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 » Doing a slow cooker beef stew. What secret ingredients am I missing? [Survey]
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Fark.com RSS » For the first time in its 48-year history, water is flowing from the emergency spillway at California's Oroville Dam. Because a small "pothole" in the main spillway has morphed into a 300-foot gash, and is spewing water fortified with con
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Fark.com RSS » Ummm… what about Ken? [Spiffy]
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Fark.com RSS » Article headline says "flesh-eating screwworms." Subby has nothing else to offer, and is instead going to cower in the corner and gibber like an idiot for a while [Sick]
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Fark.com RSS » Miami Herald offers up their carefully researched, ground breaking Valentine advice: booze, food, spend money, have sex [Obvious]
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Fark.com RSS » Man wins $5,000 through fantasy fishing. In related news fantasy fishing is a thing now [Murica]
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Fark.com RSS » Oxycodone ✔ Methamphetamine ✔ Cocaine ✔ Morphine ✔ Marijuana ✔ Suboxone strips ✔ A large amount of cash ✔ Or as cops call it 'Another normal day in Alabama' [Dumbass]
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Fark.com RSS » Photoshop this familiar looking golfer [Photoshop]
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Mental Floss » The Most Popular Rom-Com in Every State
The United States of Meet-Cutes. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » It's a shame that 98% of lawyers give the remaining 2% a bad name [Asinine]
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Mental Floss » Why Boredom is Great For You
You're bored? Congratulations! That's great news. Here's why. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Austrian authorities would like a word with Brazilian boy giving people the creeps [Scary]
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Fark.com RSS » Houston Zoo welcomes new ugly-ass baby tapir into the family [Spiffy]
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Fark.com RSS » Truck lands in 70 mph crosswind (skip to :30 if you have ADD) [Scary]
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Fark.com RSS » 20 Tennessee co-workers, lucky bastards claim $421M jackpot [Cool]
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Mental Floss » Don't Miss the Weekend's Biggest Amazon Bargains
From the Smart Shopping Team… [Link]
Fark.com RSS » My grandma went to Vietnam and all I got were these lousy raw chicken, pig, and cow meat, brains, hearts, heads, tongues, feet, and other body parts [Sick]
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Fark.com RSS » I guess you could say (•_•) / ( •_•)⌐■-■ / (⌐■_■) Bus-ted…Yeeeaaaahhhh [Amusing]
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Fark.com RSS » It's Saturday. The weather kinda sucks, there's not a lot on TV, and we've pretty much reached our limit on political news. So, for your personal entertainment, here are 15 amazing things you can do with aluminum foil [Spiffy]
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Fark.com RSS » Saddle up, Space Marines, this week in the Saturday Morning Book Club we're looking for the best military science fiction books [Interesting]
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Overheard In The Office » Where Can I Get It Serviced?
Woman, about phone: My vibrator's not really working.
Man: What? South Glens Falls
New York [Link]
Weird Universe » Chicken’s Symphony
Not bad, for a chicken.
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Fark.com RSS » Oh, nothing much going on here. Just weaving through Hanoi on a scooter at high speed like it's a real life video game [Scary]
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Fark.com RSS » Photoshop this searching shopper [Photoshop]
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Fark.com RSS » Did you hear that long-eared owls are back in vogue again? [Spiffy]
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Fark.com RSS » Harbin zoo blames bad camera angle for making their ferocious tigers look 'chubby' [Unlikely]
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Fark.com RSS » Captain's log, stardate 47634.44. My orders are to investigate this website's peculiar fascination with a strange phenomenon known as 'Caturday' [Caturday]
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Fark.com RSS » Aren't school beatings something we should just mind our own business about? As long as the public can't hear the screaming, what's the big deal? [Fail]
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Fark.com RSS » Obituary from A.) beloved father of the year or B.) other, "an example of bad parenting combined with mental illness and a complete commitment to drinking, drugs, womanizing and being generally offensive" [Awkward]
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Weird Universe » The Pantheon de la Guerre
What was once the world's largest painting featured 6000 identifiable real-world figures. The postcard below represents just a fragment of it.
Full story here.
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Fark.com RSS » California long overdue for some flooding, locusts and a fourth horseman on the ridge [Obvious]
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Mental Floss » On This Day in 1963, Julia Child Debuted 'The French Chef'
"Bon appétit!" -Julia Child, presenting Boeuf Bourguignon [Link]
Mental Floss » 9 Victorian Hobbies That Seem Weird Today
From graveyard picnics to kitten taxidermy. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » The purge has begun [Scary]
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Futility Closet » Picket Fences
Image: Wikimedia Commons A triangular number is one that counts the number of objects in an equilateral triangle, as above: 1
1 + 2 = 3
1 + 2 + 3 = 6
1 + 2 + 3 + 4 = 10
1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 5 = 15
1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + … [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Cleveland man dying of colon cancer donates his massive bobblehead collection to National Bobblehead Hall Of Fame, which promises to keep his 1,500+ bobbleheads bobbling along. "It's my legacy, basically" [Sad]
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Fark.com RSS » This just in: Seagulls do not support Brexit [Interesting]
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Fark.com RSS » Prepare to be disgusted [Florida]
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Fark.com RSS » 11 bizarre laws you can still be arrested for in London, such as trying to enter Parliament wearing a suit of armour [Weird]
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Fark.com RSS » Man steals a truck, outruns police but attracts their attention again, tries to drill through a wall to escape, then spends the rest of the night playing keep-away in an attic. Meanwhile his girlfriend evades capture by just going to Walmart [Stupid]
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Fark.com RSS » One hopes there is a special place in hell for the kind people who steal bolted-down Playstations from children's cancer wards, and a whole bunch of angry, bald children waiting for them when they get there [Asinine]
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Fark.com RSS » PRO TIP: When you're accused of sex abuse in multiple states, always claim to be a former star from '80s sitcom "Family Ties" [Dumbass]
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Fark.com RSS » Live stream of the eclipse. It's cold outside [Live]
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Fark.com RSS » Penn State eliminates the one reason for joining a fraternity [Unlikely]
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Fark.com RSS » Missing Army drone found stuck in tree. Charlie Brown denies involvement [Strange]
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Fark.com RSS » Cat bites sleeping owner to wake her up when house fire breaks out, or more likely to check if she was done yet [Hero]
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Fark.com RSS » I don't remember Wendy's chili being that spicy [Scary]
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Mental Floss » 12 Historic Westminster Best in Show Winners
The award has a long and interesting history. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Science has identified the sexiest and least sexy dance moves. Includes video performances by robot avatars, D-Qwon [Silly]
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Fark.com RSS » A bizarre training exercise saw zoo staff prepare for a chimpanzee escape by chasing a human in a chimp costume while he bit them and hit them with a stick. Why yes it was in Japan, why do you ask? [Strange]
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Fark.com RSS » Photoshop this cheesy skyline [Photoshop]
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Mental Floss » Is This the World's Most Elaborate Dollhouse?
From the world's tiniest Bible to working electricity and running water, this $500,000 mini-mansion that belonged to silent film actress Colleen Moore could be the most detailed dollhouse ever created. [Link]
Mental Floss » 12 Brilliant IKEA Hacks for Your Kitchen
You can hack your way to Pinterest-worthy design in a weekend with a few IKEA basics and a little elbow grease. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Transgender woman arrested after threatening judge. And after killing her sixth husband during a botched castration. Difficulty level – Not Florida [Strange]
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Futility Closet » R.I.P. Raymond Smullyan, 1919–2017
Philosopher and logician Raymond Smullyan passed away on Monday. He was 97. From my notes, here’s a paradox he offered at a Copenhagen self-reference conference in 2002: Have you heard of the LAA computing company? Do you know what LAA stands for? It stands for ‘lacking an acronym.’ Actually, the above acronym is not paradoxical; it is simply false. I … [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Terrorists without stepladders collectively say "Doh" [Weird]
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Mental Floss » Open Your Front Door With a Key Shaped Like He-Man's Sword
It won't turn you into a bodybuilder in a loincloth, but it will let you open a lock. [Link]
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