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 » Man discovers that getting his 10th DUI doesn't result in a card for a free drink. Also, damn, that's a hard 6 years [Dumbass]
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Fark.com RSS » Today's mantra for meditation: "Glug, glug, glug" [Fail]
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Fark.com RSS » Fitzgerald sailors may have been forced to seal watertight doors — along with the fates of several trapped sailors — to save the ship [Followup]
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Fark.com RSS » Tennis legend's '5 second' romp with model in a hotel cost him $25m. You don't even want to think about the hourly rate [Giggity]
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Fark.com RSS » All these dogs are good dogs. All these photographs are award winning photographs [Cool]
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Fark.com RSS » Pro tip – Wait for the LSD to wear off before listing your house for sale [Weird]
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Fark.com RSS » The cost estimates for restarting F-22 production are finally here, and just like the F-22, you can't see them [Interesting]
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Fark.com RSS » 11-year-old boy goes missing. Police and news crews fan out with the local TV station news helicopter, only to find that he's a fan of The Drifters [Florida]
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Fark.com RSS » Half human, half sheep, all Nope [Weird]
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Fark.com RSS » Bill Cosby to host seminars on sexual assault. Cocktails to follow [Facepalm]
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Fark.com RSS » Oh sure, a 7 year old boy who can't even hit the toilet bowl somehow manages to urinate on his neighbor's grill from the roof of his house, ruining his steaks [Strange]
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Fark.com RSS » Fark Food Thread: Which refreshing drinks do you reach for when trying to beat the heat? List to the left has tasty suggestions that are alcohol free so you can add whatevdafuq you like. Let's face it. No one tells Farkers the right booze to drin
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Fark.com RSS » Just a friendly reminder that heroin and meth are not medically approved substitutes for epidurals when giving birth [Sick]
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Fark.com RSS » 88-year-old man tells police 1-eyed woman stole his wallet after oral sex [Facepalm]
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Fark.com RSS » Sanford rabbi, accused of impregnating teen, to face judge. Man, I don't remember that sitcom being this edgy [Florida]
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Fark.com RSS » How to make a small fortune in the daycare business? Real life: Start with a large fortune. Fark: Sell cocaine [Obvious]
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Fark.com RSS » Photoshop this smart parking meter [Photoshop]
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Fark.com RSS » Injecting your baby mama with cyanide in her driveway in front of a surveillance camera is no way to settle a custody dispute [Asinine]
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Futility Closet » The Banana Bat
This would have livened things up: In 1890 inventor Emile Kinst promoted an “improved ball-bat” that he said would set baseballs spinning: “The object of my invention is to provide a ball-bat which shall produce a rotary or spinning motion of the ball in its flight to a higher degree than is possible with any present known form of ball-bat, … [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Get bitten by a tick? Well looks like you won't be eating any delicious meat anymore. SPOON [Sad]
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Fark.com RSS » In Oklahoma the law prohibits sex offenders from living near schools or public grounds, but it does not stop convicts from living next door to their victims. Read. That. Again. very. Slowly [Sick]
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Fark.com RSS » PI man who died in shootout fell in with wrong crowd, according to sister who thinks a single Bengal tiger constitutes a "crowd" [Followup]
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Fark.com RSS » Hell hath no fury like a woman shorted of one chicken nugget [Strange]
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Fark.com RSS » Woman in bikini contest in high heels and you already clicked the link [Florida]
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Fark.com RSS » Italian airport has formal bribe system to bypass security but only for pesto. Way to shake off stereotypes Italy [Stupid]
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Fark.com RSS » Marijuana legalization may lead to more car crashes, study finds, possibly because it's hard to drive when your entire car is filled with a roiling cloudbank of smoke [Interesting]
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Fark.com RSS » Rolling Stone's list of the 100 greatest metal albums of all time is … actually pretty damn spot-on. Way to go, guys [Cool]
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Fark.com RSS » Swimmers warned over aggressive beaver [Giggity]
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Fark.com RSS » Highway department installs massive zipper to open and close traffic lanes, threaten wienermobiles [Interesting]
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Fark.com RSS » Some fan just stopped traffic to take a selfie with Dwayne Johnson…and The Rock was as awesome as ever [Hero]
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Fark.com RSS » "Toy Safety" group yet again breathlessly reports that everything in the world will kill your children [Stupid]
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Fark.com RSS » Gene Simmons abandons trademark application for 'Devil Horns' gesture, even though KISS invented devil horns, trademarks, and applications among nearly everything else [Followup]
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Fark.com RSS » An inside look at the secret government bunkers that will keep Donald Trump alive while you perish in the Armageddon he unleashes upon the world [Interesting]
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Fark.com RSS » Florida police department looking to the internet for names for their new K-9 dogs. I'm sure we can come up with a few ideas here [Interesting]
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Fark.com RSS » If you like black coffee, radishes, celery, tonic water or other bitter substances, yooooooouuu might be a psychopath [Strange]
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Fark.com RSS » Full text of Senate GOP healthcare/population control bill released [News]
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Fark.com RSS » Screaming man chases brazen thief and pins him down until police arrive. The 5-year-old thief is released on his own recognizance, but the man will be spending time in State Daycare [Dumbass]
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Fark.com RSS » 1 in 10 Canadians admit to having sex in a canoe – which is substantially more to those who admit to enjoying 'merikun beer [Giggity]
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Fark.com RSS » The U.S. Army spent tens of millions of dollars buying the most expensive camouflage for the Afghan Army. Go ahead and guess what the problem is [Fail]
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Fark.com RSS » Residents of luxury apartments being used to rehome Grenfell Tower survivors try to express their objections without sounding like elitist, poor-hating asshats, with varying degrees of success [Followup]
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Fark.com RSS » French Instagram fitness model killed in whipped cream mishap [Sad]
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Weird Universe » The Life and Death of 9413
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Weird Universe » The Takeaway Rembrandt
In 1632 Rembrandt painted a portrait of Jacob de Gheyn III, an engraver living in Utrecht. The portrait is quite small, measuring approximately 12 by 10 inches. As a result, it's relatively easy to steal and has earned the nickname "The Takeaway Rembrandt" because of the number of times it's been swiped.
From wikipedia:
The painting has been given the … [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Photoshop this field of view [Photoshop]
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Fark.com RSS » Columnist believes Illinois should be divided up and given to neighboring states. Unlikely tag is for Wisconsin wanting to take possession of Chicago, its sports fans and its drivers [Unlikely]
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Fark.com RSS » Canadian soldier sets new world record with a successful sniper shot at 2.1 miles. Proud Canadian army considers authorizing purchase of a second gun in celebration [Spiffy]
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Fark.com RSS » Four Greenlanders washed out to sea in freak tsunami [Sad]
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Fark.com RSS » Car burglar doesn't exactly get caught with his pants down…but that oughta hurt [Florida]
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Fark.com RSS » Chuck E. Cheese: The Best Bar in America [Amusing]
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Fark.com RSS » Your doggo wants to know who's a good pupper [Spiffy]
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Fark.com RSS » Bad: fentanyl overdoses are climbing in Canada. Fark: a quarter of all donated organs in BC came OD victims [Creepy]
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Fark.com RSS » Home Depot sued for lying about the size of its wood. Men everywhere wait nervously for verdict [Giggity]
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Fark.com RSS » Doritos' new "Spicy Loco Hit and Run" flavor not a fan with police, Doritos truck drivers [Florida]
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Fark.com RSS » White Privilege Club Member Uses BMW Trying to Run Over Health Care Protesters Staging Die-In. Fark: On BMW Donorcycle [Dumbass]
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Fark.com RSS » Things I would not put in my mouth for 500, Alex [Video]
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Fark.com RSS » Theme of Farktography Contest No. 633: "Noir 2: Prints of Darkness". Details and rules in first post. LGT next week's theme [Farktography]
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Fark.com RSS » Owner saves dog from getting bitten by a rattlesnake. Owner takes the bite instead. Your dog wants you to order a steak for that owner [Scary]
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Fark.com RSS » Which classic childhood movies did you miss out on? Which ones scarred you for life? LGT some WTELF movie moments [Survey]
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Fark.com RSS » LEGO continues partnership with WWF to help prevent climate change, chair shots [Spiffy]
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Fark.com RSS » PSA: If you lost a goose that was wearing a red thong, the RSPCA would like a word with you [Weird]
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Fark.com RSS » One thousand naked Aussie swimmers plunge into freezing waters on the shortest day of the year. Bonus: It's called Dark Mofo. (Slightly Not safe for work) [Cool]
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Fark.com RSS » Welp, that's enough internet for the day (shudders) [Creepy]
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Fark.com RSS » Five nuclear facility workers, accidentally exposed to radiation two weeks ago, found to have plutonium and americium traces in their urine. What a pisser [Scary]
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Fark.com RSS » Sometimes "breaking news" means the news is breaking [Fail]
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Fark.com RSS » F*ckery of the first degree [Murica]
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Futility Closet » World View
Somewhat like Eratosthenes, the Iranian polymath Al-Biruni (973-1048) was able to estimate the radius of the earth using just a few measurements and some clear thinking. If h is a mountain with a known height and the distance from the mountaintop A to the horizon C can be established accurately, then angle α is the same as angle AOC at … [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Photoshop this lady and her piano [Photoshop]
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Fark.com RSS » The morning pint: another London mainstay circles the drain [Sad]
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