut [Link]
Weird Universe » Chore your way to fitness
In 1972, Sears, Roebuck & Co. commissioned fitness expert Nicholas Kounovsky to devise exercises that could be done by housewives while vacuuming. He came up with the "Chore Your Way to Fitness" program. He wrote, "Your vacuum cleaner becomes a portable gym, and you can help tone up lazy muscles as you do your routine cleaning chores."
It sounds like … [Link]
Weird Universe » Mystery Illustration 39
"We are from France!"
Or not.
Explanation here.
And after the jump. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Children's behaviour at school "vastly improved" by staffing classrooms with goats [Obvious]
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Fark.com RSS » Photoshop this vine-festooned living room wall [Photoshop]
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Fark.com RSS » OPD officer who mistook delicious Krispy Kreme doughnut glaze for meth simply disciplined after it was found she was not properly taught to use the notoriously bad issue test kits. No word about her training officer or superiors [Followup]
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Fark.com RSS » When life hands you lemons, make lemonade. When life hands you limes, make pot brownies [Fail]
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Fark.com RSS » Everybody panic, you have been cooking rice wrong and it will murder us all [Unlikely]
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Fark.com RSS » Sunfish are useless [Amusing]
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Mental Floss » Pizza My Heart
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Fark.com RSS » Trump's "SEE YOU IN COURT" tweet sparks wave of social media snark from critics [Followup]
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Mental Floss » Give Tea Time More Charm With a Hedgehog Tea Infuser
Aww. [Link]
GraphJam »
Graph by: keriamon Tagged: car , charge , cigarette , electronics , lighter , Pie Chart Share on Facebook
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GraphJam » So Much Fun!
Graph by: Specialk97 Tagged: amusement park , fun , lines , Pie Chart Share on Facebook
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GraphJam » Pfft, I Don't Even Need My Calculator
Graph by: acpdancer2014 Tagged: AA , battery , Pie Chart , power , reuse Share on Facebook
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Fark.com RSS » And in today's weather forecast for Australia: fire tornadoes [Scary]
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Fark.com RSS » After 54 years Packy the elephant is no longer going to live at the Portland Zoo [Sad]
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Mental Floss » Morning Cup of Links: Jokes That Became Comic Characters
Great links for your weekend perusal! [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Man who completed 744 marathons has died. The lesson is, exercising is deadly [Sad]
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Mental Floss » This Artist Knits the Most Beautiful Animal "Pelts"
Textile artist and knitter Ruth Marshall has found a way to show the stunning beauty of animal pelts—without harming any animals. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Endangered ugly-ass Francois' langur monkey born at Lincoln Park Zoo [Spiffy]
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Mental Floss » Young South African Inventor Makes Bricks From Recycled Paper
Elijah Djan's design is aimed at improving his country's affordable housing shortage and lowering its high pollution rates. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Pastor asks followers to prove their faith by ingesting rat poison [Sick]
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Fark.com RSS » Gay man allegedly attacked in D.C.'s Logan Circle. According to police, four white men between 20-30 years old approached the victim, with one suspect saying "Hey Snowflake, this is what a Trump America looks like, f****t" [Sad]
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Mental Floss » Climate Change Is Altering One of Utah's Most Famous Works of Art
Soon, the art piece could be marooned away from the shores of the Great Salt Lake. [Link]
Futility Closet » Small World
In 1927, Chicago investment bank Halsey, Stuart & Co. published a prospectus inviting its clients to consider investing in the burgeoning motion picture business. Among the illustrations was this Paramount Studios map of international shooting locations in California. “It was not mere chance that established the motion picture industry in Southern California,” notes the booklet. “The actual localization of production … [Link]
Fark.com RSS » With winter finally arriving to parts of the country, being stranded on a New Zealand beach would sound good to a lot of people right now. Not so much for 416 pilot whales [Sad]
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Fark.com RSS » Hitler-themed Valentine's Day cards are distributed at Central Michigan University by college Republicans [Facepalm]
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Fark.com RSS » Orange alligator spotted in South Carolina. Probably cleaning out the local swamp [Strange]
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Fark.com RSS » While reading a letter for Coretta Scott King can apparently get you in trouble in the US Senate, they're just straight up brawling in South Africa's parliament [Interesting]
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Fark.com RSS » It's a Snow Day in Boston which means that the Boston Yeti is prowling the streets looking for doughnuts [Amusing]
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Fark.com RSS » Some folks have been in a car stopped by police and just nervously sat there. Others have fled the car, ran through a busy highway, carjacked their mother, kidnapped an infant, and been shot by a deputy. Those folks are what we call Floridians [Flori
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Mental Floss » 6 Things We Know About 'The Crown’ Season 2
When does ‘The Crown’ Season 2 come out? [Link]
Fark.com RSS » I would have gotten away with it if it weren't for those pesky carrots [Interesting]
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Fark.com RSS » Fark Food Thread: Be it watching over someone's shoulder or watching a cooking show, who was your first inspiration to take up cooking? Did you learn the person's signature dish? [Interesting]
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Fark.com RSS » ♬ Honey honey, pouring down the wall, ah-hah, honey honey. Honey honey, don't like bees at all, ah-hah, honey honey. ♬ [Creepy]
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Mental Floss » 5 Surprising Things That Have Broken the Speed of Sound
It's not only aircraft that break the sound barrier. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Just when you think McDonald's can't limbo under the low bar they set with the McRib, they ask you to hold their beer and watch this [Stupid]
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Fark.com RSS » Canadian lost for five years wandering Amazon found and reunited with family. HEY BEZOS: Update your freakin' website's user interface already [Interesting]
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Fark.com RSS » Watching a movie I've seen a dozen times, and at a scene that reduces me to a sobbing mass of jello every damn time. What movies do that for you — just so I don't feel like a sap [Misc]
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Fark.com RSS » In honor of Bob Marley's 72nd birthday this week, photoshop what he would be doing if he were alive today. (Image of a cloud of smoke doesn't count) [Photoshop]
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Mental Floss » Are These the Skeletons of the First European Colonists in the U.S.?
Unearthed in St. Augustine, Florida, the remains may date back to the Spanish settlement of the city in the mid 16th century. [Link]
Mental Floss » You'll Never Guess What Europeans Call the @ Sign
With competition like this, we need to do better than "At Sign." [Link]
Fark.com RSS » A man is suing a Broward County high school after months of receiving automated phone calls about a child he doesn't have [Florida]
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