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 » It's a boy…BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM [Sad]

Sunday 9 July 23:50:13 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » It was just another calm fishin' day in Iowa when the NOPE came along [Strange]

Sunday 9 July 21:50:33 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » I'm not saying it's a streetlight, but it's a streetlight that eats other streetlights [Video]

Sunday 9 July 21:35:12 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » When will electric cars drive down mainstreet America? Probably sooner than you think thanks to new technology and lower prices [Interesting]

Sunday 9 July 21:20:14 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Nine months after a bloody campaign, Iraqi Prime Minister rolls into Mosul to claim victory over the Islamic State. High-fives to all forces involved [News]

Sunday 9 July 21:05:28 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » So how DID Spam become one of the most iconic brands of all time? [Interesting]

Sunday 9 July 20:40:31 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Do not make meth. If you make meth you may have a meth lab explosion. If you have a meth lab explosion you may catch on fire. If you catch on fire you may drive to Planet Fitness [Scary]

Sunday 9 July 20:10:13 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Photoshop this nosy tomato [Photoshop]

Sunday 9 July 20:00:01 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » It seems the Irish are food snobs about what we Americans eat [Amusing]

Sunday 9 July 19:50:12 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » 'Parachute malfunction' and 'lucky to be alive' are two phrases you don't typically see in the same headline [Spiffy]

Sunday 9 July 19:30:48 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Ms. No longer appearing on this planet [Sad]

Sunday 9 July 19:10:51 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Do you WANT unspeakable horrors summoned from the realms beyond space and time? Because THAT'S how you get unspeakable horrors summoned from the realms beyond space and time [Cool]

Sunday 9 July 18:35:00 UTC 2017

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Futility Closet » Handimals

Sunday 9 July 18:33:50 UTC 2017

Using a body painting technique he developed in 1990, Calabrian illustrator Guido Daniele has created a curious zoo of animal images painted on human hands. “Each painting takes from two to ten hours to complete,” reports Brad Honeycutt in The Art of Deception, “which means the hand models lending their exremities to the project must be very patient.” [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Ahh what a lovely day to take my pet crocodile for a walk on the beach. Surely no one will have a problem with this [Strange]

Sunday 9 July 18:21:57 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » How many crashes do you read about that involve a cannon? [Scary]

Sunday 9 July 17:52:51 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » "Hey, it's kind of warm in the back of this cop car … do you mind turning up the A/C?" [Florida]

Sunday 9 July 17:41:08 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Millionaire Matchmaker meets her match … and not in a good way [Scary]

Sunday 9 July 17:19:46 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Biologist does "manliest thing ever" and saves bear from drowning. Bear reciprocates with invitation to pic-a-nic [Interesting]

Sunday 9 July 16:20:38 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Woman's nasty obit was plagiarized. I'm mad at grandma but not so mad that I'm gonna come up with something original for her obituary [Stupid]

Sunday 9 July 16:11:07 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Complaints arise from the British Army targeting poorer working class young people for recruitment. Good thing this demographic has never been exploited by armies previously [Interesting]

Sunday 9 July 15:34:51 UTC 2017

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Weird Universe » Extra Milers

Sunday 9 July 15:16:00 UTC 2017

The Extra Miler Club is a group of people whose goal is to visit every county (and equivalent jurisdiction) in every state of the United States. That's 3,143 counties. Indian reservations don't count, although some visit them anyway. Parishes do count, as do independent cities.

If you finish the goal, you're called a "county completer." Only 51 people have joined … [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Rule No. 1 when joining the Mile High Club: Don't get caught sneaking out of the plane's toilet [Giggity]

Sunday 9 July 15:10:06 UTC 2017

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Overheard In The Office » Sometimes a Box Pun Quote Just Makes Our Day

Sunday 9 July 14:52:16 UTC 2017

Female older admin: That's not my box.
Male supervisor: Well, it was listed as yours.
Female older admin: Not my box. Not my box.
Male supervisor: Well, maybe Kate just thought it looked like yours.
Female older admin: Nope. (pause) I am still missing my box. That is not my box.
Male supervisor: Hmmm, Caroline was missing her box too, maybe this is her box. (louder) … [Link]

Fark.com RSS » While you minions are scrambling around for some place to survive after Trump pushes the button and creates the zombie apocalypse, here is where the uber rich will be hiding [Interesting]

Sunday 9 July 13:20:37 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Photoshop this NOPE,NOPE,NOPE,NOPE,NOPE [Photoshop]

Sunday 9 July 13:00:01 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » CSB Sunday Morning: Your day in court [CSB]

Sunday 9 July 13:00:00 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Woman, 49, admits being New York's loudest lover, receiving the largest number of noise complaints in the city [Creepy]

Sunday 9 July 11:19:33 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Having never heard of the concept of a cemetery, family fights with civic leaders to be able to keep a memorial to their dead son on a town-owned parking lot [Stupid]

Sunday 9 July 10:59:00 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Aussie provides succinct, prescient, and brutally honest review of Trump's G20 appearance [Scary]

Sunday 9 July 10:20:32 UTC 2017

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Weird Universe » Outboard Motorboat Steeple Chase

Sunday 9 July 10:13:00 UTC 2017

The stuff with the girls in the first video is charming. But the insane part is the motorboat steeple chase race.

Apparently, a version of this is still practiced in–where else?–Australia. Although they seem to have eliminated the airborne part of the race.

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Fark.com RSS » Los Angeles power transformer explodes in 100 degree heat, sending fireball into the sky and leaving thousands without electricity [Scary]

Sunday 9 July 9:03:32 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » The insanity is over: The functioning alarm clock which has been in a wall for 13 years has finally been removed [Followup]

Sunday 9 July 8:15:00 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » That's not a belly flop. THIS is a belly flop [Scary]

Sunday 9 July 6:14:37 UTC 2017

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

Sunday 9 July 4:56:27 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » United damages 37,000 Euro custom computerized wheelchair. When owner refuses to sign a waiver absolving United of all responsibility, they further damage it, including ripping off one of the wheels and smashing the computer. Link goes to video [Asin

Sunday 9 July 4:15:33 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Dumbass: Woman runs up tons of debt, then decides to kill off husband for insurance money. Oops: Husband forgot to change paperwork, his ex-wife gets money [Dumbass]

John Gordon Ross

A Man for All Reasons