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 » Thief plays Grand Theft Auto for real, smashing several cars after jacking a lorry with a crane on top and making good his getaway after dragging a car down the road this morning [Scary]

Wednesday 5 July 23:56:07 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Photo gallery from yesterday's North Korean ICBM test, with a surprising lack of pictures showing Kim Jong-Un pointing at things [Followup]

Wednesday 5 July 23:32:07 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Then she's not a heart transplant survivor, is she? [Sad]

Wednesday 5 July 23:08:07 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Every year, Darwin goes hands-off for the Fourth of July [Scary]

Wednesday 5 July 22:44:07 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Deputies called in as 99 cent gas promotion backfires [Ironic]

Wednesday 5 July 22:20:07 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » What do you get when you mix propane, crazy and Florida? [Florida]

Wednesday 5 July 22:02:05 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » German freezer company wins copyright case against Swedish Neo-Nazis over similarity between 'NordFrost' and 'NordFront' names. Leaders of the far-right FrigidScare group now lawyering up [Interesting]

Wednesday 5 July 21:38:05 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Short shifty-looking hairy guy captured by Oconomowoc Police (with pic) [Amusing]

Wednesday 5 July 21:14:05 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Gross-looking spineless things have been showing up on Alaskan beaches. Apparently, that's not something that only happens in New Jersey [Followup]

Wednesday 5 July 20:50:05 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » That guy that can't shut up no matter what his lawyer and the DOJ tell him is seriously risking his freedom? No, not that guy. The punchable face guy [Dumbass]

Wednesday 5 July 20:46:46 UTC 2017

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Futility Closet » More Anamorphosis

Wednesday 5 July 20:22:17 UTC 2017

The signs in Melbourne’s Eureka Tower Carpark are not signs — the words are painted anamorphically on the floor and walls of the garage. Each direction becomes visible from the point where you’d naturally look for it. Designer Axel Peemöller has a slideshow. (Thanks, Rini.) [Link]

Fark.com RSS » If you've been playing No Man's Sky lately and thinking to yourself, "Man, if they'd only take out all the spaceships and aliens and combat and technology and just let me name rocks all day long," have I got some good news for you

Wednesday 5 July 20:20:06 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Photoshop this fiery passion [Photoshop]

Wednesday 5 July 20:00:01 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Hot air balloon makes emergency landing into gator filled pond near Disney World. Passengers happy to avoid parking fees [Scary]

Wednesday 5 July 19:50:06 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Dear American bastards: Hope you enjoyed our gift on Independence Day. Sincerely, Kim Jong-Un [Followup]

Wednesday 5 July 19:34:51 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Man unaware of marijuana in groin cites recent underwear change [Florida]

Wednesday 5 July 19:08:11 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Man hides wife's body in freezer in order to collect her social security checks, and presumably, crack open a cold one from time to time [Florida]

Wednesday 5 July 18:44:11 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Bastille Day celebrations in France, editorial decisions on pictorials, and what Samsung's planning on doing with the Note 7's that didn't explode. These are YOUR Headlines Of The Week for Sun 2017-06-25 to Sat 2017-07-01 [FarkBlog]

Wednesday 5 July 18:29:45 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Want to see what the 'real' quintessential America is like? Go to a Hooters [Interesting]

Wednesday 5 July 18:02:05 UTC 2017

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Futility Closet » Noted in Passing

Wednesday 5 July 17:48:07 UTC 2017

In Visual Thinking in Mathematics, M. Giaquinto writes, “Calculus grew out of attempts to deal with quantitative physical problems which could not be solved by means of geometry and arithmetic alone. Many of these problems concern situations which are easy to visualize. In fact visual representations are so useful that most books on calculus are peppered with diagrams.” But there’s … [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Fark NotNewsletter: Pick up your fingers and read this [FarkBlog]

Wednesday 5 July 17:42:05 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » 128-year-old man in Argentina claims he's Adolf Hitler. Given that the world is basically exploding around us, he's certainly timed his comeback well [Unlikely]

Wednesday 5 July 17:39:52 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Today's Mad Lib headline: " ____ (adjective) woman arrested for _ (verb ending in "ing") brother with (adjective) (food), who retaliated by wiping the (same food) in her _____

Wednesday 5 July 17:06:00 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » 9 women arrested in prostitution sting (with mugshots). Warning: slimeshow [Florida]

Wednesday 5 July 16:44:11 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » The most Caucasian car in the world is going electric. Isn't that what killed Bob Dylan? [Interesting]

Wednesday 5 July 16:20:11 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » "The answers you get from literature depend on the questions you pose." -Margaret Atwood. Meanwhile, the answers I get from literary agents are all "uh, no thanks." This is your Fark Writers Thread [CSB]

Wednesday 5 July 16:18:13 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Amelia Earhart possibly upgraded from Hide and Seek World Champion to prisoner of the Japanese Empire [Interesting]

Wednesday 5 July 16:10:10 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Warning: This pool float may absorb all the water in your pool [Amusing]

Wednesday 5 July 15:43:30 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Turkey removes evolution from curriculum, asks to be renamed "Ostrich" [Scary]

Wednesday 5 July 15:16:50 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Iranians hold "Trumpism" cartoon contest in which hundreds of participants were invited to submit artwork mocking the Orange Cheeto [Amusing]

Wednesday 5 July 14:46:50 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Protip for animal rights organization PETA: Don't ask people on the Internet why they eat bacon [Dumbass]

Wednesday 5 July 14:20:10 UTC 2017

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Overheard In The Office » 4PM Performance Reviews

Wednesday 5 July 14:12:35 UTC 2017

Manager: She’s actually very bright, she just doesn’t speak or write. 200 West Oak
Fort Collins, Colorado [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Not only do the majority of poor households own a refrigerator, but many are also using Medicaid to obtain extravagancies like wheelchairs instead of dragging themselves along on their crippled stumps like proper poor people used [Sad]

Wednesday 5 July 14:11:56 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » We see your ICBM test and raise you joint military exercises. Beware of the B-1Bs, Kim [Followup]

Wednesday 5 July 13:50:07 UTC 2017

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Weird Universe » Hillevi Rombin and her Performing Dogs

Wednesday 5 July 13:19:00 UTC 2017

Hillevi Rombin (1933-1996) was crowned Miss Universe in 1955. Her talents included gymnastics, track & field, skiing, and sausage snake charming. She demonstrated the latter with her "performing dogs" for National Kraut and Frankfurter Week.

More info: wikipedia, cardcow.com

Rombin crowned Miss Universe

1955: with her performing dogs [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Photoshop this chillin' pupper [Photoshop]

Wednesday 5 July 13:00:01 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Today in shocking scientific news: Sending shock waves through your penis may treat erectile dysfunction [Weird]

Wednesday 5 July 12:41:19 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » The New National Anthem is debuted on the first Fourth of July of the Post-Non-Trump Era. You will learn to love it as you have come to love and revere your Trump (link updated) [Murica]

Wednesday 5 July 11:57:14 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Nothing brings in the bucks to the local parking lot ammo shops quite like a good old-fashioned state-wide recession [Murica]

Wednesday 5 July 11:27:28 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Deliveryman's 20-year-long habit of stealing women's underwear is at an end. As he said to the pantyhose in his thousand-strong collection, it was a good run [Weird]

Wednesday 5 July 10:51:19 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » China says India is violating their border agreement. US wants to know where this disputed area is so they can drive a tank through it [Interesting]

Wednesday 5 July 10:30:28 UTC 2017

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Original illo here (page 14).

Answer also after the jump. [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Today's unruly airline passenger who was covered in blood and punching things comes from Russia [Dumbass]

Wednesday 5 July 8:25:32 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Police respond to a complaint, find a giant Slip 'N' Slide in the road and decide to join in the fun [Cool]

Wednesday 5 July 5:52:47 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » If you're caught peeing in a pool you usually only lose your dignity… usually [Scary]

Wednesday 5 July 4:53:42 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » The Catholic Church is standing firm in their stance on homosexual orgies [Awkward]

Wednesday 5 July 4:00:51 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Pro tip: If police find your van is 'full to the brim' with weed, claiming it's all for you is not likely to work [Dumbass]

Wednesday 5 July 3:30:48 UTC 2017

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John Gordon Ross

A Man for All Reasons