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Thu October 06, 2011
Source     Fark Headline Comments
(Boston Globe) Dumbass Drunk aide to Massachusetts governor gets pass from Boston police before driving through suburb where they don't know who he is  (boston.com) (9)
(Fox News) Weird Severed goat head found on fraternity porch. According to police, the goat head looked like it was bought at a store. In other news, you can buy severed goat's heads at stores  (foxnews.com) (37)
(AJC) Fail Having solved all other problems, Georgia wing-nuts set to debate whether or not allow guns in church. "Why would you not want to take a gun?"  (ajc.com) (152)
(Farktography) Farktography Theme of Farktography Contest No. 335: "Where the Wild Things Are". Details and rules in first post. LGT next week's theme  (farktography.net) (167)


Wed October 05, 2011
(Some Guy) Cool Instructions for turning a Halloween pumpkin into the Death Star  (fantasypumpkins.com) (29)
(The Smoking Gun) Hero There aren't too many people whose mug shot is a badge of honor. Civil Rights hero Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth, who died today, is one of those people  (thesmokinggun.com) (77)
(Some Guy) Sad Vandals break into a special-needs school and smash an aquarium, smear cake on the kitchen floor, and run wheelchairs through pools of refried beans. "The kids' art work is still on the walls. It's bizarre"  (ocregister.com) (55)
(Toronto Star) Fail Cheerleaders spanked bloody, Teacher-student threesomes, and above all Harry Dick Teacher's discipline chairman writes softcore teen novel. Fark: Also does infant massage  (thestar.com) (86)
(ABC News) Interesting Are you a millionaire who thinks you're not being taxed enough? Soon, you may be able to check "Tax Me More" on your tax form  (abcnews.go.com) (123)
(NPR) Interesting People bash Rick Perry for executing innocents in Texas, but the truth is that Texas is so efficient at executing people that the governor has almost nothing to do with the process  (npr.org) (89)
(Chicago Sun-Times) Obvious "People in Chicago are going to want to move after this winter"  (suntimes.com) (93)
(Ars Technica) NewsFlash Steve Jobs has gone to the iCloud  (arstechnica.com) (lots)
(Sun Sentinel) Florida It's okay to have robotic monsters, flashing lights, and a bloody fountain in your yard to celebrate Halloween. But the minute you get children to dance to "Thriller" in your driveway, the city's going to have some problems  (sun-sentinel.com) (44)
(Motherboard.tv) Interesting What does it take to destroy the Kelihos botnet, a massive network of infected computers that sends around 3.8 billion spam emails every day?  (motherboard.tv) (71)
(ABC News) Strange Awkward wedding photos (awkward slideshow)  (abcnews.go.com) (48)
(The Smoking Gun) Florida Not news: Naked couple arrested in Buick Regal. News: Woman was 71, man was 54. Fark: When cop opened door and asked what they were doing, guy replied, "I'm farking this chick"  (thesmokinggun.com) (87)
(ABC News) News The Quitter is quitting again  (abcnews.go.com) (256)
(MSNBC) Amusing Apple's Siri becomes butt of jokes in Japan thanks to unfortunate translation. Brings new meaning to the phrase "talking out of my ass"  (technolog.msnbc.msn.com) (77)
(Globe and Mail) Hero Prudish wife: What should we do about our hot, wet, sexy, naked, soapy, showering attention whore of a neighbor? Advice Columnist: Shut up and let your husband get his jollies  (theglobeandmail.com) (337)
(NPR) Interesting Do civil rights apply to Jesus schools? Hang on, the Supreme Court is about to tell us  (npr.org) (73)
(The New York Times) Obvious Farmer hires Americans to pick crops at $10.50/hr. Most walk off within six hours. "The work was too hard"  (nytimes.com) (343)
(Some Guy) Photoshop Photoshop Challenge: Make Your Own Fark Muppet, a Fuppet if you will  (fao.com) (36)
(SacBee) Scary Autism rates 497.81181619256 percent of what they were a decade ago  (sacbee.com) (185)
(Daily Mail) Scary Old and Busted: Resting in a jacuzzi. New Hotness: Resting in a jacuzzi dangling 500 Ft. above ground suspended from a bridge  (dailymail.co.uk) (24)
(Some Guy) Asinine Dear Asshat tourists, there are plenty of things to do in Virginia Beach besides stand on your hotel balconies and blind our pilots trying to land fighter aircraft at the nearby base with laser pointers. Sincerely, The Navy  (wtkr.com) (92)
(WLKY) Dumbass Police follow DUI suspect from strip club by trail of leaking fluids. Ewww  (wlky.com) (14)
(Some Guy) Weird Amish in bizarre crime spree of cutting off each other's hair and beards  (news-register.net) (46)
(WGAL 8) Interesting The state that executes more criminals than any other also records their final words. Among claims of innocence, genuine remorse and confused ramblings, you'll also find Sin-Cityesque gems like this "Lets do it man. Lock n Load"  (wgal.com) (130)
(Huffington Post) Obvious Mr. Ailes, did you hire Ms. Palin as a Fox News contributor because of her keen intellect and political savvy? "I hired Sarah Palin because she was hot and got ratings"  (huffingtonpost.com) (88)
(KCRA 3) Dumbass Pro-tip: If someone breaks into your property and steals several CDs filled with kiddy porn, perhaps you shouldn't report the theft to police  (kcra.com) (145)
(Baltimore Sun) Followup Hank Williams Jr. issues a heartfelt apology for his comments about the President. He wants to make it clear that this apology was not written by a publicist. Read it once and you will believe him  (baltimoresun.com) (372)
(SFGate) Ironic Israeli chemist wins Nobel prize for discovering "quasicrystals". A discovery that got him mocked by the scientific community and fired from his job when he announced it  (sfgate.com) (177)
(BBC) Interesting Prisoner serving life sentence given another life sentence for killing child murderer. 1UP  (bbc.co.uk) (155)
(Time) Dumbass Not to be outdone by BofA, Citi raises basic checking acct fee by 25% and now requires a $1,500 acct minimum to waive the fee. No fee for using a debit card, but we are just getting Wednesday started, aren't we?  (moneyland.time.com) (128)
(Some Guy) Photoshop Photoshop this adventurous couple  (img0.liveinternet.ru) (39)
(Daily Mail) Interesting Scientists invent pill to erase memory of the Pickle Incident  (dailymail.co.uk) (98)
(Somerville Patch) Strange Drunk, shouting obscenities and assaulting a cop is no way to go through life, but it's great for terrorizing the nuns at the old folks' home  (somerville.patch.com) (5)
(Washington Post) Scary Roving armadillos could be heading for Washington D.C. SHUT. DOWN. EVERYTHING.  (washingtonpost.com) (63)
(Some Guy) Fail "Occupy Indianapolis" plans to protest and impede entry to business district...on Saturday. Guy Fawkes seen wandering around looking for someone to annoy  (indypolitics.org) (200)
(Some Pootie Poot) Followup Russian intelligence says their operatives don't have license to kill enemies of the state. "You don't need a license"  (en.ria.ru) (27)
(Slate) Interesting Who did we compare villains to before Hitler?  (slate.com) (108)
(Daily Mail) Amusing People in England offended by squirrel with large nuts. Farkers, not so much  (dailymail.co.uk) (35)
(The Consumerist) Fail Voting for the worst ad in America has begun. Voting enabled in thread so you can list the ads they missed  (consumerist.com) (428)
(Yahoo) Scary Yabba Dabba Bang Bang Bang  (news.yahoo.com) (52)
(Jacksonville.com) Florida If you come across cupcakes while walking in the woods, don't touch. IT'S A TRAP  (jacksonville.com) (50)
(Forbes) Scary Detroit is finally a #1 city  (forbes.com) (159)
(Some Guy) Strange CNN's Rowland Martin:"if you threaten my family [and] one of our lives is in danger, I'm doing all I can to kill you. No apologies.". Wow, he's really gotten cranky since Laugh-in was cancelled  (article.wn.com) (53)
(Short List) Amusing Dog terrified of Julia Roberts. May have actually seen Larry Crowne in the theater  (shortlist.com) (20)
(STV.tv) Stupid Cyclist who chained bike to iron gates fails to take into account cycling iron gate thieves  (news.stv.tv) (20)
(Short List) Weird There was a young man from St Kitts, who chopped lots of monkeys to bits. He fried them in oil, then bought them to boil, and now he has a bad case of the sh*ts  (shortlist.com) (29)
(Canberra Times) Strange Anybody who thinks their roommate is crazy doesn't have one that uses an arc welder to electrify the screen door or charge police officers with a sword when they arrive  (canberratimes.com.au) (40)
(JSOnline) Cool Milwaukee aldermen approve $1 million for Fark improvements. You'll get over it. What? Well it's too late now, I already made the headline  (jsonline.com) (19)
(BBC) Amusing Worlds hottest chilli eating contest leaves two in hospital, wiping butts with ice cream cones  (bbc.co.uk) (122)
(Daily Mail) PSA Teenagers, just ain't right in the head  (dailymail.co.uk) (66)
(Yahoo) Dumbass If you take 30 people scuba diving on your boat, don't bring 28 back  (news.yahoo.com) (96)
(UPI) Dumbass Motorist caught on highway drinking coffee, typing on laptop, using thumb drive  (upi.com) (46)
(Scientific American) Obvious Sewage, Lindsay Lohan's crotch, called "virus goldmines"  (scientificamerican.com) (15)
(Some Guy) Obvious Highlight of the Occupy Wall Street movement so far: Lotion Man  (jammiewearingfool.blogspot.com) (101)
(Short List) Weird Kim Jong-il's grandson found on Facebook. *Likes* Love Actually but thinks communism is "totes tarded"  (shortlist.com) (36)
(SLTrib) Dumbass Hikers in Utah's Mill Creek Canyon left speechless by lilac bush, holly bush, old man's bush  (sltrib.com) (11)
(CNN) Followup It's all fun and games until 20,000 union members show up  (cnn.com) (466)
(CNN) Interesting Samsung to file injunction against Apple to halt iPhone 4S sales. It's like a great big patent troll snake eating its patented tail. And subby's patented that saying  (us.cnn.com) (86)
(Chicago Sun-Times) Unlikely Chicago officials attempt to rein in gay pride: "Unless you're a hard-core drinker, most people don't drink at 10 o'clock in the morning." They've had gay pride parades before, right?  (suntimes.com) (82)
(Salon) Fail There's a time and a place for awful speeches. The eulogy at your grandfather's funeral should not be one of them  (salon.com) (33)
(Politico) Cool Warren Buffet challenges Rupert Murdoch on tax returns, limo race  (politico.com) (154)
(Some Guy) Dumbass Robbery defendant unable to return to his trial after lunch because he got arrested for robbing a jewelry store during the court's lunch break  (businessinsider.com) (14)
(Cyprus Mail) Spiffy You know what would solve a lot of problems simultaneously? A solar-powered energy plant that also desalinates water. Now THAT would...what? They just invented that? Badass  (cyprus-mail.com) (136)
(WTOP) Unlikely If I'm reading this headline correctly, tilapia is just like bacon  (wtop.com) (83)
(My Fox DC) Dumbass Former Chief of Staff to serve four months for planned attempt to stimulate the economy (w/ mugshot)  (myfoxdc.com) (21)
(Some Guy) Photoshop Photoshop Challenge: An Egg, A Leg, and Keg  (leggs.com) (18)
(CNN) Stupid CNN asks whether the media's obsession with stories involving pretty white girls, violence, and sex may have contributed to Amanda Knox's unfair treatment...by recounting four of its favorite such stories   (globalpublicsquare.blogs.cnn.com) (53)
(Some Guy) Followup Condoms are being rushed to flood victims in Thailand. What exactly were they flooded with anyway?  (perthnow.com.au) (42)
(Globe and Mail) Cool With the holidays coming, most Farkers are worried about family pestering them about why they aren't seeing anyone. But now, Fake Girlfriend is here to provide them the cover they need  (theglobeandmail.com) (46)
(USA Today) Stupid It turns out a woman does really need a man like a fish needs a bicycle  (yourlife.usatoday.com) (61)
(IOL) Fail Investigation finds that airliner could have landed just fine after one engine failed - if the pilot hadn't then switched off the one that still worked  (iol.co.za) (21)
(Wimp) Cool Seal pup wants to cuddle with photographer. Video is rated awww  (wimp.com) (68)
(Short List) Silly French schools ration ketchup to ensure kids stay French. Use of garlic to be increased by 1000%  (shortlist.com) (38)
(Coventry Telegraph) Dumbass Removal man finds live 2.2 lb WWII German incendiary bomb while clearing garage - "I didn't actually know what it was so I started shaking it". In related news, subby in Scary / Dumbass tag choice dilemma  (coventrytelegraph.net) (41)
(The Smoking Gun) Dumbass Teenage burglary suspect gets tripped up by his red boxer shorts after wearing his pants around his knees. (with mugshot badassness)  (thesmokinggun.com) (89)
(Daily Mail) Sick Need some money? Just shave your kid's head for two years and pretend he has cancer  (dailymail.co.uk) (34)
(CNN) Obvious New study finds that locking children in cages does not help them become well adjusted adults  (cnn.com) (48)
(Washington Post) Sad Everyone should set goals. This guy's goal was to cross six lanes of highway traffic during rush hour  (washingtonpost.com) (33)
(Lifehacker) Followup Fark is the internet's most popular news aggregator, ballot rigger  (lifehacker.com) (100)
(CTV) PSA High speed chase? Check. Crash in to the cops? Check. Half a pound of crystal meth in the vehicle? Check. Waiting in jail for 31 months for trial? Charges dismissed for delay of due process. Priceless  (ctvbc.ctv.ca) (42)
(The Age (Melbourne)) Scary "Duchess caught in topless photo scandal". Giggity  (theage.com.au) (112)
(Some Guy) Sick Not news: Student wears anti-gay bullying shirt. Still not news: Gets bullied for it. Fark: By principal  (aclu.org) (305)
(MSNBC) Fail "You just sold your newborn son for $15K. What are you gonna do next?" "I'm going to Disney World"  (msnbc.msn.com) (57)
(STLToday) Cool Anheuser-Busch to spend a billion dollars to make sure there's less water in their beer  (stltoday.com) (94)
(Statesman) Scary No rest for the weary. Bastrop County, Texas is on fire again  (statesman.com) (49)
(Life.com) Strange Slip these on, sugar. For real. Nothing sexier than a broad shuffling around in a pair of slippers, joined by a cord, polishing the floor with every step. Oh, yeah. Shuffle, baby. Shuffle good  (life.com) (35)
(Stamford Advocate) Asinine Teenager arrested after mom calls police because he refused to clean his room or put on his pants. Millions of teenagers put on earphones, listen to Seven Days Grace, and go "meh" as they do the same  (stamfordadvocate.com) (85)
(First Coast News) Florida Teen discovers transformers are more than meets the eye, not robots in disguise  (firstcoastnews.com) (48)

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