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 » For our guests in the elevator, the jig's up [Amusing]
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Fark.com RSS » L.A. is about to start charging $3 to park at its subway stations and riders are steamed. Why? Because it's been free for 17 years [Interesting]
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Fark.com RSS » Last weekend I asked for your input into our new puppy's name. We brought the pup home this week, and we have a winner as decided by the family [Followup]
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Fark.com RSS » The definitive list of the best places to retire in the US. Suck it, Rhode Island [Interesting]
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Mental Floss » Sound-Absorbing Art Installation Offers Visitors Almost Total Silence
The room recreates the atmosphere of the desert in New York City. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Photoshop this field maintenance [Photoshop]
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Fark.com RSS » ISIS claims another victory over unarmed citizens as two bombings kill 43 in Egypt [Sad]
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Fark.com RSS » Cereal: it's not just for breakfast anymore. Snack Food Sunday wants to know your favorite after-breakfast cereal snack, and whether you eat it straight from the box or mix it up with other stuff [Interesting]
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Mental Floss » How Brain Freeze Works! (And How to Quickly Fix It)
The scourge of ice cream eaters everywhere, this headache doesn't have to last long. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Breaking news: While on the air, being handed a breaking story to cover live about a serious car crash with fatalities. Heartbreaking news: Realizing one of the deceased is your husband [Sad]
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Mental Floss » Watch How To Make a Self-Starting Siphon Using Bendy Straws
File under "Handy stuff you can do with bendy straws." [Link]
Mental Floss » This Week's Best Amazon Deals You Can Still Get
From the Smart Shopping Team… [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Old man learns that double-yellow-line enforcement isn't his job [Followup]
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Fark.com RSS » 100 years ago today, a 50-year-old nation sent 4 divisions up a ridge, forged itself an identity, and added the name Vimy Ridge to history [Hero]
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Fark.com RSS » People joke about everything in Australia trying to kill you, but the truth is EVEN THE SOIL WILL TRY TO KILL YOU [Scary]
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Overheard In The Office » Sometimes I Find Myself Accidentally Throwing Rocks at Them
Coworker #1: Hey, Shaniqua can you hand me that coffee?
Coworker #2 (very angry): My name is not Shaniqua–that's racist. Just because I'm black doesn't mean I have a name like that.
Coworker #1 (defensively): That isn't racism–it's a joke. Calling someone by a name that isn't theirs isn't racist. You shouldn't be so quick to call someone a racist.
Coworker #3 (after some … [Link]
Fark.com RSS » So, have you heard about the $81m missing from the New York Federal Reserve Bank? Because it seems like this should be a big story [Strange]
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Fark.com RSS » America 2017: You can now rent a baby chick you can raise as a pet around Easter time but give back to the farm after it starts to get big and ugly [Interesting]
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Fark.com RSS » Photoshop this strange-looking baby dog [Photoshop]
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Fark.com RSS » CSB Sunday Morning: Spring is here [CSB]
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Weird Universe » Operation Fragrant Cow
Back in the 60s, the U.S. Army employed scientists to sneak into Omaha stockyards and spray cows with deodorant. The logic behind this was to test how easy it would be for Soviet agents to spread hoof-and-mouth disease among American cows.
Unfortunately, I can't find any more info about this operation, which is a shame because it raises so many … [Link]
Weird Universe » Follies of the Madmen #310
Mocking the ignorance of your desired customer: always a good move!
Original ad here.
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Fark.com RSS » What do you do when your Facebook friend cancels going on holiday with you? You invite a total stranger with the same name [Spiffy]
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Mental Floss » Keep Your Items Safe Underground With This Beach Vault
Lock up your stuff! [Link]
Mental Floss » Why We Grieve When a Pet Dog Dies
Humans share an emotional bond with canines that can be traced back tens of thousands of years. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » This bag of salad mix contains the following ingredients: Lettuce, tomatoes, onions, a bat, cucumbers, radishes….wait….What? [Sick]
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Mental Floss » On This Day in 1959, America Met the Mercury Seven
They were NASA's first astronauts. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » It's not often that you're going to read a sentence like this: EMTs save a man's life by forcing him to drink a Coke [Interesting]
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Fark.com RSS » Judge invalidates the warrant the FBI used to greenlight an operation to identify users of a Tor child pornography site because the way Tor's systems work meant that the FBI was well outside of their jurisdiction from day 1 [Fail]
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Mental Floss » Keeps Your Items Safe Underground With This Beach Vault
Lock up your stuff! [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Oh, nothing… just a US carrier strike group heading to the Korean Peninsula. Russiagate? What Russiagate? [News]
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Fark.com RSS » Trump did so much damage to the Syrian air force that it took them an entire day before they could bomb Khan Sheikhoun again [Followup]
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Fark.com RSS » 19 household items that you didn't realize had expiration dates. Maybe this is why they burned the bra [Interesting]
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Fark.com RSS » After accidentally locking man in store, CVS finally decides not to press charges for him stealing snacks [Fail]
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Futility Closet » The Most Unwanted Song
In 1996, Vitaly Komar and Alexander Melamid set out to determine the “most unwanted” possible song, using an opinion poll of about 500 people. Here it is — 22 minutes of cowboy music, bagpipes, accordions, opera, rap, children’s voices, tubas, drum machines, and advertising jingles. Details are on their website. Columbia neuroscientist David Sulzer says that, if his analysis is … [Link]
Mental Floss » Watch: These Fruit Flies are Superheroes of Brain Science
Zap them and they fight. Zap them harder and they flirt. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Photoshop this fitness coach & his charge [Photoshop]
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