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 » Canada is number one… in terms of household debt. Take that, America [Sad]

Thursday 23 November 23:50:03 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Belgian waffle factory fire sprouts over Brussels [Sad]

Thursday 23 November 22:20:05 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Not news: kids play ding dong ditch. News: over 80 times on the same house. Fark: homeowner chases them through the backyard in his Jeep [Stupid]

Thursday 23 November 21:50:04 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Name something you could say during both sex and Thanksgiving dinner [Survey]

Thursday 23 November 21:30:27 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Are you having the most delicious dish of green bean casserole this Thanksgiving? Thank this New Jersey woman for inventing it [Interesting]

Thursday 23 November 21:17:26 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Photoshop this reason to eventually get in the car [Photoshop]

Thursday 23 November 21:00:01 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » On the positive side, sound detected from missing Argentine submarine may help it be found. Unfortunately, submarines don't react well to explosions [Followup]

Thursday 23 November 20:25:26 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » The financial realities of going viral (don't quit your day job) [Interesting]

Thursday 23 November 19:20:05 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Florida: Where iguanas are one of many things that can crawl up out of your toilet [Florida]

Thursday 23 November 18:50:04 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Having naked drunk driving sex while your infant child is in the back seat is no way to go through life, son [Facepalm]

Thursday 23 November 18:20:04 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Science may have finally cured baldness, so good news to those of you who are genetically inferior [PSA]

Thursday 23 November 17:50:04 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Breaking the news to someone that their partner has been killed in an accident is an issue that should be handled with the utmost care and delicacy. Or leave a voicemail. Whatever [Asinine]

Thursday 23 November 17:20:04 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » You can get anything you want (excepting Alice) at Alice's Restaurant. The Thanksgiving noontime tradition continues [Spiffy]

Thursday 23 November 17:00:00 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Warnings for LA beaches: Low tides, high temperatures and also watch out for the thousands of stingrays hidden in the sand. CRIKEY [Scary]

Thursday 23 November 16:50:04 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Pistol-packing granny would have gotten away with the bank robbery if she only put some wheels on her get-away walker [Strange]

Thursday 23 November 16:05:35 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Want to save the environment? Eat deep-fried food [Spiffy]

Thursday 23 November 15:35:04 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Mother attempts to ban story about woman who falls in love with man who kisses her because she never consented. Facepalm: "Sleeping Beauty" (possible nsfw content on page) [Facepalm]

Thursday 23 November 15:05:04 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Navy sends group of warships to the Gulf of Mexico. Fark: The Iranian Navy [Interesting]

Thursday 23 November 14:35:26 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Don't care, had cookie dough [Misc]

Thursday 23 November 14:05:35 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Photoshop this mystic man [Photoshop]

Thursday 23 November 14:00:01 UTC 2017

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Weird Universe » Ham Kills Turkey

Thursday 23 November 13:23:25 UTC 2017

Back in 1984, the social studies class at Highland Middle School in Louisville had a six-week study of the American pioneers' way of life, in honor of Thanksgiving. This included having the eighth graders decapitate a live turkey named Willy Wally. Some of the students held down Willy Wally while a student named Robin Ham swung an ax down on … [Link]

Weird Universe » Happy Thanksgiving 2017!

Thursday 23 November 13:23:24 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Woman tricked into buying potatoes she thought was an iPhone. Available on Spudify. She found it on Mashable. Check it out on YouTuber. iPhone? More like an EyePhone. I think I'm done [Facepalm]

Thursday 23 November 13:10:11 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Flat-Earther will launch himself in steam rocket this Saturday to snap a photo from above to prove the Earth is flat. No word from Aristotle, Eratosthenes, or the WGS-84 or EGM2008 teams [Stupid]

Thursday 23 November 12:50:04 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Punchable white nationalist banned from 26 western European countries. It's a start [Cool]

Thursday 23 November 12:15:53 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Woman who allegedly sent explosive devices to Pres. Obama and Texas Governor Greg Abbott was arrested after her cat's hair was found on the devices. It's as yet unclear what her or the cat's motive was [Dumbass]

Thursday 23 November 11:57:06 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » "Manus Island: PNG police move into detention centre and tell refugees to leave." No worries, they'll be done in a GIF [Scary]

Thursday 23 November 11:54:06 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Homeless veteran pays it forward by giving woman his last $20 after she ran out of gas, she pays it backward by raising $100,000 for him. The cycle of giving just in time for Thanksgiving [Spiffy]

Thursday 23 November 10:11:05 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Theme of Farktography Contest No. 655: "Autumn 5". Details and rules in first post. LGT next week's theme [Farktography]

Thursday 23 November 5:01:00 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Teacher deregistered after screening a TED talk on orgasms. "I didn't see it coming", says one schoolboy [Giggity]

Thursday 23 November 4:56:43 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Drone footage provides eerie look at abandoned NYC hospital, once America's largest tuberculosis sanatorium [Creepy]

Thursday 23 November 3:20:05 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Science experiment at all-girls Catholic school causes multiple students to burst into flames, suspiciously just like witches. Why, yes, alcohol was involved [Fail]

Thursday 23 November 2:20:05 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Road sign typo is a real traffic stopper – Especially for folks in a sex offender treatment program [Fail]

Thursday 23 November 1:20:05 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Photoshop this communicative couple [Photoshop]

Thursday 23 November 1:00:01 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » Alabama police department releases now-viral workout video featuring Nitro the police dog, getting in a few doggy push-ups before he heads out to catch criminals. Unless, you know, they're pedophiles. Those guys are cool in Alabama [Amusing]

Thursday 23 November 0:20:05 UTC 2017

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John Gordon Ross

A Man for All Reasons