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 » "Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds." it doesn't say anything about being lazy or being a hoarder [Awkward]
[link] [36 comments] [Link]
Mental Floss » Everything That's Leaving Netflix in March
Wave goodbye to 'Jaws' and its sequels (yes, 'Jaws: The Revenge' included). [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Why, no, Ossifer, I can't walk straight, but get a load of these cartwheels [Dumbass]
[link] [31 comments] [Link]
Mental Floss » 5 Things We Know About 'Deadpool 2'
The Merc with a Mouth is returning in 2018. Here's what we know about the movie so far. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Best Korea decides to bite the hand that feeds it [Spiffy]
[link] [57 comments] [Link]
Mental Floss » How To See Colors That Don’t Exist
Turns out there are six of them. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » If you've ever wondered what a "sophisticated" pot operation looks like, look no further… than this mugshot [Amusing]
[link] [96 comments] [Link]
Mental Floss » London’s Jewish Museum to Host an Amy Winehouse Exhibition and Art Trail
The show include photographs and mementos from throughout her life. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Fark Food Thread: Beans.. they aren't just for chili anymore. Show us to the right how you make beans work in your meals, appetizers, and more [Interesting]
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Fark.com RSS » Woman carrying baby without a brain decides to carry baby to term to donate the organs. Sad tag tearfully gives way to Hero [Hero]
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Mental Floss » Naked Juice Will Change Its Labels to Accurately Reflect Ingredients
The makeover was triggered by a lawsuit alleging that the drinks' packaging misled customers. [Link]
Futility Closet » Noted
TV columnist Rick Polito wrote this movie synopsis for the Marin Independent Journal in 1998: 
His description of The Untouchables: “A federal agent in Chicago hampers the work of an enterprising American job creator.” [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Schoolbus driver arrested for DUI after driving Drama Club on field trip after drinking 3/4ths of a gallon of bourbon. If these kids are gonna be real actors, they gotta learn about performing while drunk from somebody [Strange]
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Mental Floss » 8 Animals That Are No Longer Endangered
One is technically still endangered, but it was long thought extinct, so that's a major upgrade. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Photoshop this manly fightin' man [Photoshop]
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Fark.com RSS » Lost Gorilla. Please call if you've seen him, he needs his pump [Weird]
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Mental Floss » Here's How Long You're Contagious When You Have a Cold
Here's how to lower the chances of giving the mucus-glazed plague to someone else. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Headline: 'Glory Hole brings curious visitors to Whiskeytown Lake' [Giggity]
[link] [67 comments] [Link]
Mental Floss » You Can Win Two Free Nights in Austin’s Human-Sized Birdhouse
Need a place to crash during SXSW? HomeAway wants to help. [Link]
Mental Floss » 8 No-Brainer Ways to Save More Money
Save big by making a few tiny financial tweaks. [Link]
Mental Floss » A Slick History of the Ice Capades
Disney, Tonya Harding, and changing tastes prompted the famous ice show to skid to a halt. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Ugly-ass baby sloth makes its appearance very slowly at Mississippi zoo [Sappy]
[link] [32 comments] [Link]
Mental Floss » McDonald's Unveils Excavated Roman Road Beneath Italian Location
They're billing the site as their "first museum-restaurant." [Link]
Weird Universe » Flying Saucers Are Real
A great new book by my talented and weird writer pal Jack Womack.
Read a piece on it here.
[Link]
Fark.com RSS » Abandoned doomsday shelters make a great place to grow your weed [Obvious]
[link] [63 comments] [Link]
Mental Floss » Download NASA's Colorful TRAPPIST-1 Travel Poster
Pack your imaginary bags. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » While "Radioactive Boars" would make a great name for a grunge band, when they are found roaming close to Chernobyl, it can be frightening [Scary]
[link] [74 comments] [Link]
Mental Floss » How 8 Denver Neighborhoods Got Their Names
Several neighborhoods have connections to the city’s long-ago status as a mining boom metropolis. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Former NFL player fired for… holding alcohol? [Asinine]
[link] [205 comments] [Link]
Mental Floss » 5 Questions: "-ears" to You
[Link]
Mental Floss » Morning Cup of Links: Getting to Know Johnny Carson
Use these links to jumpstart your day! [Link]
Mental Floss » How 8 Denver Neighborhoods Got Their Name
Several neighborhoods have connections to the city’s long-ago status as a mining boom metropolis. [Link]
Overheard In The Office » The Best Diagnosis Canada’s Health Services Have Been Able to Come Up With
Student #1: Do you have a learning disability or something?
Student #2: Yeah. I’m ADD.
Student #1: Oh.
Student #2: Just kidding! I’m just stupid. Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada Overheard by: Going to class [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Kids found playing with unexploded WWII bomb on beach. As opposed to playing with exploded bomb [Scary]
[link] [76 comments] [Link]
Mental Floss » 'Bob’s Burgers' Is Releasing a 112-Song Album This Spring
It includes classics from the show and covers from real musicians. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » In other news, a federal judge has just added Ft Collins, Colorado to your summer travel plans [Hero]
[link] [186 comments] [Link]
Mental Floss » Every New Movie and TV Series Coming to Netflix in March
As Oscar season comes to an end, it’s time to find a new batch of movies to keep you busy. [Link]
Mental Floss » Introducing a Dungeons
Bring your campaign to life, LEGO-style. [Link]
Weird Universe » Downunder Lipstick Glue
Glue for the lips "downunder."
More info: NY Post, Forbes, Patent Office
[Link]
Weird Universe » Mystery Gadget 43
What machine requires such weird protective gear?
The answer is here.
And after the jump. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Tourette's syndrome can be funny. No really [Amusing]
[link] [74 comments] [Link]
Mental Floss » Scientists Discover ‘Giant Dwarf’ Bushbaby
Experts say the oversized species represents “a whole new kind of bushbaby.” [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Today is National Toast Day simply because, 'Toast makes people happy. Whatever age you are, everybody loves toast.' [Silly]
[link] [142 comments] [Link]
Mental Floss » 6 Things We Know About ‘Black Mirror’ Season 4
"The world is in a place at the moment where I think maybe people appreciate things that aren't so unremittingly horrible," says creator Charlie Brooker. "But you also don't want to short-change people on the unremitting horribleness.” [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Spring must surely be near, since the naked redneck trees are blooming [Amusing]
[link] [55 comments] [Link]
Mental Floss » Hasbro’s New 40th Anniversary ‘Star Wars’ Toys Are Going Old-School
You can recreate the most iconic scenes from 'A New Hope.' [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Yet another reason for everyone to hate Torontonians – mumps [Scary]
[link] [59 comments] [Link]
Mental Floss » Indian School Specializes in Educating Elderly Women
Aajibaichi Shala is India's first "school for grandmothers." [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Fark Coloring Contest: An Abstract Spring [Photoshop]
[link] [34 comments] [Link]
Mental Floss » 11 Hand-Drawn Infographics About African-American Life by W.E.B. Du Bois
The civil rights activist and scholar also had an eye for design. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Dog bites man, not news. Dog shoots man's girlfriend, now that's a spicy news story [Florida]
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Fark.com RSS » If guns are God in Bible Belt, does that make Holy Ghost an equalizer, Jesus a pistol? [Obvious]
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Fark.com RSS » Dog surrendered with 'owners manual' written by eight-year-old girl. "Tell Rhino I love and miss him every night" [Sad]
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Fark.com RSS » Man held by Italian police after the old 'My wife slipped on a banana and fell overboard on the cruise' trick [Interesting]
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Mental Floss » "-ears" to You
[Link]
Mental Floss » The Strange Case of Everet vs. Williams: When Two Highwaymen Took Each Other To Court
Former business partners battling it out in court isn't so unusual—unless that "business" involves robbing unsuspecting gentlemen. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Ten portions of fruit and veg cut the risk of an early death but make you wish for it [Misc]
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Fark.com RSS » Muslims have raised over $100,000 in under 24 hours to help repair a vandalized Jewish cemetery [Followup]
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Fark.com RSS » Ceiling man is watching you pee [Creepy]
[link] [30 comments] [Link]
Mental Floss » Morning Cup of Links: The Pineapple Pizza Incident
Use these links to jumpstart your day! [Link]
Mental Floss » Too Much Tea Could Send You to an Asylum In The 19th Century
Records from a Scottish insane asylum indicate that one woman was admitted to the facility in 1848 partly due to her "abuse of tea." [Link]
Mental Floss » Watch Smithsonian Conservationists Restore and Study Asian Art Treasures
Before these priceless items go on display, they need a little TLC. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » As if you needed more reasons to shower at night [Spiffy]
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Fark.com RSS » I don't know what the record is for time between purchasing a gun and accidentally injuring yourself with it, but this guy may have just broken it [Dumbass]
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Futility Closet » Back Channels
In 1863 Union soldiers seized a bag of rebel correspondence as it was about to cross Lake Pontchartrain. In one of the letters, a woman named Anna boasted of a trick she’d played on a Boston newspaper — she’d sent them a poem titled “The Gypsy’s Wassail,” which she assured them was written in Sanskrit: Drol setaredefnoc evarb ruo sselb … [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Australia's government-owned postal service CEO resigns following public disclosure of his salary: 5.6 million dollarydoos, or 11 times that of the Prime Minister [Awkward]
[link] [65 comments] [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Theme of Farktography Contest No. 616: "I See Your Point 2". Details and rules in first post. LGT next week's theme [Farktography]
[link] [67 comments] [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Off-duty LAPD cop decides he wants high school students to get off his lawn, so he calls a girl "the c word," assaults another kid, and pulls out his gun and fires it [Dumbass]
[link] [337 comments] [Link]
Fark.com RSS » That video of a female cyclist attacking a van driver who wanted to know if she was having her period? Fake news, but the kind of fake news that you enjoyed. Not like the bad kind of fake news you're so opposed to the rest of the time [Followup]
[link] [27 comments] [Link]
Fark.com RSS » IBM's Watson is heralding breakthroughs for people everywhere, except Texas. Why? Texas is too corrupt for medical breakthroughs [Obvious]
[link] [44 comments] [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Never bring a hammer to a stun-gun fight [Fail]
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Fark.com RSS » New Russian theme park will allow children to storm the Reichstag like it was 1945 all over again [Spiffy]
[link] [38 comments] [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Trump administration revokes transgender washroom guidelines because that's important [NewsFlash]
[link] [413 comments] [Link]
Fark.com RSS » I'll see your Fordlandia in the jungle and match it with an abandoned English-owned train station from the 19th century [Cool]
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Fark.com RSS » Think Bill Gates is the richest man in the world? Think again, comrade [Scary]
[link] [30 comments] [Link]
Mental Floss » New Study Finds No Link Between Childhood Cat Ownership and Psychosis
Contrary to prior reports, the new study found that living with a cat before birth or in childhood did not increase adolescents’ risk of experiencing psychotic episodes. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Girl gets hand stuck in blender. I guess that Goonies remake has been greenlit after all [Fail]
[link] [20 comments] [Link]
Mental Floss » Peacock Feathers Are Even More Majestic Under a Microscope
Photographer Waldo Nell captures the iridescent beauty of peacock feathers under the microscope. His work transforms a familiar object into abstract landscapes and still lifes. We hope you’ll enjoy the stunning result. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Baby born in hospital parking lot. The Sun wasn't there, but a professional photographer was [Florida]
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Fark.com RSS » Photoshop this plane launch [Photoshop]
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Fark.com RSS » GOP calls for defunding SpaceX [Fail]
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Fark.com RSS » ♫ Tainted lunch, tainted lunch ♫ [Sick]
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