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.”

Futility Closet » Love and War

Monday 26 February 19:05:39 UTC 2024

Image: Wikimedia Commons A hybrid image by Pablo Carlos Budassi. View it from a distance. [Link]

Weird Universe » A Death Foretold

Monday 26 February 13:13:00 UTC 2024

Malkeet Singh predicted that he would die on Sunday, April 8, 1984 at exactly 10am. Then he would be reincarnated as a 1400-year-old faith healer. Dozens of people turned up to witness the event, but nothing happened. So Singh told the crowd to come back after lunch. Still, nothing happened. The next day Singh returned to work at the local … [Link]

Weird Universe » The Fifth Dimension Sings “The Declaration of Independence”

Monday 26 February 11:11:00 UTC 2024

Was this the secret origin of SCHOOLHOUSE ROCK?

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Futility Closet » Reconnaissance

Monday 26 February 7:03:32 UTC 2024

Image: Wikimedia Commons In 2021, Istanbul’s public rail service spotted a curious passenger: “We noticed a dog using our metros and trains and he knows where to go,” spokesman Aylin Erol told India Today. “He knows where to get out. It’s like he has a purpose.” The dog, known as Boji, is a stray Anatolian shepherd who’s been observed using the … [Link]

John Gordon Ross

A Man for All Reasons