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 » You can't steal 22 liquor bottles from Walgreens. Thief: Hold my beer [Florida]
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Fark.com RSS » Australian police minister takes a funny picture of a sheep in a car, turns himself in after he was informed it was illegal to use his cell phone while driving [Silly]
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Mental Floss » 7 New Minerals Created by Human Activity
These new minerals have been found in mines, shipwrecks, and even inside museum drawers. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Flight attendant wrestles 5-foot snake from plane; Samuel L. Jackson unimpressed [Scary]
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Fark.com RSS » Rule 36 strikes again: Family doctor's hip hop video urges safe sex for seniors [Weird]
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Fark.com RSS » At this rate, future air travel security will necessitate flying naked, without luggage, anesthetized, and being revived at your destination. On the plus side, you'll never know you spent 9 hours next to a fat slob with B.O. that could kill a hor
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Fark.com RSS » Caption these feasting guinea pigs [Caption]
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Mental Floss » Cool Job Alert: American Girl Is Hiring a Historian
The company is looking for a researcher to verify the historical accuracy of its products. [Link]
Mental Floss » New Film Shows the Rich History of African American Speech
It's an in-depth look at one of the most politically charged and misunderstood varieties of American English. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Once again, people: Being racist, stupid, and on Facebook can be career limiting [Florida]
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Mental Floss » 12 Facts You May Be Missing About Richard Simmons
An anonymous note left on his car window changed Simmons's life forever. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Change your travel plans: sex with animals illegal in Ohio starting today [PSA]
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Fark.com RSS » Oklahoma state senator found with underage male prostitute plans to resign, spend more time getting to the bottom of things [Followup]
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Fark.com RSS » Judge limits info on the trial of drug kingpin El Chapo, saying only that his name is Spanish for "The Chap" [Followup]
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Fark.com RSS » Unfortunate dude who decided to share a beer with Dylan Roof gets two years for lying to the FBI. Sometimes hanging out with lunatics is a bad thing [Fail]
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Fark.com RSS » 15-year-old drops acid, three stories [Sad]
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Fark.com RSS » After family dog is killed, an Idaho Sheriff asks the USDA to stop planting cyanide bombs across the county. In other news the USDA is planting cyanide bombs [Scary]
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Mental Floss » A New Museum Honoring 'Anne of Green Gables' Author Is in the Works
A fan group plans to convert author L.M. Montgomery's home in Norval, Ontario into a literary landmark. [Link]
Mental Floss » Round on the End
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Fark.com RSS » Photoshop this early morning hoopster [Photoshop]
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Fark.com RSS » $3.7 million restoration returns Jesus' tomb to its original splendor. Search for it with keywords "Jerusalem tourist trap" [Facepalm]
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Fark.com RSS » Broccoli and cabbage can help you live longer but they taste terrible. That's where lemon juice and cheese come in [Interesting]
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Mental Floss » Germany Is Converting a Coal Mine Into a 'Battery' for Renewable Energy
The system will provide enough energy to power more than 400,000 homes. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Women are spending tens of thousands of dollars on plastic surgery to get the "natural beauty" of Ivanka Trump. That's the joke [Facepalm]
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Mental Floss » 50 of Our Favorite Books by Women
You can thank us later for creating your reading list for the next five years. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » In today's episode of Canadian Problems; diplomats have been told to stop using life-size, cardboard cut-outs of Justin Trudeau at promotional events [Silly]
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Futility Closet » In a Word
periergia
n. bombastic or laboured language galimatias
n. confused language, meaningless talk, nonsense taigle
v. to impede or hinder; hence, to fatigue; weary obtrect
v. to disparage or decry A paragraph from an unnamed “publication from a leading geographical society”: The examples given suggest that the multiformity of environmental apprehension and the exclusivity of abstract semantic conceptions constitute a crucial … [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Florida woman arrested after toddler shoots out car window at church school. To be fair, in Florida, that's called doing a bang-up job of parenting [Florida]
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Mental Floss » 12 Scientifically Cute Facts About Puppies
They really do like baby talk. [Link]
Mental Floss » The Strange Fate of Taco Bell's Taco-Making Machine
The seasoned beef behemoth could make 900 tacos an hour. So why didn't it catch on? [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Police claim woman not wearing gloves tried to shoot them without leaving any fingerprints or DNA on the gun. In a terrible coincidence, all six body cameras mysteriously failed at the same time [Obvious]
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Mental Floss » A Queen-Inspired Monopoly Game Is on Its Way
The British rock band will release their own personalized version of the classic board game in May. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » It bears repeating: If you insist on going to an unlicensed, trans-gender person's home to receive silicone injections, don't expect medical-grade silicone to be used [Facepalm]
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Fark.com RSS » Fark NotNewsletter: What does Duke do? [FarkBlog]
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Fark.com RSS » Best Korea says it's not afraid of US strike in statement describing their 'treasured sword of justice,' simultaneously ratcheting up the tension and giving World of Warcraft players a new reason to invade [Followup]
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Fark.com RSS » Vista support, Obama's tapping, and grammar Nazi judges. These are YOUR Headlines Of The Week for Sun 2017-03-12 to Sat 2017-03-18 [FarkBlog]
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Mental Floss » Boston Public Schools Are Adopting a More Accurate World Map
The district began phasing out the Mercator map this month. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Think that flying a commercial airliner is an easy gig? Cockpit footage of a pilot battling turbulence and intense winds shows some serious skill that very few have [Scary]
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Fark.com RSS » Labrador retrievers are again #1 in America's most popular dog breeds, narrowly beating out German shepherds, golden retrievers and meth labs [Interesting]
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Mental Floss » A Vacation Home Company Is Hiring Someone to Travel the World in Luxury
And the pay is $10,000 a month. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Operation March Sadness nets thirty-eight prostitutes, fifty-one johns, fourteen pimps and one award for 'the worst name for a prostitution sting ever' [Florida]
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Mental Floss » Scientists Develop Quick, Inexpensive Paper Blood Type Test
The cheap test could do a world of good in the places that need it the most. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » China tortures lawyers. Rest of world issues statement of general approval [Sick]
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Fark.com RSS » How can politicians really say they're making America great again when they keep trying to ban RV camping in Walmart parking lots? [Asinine]
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Mental Floss » 8 Movie Sequels Made Without Permission
Don't ask Martin Scorsese why someone made a sequel to 'Raging Bull.' He has no idea. [Link]
Mental Floss » 7 Candy Bars You Can Now Get in Spreadable Form
If you're a fan of eating Nutella straight out of the jar, we have some great news: There are plenty of other sugary spreads for you to sink your spoon into. [Link]
Mental Floss » 5 Questions: Spring Flowers
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Fark.com RSS » Infant mortality rates in the US plunge 15% [Spiffy]
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Weird Universe » Makes bomb threat from jail
October 1971: While being booked on charges of malicious mischief at Los Angeles police headquarters, Frank Elby Taylor asked to exercise his right to make a phone call. He was allowed to do this, so he called the airport and made a bomb threat. The call was quickly traced back to the police station. The police got Elby out of … [Link]
Fark.com RSS » If you've got so much weed it's literally coming out your butt, maybe it's time to cut back [Florida]
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Fark.com RSS » Appeals court rules that pleading the 5th doesn't protect you from being forced to decrypt your hard drives if everyone already knows you've been downloading illegal materials to them in the first place [Followup]
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Fark.com RSS » Photoshop this flooded fuel stop [Photoshop]
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Mental Floss » Visitors to LEGOLAND Japan Can Eat LEGO-Shaped French Fries
The newest LEGOLAND park fully embraces the theme. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » In today's episode of 'Causation vs. Correlation' we have global warming and diabetes [Facepalm]
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Fark.com RSS » ICE pretends to be police, just like they pretend to serve justice [Sick]
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Weird Universe » Mystery Gadget 45
Why is this man inside a steel cylinder?
The answer is here.
And after the jump.
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Mental Floss » Why the Laocoön Sculpture Had the Wrong Arm for Four Centuries
When incomplete ancient sculptures are discovered, artists and art historians often try to figure out how the missing pieces originally looked. They don't always get it right. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » You know those packets of wildflower seeds Cheerios gave away to help grow flowers for honey bees? It turns out in some states the seeds are considered noxious, invasive, and illegal [Facepalm]
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Mental Floss » Spring Flowers
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Fark.com RSS » In adult movies when your wife recently discovers that she's gay, things get kinky. In real life, bleach gets thrown in your face [Florida]
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Mental Floss » You're Going to Make a Lot of Pizza With the TMNT Cookbook
Cowabunga! [Link]
GraphJam »
Graph by: Unknown Tagged: jimmy mcmillan , Memes , ny governor , Pie Chart , political parties , rent , too dang high Share on Facebook
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Fark.com RSS » Prison guards won't face charges after boiling a man alive [Florida]
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Mental Floss » Morning Cup of Links: Naming Dinosaurs
Awesome links for everyone! [Link]
Mental Floss » That Crazy Thing Your Dog Does
When your dog randomly runs around like crazy, it's not actually crazy at all. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Hermaphrodite frogs and feminized fish, as well as low sperm counts and reproductive problems in humans. Not my Toronto [Sad]
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Mental Floss » The Most Popular Foods in Each State, According to Pinterest
Delicious meal inspiration, dished out by social media users across the country. [Link]
Futility Closet » Bad Cats
This has been a trying month for the Indonesian military. On March 11 a Twitter user uploaded this photo with the caption “What the hell is this tiger?” and it took off on social media. The statue, meant to represent the mascot of an army division, had stood for five years at the entrance of the Siliwangi Military Command base … [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Chinese archaeologists baffled by newly discovered 2,000-year-old pyramid scheme [Strange]
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Fark.com RSS » The war on cannabis is more deadly than cannabis [Obvious]
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Mental Floss » The Best Vacation Destinations for Hunting Mythical Creatures
If you want to up your chances of seeing Bigfoot, head to Oregon. [Link]
Mental Floss » Butterbeer Ice Cream Is Now a Reality, Thanks to Yuengling
The fictional Harry Potter brew is heading to your freezer. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Hidden treasure of old candy wrappers and boxes found at historic Chicago movie theater in the midst of being renovated, for those of you wondering where your JuJuBes went missing in 1946 [Interesting]
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Mental Floss » 7 Signs Language Is Still Evolving
Presented by National Geographic. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Couple go into bar around midnight, order drinks. Woman passes out. Staff calls cab. Before cab arrives, woman vomits in front of bar, Man gets into fight with bar staff. Police arrive, arrest couple. Quick, where'd couple's 5-year-old daught
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Fark.com RSS » Cosby wants jury pool to be picked from Pittsburgh, prescreened for bias, Star Wars characters [Obvious]
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Fark.com RSS » Wendy's: "Here's the beef" [Scary]
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Fark.com RSS » Trace of Earth's original 4.3 billion-year-old crust found on surface. Pizza boxes still unaccounted for [Spiffy]
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Fark.com RSS » This one weird trick is guaranteed to prevent the bank from foreclosing on your home [Sad]
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Fark.com RSS » Sharks and ill-tempered Sea Bass are out, but the army may soon have trucks with giant lasers on their heads [Interesting]
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Fark.com RSS » Russia starts drawing pictures to build new aircraft carrier. The new one will be smoking too, to scare enemies off [Ironic]
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Fark.com RSS » It's hard to believe some of these people manage to stay alive, much less make it out to restaurants to eat [Dumbass]
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Fark.com RSS » TSA starts banning all electronic devices larger than an exploding Samsung Galaxy 7 on airlines from 13 countries [Murica]
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Fark.com RSS » It's always embarrassing to lose a fight but when you get beaten up by Eeyore it's downright shameful. Good thing what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas [Scary]
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Fark.com RSS » Paul's Memory Bank continues Swinging Through the Alphabet highlighting songs beginning with the letter "F". And in various points through the show a DMCA-compliant mini-tribute to Chuck Berry. Starting at 8 PM EDT [Live]
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Fark.com RSS » Photoshop this afterglow [Photoshop]
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