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 » Jerry Falwell Jr. expects this year's Liberty University commencement speaker Donald Trump "to tell [graduates] what he wants to do to make their careers run more smoothly and make it easier for them to raise families" [Unlikely]

Friday 12 May 23:58:35 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Spider Calf, Spider Calf, he'll give you more beef shanks by half [Weird]

Friday 12 May 23:30:04 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » This guy paid strippers to do their thing on somebody else's porch so he could watch and do his own thing. Bonus: Pimps peering in the windows [Strange]

Friday 12 May 22:50:04 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » China gave its new aircraft carrier an interesting name [Weeners]

Friday 12 May 22:20:05 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Ventriloquist denies that his puppet 'Grisweld the Super Dog' made sexual remarks to a woman in the street [Facepalm]

Friday 12 May 21:50:04 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » 'Niagara Falls' and 'feces' – two strings of letters that should never appear in the same sentence [Sick]

Friday 12 May 21:20:05 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Meth logic: Man arrested for 'masturbating vigorously' did so because he hates Portland [Amusing]

Friday 12 May 20:50:05 UTC 2017

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Futility Closet » Adam’s Bridge

Friday 12 May 20:36:43 UTC 2017

Image: Wikimedia Commons A curious chain of limestone shoals extends between India and Sri Lanka, possibly the remains of a land connection between the two. The sea between the two landmasses is called Sethusamudram (“Sea of the Bridge”), and early British maps refer to it as Adam’s Bridge. How and when the structure evolved are still sources of controversy among geologists, … [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Chinese motorcyclist miraculously survives fiery explosion in video that finally answers the question of 'Where did all the engineers who designed the Pinto end up working?' [Scary]

Friday 12 May 20:20:05 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Photoshop this ghastly grabber [Photoshop]

Friday 12 May 20:00:01 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Uh, Lieutenant; what were you doing 20 feet from a Russian plane? "Communicating. Keeping up foreign relations. I was, uh, you know, giving him 'the bird'" [Scary]

Friday 12 May 19:50:04 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » When you need a law firm to certify that you have no financial connection to Russia you should really avoid the 2016 Russian Law Firm of the Year [PSA]

Friday 12 May 19:42:23 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » New simulation program aims to overcome air travel anxiety, possibly by letting people virtually experience being beaten by airport police or snarled at by rabid United Airline attendants [Florida]

Friday 12 May 19:20:05 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » UK hospitals report major computer issues after massive cyber attack, so I guess socialized medicine isn't all that great after all, huh? [Interesting]

Friday 12 May 18:20:05 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Couple who lost a ton of weight are set to tie the knot. They've already turned that lost weight into a whole extra set of people which is an option subby was unaware of [Sappy]

Friday 12 May 17:50:04 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » I don't know what killed Cthulhu but its body just washed up in Indonesia [Weird]

Friday 12 May 17:16:45 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Status of laptop ban on US bound flights from Europe downgraded from "Happening" to "¯\_(ツ)_/¯" [Followup]

Friday 12 May 16:46:45 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Caitlyn no longer a popular name for girls. In fact, all four versions of the name Caitlyn have fallen from the top 1000 names of girls. Hmmm… wonder why? [Awkward]

Friday 12 May 16:20:05 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Drugs, Lionel Messi, AK47s, glock pistols, smugglers…sorry, it's Friday and I'm too tired to form a coherent headline. Just read the damn thing [Interesting]

Friday 12 May 14:50:04 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » "Secretary of State Rex Tillerson signed on Thursday a declaration acknowledging the threat posed by climate change to the Arctic and indicating the need for action to curb its impact on the region." blink blink What the hell just happened?

Friday 12 May 14:27:49 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Chuck Norris delights, hydrates fans in Utah [Murica]

Friday 12 May 14:20:05 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » United flight delayed after 'scorpion reportedly emerged from a customer's clothing' First words reportedly 'Here I am' [Creepy]

Friday 12 May 13:50:44 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » "Dear Rolf, you better not be fooling around with those Trinidadian island girls over there or I'll castrate you when you get back" [Sappy]

Friday 12 May 13:50:04 UTC 2017

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Weird Universe » His and Her Bikinis

Friday 12 May 13:36:46 UTC 2017

Fashion from the 1970s. For couples that like to match.

The Oshkosh Northwestern – Jan 8, 1970
Unisex apparel goes one step further with the advent of "His and Her" two-piece bikinis, shown in New York from the design board of Rudi Gernreich, creator of the topless bathing suit. The male's top looks like an athletic shirt that ends mid-point between … [Link]

Weird Universe » The Empire of the Sahara

Friday 12 May 13:36:45 UTC 2017

In June 1903 a French sugar millionaire, one Jacques Lebaudy, a dapper little man with a sharp nose and a shrill high-pitched voice who was said to have a personal fortune of some pounds 3m, recruited a dozen Breton sailors and landed them on the coast of Spanish Morocco, commanding them to go forth and establish an empire. Lebaudy then … [Link]

Fark.com RSS » If you want to marry someone a young as 12, Gov. Chris Christie is all for it. Banning it, he decided, would go against religious freedoms. What religions is he talking about? [Creepy]

Friday 12 May 10:46:19 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » President Bannon turned to politics after Ducking out at the Cannes film festival [Obvious]

Friday 12 May 10:07:15 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Teenage girl in trouble for stuffing a GUINEA PIG in the wrong place and, of course, taking a video of it [Asinine]

Friday 12 May 9:24:16 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Witnesses say black man did nothing to provoke police shooting. Except for violating the "watchu looking at" law passed back in the eighties [Fail]

Friday 12 May 8:48:20 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » "The department doubled-down on their assertion that the drug recognition expert is better at detecting marijuana in a driver than scientific tests." Welcome to Jeff Sessions' America [Asinine]

Friday 12 May 1:33:06 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » "As police officers, we see all sides of life. We have a front row to see the terribly sad and the extremely funny. That being said, this video falls into the category of the extremely funny" [Amusing]

Friday 12 May 1:03:52 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » NYU accidentally exposes military code-breaking computer project to entire internet [Fail]

Friday 12 May 0:29:35 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Fark Food Thread: Which are your favorite mushrooms to cook with? Do you build recipes around them or are they accents to meals you like to make? Show us the tastiest ways to use this popular fungus we find among us [Interesting]

Friday 12 May 0:13:47 UTC 2017

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John Gordon Ross

A Man for All Reasons