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 » Tonight at 8PM EDT, Paul's Memory Bank brings you 2 hours of songs beginning with the letter "T" (and 'The' doesn't count). We're going all the way back to 1939 for the first one [Live]

Monday 24 July 23:30:38 UTC 2017

[link] [38 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » He thought he had blisters from a hike, it was flesh-eating bacteria instead [Scary]

Monday 24 July 22:50:04 UTC 2017

[link] [46 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Police in Pennsylvania were looking for stolen laptops, find a $40 million bitcoin scam instead [Interesting]

Monday 24 July 22:20:05 UTC 2017

[link] [45 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Naked and chasing seagulls is no way to go through…actually, strike that. That doesn't sound like a bad life at all [Murica]

Monday 24 July 21:50:04 UTC 2017

[link] [36 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » NPR editorialist wants you to know that she doesn't watch any of the television shows you do. Are you listening? I SAID SHE DOESN'T WATCH ANY OF THE SHOWS YOU DO [Stupid]

Monday 24 July 21:20:05 UTC 2017

[link] [225 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Police arm K-9 unit with naloxone in case of dog overdose. Told you goldendoodles are a gateway drug [Murica]

Monday 24 July 20:50:04 UTC 2017

[link] [32 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Charlie Gard's parents: "never mind" [Followup]

Monday 24 July 20:20:05 UTC 2017

[link] [207 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Photoshop buster Keaton and his doll [Photoshop]

Monday 24 July 20:00:01 UTC 2017

[link] [18 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » U.S. malls are offering something you cannot buy on Amazon: people punching each other [Interesting]

Monday 24 July 19:50:04 UTC 2017

[link] [53 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » You owe your boss 8 additional hours of work per week to make up for all the time you waste on your smartphone [Obvious]

Monday 24 July 19:20:05 UTC 2017

[link] [121 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » FBI surveillance van from the eighties for sale on Ebay. Worth about as much as an eighties van without a bunch of outdated old surveillance equipment [Strange]

Monday 24 July 18:50:04 UTC 2017

[link] [81 comments] [Link]

Futility Closet » Black and White

Monday 24 July 18:35:02 UTC 2017

By Jan Kalendovský. White to mate in two moves. SelectClick for Answer 1. Rf2! Bxf2+ 2. Kxf2# [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Add summer camp to the list of things being ruined by helicopter parents [Sad]

Monday 24 July 18:20:05 UTC 2017

[link] [164 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » By 2100, Florida's economy will be one of the strongest in the US, thanks to all the new scuba diving destinations [Florida]

Monday 24 July 17:50:04 UTC 2017

[link] [98 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Two women caught at airport trying to smuggle 4kg of gold in their underwear. Au my [Giggity]

Monday 24 July 17:20:05 UTC 2017

[link] [91 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Welcome to your new job as a programmer. Here is your employee ID card, your lanyard, and the microchip we would like to implant in you [Scary]

Monday 24 July 16:50:06 UTC 2017

[link] [267 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Fark NotNewsletter: Proof that Farkers are smrt [FarkBlog]

Monday 24 July 16:30:13 UTC 2017

[link] [65 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Headlines Of The Week for Sun 2017-07-16 to Sat 2017-07-22 [FarkBlog]

Monday 24 July 15:54:13 UTC 2017

[link] [0 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » British boffins at NHS advise doctors to only prescribe real medicine and stop prescribing £90,000 a year in placebos [Obvious]

Monday 24 July 15:50:04 UTC 2017

[link] [69 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Trump hints of Rudy Giuliani replacing Sessions as Attorney General [Interesting]

Monday 24 July 15:20:06 UTC 2017

[link] [131 comments] [Link]

Weird Universe » Paul Whiteman’s TV Teen Club

Monday 24 July 15:06:55 UTC 2017

Imagine someone like Paul Whiteman being a teen idol or mentor these days.

More info here. [Link]

Fark.com RSS » GOP consultant claims: "Kid Rock would be 'prohibitive favorite' if he enters Michigan Senate race" [Facepalm]

Monday 24 July 14:50:05 UTC 2017

[link] [213 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » When Swiss people are going nuts and attacking people with chainsaws, you know the world has finally gone to hell [Scary]

Monday 24 July 14:20:06 UTC 2017

[link] [57 comments] [Link]

Weird Universe » Self-Propelled Aquaplane

Monday 24 July 14:07:00 UTC 2017

It looks like the guy is about to send the girl flying into the air, but apparently he was demonstrating some kind of water rescue device, not a rocket.

“S. Shapiro, inventor, strapping his Shapson aquaplane on Miss Margaret Travis for demonstration at Santa Monica, Cal. The model is 44 inches over all and is operated by cranks which the swimmer … [Link]

Fark.com RSS » For $75 and a 250-word essay, you can own a bookstore in Wellsboro, Pennsylvania [Cool]

Monday 24 July 13:50:05 UTC 2017

[link] [56 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Brooklyn squirrel has had enough of all the hipsters gentrifying the borough [Strange]

Monday 24 July 13:20:05 UTC 2017

[link] [26 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Asshat "social media star" booted from Disney Channel show after Disney discovers he's an asshat [Followup]

Monday 24 July 13:10:21 UTC 2017

[link] [118 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Photoshop this football player assembler [Photoshop]

Monday 24 July 13:00:01 UTC 2017

[link] [13 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Being literate and not having a crazy person as President helps Canadians deal with and actually have health care [Obvious]

Monday 24 July 12:40:21 UTC 2017

[link] [89 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Texas man ordered to pay $82,000 in child support for kid who isn't his [Asinine]

Monday 24 July 12:10:21 UTC 2017

[link] [380 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Your request for information about gutting the Freedom of Information Act has been denied [Scary]

Monday 24 July 11:40:21 UTC 2017

[link] [24 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Ten-year-old boy described by police as "flashy" cuts off his ankle monitor the day after being charged with stealing a car and steals another one, making it his fourth arrest for car theft in six weeks. I predict a bright future for this you

Monday 24 July 10:03:00 UTC 2017

[link] [97 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Today's waste of money is brought to you by Luxury Toothpicks [Stupid]

Monday 24 July 9:20:55 UTC 2017

[link] [50 comments] [Link]

Futility Closet » Safe!

Monday 24 July 6:46:46 UTC 2017

How can an umpire be sure a runner has reached first base? In 1875 inventor John O’Neill suggested fitting it with a bell to “indicate clearly and positively, without chance of error, the exact moment when the base is touched by the runner.” The trouble is that the “enunciating base” will also sound when the first baseman steps on it. … [Link]

Fark.com RSS » After the 2016 election, otters see us as sufficiently weakened to begin their long planned uprising [Weird]

Monday 24 July 5:21:01 UTC 2017

[link] [62 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » "The purpose of the National Park Service is to preserve unimpaired the natural and cultural resources and values of the National Park System for the enjoyment, education, and inspiration of this and future generations." Yeah, well, so much f

Monday 24 July 3:44:55 UTC 2017

[link] [106 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Remember how Norway's humane prisons could never work in the U.S. because of Reasons? The ideas behind humane prisons have been implemented in one U.S. state as a cost cutting measure, and seems to work rather well. Just saying [Murica]

Monday 24 July 2:10:22 UTC 2017

[link] [214 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » While crashing off the ramp, aim your SUV to land on something soft, like a train [Scary]

Monday 24 July 1:29:21 UTC 2017

[link] [27 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Here's a recipe for lobster, avocado & mango salad that just screams summer in Maine, because Maine is so well known for its mangoes and avocados [Amusing]

Monday 24 July 1:16:47 UTC 2017

[link] [73 comments] [Link]

John Gordon Ross

A Man for All Reasons