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 » Overweight Florida dog named Puff Pastry is trying to get his summer body back at boot camp and we're all rooting for him [Florida]

Friday 14 July 23:38:12 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Handmade sign completely deters drug buyers, revitalizes neighborhood, and is newest superhero movie coming soon [Florida]

Friday 14 July 22:50:12 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Woman 1: I'm bored. Woman 2: Me too. Woman 1: You know what would be fun? Blackface. We can post pictures online and challenge followers to do it too. It can't possibly go wrong [Dumbass]

Friday 14 July 22:20:14 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » CNBC: Most of you won't ever be successful because you eat bad food, don't take sabbaticals, and associate with mediocre people who lead "low quality" lives [Stupid]

Friday 14 July 21:50:04 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Kraft Macaroni and Cheese and Dangerous Chemicals [Sick]

Friday 14 July 21:46:52 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » In a huge disappointment to Fark, this cop didn't beat, shoot or kill anyone. She donated a kidney to a child [Hero]

Friday 14 July 21:20:12 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Suspect arrested for setting fire to tool store. Apparently, they were out of him [Facepalm]

Friday 14 July 20:50:04 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Two homes destroyed as Land O'Lakes lives up to its name [Florida]

Friday 14 July 20:20:08 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Photoshop this Electrolux [Photoshop]

Friday 14 July 20:00:01 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Dogs can't be ring bearers, Italian judge decrees. True, they'd probably get distracted by cats on their way to Mordor [Strange]

Friday 14 July 19:50:07 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » "Sorry I'm late. I had to pull someone from a burning car" [Hero]

Friday 14 July 19:20:08 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » I've had it up to here with this shiat [Weird]

Friday 14 July 18:50:12 UTC 2017

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Futility Closet » Nothing Doing

Friday 14 July 18:36:50 UTC 2017

Invited to participate in São Paulo’s biennial art exhibition in 1973, French artist Fred Forest found a unique way to protest the censorship imposed by Brazil’s ruling junto: He organized a group of marchers to carry blank signs through the city. “Instead of calling on dissidents or students who could have been arrested and tortured, Forest hired fifteen men to … [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Coffee consumption in Italy is governed by strict set of unofficial rules and customs, so if you visit and order a half-caf no foam soy latteccino with extra cinnamon and a twist of lemon, don't be surprised if they dismiss you with a wanking mot

Friday 14 July 16:20:13 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Texas now allows you to bring a sword to a gun fight [Hero]

Friday 14 July 15:50:11 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Woman in Los Angeles earns the crowns for worst selfie ever. All the crowns [Dumbass]

Friday 14 July 15:20:14 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Millennials fleeing Mississippi in droves, citing lack of jobs, endemic racism, the existence of actual civilization in other places [Interesting]

Friday 14 July 14:50:14 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » And the TD Garden organization would have gotten away with it, too, if it wasn't for those meddling kids [Hero]

Friday 14 July 14:20:10 UTC 2017

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Weird Universe » Streamlined ice cream tricycle

Friday 14 July 13:56:00 UTC 2017

Streamlined for speed? Also, nice hairdo.

popular mechanics – May 1936 [Link]

Fark.com RSS » And now for your WTF moment of the day: Watch a bunch of Pikachus dance hypnotically around a vending machine. Obey them [Amusing]

Friday 14 July 13:50:06 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Lion seen nursing a baby leopard in the wild for the first time. Experts say the leopard should be big enough to start eating faces shortly [Sappy]

Friday 14 July 13:20:11 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Photoshop this sad face [Photoshop]

Friday 14 July 13:00:01 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » You might have smoked too much pot if you show up at the ER seeking medical help while hauling a trash bag full of pot. Just sayin' [Dumbass]

Friday 14 July 12:50:04 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Initial report shows the Air Canada plane that tried to do a Harrison Ford was the length of a single basketball court away from hitting the planes on the taxiway. Sorry, eh [Followup]

Friday 14 July 12:35:47 UTC 2017

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Weird Universe » Doddy and the Diddymen

Friday 14 July 10:18:00 UTC 2017

Apparently, the UK had their own version of Alvin and the Chipmunks.

Creator's Wikipedia page.

Live version of the act here, not embeddable.

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Fark.com RSS » Trying to chew your way through the recording equipment in the back of the patrol car is not going to convince the officers of your innocence [Florida]

Friday 14 July 10:07:34 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Venezuela could lose an entire generation [Scary]

Friday 14 July 8:52:07 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » That awkward moment when you're awoken by a puma jumping into your bedroom [Scary]

Friday 14 July 7:58:25 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » If you have honey running down your walls, it might be because of the 35,000 bees living in your apartment [Obvious]

Friday 14 July 7:40:19 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Terror attack on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. Multiple wounded. Video of the shootout at the link [Scary]

Friday 14 July 6:24:48 UTC 2017

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Futility Closet » In a Word

Friday 14 July 6:03:09 UTC 2017

paranymph
n. at a wedding, a bridesmaid or best man [Link]

Fark.com RSS » A congresswoman trusted her aide to take a malfunctioning iPhone to the Apple store. He copied her nude photos and videos and shared them [Sick]

Friday 14 July 4:14:53 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » It's Nope season in Arizona as giant flying Nopes meet up for some freaky Nope [Scary]

Friday 14 July 3:42:45 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Police say the man who crashed truck into county government complex, set it on fire and died was not mad at government or any government official. In other news, police say no "real" evidence rising sun related to warmth [Florida]

Friday 14 July 3:33:04 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Come check out the runway. It's a blast. You'll be blown away (graphic video) [Sad]

Friday 14 July 3:20:41 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Dozing NYC subway rider lady is awakened by urine stream. Welcome to New York [Creepy]

Friday 14 July 3:17:51 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Ugly-ass rare Sumatran tiger cub born at the National Zoo. When it comes to being critically endangered, it's a start [Sappy]

Friday 14 July 2:46:51 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Peter W. Smith, GOP operative who sought Clinton's emails from Russian hackers, committed suicide, left note saying his death was NO FOUL PLAY WHATSOEVER [Followup]

Friday 14 July 2:42:52 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Truckload of NOPE slimes Oregon highway, with hork-inducing pictures [Creepy]

Friday 14 July 2:39:52 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Mallorca and Ibiza: Please take away alcohol on flights, we can't deal with drunken Brits any more [Dumbass]

Friday 14 July 2:20:11 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Chinese democracy activist Liu Xiaobo dead after China resists international pressure from human rights campaigners and Guns N' Roses cover bands [Followup]

Friday 14 July 1:53:31 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Vandals toss firecracker into a classic restored 1970 Mach 1 Mustang, destroying it. Car was restored as gift from grandfather to 7-year-old grandson who is confined to a wheelchair due to a rare genetic disability [Sad]

Friday 14 July 1:32:31 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Do you want day-drinking? Because I'm pretty sure this is how you get day-drinking [Asinine]

Friday 14 July 1:26:51 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Today in bad tattoo news: Ex-inmate gets tattoo that reads 'DEVAST8' while drinking homebrew alcohol in jail finds he's having trouble getting a job [Dumbass]

Friday 14 July 1:10:54 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Researchers claim climate change is going to make air travel a living nightmare. This is in sharp contrast to the idyllic experience flying is today [Scary]

Friday 14 July 1:00:11 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » City rejects idea for a "stand-up water slide" because nobody wants to combine putting on a swimsuit to get just your feet wet with the heart-pounding rush of a moving sidewalk [Obvious]

Friday 14 July 0:48:51 UTC 2017

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John Gordon Ross

A Man for All Reasons