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 » Good: Detroit has demolished over 11,000 abandoned houses. Bad: Many of the houses had asbestos in them. Fark: Detroit's been fined hundreds of thousands of dollars for asbestos abatement violations and unpaid bills and the FBI is investigating [
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Fark.com RSS » Karma strikes big game hunter crushed by just-shot elephant [Ironic]
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Fark.com RSS » Ad campaign pleads to people of Spain, France, Greece, Italy, Thailand to help protect pasty Danes. "Tens of thousand of Danes travel from the cold dark north to your beautiful beaches … [where] … they abandon all precaution and roast in the
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Fark.com RSS » Not news: Van crashes into another vehicle in LA traffic. News: It was LAX runway traffic. The other vehicle was a Boeing 737 [Dumbass]
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Fark.com RSS » Pro wrestlers, celebrities, and street fashionistas revive the Nineties-era bumbag, aka the fanny pack. "They are not even worn on your bum" [Amusing]
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Fark.com RSS » ProTip: Do not give a store employee your real telephone number moments before you rob the place. And take a seat on the Group W bench [Dumbass]
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Weird Universe » News of the Weird (May 21, 2017)
News of the Weird
Weirdnuz.M528, May 21, 2017
Copyright 2017 by Chuck Shepherd. All rights reserved.
Lead Story
Officials in charge of the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal heritage site recently installed "speed bumps" (similar to those familiar to Americans driving residential streets)–but on a pedestrian walkway, with row upon row of risers, to resemble a washboard. A Western travel writer, along … [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Photoshop theme: Ringling Bros. employees at their next jobs after the circus shuts down. Difficulty: Not working in politics [Photoshop]
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Fark.com RSS » North Korea successfully tests yet another ballistic missile that went higher and for a longer time than any other missile previously tested. It's just a matter of time before the crazy one gives up his war with the sea and aims for land [Scary]
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Fark.com RSS » This yoga business will get out of control. It will get out of control and we'll be lucky to live through it [Amusing]
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Futility Closet » An End in Sight
Write down a 0: 0 Now mentally “flip” this string in binary, exchanging 0s and 1s, and append this new string to the existing one: 0 1 Keep this up and you’ll get a growing string of 0s and 1s: 0 1 1 0
0 1 1 0 1 0 0 1
0 1 1 0 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 1 1 0
… This is the Thue–Morse sequence, named after … [Link]
Weird Universe » Follies of the Madmen #315
Original ad here. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Got wood paneling? Sorry; you're a racist oppressor [Facepalm]
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Fark.com RSS » Hipsters are now drinking lattes out of avocado shells. "It's literally coffee in a piece of rubbish" [Stupid]
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Fark.com RSS » Snack Food Sunday needs something to satisfy its sweet tooth today … without sticking to the tooth. What's your favorite hard candy? And what was that stuff in the bowl on grandma's living room table that had been there since 1973? [Interes
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Fark.com RSS » "We went to the supermarket; we came back to find scaffolding in front of our home" [Strange]
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Fark.com RSS » If you happen to be a transitioning transgender person, the bad news is the Chicago airline captain who moonlights doing testicle removal surgery is currently unavailable [Weird]
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Fark.com RSS » The war on drugs in a nutshell: "Bust of a Fresno smoke shop will help the Fresno County Sheriff's Office buy new helicopter" [Obvious]
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Fark.com RSS » Two charged with stealing a hearse that had a corpse inside. They'll face a stiff sentence [Creepy]
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Fark.com RSS » There's passed-out drunk, and then there's passed-out on a car's trunk and taking a ride 14 miles down the interstate drunk [Awkward]
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Fark.com RSS » Police grill the hamburglar who they think stole a Ronald McDonald statue. It's enough to make you grimace [Interesting]
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Fark.com RSS » Time-lapse video of a rare cloud inversion filling up the Grand Canyon. Pass the Funyuns [Cool]
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Fark.com RSS » The British gave us many things, like Shakespeare, The Beatles, and fish & chips. We gave them sovereign citizens [Awkward]
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Fark.com RSS » After 48 years of faithful service, man has a funeral for his truck … and buries it [Strange]
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Fark.com RSS » News: paedophiles arrested. Fark: 1500 paedophiles arrested in single Australian state. UltraFark: all were underage sexters. Ah, Queensland, Australia's Florida [Facepalm]
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Fark.com RSS » That's one way to get guns off the streets. LAPD offers Target gift cards in exchange for guns and collects 800 pistols and assault rifles at neighborhood buyback [Amusing]
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Fark.com RSS » Here's your feel-good goats in yoga pants saving Caribbean island story of the day [Spiffy]
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Fark.com RSS » Americans don't need to depend on their air conditioning like they think they do, according to somebody who's never lived in Phoenix in July [Cool]
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Weird Universe » Agave Guitar
Continuing the theme of musical instruments made of odd things (matchstick violins, lobster violin), here's a guitar made out of agave cactus.
Does it really matter what wood you make an electric guitar out of? This site here says it does, and it sounds like hard woods are generally better than soft woods. So I'm assuming that agave wouldn't be … [Link]
Fark.com RSS » These people will never complain about a roller coaster ride being too short [Scary]
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Fark.com RSS » Photoshop this Goth [Photoshop]
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Fark.com RSS » CSB Sunday Morning: Finding Courage [CSB]
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Fark.com RSS » No lady, your baby is not worth $1,700 [Sick]
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Fark.com RSS » High school drop-out janitor from Cucamonga obtains college degree, delivers commencement address recounting how he invented Flamin' Hot Cheetos: "You started at the bottom." "No, I started at the beginning" [Hero]
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Fark.com RSS » ….because there is nothing like huffing compressed air in a Staples bathroom [Dumbass]
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Fark.com RSS » Ugly-ass lynx kyttens born at Connecticut zoo. With picture goodness [Sappy]
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Fark.com RSS » Community applauds Indian woman who hacked off the genitals of the holy man who sexually assaulted her for years [Obvious]
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Fark.com RSS » Police arrest man for running over a flock of seagulls. Even though he ran so far away, he couldn't get away [Dumbass]
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Fark.com RSS » Coming to you from Juneau, Alaska, it's once again time for Livingston Stapler Company Presents. Two hours of music hosted live by a farker (9 pm AKDT/10 pm PDT) [Live]
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Fark.com RSS » You can go to any time and place in history and leave a rubber chicken. Where do you leave it for maximum WTF effect? [Silly]
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Fark.com RSS » Let's see, pants, shirts, more pants, 60 bags of weed, socks–wait, back up one [Dumbass]
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Fark.com RSS » "We're 99.9% certain this is Noah's Ark" [Unlikely]
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Fark.com RSS » It is illegal to own more than six dildos in Texas [Sad]
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Fark.com RSS » When marking down a book about a missing child, maybe using a "When it's gone it's gone" sticker isn't a good idea [Fail]
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Fark.com RSS » City decides that the best way to reduce traffic accidents from a busy intersection is to ban cars [Obvious]
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Fark.com RSS » Dinosaurs perish in fiery blast. This is not a repeat from 65 million years ago [Misc]
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Fark.com RSS » Want to lose weight the easy way? Just eat 2 pounds of bacon a day like this diet guru. I know, sounds hard [Spiffy]
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Fark.com RSS » Photoshop this two-sport-watching crowd [Photoshop]
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