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 » PornHub releases map of most misspelled search terms by state and it seems there's a lot of users typing with one hand [Amusing]

Friday 2 June 23:50:05 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » German rock festival halted due to Terrorism threat. Ja Rule be like "Why the hell didn't I think of that" [News]

Friday 2 June 22:50:05 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » You can now inhale join the Secret exhale Service, DUDE [Cool]

Friday 2 June 22:20:05 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » He's done [Murica]

Friday 2 June 21:50:06 UTC 2017

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Futility Closet » Read It All

Friday 2 June 21:21:22 UTC 2017

Image: Wikimedia Commons The Mercantile Library of Cincinnati has a 10,000-year lease. When Cincinnati College burned in 1845, the young men of the city’s Mercantile Library Association helped to rebuild it. As a reward, the library was given a lease of ten millennia on the 11th and 12th floors of the Mercantile Library Building in downtown Cincinnati. The current lease will … [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Was Kathy Griffin shot and killed trying to escape custody? No; she was just tagged and released [Fake]

Friday 2 June 20:50:06 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Dude who got trans fat taken out of pretty-much everything has died at 102. Looks like diet and exercise pays off after all [Cool]

Friday 2 June 20:20:05 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Photoshop these whiskey barrels [Photoshop]

Friday 2 June 20:00:01 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Kindergarten graduation party. Seems a little silly. Shoving match between two 6 year olds. Seems a little stupid. Parents escalate the violence. Seems a little scary. Someone gets shot. Seems a little Fark [Weird]

Friday 2 June 19:50:07 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Man with poor impulse control and questionable life choices is arrested for the second time in a week. You can't explain that [Florida]

Friday 2 June 19:20:06 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Families at public school talent event get unexpected drag show. Not everyone approves [Awkward]

Friday 2 June 18:50:05 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » XKCD takes a crack at the misspelled word map and ends in just the right spot [Florida]

Friday 2 June 18:20:06 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Trucks can now drive across the new Tappan Zee Bridge without dropping into the Hudson, which is more than can be said for the current Tappan Zee Bridge [Interesting]

Friday 2 June 17:20:09 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Dutch working toward Futurama travel [Weird]

Friday 2 June 16:50:04 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » "Made in Italy" branding plan, designed to create a national identity for iconic Italian foods, and thwart foreign imitations of Italian cuisine, implodes spectacularly after Italians can't even figure out what it means to be Italian [Fai

Friday 2 June 16:20:06 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » There are many ways to try and beat a DUI rap; putting a penny under your tongue, hyperventilating, chewing a large wad of gum, none really work. This guy tried a different approach; stripping naked and throwing a fit. It didn't work either [Dumb

Friday 2 June 15:50:04 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » ISIS condemns Kathy Griffin for cultural appropriation [Satire]

Friday 2 June 15:20:07 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » That Manilla Casino attack that ISIS claimed responsibility for that left 35 people dead? Authorities are saying the perp wasn't a "lone wolf" terrorist so much as a "robber with an extremely poorly thought-out plan" [Followup]

Friday 2 June 14:50:07 UTC 2017

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Overheard In The Office » 10AM Non-Interrogation

Friday 2 June 14:46:32 UTC 2017

Tech: Is this some sort of interrogation?
Supervisor: Ah…yeah…we’re not cops, so, obviously not. 19555 West Bluemound Road
Waukesha, Wisconsin Overheard by: Mike [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Dad overdoses on heroin to teach his addict son a lesson. Glad my son's a sex addict [Fail]

Friday 2 June 14:20:06 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » "Tech support, what's your issue?" "Hi, yeah. We're having a problem with our computers and had to cancel the flights of 75,000 passengers" Tech Support: "Did you make sure it's plugged in?" [Followup]

Friday 2 June 13:50:05 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » NASA astronaut Jack Fischer shared a video of himself building a tower of pudding in microgravity and then eating his own creation [Amusing]

Friday 2 June 13:20:08 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Photoshop this up-close art aficionado [Photoshop]

Friday 2 June 13:00:01 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Mother who broke neck sneezing breaks it again while laughing [Followup]

Friday 2 June 12:50:06 UTC 2017

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Weird Universe » Dirt Sounds

Friday 2 June 12:44:47 UTC 2017

For $100 you can pre-order a copy of a hand-made record that contains soil from the house (or rather, the plot where the house used to stand) where Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys grew up in Hawthorne, California. The record consists of "an 18 minute field recording of the location on an afternoon in 2016, almost exactly 50 years … [Link]

Weird Universe » Helpful Dead Wife

Friday 2 June 12:44:46 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Tiananmen Square: On this site, almost 28 years ago, something happened. And a photographer who was there thinks the world should know it wasn't fake news [Hero]

Friday 2 June 11:53:28 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » In case you were tired of having your faith in humanity restored: Video review spots thief making off with wedding ring and backpack of Portland stabbing victim [Dumbass]

Friday 2 June 11:05:30 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Your dog wants a steak, not meatballs filled with nails [Sick]

Friday 2 June 10:35:27 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » The Weather Channel lets us all know what they think of Trump's decision to pull out of the Paris Climate Agreement [Obvious]

Friday 2 June 10:04:29 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » While you're sitting at work drinking stale coffee and reading Fark threads like you've been doing every mindnumbing day for the last 1,639 days, there's a guy who abruptly quit his job to sail the Pacific Ocean with no particular destina

Friday 2 June 10:02:29 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » With the way things are going in Trump's Amerikka, it's time you honestly ask yourself if in an emergency you could start your own fire [Unlikely]

Friday 2 June 8:37:29 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Ananya Vinay wins the Scripps National Spelling Bee by spelling "marocain". Marocain? Inconceivable! [Cool]

Friday 2 June 8:25:34 UTC 2017

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John Gordon Ross

A Man for All Reasons