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 » People evacuating their homes because of California dam crisis left behind some kangaroos, zebras, deer, probably some dogs and cats as well but those didn't make the news [Weird]
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Mental Floss » UK Design Firm Puts a New Spin on Your Favorite Childhood Games
Rock-paper-scissors is looking a lot more sophisticated these days. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Bank of England to vegans: Just keep the five pound notes out of your mouth and you'll be fine [Followup]
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Mental Floss » Wanted: Information Regarding a German Zoo’s Stolen Penguin
Penguin "number 53" mysteriously disappeared from its enclosure on Saturday. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Pentagon considering ground troops for Syria within weeks as part of Trump's plan to accelerate fight against ISIS [Scary]
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Fark.com RSS » As most of you already know the host of Livingston Stapler Company Presents was in an accident on his way home from the show on February 5th. Received a FB message from his wife that he's being moved to Queen Anne Healthcare on Feb. 15th. Updates
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Fark.com RSS » Florida Woman is transported by ambulance to 7 different hospitals during epic 26-hour doctor shopping spree [Florida]
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Mental Floss » How One Artist Is Using Mirrors to Create Perception-Shifting 'Infinity Boxes'
After 25 years in computer graphics, Matt Elson wanted to make art people could connect to. [Link]
Mental Floss » For Years, The Founder of Little Caesars Paid Rent For Rosa Parks
Mike Illitch quietly paid for the apartment of the civil rights icon for more than a decade. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Small aircraft hits deer and… Oh, c'mon… this was literally a Bill Engvall comedy routine [Weird]
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Mental Floss » How a Robotic Exoskeleton Is Helping a Paralyzed Acrobat Walk Again
Last year, former circus performer Silke Pan began doing something she never thought would be possible again: walk. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Thank you for your generous donation of computers for kids. Just kidding: I took them to the dump (with mugshot) [Florida]
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Fark.com RSS » Photoshop this paused pose [Photoshop]
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Mental Floss » What Are Those White Marks on Your Fingernails?
Those white spots you sometimes get on your fingernails? Totally normal. Usually. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » If USA wants Crimea returned to Ukraine, Russia wants Alaska back [Ironic]
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Mental Floss » Millennials, Not Teens, Are the Most Dangerous Drivers
Nearly 90 percent of drivers aged 19 to 24 admitted to distracted or unsafe driving habits. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » "The moving finger writes; and, having writ, moves on." unless of course it's in rewriting mode, in which case is buries itself in shame and erases everything because THIS is your Fark Writer's Thread [CSB]
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Fark.com RSS » Virginia principal who ordered removal of diversity posters allows them to go back up after social media uproar, explains that he was only concerned they, um, weren't diverse enough and some groups might feel left out. Yeah, that's the ticket
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Mental Floss » Museum Finds Winston Churchill’s Lost Essay on Extraterrestrial Life
The essay is pure Churchill: expansive, informed, philosophical, and just a little bit cranky. [Link]
Mental Floss » 10 Weird and Wonderful Personal Collections
Back scratchers, umbrella sleeves, and fossilized poop are the items of choice for these collectors. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Apparently, it's technically legal to screw police officers with booby traps. Or at least, they can't find out what law to use [Scary]
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Fark.com RSS » Alabama House passes bill to deny funding to "sanctuary" colleges offering safe havens to immigrants, minorities from hate crimes, because nobody wants that in the state [Obvious]
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Fark.com RSS » Here's the presidential order of succession — just in case [Scary]
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Mental Floss » German Museum Discovers Lost Rembrandt Sketch In Its Collection
For years, the drawing had been attributed to another artist. [Link]
Mental Floss » 5 Strange Facts About the Planet Earth
4. We live on a giant nuclear furnace. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » In these parlous, challenging times, we all need something that we can agree on, something that unites us, something that gives us a calm acceptance of the world and our place in it. So here it is: Young millennial drivers are the worst [Obvious]
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Mental Floss » Moviegoers Can Catch Free Screenings of ‘Hidden Figures’ This Weekend
The special promotion is in celebration of Black History Month. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » "He will die in jail." Intelligence community ready to go nuclear [Followup]
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Mental Floss » Go Inside an Intensely Detailed 'Minecraft' Version of Downtown Chicago
The virtual version of the city took years to complete. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » 84 years ago today, an anarchist leveled his pistol very close to the parade route of president-elect Roosevelt. Read how the quick-thinking reaction of a petite woman foiled the would-be assassin [Interesting]
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Mental Floss » The Playful Surrealism of Matt Elson’s Infinity Boxes
After 25 years in computer graphics, Matt Elson wanted to make art people could connect to. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Fireworks plus stupid usually equals jail [Followup]
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Mental Floss » Thieves Nab More Than $2.5 Million Worth of Rare Books in London Heist
The criminals rappelled down from a ceiling to swipe one-of-a-kind volumes from Galileo and Leonardo da Vinci. [Link]
Mental Floss » 5 Questions: Spilled "Milk"
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Fark.com RSS » Idaho man's pet squirrel Joey goes nuts on burglar [Hero]
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Weird Universe » Eye-Analyzer
In the early 1950s, Steven Warren opened the Foundation for Better Reading — a Chicago-based school that taught speed reading. One of the gadgets used in the school were these "eye-analyzers" that allowed an instructor to watch the eye movements of a student, and tell them when they were moving their eyes too much.
Newsweek – Jan 11, 1954
Chicago Daily Tribune … [Link]
Mental Floss » 15 Surprising Actors Who Could’ve Played James Bond
Dick Van Dyke as 007? It could have happened. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » "The most likely situation is that during the burial they lost their grip on the coffin and it rolled and fell in upside down, they looked down and said, 'You know what, no one's ever going to know'" [Interesting]
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Fark.com RSS » FAKE CHEWS [Silly]
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Mental Floss » Pavilion Made From Recycled Shipping Pallets Was Built to Resemble Ruins
More than 1200 pallets were salvaged to build the structure. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Consumers of a substance that has been linked to cancer, stroke, brain damage, and mental illness are becoming worried about banned pesticides that are used during the cultivation of that substance [Facepalm]
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Fark.com RSS » Photoshop this inquisitive gaze [Photoshop]
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Fark.com RSS » Only in New York can your obituary read "Killed by rat urine" [Scary]
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Overheard In The Office » Darwin, You Want to Field This One?
Guy: Fuck, she is just a total bitch.
Woman #1: What race is she?
Woman #2: Duh, female. 720 Bay Street
Toronto, Ontario
Canadia [Link]
Mental Floss » 12 Secrets of Greeting Card Designers
There's a reason they don't like using faces. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Man sends woman a bill for $60 after she refused a second date [Awkward]
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Fark.com RSS » Utilities companies vote to make America weak again by closing a major coal plant in Arizona [Sad]
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Fark.com RSS » "We are all Mia the distracted beagle" [Obvious]
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Fark.com RSS » What's purchased in Vegas, stays in Vegas [Facepalm]
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Mental Floss » Spilled "Milk"
[Link]
Mental Floss » Clever Strainer Gets Rid of Food Debris Without You Having to Touch It
Woosh! [Link]
Weird Universe » Follies of the Madmen #304
Original ad here.
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Fark.com RSS » Nobody wants to live on Dick Street [Obvious]
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Fark.com RSS » China plans floating nuclear plants. This way, if there's a meltdown, it will only hurt the ocean [Scary]
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Fark.com RSS » McDonald's just exposed your buns to an unprotected nutsack [Awkward]
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Fark.com RSS » Russians deny "unsafe and unprofessional" flybys near USS Porter [Obvious]
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Mental Floss » Morning Cup of Links: No Stairway! Denied!
Great links for great websurfers! [Link]
Fark.com RSS » TV news reporter who had been campaigning to toughen state DUI laws gets busted for DUI [Ironic]
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Fark.com RSS » It's 2017 and you can still be suspended from high school in Mississippi if you're a guy who dyes your hair pink [Asinine]
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Fark.com RSS » A new study reveals most Texas school districts offer little sex education because isn't that what the 4-H Club is for? [Facepalm]
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Mental Floss » This Ship Did Not Throw Away Its Shot
In 1784, a small Dutch ship called the Dolfijn discovered that you can accomplish a lot with a single shot—even if you are outgunned and outmanned. [Link]
Mental Floss » 'Netflix Cheating' Is Common—And It's On The Rise
Affairs aren't always physical. Sometimes, they involve a remote control. [Link]
Mental Floss » 11 Weapons That Won World War II
Whether through the skies or on the ground, these weapons helped the Allies win World War II. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Mailing meth do's and don'ts: Do address it to yourself as a guest, and not just the hotel. Don't put your name as the return address [Florida]
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Mental Floss » Everyone on Earth Could Live in a Single Building—In Theory
It would need to be 4400 feet tall, though. [Link]
Futility Closet » Rustic Furniture
In 1856 California hunter Seth Kinman made a unique gift for the new president, James Buchanan — a chair fashioned from horns that elk had shed on his farm. “This winter I killed considerable meat so I thought I would take it easy and set about to make this cheer with a view of sending it on to Washington for … [Link]
Fark.com RSS » I-Mockery's annual Valentine's Day card collection. The perfect gift for that special someone you love to hate [Amusing]
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Fark.com RSS » Half of Japan's married couples haven't had sex in more than a month. PHFFTT amateurs [Obvious]
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Fark.com RSS » Georgia Church caught up in "poisoning plot". Just to be clear: not the state of Georgia, and not the Baptist church [Scary]
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Fark.com RSS » Your vision of the classic Valentine was perfected by a woman who never married [Ironic]
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Fark.com RSS » Repeated contacts with Russian intelligence throughout the campaign, you say? [NewsFlash]
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Fark.com RSS » Canadians looking for love in all the wrong places. Namely online [Stupid]
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Fark.com RSS » Japanese navy reports that one of their sailors fell off minesweeper into sea. Experts recommend looking for angry birds diving into ocean solitaire [Scary]
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Fark.com RSS » As Japanese society rapidly ages, restaurants and nursing homes heat up gourmet purees for foodies who no longer have the strength to chew or swallow but fear the feeding tube [Obvious]
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Fark.com RSS » Russia names price for tour into space. No one is in the line yet [Cool]
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Fark.com RSS » "If you forgot to make dinner reservations for you and your Valentine, there's at least one option available for a candlelight dinner. White Castle." Bedroom smelling reeeeal funky in 3…2…1 [Unlikely]
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Fark.com RSS » Everything you didn't want to know about what your Grandma is doing after bingo night [Awkward]
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Fark.com RSS » Photoshop this rock formation [Photoshop]
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Fark.com RSS » Do you want ants on your roads? Because that's how you get ants on your roads [Sappy]
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Fark.com RSS » Donald Trump's non-stop talk about walls, deportation and his love for his daughter Ivanka actually make for pretty creative Valentine's Day card taglines [Amusing]
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Mental Floss » The Romantic Reason Ulysses S. Grant Didn’t Want His Wife to Get Cosmetic Surgery
When her husband was elected president, Julia Grant considered having cosmetic surgery—but Ulysses urged her not to. Here's why. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Uploaded cellphone footage of rats frolicking in your McDonald's? Ba da ba ba ba, you're fired [Florida]
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Mental Floss » 5 Times Scientists Played Animal Matchmakers
Sometimes Cupid needs a little push. [Link]
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