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 » Woman pulls gun on barber for taking too long. Stay classy, Cleveland [Dumbass]

Saturday 29 April 23:48:09 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Star Trek fan forced to surrender ASIMIL8 license plate for being offensive. Remember, citizens, resistance is futile [Facepalm]

Saturday 29 April 23:07:12 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » I'm so goth I travel with my own raven on the subway [Amusing]

Saturday 29 April 22:56:10 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Suburban WASP muses on bus-riding blacks being too black, and whether Martin Luther King Jr. would be ashamed of them [Dumbass]

Saturday 29 April 22:49:42 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » When civilizations collide: Irish people try food from New Jersey for the first time. "Do they just put cheese on everything?" [Amusing]

Saturday 29 April 22:47:41 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » "My neighbor was happy thinking that Tessa is in good hands, but I don't need a dog" [Sad]

Saturday 29 April 21:57:36 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Turkey blocks Wikipedia; anyone found trying to access it will receive a citation [Scary]

Saturday 29 April 21:21:35 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Today's traffic report: Good visibility, light winds, high chance of rhino rampage [Scary]

Saturday 29 April 20:40:42 UTC 2017

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Futility Closet » Math Limericks

Saturday 29 April 20:40:37 UTC 2017

There was an old man who said, “Do
Tell me how I’m to add two and two!
I’m not very sure
That it does not make four,
But I fear that is almost too few.” A mathematician confided
A Möbius strip is one-sided.
You’ll get quite a laugh
If you cut one in half,
For it stays in one piece … [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Australia rolls out the red carpet for Ginger Pride marchers [Giggity]

Saturday 29 April 20:40:36 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Photoshop this amazed man [Photoshop]

Saturday 29 April 20:00:01 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » I'm not saying Venus is secretly being used as a base by both aliens and NASA … but Venus is secretly being used as a base by both aliens and NASA as an intergalactic outpost [Weird]

Saturday 29 April 19:40:42 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Hawaii wants to ban a certain sunscreen to save sea coral. STAY IN THE HOUSE, CORAL, AND YOU WOULDN'T HAVE THIS PROBLEM [Interesting]

Saturday 29 April 19:32:42 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Police use carrots to corral horse loose on city streets, life must be getting tough on the stable corner of the streets these days [Hero]

Saturday 29 April 18:24:42 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Guess what's not allowed if you rent a "garden apartment" in Quincy, Massachusetts [Ironic]

Saturday 29 April 18:10:36 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » The bad news about arresting zombie chicks is they can do life sentences standing on their heads [Creepy]

Saturday 29 April 16:01:42 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Burglars use Grindr in attempt to get ATM [Giggity]

Saturday 29 April 15:57:09 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » St Louis pondering whether police officers should be allowed to drink and drive. Fark: their police vehicles [Awkward]

Saturday 29 April 15:17:42 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Suffering from a serious case of wanderlust? This week, the Saturday Morning Book Club is ready to hit the road in search of the best travel books of all time [Interesting]

Saturday 29 April 14:00:00 UTC 2017

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Weird Universe » Looking Forward to Being Attacked

Saturday 29 April 13:04:28 UTC 2017

In 1977, Lieutenant Jim Bullard of the Memphis police department published a self-defense manual for women titled Looking forward to being attacked. The general theme was that if a bad guy attacked you, it gave you the chance to beat him up, which could be fun. His idea was to use some humor to make the self-defense lessons more interesting. … [Link]

Weird Universe » Great Harvard Panty Raid of 1965

Saturday 29 April 13:04:27 UTC 2017

The proud past of a progressive institution.

Original article here.
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Fark.com RSS » Photoshop this lady and her ride [Photoshop]

Saturday 29 April 13:00:01 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Cat called hero after alerting North Carolina family about carbon monoxide, apparently didn't want competition in suffocating family in their sleep [Caturday]

Saturday 29 April 12:00:00 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » The Arctic is "unraveling," according to those scientists in the disaster movies no one ever takes seriously [Scary]

Saturday 29 April 6:22:09 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » What Ferguson can learn from the Rodney King riots [Followup]

Saturday 29 April 5:51:11 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » I know it's hard to believe, but the nine people sitting in the room with you haven't had sex in an airport [Giggity]

Saturday 29 April 4:17:04 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » LA City Council candidate admits using Tinder for extramarital hookups, not paying taxes and calling blacks the N-word. But says he's staying in the race and feels good because he's "hydrated" [Awkward]

Saturday 29 April 3:32:10 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » A robot journalist has been hired by a news agency in China – and it's already started doing live interviews. Let's hope they don't build a robot capable of churning out pointless clickbait [Video]

Saturday 29 April 2:50:05 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » United Airlines boots a woman from a flight because of her cat allergy when she was seated too close to a cat. Fark: They let the cat stay seated [Facepalm]

Saturday 29 April 0:58:15 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Do you want to escape poverty? Well, it will take you 20 years of perfect planning and execution, with no unexpected illness, accidents, or other life events, and even then, you'll be in debt up to your eyeballs. Enjoy the American Dream [Murica]

John Gordon Ross

A Man for All Reasons