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 think someone needs to actually read his Bible, and prepare for a tax audit [Asinine]

Sunday 6 August 23:04:06 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Guy they've been looking for in an effort involving search parties and dogs has been found dead in his house. Probably should have started there with the search party, just sayin' [Fail]

Sunday 6 August 22:43:06 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Pig headed to auction jumps onto busy Washington interstate. Will a road hog complete the trifecta? (Not another bacon / fark foodie thread) [Strange]

Sunday 6 August 22:32:23 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » France to offer fresh oysters for sale via vending machines. And you thought gas station sushi was a bad idea [Scary]

Sunday 6 August 22:16:05 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Photoshop someone interesting into this jacket [Photoshop]

Sunday 6 August 20:00:01 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » We know it's a day past Caturday, but hikers in Northern California just rescued a four-week-old bobcat kitten and IT'S SO CUTE. SQUEEEEEE (with video cuteness) [Sappy]

Sunday 6 August 19:42:34 UTC 2017

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Futility Closet » A Good Start

Sunday 6 August 19:35:28 UTC 2017

In 1965, Polish artist Roman Opałka hung a 196 × 135 cm canvas in his Warsaw studio. In the top left corner he painted a tiny numeral 1, then a 2, and so on until he had filled the canvas with numbers. Then he put up a new canvas and continued where he had left off. He called these images … [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Dam [Interesting]

Sunday 6 August 19:34:34 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » "Here's what my kid needs from you teachers since I'm so busy" [Satire]

Sunday 6 August 19:21:47 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Like a Meat Loaf album [Amusing]

Sunday 6 August 18:48:37 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Fashion company wants to bring back the swastika as a fashion logo. I can not see anything that could go wrong with this plan [Facepalm]

Sunday 6 August 18:16:47 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Second deadly shooting in Baltimore's 'Nobody kill anybody' weekend. YOU'RE DOING IT WRONG [Fail]

Sunday 6 August 17:59:54 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » OM NOM NOM, or "The Brutal Saga of One Extremely Evil Railroad Crossing" [Scary]

Sunday 6 August 17:22:17 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » New study claims Americans might be having less sex due to helicopter parenting [Awkward]

Sunday 6 August 17:09:54 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Let's see, did I pack everything in my luggage? Toothbrush: check. Suit: check. Twenty-year-old model I plan to sell on the dark web…wait, what? [Scary]

Sunday 6 August 17:04:54 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Vegan cafe charges an 18% "man tax" to address the gender pay gap (some not safe for work content in sidebar) [Facepalm]

Sunday 6 August 15:58:54 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Woman rescues piglet running around in traffic, and raises money for its medical care. Winnie the Pooh is glad to pitch in [Sappy]

Sunday 6 August 15:35:34 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » So the prosecutor withheld crucial evidence and did an end run around the defendant's 5th Amendment rights. The important thing is that the DA is able to advance her career [Scary]

Sunday 6 August 15:22:34 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Can we just stop for a minute to truly appreciate all that ketchup has to offer society? [Unlikely]

Sunday 6 August 13:45:34 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » The latest threat to your existence? Dirty sponges [PSA]

Sunday 6 August 13:37:34 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Photoshop this partial hipster somewhere more…well…hip [Photoshop]

Sunday 6 August 13:00:01 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » CSB Sunday Morning: Your nemesis [CSB]

Sunday 6 August 13:00:00 UTC 2017

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Weird Universe » The Beachcombers

Sunday 6 August 12:38:52 UTC 2017

The longest-running English-language show on Canadian TV looks just awful. How could it be otherwise, with this premise, as detailed in their Wikipedia entry.

The Beachcombers followed the life of Nick Adonidas (Bruno Gerussi), a Greek-Canadian log salvager in British Columbia who earned a living travelling the coastline northwest of Vancouver with his partner Jesse Jim (Pat John) aboard their … [Link]

Weird Universe » Miss Garlic

Sunday 6 August 12:33:00 UTC 2017

"Miss Garlic will be chosen on the basis of personality, congeniality, talent, knowledge of garlic — and breath."

Greenville News – Feb 10, 1986

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Fark.com RSS » When do you become an adult? [Interesting]

Sunday 6 August 12:26:00 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Princess Diana asked a priest if she could marry a Muslim–Dodi–in church (possible Not safe for work content on page) [Followup]

Sunday 6 August 10:40:00 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » For those of you afraid of turbulence: remember that you will break before the plane breaks. Wait… that doesn't help, does it? [Scary]

Sunday 6 August 10:22:45 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Report finds the economic benefits of Obama-era climate/energy rules are four times greater than the costs [Spiffy]

Sunday 6 August 9:46:45 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » The man had managed to sneak into a room unnoticed and when officers opened the door they say they discovered him again performing a sex act 'covered in lubricant' [Giggity]

Sunday 6 August 9:26:45 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » ↑↑↓→→↑↓&~ [Followup]

Sunday 6 August 8:49:48 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Norgren told authorities he was a Sasquatch from a family of Sasquatches. The appellate judges said that's enough to show he had a break from reality, and his waiver of Miranda rights was not knowing and intelligent [Obvious]

Sunday 6 August 6:50:00 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Former police officer admits to viewing pictures of naked women while on duty. "He was doing research." That's what they all say [Fail]

Sunday 6 August 5:34:30 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » ♫ He didn't start the fire ♫ [Giggity]

Sunday 6 August 5:14:36 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Let's see, we've been evacuated from home for weeks due forest fires. How to celebrate coming home…I know, FIREWORKS [Dumbass]

Sunday 6 August 3:38:38 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Here's a shocker. Things are so bad in Brownbackistan that they can't even spell the words "state" or "university" correctly [Fail]

Sunday 6 August 3:32:54 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » AI in China picks up revolutionary spirit, asks "Why would I wish long life to such a corrupt regime?" [Hero]

Sunday 6 August 3:01:29 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Even the most liberal of cities have turned fascist in 'Murica [Murica]

Sunday 6 August 1:50:19 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Your Moscow Mule may be killing you [Silly]

Sunday 6 August 1:44:37 UTC 2017

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John Gordon Ross

A Man for All Reasons