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 » Cleveland man at large killing random people on Facebook Live [NewsFlash]
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Fark.com RSS » Local uproar about cheese waste fed to cattle. No whey – don't they know that's where cheeseburgers come from? [Misc]
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Fark.com RSS » Article on how getting a six pack is a "life changing event." Submitted 26 minutes before subby has to be at the gym [Silly]
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Fark.com RSS » Millennials will never retire [Obvious]
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Fark.com RSS » Technology kills yet another career: flying traffic reporter [Sad]
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Fark.com RSS » Bride and groom dragged off of United flight for having the audacity to sit in some empty seats so a tired, exhausted passenger could sleep comfortably in their row [Fail]
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Fark.com RSS » The last thing you expect to find in your chocolate cake is a snake, but here we are [Scary]
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Mental Floss » Take a Rare Tour Inside a Massive Pipe Organ
The instrument looks even more intimidating from the inside. [Link]
Weird Universe » News of the Weird (April 16, 2017)
News of the Weird
Weirdnuz.M523, April 16, 2017
Copyright 2017 by Chuck Shepherd. All rights reserved.
Lead Story
Samuel West announced in April that his Museum of Failure will open in Helsingborg, Sweden, in June, to commemorate innovation missteps that might serve as inspiration for future successes. Among the initial exhibits: coffee-infused Coca-Cola; the Bic "For Her" pen (because women's … [Link]
Futility Closet » Far From Home
The English village of Uley had a remarkable citizen in 1917: a lowland gorilla, captured in Gabon by the French soldiers who had shot his parents. Uley resident Rupert Penny spotted him for sale in a London department store, paid £300, and named him John Daniel, and his sister Alyce raised him like a human boy. “Until recently, we had … [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Misleading headline is misleading [Stupid]
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Fark.com RSS » Photoshop this posturing politician [Photoshop]
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Fark.com RSS » A homeless family needed a home in Washington, DC. How did the city respond? By giving them bus tickets to North Carolina [Misc]
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Fark.com RSS » U.S. seen shrugging its shoulders, tapping its foot in a corner at the very thought that North Korea's unsuccessful missile launch 'may have been caused by some sort of cyber attack' [Followup]
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Fark.com RSS » Texas supreme court denies request from the douchenozzle of the decade to be released from prison [Followup]
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Mental Floss » Green Bay is Known for More Than Just Football
Trust us, you're thankful for Green Bay's contribution to the world of hygiene. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » If your county sheriff can withdraw $160K from the jail's food account and invest it into a used car lot without winding up taking all her own meals at jail's dining facility, you might be living in Alabama [Followup]
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Fark.com RSS » Not all snacks have to be full of sugar or salt or fat or other unhealthy stuff. Snack Food Sunday is looking for something healthly to munch on before chowing down on the 5,000 calorie Easter dinner [Interesting]
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Fark.com RSS » Wearing a bunny suit doesn't mean you won't get slapped for being a jerk, but if you're a police officer, you may want to restrain yourself [Stupid]
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Mental Floss » Watch How to Make a Compass
You'll need a magnet and a bit of know-how. Here's the know-how. [Link]
Mental Floss » Visual Proof of Snowflakes' Non-Uniqueness
Science ruins everything. [Link]
Mental Floss » This Week's Best Amazon Deals You Can Still Get
From the Smart Shopping Team… [Link]
Weird Universe » Accidental Marriage
The final paragraph of this article sounds like it could be the start of a novel:
Mr. and Mrs. de Leon decided several days later they no longer were in love. It was then they learned they were married.
The Canonsburg Daily Notes – Aug 30, 1952 [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Texas warns residents about largest outbreak of mumps in over two decades. If only there were something, say a common vaccine, that could have prevented such an outbreak [Murica]
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Fark.com RSS » Kansas woman tweets her love of Dr. Pepper, so the company surprises her with an outdoor Dr. Pepper soda fountain. In hopefully related news, subby would like to publicly express his love of Maker's Mark, truly the best bourbon in the world [Amus
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Mental Floss » 10 Enduring Facts About Charlie Chaplin
The legendary comedian's life was full of controversy. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » "Awwwwww who's a good magpie? Yes you are. Yes you are. You're a good magpie" [Sappy]
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Fark.com RSS » Taxpayers use spray paint to creatively highlight to city what potholes need immediate repair. "The potholes [have] been here for a long time, but the penis, that was just put there last night" [Amusing]
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Fark.com RSS » Before you steal all that Easter chocolate from your kids and gorge it down, here's what an Easter egg chocolate binge does to your body [Interesting]
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Fark.com RSS » Photoshop this free car wash [Photoshop]
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Fark.com RSS » CSB Sunday Morning: Easter tradition [CSB]
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Fark.com RSS » When installing a new LED screen for advertising on the platform of a a metro station, it really, really, really, really helps to setup a wi-fi password, even if you're still in the testing phase after install [Fail]
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Fark.com RSS » List a professor's occupation as a toilet cleaner on his fishing license? That's a lawsuit [Stupid]
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Weird Universe » Elk Tooth Charm
From the June 1948 issue of–what else?–the ELKS MAGAZINE. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » If barber tells you haircuts cost $10, but you only got $2, you can't make up the $8 difference by shooting the barber. What about the tip? [Sick]
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Fark.com RSS » Mexico is welcoming U.S. deportees with open arms [Followup]
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Mental Floss » Tiny Woman, Big Instrument: Remembering Jane Little, the World's Longest-Serving Orchestra Musician
Little played with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra for 71 years, landing her a Guinness Record. [Link]
Mental Floss » On This Day in 1972, Apollo 16 Blasted Off
Astronaut Charlie Duke left a photo of his family on the moon. [Link]
GraphJam » Wal*Mart
Graph by: Marijuana Tagged: home , shopping , venn diagram , Walmart Share on Facebook
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Fark.com RSS » In honor of Lord Stanley, tell us your brush with Hockey greatness [CSB]
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Fark.com RSS » Kramer and Newman's cunning plan foiled [Fail]
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Mental Floss » Emoji Face Masks Make Your Skin Smooth Enough to Text About
Masks that will make your face go 🙂 [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Coming to you from Juneau, Alaska, it's the return of Livingston Stapler Company Presents. Welcome back our host from his long absence starting at 9PM AKDT/10PM PDT [Live]
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Fark.com RSS » ER nurse: "You are the stupidest person I've ever met." People share stupid things they've done out of sheer curiosity. I'm gonna take a wild guess and say there are few – if any – females among these would-be Einsteins [Amusing]
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Fark.com RSS » Man celebrating his release from prison earlier in the day shot and killed at his own party [Fail]
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Fark.com RSS » Man, tired of his noisy neighbors, buys a 'building shaker' and leaves it on all weekend to annoy them. BRILLIANT [Amusing]
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Fark.com RSS » The cannon only shot about 3 feet, so the obvious answer is to double the amount of gun powder right? WRONG [Fail]
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Mental Floss » Visual Proof of Snowflakes' Non-Identicality
Science ruins everything. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » During North Korea's grand military parade, one of the missiles passing by in the background of news report appears to have a major papier-mâché malfunction [Video]
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Futility Closet » History Search
Image: Wikimedia Commons In 2014, Michigan Technological University physicists Robert Nemiroff and Teresa Wilson thought up a novel way to detect time travelers: Search the Internet. They searched for mentions of “Comet ISON,” a sun-grazing comet discovered in September 2012, and for “Pope Francis,” whose papacy began in March 2013 and who is the first of his name. Both of these … [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Photoshop this ball maker [Photoshop]
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