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 » First responders: When responding to report of elderly man wandering neighborhood shirtless, carrying catheter bag, take him to hospital. Don't just call him a cab, send him to wrong address 40 miles away [Florida]
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Fark.com RSS » Park honoring Franklin Roosevelt sued for not being handicap-accessible [Ironic]
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Fark.com RSS » "Ack, call 911, I've been struck by lightning." "Well, isn't this ironic" [Florida]
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Fark.com RSS » College students rescued man from train tracks because God doesn't always protect fools, drunks, Fark headline submitters [Hero]
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Fark.com RSS » Reagan to get balls bigger than the ones used to announce that the missiles to ensure peace with the USSR launch in five minutes during a radio broadcast [Spiffy]
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Mental Floss » Costco Launches New Home Delivery Service
The service, available through a partnership with Shipt, will launch in Tampa, Florida. [Link]
Mental Floss » 11 Forgotten but Important Moments in Women's History
America's first female mayor may have been nominated as a prank, but her win paved the way for other women to hold office. [Link]
Mental Floss » When Do We Reach Peak Life Satisfaction? And Peak Math Skills?
Young people can run marathons faster, but data shows that older really is wiser in some ways. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » 4 yr old: "Siri, set 4pm reminder for Wonder Pets, Check @Elmo on twitter, also save Mum's life" [Hero]
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Fark.com RSS » Waffle House: Come for the food, stay for the show [Stupid]
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Fark.com RSS » Remember the Heaven's Gate mass suicides from twenty years ago? Well you can still buy the victims' discontinued Nike shoes if you're into that kind of a thing [Weird]
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Fark.com RSS » Photoshop this creepy cosplayer [Photoshop]
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Mental Floss » Aerospace Company Wants to Fight Hunger With Edible Drones
Honeycomb, vegetables, and salami are used to build the aircraft. [Link]
Mental Floss » Could Fire Be Good for Wild Ecosystems?
Scientists are still trying to figure out the complex relationship between wildfires and biodiversity. [Link]
Mental Floss » 12 Unusual Drive-Through Services
They offer everything but fries. [Link]
Mental Floss » DNA Copying Errors Could Be the Most Common Cause of Cancer
Researchers say the majority of cancer-causing mutations may be the result of errors created in the DNA replication process, not of environmental factors or heredity. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Former Russian MP and critic of Putin trips and accidentally falls on some bullets, according to the Kremlin [Obvious]
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Mental Floss » Spacewreck: The 'Captain EO' Story
A farting elephant puppet, cost overruns, and complex effects nearly sunk Disney's Michael Jackson attraction. [Link]
Mental Floss » Beat Writer's Block With Lin-Manuel Miranda's New Spotify Playlist
It's called "Write Your Way Out,” and features a variety of literary-themed tunes. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » 4-year-old brings shell casing to daycare, therefore soccermom martial law is declared [Dumbass]
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Fark.com RSS » A new "Hyperloop," if built, could connect Seattle and Portland in 15 minutes. Or two and a half hours if the TSA gets involved [Unlikely]
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Fark.com RSS » Good: NASA resolves data error in the Space Station's radiation sensors. Awesome: Thanks to the analysis of a 17-year-old student in Britain [Spiffy]
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Mental Floss » Watch the Earliest Known Color Footage of the White House
The Hoover-era video was recently rediscovered. [Link]
Mental Floss » 5 Ways to Get the Most Out of Your Washing Machine
Adding more detergent isn't the answer to getting cleaner clothes. [Link]
Mental Floss » Get Thursday's Top Amazon Deals Now
From the Smart Shopping Team… [Link]
Mental Floss » New Emojis to Include Vampires, Pie, and a Person in a Headscarf
Get excited. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Dissecting Sir Mix-a-lot's magnum opus: 'I like big butts and I cannot lie' is a clear value proposition [Amusing]
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Mental Floss » Name the Bordering Country
Take the quiz! [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Today is national puppy day, so let's see them all-big puppies, little puppies, sweater puppies [Cool]
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Fark.com RSS » Fahrenheit 451. Now translated to Floridian [Florida]
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Fark.com RSS » Impossible Foods company intends to market a "veggie burger that bleeds". Next year, they will introduce carrots that scream [Fake]
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Fark.com RSS » Big Hole jammed (link fixed) [Cool]
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Mental Floss » 5 Questions: Round on the Other End
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Fark.com RSS » Arrest made in multiple threats to Jewish centers. Fark: suspect is a Jewish teenager in Israel [Weird]
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Mental Floss » 15 Killer Facts About ‘Zodiac’
7. It was Jennifer Aniston who suggested Jake Gyllenhaal and Mark Ruffalo for the film. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Florida woman secretly records and broadcasts a nursing home couple having sex, claiming it was for her own amusement [Florida]
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Weird Universe » Star Wars Celica GT
Back in 1977, as a stunt to help promote the opening of Star Wars, Toyota created a custom Star Wars Celica GT. Then they raffled off the car. Somebody won it, but nobody knows who. The fate of this car has become something of an obsession among fans of the movie. Was it destroyed? Is it still sitting in a … [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Since there isn't a single black man living in his city, a Baltimore man went to NYC last week just to stab black men to death [Sick]
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Mental Floss » 'Super Mario Bros.'-Themed Pop-Up Bar Opens in Washington D.C.
One room over, patrons can find Japanese cherry blossoms, paper cranes, and maneki neko cat figurines. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Daesh takes credit for the Westminster attack, the quality of the CHIPs remake, and the new Yoko Ono album [Followup]
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Overheard In The Office » 10AM Call Building Maintenance
Co-worker #1: I’m really hot.
Co-worker #2: I’m turning the heat down to 90. If anyone’s cold then they can go into [Jessica]’s office, but first you have to take off your clothes because it’s a sauna in there.
Co-worker #3: You shouldn’t tell people to take their clothes off before going into [Jessica]’s office. 57 Binney Street
Boston, Massachusetts … [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Willis Tower Skydeck expansion to allow visitors to rappel on the building's exterior from the Skydeck's top floor to the gift shop below where they can purchase new underwear [Scary]
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Fark.com RSS » Photoshop this examiner [Photoshop]
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Fark.com RSS » Record-breaking 76,017 domino 'circle bomb' toppled from the center of a circle to its outer edge [Cool]
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Fark.com RSS » Have an earworm of a song going round and round in your head? Here's how to extract it from your noggin [Interesting]
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Mental Floss » Round on the Other End
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Fark.com RSS » Today's White House fence jumper caught by her shoelaces. Secret Service needs every break it can get [Fail]
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Mental Floss » You Won't Know if Schrödinger's Cat Is Alive or Dead Until You Use These Mugs
Is the cat alive or dead? You'll only find out when you pour in hot liquid. [Link]
Weird Universe » Follies of the Madmen #308
Yes, I want my product associated with the destruction of property and possible loss of life. That's a glamorous ambiance!
Original ad here.
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Fark.com RSS » Drug paraphernalia ✓ Meth ✓ Xanax ✓ Hydrocodone ✓ Being sold at a gas station ✓ Or as they call that in Arkansas just another day ending with the letter Y [Fail]
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Mental Floss » Morning Cup of Links: The Origin of Marmite
Links to start your day right! [Link]
Mental Floss » Yarn Bombing in Harlem
Since 2012, Naomi Lawrence has filled the sidewalks of Harlem with brightly colored flowers—yarn flowers. [Link]
GraphJam » Du Hast Mich
Graph by: QWERTYCommander Tagged: german , language , Pie Chart , volkswagen Share on Facebook
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Mental Floss » Australian Artist Creates Miniature Models of Gritty Urban Buildings
Joshua Smith finds beauty in urban decay. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Explosions at arms depot in eastern Ukraine force evacuation of 20,000 people. "Sabotage" suspected [News]
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Futility Closet » A Looking-Glass Letter
A facsimile of a letter from Lewis Carroll to Miss Edith Ball, Nov. 6, 1893: 
My dear Edith, I was very much pleased to get your nice little letter: and I hope you won’t mind letting Maud have the Nursery Alice, now that you have got the real one. Some day I will send you the other book about Alice, … [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Former university student arrested for breaking into a university laboratory and doing "medical research" [Obvious]
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Mental Floss » Play With This Odd Voice Simulator That Mimics How Your Mouth Creates Sound
How many sounds can you figure out how to make? [Link]
Fark.com RSS » A couple put a bike in front of their house with a free sign on it. Then things get weird [Weird]
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Fark.com RSS » Buddhist temple in Fukui holds techno music services to lure young worshipers, with chief priest rapping sutras as colorful lights swirl around Buddha statue. 'We priests are Buddha's public relations representatives' [Weird]
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Fark.com RSS » Theme of Farktography Contest No. 620: "Spring is in the Air 2". Details and rules in first post. LGT next week's theme [Farktography]
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Fark.com RSS » America's Hobo royalty have mastered the ultimate cheap travel hack: Just don't pay. For anything. Ever. Learn their ways [Murica]
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Fark.com RSS » Deadpool busted for DUI after driving onto Taco Bell lawn [Dumbass]
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Fark.com RSS » Don't feel bad about eating butter, it's not that bad for you. Delicious butter on everything is what life is all about [Interesting]
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Fark.com RSS » Doctor argues he is too fat to rub his erection against patients [Weeners]
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Fark.com RSS » Meet the rocket scientist who became a pig farmer, with a possible signature meat called Blast-off Bacon in the works [Interesting]
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Fark.com RSS » State of Vermont announces data breach of personal information on some 200,000 people. Are there even 200,000 people in Vermont? [Fail]
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Fark.com RSS » Need a ride home after checking yourself out of the hospital? Why not just steal an ambulance? [Dumbass]
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Fark.com RSS » If you're planning on texting the details of your upcoming drug swap, it's probably best not to mistakenly send it to a local prosecutor [Dumbass]
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Fark.com RSS » One simply does not tiptoe pass the customs officials into mainland China from Hong Kong with 1,000 diamonds in his shoes when he has a case of the walking blues [Dumbass]
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Fark.com RSS » It's a tough economy when a burglar working the evening shift makes off with only $1 and a houseplant [Silly]
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Mental Floss » A Peek Into the World's Oldest Active Hotel
Nestled in Japan's Akaishi Mountains is the world's oldest hotel: Nishiyama Onsen Keiunkan, established in 705 CE—over a millennium before any existing American hotels. Check it out. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Apparently nuclear plants can get small pox [Scary]
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Fark.com RSS » The first rule of doggy daycare fight club is don't talk about doggy daycare fight club [Facepalm]
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Fark.com RSS » Photoshop this vision of beauty [Photoshop]
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