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 » You do know that oyster farming involves more that just tickling an oyster on its underside and milking it for its pearl? [Interesting]

Sunday 11 February 23:47:56 UTC 2018

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Fark.com RSS » Baked apple and salted caramel gin? Stop it, just stop it. NOW [Asinine]

Sunday 11 February 22:40:46 UTC 2018

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Fark.com RSS » Hey, son, remember the time I slipped that dildo and lube into your carry-on bag before we went through airport security? That was hilarious, wasn't it? Son? (some not safe for work images on site) [Awkward]

Sunday 11 February 21:17:34 UTC 2018

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Fark.com RSS » I bless the rains down in Africa [Spiffy]

Sunday 11 February 21:13:29 UTC 2018

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Fark.com RSS » Photoshop Challenge: Build a better mouse trap [Photoshop]

Sunday 11 February 21:00:01 UTC 2018

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Fark.com RSS » Church places $735 takeout order, tips $0. Server posts about it on social media. Restaurant refunds full $735 to church, fires the server, of course [Florida]

Sunday 11 February 20:30:43 UTC 2018

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Fark.com RSS » '70s Granddad clothing now re-purposed and re-energized as "Counterfashion" [Unlikely]

Sunday 11 February 20:05:51 UTC 2018

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Futility Closet » Four of a Kind

Sunday 11 February 19:50:46 UTC 2018

If squares are drawn on the sides of a triangle and external to it, then the areas of the triangles formed between the squares all equal the area of the triangle itself. (Roger Webster, “Bride’s Chair Revisited,” Mathematical Gazette 78:483 [November 1994], 345-346.) [Link]

Fark.com RSS » "What, me worry?" Maybe it's time to start, Alfred E [Sad]

Sunday 11 February 18:53:20 UTC 2018

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Fark.com RSS » Man enters church, sits down at the piano, lights a cigarette. Then the story gets weird [Strange]

Sunday 11 February 18:45:10 UTC 2018

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Fark.com RSS » Hydroelectric dam project in Turkey's Batman Province threatens 12,000-year-old archaeological site of Hasankeyf. In other news, Batman has his own province in Turkey [Interesting]

Sunday 11 February 18:25:21 UTC 2018

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Fark.com RSS » If you ever wanted to pay your taxes with fake money, you may soon get your chance in Arizona [Stupid]

Sunday 11 February 16:21:20 UTC 2018

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Fark.com RSS » If you're a NYPD cop texting a friend about drinking and driving on the job .. make sure their phone is not wiretapped. Detective knowledge: 101 [Dumbass]

Sunday 11 February 16:03:20 UTC 2018

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Weird Universe » Twinkie Diet

Sunday 11 February 16:03:06 UTC 2018

Back in 2010, in order to prove his theory that "in weight loss, pure calorie counting is what matters most — not the nutritional value of the food," Kansas State University professor of human nutrition Mark Haub lived almost entirely on Twinkies for 10 weeks. He ate one every three hours.

Though he added some variety into his diet with … [Link]

Weird Universe » Carlton, Your Doorman

Sunday 11 February 16:03:05 UTC 2018

A never-purchased pilot for an animated cartoon series starring the Doorman from the Rhoda show.

Read the fascinating background story here. [Link]

Fark.com RSS » It's almost as if building a fence won't keep determined people from crossing over [Interesting]

Sunday 11 February 15:15:46 UTC 2018

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Fark.com RSS » So what is Chinese New Year? Why is it not in January? What can we learn about the year of the dog? And more [Interesting]

Sunday 11 February 14:42:10 UTC 2018

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Fark.com RSS » Photoshop this orchidous orange [Photoshop]

Sunday 11 February 14:00:01 UTC 2018

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Fark.com RSS » CSB Sunday Morning: Sneaking in [CSB]

Sunday 11 February 14:00:00 UTC 2018

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Fark.com RSS » Turns out those mop-headed lads from Liverpool were wrong; money can in fact by you love [Obvious]

Sunday 11 February 13:44:19 UTC 2018

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Fark.com RSS » Russian passenger plane goes down outside of Moscow. 71 people on board all presumed to have perished (developing story) [News]

Sunday 11 February 12:51:21 UTC 2018

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Fark.com RSS » Police seize 185 pounds of vacuum-sealed marijuana. All 85 pounds are being kept at the state police barracks until the suspect can be arraigned for the 8.5 pounds of the substance [Misc]

Sunday 11 February 12:12:35 UTC 2018

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Fark.com RSS » Your iPhone falls in the toilet? Let it go man. It's gone [Fail]

Sunday 11 February 10:37:11 UTC 2018

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Fark.com RSS » Clicking "like" on the wrong tweet immediately ends 30-year career of esteemed Connecticut high school principal [Facepalm]

Sunday 11 February 10:03:13 UTC 2018

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Fark.com RSS » In news that should shock nobody, residents on so-called 'Billionaire Row' reject a proposed plan that would help the less fortunate [Obvious]

Sunday 11 February 9:35:20 UTC 2018

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Fark.com RSS » Wichita boy getting a lot of cabbage for a big cabbage? It's Cole's Law [Cool]

Sunday 11 February 8:58:20 UTC 2018

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Fark.com RSS » The idyllic vacation town of Bay View Michigan is facing a court challenge to their stated policy of only allowing practicing Christians to become home owners [Murica]

Sunday 11 February 7:56:13 UTC 2018

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Fark.com RSS » Candlelight vigil is held in Minneapolis neighborhood after A) tragic death of local hero B) hate crimes were committed C) beloved Arby's sign removed after restaurant goes out of business [Stupid]

Sunday 11 February 2:42:25 UTC 2018

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Fark.com RSS » Woman admits to teasing her dog [Awkward]

Sunday 11 February 2:06:45 UTC 2018

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Fark.com RSS » I can understand walking out of a random college class because the professor repeatedly uses the n-word but when it's a class specifically about hate speech, you're just being a snowflake [Facepalm]

Sunday 11 February 1:44:59 UTC 2018

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Fark.com RSS » Subby said all of this days ago on Fark.com. CNN, wake the Fark Up. Too slow for Fark [Facepalm]

Sunday 11 February 1:08:30 UTC 2018

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Fark.com RSS » Phoroshop this bear [Photoshop]

Sunday 11 February 1:00:01 UTC 2018

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Fark.com RSS » Federal Railroad Administration's acting chief resigned immediately after it was revealed he's been working PR for a county sheriff in Mississippi [Weird]

Sunday 11 February 0:54:57 UTC 2018

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Fark.com RSS » Girl faces expulsion from school for: a) bad grades, b) smoking drugs on campus, or c) having a Planned Parenthood sticker on her computer [Asinine]

Sunday 11 February 0:19:07 UTC 2018

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John Gordon Ross

A Man for All Reasons