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 » Jewish flags not allowed at gay pride parade [Fail]

Sunday 25 June 23:54:27 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Pretty soon we'll all be flying naked in a cabin with no chairs. The terrorists have truly won [Asinine]

Sunday 25 June 22:52:40 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Trollpikken shall rise again [Weeners]

Sunday 25 June 22:43:45 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Denver is cleaning up its streets one load at a time [Spiffy]

Sunday 25 June 21:11:13 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Hop-Con 5.0 at Stone Brewing – Liberty Station in San Diego, Wednesday, July 19th, 7pm (local time) [FarkParty]

Sunday 25 June 20:15:57 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Photoshop this team-building exercise [Photoshop]

Sunday 25 June 20:00:01 UTC 2017

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Futility Closet » Fleeting Thoughts

Sunday 25 June 19:53:05 UTC 2017

A low-tech model of human cognition, from William James’ The Principles of Psychology, 1890: If we make a solid wooden frame with the sentence written on its front, and the time-scale on one of its sides, if we spread flatly a sheet of India rubber over its top, on which rectangular co-ordinates are painted, and slide a smooth ball under … [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Meet "Dragon Man", The Most Armed man in 'Murica. AKA "Tiny" [Murica]

Sunday 25 June 19:11:44 UTC 2017

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Weird Universe » News of the Weird (June 25, 2017)

Sunday 25 June 18:10:00 UTC 2017

News of the Weird
Weirdnuz.M533, June 25, 2017
Copyright 2017 by Chuck Shepherd. All rights reserved.

Lead Story

Update: Three weeks ago, News of the Weird touted the "genderless," extraterrestrial-appearing Hollywood makeup artist known as Vinny Ohh, but then Marcela Iglesias announced (following a leaked TV clip) that she had formed an agency for would-be celebrities who had radically transformed … [Link]

Fark.com RSS » The Cold War was a clash of both ideologies and bonkers concept cars [Interesting]

Sunday 25 June 17:56:49 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Canada: No one can make poutine any worse. Boston: Hold my beeah [Sick]

Sunday 25 June 17:55:22 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » You're going to need a bigger flu shot [Scary]

Sunday 25 June 17:27:22 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » So what WOULD happen if Mexicans stopped coming to the U.S.? Despite the administration's rhetoric, we are finding out right now, as the Mexican economy improves and family sizes shrink. In one CA county alone, it meant $13 million in rotting cro

Sunday 25 June 17:10:23 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Get 'em out by Friday / You don't get paid till the last one's well on his way [Asinine]

Sunday 25 June 14:20:44 UTC 2017

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Weird Universe » Battleship – the gender role edition

Sunday 25 June 13:16:00 UTC 2017

Milton Bradley debuted the board game Battleship in 1967, and the illustration on the box of that first edition has become somewhat notorious because it shows a father and son playing the game while the mother and daughter in the background do the dishes.

That choice of scene wasn't any kind of accident. The game was deliberately marketed as a … [Link]

Article from 1935. [Link]

Fark.com RSS » ← Free Oil [Sad]

Sunday 25 June 11:18:36 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » International flight forced to turn back due to "minor technical issue", which is airline PR speak for "the engine fell off" [Scary]

Sunday 25 June 10:45:44 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » London calmly and efficiently evacuating citywide blocks of apts with flammable cladding. Just kidding, it's utter chaos and residents don't know what's going on unless they see it on the news [Followup]

Sunday 25 June 10:42:00 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » The Devil wears Trumps [Awkward]

Sunday 25 June 8:42:46 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Not content with assaulting adult passengers, United tries to kill a baby [Followup]

Sunday 25 June 7:29:46 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Children forced to flee playgrounds after attacks from a flock of seagulls. "I just ran, I ran so far away, I couldn't get away," said 8-year-old Horace Ipswitch of Sussex [Scary]

Sunday 25 June 6:10:45 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Marijuana cures 12-year-old girl of life threatening seizures [Spiffy]

Sunday 25 June 5:39:25 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Coming up at the top of the hour it's Livingston Stapler Company Presents. Join us for two hours of diverse music hosted live by a farker in Juneau, Alaska (9PM AKDT/10PM PDT) [Live]

Sunday 25 June 4:56:22 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Arizona asshat thought it would be funny to flee the cops at 100 mph on his motorcycle. Five times. Not laughing pic included [Asinine]

Sunday 25 June 4:16:04 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Marijuana contains thousands of chemical compounds, more than fifty cause cancer, offers no medical benefits. Wonder drug, my ass [Scary]

Sunday 25 June 1:16:37 UTC 2017

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Futility Closet » The Greatest

Sunday 25 June 0:47:34 UTC 2017

Artist Michael Kalish spent three years creating this portrait of Muhammad Ali from 1,300 punching bags. It appeared in the L.A. Live complex in downtown Los Angeles in March 2011. [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Photoshop this Yoga session [Photoshop]

Sunday 25 June 0:00:01 UTC 2017

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John Gordon Ross

A Man for All Reasons