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 » Here are photos of opium dens in the U.S. from the 1890s, which led to the start of The War on Drugs with the 1909 Smoking Opium Exclusion Act [Interesting]
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Fark.com RSS » Waitress saves 9-year-old girl choking on chicken fingers with Heimlich maneuver. How does one calculate 15% on that service? [Hero]
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Fark.com RSS » Man charged with breaking all ten commandments in a single act [Repeat]
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Fark.com RSS » Step 1. Recover dropped diamond ring. Step 2. Stash diamond ring in rectum. Step 3. profit. Unplanned step 4. Arrested. Ring returned to owner [Asinine]
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Fark.com RSS » Woman gives birth on Spirit Airlines flight, immediately charged $50 for an extra carry-on item [Sappy]
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Fark.com RSS » See a penny, pick it up, all day long you'll have good luck. Throw a coin into a jet, people will call you a goddamn idiot [Repeat]
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Fark.com RSS » As some of you know, another Fette has gone Beyond Fark. R.I.P. RockyMom [Sad]
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Fark.com RSS » Photoshop these old fashioned incandescent light bulbs [Photoshop]
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Fark.com RSS » The #1 zoo in the world is asking the public to name its newest addition, a baby seal. Surprisingly, Club has yet to make the list [Cool]
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Fark.com RSS » Just when you thought that state fair food couldn't get any more ridiculous; behold deep fried chewing gum [Sick]
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Fark.com RSS » Pennsylvania couple arrested for turning a park into a foreplayground [Giggity]
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Fark.com RSS » "A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends." ― Friedrich Nietzsche. Huh, what's the going rate on phylacteries these days? This is your Fark Writer's Thread [CSB]
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Fark.com RSS » +1 Darwin [Murica]
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Fark.com RSS » I have no idea what you're talking about so here's a thumbnail-sized spider that can shoot an 80-foot web to cross rivers (w/video) [Scary]
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Fark.com RSS » Business owner claims she was personally offended after the TSA fondled her lobster. And thank god that's not a euphemism [Followup]
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Fark.com RSS » Bears in central Pennsylvania suffering from mange, so be careful on Grindr [Creepy]
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Fark.com RSS » Need to sue your neighbor but can't come up with enough money to start? Crowdfund that dispute [Cool]
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Futility Closet » Point of View
Felice Varini’s anamorphic paintings seem senseless until they’re viewed from the right perspective — the key is to find the correct viewpoint. (One clue is that it’s always 1.62 meters from the ground, the artist’s own eye level.) “Varini catches our eye by introducing an anomalous element into our field of vision,” writes Céline Delavaux in The Museum of Illusions. … [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Why does this man climb a cliff in the high Himalayas and contend with giant bees while dangling from worn ropes? For the hallucinogenic honey of course [Scary]
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Futility Closet » In a Word
colluctation
n. strife, conflict, contention perstreperous
adj. noisy superbiate
v. to make proud, arrogant, or haughty supplosion
n. a stamping of the feet New Zealand’s national rugby union team, the All Blacks, performs a haka, a traditional ancestral Māori war cry, before each international match: Leader: Ears open! Get ready! Line up! Stand fast!
Team: Yeah!
Leader: Slap the hands … [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Woman, tired of receiving unsolicited penis photos from a delusional suitor, gets revenge by sending said photos to the man's mother [Awkward]
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Fark.com RSS » Remember the story about Seattle's minimum wage hurting low-paid workers? Yeah, they're actually doing quite fine, thanks for the concern [Followup]
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Fark.com RSS » This couple will meet and surpass the 13 lb. babies born recently with this 14.4 lb. behemoth [Spiffy]
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Fark.com RSS » Former NC district attorneys indicted in wife-swap case. Wait, what? [Dumbass]
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Fark.com RSS » Smelly sprinkler malfunction blesses Long Island high school graduation [Amusing]
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Fark.com RSS » If you had less than 24 hours before Ten Commandments monument on Arkansas capitol grounds gets destroyed, come claim your prize [Murica]
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Fark.com RSS » Photoshop this artistic duo [Photoshop]
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Fark.com RSS » Q: Is a giant catfish big enough to swallow a human? Media fact checkers: We don't know but here's a fake picture of a massive catfish that's all over the internet [Strange]
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Fark.com RSS » Okay which one of you aliens put something 'artificial' on Mars that NASA's Curiosity Rover just snapped a picture of? [Strange]
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Weird Universe » The King Midget
Wikipedia entry here.
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Weird Universe » Edward Seese Memorial Scholarship
When millionaire real estate investor Edward Seese died in March 1995, he left instructions in his will to fund a $4.5 million scholarship at Broward Community College. The recipients of the scholarship, he instructed, were to be high school students who earned a C average. He felt that scholarships typically went to high academic achievers, so the C students had … [Link]
Fark.com RSS » 30-year study demonstrates that moderate drinking results in atrophy of the hippocampus. Fortunately, Farkers don't drink moderately, and even when we do, we're probably drinking to forget [Obvious]
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Fark.com RSS » It only took 28 years, but the CPS has finally gotten around to charging people for the Hillsborough Disaster that caused the deaths of nearly 100 people [Followup]
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Fark.com RSS » This is how you troll Anchorage, Alaska [Amusing]
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Fark.com RSS » BBC discovers who has the crappiest coffee [Sick]
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Fark.com RSS » Pro-tip: when spreading a loved one's ashes, do so with the wind and not against it [Awkward]
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Fark.com RSS » In berating CNN for their (not quite) false Russia story, Fox News host asks if you could just imagine the reaction if Fox News had the audacity to push a bogus story about the president's birth certificate just for ratings (which they did) [Face
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Fark.com RSS » Maine confirms its first measles case in 20 years. If only scientists would get off their ivory tower asses and develop something that could have prevented this from happening again [Scary]
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Fark.com RSS » Things in Venezuela are getting a bit coup-y as a helicopter pilot flies over their Supreme Court building to shoot at it and drop grenades [Scary]
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Fark.com RSS » If you reported a sexual assault to the Austin, TX PD any time in the last 26 years, they'd like you to know they're finally getting around to running the DNA from the rape kit [Sad]
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Fark.com RSS » Third time is not the charm [Scary]
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Fark.com RSS » False online reviews are a problem everywhere. But Detroit takes the threats to the next level [Scary]
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Fark.com RSS » The latest cause of depression? Parents who worry about their child's bedtime habits [PSA]
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Fark.com RSS » The last subway derailment this serious was the end of the Jared Fogle ad campaign [Sad]
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Fark.com RSS » I have an interview tomorrow at 4pm. I haven't been on a job interview since 1994. It's a program manager position at a 3PL provider. Any tips would be appreciated [Scary]
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Fark.com RSS » Tip: if you're traveling with a load of stolen guns you're hoping to trade for meth, the probation and parole office parking lot is not a wise place to fall asleep in your car [Dumbass]
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Fark.com RSS » Mom pushes her annoying youngster down a steep slope but she doesn't get arrested. Because she's a Panda [Amusing]
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Fark.com RSS » Ohio BMV asks the Internet to name its new logo. Let's help them. Difficulty: No Platey McPlateface [Obvious]
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Fark.com RSS » Suspect hands 'get out of jail free' Monopoly card to deputy, winds up having to wait three turns and pay $50 to get out anyway [Facepalm]
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Fark.com RSS » Maybe this Florida deputy didn't think having porn on his phone along with racist and sexist images, having an interoffice affair, and taking pictures of his genitals while on duty would be a firing offense [Florida]
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Fark.com RSS » In a bid to out-stupid his rival, Florida Man, Ohio Man arrested for physically abusing his wife with one of his prosthetic legs [Strange]
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Fark.com RSS » Three women go on wild shopping spree, get $10,000 of merchandise… wait, did I say shopping? I meant shoplifting. It was a spree, is what I'm saying [Florida]
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Fark.com RSS » "Semi-naked man nabbed after ramming into several cars in Johor" [Awkward]
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Fark.com RSS » Chicago indicts three police officers in relation to the Laquan McDonald shooting. Trials and eventual acquittals not yet scheduled [Followup]
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Fark.com RSS » The best place to view this summer's total eclipse is in Nebraska, where every now and then it gets a little bit lonely [Cool]
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Fark.com RSS » If you were born between 1977 and 1983, it has been decreed that you ACTUALLY belong to the "Xennial" Generation. That should solve this debate once and for all [Facepalm]
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Fark.com RSS » Sir do yo know how fast you were going? No, scratch that. Sir, would you care to explain HOW you were going that fast? [Strange]
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Fark.com RSS » New York Times taste-test of 10 hot dog brands chock full of tube steaks, loathsome pretentiousness [Stupid]
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Fark.com RSS » Swear to god, if I have to spend one more day in Winnipeg I'm gonna punch someone right in the face [Stupid]
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Fark.com RSS » Woman makes it 80 years without being attacked by a rabid Bobcat in the face [Scary]
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Fark.com RSS » Old and busted: Bridesmaids being asked to pay for their own dresses. New hotness: Bridesmaids being asked to chip in for the bride's gown [Awkward]
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Fark.com RSS » Frankly, my dear, the word 'damn' enters movie history this day in 1939 at the cost of $5,000 [Interesting]
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Fark.com RSS » Cat-naming thread plz. PIT ASAP [Survey]
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Fark.com RSS » Massive Asian Carp is the name of my Mississippi blues band [Strange]
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Fark.com RSS » Photoshop this broken glass [Photoshop]
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