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 » Woman on Chicago train doused with unknown liquid – as opposed to the usual bodily fluids you normally encounter on the Red Line [Scary]
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Fark.com RSS » God bless the children. Who react first to their hearts [Hero]
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Fark.com RSS » "I was like, 'Ugh, here we go.' And we started kissing" (full interview) [Awkward]
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Fark.com RSS » Today's Canadian News is brought to you by a grizzly bear in a truck eating ice cream at a Dairy Queen drive thru [Amusing]
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Fark.com RSS » Don't follow a cop's every instruction at a traffic stop? That's, at a minimum, a collar for "resisting arrest." Follow a cop's instructions perfectly and immediately? Yeah, you're "over-obeying" and therefore clea
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Fark.com RSS » Texas Judge tells jury to return a not guilty verdict against woman accused of trafficking a teen girl for sex. Was his reason because A) the prosecutor improperly withheld evidence, B)The evidence against her was legally deficient, or C) God told hi
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Fark.com RSS » Not really news: Car crashes into road sign and drives off without stopping. Fark: During the opening ceremony of the road's redevelopment [Amusing]
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Fark.com RSS » Today's national popcorn day. Here's how to end national popcorn-between-the-teeth day [PSA]
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Fark.com RSS » If you want your child to earn a lot of money, name them this [Interesting]
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Fark.com RSS » Photoshop this man admiring his Vermeer [Photoshop]
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Fark.com RSS » Geez, they'll fire you for any little infraction these days [Scary]
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Fark.com RSS » Russia to dismantle its most powerful submarines. Would make for an interesting group buy [Spiffy]
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Fark.com RSS » Ocean's 14: Macau [Interesting]
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Fark.com RSS » Consumer Reports taste tests store bought frozen pizzas and concludes that, for the tenth year running, the winner is: The boxes they all came in [Obvious]
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Fark.com RSS » Speeding with 245 bags of heroin and a lot of cash makes it easy to bust you, Mr. clean-cut all-American drug runner [Dumbass]
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Fark.com RSS » Turkey, a NATO ally, starts bombing U.S. backed Kurds in Syria. This will surely end well [News]
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Fark.com RSS » I'm not sure that AP guidelines cover having ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ in an actual headline, CNN, much less in coverage of a government shutdown [Fail]
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Fark.com RSS » N.S. Sherlock Institute shows that cuts in school funding has led to the Tide Pod-eating generation [Obvious]
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Fark.com RSS » Cops falls off horse, says 'Oh, sh*t,' looks up to see the Pope helping him back to his feet. Oh, sh*t [Video]
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Fark.com RSS » SHAKING NEWS 6.3-magnitude earthquake strikes in Gulf of California. Scary tag trumps California tag [Scary]
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Fark.com RSS » Thieves in Rhode Island stole an $80,000 camera used to catch speeding drivers. Which is too bad because it would have paid for itself on the first day [Fail]
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Fark.com RSS » After an 84% spike in "issues," flying with comfort turkeys, gliding possums, snakes, spiders and other animals will require a bit more documentation than "I needs him" [Spiffy]
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Fark.com RSS » Deer carcasses used to lure, shoot eagles in Klickitat County. You'd think an eagle would be smart enough to avoid Klickitat bait [Fail]
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Fark.com RSS » Sad update to Otto's Jacket's thread from November 17, 2017 when he had just been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. He passed away a week later [Scary]
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Fark.com RSS » Angry Brits mistake Chicago news anchor for racist British member of Parliament: "What I've learned is that Brits are far more creative and colorful with their insults. And no, that's not a challenge" [Amusing]
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Fark.com RSS » Principal: Kids, don't be bullies. Also Principal: LOL let's make fun of this short teacher, everyone [Fail]
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Weird Universe » ROCK-A-BILLY GAL
His Wikipedia page. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Milwaukee hotels don't want local bratty kids in their buildings. However, kids from elsewhere are welcome [Weird]
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Weird Universe » Stars ‘n Stripes Girdle
Introduced in 1965 by the Treo Company, and promptly withdrawn from the market on account of complaints by the Daughters of the American Revolution.
In a letter to the Treo Company, Inc., a ranking DAR official called the girdle… a "shocking caricature" of the American flag.
"Patriotism should be encouraged by proper respect to the Stars and Stripes, the symbol … [Link]
Fark.com RSS » The Arctic is the fastest-warming place on Earth [Ironic]
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Fark.com RSS » "Hi there, I'll be your spastic excursion … *hic* … elastic surgeon … *hic* … plastic sturgeon … *hic* … face cutter today" [Scary]
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Fark.com RSS » Photoshop this fashionable snek [Photoshop]
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Fark.com RSS » That's not a baguette [Creepy]
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Fark.com RSS » UK appoints Minister of Loneliness, which raises the question: what's their Fark handle? [Sad]
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Fark.com RSS » Yellowstone is two million acres of natural resources gone to waste and other views from the oppressed ranchers of Oregon [Murica]
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Fark.com RSS » "A movement to end controversial one-on-one interviews between LDS bishops and children is growing in Utah" [Creepy]
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Fark.com RSS » 'Day Zero' is the date when the Cape Town, South Africa reservoirs run dry and it officially runs out of water. As of today, Day Zero is expected to occur on April 22nd [Scary]
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Fark.com RSS » Swedish government sends its citizens a public information manual on preparations for war with Russia, cyber attacks, global warming, da chickey chickey [Scary]
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GraphJam » Heinous Crimes in Skyrim
Graph by: Neonbrigade Tagged: chickens , video games , Skyrim Share on Facebook [Link]
GraphJam » Maybe It's Just Your Imagination
Graph by: Unknown Tagged: bad hair day , venn diagrams Share on Facebook [Link]
GraphJam » Baggage We Carry
Submitted by: Unknown Tagged: bags , totes , pretentious Share on Facebook [Link]
GraphJam » The Diet of a Seagull
Graph by: Adfirmus Tagged: animals , beach , birds , bugs , crabs , diet , fish , food , french fries , fruit , sand , seeds Share on Facebook [Link]
GraphJam » Structural Analysis of Hummed Batman-Theme
Graph by: Unknown Tagged: batman , humming , lyrics , movies , Theme Song , TV Share on Facebook [Link]
GraphJam » So Many Countless Hours Spent Playing Final Fantasy
Graph by: (via Loldwell) Tagged: best of week , final fantasy , FPS , Line Graph , RPG , video games Share on Facebook [Link]
GraphJam » For When Things Can't Get Any Worse
Graph by: S.P.A-Bits (via Bite) Tagged: computer , ctrl alt del , screwed up , venn diagram Share on Facebook [Link]
GraphJam » Eat ALL the Vegetables!
Graph by: Unknown Tagged: calories , food , stomach Share on Facebook [Link]
GraphJam » Teaching Kids Important Life Lessons Since 1998
Graph by: keivant12 Tagged: Animal Abuse , gambling , kids , Pokémon , venn diagram Share on Facebook [Link]
GraphJam » "Our" Bed
Graph by: Unknown Tagged: beds , best of week , Memes , our , relationship , side Share on Facebook [Link]
GraphJam » Protester vs. Protester
Graph by: (via Accelerated-Degree.com) Share on Facebook [Link]
GraphJam » Fez Diagram
Graph by: Hypotherm Tagged: FEZ , graphs , funny , tassel Share on Facebook [Link]
Fark.com RSS » FBI arrest man for trying to extort $1 million from a "squeaky clean" entertainer by falsely claiming a sexual assault during a nude massage. A tale straight from a film noir to the left, speculation as to the last clean celebrity to the righ
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Fark.com RSS » How much do you love sushi? (Read article) Okay, NOW how much do you love sushi? [Creepy]
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Fark.com RSS » You know your children are not a delicate morons. So why does their school insist on treating them like one when it comes to playground rules? [Asinine]
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Fark.com RSS » And you thought the Millennials were the worst part of Coachella [Sad]
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Fark.com RSS » Teenager almost killed by ham and cheese. Fortunately it was cured [Scary]
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Fark.com RSS » Captain Jack Sparrow volunteers to inspect cargo ship [Obvious]
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Fark.com RSS » Ambulances are in such high demand and low supply in Phoenix that 9-1-1 operators are calling on taxis to take people to hospitals [Sick]
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Futility Closet » A Helping Fin
In January 2009, marine ecologists Robert Pitman and John Durban were watching a group of Antarctic killer whales wash a seal off an ice floe when, surprisingly, a pair of humpback whales intervened: Exposed to lethal attack in the open water, the seal swam frantically toward the humpbacks, seeming to seek shelter, perhaps not even aware that they were living … [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Alabama student "feels horrible" about being expelled over her racist social media rants. Stay classy, Alabama [Dumbass]
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Fark.com RSS » Florida Man arrested for DUI after mistaking bank drive-thru for Taco Bell. No word if he tried to order with a two dollar bill [Florida]
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Fark.com RSS » Get crossfaded responsibly [Cool]
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Fark.com RSS » [business cat looks up from newspaper:] "We should have another mortgage crisis" [Stupid]
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Fark.com RSS » Man allegedly punches himself in the face to avoid breathalyzer [News]
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Fark.com RSS » 5th grader passes out incredible edibles to classmates that were just too incredible. "I felt like the room was going to flip to the side" [Scary]
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Fark.com RSS » The first article you'll read today on the "glandular method of governance" [Facepalm]
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Fark.com RSS » Study reveals that L.A. needs more Hollywood sign [Silly]
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Fark.com RSS » Photoshop this magical place [Photoshop]
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Fark.com RSS » Pentagon confirms the existence of a Russian underwater drone that carries a 100-megaton nuclear weapon to wipe out enemy coastlines and leave them uninhabitable for generations [Scary]
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