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This is a multi-part message in MIME format... ------------=_1606940334-16970-55895 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: [ 7970](3D" Unsubscribe links are at the bottom of this message. =20 =20 ________________________ A message = from Drew Curtis: ____________________= ____ Hey everyone, hope your week went well. I'm curren= tly working hard on trimming the finalists for Headline of the Year. = It's incredibly hard, my first pass through all submissions to Main for exa= mple ended up with a pool of 300 candidates. You all are some funny s= ons-of-whatsits. One thing that struck me while reviewing the past 12= months of the news cycle is how -much- stuff happened since last year.&nbs= p; I've seen people joking that 2020 has lasted 100 years, but after review= ing all the submitted links in 2020, I wholeheartedly feel that sentiment. Hang in there folks - vaccines are coming, as is spring weather even= tually. [Fark News Livestream](3D"=) at 5 p.m. = today. Also, for Fark Friday Movie Night we're going to start watchin= g Flash Gordon serials from the 1930s that appeared before movies, kind of = how Pixar does it with their short films. Art films are great and all= , but the pacing can be slow - these serials don't have a pacing problem, t= hey move along just fine. Can't wait to check them out. __________= ______________ A message from DisseminationMonkey= strong>: ________________________ We reopened t= he [Farketplace thread](3D"=) over= the weekend for Black Friday and Small Business Saturday, and it was great= to see Farkers supporting each other's really cool businesses. The thread = is now closed to new comments, but still available for your shopping needs.= Be sure to bookmark it or click "Favorite" next to the little star under t= he headline (you have to be logged in) so it'll be listed on [the too= ls tab of your Fark bio](3D" - visible only to you - where you can easily fi= nd it whenever you want to do some browsing. Thanks everyone for making the= Farketplace such a success. ________________________ We = now return you to your usual Fark NotNewsletter. __________________= ______ Top Comments= > Some of the top-voted smartest and funniest comments from t= he past week Funny: Mike_LowELL is&nbs= p;[making all the right moves and still st= riking out](3D") jtown shared [a scary fact about tanks](3D" TorpedoOrca answer= ed a question for [a baby who was ala= rmed at meeting her dad's twin for the first time](3D"https=) brap = guessed at [why an overturned= tank had smoke coming out of it](3D"ht=) ZAZ was [in the wrong place at the wrong time while read= ing about COVID-19](3D") Cythraul knew [what would piss off racist neighbors even more than put= ting up a Black Santa decoration](3D") Cake Hunter thoug= ht [the overturned tank was spewing smo= ke for a different reason](3D"=) ArkAngel wanted to = [spend some quality time with Chris Hemswort= h](3D") Mike_LowELL did not appreciate [criticism of the aforementioned gym pickup technique](3D")= > whither_apophis pointed out [apparent bias in a news article](3D") Smart: = Znuh had [advice for = anyone worried about vaccine side effects](=3D" eurotrader = g> pointed to [an app designed to help = if you need to take video of police officers](3D"https://w=) EvilEgg = g> figured [this year's Thanksgiving ha= d one thing going for it](3D".=) Megathuma shared a story = about [a family member's pandemic-time = wedding](3D".=) Cythraul knew [what would piss off racist neighbors even more than putting up a B= lack Santa decoration](3D" Xai pointed out [a country that got it right](3D") anwserm= an's [90-year-old grandma kick= s ass](3D"https://w=) Purple_Urkle thought [PETA was on to something with their Thanksgiving tweet](3D")That Guy What Stole the Bacon will [finally be able to enjoy the holidays this year](3D") tasteme shared [what it= 's like to receive help when you're homeless](3D" TotalFark Discu= ssion: Note: This section can only be accessed by [TotalFa= rkers](3D" Funny: Brawndo [made three moderators quit that day](3D") Smart:= m> Old Man Winter was [grateful for help with a spider bite that unfortunately didn't confer any= superpowers](3D" Smart: Brawndo [had a handy tip for someone looking at buying a single s= erving cup of wine from a gas station](3D") Smart: butter= cat [made some yummies and didn't = offer to share](3D"=) Politics Funny: kevlar51 = rong> pointed out [something horrible= that could happen if Parler were hacked](3D"https=) teto85 sh= owed us [what was happening outside a c= ar while a Trumper made a video of herself ranting about the election](3D"=)Madison_Smiled found out [why the administrator of the General Services Administration was hes= itant to begin the transition](3D" scottydoesntknow tol= d us [what it would be like if Parler w= ere hacked](3D"=) Kat09tails had [a very important reminder for us](3D") Politics Smart= : scottydoesntknow told us [what it would be like if Parler were hacked](3D") = Nicholas D. Wolfwood laid out an argument for [why Joe Biden should not pardon Donald Trump](3D") Madison_Smiled found out [why the administrator of the General Services Administration was hesitant = to begin the transition](3D" Diagonal suggested [the kind of classified briefings Trump should= receive when he's no longer in office](3D") Ambivalence = had an idea of [how Trump's alleged cr= imes could be handled once he's no longer president](3D"https:/=) Top Contest Entries Some of t= he top-voted contest entries from last week, listed from highest number of = votes down Photoshops: hail2daking [gave the Sphinx an overdue update](3D") I_Am_Weasel looked a little deeper to find out [what the "monolith" that was in the Utah desert reall= y was](3D") GoodDoctorB revealed [what everyone's getting for Christmas this year](3D") samsquatch showed us [wha= t the Sphinx actually looked like when it was first built](3D" #2= wanted us to [prove we're no= t robots](3D=) samsquatch came up with [an enterprising use for these side tables](3D") west.la.lawyer [followed some co= nspicuous panther tracks](3D"h=) jaylight2003 [yelled at another cat for not eating its vegetables](3D")= Kick The Chair showed us [a man who's breaking a universal law](3D" #2 f= ound [Princess Allura driving a loaner Captions: From](3D"=)[Write= a caption for this Norwegian political cartoon](3D" whither_apo= phis shared [the conversation= during Trump's downfall](3D"h=) WoolyManwich knew [what Trump was concerned about](3D") Fartist Friday: [Tributes to Mars](3D"https:=)= RedZoneTuba proved [there's life on the red planet](3D" This week's Fartist F= riday theme, brought to you by E-brake: In honor= of the Arecibo radio telescope, write a far-out limerick about astronomy. = And if you like, illustrate it however you want: Photoshop, MS Paint, Giphy= , a moon made of actual cheese, etc. Farktography:&n= bsp;[Giving Thanks 3](3D") Ci= liarySpasm is [thankful for c= old winter mornings](3D=) for some reason? Farktography is Fark'= s weekly photography contest. If you would like to suggest a Farktography t= heme, please contact Elsinore. Fark Weird News Quiz (broug= ht to you by ox45tallboy) Another fun time on = the Quiz last week, although I'm still not sure what to do with all this le= ftover turkey. Due to a glitch in the matrix (well, actually, me not checki= ng a box) the first few dozen quiztakers got all 14 questions available on = the Quiz. So I'm giving a special shout-out to Autoerotic Defenestrati= on, who managed to get all 14 correct in the short time before I corrected = the issue. The rest of the top 10 is below: Autoerotic Defen= estration 1281 leafslinger 1177 Den= jiro 972 Dallymo 943 avratt= > 934 buckwebb 932 Mztlplx 928 DemonicGerbil 923 rick42 921 true okie doke 916 The hardest question on last week's Har= d Quiz was about which US state is paying people $10,000 and offering a fre= e mountain bike to get them to move there. Only 35% of quiztakers knew that= it was Arkansas that felt this was sufficient enticement. Unfortunately, n= o one involved in this decision thought about maybe not being Arkansas, = The easiest question on the Hard Quiz was over the "Blues Brothers" quo= te uttered by a 41-year-old meth-addled home invader in Oklahoma City. 89% = of quiztakers knew he had insisted to police that he was "on a mission from= God." No word yet on whether said mission was a success or what his next t= ask issued by the Almighty might be, but he'll likely have to accomplish it= from behind bars. The hardest question on last week's Easy Quiz was= about which '80s and '90s action star had joined the cast of The Suicide S= quad, Only 36% of quiztakers knew that Sly Stallone will be slurring his wa= y through his lines in an unspecified role. IT should be interesting to see= how they fit him, being that filming supposedly wrapped in March of this y= ear. But, you know, CGI. The easiest question on the Easy Quiz was o= ver those wacky Canadians and their antics with local wildlife. 96% of quiz= takers knew that "DO NOT LET MOOSE LICK YOUR CAR" was an actual message pos= ted by Parks Canada on a roadside LED board. Which makes one wonder, what e= xactly should one do about it? I mean, have you ever tried telling a 1400 l= b. animal to not do something? Should one threaten to ground it or take awa= y the Wi-Fi? If you missed out on last week's Quiz, you can [catch up right here](3D"). Congratulations to the winners, 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. Or, [click here to unsubscribe](3D") from newsletter emails, even if your Fark login isn't '{NAME}'. 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