Whittle It a Little, It’ll Fit

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 » American diplomat ejected from Middle-earth after brawling over the Arkenstone [Awkward]

Sunday 19 March 23:56:08 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » According to CBP, an A-rab sounding name trumps 42 years of citizenship and being the retired police chief of Greenville, NC [Asinine]

Sunday 19 March 21:10:53 UTC 2017

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Mental Floss » Hear International Car Names Pronounced by Native Speakers

Sunday 19 March 21:00:00 UTC 2017

Never mispronounce names like Porsche, Volkswagen, and Hyundai again. [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Photoshop this guy who's got the sack [Photoshop]

Sunday 19 March 20:00:01 UTC 2017

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Futility Closet » A Mathless Math Puzzle

Sunday 19 March 19:42:50 UTC 2017

Richard Hess posed this problem in the Spring 1980 issue of Pi Mu Epsilon Journal. At noon on Monday, a bug departs the upper left corner, X, of a p × q rectangle and crawls within the rectangle to the diagonally opposite corner, Y, arriving there at 6 p.m. He sleeps there until noon on Tuesday, when he sets out … [Link]

Fark.com RSS » This little piggy went to the market, this little piggy paid an extra $45 [Asinine]

Sunday 19 March 19:17:43 UTC 2017

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Mental Floss » When Chuck Berry Became a Beach Boy

Sunday 19 March 18:30:00 UTC 2017

If you think the wholesale pilfering of songs began when Vanilla Ice swiped the bass line from David Bowie and Queen’s song “Under Pressure” for “Ice, Ice Baby,” think again. [Link]

Mental Floss » The Strange Reason Snuggies Have Been Spending So Much Time in Court

Sunday 19 March 18:00:00 UTC 2017

Are Snuggies garments or blankets? Turns out the U.S. Court of International Trade has a strong opinion about that. [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Spring officially arrives tomorrow at exactly 6:28 AM EDT. Set your allergies ahead one hour [Spiffy]

Sunday 19 March 17:30:58 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Are you one of those people who can't snack on something without adding a splash of hot sauce to "spice it up"? Snack Food Sunday feels your sweet sweet pain and wants to know your favorite sauces [Spiffy]

Sunday 19 March 17:00:00 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » The times of your life are still ahead of you … well maybe some of you [Interesting]

Sunday 19 March 16:58:44 UTC 2017

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Mental Floss » Watch Ultra-Closeup Video of Sweat Glands on Fingertips

Sunday 19 March 16:55:22 UTC 2017

Yes, even your fingertips are sweaty. [Link]

Fark.com RSS » This 70-year-old woman has run a marathon on every continent in one week. Subby just hopes he is still alive by that age [Spiffy]

Sunday 19 March 16:34:25 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Legendary New York columnist Jimmy Breslin, whose gritty slices of city life mesmerized readers for decades, dead at 86 [Sad]

Sunday 19 March 16:12:02 UTC 2017

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Mental Floss » This Week's Best Amazon Deals You Can Still Get

Sunday 19 March 16:00:00 UTC 2017

From the Smart Shopping Team… [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Hey baby, you look hot tonight. No, I mean you look very hot. Like, you're on fire. You have to stop using that paraffin-containing face cream that has been linked to fire deaths. Don't you read the internet? [Scary]

Sunday 19 March 15:31:36 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Applications to U.S. colleges by foreign students are down because of the fear of deportation. American students look forward to benefiting from the grading curve being lowered [Sad]

Sunday 19 March 14:45:12 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » A tour of the steepest streets in England, where egg-rolling contests proliferate. "Pushing a double buggy up was a bit tricky for me but I've never been so fit in my life" [Amusing]

Sunday 19 March 14:24:08 UTC 2017

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Overheard In The Office » Celebrity Gossip: The Universal Language.

Sunday 19 March 14:01:11 UTC 2017

Old Chinese tech: Hey, you know a' Tiger Woods?
Male phone tech: Yes! We dated! He said he loved me!
Old Chinese tech: You a'mysterious numbah fourteen! Malvern, Pennsylvania [Link]

Weird Universe » Divorcee banned from chess club

Sunday 19 March 13:57:33 UTC 2017

1971: 16-year-old Soni Romans was banned from all extracurricular activities at at Channelview High School in Houston. This included school choir, chess club, drama, and the National Honor Society. The reason for the ban was that she had been married and divorced and had a child (which she gave up for adoption). Therefore, the school felt that she shouldn't be … [Link]

Weird Universe » Gary Numan Unicef Concert: 1979

Sunday 19 March 13:57:32 UTC 2017

This is exactly the kind of performance that evokes for me the tragedy of starving Third World children.

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Fark.com RSS » Photoshop this pea car [Photoshop]

Sunday 19 March 13:00:01 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » CSB Sunday Morning: High School jobs [CSB]

Sunday 19 March 13:00:00 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Consider yourself a slob unless everyday you make the bed, clean the toilet, wipe the shower, sweep the kitchen floor, put dirty clothes in the laundry bin, and clear away all your clutter [Unlikely]

Sunday 19 March 12:27:19 UTC 2017

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Mental Floss » This Kinetic Sculpture Plays Rock Music Using Actual Rocks

Sunday 19 March 11:00:00 UTC 2017

Listen to it play The Beatles' "Here Comes the Sun." [Link]

Fark.com RSS » The risks of a pre-emptive U.S. military strike on North Korea range from "Aw hell no" to "Holy Jesus H. bald-headed Christ" [Scary]

Sunday 19 March 10:49:54 UTC 2017

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Mental Floss » On This Day in 1957, Elvis Bought Graceland

Sunday 19 March 8:56:26 UTC 2017

He bought the mansion for his parents to live in. [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Ugly-ass black rhino born at the Pittsburgh zoo, will be quite horny when it hits puberty [Sappy]

Sunday 19 March 7:58:06 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Satanic Temple advocates that Texas schools not use corporal punishment with billboard. Human sacrifice they're OK with but no spanking [Facepalm]

Sunday 19 March 7:07:53 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Back in subby's day, we escaped a robbery through the snow with TWO broken legs UPHILL both ways [Fail]

Sunday 19 March 6:45:19 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Parents thought their twins weren't getting enough sleep, so they set up a nanny cam and found the 2-year-old toddlers were having a party [Amusing]

Sunday 19 March 5:59:54 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » NYC developer brings a fake INS agent with him to an apartment to scare away the tenants living there on a rent stabilized lease. Was that wrong? Should he not have done that? [Dumbass]

Sunday 19 March 2:36:07 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » If this 6-year-old girl can figure out a way to feed the poor without involving the federal government, why can't you? [Cool]

Sunday 19 March 1:55:08 UTC 2017

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John Gordon Ross

A Man for All Reasons