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 » America's wang is burning, and penicillin won't stop this one [Florida]
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Fark.com RSS » One in five adults can't change a lightbulb, boil an egg, or get a headline greenlit on Fark [Sad]
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Weird Universe » The City Flag of Tampa
Our own Chuck Shepherd, longtime resident of Tampa, Florida, can salute his city's improbable flag as one of the ugliest banners in the history of banner-dom. He modestly suggests that more people should know of it, to induce further laughter and insults.
And yet, surprisingly, neighboring burg of St. Pete has a halfway decent ensign–if you like pelicans.
Full article … [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Giving away free joints at a pot giveaway? Nope, that's not an arresting [Spiffy]
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Fark.com RSS » Let me just fix this blinking traffic light real quick [Fail]
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Fark.com RSS » Photoshop this helping hand [Photoshop]
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Fark.com RSS » Give me a tip about grilling. I want to be a grillmaster [Survey]
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Fark.com RSS » Having your tooth pulled at the dentist is often unpleasant enough without worrying that your doctor will perform a procedure while riding a hoverboard [Fail]
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Mental Floss » We All Know a Refugee
Refugees are a part of the fabric of the American experience. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » The second most controversial issue in this well-off suburb is tax rates. The most controversial is decibel limits for domestic servants [Misc]
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Fark.com RSS » Protip for drunk drivers: Don't try to turn into a cow by eating grass on roadside to beat your breathalyzer test, it won't work [Dumbass]
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Fark.com RSS » Maine man arrested in Virginia for trafficking in baby eels. It doesn't say if his hovercraft was impounded [Followup]
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Fark.com RSS » Bangkok vows to rid city of unsightly, smelly street food stalls that block sidewalks and create pedestrian chaos. NYC officials: "Wait, they can do that?" [Interesting]
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Futility Closet » Riposte
Chess master Wilhelm Steinitz was having a heated political argument. His opponent said, “Do you think you understand politics because you can play chess?” Steinitz said, “Do you think you understand politics because you can’t play chess?” [Link]
Mental Floss » 5 Fast Facts About Nancy Kerrigan
Google Nancy Kerrigan’s name and the first batch of results will mainly be articles about the brutal knee injury she sustained, courtesy of an assailant hired by fellow skater Tonya Harding’s ex-husband, right before the 1994 Olympics in Lillehammer, Norway. Yet Kerrigan is much more than a victim of that attack, even though Hollywood keeps making documentaries and feature films … [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Colorado marijuana DUIs drop 33% in 1Q of 2017. Which can be pretty much summed up in two words. Domino's delivers [Spiffy]
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Fark.com RSS » Just a reminder: if your doctor performs his liposuction procedures in a barn, you may want to postpone your appointment [Scary]
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Weird Universe » Artist Lays Egg
Chuck mentioned a few weeks ago that French performance artist Abraham Poincheval would soon be sitting on a dozen eggs until they hatch. He's now well into the process of doing that and has hatched nine eggs already. [Heat St., News24.com]
Poincheval hatching eggs
Back in 1946, the legendary PR man Jim Moran did something similar. He sat on an ostrich … [Link]
Mental Floss » You Need to See Amazon's Saturday Deals
From the Smart Shopping team… [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Man volunteers to be hooked up to a labor pain simulation machine, and it's a scream [Video]
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Fark.com RSS » Pot sales are helping to send Colorado kids to college. Top that, Betsy DeVos [Cool]
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Mental Floss » 7 Animals That Smell Like Jelly Beans (Because It's National Jelly Bean Day)
These seven animals are olfactory dead ringers for classic Jelly Belly flavors. [Link]
Overheard In The Office » They’re Considering Sacking Us
Peon: I can’t believe they’re having us do this even though we’re the low men on the scrotum pole! Times Square
New York, New York [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Drones may be best hope for reducing risk of shark attack. They might also provide pics of your demise, so be sure to do something interesting if you're attacked [Cool]
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Fark.com RSS » Teacher takes money from students for a class trip to Germany and since this is Fark you know how it ends [Dumbass]
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Fark.com RSS » The Saturday Morning Book Club is getting all brainy this weekend, as we debate which are the best science books of all time (in what will likely turn out to be a Sagan vs Hawking geek fight) [Interesting]
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Fark.com RSS » American Airlines gets itself some free publicity thanks to another idiot shooting vertical video. Can't wait to fly tomorrow [Asinine]
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Fark.com RSS » Expect lots of frowning photographs in ID's from Rhode Island as they will no longer allow you to smile while having your picture taken [Weird]
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Fark.com RSS » Giving away free joints at a pot giveaway? Yep, that's an arresting [Asinine]
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Fark.com RSS » Hundreds of years after starting the world's addiction to coal power, Britain finally kicks the habit: no coal burned for 24 hours and counting [Cool]
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Fark.com RSS » Photoshop this Solo kind of man [Photoshop]
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Mental Floss » Target Is Getting a ‘Mario Kart’ Makeover
Just in time for the release of 'Mario Kart 8' on the Switch, Target is turning itself into a real-world 'Kart' course. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Duke – a former feral rescued from the streets – now spends his days working at UCSF Medical Center as a therapy cat. Assigned to the intensive care unit, he raises his patients' spirits one purr at a time on Caturday [Caturday]
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Fark.com RSS » 4-year-old girl goes on a bike ride and raises £783 for toys for a children's hospital, makes the rest of us look lazy and heartless [Spiffy]
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Weird Universe » Artwork Khrushchev Probably Would Not Have Liked 3
Continuing our survey of "Early Twentieth-Century Art That Might Have Irked A Soviet Premier, Based On His Explicit Disdain For Such Experimental Creations."
"In the Beginning" by Lawrence Atkinson.
Atkinson's Wikipedia entry.
An essay on Atkinson. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Victorian era vibrator generates excitement in Ireland. Don't know why, it's not shaped like a dragon's wang, doesn't lay eggs in you and hasn't got a webcam interface. I guess our Great-great Nanas were more easily thrilled (Not
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Fark.com RSS » Apparently smuggling semen into Laos is a thing [Weird]
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Mental Floss » On This Day in 1978, the Blues Brothers Rocked 'SNL'
They were on a mission from God. [Link]
GraphJam » Jets Fans vs Giants Fans in NYC
LoL by: awesome117 Tagged: fans , football , nfl , sports Share on Facebook
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Fark.com RSS » Protip: If you are going to rob a store by writing a note demanding money you might want to make sure you write it out legibly so the clerk can read it [Fail]
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Mental Floss » Bess Truman and the Unbreakable Champagne Bottle
In 1945, the first lady bungled a celebratory bottle-smashing—but the Navy came to the rescue. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Checks all available flights out of Florida, makes note to self: "Do NOT fly out of Williston Municipal Airport" [Florida]
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Mental Floss » This New ‘Game of Thrones’ Theory Might Blow Your Mind
This changes everything. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Apparently Air Marshals do not receive sufficient on-the-job training to know they shouldn't leave loaded guns in a plane's lavatory [Asinine]
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Fark.com RSS » Video of Somali pirates versus cargo ship's security guards shows guards could use more range time, better guns [Interesting]
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Fark.com RSS » Plants are not only trying to reproduce in the spring–pollen raises the suicide rate in humans. I, for one, welcome our new angiospermian overlords [Scary]
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Fark.com RSS » I want to buy two, non-adjacent, lots from the same owner. Is it legal/ethical to ask them to overprice one and underprice the other? More details in thread. Tag is for subby, of course [Dumbass]
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Mental Floss » 6 Creative Recycling Efforts From Around the Globe
This Earth Day, get inspired to think outside the plastic bin. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » No, you cannot have the cheese. Nachos [Sad]
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Fark.com RSS » Queen Elizabeth turns 91 with quiet day, gun salutes [Ironic]
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Mental Floss » The 12 Most Interesting Comics Released in April
Each month, we round up the most interesting comics, graphic novels, webcomics, digital comics, and comics-related Kickstarter campraigns that we recommend you check out. 1. ALIENS: DEAD ORBIT #1 By James Stokoe
Dark Horse Comics 
Timed to coincide with “Alien Day” on April 26th (the date was chosen because 4/26 matches LV-426, the name of the moon on which the film … [Link]
Fark.com RSS » How many licks does it take to get to the center? [Fail]
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Fark.com RSS » Partially cloaked alien spaceship photographed out window of ISS. Nothing to see here, move along [Unlikely]
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Fark.com RSS » Mexico says deportation of Mexicans to Mexico violated rules. Apparently there are no rules against pointing your citizens north to the U.S. or cashing in on the $20 Billion in remittances sent back to Mexico year after year [Asinine]
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Mental Floss » The Fascinating and Miniature World of Bonsai Trees
Each Bonsai Tree Tells a Story [Link]
Mental Floss » Watch David Lynch's (Mostly Straightforward) Weather Reports
In the 2000s, he posted near-daily videos of himself describing the weather in L.A. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Photoshop Tennis Match: Lonely Tree Edition [Photoshop]
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Mental Floss » 'Wet Hot American Summer' Is Becoming a Role-Playing Game
Grab your cutoffs and get ready to role play, campers. [Link]
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