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 » The Powerball jackpot is ginormous. I repeat, ginormous [Cool]

Saturday 10 June 23:41:08 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Illinois has become America's failed state. And the damage that has been done will take decades to repair [Asinine]

Saturday 10 June 23:30:53 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Step 2: Advertise shuttle buses are ADA compliant. Step 3: Pick up disabled customers. Step 1: Make sure shuttle buses are ADA compliant [Fail]

Saturday 10 June 23:04:08 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » N-Phenethyl-4-piperidinone costs $1 per gram if you price it online, or $10,000 per gram if you use cop math [Unlikely]

Saturday 10 June 21:42:08 UTC 2017

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Futility Closet » Copycats

Saturday 10 June 20:27:31 UTC 2017

In 1988, workers found a 5-year-old bottlenose dolphin trapped in a canal lock in South Australia. She was taken to a commercial aquarium for medical treatment, where she was named Billie and housed with the trained dolphins who performed for oceanarium visitors there. One of the behaviors that the trained dolphins had learned was tailwalking, emerging vertically from the water … [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Photoshop this watery confrontation [Photoshop]

Saturday 10 June 20:00:01 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » The latest battleground in the war against manspreading is in Madrid, Spain. ¡Oigámoslo para que el hombre se extienda! [Interesting]

Saturday 10 June 19:39:33 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » You know who else really likes Disneyland? Well, not these 17 people. Or the Anaheim Fire Department hazmat team. The geese, however, seemed quite content with their visit [Sick]

Saturday 10 June 18:26:47 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Accident in "express toll lanes" causes lanes to be blocked, so company operating them raises toll to $31.50 "to deter drivers from getting onto them." So the drivers who paid that much only to find the lanes blocked will get refunds,

Saturday 10 June 17:43:30 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Several Latino businesses in California teamed up for Taco Trucks at Every Mosque, which was timed to feed Muslims after Ramadan services for the entire month in an effort to bridge both communities. This is what America is about [Murica]

Saturday 10 June 16:50:26 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Fat, drunk and stupid may be no way to go through life but it is becoming the lifestyle for more and more Americans. Obvious tag last seen on the couch with a sack of Fritos and a 40 [Sad]

Saturday 10 June 16:19:36 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Holy rigor mortis, Batman [Sad]

Saturday 10 June 16:11:27 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Three men admit converting nuclear bunker into "Weedzilla" cannabis factory [Spiffy]

Saturday 10 June 16:00:00 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Getting a tattoo and buying real estate have one very important thing in common: it's all about location, location, location (though it's generally easier to get rid of the house) [Obvious]

Saturday 10 June 15:18:43 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Stop me if you've heard this before with regards to US special forces in southeast Asia: "They are not fighting. They are just providing technical support" [Obvious]

Saturday 10 June 15:16:59 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Do you enjoy the great outdoors? Looking to grab a tent and a pack and hit the wilderness trail? Here are the best places in each of the 50 states to get in touch with nature (wifi not included) [Spiffy]

Saturday 10 June 14:59:44 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Alaskan man misses crucial episode of MythBusters [Fail]

Saturday 10 June 14:21:22 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » It's an ideal time to start experimenting with carrot cocktails, said no one ever [Facepalm]

Saturday 10 June 14:18:01 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » One of the most popular themes in literature is the "Hero's Journey", as defined by legendary mythologist Joseph Campbell. The Saturday Morning Book Club is looking for the best examples of this theme [Hero]

Saturday 10 June 14:00:00 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Governor Scott will "absolutely" sign medical marijuana bill, so get used to seeing more of everyone's favorite tag around this joint [Florida]

Saturday 10 June 13:46:51 UTC 2017

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Weird Universe » Miss Bomarc Interceptor Missile

Saturday 10 June 13:24:15 UTC 2017

The missile is the supersonic Bomarc anti-aircraft missile developed by Boeing and the University of Michigan Aeronautical Research Center. The woman is 18-year-old Fran Frost. The year was 1958.

The Hill Top Times, newspaper of Hill Air Force Base, offered the following coverage:

This guided missile hairstyle was inspired by the supersonic Bomarc missile. It’s a swirl-a-wave which features supersonic action … [Link]

Weird Universe » Chicago’s War on Syphilis

Saturday 10 June 13:24:14 UTC 2017

Imagine the uproar if this were attempted today.

Full article here.

Chicago's War on Syphilis: 1937-1940 [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Photoshop these computer techs [Photoshop]

Saturday 10 June 13:00:01 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » It's the weekend- time to catch up on your laundry, mow the yard, take a shower… Or you can put all that off for a few minutes for the Fark Weekly Weird News Quiz [Spiffy]

Saturday 10 June 13:00:00 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » To get the most out of a tasting room experience be sure to do your research ahead of time, avoid wearing cologne or perfume, and for the love of God don't be a cheapskate and buy something [Obvious]

Saturday 10 June 12:58:56 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » This is why we can't have nice things [Obvious]

Saturday 10 June 12:48:17 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » "The Cat Man" of Arizona has saved thousands of feline lives over the past 13 years, and despite being 82 years old, has no intentions of stopping anytime soon, not even on Caturday [Caturday]

Saturday 10 June 12:00:00 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » "Since when did a gigantic rubber duck become a meaningful symbol of this proud northern nation?" [Unlikely]

Saturday 10 June 11:53:40 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » The USS Ford was designed to be the carrier that took the U.S. Navy into the 21st Century, BUT HER EMALS [Interesting]

Saturday 10 June 9:15:01 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Finally a reason to go to the beaches of Maryland [Giggity]

Saturday 10 June 8:32:02 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Melania and Barron prepare to start slumming it [Unlikely]

Saturday 10 June 5:53:46 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Today's smoking hot teacher charged with sex with students comes to us from Rocky Mount, NC (w/mugshot) [Dumbass]

Saturday 10 June 5:51:23 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Australian man planks next to massive, endangered python in the road. To be fair, that's still probably better than letting Steve Irwin stick his finger up its butt as would have happened in the past [Strange]

Saturday 10 June 2:12:27 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Man who was responsible for creating the greatest culinary atrocity in history has died. Time to throw some pineapple and ham on his grave [Sick]

Saturday 10 June 2:08:27 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » This storm looks like a nuke explosion, except that it's a massive microburst and it just unloads on Dallas. Meteorologists called it a rain bomb and I'm sure that even the Cowboys Wide Receivers still couldn't catch it [Cool]

Saturday 10 June 1:52:50 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from misplacing a shipment of a mother's cremated remains [Fail]

Saturday 10 June 1:38:10 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » "Mall's closed. Fish out front shoulda told ya" [Florida]

Saturday 10 June 1:19:16 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Visiting other countries as a tourist is a great way to experience the world; you can learn local customs, like playing hockey in Canada, having a siesta in Mexico or going bankrupt from medical costs in the United States [Murica]

Saturday 10 June 1:03:53 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » If you're gonna sue your employer over trumped-up ADA claims, be prepared for your own lawyer to walk out on you and then get ready to pay the $2 million in damages when your whole plan backfires miserably [Fail]

Saturday 10 June 0:43:18 UTC 2017

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John Gordon Ross

A Man for All Reasons