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 » Constitutional Crisis

Wednesday 17 April 18:31:14 UTC 2024

From Lee Sallows: (Thanks, Lee!) [Link]

Weird Universe » Unauthorized Dwellings 33

Wednesday 17 April 14:34:19 UTC 2024

Read the full story here.

NOTE: image is generic.

A man in Washington smelled cigarette smoke in his home and traced it to an upstairs loft. There he found a makeshift bed, a running heater, half-eaten food, and drugs. The following day the suspect returned to the house and was taken into custody, police said.

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Weird Universe » One’s really his mother…

Wednesday 17 April 8:51:11 UTC 2024

A young man with Oedipus issues.

Better Homes and Gardens – Sep 1969 [Link]

Futility Closet » Agreed

Wednesday 17 April 7:12:41 UTC 2024

Another example of Horace Greeley’s terrible handwriting: According to biographer Lurton Dunham Ingersoll, in 1870 the town of Sandwich, Illinois, invited Greeley to address its lecture association. He responded: Dear Sir. — I am overworked and growing old. I shall be 60 next Feb. 3. On the whole, it seems I must decline to lecture henceforth, except in this immediate … [Link]

John Gordon Ross

A Man for All Reasons