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 » Mayor under fire for joke about turning machine guns on press and making them "cry like little girls" [Florida]
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Fark.com RSS » Rouhani wins re-election in Iran [Followup]
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Fark.com RSS » Couple trying to conceive via artificial insemination kept matter private, even from family. That was until Pasco County Sheriff's Office posted on its social media page how they helped wife store sperm in dry ice thermos. Hilarity ensued [Florid
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Fark.com RSS » Man rescued with ladder after being stuck ninety feet up in a tree. While police are not sure how he got up there, they do suspect he was high [Strange]
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Fark.com RSS » No really, the penis is a social construct that hastens climate change. All hail the penis [Weeners]
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Futility Closet » Unquote
More maxims of François VI, Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680): “Fortune shews our Virtues and Vices, as Light does Objects.” “‘Tis never more difficult to speak well than when we are ashamed of our Silence.” “Since great Men can neither bestow Health of Body, nor Peace of Mind, we certainly pay too dear for all else they can.” “Our Wisdom … [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Striking a blow for sanity, Italy makes childhood vaccinations compulsory. Mass outbreak of incredible arithmetic and excellent driving expected [Cool]
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Fark.com RSS » Man duct-taped to airplane seat after attempting to breach cockpit, as apparently Adam and Jamie are now working as Air Marshals [Scary]
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Fark.com RSS » Photoshop this strong stand [Photoshop]
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Fark.com RSS » Whats appropriate attire for yardwork? Is it wrong for an out of shape guy to wear a wifebeatergo shirtless? [Survey]
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Fark.com RSS » You know how climate change flooded the doomed Global Seed Vault? Yeah, about that [Followup]
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Fark.com RSS » "My shirt is fine." "That's a suspension and an arresting–" *ring ring* "Okay, a suspension, and no graduation ceremony" [Stupid]
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Fark.com RSS » Inside Hitler's lost city hidden deep underground on the Dutch coast. The Sun is there (Some Not safe for work content in sidebar) [Interesting]
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Fark.com RSS » NY Postsplains why Millennial sex sucks [Interesting]
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Fark.com RSS » All set for World Whisky Day today? Here's 7 new and interesting whiskies to add to your basement bar [Spiffy]
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Fark.com RSS » Obviously they were pets [Obvious]
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Fark.com RSS » Old and busted: smuggling millions of dollars of cocaine. New and tasty: smuggling millions of dollars of sea cucumbers [Interesting]
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Fark.com RSS » Lawyer awards fake lawyer award to fake self, files fake defamation suit when media report on fakery, gets real court decision tossing his suit out [Fake]
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Fark.com RSS » Utility company to school: Smells like a gas leak, so evacuate the kids. School to utility company: But there's testing going on. Utility: DID WE STUTTER? School: Sheesh. Don't rush us, okay? [Facepalm]
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Fark.com RSS » LA: Legal sellers of marijuana are swamped by black market vendors in the wake of legalization. "They don't live in the community, they don't invest in the community, they just know that our people are going to purchase cannabis" [Iro
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Fark.com RSS » Here is the best response you will hear about a school's dress code all day [Amusing]
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Fark.com RSS » Our long national nightmare is over as the girl who dressed as a dinosaur to spook horses has turned herself in [Dumbass]
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Fark.com RSS » The Saturday Morning Book Club stays in Hollywood for another week, this time trying to find which books that so far have resisted all efforts to be immortalized on film really need to be brought to the big screen [Interesting]
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Fark.com RSS » Area man notices that the news copter is broadcasting him live and busts out some ultimate white dad dance moves [Amusing]
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Fark.com RSS » Ugly-ass baby penguin is named… Oh FFS Enough with the Namey McNameyface crap. It was only slightly amusing the first time, now it's just dumb [Stupid]
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Overheard In The Office » And Are There Any Leftover Sausages?
Waitress: I ate so many pork sausages yesterday at the picnic, when I fart it sounds like a pig squealing [makes loud squealing sounds over and over].
Waiter: Did you used to be a guy or something? Circle Centre Mall
Indianapolis, Indiana Overheard by: Shatmandu [Link]
Fark.com RSS » One more thing to add to the long list of things you're doing wrong: How you wash your hair [Sad]
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Fark.com RSS » Photoshop the aftermath of a visit by a bear [Photoshop]
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Weird Universe » A license to kill
Maybe they were hoping to appeal to the serial killer demographic.
The ad ran in Playboy magazine, 1964.
The after shave is briefly mentioned in Playboy and the Making of the Good Life in Modern America, by Elizabeth Fraterrigo:
Bond reached the status of "popular hero" in the mid-1960s, bringing an explosion of press coverage and Bond-themed merchandise and advertising. … [Link]
Weird Universe » Swift Pavilion, 1939 World’s Fair
The exhibition hall for Swift's was shaped like a giant hotdog.
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Fark.com RSS » Authorities have a blast after finding 50 pounds of dynamite at an unused tobacco packing house in NC. Dynomite (Exclamation point) [Spiffy]
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Fark.com RSS » Ringer the cat, presumed dead after his home burned down, is found alive beneath the debris two months later by his canine buddy, Chloe. Just another example of why all animals are welcome on Caturday [Caturday]
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Fark.com RSS » Lady Cynthia's giant bush becoming a tourist attraction [Interesting]
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Fark.com RSS » Trucking industry advocacy group introduces new mascot, launches Naming Contest. And so Trucky McTruckface was born [Obvious]
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Fark.com RSS » Maybe it will keep a few of us as pets [Scary]
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Fark.com RSS » Uh, guys… we now have a second aircraft carrier near North Korea and a desperate, raging president in command. Just sayin' [Scary]
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Fark.com RSS » Lee surrenders. This is not a repeat from 1865 [Interesting]
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Fark.com RSS » Dad wins £101m in Euromillions. Dad gives kid £1.6m. Kid spends £550k on home. Kid quits well-paying IT job. Kid blows through everything in 2 yrs. Kid takes dad to court for more money. Kid loses case. The Aristocrats. Slovenly aristo
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Fark.com RSS » Cops in bus station: Get out of that seat. Old lady: Can I have my cane, so I can stand? Cops: After you get up. Old lady: I can't stand without my cane. Cops: STOP RESISTING ME [Asinine]
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Fark.com RSS » "While in the office I asked the subject to remove the meat from inside of his pants. He explained to me that he was a police officer" [Dumbass]
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Fark.com RSS » Who says cigarettes aren't addictive? [Facepalm]
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Fark.com RSS » Get your cups and buckets ready because 'Bring Your Own Cup Day' is Friday and Saturday at 7-Eleven [PSA]
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Futility Closet » Moo
This is clever — during Prohibition, moonshiners wore shoes that left hoofprints. From the St. Petersburg, Fla., Evening Independent, May 27, 1922: A new method of evading prohibition agents was revealed here today by A.L. Allen, state prohibition enforcement director, who displayed what he called a ‘cow shoe’ as the latest thing from the haunts of moonshiners. The cow shoe … [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Scientists believe they've found a way to cure people with HIV and Zika by infecting them with a CRISPR virus that infects those viruses and edits out the DNA they need for survival. Other phases of the treatment involve needle snakes and gorilla
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Fark.com RSS » Man arrested after 3 pounds of meth is delivered to cemetery. Police theorize he was trying to streamline the stages of drug addiction [Fail]
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Fark.com RSS » Photoshop this headless performer [Photoshop]
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