Fark NotNewsletter: Would you rather listen to cicadas, a vuvuzela, or screaming goats?

This is a multi-part message in MIME format... ------------=_1620321220-23182-55166 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: [ 97111](3D" Unsubscribe links are at the bottom of this message. =20 =20 ________________________ A message = from Drew Curtis: ____________________= ____ Hey everyone, hope your week's been going well. Th= anks to everyone who dropped in on last week's TotalFark discus= sion. I wanted to mention it because the reason we give TotalFark= a heads up on impending Fark changes is that almost always someone comes u= p with an idea that changes the direction we were originally heading. = This time around, it was super interesting to see that we were all pretty = much on the same page. I'm not sure that's ever happened before. As much as I'd like to go back to doing the [Fark= Livestream](3D") multiple times a week, one of the huge advantages of moving= to once a week at Thursday 8:30 p.m. is that the stream is chock-full of w= eirdness. Come join us, this week was super weird as well. I co= uld get used to this level of strangeness, hopefully it will keep up. Finally, we're making a series of tweaks to Fark's desktop layout. = Keep an eye out and see if you notice them. If we did them right, you= won't - but someone always does. ________________________ We= now return you to your usual Fark NotNewsletter. _________________= _______ Top Comments= u> Some of the top-voted smartest and funniest comments from = the past week Funny: Abe Vigoda's Ghost = >showed us [what "Disaster Girl" has b= een up to](3D".=) R2112 [b= ragged about having skill in the bedroom](3D" Billy Liar = > noted that [there's a really good re= ason to fear cicadas](3D"=) markie_farkie thought "prison= pouch" wasn't the best word for [wher= e an inmate hid a loaded revolver she tried to sneak into prison](3D" AnotherBluesStringer responded to the news that [Lorne Michaels was allowing SNL cast members= to sit out the Elon Musk episode](3D") bloobeary gave t= he definitive answer to ["What book do= you bring to an arson?"](3D=) morg reacted to some info= rmation about [a man who has hoarding = disorder](3D"https://w=) kbronsito told us about [the sinister side of the polio vaccine](3D") = Mr. Coffee Nerves had questions about [the average amount of time one session of sexytimes lasts](3D" addressed [a complaint about the name a particular internet meme has been given](3D" Smart: vygramul demolished [Glen Danzig's complaint that "you could nev= er have the punk explosion nowadays, because of cancel culture and woke bul= lshiat"](3D") BunkyBrewman had a message for [people who berate restaurant employees for enfor= cing health codes](3D") Dr. DJ Duckhunt had a suggestion= for [criminals who used the services = of cryptocurrency launderer Bitcoin Fog](3D"=) Gubbo brou= ght up [two dueling features of Bitcoi= n](3D"=) ongbok shared a story about [a racist former coworker](3D") Ragin' Asian = rong> figured out [the secret to Chri= stopher Lambert's career](3D"https=) Politics Funny: apo= theosis27 knew [what inves= tigators found while searching Rudy Giuliani's home and office](=3D" = Kumana Wanalaia took [a Fox News approach to discussing the allegations against Matt Gaetz](3D" thought of [something else that would've been found while searching Giuliani's home= a> hugram](3D" civi= c duties very seriously](=3D" EnzoTheCoder pointed out&n= bsp;[the most damning evidence found a= t Trump associates' properties](3D") Politics Smart: apotheosis27 knew [what i= nvestigators found while searching Rudy Giuliani's home and office](3D" Officer Barrelroll wondered [if something Tucker Carlson recently said on his show could br= ing him trouble down the line](3D") eurotrader shared&nb= sp;[a bit about the funding of a charter sc= hool that said they won't employ anyone who is vaccinated for COVI= D-19](3D") Ker_Thwap detected [a certain tone of voice in a video showing a bunch of white peo= ple romanticizing slavery](3D" The Bunyip looked at&nbs= p;[Matt Gaetz committee memberships](3D") Top Contest Entries= Some of the top-voted contest entries from last week, listed from h= ighest number of votes down Photoshops: Dodo Dav= id showed us [a great way to= perk up your ear hair](3D"=) Yammering_Splat_Vector [updated this cradle for future engineers](3D")Driver showed us [the part of the Large Magellanic Cloud where stars and screensavers are b= orn](3D" retrophil made [a visual version of an earworm about a guilty dad](3D" Wr= ongo [preferred Farrah, apparentl= y](3D"=) Kick The Chair spotted [dickbutt's divine origins](3D") Yammering_Splat_Vecto= r [got someone ready to take some= new profile pics](3D"=) RedZoneTuba gave a makeover to&n= bsp;[a former United States Ambassador to t= he Holy See](3D") zeon showed [what happened after Sandy realized she could do a lot better](3D" > Mojongo [delivered = some medicine to where it was needed the most](=3D" Fartist Friday= : [Limericks about our favorite childhood cartoon cha= racters](3D") hobnail wrote a limerick about [a hot-tempered redhead](3D") This = week's Fartist Friday theme, brought to you by E-brake= >: Help celebrate "World Migratory Bird Day" by flipping the bird to c= lassic internet memes. Using any medium, recreate iconic memes, but us= ing birds instead. Ermahgerd, It's Literal Gersberms!, Distracted Birdfrien= d, Ceiling Catbird, etc. Farktography: [In Memoriam: Curious](3D") This = Louisiana-themed Farktography contest in honor of the life of Farker [Curious](3D" ended with four winning entries&nb= sp;from [Taming of the shoe= trong>](3D"=), [common sense is an oxy= moron](3D"=), [common sense i= s an oxymoron](3D"https://=) (again), and [CiliarySpasm](3D" and even more loving tributes to a Fa= rker who was a beloved member of our community. Fark Parties Friday, July 9, 20= 20: [Buff= alo, NY Fark Party](3D"=) (with all public health guidance carefully followed)= Fark Weird News Quiz= pan> (brought to you by ox45tallboy) Another f= un time on the Quiz this week, although we never reached a conclusion on wh= ether 2021 Judge Doom Tom Brady at the Kentucky Derby was better or worse t= han 2014 Fauxhawk Tom Brady at the Kentucky Derby. On the Quiz itself, Denjiro came out on top with 982, followed by zer= kalo in second with 928 and beekayy in third= with 865. EBens made fourth with 844, and Gr= izwald came in fifth with 840. The hardest question on this= week's Hard Quiz was about the Japanese Karaage Association and their= idea to come up with as many awards to hand out as they had entrants this = year in the Karaage Grand Prix. Only 24% of quiztakers knew that "Kara= age" is the Japanese style of battering and frying things in oil, most clos= ely associated with chicken. Even 7-Eleven got an award for "best gas stati= on fried chicken". I guess I can't laugh too hard, the gas station in = my town regularly beats KFC and six independent restaurants for "Best fried= chicken" in the local newspaper surveys every year. The easiest que= stion on the Hard Quiz was about the late Chuck Geschke and his work as co-= founder of Adobe. 80% of people knew he was the father of the PDF format, w= hich we finally have integrated into our browsers and don't need to downloa= d instruction manuals and open them separately in Adobe Reader just to= see a specification on page 37. FWIW, JPEGs were a product of the Joint Ph= otographic Experts Group, an industry group with members from various compa= nies and educational institutions, and GIFs are a remnant from the bygone d= ays of Compuserve. Yup, we have those guys to thank, and we don't even have= four billion discs with 100 Free Hours to remember them by as we do with A= OL. The hardest question on the Easy Quiz was about which artist saw= Pete Davidson and Jack Harlow parody his song "Without Me" on SNL to expla= in NFTs. Only 42% of quiztakers knew that it was Eminem who watched the ski= t using his song, and decided to get in the business. He made $1.3 million = off his first "sale", which is a heck of a lot more than Pete Davidson and = Jack Harlow made for the parody, so I guess he's sending thank you cards ra= ther than DMCA notices. The easiest question on the Easy Quiz was ab= out the Oscar-nominated 1964 film "Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Ma= chines or How I Flew from London to Paris in 25 hours 11 minutes". 81% of q= uiztakers knew that the film no longer has the distinction of having the lo= ngest title of any Oscar-nominated film, having been overtaken by "Borat Su= bsequent Moviefilm: Delivery of Prodigious Bribe to American Regime for Mak= e Benefit Once Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan". This concludes my contractua= lly obligated number of words for this segment. A final note on one = of the questions: The "banned" episode of the original Twilight Zone is now= available on Netflix in the US. You can see a pre-Star Trek George Takei w= ith Neville Brand in "The Encounter" about midway through Season 5. It's wo= rth a look if you're a fan of the series or of Takei, and it's an interesti= ng historical take on what the writers and director were saying versus what= the network didn't want to be said for the 52 years it was not allowed to = be aired. If you missed out on the Quiz, you can [ca= tch up on it here](3D". Congratulations to the winners, and we'll be doing i= t 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}'. [Click her= e to unsubscribe from ALL Fark emails](3D"). Fark, Inc. PO Box 1713, Versailles KY 40383 = ------------=_1620321220-23182-55166--