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 » Fark Open House: Today's listing is a 7400sf, five-bedroom beauty with interior decor by a tea shop lady on acid (click through gallery for increasing insanity) [Strange]

Monday 17 July 23:50:00 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » If you've ever wanted to piss on a Russian Typhoon-class submarine, here's your chance [Interesting]

Monday 17 July 23:43:52 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » At 8PM EDT, Paul's Memory Bank brings you 2 more hours of songs beginning with the letter "S" spanning the years 1955 to 1989 [Live]

Monday 17 July 23:30:46 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » The biggest infrastructure problem in the US? Antarctica [Sad]

Monday 17 July 22:50:08 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Man mistakenly claims autopilot made his Tesla tip over and sink into a swamp, thankfully he was rescued by Sir Lancelot and plans to try again [Fail]

Monday 17 July 22:20:08 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Boat owners have the unusual obsession of using puns when naming their boats. Here's a collection of some of NJ's best and wurst [Amusing]

Monday 17 July 21:50:10 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Creationists mock flat-earthers as idiots, say Bible isn't to be taken literally [Ironic]

Monday 17 July 21:20:09 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » "Nathan is failing his Video Game Class. Please let him stay up all night to play games. Signed, The School." Seems legit [Misc]

Monday 17 July 20:50:08 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » The 'Game of Thrones' premiere just broke all of HBO's ratings records. Surely Ed Sheeran deserves the credit [Spiffy]

Monday 17 July 20:22:40 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Scientists name new species of dinosaur after Canadian icon. Behold the Hortonosaurus [Cool]

Monday 17 July 20:20:08 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Trucker looks outta the window, counts phone poles goin' by at the rate of four to the seventh power, puts two and two together, adds twelve and carries five; comes up with twenty-two thousand telephone poles an hour, spills 42K pounds of beer [S

Monday 17 July 20:10:49 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Photoshop these 'Murican skiers [Photoshop]

Monday 17 July 20:00:01 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Headlines Of The Week for Sun 2017-07-09 to Sat 2017-07-15 [FarkBlog]

Monday 17 July 19:51:42 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Elon Musk warns that artificial Intelligence is "the greatest risk we face as a civilization." Apparently 'someone' watched "The Terminator" a few too many times late at night [Interesting]

Monday 17 July 19:44:09 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Twin Cities' area police have escalated to shooting unarmed blonde yoga instructors [Scary]

Monday 17 July 19:20:09 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » You too can own your own Scottish island with a six-bed lighthouse cottage with no neighbors for only £325,000. The only catch is a murder that happened there 57 years ago [Cool]

Monday 17 July 19:09:53 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Fark NotNewsletter: The Doctor is a woman? Oh yeah, well so's your mom! [FarkBlog]

Monday 17 July 19:09:04 UTC 2017

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Futility Closet » Please Help!

Monday 17 July 18:59:24 UTC 2017

I spend hundreds of hours each month researching and writing Futility Closet, and that effort is supported entirely by the readers. If you value this site, please consider making a contribution to help keep it going. You can make a one-time donation on our Support Us page, or you can pledge a monthly contribution on Patreon to receive bonus posts … [Link]

Fark.com RSS » You may wonder why jet fighter ejection seats are built to work even if the plane is still on the ground. Wonder no more [Scary]

Monday 17 July 18:36:48 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » One of life's frustrations: having your bike stolen. One of life's great joys: stealing it back [Amusing]

Monday 17 July 18:16:48 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Her: "When you use [an] extension cord so you can plug your phone in while you're in the bath." Darwin: "You go, girl" [Followup]

Monday 17 July 17:50:08 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Ladies and Gentlemen this is your captain speaking, I apologize for the two-hour delay but we are now on our way cruising at 36,000 feet and remarkably underweight. Oops that must mean we forgot the luggage [Facepalm]

Monday 17 July 17:20:11 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Woman at mass shooting at gender-reveal party: I lost my baby. Police: No you didn't [Strange]

Monday 17 July 16:50:11 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Filing a false police report can result in jail time. Especially when you send fake texts that purport to be from some poor guy who didn't want to date you. Subby's just assuming [Fail]

Monday 17 July 16:15:22 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » What's the difference between a porcupine and a BMW? The porcupine has all the pricks on the outside. That, and they don't fall out of the sunroof while car surfing [Fail]

Monday 17 July 15:35:22 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Has Supreme Court Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. embraced the court's same-sex marriage decision that he so passionately protested two years ago? Maybe he finally met the right person? [Interesting]

Monday 17 July 15:20:10 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » SETI project says we've been searching for aliens all wrong, we need to looking for their frigging lasers [Interesting]

Monday 17 July 14:50:11 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » I see your great Springfield tire fire and raise you the underground fire of Clairton, Pennsylvania [Strange]

Monday 17 July 14:20:01 UTC 2017

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Weird Universe » Man-Pleasing Recipes

Monday 17 July 13:32:11 UTC 2017

The title of this 1971 recipe book was somewhat misleading. It claimed to feature "Man-Pleasing Recipes," but really it was a collection of recipes featuring rice as the main ingredient. The booklet was put out by the Rice Council for P.R. purposes. Part of an effort to promote rice as a manly food.

Can't say it succeeded. When I think … [Link]

Weird Universe » Growdina, the Marvelous Bust Developer

Monday 17 July 13:32:10 UTC 2017

I just love the name "Growdina."

Source.

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Fark.com RSS » Photoshop this elephant statue [Photoshop]

Monday 17 July 13:00:01 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » American Airlines plane evacuated after passenger passes gas. Subby swears he wasn't in North Carolina today [Amusing]

Monday 17 July 12:39:06 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » There's something cool yet creepy when Garth Brooks offers to pay for your honeymoon [Spiffy]

Monday 17 July 11:55:35 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » His parents said he just needed to sleep. Then things got stupid. And tragic [Misc]

Monday 17 July 10:59:50 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » "As God is my witness, I thought cars could fly" [Scary]

Monday 17 July 8:58:50 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » First the good news: There is an Eco-friendly way of eliminating ticks off your property. Now the bad news: It involves bringing opossum onto your property [Interesting]

Monday 17 July 7:09:17 UTC 2017

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Futility Closet » Podcast Episode 162: John Muir and Stickeen

Monday 17 July 7:00:09 UTC 2017

One stormy morning in 1880, naturalist John Muir set out to explore a glacier in Alaska’s Taylor Bay, accompanied by an adventurous little dog that had joined his expedition. In this week’s episode of the Futility Closet podcast we’ll describe the harrowing predicament that the two faced on the ice, which became the basis of one of Muir’s most beloved … [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Truck Function in Junction, what's your function? "Getting caught on wires and shuttin' down the city" [Fail]

Monday 17 July 4:07:18 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Here's what drug dealers have to say after you've bought their lousy drugs to lower your dumbass intelligence [Interesting]

Monday 17 July 1:32:38 UTC 2017

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John Gordon Ross

A Man for All Reasons