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 » "Am I the only 26-year-old in the world who hates yoga?" [Unlikely]

Sunday 2 April 21:53:48 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Life Tip #22: When receiving meth in the mail, make sure your address is correct. Life Tip #23: If the police call to tell you they found your missing package, going to the station to pick it up may not be your best option [Fail]

Sunday 2 April 21:34:46 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Public is asked to name a new ferry. What happened next was inevitable [Amusing]

Sunday 2 April 20:36:54 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » "Doctors failing patients who drink too much." Darwin working overtime. Hold my beer and watch this [Obvious]

Sunday 2 April 20:33:04 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Photoshop this family out for a drive [Photoshop]

Sunday 2 April 20:00:01 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Oreo's new cookie flavor seemed like an April Fools' joke to us all, but it wasn't [Facepalm]

Sunday 2 April 18:42:13 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » How bad has CNN reporting become? Well, a giant cargo ship has gone missing and Wolf Blitzer hasn't even got an erection yet [Strange]

Sunday 2 April 18:23:11 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Snack Food Sunday needs to satisfy its sweet tooth this week with a bag of store bought cookies. What do you recommend? [Interesting]

Sunday 2 April 18:00:00 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » This day in 1513, Ponce de Leon discovers Florida. Fark tag appears two days later [Florida]

Sunday 2 April 17:33:14 UTC 2017

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Mental Floss » The Physician-Artist Who Saved Paintings From the Taliban

Sunday 2 April 17:30:00 UTC 2017

In 2001, Dr. Muhammad Yousef Asefi came up with a brilliant plan to prevent the Taliban from destroying priceless works of art they considered "idolatrous." [Link]

Fark.com RSS » "My year as a dominatrix in a Los Angeles sex dungeon" [Giggity]

Sunday 2 April 16:56:18 UTC 2017

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Futility Closet » 77777 …

Sunday 2 April 16:43:15 UTC 2017

A curious puzzle from the Penguin Problems Book, 1940: A certain number consisting entirely of 7s is divisible by 199. Find the last four digits of the quotient, without finding the entire quotient. SelectClick for Answer 199 × the quotient equals the number we’re seeking (7777 …). Hence (200 × the quotient) minus the quotient will give us the same … [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Homeless man accused of starting the I-85 Atlanta highway fire due to a crack habit ordered held on a completely reasonable $200,000 bail [Followup]

Sunday 2 April 16:36:52 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Angry Jeep driver pushes badly parked car into its own space [Amusing]

Sunday 2 April 16:16:12 UTC 2017

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Weird Universe » Volkswagen Lawnmower

Sunday 2 April 16:11:51 UTC 2017

Back in 1982, Howard Blakely transformed the back half of his Volkswagen Beetle into a lawn mower. Twice a week, he would use it to mow the three acres of grass around his business, Blakely's Drapery and Upholstering, in Lecanto, Florida.

You can find more details about his odd creation at Gas Engine Magazine.

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

Sunday 2 April 15:30:00 UTC 2017

From the Smart Shopping Team… [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Wondering how business has been for the North Carolina restaurant that banned kids? [Followup]

Sunday 2 April 15:06:17 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Brexit means the UK will have to spend £500 million on brand new passports because the old ones said "European Union" on them [Fail]

Sunday 2 April 15:06:16 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Legal pot is ruining Denver's restaurant industry, mostly because the stoners they used to be able to work to death as line cooks and busboys for minimum wage are now pulling down $22/hr + benefits working in hothouses and dispensaries [Spiffy]

Sunday 2 April 15:06:15 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Thunderbirds are go … for 87-year-old astronaut Buzz Aldrin today [Cool]

Sunday 2 April 14:35:09 UTC 2017

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Weird Universe » “Iron Mask” Wristwatch

Sunday 2 April 14:10:00 UTC 2017

I can't find any evidence for the widespread distribution of this watch outside this advertisement. Evidently, it did not catch on. Even Ebay does not seem to feature any as collectibles.

Of course, offering a watch that cost $17.50 (2017 equivalent: $307.40) during the Depression might have had something to do with their failure.

Original advertisement here. (Scroll down.) [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Wearing a breast cancer t-shirt to a family gathering at a restaurant? That's a call to the police [Asinine]

Sunday 2 April 13:55:56 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Police raid tetraplegic for his medical cannabis, resulting in his caregivers quitting without notice. The arrestocrats [Sick]

Sunday 2 April 13:41:54 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Man saves his fiancé from being abducted by two men outside their home by shooting at them. Guess who gets arrested? [Asinine]

Sunday 2 April 13:31:20 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Don't lie, you'll be watching the new Ghost in the Shell no matter how much you liked the original. So while you're standing in line, you can take the Weekly Weird News Quiz [Obvious]

Sunday 2 April 1:53:17 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Family is picking up the new pup on Wednesday. 8 week old male black lab. Need name suggestions, I'll add the best to the current list and the family will vote. Current list as suggested by family: Jake, Duke, Yuma, Cuervo [Cool]

Sunday 2 April 1:07:19 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Hundreds of yellow cars flooded into a picturesque Cotswold village today to support a retiree whose canary yellow car was vandalized by locals who thought it was an eyesore [Followup]

Sunday 2 April 0:37:16 UTC 2017

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John Gordon Ross

A Man for All Reasons