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]
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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]
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Fark.com RSS » You can now *inhale* join the Secret *exhale* Service, DUDE [Cool]
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Fark.com RSS » He's done [Murica]
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Futility Closet » Read It All
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]
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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]
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Fark.com RSS » Photoshop these whiskey barrels [Photoshop]
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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]
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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]
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Fark.com RSS » Families at public school talent event get unexpected drag show. Not everyone approves [Awkward]
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Fark.com RSS » XKCD takes a crack at the misspelled word map and ends in just the right spot [Florida]
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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]
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Fark.com RSS » Dutch working toward Futurama travel [Weird]
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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
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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
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Fark.com RSS » ISIS condemns Kathy Griffin for cultural appropriation [Satire]
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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]
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Overheard In The Office » 10AM Non-Interrogation
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]
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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]
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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]
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Fark.com RSS » Photoshop this up-close art aficionado [Photoshop]
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Fark.com RSS » Mother who broke neck sneezing breaks it again while laughing [Followup]
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Weird Universe » Dirt Sounds
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
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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]
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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]
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Fark.com RSS » Your dog wants a steak, not meatballs filled with nails [Sick]
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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]
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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
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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]
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Fark.com RSS » Ananya Vinay wins the Scripps National Spelling Bee by spelling "marocain". Marocain? Inconceivable! [Cool]
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Fark.com RSS » Swimming with a new tattoo? Enjoy your flesh-eating bacteria (graphic image warning) [Scary]
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Fark.com RSS » Yo dawg, I heard you like otters, so here's some otters eating otter pops on World Otter Day [Spiffy]
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Fark.com RSS » Lawyers, drugs, and money [Florida]
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Fark.com RSS » Police pick up baby gator before local students find him and make him shotgun a beer [Florida]
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Fark.com RSS » Ever seen a crab with two oysters growing on it? Now you have. Now where's the butter? [Cool]
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Fark.com RSS » Photoshop this odd looking contraption [Photoshop]
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