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 » Woman arrested twice in 3 days for drunk driving. Since this happened in Wisconsin, she will soon be presented with an award in court [Dumbass]

Monday 7 August 23:50:04 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » When Paul's Memory Bank talks about UV, he doesn't mean UltraViolet. We're combining the songs beginning with the letters U and V in one show tonight. Check in at 8PM EDT [Live]

Monday 7 August 23:30:31 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Article declares mommy war not to be over. In related news: Apparently there is a mommy war [Followup]

Monday 7 August 23:10:04 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Macaque attacks elderly people and elementary school students. Uh huh huh [Scary]

Monday 7 August 22:30:04 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » CNN keeps the population informed on the issues that matter with hard-hitting front page stories like this MOTHERFARKIN' BAT TORNADO [Creepy]

Monday 7 August 21:50:04 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Guns alone can't solve Alabama's feral hog problem. You know what will? Barbecue sauce [Interesting]

Monday 7 August 21:20:05 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Are you an internet troll? You might have a cake coming your way from this NYC-based bakery [Amusing]

Monday 7 August 20:50:05 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » North Korea promises thousands-fold revenge against US over sanctions. Severe shortages of North Korea's "nothing" expected in stores US wide [Followup]

Monday 7 August 20:23:32 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » "I think your dog is broken" [Amusing]

Monday 7 August 20:20:05 UTC 2017

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Futility Closet » The Last Detail

Monday 7 August 20:19:01 UTC 2017

A puzzle by R.P. Cross: Find the last digit in the evaluation of $\sum_{n = 1}^{100}n!$ SelectClick for Answer It would take a lot of pencils to work this out by hand, but an insight makes it easy: For any n ≥ 5, n! must have the factors 2 and 5 and hence be a multiple of 10, with zero as a final … [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Photoshop this musical interlude [Photoshop]

Monday 7 August 20:00:01 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Man decides to pay his fine in watermelon. Gallagher approves [Amusing]

Monday 7 August 19:50:05 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Queens man's mom doubts he could take stolen "huge ass turtle" to train station by bus [Amusing]

Monday 7 August 19:20:06 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » The Wisconsin State Fair is a sea of freaky food. Just say NOPE to Cricket Nachos [Amusing]

Monday 7 August 18:50:05 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » The driver of the shuttle bringing people too drunk to drive back from the Testicle Festival doesn't need your assistance with the steering wheel [Stupid]

Monday 7 August 18:20:05 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Guy gets sent to the blackboard and never leaves [Strange]

Monday 7 August 17:50:06 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » And on the 200th day of the 45th presidency, Senator Hatch describes the true meaning of "shooting one's wad" [Giggity]

Monday 7 August 17:22:57 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Cutting edge investigative journalists scoop Ric Romero, discover that the sun makes playgrounds hot [Obvious]

Monday 7 August 17:20:05 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Fark NotNewsletter: Why Fark uses weird source icons for CNN links [FarkBlog]

Monday 7 August 17:18:04 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » And so, despite the best efforts of our enlightened society to maintain a perfect ecology, recycling water bottles, and separating our plastics and cardboard, this is how the great tire fire of Frazer Township, Pennsylvania began [Stupid]

Monday 7 August 16:50:05 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Osprey that crashed while trying to land on ship located. Wouldn't it be next to the ship…? [Followup]

Monday 7 August 16:20:06 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Special bonus and completely unpredicted lunar eclipse tonight. Special glasses not required or recommended [Strange]

Monday 7 August 15:20:05 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » "Peter would come into the office around 10 pm, and he would drop acid and get to work" [Hero]

Monday 7 August 14:50:04 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Headlines Of The Week for Sun 2017-07-30 to Sat 2017-08-05 [FarkBlog]

Monday 7 August 14:28:11 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » 75 years ago today US forces landed on Guadalcanal, here is one veteran's story of surviving the malarial jungles and the Japanese during the six month campaign [Hero]

Monday 7 August 14:20:05 UTC 2017

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Weird Universe » Mystery Illustration 53

Monday 7 August 14:09:06 UTC 2017

What is the pretext for this display?

The answer is here.

And after the jump. [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Best Korea threatens to attack the Sea of Japan again [Obvious]

Monday 7 August 13:50:04 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Baltimore's "Nobody Shoot Anybody" weekend was a complete BANG success BANG [Sad]

Monday 7 August 13:20:05 UTC 2017

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Weird Universe » Doesn’t notice plane crash

Monday 7 August 13:11:00 UTC 2017

If a plane crashes in your yard and you didn't heard it, did it make a sound?

Arizona Republic – Apr 24, 1993 [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Photoshop this supercomputer [Photoshop]

Monday 7 August 13:00:01 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » My boobs haven't stopped producing milk for 11 years [Giggity]

Monday 7 August 12:50:04 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Ohio sees morgues overflowing with corpses thanks to the opioid crisis no one wants to acknowledge exists [Sad]

Monday 7 August 12:20:07 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » There used to be a time in America when you could race through a flooded street in your boss's truck without anyone posting a video of it on social media [Dumbass]

Monday 7 August 11:32:06 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » News: Israel and many Arab states finally agree on something. Fark: To shut down Al Jazeera [Sad]

Monday 7 August 9:36:31 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Chandler boy heading to international yo-yo competition in Iceland. Could he BE any more awesome at the yo-yo? [Spiffy]

Monday 7 August 8:35:18 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Hey, Kids, the bees are back [Spiffy]

Monday 7 August 8:27:40 UTC 2017

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Futility Closet » Podcast Episode 164: Vigil on the Ice

Monday 7 August 7:00:17 UTC 2017

Image: Wikimedia Commons In 1930, British explorer Augustine Courtauld volunteered to spend the winter alone on the Greenland ice cap, manning a remote weather station. As the snow gradually buried his hut and his supplies steadily dwindled, his relief party failed to arrive. In this week’s episode of the Futility Closet podcast we’ll follow Courtauld’s increasingly desperate vigil on the ice. … [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Mom tells her daughter to keep her farking sex toys out of the dishwasher. Fark: Sex toy turns out to be a water bottle that melted while drying [Awkward]

Monday 7 August 6:28:24 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » You just beat cancer what're you going to do now? Fall to my death from a cliff after a night of celebrating [Sad]

Monday 7 August 5:31:24 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Why doesn't the world have any new major religions? [Awkward]

Monday 7 August 4:41:24 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » 42 different nipple colors, that's a lot to choose from. But the labia are dishwasher-friendly and I want a wife with dishwasher-friendly labia [Weird]

Monday 7 August 4:38:29 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Advocates want a law requiring cars warn parents when children are left inside a car [Interesting]

Monday 7 August 4:06:40 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » How black can a gummy bear be? See for yourself. Or don't see [Silly]

Monday 7 August 3:05:41 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Teen goes for a dip in the ocean, returns with bloody legs after small creatures tried to EAT HIM ALIVE. Yes, Australia. (Graphic images) [Scary]

Monday 7 August 3:03:41 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Another day, another guess as to who Jack the Ripper really was [Followup]

Monday 7 August 2:11:42 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Your co-workers who don't watch GoT want you to know that they feel ostracized, marginalized, harassed, and excluded when you and other co-workers discuss it because they can't participate. Look out sexual harassment, there's a new offens

Monday 7 August 1:50:10 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Fugitive so dislikes the mugshot police posted on Facebook that he turns himself in so they'll take it down [Amusing]

Monday 7 August 1:47:41 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Two Chinese tourists visiting the Reichstag in Berlin quickly discover how seriously the Germans take their history [Dumbass]

Monday 7 August 1:34:10 UTC 2017

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John Gordon Ross

A Man for All Reasons