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 » “Three Threes Are Ten”
This little trick often puzzles many:– Place three matches, coins, or other articles on the table, and by picking each one up and placing it back three times, counting each time to finish with number 10, instead of 9. Pick up the first match and return it to the table saying 1; the same with the second and third, saying … [Link]
Weird Universe » Miss Gary Cigaret
In 1944, a newspaper in Gary, Indiana held a beauty contest to select a "Miss Gary Cigaret." The public were encouraged to vote, with each vote costing five cents. All the funds raised would be used to send cigarettes to American soldiers.
Over $15,000 was eventually raised, which was able to buy six million cigarettes (or 300,000 packs).
The contest … [Link]
Weird Universe » Ornamental Ash Tray
The entire patent, figure and text, is given below. How I wish the inventor had gone on at length about his design.
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Futility Closet » Fair and Square
From Lee Sallows: (Thanks, Lee!) [Link]
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