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 » Got ADHD? You might have the natural gift of being able to sell a ketchup popsicle to a woman in white gloves [Interesting]
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Fark.com RSS » Fundraising drive and emergency champagne and caviar helicopter drops underway for hundreds of Big Sur residents cut off by broken bridge [Interesting]
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Fark.com RSS » Fukushima did what Godzilla, Mothra, and Biollante never could: turn Japan off of nuclear power [Followup]
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Fark.com RSS » By day, a conservative Hasidic couple. By night, a pair of kinky Jews [Giggity]
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Mental Floss » Rare 'Super Bloom' Brightens Up Deserts in California
The Anza-Borrego Desert is the most vibrant it's been in years. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Interested in experiencing the Real Florida? Try Cayo Costa State Park, a barrier island only accessible by boat, with miles of undeveloped beaches, mangrove estuaries, turquoise waters. Tent camping, cabins available [Florida]
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Fark.com RSS » Only God can judge me for ordering three orders of mozzarella sticks [Amusing]
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Fark.com RSS » Photoshop this prosecutor showing the witness the murder weapon [Photoshop]
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Fark.com RSS » Apparently there's some kind of spat going on between Turkey and the Netherlands that could doom us all [Scary]
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Fark.com RSS » Idiocracy successfully predicts the future again as garbage avalanche kills at least 35. Mike Judge sought for comment about those boner and hair cures he promised [Scary]
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Fark.com RSS » What is the purpose of owning a gun if you cannot use it to defend your right not to be ejected for the second time from the same bar in one night for being drunk? I thought this was America [Dumbass]
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Futility Closet » Person Curves
Wolfram Alpha has a collection of parametric curves that produce portraits of famous people — above are Albert Einstein, Abraham Lincoln, and PSY. Wolfram chief scientist Michael Trott explains how it’s done in three blog posts. (Thanks, Danesh.) [Link]
Mental Floss » Wyoming Only Has Two Escalators
If you come across an out-of-service elevator in Wyoming, you'd better be prepared to do some cardio. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Hey Rocky: Watch me win this snowboard race. Nuthin' up my sleeve–PRESTO [Cool]
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Mental Floss » Watch a Neuroscientist Explain a Concept in 5 Levels of Difficulty
Learn what a "connectome" is, regardless of your age or level of education. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Snack Food Sunday gets a poppin'. We're looking for the best way to pop popcorn, and what should (or should not) go on it. Channel your inner Orville and share your kernels of wisdom [Interesting]
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Fark.com RSS » Yes, you still can be arrested even if you do work in law enforcement [Obvious]
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Fark.com RSS » Did you know an alien was shot and killed at McGuire Air Force Base? Because IT TOTALLY HAPPENED [Fake]
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Mental Floss » This Week's Best Amazon Deals You Can Still Get
From the Smart Shopping Team… [Link]
Weird Universe » Double-Chin Eradicator
I wonder how long you'd have to roll this thing over your face before it made the slightest bit of difference.
The Canyon News – Aug 4, 1938 [Link]
Weird Universe » I’m Having Your Baby
"Having your baby is a way of saying I'm thinking of you."
No argument there!
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Overheard In The Office » The Voices Tell Me to Spike Your Coffee with Drano
Worker #1 (singing): Invoices are making me want to kill myself!
Worker #2: The voices make you want to kill yourself?
Worker #1: No! *In*voices!
Worker #2: Phew! Century City, California [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Photoshop this rocket launcher [Photoshop]
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Fark.com RSS » Florida man is at it again. This time burning down a Qwik-E-Mart that he thought was owned by Muslims because it didn't have orange grapefruit juice [Florida]
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Fark.com RSS » Yes this man is truly 'EVIL' [Dumbass]
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Fark.com RSS » CSB Sunday Morning: Power's out [CSB]
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Fark.com RSS » Yeah "genius," you're just plain crazy if you think you're sooooooo smart [Interesting]
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Mental Floss » French Curator Rediscovers 'Lost' Gustave Courbet Painting
For decades, experts believed the work was a forgery. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » White Evangelicals believe they are more persecuted than Muslims. Also believe the earth is 6000 years old and Donald Trump has a fine head of hair, so you know, take it as you will [Stupid]
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Fark.com RSS » ♫ I don't want a sickle / I just want to have the use of my pickle ♫ [Scary]
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Mental Floss » On This Day in 1933, FDR Gave His First Fireside Chat
"I want to talk for a few minutes with the people of the United States about banking." [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Scotland's best kept secrets. What they do with the sheep conspicuously absent [Obvious]
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Fark.com RSS » And now for something completely different, I present to you pic of dude humping Wall Street "fearless girl" statue [Dumbass]
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Mental Floss » Relive the Past With A Keyboard That Looks and Feels Like an Old Typewriter
Get clacking. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » CALIFORNIA IS ABOUT TO EXPLODE … with spectacular wildflowers. Time to get in the chopper and head to Death Valley [Cool]
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Fark.com RSS » Rhode Islander becomes drunk, forklift-wielding Florida man [Florida]
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Mental Floss » Can You Solve the 'Three Gods' Riddle?
It's been called the hardest logic puzzle ever made. We agree. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » So you did your time and you want to make a clean start? Not until you pay thousands to get old mug shots off the internet [Asinine]
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Fark.com RSS » Photoshop this bike any 'Murican would kill to own [Photoshop]
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Fark.com RSS » ♫ Florida man, every now and then I get a little bit high And you're always pulling me over Florida man, every now and then I get a little bit critical Of rating the weed that I just smoked ♫ [Florida]
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The Oatmeal – Comics, Quizzes, & Stories » I need 50,000 comments on a government website.
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