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 » "You only come when people die, Jon Snow" [Awkward]

Sunday 18 June 23:36:43 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » 'I'm going to hit you in the head,' woman named Miracle Crimes tells Springfield cop before kicking him in groin. "I never said which one" [Dumbass]

Sunday 18 June 22:50:25 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » HS basketball coaches fired for…. Using a school bus to go on a beer run [Stupid]

Sunday 18 June 22:42:25 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Surprised cops disarm the toddler who brought them the loaded 9mm (with the safety off) that was hidden in his toybox. Mother of the Year had no idea, she says. Scales and bags of "powder" suggest otherwise [Florida]

Sunday 18 June 22:22:17 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » El Mariachi arrested in Key West [Florida]

Sunday 18 June 21:30:28 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Did your family forget to make plans for Father's Day dinner? Or, worse yet, expect you to slave over a hot grill tonight? Here's a list of 100 places where dads can eat free, including a free plate of wings from Hooters [PSA]

Sunday 18 June 21:00:00 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » No capes [Sad]

Sunday 18 June 20:04:26 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Photoshop this tranquil view [Photoshop]

Sunday 18 June 20:00:01 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Silly rabbit, Trix are for kids and Millennials [Obvious]

Sunday 18 June 19:42:16 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » "Right about then, the condoms fell out of his pants. Following the awkward silence, the kid apologized and was detained" [Awkward]

Sunday 18 June 18:43:30 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » If you have rare, valuable NASA memorabilia from the early days of the space program please don't throw it away. Museums are willing to take it from you [PSA]

Sunday 18 June 18:14:37 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Former UPI reporter who covered woman's murder as his first story wants to look at records to see if he can solve cold case. DA: No, because we need more time to look into it. We've only had 48 years [Facepalm]

Sunday 18 June 17:55:29 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Man facing charges after taking lion for pickup truck ride, giving him a lift to the zoo [Strange]

Sunday 18 June 17:12:16 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Happy Father's Day. Here are the ten best animal dads found in nature. Come for the seahorse, stay for the lumpsucker [Spiffy]

Sunday 18 June 16:37:43 UTC 2017

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Weird Universe » News of the Weird (June 18, 2017)

Sunday 18 June 15:51:00 UTC 2017

News of the Weird
Weirdnuz.M532, June 18, 2017
Copyright 2017 by Chuck Shepherd. All rights reserved.

REMINDER: I am retiring in two weeks (but in reality, all
the columns are in the can already). My announcement is here.

Lead Story

Advertisers Are Coming For You: The New York Times reported in May that the "sophistication" of Google's and Facebook's ability … [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Princess D'awww [Spiffy]

Sunday 18 June 15:13:27 UTC 2017

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Overheard In The Office » It's the Only Thing She Knows How to Say in English

Sunday 18 June 14:34:28 UTC 2017

Middle-aged lady to another: You sit down and I'll take you for a ride… Edmonton
Canadia [Link]

Futility Closet » Lovecraft in Paris

Sunday 18 June 13:58:50 UTC 2017

This is an unretouched photo — in 2007 artist Julien Attiogbe took photos of the building at 39 Avenue George V in Paris, distorted them using a computer, then printed the photos on large canvases and applied them to the building’s facade. More photos here. [Link]

Weird Universe » First Movie on American TV

Sunday 18 June 13:56:57 UTC 2017

What was the first full-length movie shown on American TV? A number of sources, such as Paleofuture, claim it was a 1932 detective movie, The Crooked Circle, which Los Angeles station W6XAO-TV broadcast in its entirety in 1933, even though the movie was still playing in local theaters.

But other sources, such as the Official Couch-Potato Handbook, claim it was … [Link]

Fark.com RSS » 58 [Sad]

Sunday 18 June 13:32:05 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Photoshop this strong creature [Photoshop]

Sunday 18 June 13:00:01 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » CSB Sunday Morning: Out of your element [CSB]

Sunday 18 June 13:00:00 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Can you guess why Bigjohn the Pastafarian was arrested at the Blue Ox Music Festival? [Silly]

Sunday 18 June 12:55:45 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » The 10th Annual "What would you say to your Dad today?" Fark Father's Day thread. This thread is older than your nine-year-old [Hero]

Sunday 18 June 12:00:00 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Residents unite against proposal for new restaurant in their town: "We definitely don't want to see Chuck E. Cheese" [Murica]

Sunday 18 June 11:45:05 UTC 2017

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Weird Universe » Joan Lowell and CRADLE OF THE DEEP

Sunday 18 June 10:20:00 UTC 2017

In 1929, Joan Lowell published an autobiography, Cradle of the Deep, published by Simon & Schuster, in which she claimed that her sea captain father took her aboard his ship, the Minnie A. Caine, at the age of three months when she was suffering from malnutrition. He nursed her back to health. She lived on the ship, with its all-male … [Link]

Fark.com RSS » I'm not saying it's too hot in Phoenix, but the airport might have to close down [Scary]

Sunday 18 June 9:30:45 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » For some strange reason, the NRA doesn't seem at all interested in the case of Philando Castile, a licensed gun owner executed by police for simply telling them he had a legal gun. I wonder why. Any ideas? [Obvious]

Sunday 18 June 9:17:45 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » So subby had 4,700 lbs of dynamite left over this week that he had to get rid of [CSB]

Sunday 18 June 8:56:01 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Education Department: So what's the big deal about civil rights, anyway? [Facepalm]

Sunday 18 June 7:14:45 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Cops in Queens rescue 10 ducklings from storm drain, ducklings are thankful, but are still stuck in Queens [Hero]

Sunday 18 June 4:23:46 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Missing sailors in destroyer collision found dead in flooded berthing compartment [News]

Sunday 18 June 4:07:00 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Man sets underwear on fire after "accident" in Walgreens bathroom, prompts evacuation [Awkward]

Sunday 18 June 3:28:50 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » So let's write an op-ed saying that Orlando's post-Pulse friendliness and outreach is driving down admissions to Disney. That should end well [Florida]

Sunday 18 June 1:25:16 UTC 2017

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John Gordon Ross

A Man for All Reasons