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 » "Brother of man who dismembered boy found dead in closet in Brooklyn." What's the German word for that? [Sad]
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Fark.com RSS » Reset Big Ben. Another attack on London Bridge [NewsFlash]
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Fark.com RSS » How to raise a feminist son like we do for girls [Interesting]
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Fark.com RSS » Iron Photoshop ingredient: Fidget Spinners (LGT examples) [Photoshop]
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Futility Closet » The Szilassi Polyhedron
Image: Wikimedia Commons In the humble tetrahedron, each face shares an edge with each other face. Surprisingly, there’s only one other known polyhedron in which this is true — the Szilassi polyhedron, discovered in 1977 by Hungarian mathematician Lajos Szilassi: If there’s a third such creature it would have 44 vertices and 66 edges, and no one knows whether such a … [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Smoking and drinking till you're 111 years old is…well…actually the way to go through life [Hero]
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Fark.com RSS » Liberal activist judge forces small town to spend $3.25 million to build a mosque because their town didn't have one [Scary]
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Fark.com RSS » Judge: "I understand your sexual partner cannot testify today because she's got laryngitis." Defendant: "No, your Honor, I said she's a little horse" [Sick]
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Fark.com RSS » Farker Vicejay is yet again asking for funds for his food bank…except this time, you might win $5K. (DIT, link goes to duck goodness, tag is for YOU, you awesome bastid.) [Hero]
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Fark.com RSS » It's all fun and games 'til someone cuts off their penis [Sick]
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Fark.com RSS » High school graduate accidentally shoots his load on his girlfriend [Sad]
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Fark.com RSS » Bear wanders into house, plays piano, wanders out. This is not a context headline [Amusing]
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Fark.com RSS » Yo dawg, i heard you like surveillance cameras so we got you on surveillance camera stealing 3 surveillance cameras [Fail]
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Weird Universe » The Bowery-el Phenomenon
Psychologists have found that a person can easily become habituated to a repeated stimulus. But if the stimulus is removed, its absence can itself be perceived as a kind of phantom stimulus. This is known as the "Bowery-el phenomenon" — named after the Bowery el (or Third Avenue el), the elevated rail line that used to run through New York … [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Swimming snakes. Why did it have to be swimming snakes? [Scary]
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Fark.com RSS » Here's a beer. Will you be our dad for a few hours [Strange]
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Fark.com RSS » This week the Saturday Morning Book Club is in the mood for love … what's your favorite romantic novel? [Sappy]
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Fark.com RSS » Having a wonderful time in India. Vishnu were here [Creepy]
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Fark.com RSS » North Korea using only the finest Russian parts in their missiles [Scary]
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Fark.com RSS » Photoshop these Scottish mountain folk [Photoshop]
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Fark.com RSS » Butt lift results in dead end [Sad]
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Fark.com RSS » An old, grumpy, battle-scarred, anti-social former feral cat who thought he finally got his chance to live out his golden years in peace at TinyKittensHQ just received a very rude awakening – and he's loving every minute of it on Caturday [Caturd
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Fark.com RSS » Want a Jackson Pollock painting? Have an extra $15 million hidden under your mattress? Well you better get to Scottsdale, Arizona because they're auctioning one off [Interesting]
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Weird Universe » Follies of the Madmen #317
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Fark.com RSS » Okay (okay, okay) … just a little pinprick … there'll be no more AHHHHHHHH, but you may nod off, cross the center line, strike a trailer being pulled behind a vehicle, and then hit a tree and a fiber optics box before ending up in someone'
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Fark.com RSS » A "highly intoxicated" man crashes his car into a tractor hauling a huge disc harrow which crashes through the windshield and totals the car. So, of course, the drunk man staggers away without a scratch [Ironic]
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Fark.com RSS » Hackers publish 25,000 private photos from plastic surgery clinic. Police call it the biggest display of reconstructive surgery since Cher's former agent released all her old headshots [Awkward]
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Fark.com RSS » McDonald's foray into new coffee offerings has been a real shot in the arm for the restaurant – and now a shot in the neck [Florida]
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Futility Closet » In a Word
oppidan
adj. of a university town [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Lil Kim has now earned the full attention of *two* American aircraft carrier groups parked off the North Korean coast. With jaw-dropping video of what a combined fleet might look like [Murica]
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Fark.com RSS » Photoshop these downhill sliders [Photoshop]
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