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 » What is more shocking: A teacher dragging a pre-schooler through the hallway, or that she was fired almost immediately? Tag for the teacher, because Fark won't let us submit two tags at once [Stupid]

Sunday 7 May 23:42:47 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Woman asks airline to refund her $15 bag charge after they lose her luggage. Airline refuses. Yep, that's a lawsuit … and a federal appeals court just said it was okay to go to trial [Interesting]

Sunday 7 May 22:32:32 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Elderly deaf man fined £85 for constantly playing porn too loud. I SAID, ELDERLY DEAF…oh nevermind [Facepalm]

Sunday 7 May 21:57:33 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » English millionaire builds 10,000 sq ft. mini casino complete with bowling ally and squash courts. Neighbor puts up fence to hide the magnificence. Most British argument ensues. The Sun is there [Ironic]

Sunday 7 May 21:44:20 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Seriously, haven't we all learned by now to NEVER GO SWIMMING in a Florida lake? [Florida]

Sunday 7 May 21:34:46 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Retirement community prevails upon politicians to A) maintain Medicare benefits, B) step up Alzheimer's Research, or C) keep the Winn-Dixie across the street open. "Can you imagine if I had to walk to Walmart to get groceries? I'd pass ou

Sunday 7 May 20:31:12 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » North Korea arrests another American for "hostile acts." Why…why would any American still be there? Oh, because Jesus [Obvious]

Sunday 7 May 20:05:20 UTC 2017

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Futility Closet » Double Alphamagic Squares

Sunday 7 May 20:03:09 UTC 2017

In 1986 British electronics engineer Lee Sallows invented the alphamagic square: As in an ordinary magic square, each row, column, and long diagonal produces the same sum. But when the number in each cell is replaced by the length of its English name (25 -> TWENTY-FIVE -> 10), a second magic square is produced: Now British computer scientist Chris Patuzzo, … [Link]

Fark.com RSS » In 1971, Buddy Rich warned us about country music. WE DIDN'T LISTEN [Video]

Sunday 7 May 19:40:20 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » "Illegally trafficked cigarettes now have a higher profit margin than cocaine, heroin, marijuana or guns" [Interesting]

Sunday 7 May 19:14:34 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Next time you're shipping a million-dollar antique via express delivery, maybe splurge on a little more bubble wrap [Fail]

Sunday 7 May 18:57:47 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Liberté, Equalité, Évitez la Stupidité [NewsFlash]

Sunday 7 May 18:16:16 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Snack Food Sunday straps on its armor, girds its loins, and prepares to head into the trenches: it's time to re-start the Soda Wars. Which is best? Which is worst? And why do some people still call it "pop"? [Interesting]

Sunday 7 May 18:00:00 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Hmmm, for some reason people in blue states and people who voted for Hillary Clinton don't want to vacation on the beaches of the Deep South [Obvious]

Sunday 7 May 17:56:34 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » It might seem like a good idea, but there's one thing you should definitely NOT do when you're packing luggage to head overseas [PSA]

Sunday 7 May 14:46:10 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » This bird's too sexy for its wing, too sexy for its wing, but listen to it sing, And it's too sexy for its bones, to sexy for its bones, but check out those tones, And it's too sexy for this song [Strange]

Sunday 7 May 14:39:08 UTC 2017

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Weird Universe » Holcombe’s Mechanical Partner

Sunday 7 May 13:47:49 UTC 2017

I'd like to see this gadget in action. Unfortunately I can't find any videos of it.

It doesn't seem to have survived past 1954.

Popular Science – Oct 1954

LA Times – July 1, 1954 [Link]

Weird Universe » Follies of the Madmen #313

Sunday 7 May 13:47:48 UTC 2017

That is one friendly and powerful cereal.

Original ad here. [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Coming up at the top of the hour it's Livingston Stapler Company Presents. Two hours of eclectic music hosted live by a farker (9PM AKDT/10PM PDT) [Live]

Sunday 7 May 4:56:50 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » USA Today has asked the FBI to check out wave of fake Facebook accounts because they got a surge of likes on their page and that was very suspicious because nobody really likes USA Today [Weird]

Sunday 7 May 0:20:28 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Amazon comes up with novel idea. Let's take a building and fill it with books and let people come in and find one they like and pay for it [Interesting]

John Gordon Ross

A Man for All Reasons