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'm not saying that archaeologists have spotted hundreds of mysterious, ancient stone structures put there by aliens in Saudi Arabia on Google Earth, but archaeologists have spotted hundreds of mysterious, ancient stone structures put there by al

Tuesday 17 October 23:02:36 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » "The sheriff's office said the victim ran as the clown chased him a short distance. Then the clown tripped and fell, and went back into the bushes. " [Florida]

Tuesday 17 October 22:20:05 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Subby never knew there was a "Whiskey Bible," but it has announced the best whiskey of the year [Cool]

Tuesday 17 October 21:20:05 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Here's why we really like repetition in music. Repetition in music, in music, music, music, mumumumumumusic (video) [Interesting]

Tuesday 17 October 20:50:05 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Would you rather have $100,000 or an old letter from the Titanic? Me too, but the article is about the letter [Cool]

Tuesday 17 October 20:20:05 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Photoshop this Kingfisher [Photoshop]

Tuesday 17 October 20:00:01 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Parents can too co-sleep with their kids and still have a sex life, say parents of kid who's going to be in therapy for decades [Weird]

Tuesday 17 October 19:50:05 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » OK. This time we have absolute, irrefutable, complete proof of Bigfoot's existence. Maybe [Followup]

Tuesday 17 October 19:43:15 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Cow on the loose in Prospect Park, Brooklyn. Citizens in utter panic [Amusing]

Tuesday 17 October 19:40:14 UTC 2017

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Futility Closet » Action!

Tuesday 17 October 19:08:29 UTC 2017

Don Martin’s cartoons in MAD magazine were famous for their sound effects: ARGLE GLARGLE GLORGLE GLUK: princess using mouthwash BUKKIDA BUKKIDA BAKKIDA BAKKIDA: boxer pummeling opponent’s head CHOOK CHOOK CHOOK CHOOK: man digging DOOT: doctor hitting patient’s knee with a hammer FAGWOOSH SHOSSH GOOGLOOOM FUSH: sounds heard in a seashell FLOOT THWIP THOP KLOP: a man folds up a beach … [Link]

Fark.com RSS » 'Haunted' seaside Maine castle on the market for $3.35M. But don't worry: "If there is a spirit there, it's benevolent" [Scary]

Tuesday 17 October 17:20:05 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Somewhere, in the distance, Kevin Kline is seen murmuring to John Cleese, "You named your daughter after a car?" [Facepalm]

Tuesday 17 October 16:50:05 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Group of friends build Halloween yard display with a 20 ft, two-story, 1,000 lb, replica of a Star Wars AT-AT. Will be tripped up by snow speeders once the first snow falls [Cool]

Tuesday 17 October 16:20:06 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Man tries using a propane torch to burn spiders from under his trailer. Since you are reading this here you would be correct in assuming something went wrong [Dumbass]

Tuesday 17 October 15:50:14 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Drones are dropping drugs, cell phones and weapons into prison yards around the U.S. Hollywood now working on Shawshank reboot [Obvious]

Tuesday 17 October 15:20:05 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Baltimore fatberg removal to cost $60,000, take up to a week NSFL (Not Safe For Lunch) [Sick]

Tuesday 17 October 14:50:04 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » A movie theater that won a lawsuit over Utah's liquor laws and the movie "Deadpool" is asking for a lot of chimichangas in attorney's fees [Obvious]

Tuesday 17 October 14:20:06 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Just like there are no gays in Iran, there is no sexual harassment in China [Unlikely]

Tuesday 17 October 13:50:05 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Fire chief, wife arrested after husband crashes motorcycle, wife interferes with investigation, follows husband to hospital, forces her way into ER, pulls out husband's IV, tosses his drawn blood into waste can, husband hits cop arresting wife. T

Tuesday 17 October 13:20:05 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Photoshop this curious cub [Photoshop]

Tuesday 17 October 13:00:01 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Is pulling your laptop out of your carry-on bag your favorite part of going through airport security? It is? You're definitely going to want to fly through BWI, then [Stupid]

Tuesday 17 October 12:50:05 UTC 2017

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Weird Universe » Left wife, lived in forest for 10 years

Tuesday 17 October 12:34:57 UTC 2017

Malcolm Applegate claims that he got fed up with his wife's nagging. So he left and went into hiding in a thick woodland outside of London for ten years.

Applegate has since emerged from the woodland, reconnected with his wife, and he says, "We now have a great relationship again."

It reminds me of that story of the Iranian guy … [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Che Guevara would probably not be too happy with what Cuba looks like today. And don't even get him started on how much one of his shirts costs [Obvious]

Tuesday 17 October 12:20:06 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Lottery machine picks out the same numbers for six days in a row and nobody at the lottery company notices. What are the odds? [Facepalm]

Tuesday 17 October 12:04:51 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » The government is responsible for the opioid crisis. This cannot be overstated [Obvious]

Tuesday 17 October 11:48:36 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Researchers are getting closer than ever to linking sugar to cancer. Sweet [Interesting]

Tuesday 17 October 11:43:52 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Made for Fark headline: "The secret to amazing chocolate chip cookies? Bang them" [Creepy]

Tuesday 17 October 11:24:52 UTC 2017

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Weird Universe » Follies of the Madmen #330

Tuesday 17 October 10:26:00 UTC 2017

This wife has a problem bigger than an inconsiderate husband–he's a clinical alcoholic!

From THE ELKS MAGAZINE for November 1950. [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Gang bang ends in bang bang [Stupid]

Tuesday 17 October 10:04:52 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Jesus has left the building [Unlikely]

Tuesday 17 October 9:52:51 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Election interference, Canadian style [Misc]

Tuesday 17 October 9:11:14 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Headline reminded me I still need to send Delta a thank you card [Asinine]

Tuesday 17 October 8:52:52 UTC 2017

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GraphJam » How my cigarette tastes

Tuesday 17 October 7:53:14 UTC 2017

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GraphJam » A Moment of Silence for the Dearly Departed

Tuesday 17 October 7:53:13 UTC 2017

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GraphJam » The Preacher Problem

Tuesday 17 October 7:53:12 UTC 2017

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GraphJam » Always a Good Idea

Tuesday 17 October 7:53:11 UTC 2017

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GraphJam » Collars of the DNC

Tuesday 17 October 7:53:06 UTC 2017

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GraphJam » PERRY Used Grappling Hook! It's Super Effective!

Tuesday 17 October 7:53:05 UTC 2017

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GraphJam » Classic: All the Best Things in Life

Tuesday 17 October 7:53:03 UTC 2017

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GraphJam » When My Mom Asks Me to Do Something

Tuesday 17 October 7:53:02 UTC 2017

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GraphJam » Na Na Na Na, Bat Plot

Tuesday 17 October 7:52:59 UTC 2017

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GraphJam » The Tooth About Truthpaste

Tuesday 17 October 7:52:57 UTC 2017

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GraphJam » Tell Jabba I've Got His Money

Tuesday 17 October 7:52:56 UTC 2017

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GraphJam » Sick Day

Tuesday 17 October 7:52:55 UTC 2017

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GraphJam » What's the Web Address for Google Again?

Tuesday 17 October 7:52:54 UTC 2017

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GraphJam » Things I would do for a Klondike Bar

Tuesday 17 October 7:52:51 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Three coal-fired power plants generating more than 4,000 MW to be shut down by the end of 2018 in the God-forsaken, over-regulated, job-killing hell-hole of….Texas [Followup]

Tuesday 17 October 6:08:30 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Student who inhaled 360 nitrous oxide canisters in one week learns she may never walk again. Who's laughing now? [Dumbass]

Tuesday 17 October 5:43:48 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Maybe, just maybe, if we actually want to MAGA, we could start by getting every kindergartner free milk with their lunch, rather than relying on other five-year-olds having to raid their own piggybanks to pay for their peers. #sotiredofwinning [Asini

Tuesday 17 October 4:30:44 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Your bear wants steak [Obvious]

Tuesday 17 October 4:16:28 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Tonight on Paul's Memory Bank (8PM EDT) it's "Psychedelia Night". Some songs are classified as "psychedelic rock", while some songs are a bit more blatant with the drug references, especially the comedy bits [Live]

Tuesday 17 October 3:09:21 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » This story is bizarre even by Florida standards: Florida man commits murder over imaginary girlfriend [Florida]

Tuesday 17 October 2:55:41 UTC 2017

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John Gordon Ross

A Man for All Reasons