Fark NotNewsletter: A chance for Farkers to make some dough and get cool stuff, plus a new thread milestone

This is a multi-part message in MIME format... ------------=_1603914257-12515-56024 Content-Type: text/html Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable [3D"The](3D")= > [3D"Facebook"](3D") [=3D"Twitter"](3D") [3D"Totalfark"](3D") Having trouble reading thi= s email? View it online [here](3D". Comments thread: [ 0885](3D" Unsubscribe links are at the bottom of this message. =20 =20 ________________________ A message = from DisseminationMonkey: ________________________= Five years ago, Drew gave us a space for a "Fark Bazaar" thread where we invited our brilliant and cr= eative Fark community to post links to their online stores so we could all = score some awesome stuff at each other's businesses. Well, we're doing it a= gain, but this time we're calling it "Farketplace." Beginning on Saturday, = November 7th for TotalFarkers and Monday, November 9th for all Farkers, you= 're all invited to link to your Etsy, eBay, Amazon or other online storefro= nt to sell your goods. It can be pretty much anything legal: handmade d&eac= ute;cor, jewelry you made, scarves you knitted, hand-sewn footie pajamas, q= uilts, photography, artwork, hand-blown glass dragons, antiques... whatever= fits. We've always known Farkers are a creative bunch, a= nd some of the amazing examples seen in the Fartist Friday thread= s have been a great reminder of that. Just remember that links to your p= ersonal sites are only allowed within the Farketplace thread - linking = elsewhere will be considered spam and will dealt with accordingly. Ple= ase note that Fark is not taking a cut or charging for this in any way= . Everyone's having a tough year, and we figured it would be a good = idea to enable Farkers to help each other get that bread before the winter = holidays. So stock up your online store and be ready to post photos, descri= ptions and links to it in the Farketplace. Obligatory discla= imer: Fark will not be responsible for any transactions or other event= s to arise out of the Farketplace thread. Your shopping/selling will b= e considered off-site activities and Fark will not monitor or interven= e based on those activities. ________________________ A message from Drew Curtis: ________= ________________ We're in the final week of the busiest pre-el= ection news cycle I've ever seen. It's been fast paced for awhile now= - since 2016 it's felt like triple time, and yet somehow this week it's ra= mped up even higher. The good news is we're seeing some of the good o= ld weird stuff that is very much pre-2016 Fark. Here's hoping for more in t= he future. [Thread 11,000,000](3D"=) snuck u= p on us out of nowhere and posted overnight - appropriately it was a TFD th= read about whether centaurs are sexy or not. Have a wrong opinion on = the subject? Jump into the thread and tell us. The swear jar feature= is still in progress - other stuff has jumped in the way, in particular pr= eparation for the traffic crush we're expecting on election night. It= 's still coming, just getting bumped a bit. In other news from last = week, the new ad unit test went well. We'll be running another test lasting= about a week, then we'll make a final decision on whether we're keeping it= or not. [TotalFark](3D"=) and [BareFark](3D" subscribers won'= t be able to see it as usual. Today is the first [Fark News Livestream](3D") of the week. Normally we don't wait un= til Wednesday for the first livestream, but I felt a little feverish Monday= morning and decided to quarantine to protect Heather and the kids. I= 'm getting tested later today. We'll be back with a new livestream at 5 p.m= . either way because either I'll test negative or I'll move the livestream = stuff up to the room I'll be living alone in for the next two weeks. = We've got a huge backlog of news to get through. Also - we may attemp= t an election night livestream Tuesday as soon as we figure out what format= to try. Let us know if you've got any ideas or suggestions there. ________________________ We now return you to your usual Fark N= otNewsletter. ________________________ Top Comments Some of the top-vot= ed smartest and funniest comments from the past week Funny:= NewportBarGuy was [impressed by Badmoodman's connection to Ireland {NAME} Pinnacle Point took a guess at](3D" name of the pastor who peed on a fellow airplane pass= enger](3D") Glitchwerks [identified with what a typo in a Fark headline claimed led to a shooting i= n a Sam's Club](3D" skyotter disagreed with [an assertion about Farkers' reactions to a fire c= hief eating sushi off a naked woman](3D") NikolaiFarkoff = summed up [Ireland {NAME}'s "I voted"= sticker pasties](3D".=) NewportBarGuy saw [something familiar about a man who threw a racist tan= trum on an airplane](3D") Begoggle commented about = [the racist Burger King flyer's planned dest= ination](3D") I Ate Shergar noticed [a guy's very particular requirements in his dating profile=](3D") TWX pointed out [an interesting turn of events](3D" theflatline shar= ed [an Ambien story](3D"=) Smar= t: Daniel Boone's Farm shared [a relatable story about pandemic fatigue](3D") a= imtastic felt pretty [uptight= about sleepwalk peeing](3D" Scorpitron is reduced to a thin red = paste pointed out what an ar= ticle failed to mention about Sinead O'Connor's SNL appearance = Mr. Coffee Nerves predicted that [one American tradition will go on as usual this year, but with= a twist](3D") itsaback shared [a tanker driver's perspective of the truck driver who drove thr= ough a crowd of protesters in Minneapolis back in May](3D") Pinche= Mateo gave an example of [pe= ople "finding" relics from Jesus being nothing new](3D" koder = trong> had some ideas of [how airline= s can get back to international travel](=3D" Otera [let a kitten tell its story](3D") Chtho= nic Echoes [put a three percent mo= rtality rate in perspective](3D"https:/=) CSB Sunday Morning: [Halloween party stories](3D") Smart: Aun= tie Cheesus [crashed a party, insu= lted someone, and made a scene](3D"https:=) Funny: Recoil Therap= y spent Halloween surprising= people who came to the door CSB [Cool Story, Bro] Sunday Mornin= g is a thread for Farkers to share true stories from their own lives based = on a weekly topic. If you have a topic idea for a CSB Sunday Morning thread= , please [contact Farkback](3D"=) ahead of time, or just [submit it on Saturday afternoon/evening. Please note: While submitted CSB Sunday = Morning threads have a high likelihood of being greenlit, there is no guara= ntee they will be. TotalFark Discussion: Note: This sect= ion can only be accessed by](3D" Smart: Otera is [helpin= g a kitten with help from Farkers](3D" (with adorable photo) Funny:= em> OneFretAway admired&n= bsp;The Third Man's new toy Funny:= The Third Man gave [a warning if O= megle doesn't sound appealing to you](3D=) Smart: Madison= _Smiled has [a really sweet m= om](3D"h=) Smart: OneFretAway assessed [a situation where a Farker was waiting to be rei= mbursed for flying out to an interview](3D") Funny: Ass_M= aster_Flash was [alarmed by = where this conversation was going](=3D" Funny: Ass_Master= _Flash [recommended a divorce lawy= er](3D"=) Funny: KangTheMad described [yet another dangerous thing that kids these days= are doing](3D") Politics Funny: Farking Clown Sho= es pointed out [the reason = some Farkers might not want to celebrate young people showing up to vote](=3D" > I Ate Shergar [contin= ued the line of thinking expressed in Donald Trump's tweet](3D" b= loobeary had a theory about [what's going on with Mitch McConnell's hands](3D" mrshowrules = strong> knew about [another odd thing = that happens to Fox News analyst Gregg Jarrett](3D"http=) The Googles D= o Nothing explained why Trum= p had to cut his interview with Leslie Stahl short Politics = Smart: NeoCortex42 [questioned the judgement of Trump's inner circle](3D" mrshowrul= es offered [advice from Canad= a](3D"ht=) cretinbob talked about [the members of the U.S. Marshals' task force that killed Michae= l Reinoehl](3D") Pocket Ninja discussed [the differences between Trump and George W. Bush](3D")EmmaLou argued for [investigating and prosecuting Trump and his team](3D" Top Contest Entries Some of the= top-voted contest entries from last week, listed from highest number of vo= tes down Photoshops: Terrapin Bound [preferred sports over music](3D") ha= il2daking [forked up the hiking tr= ail](3D"https://=) #2 [brought bac= k a familiar foe](=3D" Yammering_Splat_Vector found out&= nbsp;[this cop is not interested in lollipop= s](3D") kabloink [changed= up Trump's makeup](3D" noazark made [an artificial intelligence that fits in your pocket](3D")noazark had [the h= ottest ride in Toontown](3D" noazark [did some light remodeling](3D") RedZoneTuba = ng> designed [new uniforms for the tenn= is team](3D"=) Mojongo found [a pervy cat living in a hotel](3D" Captions: From = m>[Caption this puma cub getting an exam= a>: Devolving_Spud had the cub](3D")[recounting the story later](3D") From [Caption this dog getting a ride](3D"): Driver= knew that [the pup had other= things on its mind](3D"ht=) From [Ca= ption this inter-species faceoff](3D" RedZoneTuba had&= nbsp;[a warning for the curious cetacean](3D")= Grumpy Cat saw that [the dolphin was leaving](3D" Grumpy Cat figured tha= t [the dog wanted to escape](3D") = Fartist Friday: [Show & Tell Volume 4](3D"htt=) Patmaniac = rong> [showed us "Desire of Man" and told us= how he came to be](3D") This week's Fartist Friday theme, br= ought to you by E-brake: Halloween Limericks and= Chill. Write a spooky limerick about Halloween and illustrate it us= ing any medium you like: Photoshop, MS Paint, pen and paper, macaroni glued= on a board, etc. Farktography: [From Above](3D") CiliarySpasm s= howed us [what it's like to look down o= n people](3D"=) Farktography is Fark's weekly photography contest. If y= ou would like to suggest a Farktography theme, please contact = [Elsinore](3D"). = Fark Weird News Quiz (brought to you by ox45tall= boy) Another good time on the Quiz this week, although no o= ne knows how to sort out the junk mail issue. On the bright side, that stuf= f does provide revenue to the Post Office, which could certainly use it. On= the Quiz itself, Blackstone gets the top spot and keys to= the 1000 club with a score of 1017, followed by rudemix= in a distant second with 924 and Enigmamf i= n third with 919. Data came in fourth with 918, = and Sebas finished out the top five with 914. = The hardest question on the Hard Quiz was over this year's Nobel Prize in E= conomics, and how the winners had contributed to our understanding of suppl= y and demand. Only 38% of quiztakers knew that they had done major studies = in the field of auctions and how to create nontraditional auctions for thin= gs difficult to sell, such as radio frequencies, maximizing the benefit to = taxpayers. If only they could tell me what to do with all these Beani= e Babies. The easiest question on the Hard Quiz was about what our f= riendly neighbors to the north were celebrating on October 12th. 80% of qui= ztakers knew that Canada celebrates their Thanksgiving on the second Monday= in October, where I assume they gather in their igloos and share roast moo= se and poutine before falling asleep on the couch with a hockey game on. Si= nce their Thanksgiving is more of a harvest celebration, it does make more = sense to have it at the harvest time rather than weeks later when everyone = is snowed in. The hardest question on the Easy Quiz was about what f= ast food joint famous for the number of chickens they slaughter actually re= ceived an award from PeTA - for best vegan chicken sandwich. Only 57% of qu= iztakers knew that KFC has been quietly selling a "vegan chicken" sandwich = since August 10. made from plant-based Lightlife vegan chicken, As of now, = Popeye's has no plans for their own vegan offering, probably because they h= aven't yet found a recipe that people will kill each other over, which seem= s to be the basis of their marketing. The easiest question on the Ea= sy Quiz was over the new show on Food Network hosted by Tony-award winner K= ristin Chenoweth. 93% of quiztakers knew that despite the use of the name i= n Quentin Tarantino's "Django Unchained," "Candy Land" still had enough goo= dwill from our childhoods to evoke memories of cutthroat competition among = 7-year-olds and no real edible candy at the end for the winner. Let's hope = Kristin can keep the contestants pacified with a song or something. = If you missed out the Quiz last week, you can [catch up on t= he Fark Weird News Quiz here](3D". Congratulations to the winne= rs, and we'll be doing it all again this week. --------------------------------------------------------------- ([Fark.com](3D"") sent this newsletter emai= l to: {EMAIL}) To stop these emails, go to the Notifications tab of your [MyFark profile](3D"https:=) to change your subscription preferences. 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