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 » Parents sue city of Brooklyn after a botched autopsy implicated them in their child's death [Followup]
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Fark.com RSS » "I never thought leopards would be born in captivity by artificial insemination," sobs woman who voted for the Leopards Born By Artificial Insemination Party [Sappy]
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Fark.com RSS » Photoshop what this woman is doing [Photoshop]
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Fark.com RSS » Facebook user receives 200k "amens" to pic of her holding her dying cancer patient brother. There's just one slight problem [Fake]
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Mental Floss » Why B.B. King's Guitar is Called Lucille
Blues musician B.B. King famously deemed his guitar "Lucille," even when he replaced it or got a slightly different model. Here's why. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Are you arranging the food in your refrigerator correctly? [Unlikely]
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Mental Floss » Get This Weekend's Best Amazon Bargains Now
From the Smart Shopping Team… [Link]
Fark.com RSS » What exactly is "usable marijuana," and should a 65-year-old man with a prescription be rolled into the joint if there isn't an exact definition? [Stupid]
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Weird Universe » DDT Wallpaper
Trimz debuted their children's room DDT-impregnated wallpaper in 1946. It was available in two patterns: "Jack and Jill" or "Disney Favorites."
It was certified to be absolutely safe "because the DDT is fixed to the paper. It can't rub off!" But since you're not going to find any similar product sold nowadays, I'm guessing that it actually did rub off. … [Link]
Fark.com RSS » There is a pop-up restaurant in London that only serves meals created out of discarded food from different local restaurants. Because what tastes better than unwanted bangers and mash mixed with boiled lamb's tongue? [Sick]
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Fark.com RSS » Come on, who steals two crocodiles? [Strange]
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Fark.com RSS » In a continuing series of wagers you should NEVER take – Betting that you can chug an entire bottle of tequila [Stupid]
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Fark.com RSS » Remember kids always do your homework, or else you could be crucified in the street by your parents like this poor lad [Asinine]
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Fark.com RSS » Seeking advice, I ask of thee / Trying to find (in my naivete) / Poetic verse to set me free / In the Book Club of Saturday [Interesting]
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Fark.com RSS » Want to know if you are uncool? Check out the lingo that "all the cool kids" are using today, and see if you recognize any of it [Interesting]
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Fark.com RSS » Don't mind the perfect black cube hovering over USA's top-secret military research complex today, it's really nothing. Move along now [Weird]
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Fark.com RSS » You may want to rethink the wedding if your bride-to-be tells you she wants to wear a dress made out of Taco Bell burrito wrappers [Strange]
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Fark.com RSS » Photoshop these colorful chairs [Photoshop]
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Weird Universe » Electric Hairdo
Original article here. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » If you ever said to yourself, "I wish my TSA agents wouldn't be shy about really getting intimate when they feel me up" then today is your lucky day [Strange]
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Fark.com RSS » Indjánafjöður from Reykjavik rescued by Þorvarðardóttir, just in time for kötturdag [Caturday]
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Fark.com RSS » Only you can prevent forest fires. And by 'you' we mean the people responsible for 80 percent of the world's wildfires [Asinine]
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Futility Closet » The Music Animation Machine
Berkeley software engineer Stephen Malinowski creates animated graphical scores of musical works. “The vertical positions of the bars on the screen represent the relative pitches, while the color can represent instruments or voices, thematic material or tonality,” explains Crétien van Campen in The Hidden Sense. “When they are synchronized, the sound and image are easily linked in our perception. Musical … [Link]
Mental Floss » The Most Popular Disney Channel Original Movie in Each State
Everyone loves 'The Ultimate Christmas Present.' [Link]
Mental Floss » Why Does Your Cat's Tongue Feel Like Sandpaper?
Finally, an educational cat video! [Link]
GraphJam » The News I Learn
The News I Learn Graph by: waffle569 Tagged: cnn , jon stewart , Media , news , stephen colbert , television Share on Facebook [Link]
Mental Floss » Grave Sightings: Bob Ross
If there's such a thing as a "happy little grave site," we've found it. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » This is the coolest Viking funeral that you will see for two goldfish all day long [Cool]
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Fark.com RSS » Spend your twilight years wasting away in a Margaritaville-themed retirement home [Florida]
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Fark.com RSS » What is it with the iconic Quebec maple syrup can? No one remembers who designed it, for one thing: "a mystery for the ages – like trying to ascertain who gets the credit/blame for inventing poutine" [Sappy]
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Fark.com RSS » In time for St. Patrick's Day: Mass leprechaun grave found at former Irish orphanage [Sick]
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Fark.com RSS » California man evades high speed police chase while driving rented U-haul truck. Your move Florida man [Weird]
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Fark.com RSS » Meet Picasso, the rescue dog that looks like it was designed by Deep Mind [Spiffy]
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Mental Floss » You Can Thank Dolly Parton for 'Buffy The Vampire Slayer'
When Dolly Met Buffy… [Link]
Fark.com RSS » This is what happens when you grant bail to motorized grocery cart thieves [Florida]
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Fark.com RSS » Finally, a paper towel mascot for MEN to lust after [Cool]
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Fark.com RSS » A gal who was painfully shy / Was given to walks through the rye / When asked what she learned / She scoffed and she spurned / "My wisdom's engrained by and by" [Interesting]
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Futility Closet » For the Record
At one point in Samuel Beckett’s 1951 novel Molloy, the title character finds himself at the seaside and “lays in a store of sucking stones”: They were pebbles but I call them stones. Yes, on this occasion I laid in a considerable store. I distributed them equally between my four pockets, and sucked them turn and turn about. This raised … [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Two best friends get identical haircuts to try and confuse their teachers. Fark: One is white and one is black [Amusing]
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Fark.com RSS » Photoshop this bird balancing act [Photoshop]
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Mental Floss » Here's How the Midori Sour Was Invented
Chaim Dauermann, Head Bartender at New York City's The Up & Up, explains the wild circumstances of this cocktail's birth and offers some expert advice on how to make your own. We'll drink to that. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Florida Man has had a busy week [Florida]
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Mental Floss » 25 Trailblazing Female Firsts
Boldly going where no woman had gone before. [Link]
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