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 » According to new revelations, religious people are more tolerant, open-minded than atheists [Cool]

Monday 3 July 23:34:31 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Forget Paris: 1,600 new coal-fired power plants are planned or under construction in 62 countries [Followup]

Monday 3 July 23:31:27 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » The DJ gets up at some ungodly hour on the 4th to get the Mrs to the airport, so he's putting tonight's Paul's Memory Bank (8PM EDT) on autopilot while he gets some shuteye. Check in and berate the DJ for leaving his Farker friends all al

Monday 3 July 23:30:02 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » WaPo investigates why DC always smells like weed [Amusing]

Monday 3 July 22:50:06 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Miami Judge tosses out Florida's updated "Stand your Ground" law which required prosecutors to prove a defendant WASN'T acting in self defense before they could charge them because A) that's insane and B) only the FL Sup Ct. can s

Monday 3 July 22:20:07 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Hovercraft linking Niagara to Toronto will likely be nixed due to noise concerns, eels [Interesting]

Monday 3 July 21:50:04 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Windmill converted to family home listed for sale, has slight medieval lance damage [Interesting]

Monday 3 July 21:20:07 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » The true form of Thomas the Tank Engine [Creepy]

Monday 3 July 20:50:06 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Miami official are urging residents not to engage in celebratory gunfire this Fourth of July, reminding them that "Bullets don't have eyes". And how creepy would it be if they DID? [Florida]

Monday 3 July 20:20:08 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Photoshop this playground portal [Photoshop]

Monday 3 July 20:00:01 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? Seriously History Channel, one job. One (Twitter link is dead, tweet in question is boobies in the thread) [Facepalm]

Monday 3 July 19:50:06 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Car plows into crowd near Boston's Logan airport. Police report "several pedestrians with injuries" of "varying severity." Story developing [News]

Monday 3 July 19:30:34 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » The ferry was hit by a passenger platform while backing out from Wood's Hole. That stationary platform should've watched where it was going [Unlikely]

Monday 3 July 19:20:07 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Fracking leads to babies. But you knew that [Amusing]

Monday 3 July 18:50:05 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Ketamine might help people with drinking problems, by giving them a drug problem. Uh…wait [Ironic]

Monday 3 July 18:20:05 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Australian police are making a plea for the owner of a suitcase stuffed with $1.6 million in cash found while investigating a suspected drug importation operation to come forward. 'We have a sneaking suspicion this isn't your average pay pack

Monday 3 July 17:50:06 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Let's think a little out of the grill box for your Fourth of July cookout. How about grilled guacamole or grilled donuts with blueberry sauce? You know, because donuts [Spiffy]

Monday 3 July 17:20:05 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Not news: Guy buys neighborhood eyesore house to rehab it. Surprise: Discovers that it's a log cabin. Fark: Built in 1704 [Cool]

Monday 3 July 16:50:06 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Historians hopeful that time capsule found at base of confederate monument may contain racist WB frog [Murica]

Monday 3 July 16:20:09 UTC 2017

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Futility Closet » Piecework

Monday 3 July 16:08:05 UTC 2017

Artist Devorah Sperber plays with pixels. She renders an image at a low resolution and then replaces each element with a mass-produced object such as a spool of thread or a pipe cleaner. The results demonstrate how adeptly our brains recognize familiar images, even when given very little information. She says, “As a visual artist, I cannot think of a … [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Caption this John McCain double facepalm [Caption]

Monday 3 July 16:00:01 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » There may not be 101 of them, but this Dalmatian gave birth to 18 puppies, setting the Australian record and equaling the world record [Spiffy]

Monday 3 July 15:50:09 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » "Although many came expecting violence ― even after Antifa made it clear its adherents never planned to show up ― the only bloodshed came when a lone militia group member accidentally shot himself in the leg" [Dumbass]

Monday 3 July 15:20:11 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » 'Gays for Trump' hold rally in Washington DC with fabulously predictable results [Obvious]

Monday 3 July 14:50:08 UTC 2017

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Overheard In The Office » 10AM Order Book

Monday 3 July 14:14:27 UTC 2017

Our sister site has been collected into Overheard in New York, the book. It’s a collection of the hilarious and horrendous material from the site, as well as a bunch of stuff we saved just for the book. It’s perfect reading for the commute to the office, and a great way to kill time from 9 to 5. You can … [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Gitmo detainees are allowed to watch only one English-language news channel. You'd think it would be pro-American. You'd be wrong, however, comrade [Strange]

Monday 3 July 13:35:16 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Fox makes grave mistake by not picking the chicken coop to plunder [Dumbass]

Monday 3 July 13:25:59 UTC 2017

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Weird Universe » I Like America and America Likes Me

Monday 3 July 13:01:50 UTC 2017

In 1974, German artist Joseph Beuys arrived in America for the first time. Upon landing at the airport, he was transported by ambulance directly to the Rene Block Gallery in New York City. He emerged from the ambulance wrapped in a grey felt blanket and was then placed in a room with a wild coyote where he spent the next … [Link]

Weird Universe » Nuclear Bikini Contest

Monday 3 July 13:01:49 UTC 2017

Want a job at a nuke plant? Hope you look good in a bikini.

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Fark.com RSS » Photoshop this wall of beef [Photoshop]

Monday 3 July 13:00:01 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » You may have only 48 hours left to post any good news links from Al-Jazeera [Sad]

Monday 3 July 11:33:49 UTC 2017

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GraphJam » Where'd I Put My Eye Bleach?

Monday 3 July 10:46:23 UTC 2017

clothes fat girls half shirts Pie Chart Graph by: Unknown Tagged: clothes , fat , girls , half shirts , Pie Chart Share on Facebook [Link]

Fark.com RSS » You're only letting the terriers win [Stupid]

Monday 3 July 10:22:30 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Emergency rooms preparing for flood of idiots who blow off their fingers or set themselves on fire with sparklers this July 4th [Murica]

Monday 3 July 9:21:48 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Climb the Tokyo Tower on World Suicide Prevention Day [Obvious]

Monday 3 July 8:58:48 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Cemetery where subby's grandparents, cousin, father, and assorted other relatives are buried was vandalized last night. What the hell is wrong with people? [Asinine]

Monday 3 July 7:36:15 UTC 2017

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Futility Closet » Podcast Episode 160: The Birmingham Sewer Lion

Monday 3 July 7:00:22 UTC 2017

Birmingham, England, faced a surprising crisis in 1889: A lion escaped a traveling menagerie and took up residence in the city’s sewers, terrifying the local population. In this week’s episode of the Futility Closet podcast we’ll descend into the tunnels with Frank Bostock, the 21-year-old manager who set out to capture the desperate beast. We’ll also revisit a cosmic mystery … [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Mosque in France attacked in latest not-terrorism incident [News]

Monday 3 July 6:28:16 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » United's flight to Denver has arrived. On-time. On-fire. Guaranteed [Fail]

Monday 3 July 5:51:09 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » France considers surrendering to the UK, allowing British tourists to drive on the left hand side of French roads [Strange]

Monday 3 July 5:48:22 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » New Chambers Bay Amtrak station not going over well [Scary]

Monday 3 July 3:48:16 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Feeling frisky for a Hitler fetish room? Check out this bizarre sex motel with 167 uniquely themed rooms for you and your horny SO to get your kink on [Weird]

Monday 3 July 2:17:32 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » New Jersey police connect severed leg to missing woman [Followup]

Monday 3 July 2:03:33 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Slap some cream on that sunburn, grab something cold, and take the Fark Weird News Quiz, 6/18 – 6/24 edition [Amusing]

Monday 3 July 1:36:58 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » So what if Twitter suspended Trump's account for being an asshole? [Survey]

Monday 3 July 0:41:33 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Prince Charles shows off his green fingers. Apparently Camilla has never heard of 'Summer's Eve' [Spiffy]

Monday 3 July 0:25:23 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Hey. Remember the judge who sentenced the Stanford swim team rapist to 6 months (out in three?) The judge is up for election. Go for it, California [PSA]

John Gordon Ross

A Man for All Reasons