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 » Bad: Being stuck in Bangkok airport for two hours. Mega bad: Being stuck in Bangkok airport for two months [Fail]
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Fark.com RSS » "Prankster" whose SWATting resulted in police shooting has made bomb threats before [Followup]
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Futility Closet » Blind Spot
Given the premises No fruit-picker is a sailor and All Ruritanians are fruit-pickers, it’s fairly easy to deduce that No Ruritanian is a sailor. But what logical conclusion can be drawn from these premises? All members of the cabinet are thieves. No composer is a member of the cabinet. Many people decide that no conclusion can be drawn. “Almost without … [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Photoshop this mailman [Photoshop]
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Fark.com RSS » New Year's Eve in Times Square is a urine-soaked hell, so get there early [Unlikely]
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Fark.com RSS » South Carolina lottery is kinda, sorta, possibly thinking about maybe warming up to the idea they need to pay out their winning tickets [Followup]
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Fark.com RSS » Whatever grandma, if you must have a good painkiller, sprinkling cannabis on cheese toast doesn't sound so bad [Spiffy]
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Fark.com RSS » In other news, half of Puerto Rico is still without power three months after Hurricane Maria [Followup]
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Fark.com RSS » We taste-tested these various flavored high fructose corn syrup concoctions so you didn't have to. You're welcome [Interesting]
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Fark.com RSS » Sixth-grade teacher appeals firing after parents complained to police he showed students pornography … or rather, classical Impressionist, Rococo nudes [Facepalm]
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Fark.com RSS » Gamer whose "swatting" call led to an innocent man's death arrested in Los Angeles where he "had been living at a transitional recovery center." Hopefully he'll get to spend many years in a transitional recovery cell block [Fo
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Fark.com RSS » Broke man who sold a blanket for $1.5 million apparently needs to learn to manage his money [Followup]
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Fark.com RSS » Dear United States: We need to talk about your drinking problem [Murica]
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Weird Universe » Unko Button
New from Japan, the Unko Button. It's a gadget that lets you post on social media about your baby's bowel movements with just a push of a button. It's got two buttons. One for poo, the other for pee.
More info: RocketNews24
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Fark.com RSS » Photoshop this appraisal [Photoshop]
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Fark.com RSS » Police finally track down that Nigerian prince that needs your help moving $25 million [Followup]
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Fark.com RSS » Turkey: where pampered cats are top dog on Caturday [Caturday]
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Fark.com RSS » A horse is a horse, of course, of course, unless you lose custody through divorce, and you give up, your horse, by force, to the former spouse you wed [Interesting]
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Fark.com RSS » Beep beep beep I'm a car. Fark you, I'm a bus. I'm a TRAAAAIN, suck my diiiiick [Video]
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Weird Universe » When Havoc Struck
It's never news or entertainment when something goes right, only when it goes wrong. The 1978 TV series WHEN HAVOC STRUCK knew what people wanted. Glenn Ford must've needed a paycheck.
Other episodes on YouTube. [Link]
GraphJam » The Anatomy of a Beatboxer
Graph by: Unknown Tagged: anatomy , beatboxing , Music Share on Facebook [Link]
GraphJam » Their Guilt's Eclipsed by Twilight
Graph by: Doonesman Tagged: eclipse , glenn beck , magnets , mormons , Pie Chart , stephanie meyer , twilight Share on Facebook [Link]
GraphJam » Please Don't Become a Tattoo Artist
Graph by: mrgiles Tagged: Bar Graph , handwriting , ink , readable , writing Share on Facebook [Link]
GraphJam » Mama Mia, Will You Make Me Slow
Graph by: mybigfannypack Tagged: bohemian rhapsody , kart , mario , nintendo , Pie Chart , queen , racing , shell , video games Share on Facebook [Link]
GraphJam » Classic: Every Time Is Nerd Time
Graph by: Unknown Tagged: best of week , clock , math , nerd , nine , time Share on Facebook [Link]
GraphJam » Bugs, Bugs Everywhere
Graph by: Unknown Tagged: CS , debug , Pie Chart , programming , writing code Share on Facebook [Link]
GraphJam » Cleaning? That Sounds Boring
Graph by: CHRISSYMG81 Tagged: children , cleaning your room , parents , Pie Chart , playing , toys Share on Facebook [Link]
GraphJam » People Who Have Let The Dogs Out
LoL by: joeccooll Tagged: annoying , dogs , Music , Songs Share on Facebook [Link]
GraphJam » Read It, if You Have the Constitution
Graph by: (via Pleated Jeans ) Tagged: pleated jeans , US Map , america , halloween , scary Share on Facebook [Link]
GraphJam » Trying to Keep the Romance Alive
Graph by: viperjet Tagged: bar graphs , farts , girlfriend , graphs , funny Share on Facebook [Link]
GraphJam » You'll Miss the Climax if You Go
Graph by: emanedoc1 Tagged: Bar Graph , cola , movies , pee , pop , soda , time Share on Facebook [Link]
GraphJam » What I Learned in Journalism School
Graph by: Unknown Tagged: fiction , journalism , marketing , school , truth Share on Facebook [Link]
GraphJam » The chances of a procrastinator getting a chart done
LoL by: 4of5Rocker Tagged: charts , graphs , procrastination Share on Facebook [Link]
GraphJam » Beard To Bike Knowledge Ratio
Submitted by: Unknown Tagged: wizard , knowledge , bike Share on Facebook [Link]
Fark.com RSS » From the "You Can't Make This Sh*t Up" Department: Swiss lawmaker blames gay suicide on weakened anal muscles [Facepalm]
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Fark.com RSS » The President of the United States was just corrected on global warming by a member of Jersey Shore and shiat like that [Murica]
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Fark.com RSS » Want to drive drunk? Move to Alberta [Facepalm]
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Fark.com RSS » Okay, how bad did you fark up when the Alabama Secretary of State laughs at your dumbass claims? [Fail]
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Fark.com RSS » Here is an update from the charming mother of 15 who demanded "somebody has to pay" a few years back. She has been blessed with 2 more children and has something to say [Florida]
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Fark.com RSS » Facing an economic crisis because you've decided to leave the EU? A shiny new Royal Yacht should fix that right up [Facepalm]
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Fark.com RSS » FBI conducting a raid in Sterling Virginia [News]
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Fark.com RSS » They triiiiiied to kill him with a plane wing… uh-oh [Sad]
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Fark.com RSS » These cheese-making buffalos get massages and listen to Mozart. Do you think this royal treatment makes the cheese any better? [Weird]
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Fark.com RSS » It's really cold outside. How cold is it? A dog froze to death. Some sharks died. And a man at a bus stop froze to death [PSA]
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Fark.com RSS » Truck carrying trail mix wrecks on highway. Police searching for a good raisin, haven't ruled out nuts [Sad]
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Fark.com RSS » "Exonerated Tennessee man seeks $1 million after being wrongly jailed for 31 years" [News]
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Fark.com RSS » Turns out a 3-year-old started the Bronx fire by playing with the stove. Man, that's going to be one long timeout [Followup]
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Fark.com RSS » Mother of five and her "best friend" agree to split winning lottery ticket. Days later, mother of five sees "best friend" in press with $300,000 lotto check. Mother of five needs new best friend [Awkward]
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Fark.com RSS » Dylan prepares to bring Britain to its knees with heavy snow, giant hailstones, 70mph gales, obscure references [Scary]
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Fark.com RSS » Photoshop this Kokoschka [Photoshop]
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Fark.com RSS » It's hard to take news reporting seriously when there are T-rexes frolicking in the background [Amusing]
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Fark.com RSS » Some days you feel like a superhero, then there are days when you try to hurdle the gates in the London Underground and get your penis stuck in the barriers [Fail]
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Futility Closet » Simplicity
In The Pleasures of Counting, T.W. Körner asks, “How long would you expect a paper reporting a crucial experiment in physics to be and how would you expect it to be written? Here in its entirety is a paper entitled ‘Interference Fringes With Feeble Light’ written by G.I. Taylor in 1909 (to be found in his collected works).” It’s six … [Link]
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