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 » Tightasses aren't cheap [Asinine]

Monday 26 June 23:49:19 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » The moral of the story – don't break into someone else's house, especially at 2 a.m. California woman thwarts burglary by shooting suspect in the chest [Scary]

Monday 26 June 23:46:56 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Death Beach has 'hidden dangers.' What, ASIDE from the ones making it a Death Beach? [Scary]

Monday 26 June 23:38:04 UTC 2017

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Futility Closet » Table Talk

Monday 26 June 23:31:35 UTC 2017

Image: Wikimedia Commons When chemists at the University of California at Berkeley discovered elements 97 and 98, they named them berkelium and californium. The New Yorker suggested that the school showed “a surprising lack of public-relations foresight”: “Now it has lost forever the chance of immortalizing itself in the atomic tables with some such sequence as universitium (97), ofium (98), californium … [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Tonight at 8PM EDT, Paul's Memory Bank presents Part 2 of swinging through songs beginning with "R" [Live]

Monday 26 June 23:30:20 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » You'll never believe which website NPR wrote an article about — or what ended up happening to it [Interesting]

Monday 26 June 22:50:04 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Slapping the gay demons unfortunately not a euphemism, possibly a good band name [Facepalm]

Monday 26 June 22:27:42 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Rhode Island once again tries to win the coveted title of "The Florida Of The North" [Dumbass]

Monday 26 June 21:47:42 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » TSA discovers live 20lb lobster, undisclosed amount of drawn butter in checked luggage at Logan Airport [Facepalm]

Monday 26 June 21:13:25 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » The Washington Nationals' bullpen is so bad it literally kills you [Sad]

Monday 26 June 21:10:07 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Beware the "Islands of Nope" floating around in the aftermath of tropical storm Cindy [Interesting]

Monday 26 June 20:46:45 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Opiod prescriptions in Michigan outnumber people and are expected to overtake guns by 2025 [Sad]

Monday 26 June 20:20:05 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Largest warship ever constructed by Britain sets sail, doesn't catch fire [Interesting]

Monday 26 June 20:10:47 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Photoshop this summer strawberry [Photoshop]

Monday 26 June 20:00:01 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » You know, on second thought, maybe it WASN'T such a hot idea to give bail to a guy accused of scamming the government out of $600 million, who spoke several languages, had crossed the border 140 times in six years, and swore he'd never go to

Monday 26 June 19:46:47 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Do you think these home trends should make a comeback? Submitter used to have an apartment with a sunken conversation pit. That apartment was super tacky. LGT trends [Weird]

Monday 26 June 19:29:30 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Salvador Dali's wilted clock to be exhumed for a paternity suit [Creepy]

Monday 26 June 19:20:07 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Case of baker who refused to serve gay customer will be decided by men in dresses [Interesting]

Monday 26 June 19:14:06 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Don't forget the first rule of Bungee-jumping: attach the rope [Sad]

Monday 26 June 18:50:06 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Czech power plant holds bikini beauty contest to win an internship."The purpose of the competition was to promote technical education" [Dumbass]

Monday 26 June 18:20:07 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Swiss city wants to crackdown on "hipster-food" at public swimming pools. Fark: hot dogs [Asinine]

Monday 26 June 18:20:04 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Visitors threw $1.5 million into Rome's Trevi Fountain last year, so where did all of those coins go? [Interesting]

Monday 26 June 17:50:04 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Good: Obese man does the right thing and buys two seats on a flight because he takes up so much room. Fark: Spirit Airlines, oh sorry we overbooked that flight and we're taking that seat [Facepalm]

Monday 26 June 17:16:45 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Someone should tell this raccoon you're not supposed to be a subway seat hog OR eat on the train. It's basic courtesy [Weird]

Monday 26 June 16:50:05 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » So the new Transformers movie badly underperformed in the U.S. this weekend. But let's see how it did overseas…oh my [Interesting]

Monday 26 June 16:20:05 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Fark NotNewsletter: I should buy a boat [FarkBlog]

Monday 26 June 16:18:04 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » SCOTUS partially bans ban on the ban [News]

Monday 26 June 16:06:12 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Texas Legislature votes to secede. Not a repeat from 1861 [News]

Monday 26 June 16:06:12 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Today's Fark-ready headline: Purple woman stuns doctors by asking for even bigger breasts for very bizarre reason [Stupid]

Monday 26 June 15:16:44 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Don't you hate it when the fire brigade has to rescue you after your metal ring 'sexual experiment' goes horribly wrong during masturbation? [Weird]

Monday 26 June 14:50:04 UTC 2017

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Overheard In The Office » The Civil War Re-enactors Ruined That for Everybody

Monday 26 June 14:45:39 UTC 2017

Employee: Do you think I can leave my machete on display? I moved my plants and posters.
Supervisor: Machete, cool. Bayonet, not cool. I already asked HR. Wausau, Wisconsin Overheard by: I Think I’ll Request A Different Cubicle [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Milwaukee is the 5th fastest growing city, yet #6 on the list of worst cities to live in. But hey, beer [Obvious]

Monday 26 June 14:20:05 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Gay dating apps like Grindr are trying to "create connections beyond the bedroom," presumably in places like bathroom stalls, parking lots, and public parks [Obvious]

Monday 26 June 14:04:12 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Tories reach deal with Britain's new Irish overlords, will give Northern Ireland over a billion pounds' worth of pork. Scotland, Wales looking hungry [Followup]

Monday 26 June 13:56:46 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Today's "prosperity gospel" preacher who owns garage full of expensive cars and lives in million dollar condo being indicted on multiple counts of federal tax fraud" brought to you by the state of NC. Bonus: Now lives in Florida [Dumb

Monday 26 June 13:50:05 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Small Kentucky town elects dog as mayor. Fark: for the fourth time [Amusing]

Monday 26 June 13:20:07 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Photoshop this dirty clam [Photoshop]

Monday 26 June 13:00:01 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Police recorded capturing domestic assault suspect in porta-potty after he runs out of places to go [Amusing]

Monday 26 June 12:46:32 UTC 2017

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Weird Universe » The Land of Bottle

Monday 26 June 12:38:00 UTC 2017

Musician and composer Robert Rohe worked with the New Orleans symphony for 25 years. His most famous composition was "The Land of Bottle," which he wrote in 1958. It was a piece for 8 Coca-Cola bottles.

As the musicians blew into the bottles, a narrator described "a rocket ship trip to the other side of the moon where all of … [Link]

Weird Universe » Mystery Gadget 50

Monday 26 June 12:30:00 UTC 2017

Purpose of this device revealed here.

And after the jump. [Link]

Fark.com RSS » It's probably easier to say you're trying to cheat the carpool rules when they find a mannequin in your passenger seat. Oh baby, they don't understand our special relationship [Weird]

Monday 26 June 10:23:40 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Not news: Man hit by train. Fark: Man hit by TWO trains [Scary]

Monday 26 June 7:26:39 UTC 2017

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Futility Closet » Podcast Episode 159: The Mozart of Mathematics

Monday 26 June 7:00:11 UTC 2017

Image: Wikimedia Commons Mathematician Paul Erdős had no home, no job, and no hobbies. Instead, for 60 years he wandered the world, staying with each of hundreds of collaborators just long enough to finish a project, and then moving on. In this week’s episode of the Futility Closet podcast we’ll meet the “magician of Budapest,” whose restless brilliance made him the … [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Dear Amy, My husband spent $20,000 on teen 'escorts' and all I got was an STD. What should I do now? [Awkward]

Monday 26 June 6:59:46 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » U of Delaware adjunct who wrote that Otto Warmbier "got exactly what he deserved" gets exactly what she deserves [Asinine]

Monday 26 June 5:45:38 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » You might not believe this but something good is happening in the world: Anti-poaching efforts may be bringing Siberia's tigers back from the brink of extinction [Interesting]

Monday 26 June 4:35:33 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » "North Koreans invade South Korea." Well, okay, this is a slightly old headline. Like 67 years old. But it might not be a bad idea to keep it handy just in case [Interesting]

Monday 26 June 2:53:57 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Uber CEO needs a Lyft, Chris Christie breaking wind – er, ground, and what grownups are putting in their mouths these days. These are YOUR Headlines Of The Week for Sun 2017-06-11 to Sat 2017-06-17 [FarkBlog]

Monday 26 June 2:07:04 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Woman paralyzed for life after having an orgasm [Scary]

Monday 26 June 1:09:24 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Former police chief robs bank. Amazingly the police had no trouble identifying the suspect [Dumbass]

Monday 26 June 0:32:19 UTC 2017

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John Gordon Ross

A Man for All Reasons