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 » Ash from the California wildfire is making drinking water in the state toxic [Scary]
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Fark.com RSS » North Korea says it will make the US bitterly regret its strategy. We have a strategy? [Stupid]
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Fark.com RSS » Made for Fark headline: Man fighting for his life after chasing monkey that stole his favorite hat [Dumbass]
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Fark.com RSS » Cyclist paints 80 mile virtual snowman using GPS. Farkers immediately leap onto bikes, look for routes that look vaguely like amusing body parts [Amusing]
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Futility Closet » The Last Digit
A problem from the 1996 Georg Mohr mathematics competition in Denmark: n is a positive integer. The next-to-last digit in the decimal expression of n2 is 7. What’s the last digit? SelectClick for Answer> This solution is by Michel Bataille of Rouen, France: Write n as 10a + b, where a is a nonnegative integer and b is a single … [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Photoshop this kitchen [Photoshop]
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Fark.com RSS » If you think the Fox News website is getting more unhinged, people at Fox agree with you [Obvious]
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Fark.com RSS » A leaning tower in Pisa? Pretty cool. A leaning skyscraper in San Francisco? Not so cool [Followup]
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Fark.com RSS » Crime blogger faces felony charges for being a crime blogger [Ironic]
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Fark.com RSS » I'm walkin' here: The tourist's guide to New York sidewalks [PSA]
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Fark.com RSS » Good news for kids: Merging storm systems could deliver white Christmas from Great Lakes to Maine. Bad news for adults: Merging storm systems could deliver white Christmas from Great Lakes to Maine [Cool]
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Fark.com RSS » As of Jan. 1, it's lights out for incandescent bulbs in California [Followup]
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Fark.com RSS » Just how fat and out-of-shape have American teenagers become? The Navy is having to "relax" fitness standards just to keep the fleet manned [Sad]
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Fark.com RSS » There is a strange noise coming from a forest in British Columbia that is either moose, an elk, Sasquatch, or aliens [Weird]
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Fark.com RSS » Not really sure why anyone would think this was a good idea in the first place… but, hey, peoples be stoopid, ya know? [Obvious]
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Fark.com RSS » How did we as a society survive before the invention of USB sticks to go, butter in a chapstick tube so you can more easily apply it to your bread, and a grater shaped like a guitar so you can rock out while shredding cheese [Cool]
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Fark.com RSS » Not news: United losing luggages. News: United losing a 92-year-old woman. (Remember to tag your bags) [Awkward]
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Fark.com RSS » Southwest Airlines flight attendant goes extra mile, reports father to police as human trafficking his adopted daughter because kid's Asian [Dumbass]
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Fark.com RSS » As a child, Subby wanted to be an otter when he grew up and here's why: Otter playing with Labs [Amusing]
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Weird Universe » Cursed Rocks
The legend that if you remove a rock from a National Park, you'll bring bad luck upon yourself. Explored in a book.
From the publisher's blurb:
The Petrified Forest National Park in Northeast Arizona protects one of the largest deposits of petrified wood in the world. Despite stern warnings, visitors remove several tons of petrified wood from the park each … [Link]
Fark.com RSS » If you found a stray Aardvark wandering the street, the Llondon Zzoo would like it back [Silly]
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Fark.com RSS » Oh nothing. Just a severe increase of Russian submarine activity around the transoceanic cables that carry the internet across the Atlantic [Strange]
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Fark.com RSS » It's important to have one lifestyle habit that may be viewed as 'hardcore' by the rest of the world, but is meaningful to you. And that's why I won't turn on my heater until I can see my breath inside my home [Spiffy]
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Fark.com RSS » According to court documents, five people are attempting to claim Charles Manson's body. Cult leaders are all the rage these days. Who wouldn't want a stuffed lunatic for your foyer, anyway? [Sick]
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Fark.com RSS » Photoshop this happy hunter in the heather [Photoshop]
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Fark.com RSS » On your next flight, don't order the fish …in fact don't order anything [Sick]
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Fark.com RSS » Everyone get comfortable, it's time for Caturday [Caturday]
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Weird Universe » The Hoffmann
Wikipedia page. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » MostlyStr8 [Weeners]
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GraphJam » Prevention Is Better Than Cure
Graph by: cammydex Tagged: csi , prevention , killer Share on Facebook [Link]
GraphJam » Inches Away From the Hardwood
Graph by: mallyham Tagged: vomit , pets , Cats , Pie Chart Share on Facebook [Link]
GraphJam » All From My So-Called "Friends"
Graph by: Unknown Tagged: facebook , Farmville , friends , notifications , Pie Chart Share on Facebook [Link]
GraphJam » Where's My Phone?
Graph by: xSaydieBearx Tagged: pocket , phone , lost Share on Facebook [Link]
GraphJam » Good Thing I've Got Netflix
Oh wait, Watch Instantly is a joke. But hey, bros need a channel too! Graph by: Hayley Tagged: jersey shore , mtv , Pie Chart , teen mom , television , wtf Share on Facebook [Link]
GraphJam » And We Have the Nerve to Call It the 'Standard System'
Graph by: Unknown Tagged: Bar Graph , best of week , measure , merica , metric system , standard system Share on Facebook [Link]
GraphJam » I Am Batman
Graph by: (via I Love Charts) Tagged: super heroes , Movie , batman , christopher nolan Share on Facebook [Link]
GraphJam » My uses of a Drill Gun:
My uses of a Drill Gun Graph by: arcsis Tagged: lasers , pew pew pew , tools Share on Facebook [Link]
GraphJam » High School Isn't the Greatest
Graph by: Pantherpride26 Tagged: relationships , high school Share on Facebook [Link]
GraphJam » What I Think When I Hear Autotune in a Song
Graph by: Unknown Tagged: Music , graphs , funny , autotune Share on Facebook [Link]
GraphJam » The Easiest Guide to Gifting the Perfect Book This Holiday Season
Click your way to the perfect book gift with this super easy guide. Go ahead, click it! Try it now! Submitted by: (via randomhouse) Tagged: books , christmas , flow chart , gift Share on Facebook [Link]
GraphJam » Irony
Graph by: Unknown Tagged: church , ironic , Pie Chart , religion Share on Facebook [Link]
GraphJam » Slash Reasonableness
Graph by: (via Toothpaste for Dinner) Tagged: slash , letters , reasonable , numbers , stop Share on Facebook [Link]
GraphJam » I Don't Even See Color
Graph by: Unknown Tagged: im-not-racist , Pie Chart , racism , Sure Share on Facebook [Link]
GraphJam » The Most Accurate Graph
Graph by: CrashedMac73 Tagged: fact , memebase , exaggeration Share on Facebook [Link]
GraphJam » Where Does the Time Go
Graph by: (via Bayantwopointoh) Tagged: time , school , venn diagram , social life , sleeping , Jedi Share on Facebook [Link]
GraphJam » What to Your Eyeliner Style Really Should be Called
Submitted by: Unknown Tagged: makeup , fashion , Chart , eyeliner Share on Facebook [Link]
GraphJam » Why I don't intervene
Graph by: TomRed Tagged: beat , crappy , intervene , loud , Music , people , play , public , transport , venn diagram Share on Facebook [Link]
GraphJam » Mostly Through Windows
Graph by: cyr Tagged: computer , flat , internet , online , Pie Chart , roommate , windows Share on Facebook [Link]
GraphJam » Even WITH Cookies Enabled!
Graph by: ewestner (via cheezburger.com) Tagged: bar graphs , graphs , funny Share on Facebook [Link]
GraphJam » This Game is So Much Pun!
Graph by: Unknown Tagged: pie charts , puns , animal crossing , graphs , video games , funny Share on Facebook [Link]
GraphJam » Alas
Graph by: tmoverbeck Tagged: alas , joseph ducrex , Pie Chart , thesaurus , writing Share on Facebook [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Use this handy calculator to find out how stretched out your rectum may be after the new Republican tax plan goes into effect [Murica]
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Fark.com RSS » Satan Claus [Scary]
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Fark.com RSS » How do you stop a bull elephant from charging? Either A) take away his credit card, or B) just calmly stand your ground like this tour guide did [Scary]
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Fark.com RSS » All that Viking purity and mythology is… a little off the mark; as always, real history is a whole lot more complex and intriguing [Interesting]
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Fark.com RSS » Rub it in, rub it in [Weeners]
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Fark.com RSS » We visit the London Underground or Tube, as the natives call it, on the next episode of "Ow, my balls" [Fail]
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Fark.com RSS » Amtrak decided not to remove dangerous curve in order to save money. Several passengers no longer available for comment [Followup]
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Fark.com RSS » This Christmas, be a Who, and sing with joy no matter what life may throw at you [Sappy]
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Fark.com RSS » The keys to a successful business are knowing your customers, bringing your product to where they are to maximize sales, and minimizing expenses. Since you had to go see your Parole Officer anyway, that makes the choice obvious [Dumbass]
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Fark.com RSS » Sheriff's statement after four deputies kill female suspect and 6-year-old kid: "Something in the way that suspect presented to the deputies placed these deputies in direct fear for their lives…At the time, we don't believe she was arme
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Fark.com RSS » This may come as a shock, but it turns out the CEO of the Miss America pageant may be a misogynist [Obvious]
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Fark.com RSS » "Just so you know, I gave everybody the holiday weekend off." Not a bad idea, boss, but when you're in charge of clearing snow in Billings, Montana, I don't think you thought your cunning plan all the way through [Dumbass]
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Fark.com RSS » Bruce McCandless, the first human satellite, and first space jetpack pilot, assumes permanent orbit among the stars at 80 [Hero]
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Fark.com RSS » Put down the controller. Experts say you can be addicted to video games [Interesting]
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Fark.com RSS » Photoshop this high hangout [Photoshop]
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Fark.com RSS » Ken Ham calls out Fox News, among others, for lying and misrepresenting facts. Subby is so confused. Please hold me [Fake]
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