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 » I know, it's hard to believe, but a toddler crawls around on the floor and eats stuff he or she ain't supposed to. Mum is amazed. Those darned toddlers [Obvious]

Tuesday 18 July 23:50:08 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Hundreds of villagers band together to raise £275,000 to buy their local pub after developers threaten to turn it into new housing. That's the spirit [Cool]

Tuesday 18 July 22:50:08 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Officer praised for buying a bike for a guy who'd had his stolen is arrested for taking cash from people he pulled over [Florida]

Tuesday 18 July 22:20:09 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » ♫♫ "Traveling through the town of Dundrum. A knife-welding man, he met a Muslim. He wanted to be stabby, he made him nervous, He calmed him down and made him breakfast" ♫ ♪ [Strange]

Tuesday 18 July 21:50:08 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » I don't know…Fart Taco is a pretty good name for your…oh wait [Amusing]

Tuesday 18 July 21:20:08 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Don't worry, it's legal because she didn't have a permit to operate [Asinine]

Tuesday 18 July 20:50:12 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Italian sausage raining from the sky might be weird to you, but in Fark's favorite state, it's just Tuesday [Florida]

Tuesday 18 July 20:40:51 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Two people missing since 1942 have been found frozen in a glacier. Nick Fury and Phil Coulson on their way to investigate [Cool]

Tuesday 18 July 20:16:51 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Photoshop this man and his magnificent hat [Photoshop]

Tuesday 18 July 20:00:01 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » You really have to piss someone off for them to throw bed bugs into your house and light off fireworks under your car [Creepy]

Tuesday 18 July 19:46:51 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Activists decide best way to protect animal life is to release 30,000 predators next to a wildlife preservation area [Facepalm]

Tuesday 18 July 19:20:11 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Charlotte men are stuck in a fashion time warp, dressing identically in blue shirts, black shoes, and khakis as if were still 1995 when Larry Johnson was the bee's knees [Silly]

Tuesday 18 July 19:02:01 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Just like running from bears, when running from an accident scene, you don't have to run fast – just faster than your six-year-old [Fail]

Tuesday 18 July 18:40:12 UTC 2017

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Futility Closet » Polyglot Ten-Squares

Tuesday 18 July 18:31:18 UTC 2017

Since 1897 wordplay enthusiasts have been seeking an order-10 word square — a 10 × 10 array of letters whose rows and columns, read in order, produce the same set of 10 words. In English this is so difficult that it’s been called the Holy Grail of logology, but the task gets dramatically easier when we increase the vocabulary, and … [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Goat: Fark this window. And fark this window and then fark this window in particular (w/video) [Amusing]

Tuesday 18 July 18:20:12 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Riots to ensue as Heinz launches a promotion for the unthinkable in Chicago: "Chicago Dog Sauce" which is KETCHUP ON A HOT DOG [Unlikely]

Tuesday 18 July 17:50:06 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » "Jet-setting former Thai monk wanted on child sex charge being sent home" is not something you see every day, unless you're here. Welcome to Fark [Followup]

Tuesday 18 July 17:20:08 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Miniature brains found at grave site from Spanish Civil War of 1936-1939. Verifies suspicions about Fascists and Communists that fought there [Weird]

Tuesday 18 July 16:50:10 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Fark ready headline: "Police subdue naked man, accidentally light him on fire" [Facepalm]

Tuesday 18 July 16:16:54 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Puts the lie to the "I was in the pool" excuse [Amusing]

Tuesday 18 July 15:46:54 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » If you're doing a live news report, remember to stay away from the mimes. (with Not safe for work language) [Video]

Tuesday 18 July 15:20:14 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Saudi Arabia investigating the biggest threat to the country: A woman walking around town in a miniskirt [Giggity]

Tuesday 18 July 15:14:06 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Good dog jumps into water to save drowning fawn. "Storm just plunged into the water and started swimming out to the fawn, grabbed it by the neck, and started swimming to shore." No word if dog rewarded with venison steak. (with video) [Hero]

Tuesday 18 July 14:50:06 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » CSX gets railroaded [Followup]

Tuesday 18 July 14:44:10 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Thieves take 40 kg of prize-winning Cheddar from cheese show. Wallace and Grommit sought for questioning [Sad]

Tuesday 18 July 14:20:10 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Christopher Nolan has his 100% rating on Rotten Tomatoes for his upcoming "Dunkirk" ruined by a critic from…CompuServe. Armond White nods approvingly [Weird]

Tuesday 18 July 13:50:10 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Too many of today's parents do everything for their children and shield them from learning life's hard lessons [Obvious]

Tuesday 18 July 13:20:13 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Photoshop this completely not creepy at all doll [Photoshop]

Tuesday 18 July 13:00:01 UTC 2017

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Weird Universe » Hot Tub Boat

Tuesday 18 July 12:59:19 UTC 2017

It's a floating hot tub. The invention of Adam Karpenske of Seattle. Top speed: three-and-a-half knots. Available for rental or purchase.

From the company's FAQ:

Q: How is it possible to fill a boat with water and have it not sink?

A: The sleek design of a Hot Tub Boat allows for a high load capacity. The Hot Tub Boat … [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Pricipal. Caught sayof man that has stoped living. "See, told ya so" Was He jerking off or not. Reddit Says yes. Volcanologist looking for pyroclastic surge -OR- "hello, I am Pompeii Masturbator to salute and wait 1,938 years for eruption

Tuesday 18 July 12:25:00 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Researchers announce breakthrough in curing MD paralysis in Jerry's Mice, meaning Jerry's Kids may be close behind [Spiffy]

Tuesday 18 July 11:11:51 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » All hail the new overlord of the Independent Republic of Middlewatch – a pensioner pissed off about Brexit [Stupid]

Tuesday 18 July 10:50:10 UTC 2017

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Weird Universe » La Bostella

Tuesday 18 July 10:45:00 UTC 2017

Original article here.

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Futility Closet » Q.E.D.

Tuesday 18 July 6:54:10 UTC 2017

From the Daily Telegraph‘s obituary of Charles Dodgson, Jan. 15, 1898: The sayings attributed to him at Oxford would fill an entertaining volume of Carrolliana. Among other things, his ‘etymology of the bell’ is still quoted with relish by scholars. There was a provisional belfry at Christ Church College, which was familiarly known to Oxonians of the time as ‘the … [Link]

Fark.com RSS » A lot of people believe cops can get away with murder, especially when the victims are black. But apparently, shooting a teenager with an AR-15 while he's driving away from a noisy party (while your bodycam is recording) is going too far, even in

Tuesday 18 July 5:56:41 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Blue Whale suicide game takes another teen life. Sperm Whale suicide game may not be far behind, because, suicide and whales, amirite? [Strange]

Tuesday 18 July 3:52:43 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » I'll be in my lab … and vice versa [Sick]

Tuesday 18 July 3:02:50 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Hello? Police? I'm a drug dealer, and some scumbag stole a bag of cocaine and some cash from my car. What state do I live in? Florida, of course [Florida]

Tuesday 18 July 2:50:08 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » New Ford Fusions in Ohio are discovered to be fully equipped with the spare marijuana [Weird]

Tuesday 18 July 2:02:08 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Cosmo DiNardo, who confessed to killing 4 young men in PA last week, claims to have killed 2 other people in Philadelphia when he was 15 [Followup]

Tuesday 18 July 1:16:51 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Man breaks into home, drinks brandy, eats muffins, then falls asleep naked in owner's bed. Meth- not even once [Awkward]

Tuesday 18 July 1:14:08 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Stay safe, people of the north Pacific coasts, you've just had a massive 7.8 magnitude earthquake that has triggered tsunami warnings. Grab something that floats [NewsFlash]

Tuesday 18 July 1:10:51 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Babysitter arrested for breaking child's arm, hitting him with spatula for wetting his pants. On the bright side, at least she didn't break out the eggbeater and gravy boat [Florida]

John Gordon Ross

A Man for All Reasons