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Thu December 22, 2011
Source     Fark Headline Comments
(Iowa City Press-Citizen) PSA If you've recently gotten divorced, laid off, or experienced some other negative life-changing event, the best city to start your new life in is...Iowa City? Really?  (press-citizen.com) (14)
(Sun Sentinel) Hero 81-year old woman beats up the gun-toting man who mugged her daughter, demands he get off her lawn. Sure, it happened in Florida, but this woman deserves the Hero tag  (sun-sentinel.com) (7)
(Some Naked, Roaring Guy) Strange Naked, roaring man arrested after being found sleeping in stranger's home. "When he opened the door to roar again, the trooper used a shotgun to shoot him in the stomach with a non-lethal beanbag"  (bozemandailychronicle.com) (49)
(Some Guy) Amusing If you are pulled over at 2:30am for driving drunk, the most plausible explanation to give the cops is: A) Your house is only a mile from the bar, B) You really had to go, or C) You were taking the deer in your trunk to the hospital  (democratandchronicle.com) (15)
(AL.com) Fail Man sent by the Lord to plug in Mayor's Christmas lights held at gunpoint by Mayor until police arrive  (blog.al.com) (15)
(CBC) Fail Tourist decides to go on a hiking trip to the taliban-infested mountains of Afghanistan, with predictable results  (cbc.ca) (100)
(Some Guy) Dumbass If you're a helicopter pilot and you're trying to avoid low lying fog, try to avoid the even lower power lines. Oh... and look out for the interstate too  (johnsoncitypress.com) (10)
(Farktography) Farktography Theme of Farktography Contest No. 346: "Farktography Classic: Season's Greetings 5". Details and rules in first post. LGT next week's theme  (farktography.net) (66)


Wed December 21, 2011
(LA Times) Obvious Elephant fatally attacked by another elephant at zoo will always be remembered  (latimesblogs.latimes.com) (19)
(Some Guy) Strange It's one thing to be the criminal mastermind behind the thefts of all the Baby Jesus' from outdoor nativity scenes in your town. But do you have to put the remaining figures left behind in sexually suggestive positions as well?  (peninsuladailynews.com) (56)
(Some Guy) Strange 9mm mouse hunting & wounded roommate & a 13 yr old girlfriend. The Fark crime trifecta hits in Taylorville, UT  (ksl.com) (66)
(Boing Boing) Scary Evidence suggests that the 2008 financial crisis was triggered by a "Bear Raid" market manipulation by short sellers against Citygroup late in 2007  (boingboing.net) (131)
(The New York Times) Asinine If you talk to people about jury nullification, this prosecutor will seek to have you jailed for six months. Subby wonders what the prosecutor might do to anyone who talks about the First Amendment  (nytimes.com) (249)
(MSNBC) Cool Coal plant operators finally run out of briquettes, will have to comply with a nearly 30 year backlog of clean air regulations  (msnbc.msn.com) (75)
(Stay Boring My Friends) Stupid When a cheesy beer commercial star visits for lunch, it's front page news. It is...the Least Interesting Town in the World  (portjefferson.patch.com) (39)
(Spiegel) Photoshop Photoshop this lighthouse lashing  (cdn4.spiegel.de) (22)
(Curbed) Spiffy If you've been wondering what to do with that spare $8 million, why not pick up this private island with a Revolutionary War history?  (curbed.com) (52)
(Some Guy) Obvious Mullets plead not guilty to attacking beards  (myfoxchicago.com) (38)
(Stars and Stripes) Sad Soldier pawns his Purple Heart for Christmas. That hurts  (stripes.com) (175)
(Some Guy) Scary Mistletoe, snow spray, bubble lights, alcohol, and other common Christmas items that will kill you, because death never takes a holiday  (syracuse.com) (55)
(Bloomberg) Obvious Hungary downgraded to starving  (bloomberg.com) (49)
(Atlanta Journal Constitution) PSA If you happen to find a winning Powerball ticket from June 29, the Georgia Lottery would like a word with you by next Tuesday  (ajc.com) (32)
(Spiegel) Photoshop Photoshop this bolt and blogger  (cdn1.spiegel.de) (23)
(Fark) Survey Fark's 2011 Headline of the Year contest: Politics tab headlines  (fark.com) (56)
(Some Guy) Spiffy A Navy tradition caught up with the repeal of 'Don't Ask Don't Tell' today when two women sailors became the first to share the coveted "first kiss" on the dock after one of them returned from 80 days at sea  (wtkr.com) (444)
(CNN) Obvious Kim Jong Un issues first order as president. I bet it was for a banana split  (cnn.com) (130)
(New York Magazine) Stupid Candy store Sugar & Plumm Purveyors of Yumm learns the hard way the Upper West Side doesn't like cute store names, bright layouts, or fun. "The whole thing needs toned down. The coolest places in New York have no signs"  (nymag.com) (162)
(The Register) Amusing "Chicken bones are not, in principle, problematic"  (theregister.co.uk) (37)
(Fark) Survey Fark's 2011 Headline of the Year contest: Geek tab headlines  (fark.com) (46)
(NPR) PSA Japan tsunami before/after Google street view pics, with nifty slider gizmo to illustrate the devastation  (npr.org) (44)
(Mother Nature Network) Sad Frankincense may soon be extinct because some wise guys are over-harvesting it  (mnn.com) (87)
(CNNGo) Cool Lessons learned from a 25,000 mile off-road drive from Hong Kong to Portugal. "In Russia, I learnt that when you have vodka for breakfast, you know it's going to be a good day"  (cnngo.com) (50)
(The Cambridge Chronicle) PSA Allowing children to wear "Jordan's Bar Mitzvah" shirt offends classmates who were not invited to Jordan's Bar Mitzvah  (wickedlocal.com) (221)
(UPI) Obvious Binge drinking is contagious, say researchers familiar with Fark gatherings  (upi.com) (43)
(MSNBC) Fail Bradley Manning's Klinger photos ignored by army, now hotlips on prison radar for hawkeye pierce  (openchannel.msnbc.msn.com) (105)
(Click Orlando) Florida Christmas decorations stolen. Suspect reported to have green complexion and a heart two times too small  (clickorlando.com) (12)
(Washington Post) Interesting TSA officers confiscate book because words are weapons, sharper than knives. Also, there were two throwing knives inside  (washingtonpost.com) (59)
(Some Guy) Scary A hit and a-mish  (tucsoncitizen.com) (43)
(Cracked) Amusing And now presenting, the seven types of holiday fights you are about to get in  (cracked.com) (107)
(Guardian) Interesting Meanwhile, in France, the government is considering forcing 30,000 women to have breast reduction surgery  (guardian.co.uk) (78)
(PennLive) Cool In a world of street food, this converted 18 wheeler crushes them all. "We wanted to turn it into a show"  (pennlive.com) (35)
(NPR) Cool Angry Birds: London Philharmonic edition  (npr.org) (20)
(The Sun) Strange Woman spends last five months of pregnancy upside down to keep baby from falling out  (thesun.co.uk) (129)
(Reuters) Interesting Like an al Qaedian Tupac Shakur, Awlaki releases some new posthumous material  (reuters.com) (10)
(New Zealand Herald) Obvious The killing of Osama bin Laden chosen as top news story of 2011. In other news, the top story from 2001 to 2010 was that he kept getting away  (nzherald.co.nz) (46)
(My Fox DC) Amusing Hoping I could I borrow a cup of sugar, oh and top off my tank please  (myfoxdc.com) (15)
(Daily Record (UK)) Silly Jesuslovesme and Awesome among the baby names registered in Scotland this year. Why can't people use traditional names like Dòmhnallaidh and Slàinidh?  (dailyrecord.co.uk) (52)
(Slate) Cool Need a last-minute gift for your kids but can't figure out what to get them? How about these new Occupy Wall Street-inspired Lego sets?  (slate.com) (65)
(Some Guy) Asinine European auto insurers are looking to use black box data to get around the coming ban on rate discrimination against men  (insurancejournal.com) (91)
(MSNBC) Weird Scary: boy gets flesh eating bacteria. Interesting: on the face. News: survives. Fark: so the Vatican canonizes a dead 17th centry Native American. Cool: first American saint. Silly: unless you're Mormon, I guess  (usnews.msnbc.msn.com) (108)
(Some Guy) Strange Meanwhile, in Switzerland  (thelocal.ch) (28)
(Daily Mail) Amusing Hot mother accused of having sex with her daughter's friends, playing sexy, sexy ping pong  (dailymail.co.uk) (119)
(Washington Post) Cool 'Sensitive Santas' are providing their services so that children with autism can make their first ever visit to the Jolly Old Elf  (washingtonpost.com) (30)
(Daily Mail) Scary Get ready for Avian Flu XXII: The Oh-Farkening  (dailymail.co.uk) (54)
(BBC) Amusing Penguins poo on people in line to see the Pandas at the Edinburgh in a tale of monochrome jealously  (bbc.co.uk) (13)
(The Local (Sweden)) Dumbass Tis the season... for "ingenious robbers caught after police followed their tracks in snow" headlines  (thelocal.se) (13)
(Some Guy) Stupid Want to pay off someone's layaway for toys? Totally okay. Want to prepare dinner for shut-ins and deliver them on Christmas Day? HOLD THE FARKING PHONES  (billingsgazette.com) (115)
(Toronto Sun) Followup Well it's Bud the Spud from the bright red mud, still languishing in Lebanese prison. The times are grim, and his hopes are dim because the Holidays and Hassan's coming. The Holidays and Hassan's coming  (torontosun.com) (28)
(Telegraph) Dumbass Teenage juror who stopped trial by pretending to be sick but in fact used the time to go and see musical "Chicago" found guilty of giving the judge the old razzle-dazzle  (telegraph.co.uk) (67)
(Daily Mail) Strange He's just this guy, you know?  (dailymail.co.uk) (86)
(BBC) Hero An Iranian diplomat who saved thousands of Jews in Nazi-occupied Paris died in poverty and obscurity thirty years ago. Finally his story is being told. "There is no distinction 'I am Muslim, he is Jew' or whatever"  (bbc.co.uk) (56)
(Chicago Tribune) Dumbass Latecomer for the coveted Father of the Year award arrested for putting a photo of his bound and gagged 22-month-old daughter on Facebook  (chicagotribune.com) (105)
(Uproxx) Spiffy Is there anything more distinctly American than hilariously awful family holiday photos? No, there is not  (uproxx.com) (107)
(Some Guy) Amusing Okay, seriously. Which one of you is responsible for this?  (cats4gold.com) (78)
(Daily Mail) Interesting New translation reveals the Three Wise Men might actually have been a score of random dumbasses, most of them too cheap to bring presents  (dailymail.co.uk) (87)
(Google) Photoshop Photoshop challenge: design a band's next album cover  (images.google.com) (28)
(News.com.au) Interesting The pros and cons of flying nude. Problem #1: the flaps  (news.com.au) (70)
(The New York Times) Interesting "This American Life" helps take down a Georgia drug court Judge  (nytimes.com) (266)
(The Local (Germany)) Obvious "Boob job vouchers 'not a good gift idea'"  (thelocal.de) (98)
(CBS 4 Denver) Obvious Colorado ski resort waiting for snow so they can open for the season. Well, duh  (denver.cbslocal.com) (46)
(Chicago Tribune) Dumbass Woman who called police to report a home invasion and then said she must have hallucinated it was arrested after police found the source of her hallucinations: heroin  (chicagotribune.com) (39)
(WXYZ Detroit) Cool Man who lost his wallet containing $5,600 in cash has it returned less than 24 hours after it went missing  (wxyz.com) (84)
(SFGate) Sad Cocaine found on nine out of 10 public baby changing tables. "That's some good shiat right there"  (blog.sfgate.com) (105)

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