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 » Dr. Horrible sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of sing-alongs [Followup]
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Fark.com RSS » Barcelona police: How can we make this stolen butane truck chase even more dangerous? Lock and load, mi compañero [Scary]
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Mental Floss » Apply for a Writer's Residence at the Mall of America
You'll spend five days inside the nation's biggest mall, and be paid handsomely for it. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » There's about to be a massive egg shortage in the U.K. due to unsupervised free range hens. The sluts [Interesting]
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Fark.com RSS » 57 snow monkeys killed for having macaque in them [Weird]
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Mental Floss » Why You Should Lie About Your Personal Information Online
What’s your birthday? Make one up. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Police shoot and kill Beaverton man waving a gun around on a roof near an elementary school. Authorities say the shot was not gratuitous [Scary]
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Fark.com RSS » Lambert St. Louis airport may finally get a useful passenger comfort upgrade — the ability to buy a beer AND take it back to your gate [Silly]
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Mental Floss » New York's 'Golden Girls'-Themed Cafe Is Finally Here
They serve cheesecake, naturally. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Legislators introduce bill to make Bible official state book. Yep, West Virginia [Stupid]
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Fark.com RSS » Coyote follows spine surgeon into his office after mistaking him for a rocket surgeon [Scary]
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Mental Floss » 10 Surprising Facts About Butterflies
Some butterflies drink tears, eat poop, wear false heads, and kill to survive. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Old and Busted: Tchaikovsky and cannons. New Hotness: Strauss and Glocks. Don't worry, Pyotr: it's the Russian firing in rhythm [Interesting]
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Futility Closet » “A Cheap Correspondence”
A curious story of two poor lovers, whose system of correspondence was confined to an ingenious cipher of ink-blots on the outside of the letter, is told by the Poet Coleridge. In one of his walks in the Lake district, he saw the postman offer a letter to the servant-girl at a village inn, who, after carefully looking at the … [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Half-eaten shark washes up on Florida beach, as some larger shark is no doubt being scolded about starving sharks in China [Florida]
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Mental Floss » Scientists Find Genetic Evidence of Matrilineal Dynasty at Chaco Canyon
Nine high-status people buried there during a 330-year period share identical mitochondrial DNA, which is passed from mother to child. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Toy boat launched by Charleston SC elementary school students crosses Atlantic, found in Britain. "We were looking across the waves when it literally sailed right to us. It was magical" [Cool]
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Fark.com RSS » Shots fired at Houston's Ben Taub Hospital. Police are searching the hospital but no injuries or deaths reported [News]
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Fark.com RSS » Milo resigns from Breitbarto [Followup]
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Fark.com RSS » French purists outraged as McDonald's puts potatoes in Salade Nicoise. Man, here we don't even have a clue what they put in McRibs and no one cares [Strange]
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Fark.com RSS » Photoshop this simple hut [Photoshop]
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Fark.com RSS » If you're a 10 year old and need help with your math homework, and mom & dad are useless, what do you do? Text the local police department for the answers, of course [Cool]
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Mental Floss » Michelin Guide Mistakenly Awards Star to Humble French Cafe
Foodies flocked to the restaurant after the error was published. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Tenants arrested after killing their landlord and living with the body for two weeks. Guess they're not getting their security deposit back [Florida]
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Fark.com RSS » Today in You're Doing It Wrong: taking notes in class [Obvious]
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Fark.com RSS » Cracker Barrel's passive aggressive attitude towards healthy food and casual racism will be tested in California [Interesting]
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Mental Floss » 8 Times Cats Interrupted Things
Because cats. [Link]
Mental Floss » Funko is Now Offering Disney Mystery Boxes
The Disney Treasures subscription service will deliver exclusive, Mickey Mouse-approved items directly to your door. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Jogger impales his foot on a nail intentionally placed along the trail. Turns out someone hammered 39 other nails on the trail. The moral of the story is: Exercise is bad for you [Sick]
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Mental Floss » Family Cracks Open Chicken Egg to Find Another Egg Inside
The phenomenon is rare but not unheard of. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » A look at Henry Ford's failed attempt to create a North-American city in the Amazon [Followup]
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Fark.com RSS » "A Nevada law officer who had multiple DUI arrests and fled the scene of his crashed state vehicle last month is facing new charges of drunken driving and buying heroin for himself and his mother" [Stupid]
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Fark.com RSS » Homeless man lands a full-time job and a security camera captures his celebration [Hero]
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Mental Floss » Hurry to Check Out Today's Best Amazon Deals
From the Smart Shopping Team… [Link]
Fark.com RSS » French waitress refuses to surrender to large Australian lizard. Goanna Girl [Spiffy]
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Fark.com RSS » Fark NotNewsletter: I don't mean to alarm anyone, but… [FarkBlog]
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Fark.com RSS » If you recently stayed on vacation at the Stewart Hotel in Scotland and the staff seemed a bit surly, well, more surly than Scots, there might have been a good reason for that [Weird]
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Fark.com RSS » Attempts to bring free range beef to Queens are not off to a good start [Amusing]
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Fark.com RSS » Finally a government proposal that everyone can agree on as Iceland's President wants to ban pineapple on pizza [Hero]
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Mental Floss » 6 Questionable Historical Methods of Controlling Children
Parents of the past had their shortcuts too. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Hospital saves dehydrated baby hippo, to be added sparingly to soups and stews [Sappy]
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Mental Floss » Fifth Grader Contacts the Police for Help—With Her Math Homework
While the officers' hearts were in the right place, their numbers weren't. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Frank Ancona, high ranking member of the Missouri KKK murdered by the thing he loved most, a white man with his gun collection [Ironic]
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Fark.com RSS » Trump is making Los Angeles street vendors great again [Spiffy]
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Mental Floss » The Story Behind the Poem on the Statue of Liberty
“The New Colossus" was a later addition, but it's become an essential part of how we think about the statue. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Man trying to burn out moles from yard sets neighbor's house on fire, won't be invited to neighborhood block party [Dumbass]
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Fark.com RSS » After 1997 video of "Pint Baby" became sensation on Irish social media, "Pint Baby" reveals himself as 20-year-old bloke who still enjoys his mum's support, and Guinness [Amusing]
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Mental Floss » 10 Surprising Facts About Alan Rickman
3. He auditioned for 'Return of the Jedi.' [Link]
Fark.com RSS » What's worse than firing a nail into your head with a nail gun? Firing one into your crotch: "It makes your eyes water. Even looking back I'm flinching" [Dumbass]
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Fark.com RSS » Police have no problem with you installing a flux capacitor, so long as you don't have a fusion reactor [Cool]
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Fark.com RSS » "That's not a spider (whips out Australia's biggest Huntsman spider), this is a spider" [Scary]
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Weird Universe » The Bruce Effect
If a pregnant rodent is exposed to the scent of an unfamiliar male, she will often spontaneously abort. This is known as the Bruce Effect, after researcher Hilda Bruce who discovered the phenomenon while working at London's National Institute for Medical Research (NIMR) in the 1950s.
It's thought that the female rodent does this in order to make herself ready … [Link]
Fark.com RSS » It's Schrodinger's murder: A Federal agent standing on U.S. soil shot and killed someone standing on Mexican soil. You're the Supreme Court. What do you do? [Followup]
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Fark.com RSS » Photoshop this still life with violins [Photoshop]
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Mental Floss » 7 Très Interesting Facts about Canadian French
Most Americans don’t need to fly across an ocean to immerse themselves in the French language. There are millions of French speakers just to our north in Canada. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » 134,000 fewer suicide attempts among teens thanks to same sex marriage laws [Hero]
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Fark.com RSS » Fark's favorite fighter plane needs new wings already [Facepalm]
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Fark.com RSS » Lake Berryessa glory hole is full of suck (awesome drone / UAV video footage) [Followup]
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Mental Floss » Garbage
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Mental Floss » 5 Questions: Garbage
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Fark.com RSS » Yesterday in Portland: Police shot a woman in the chest at a "Not My President's Day" protest with non-lethal rounds because she might spit at them (w/video) [Scary]
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Weird Universe » Joan Ridgway, Yodeling Cowgirl
Plenty more of her on YouTube. But hardly any biographical info. What little there is seems to indicate that despite all cultural signifiers, she was Australian, not American. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Drunk driver crashes through railings at pedestrian crossing and flips car onto roof in front of police station on one side of the street, rescued by firemen from fire station on the other side of the street – TA-DAH [Dumbass]
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Fark.com RSS » Vandals target a historic Jewish cemetery, topple over a hundred headstones [Sick]
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Fark.com RSS » It's time to speak up about racism in the Flint water crisis [Obvious]
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Fark.com RSS » This week in the normally funny Forest Grove Police log: "In all, officers responded to nine calls involving people suffering mental health issues this date alone" [Sad]
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Mental Floss » Morning Cup of Links: Early Drafts of Movie Villains
Links to keep you busy all day! [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Is PewDiePie more like Mel Brooks than like Milo Yiannopoulos? [Interesting]
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Fark.com RSS » You find yourself homeless after being released on bail. Do you: c.) Live in a hospital closet and steal volunteer smocks to avoid suspicion [Strange]
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Mental Floss » This Light-Up Bike Helmet Helps Keep Cyclists Safe at Night
The helmet, called Lumos, has a brake light and turn signals. [Link]
GraphJam » Let Them Play Around You
I'm pretty sure they wont notice the difference so long as you flail your arm at them every once in a while. Graph by: Unknown Tagged: kids , laying on the floor , Pie Chart , playing , work Share on Facebook
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Fark.com RSS » After being missing for two months, 26-year-old man found 100 yards from his home [Sad]
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Futility Closet » Drawn Onward
Comic strips offer even more opportunities for working with the symbolism of direction. W.A. Wagenaar, a psychologist at Leiden University and a Tintin fan, once tallied up all the acts and transitions in three Tintin books and discovered that in three out of four cases the characters move from left to right, even when their movement takes several frames to … [Link]
Mental Floss » Jaywalking Behavior Varies by Culture, Study Confirms
An analysis of French and Japanese crosswalks found that the former are much more likely to cross against a red light. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » A street drug that melts plastic? Hmm, sounds intriguing [Scary]
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Fark.com RSS » TSA tries self-service security at JFK airport. That's a bold plan, Cotton, let's see how that works out for them [Fail]
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Mental Floss » These Clever Literary-Themed Teas Come in Book-Shaped Tins
Cuddle up with 'The Picture of Early Grey' [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Passengers terrified as man hijacks their Uber, still rate him better than any cab driver [Scary]
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Fark.com RSS » We've secretly substituted half the venison and river fish diet of Arctic tribes with instant noodles, pasta, bread, and pastries. Let's see if anyone notices [Sad]
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Fark.com RSS » Elephant re-enacts famous Jurassic Park scene [Scary]
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Fark.com RSS » Nothing worse than hairless moose [Sad]
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Fark.com RSS » Problem: an African-American student at Michigan State has a racial epithet written on the whiteboard hung on the door of her dorm room. Campus Police solution: Ban all the whiteboards [Asinine]
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Fark.com RSS » Photoshop this beach beauty [Photoshop]
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Mental Floss » 43 Giant Presidential Heads Are Stuck in a Field in Virginia
The works of art are crumbling as people try to figure out what to do with them. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Tonight at 8PM ET, Paul's Memory Bank presents Swinging Through the Alphabet Part 2. Two hours of songs beginning with the letter "B", spanning 1947 through 1983 [Live]
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Mental Floss » The Best Thing to Happen to Dog Owners Since Dogs
Forget the Pooper Scooper. With Piqapoo, your dog can pick up after itself. [Link]
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