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 » 4-year-old asks police officer to help check for monsters in her new home. Since this is Fark, you can guess what happens next [Scary]

Sunday 30 July 23:45:31 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Ever wonder whatever happened to all those Pizza Huts? [Cool]

Sunday 30 July 22:25:58 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » We're off to take a whizzer, a wonderful whiz in the yard. A whiz of a whiz, a whiz in the yard, if ever a whiz there was. If ever a whiz of a whiz there was, a whiz in the yard is one because because because because because becaaaaaaaaus we said

Sunday 30 July 21:45:52 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Dog runs to find help after two girls are struck by lightning. That dog gets the Hero tag and a steak [Hero]

Sunday 30 July 21:09:42 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Photoshop this train station patron [Photoshop]

Sunday 30 July 20:00:01 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Putin has full faith in 755 American diplomats in Russia [News]

Sunday 30 July 19:26:33 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » You know how it is: you're planning to commit armed robbery and you just can't find a sitter for your child, so of course your only option is to bring them along with you [Florida]

Sunday 30 July 19:16:46 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Meh … when we finally detect intelligent alien life it's not going to be such a big 'WOW' eureka moment. Meh [Interesting]

Sunday 30 July 18:50:26 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Magic: The Gathering. Serious business [Scary]

Sunday 30 July 17:48:12 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Protip: When smuggling liquid meth into the country, don't tell the border agents it's apple juice. And definitely don't drink it to prove your point. You might get methed up [Fail]

Sunday 30 July 14:46:29 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » As hard as this may be for many Americans to understand, there is more to the world than just us. For example, Venezuela is about to completely fall apart in total political and economic chaos [Scary]

Sunday 30 July 14:20:14 UTC 2017

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Weird Universe » Electric horse for exercise

Sunday 30 July 13:48:27 UTC 2017

Evidently there's a long history of horse riding simulators as exercise devices.

Electro-mechanical horse with five gaits
ranging from a trot to a running gallop.
Some of the benefits of horseback riding as a form of exercise can be obtained indoors with the aid of an electro-mechanical horse which not only provides fun for the children but sport for grown-ups as …
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Weird Universe » The Films of Suzan Pitt

Sunday 30 July 13:48:26 UTC 2017

Wikipedia page.

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Fark.com RSS » Photoshop this train to nowhere [Photoshop]

Sunday 30 July 13:00:01 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » CSB Sunday Morning: Signs [CSB]

Sunday 30 July 13:00:00 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Having cured all the world's diseases and stopped climate change, scientists are now free to discover if people really prefer corked wine to wine with a screw cap [Spiffy]

Sunday 30 July 12:04:34 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » The origin of the Mooch-Pubis feud [Stupid]

Sunday 30 July 11:15:00 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » U.S. Air Force flies two B-1 bombers over Korea to take some "before" pictures [Scary]

Sunday 30 July 10:20:01 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Federal court rules FAA must address shrinking airplane seats as a safety issue [Spiffy]

Sunday 30 July 9:41:01 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » That $35K Tesla goes like you'd expect: If you want a Model 3 in a color besides black with longer range battery, options and autopilot, then you're looking at $58K [Followup]

Sunday 30 July 8:12:01 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Woman escapes rapists using manual transmission and nerves of steel [Hero]

Sunday 30 July 7:09:01 UTC 2017

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Futility Closet » Rude Weapons

Sunday 30 July 6:48:57 UTC 2017

Pliny the Elder wrote of an alarming creature of ancient legend: There are reports of a wild animal in Paeonia called the bonasus, which has the mane of a horse, but in all other respects resembles a bull; its horns are curved back in such a manner as to be of no use for fighting, and it is said that … [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Attack the hotel valet? That's okay, you're a former cop, we'll let it slide [Florida]

Sunday 30 July 5:22:39 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 music hosted live by a farker in rainy Juneau, Alaska. (9PM AKDT/10PM PDT) [Live]

Sunday 30 July 4:56:46 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Jobs? Yeah, I have them. I just don't have anyone applying that can pass a drug test without wanting to puff first [Spiffy]

Sunday 30 July 3:17:06 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Founder of RT skipped meeting with DoJ to whack himself off in his hotel room [Unlikely]

Sunday 30 July 2:54:04 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » When you're old and at a senior citizens home, you can still run your own business. Even if it includes cocaine and black tar heroin [Awkward]

Sunday 30 July 1:50:04 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » With growing horror, he realized he'd somehow "inhaled" a buttful of water. The water gushed out of his rectum a moment later, he felt fine and a Fart Artist was born [Weird]

Sunday 30 July 0:59:59 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » USS Gerald R. Ford makes history by successfully launching and recovering aircraft with magnetic technology, although nobody knows how it works [Cool]

Sunday 30 July 0:30:00 UTC 2017

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John Gordon Ross

A Man for All Reasons