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 » One Fish, Two Fish, Gold Fish, Carrots [Awkward]
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Fark.com RSS » When Winston Churchill quotes are translated to the modern age: "If I were your girlfriend, I'd make you drink bleach." "Honey, if I were your boyfriend, I'd drink it" [Sick]
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Mental Floss » A Visual Guide to the Women Venus's Geography Is Named For
Almost every topographical feature on the second planet is named for a famous woman from mythology or history. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Berlin's Schönefeld airport chosen as the worst airport in the world, stunning LaGuardia who vows to step up their luggage shredding efforts [Interesting]
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Fark.com RSS » Robber trapped in bank for the gifted [Dumbass]
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Fark.com RSS » An Alabama theater that banned the showing of Beauty And The Beast because of a gay character accidentally schedules a film about drag queens, thinking that the movie 'Fierce' was about dragons [Followup]
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Fark.com RSS » "Help, my husband is going to kill me." Actual police response: "If you get killed, we will definitely come to examine the body" [Sick]
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Fark.com RSS » The "You can't fire me, because I quit" of relationships [Awkward]
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Fark.com RSS » Men pretending to be women online watch porn on phones more often than men who are just logged in as themselves [Giggity]
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Fark.com RSS » Megatron busted in under age sex sting. Optimus Prime doing damage control [Sick]
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Fark.com RSS » Fark Food Thread: It has been a while since we've talked about cookbooks. Recently get your hands on some new sources for recipes that keep you excited to cook? Share to the right [Interesting]
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Fark.com RSS » Florida to debate expanding controversial 'stand your ground' law, possibly extending the bag limit to five [Florida]
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Fark.com RSS » Trump sends B52s to South Korea. Controversial because Kim Jong-un wanted Devo [Scary]
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Mental Floss » Starbucks Experiments With Whiskey Barrel-Aged Coffee
The new menu items will be available at their Seattle Roastery. [Link]
Mental Floss » Match the Actresses With Their Movies
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Mental Floss » How Good A Road Trip Planner Are You?
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Mental Floss » Can You Answer All These Entertainment Facts?
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Mental Floss » Pick the 3-Letter Word
Take the quiz! [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Freak windstorm knocks out power to 250,000 across western New York with outages expected to last days. Temperatures will also drop into the teens starting tomorrow [Scary]
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Fark.com RSS » CNN reporter Reza Aslan decided to find out what being a zombie was all about, especially those dietary requirements [Creepy]
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Fark.com RSS » Lawyer's pants catch on fire during closing arguments while defending his client in an arson case [Florida]
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Fark.com RSS » Photoshop this soccer incident [Photoshop]
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Mental Floss » Experts Predict Widespread Ocean Warming by 2050
Up to 86 percent of the ocean surface will be warming and acidifying within the next few decades—unless we take steps to prevent it. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » $25,000 taco? Is it made with unicorn meat or just a victim of the US-Mexico trade war? [Silly]
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Fark.com RSS » If you woke up in Michigan this morning, turned your lights on and got some coffee from your coffee maker, you must feel like you won the "woohoo, I've got power" lottery [Interesting]
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Fark.com RSS » Man puts shih-tzu in trash compactor. This headline has so much potential but the story isn't funny in any way [Sick]
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Fark.com RSS » A gay veterans group says it's not allowed to march in the Boston St. Patrick's parade because they are gay, but it seems it's really because of a rainbow flag on their banner which promotes sexual orientation. Oh well that's differen
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Fark.com RSS » Breaking Not News: dog masters loud farting [Silly]
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Fark.com RSS » Kid interrupts weatherman's forecast to fart on him (w/video) [Amusing]
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Mental Floss » We're Not Alone: Itching is Contagious for Mice Too
How do sensations like feeling itchy spread among social animals? Researchers at the Center for the Study of the Itch are looking into it. [Link]
Mental Floss » 5 Facts About Civil War Spy Mary Bowser
Mary Bowser took a job as a servant for Jefferson Davis to serve as a spy in the Confederate White House, working with the famous spymaster Elizabeth van Lew. [Link]
Mental Floss » Hurry Up and Get Thursday's Best Amazon Deals
From the Smart Shopping Team… [Link]
Fark.com RSS » 360-pound former cop and weightlifter saves the FBI a lot of paperwork by killing himself as they approach him in his vehicle [Strange]
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Mental Floss » 2017 Might be a Bad Year for Lyme Disease
Warmer temperatures have led to an increase in the tick population. Here's how to avoid them. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Who would steal a car with nine parrots in the back seat? Florida Man, that's who [Weird]
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Mental Floss » Malta's Famous Rock Formation Has Collapsed Into the Ocean
You may remember the rock arch, called the Azure Window, from HBO's "Game of Thrones." [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Next on the SyFy Channel: Invasion of the Wild Radioactive Japanese Boars [Scary]
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Fark.com RSS » Police baffled as to why someone would leave a five-foot dead shark in a shopping cart at a Walmart [Florida]
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Mental Floss » Danish Teen Uncovers Remains of WWII Plane and Its Pilot in His Backyard
The discovery started out as a school assignment. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Nothing like a criminal holding up a sign that says "I am not a criminal" [Ironic]
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Fark.com RSS » Rep. Maxine Waters: "We know" Trump sex blackmail is "absolutely true." Which is such a coincidence because Max Waters was the name of one of his Russian prostitutes [Obvious]
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Fark.com RSS » Troubled Littoral Combat Ship fires vertically-launched hellfire missile, surprising many with the hellfire's adaptability and the fact that the LCS didn't crack in half, run aground or catch fire during the exercise [Interesting]
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Fark.com RSS » Today is "National Fark Redesign Day" [Amusing]
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Fark.com RSS » Best Korea tried to sell material for nuclear weapons, according to UN, raising the terrifying specter of Al-Qaeda developing some kind of Toyota Hilux based thermonuclear weapon [Scary]
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Mental Floss » The 7 Best New Sports Bras for Every Type of Workout
Need a new sports bra? The right type for you is based on your preferred form of exercise. [Link]
Mental Floss » 5 Questions: I Am Woman
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Fark.com RSS » Huh, college students might use their student loans irresponsibly? Like for Spring Break? Stop the presses. How long has this been going on? [Obvious]
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Fark.com RSS » Is it okay to spy on your teen? In case you don't want to click, the answer is always 'no' [Obvious]
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Fark.com RSS » Buzzed cruise ship captain mistakes Speed 2 for a training video [Florida]
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Fark.com RSS » Place you don't want to pass out #4823 – the cab of a crane 360 feet above ground [Scary]
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Fark.com RSS » Utah to become first state to lower DUI level to .05 [PSA]
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Mental Floss » New Theory: Eyes, Not Legs, First Brought Ancient Fish Out of Water
Scientists argue that the sight of all the juicy food available on land propelled early marine vertebrates to grow legs and get out there. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Retailer: Okay so offering discounts on frying pans to celebrate International Women's Day was a bad idea. Who knew? [Facepalm]
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Fark.com RSS » Apparently Chelsea Clinton's spinach pancake recipe for National Pancake Day really grossed people out [Sick]
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Mental Floss » 20 Fastidious Facts About BBC’s ‘Pride and Prejudice’
1. The BBC wasn’t buying Colin Firth as Mr. Darcy. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Former legislative candidate: "Obamacare is bad, repeal it." Doctor: "Your cancer is possibly in remission, good thing you have Obamacare to help pay your million dollar bill." Former legislative candidate:"Maybe Obamacare isn'
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Mental Floss » The Evolution of Tourist Destinations Around the World
This infographic shows which countries most benefit from tourism growth. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » It's National Proofreading Day – so here's a story about it that contains an error [Awkward]
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Weird Universe » How I Stole Elections
Marlin Hawkins served as an elected official in Conway County, Arkansas for 38 years — for most of that time as sheriff. He built up a legendary political machine, being able not only to win reelection for himself (19 times) but also to deliver votes for other candidates. He often boasted that he could accurately predict the outcome of every … [Link]
Weird Universe » Timothy Leary: While Birds Sing
Album info and track listing.
Let me know when you bail! [Link]
Overheard In The Office » “Hi, I'm Gonorrhea, and I'll Be Your Server Tonight”
Tech support: How does one associate a VD with a thin client? Ontario
Canadia [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Photoshop this symmetrical street scene [Photoshop]
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Fark.com RSS » Canada named 2nd best country in the world yet again. Lost 0.3 points on the dismount for inventing Hawaiian pizza [Amusing]
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Fark.com RSS » Nothing to see here — just Trump associates directly communicating with Russian hackers mere weeks before the DNC was hacked [Followup]
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Fark.com RSS » Man admits renting house to 3 different people at same time. If this were a sitcom, Don Knotts would star as the landlord [Interesting]
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Fark.com RSS » Woman demanded to be injected with heroin or meth during labor, police say. Every woman who's ever given birth says 'That was an option?' [Facepalm]
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Fark.com RSS » Actual headline: Two brothers take shrooms, get naked and cause mayhem at Indy apartment complex [Giggity]
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Mental Floss » I Am Woman
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Mental Floss » Cook on the Dark Side With Lightsaber Grill Tongs
Be the Jedi of grill masters. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Americans are more likely to have a handgun in their kitchen than a kettle [Fake]
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Fark.com RSS » Don't you hate it when you take a .44 magnum and shoot your husband and the couple he's having a threesome with, and while dragging one of the bodies outside to burn it, realize that you have to pick your 8-year-old daughter up from school? [
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Fark.com RSS » Caption our President talking bigly to some kids [Caption]
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Mental Floss » Morning Cup of Links: The Legacy of King Kong
Here, have some great links! [Link]
Mental Floss » Tips from a Pun Champion
Up your wordplay game with pun expert Sam Corbin. [Link]
Mental Floss » This 300-Year-Old 'Detector Lock' Reveals an Intruder's Presence
English craftsman John Wilkes created the clever gadget, currently displayed in Amsterdam's Rijksmuseum. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Police tell Uber driver it's illegal to film them while he is pulled over. Man happens to be attorney making a few extra bucks. Then things get all ACLU-y (with video of entire traffic stop) [Video]
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Fark.com RSS » An error at the DMV is making Coloradans a lot higher than they already were [Amusing]
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Futility Closet » Ships That Pass
For four months in 1840 Edgar Allan Poe conducted a puzzle column for the Philadelphia newspaper Alexander’s Daily Messenger. In that time he defied his readers to send him a cryptogram that he could not solve, and at the end of his tenure he declared himself undefeated. One of the later challenges came from 17-year-old Schuyler Colfax of New Carlisle, … [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Seven tricks to staying warm at 40 below from seven mushers in this year's Iditarod. One drinks lots of water, another sings Christmas carols, and one uses skunk mittens [Strange]
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Mental Floss » A Beer Hotel Could be Coming to Ohio
There will be a hot tub full of beer. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » At least you can eat well while you are secretly experimented on during your delayed flight caused by the alien landings [Cool]
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Fark.com RSS » Theme of Farktography Contest No. 618: "The Air Down Here". Details and rules in first post. LGT next week's theme [Farktography]
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Fark.com RSS » Man claims he was road rage victim because of Trump/Pence flag on his van, not because he made left turn across multiple traffic lanes [Florida]
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Mental Floss » The True Story Behind the Lost Scene From 'The Princess Bride'
The "lost scene" from William Goldman's The Princess Bride is inconceivably hard to come by. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Remember what you did for your 8th grade fair project? I bet it wasn't finding a WWII German fighter plane and pilot's remains that have been undiscovered for more than 70 years [Cool]
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Fark.com RSS » For once it's acceptable for a priest to sniff butts [Sappy]
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Mental Floss » The Men Who Volunteered to Be Poisoned by the Government
In 1902, 12 men agreed to take low doses of poison in order to test their efficacy as food preservatives. No one died. Basically. [Link]
Mental Floss » Scientists 3D Printed Cheese
It got darker and more melty. [Link]
Mental Floss » 11 Enamel Pins Dedicated to Awesome Women
Celebrate strong and dedicated females with a flashy lapel. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Russia violates treaty, deploys land-based cruise missile targeting U.S.-staffed bases in Europe. Surely we can expect strong condemnation and decisive action from President Trump [Obvious]
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Fark.com RSS » Photoshop these lucky shoppers [Photoshop]
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Fark.com RSS » Snapchat upsets users by adding makeup to users with the "Marie Curie" filter, because MAC and ULTA deserve Nobel prizes too [Fail]
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Mental Floss » Why a Person's Second Toe Is Sometimes Longer Than Their Big Toe
If your second toe is longer than your big toe, don't worry about it! You and your toes are completely normal. [Link]
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