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 » Lucky couple gets back $100,000 in cash they accidentally donated to Goodwill. They then returned to the first season of Better Call Saul [Strange]
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Futility Closet » Partnership
In a diary entry in 1843, Sir Oswald Brierly, manager of the whaling station at Twofold Bay in southeast Australia, noted a strange cooperative relationship that had grown up between killer whales and the local whalers: They [the killer whales] attack the [humpback] whales in packs and seem to enter keenly into the sport, plunging about the [whaling] boat and … [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Man jailed for doing a poor Michael Jackson impression [Dumbass]
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Fark.com RSS » Even if the shot glasses are just the right size for him, don't bring your infant to a bar. And don't do shots while breastfeeding him there either [Asinine]
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Fark.com RSS » Thar's gold in them thar hills. Thar's gold miners in them thar bears [Scary]
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Fark.com RSS » Please note: if you've recently purchased tomatoes from Food 4 Less, you may want to replace them with others without so much rat in them [Sick]
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Fark.com RSS » Fark-ready headline: "Why I quit the city and moved to rural France to rear pigs." Not that there's anything wrong with that [Giggity]
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Fark.com RSS » Police release dash-cam footage of Philando Castille murder (Warning: Graphic) [Scary]
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Fark.com RSS » Americans no longer allowed on North Korean tours, will have to content themselves with less exciting trips to Cambodian minefields, Mexican drug cartel headquarters, or maybe quick jaunts running guns across the Khyber Pass [Followup]
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Fark.com RSS » I don't want to alarm you or anything, but the Yellowstone supervolcano has been hit by at least 400 earthquakes since June 12 [Scary]
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Fark.com RSS » Chicago Transit Authority:"Ohio will be eliminated" [Scary]
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Fark.com RSS » Snake slithers from hood as pickup travels down highway. Driver and passenger provide hysterical commentary [Video]
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Fark.com RSS » You'd think is there was ONE JOB where you would insist your benefits package included health insurance, it would be "Bodyguard for a White Supremacist Internet Troll" [Fail]
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Fark.com RSS » Study finds that subby has more emergency savings between his couch cushions than 24% of Americans have in their savings account [Fail]
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Fark.com RSS » VA police are now saying that the killing of Muslim girl in Sterling was not a hate crime but "road rage" stemming from a traffic incident, which the family is just a mite skeptical of because she and her friends were ON FOOT at the time [Fol
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Fark.com RSS » I know they say that everything is bigger in Texas but that still doesn't make a lizard look like an alligator [Facepalm]
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Fark.com RSS » Photoshop theme: Normal household items suddenly gain sentience [Photoshop]
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Fark.com RSS » Russian fighter jet comes within 5 feet of US reconnaissance plane over Baltic Sea. No word if Tom Cruise was 'communicating' or 'keeping up foreign relations' [Scary]
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Fark.com RSS » Brussels train station explosion sees suspect 'with explosives belt' shot by troops as passengers flee [NewsFlash]
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Fark.com RSS » This just in: new study shows that men cheat because they just can't resist hot chicks [Obvious]
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Fark.com RSS » The US banned the depiction of living people on currency in 1866 after a treasury superintendent decided to put his own portrait on a five-cent note [Amusing]
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Fark.com RSS » Big collection of Nazi artifacts found in Argentina, but no soup recipes [Spiffy]
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Fark.com RSS » 10 year-old develops tool for saving kids left in hot cars. It automatically tasers the parents if they accidentally lock their car with a kid inside – and then makes the parents stand in the corner with a dunce cap [Cool]
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Fark.com RSS » Man legally changes his last name to Trump. No plans yet to begin 24/7 tweeting [Strange]
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Fark.com RSS » Work detail guard collapses. Prisoners immediately escape. Just kidding, they performed CPR and called an ambulance [Hero]
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Fark.com RSS » Mugshot of the day brought to you by Gold Glove homeowner [Dumbass]
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Fark.com RSS » New Hampshire teens attack Boston favorite "Keytar Bear". So this is how the Civil War starts [Asinine]
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Fark.com RSS » Mysterious time capsule found in Florida. No one knows what's in it, but since it was found under a 106-year-old statue of a Confederate soldier, we can assume it's instructions on what to do once the South Rises Again [Florida]
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Fark.com RSS » If we ban smartphones for children under 13 then only criminals under 13 will have smartphones [Asinine]
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Fark.com RSS » Washington State Police to clamp down on the scourge of our times. That's right, left lane campers, your time has come [Hero]
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Futility Closet » The Ambiguous Horseman
From a 1904 poster: Is the horseman riding away from you, or toward you? A similar illusion with a moving image. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Why is an elderly man stealing plants from my garden at 2:30am? [Video]
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Fark.com RSS » Nothing says good luck like a dried lizard penis [Weeners]
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Fark.com RSS » British English. It's not all codswallop. Balderdash to the left. Wazzocks to the right [Interesting]
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Fark.com RSS » You witness a shooting in a restaurant with your daughter. Do you a) duck for cover under the table b) run out the emergency door c) order the suspect to the ground and keep him there until police arrive. Fark: WITHOUT A WEAPON [Florida]
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Fark.com RSS » Bo Dukes indicted. Luke, Uncle Jesse last seen leaving Cooter's place [Interesting]
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Fark.com RSS » EF-0 tornado touches in Maryland. EF-0? So, what, some hummingbirds were flying in a circle or something? Good luck with the rebuild, guys [Scary]
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Overheard In The Office » You Thought the SATs Were Over in High School?
Therapist #1: The client missed 80% of his appointments over the past two months.
Therapist #2: He was supposed to have 80% of his sessions in two months!? Washoe Valley, Nevada [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Carjacker foiled by own stupidity of not knowing how to drive a manual shift car [Facepalm]
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Weird Universe » Zzyzx Road
If you ever drive from LA to Las Vegas, you'll encounter Zzyzx Road just outside of Baker, CA.
Many people wonder about the origin of this name. It came about, indirectly, because of the invention of the telephone, which led to the publication of phone directories, which then led people to want to have either the first or last name … [Link]
Weird Universe » Follies of the Madmen #318
I don't get it. Is "nimble as an ox" good or bad, the before or after status of fueling up with their gas?
Original ad here. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Steve Bannon, on why White House briefings are now routinely held off-camera: "Sean got fatter" [Awkward]
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Fark.com RSS » Zima is back [Spiffy]
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Fark.com RSS » Plus-size model poses in bathing suit to 'offend' body-shamers, actually looks great in it [Giggity]
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Fark.com RSS » Photoshop these empty clothes [Photoshop]
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Fark.com RSS » Corporate owners of "Captain Morgan" rum are a little suspicious of rival product "Admiral Nelson." Judge orders duel with pistols at ten paces [Obvious]
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Fark.com RSS » British tourists find out they can't claim 'food poisoning' from the resort's buffet after ordering 109 drinks while on holiday [Dumbass]
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Fark.com RSS » Grandma "enraged" that when paying $400 instead of $3000 for a plane ticket, you have to share a lavatory with the poors in coach [Dumbass]
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Fark.com RSS » It's very rewarding to adopt a senior dog because they're already housebroken, they don't need much exercise, and they get movie tickets at discount prices [Spiffy]
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Fark.com RSS » An army of cats protects a museum. "We knock more things off of desks, shelves, and tables before 9 AM than most people do in a day" [Cool]
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Fark.com RSS » In Maine it's perfectly legal to catch too many fish and dump the rotting carcasses of the ones you don't want in the bay [Sick]
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Fark.com RSS » Australian man fined for kicking the quokka, and no, that's not some bizarre Down Under expression for wanking [Strange]
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Fark.com RSS » Some folk'll never steal a toe, but then again some folk'll (severed human toe image warning) [Strange]
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Fark.com RSS » Former Kentucky & NBA star Rex Chapman writes a moving story about his addiction to opioids. Addiction sucks. So does Duke [Interesting]
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Fark.com RSS » New survey shows that the majority of women like being sexually harassed. No, wait. It shows that the majority of men *think* women like being sexually harassed. Meh, same diff [Obvious]
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Fark.com RSS » Boinking couple fail to come up for air [Fail]
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Fark.com RSS » Rube Goldberg's apparently now getting into the car demolition business [Fail]
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Fark.com RSS » "The mishmash of marijuana laws in the three neighboring jurisdictions can be confusing for a concertgoer determined to smoke a joint." Right. Because local marijuana laws are what concertgoers think about before lighting up a joint [Unlikely
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Fark.com RSS » To Bill Clinton: Happy Father's Day … from your son [Awkward]
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Fark.com RSS » Drunk man rides his bicycle into a parked police cruiser and gets charged with drug possession, not having a light or horn on his (now broken) bike. Says he meant to do that [Dumbass]
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Fark.com RSS » Seven weeks out from Burning Man, and the playa is still a giant mud puddle [Followup]
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Fark.com RSS » Alternate juror for the Cosby speaks out about the deliberation process, "We had a hard time deciding where to go for dinner" [Awkward]
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Fark.com RSS » Shy 48-year-old civil servant unrepentant about marrying working prostitute he hired for night's romp, says his mum approves of the match. "It's a job. She's having sex but she's not making love. Not like we do" [Sappy]
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Fark.com RSS » Add fatbergs to your list of things to look out for at beaches, and it's not just all the overweight sunbathers [Scary]
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Fark.com RSS » Want to have a kinky threesome with your SO and someone else? Here are the top 10 U.S. states for having one …or two [Giggity]
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Fark.com RSS » Photoshop this puppet master [Photoshop]
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