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 » Women who set their AirDrop setting to "everyone" get predictable results [Weeners]

Sunday 13 August 22:06:46 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Another reason why millennials are weird: they crave post-sex pizza and not the traditional cigarette [Weird]

Sunday 13 August 21:51:45 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Rare white moose captured on film. Meh, I prefer chocolate [Interesting]

Sunday 13 August 20:51:29 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Photoshop this wet rider [Photoshop]

Sunday 13 August 20:00:01 UTC 2017

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Futility Closet » The Susquehanna Ice Bridge

Sunday 13 August 19:55:21 UTC 2017

In the 1850s, railroad passengers traveling from Baltimore to Philadelphia would debark at the Susquehanna River, cross the river on a ferryboat, and board a train waiting on the other side. In the severe winter of 1852, so much floating ice had piled up at this point that the ferry couldn’t be used, so railroad engineer Isaac R. Trimble came … [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Pizzeria puts "P&G" on pizza box to denote plain and garlic twist. Cop insists it says "PIG" and was meant for her, even though it wasn't even her order. Hilarity does not ensue [Facepalm]

Sunday 13 August 18:15:00 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Maybe it's best to avoid "Free Giveaway Day" when it's sponsored by your friendly neighborhood heroin dealer [Sad]

Sunday 13 August 17:31:01 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Austrian study claims drinking a pint of beer may lead to mental clarity. By extrapolation, Fark Admins must be truly enlightened [Spiffy]

Sunday 13 August 16:38:18 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Zoo names baby hippo Hodor. HODOR [Sappy]

Sunday 13 August 16:24:38 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » After 56 days of sunshine and smoke, Seattle residents startled and excited to discover water falling from the sky [Spiffy]

Sunday 13 August 16:11:41 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » That sunken private Danish submarine accident is now considered deliberate and has become a murder investigation [Followup]

Sunday 13 August 15:53:19 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Apparently no one at the Consumer Product Safety Commission has kids as they just now have realized there's been a spinner craze going on for a while … and that the damn things are dangerous [Obvious]

Sunday 13 August 14:32:08 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » The woman killed in yesterday's domestic terrorist attack, Heather Heyer, had this to say for her last Facebook post: "If you're not outraged, you're not paying attention" [Hero]

Sunday 13 August 14:30:04 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » "Dear Prudence: My boyfriend of ten years proposed; I accepted. He's a sexual pervert, though; he's into exhibitionism and voyeurism, homemade porn, BDSM, orgies, and wears high heels. I'm into regular sex. But, we're in love. Am

Sunday 13 August 14:03:22 UTC 2017

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Weird Universe » Paid to teach empty classroom

Sunday 13 August 13:45:36 UTC 2017

An early example of the "teacher paid to do nothing" phenomenon. Nowadays we've got the Rubber Room.

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Fark.com RSS » There once was a time in this country when you would be celebrated and not persecuted for catching a whale at the age of 16 [Interesting]

Sunday 13 August 10:41:51 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » 30 children die from lack of oxygen in India due to an unpaid bill [Sad]

Sunday 13 August 10:23:25 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Britain will soon be facing an onslaught of super-fleas with giant penises. Well… 'giant' relative to Britain, anyway [Creepy]

Sunday 13 August 7:03:03 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » GOP Senators call out Der Trumpenfuhrer for his noncommittal statement re: Charlottesville. MIA: Jeff Flake [Hero]

Sunday 13 August 6:42:07 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Coming up at the top of the hour (9 pm AKDT/10 pm PDT), it's Livingston Stapler Company Presents. Two hours of music from Juneau, Alaska hosted live by a farker [Live]

Sunday 13 August 4:57:13 UTC 2017

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John Gordon Ross

A Man for All Reasons