Fark NotNewsletter: Which tourist attraction is "like Cthulhu decorated a TGI Fridays"?

This is a multi-part message in MIME format... ------------=_1623865291-30938-55010 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: [ 14136](3D" Unsubscribe links are at the bottom of this message. =20 =20 ________________________ A message = from Drew Curtis: ____________________= ____ Hey everyone, hope your week's been well. I [= teased a thing about Snopes last week](3D"), however it's been kicked 'til th= e end of the month. I also teased an upcoming kinda dumb idea for Far= k, that got postponed 'til later today. Depending on how it goes, I m= ight post a TotalFark Discussion thread to solicit opinions. Sorry ab= out the lack of updates on both those fronts, I blame summertime. Th= e [Fark News Livestream](3D") returns Thursday at 5:30= p.m. ET - Dallan and I were both travelling last week, so we had a hi= atus. Based on the speed of the news cycle this morning, we'll have a= ton of interesting stuff including what post-pandemic shortages to expect = next, why your dog smells like corn chips, and a history of Batman not doin= g oral. When I was a kid, I thought my dog was just sneaking Fritos.&= nbsp;Turns out there's another explanation. Speaking of travel last = week, I dropped in to visit [House on the Rock](3D"=)= . I think I was last there 25 years ago. Still super ass weird,= like Cthulhu decorated a TGI Fridays. Also for anyone wondering, the= entire tour racks up about 8,000 steps according to my health app. = On an unrelated note, does anyone live along this year's [RAGB= RAI](3D") route? If this question doesn't mean anything to you, the answ= er is no. 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Unfortunately, I'm= not making any more ice cream until the rest of the pesto stuff is gone, s= o that's what we have for refreshments this week. scottdrummer= came in third with 971, jerrysloan21 made fourth= with 968, and Sebas rounds out the top five wi= th 937. The hardest question on the Hard Quiz was about which Disney= land attraction has been shut down for extensive remodeling because it's ba= sically falling apart. Only 42% of quiztakers knew that it was The Matterho= rn which was not a part of the park's initial lineup of rides, but was adde= d later in 1959. Fun fact: The Matterhorn was constructed because Disney ne= eded to do something with the mountain of dirt left over from excavating th= e moat around Sleeping Beauty's Castle, since people were using it as a rem= ote area to... get to know one another better. Yeah. The easie= st question on the Hard Quiz was about which country's military forced a pa= ssenger plane to divert and land so that a journalist on board could be arr= ested. 90% of quiztakers knew that it was Belarus who had just decided they= no longer needed commercial air travel from other countries. I mean, say w= hat you want about Putin, but he doesn't really inconvenience other air tra= velers when he has a problem with a journalist. The hardest qu= estion on last week's Easy Quiz was about which TV channel now had its own = branded hard seltzer. Only 29% of quiztakers knew that it was indeed the sa= me channel that had its own wine - the Hallmark Channel. I'm not really sur= e of the demographic they're going for here, but I say there's nothing wron= g with getting out of your comfort zone and trying new things. Unless it's = watching Hallmark movies because I'm not going to do that. The easie= st question on the Easy Quiz was about which major film star was also a hig= hly decorated WWII fighter pilot who retired as a Brigadier General. 81% kn= ew that it was Jimmy Stewart who flew sorties and bombing missions in Europ= e throughout the war. After enlisting at 33, he learned he was too old for = cadet training, so he applied for an officer commission on the basis of his= flight experience and college degree. The war meant rapid promotion, and h= e wound up going from private to colonel in less than four years. He was pr= omoted to Major General post-retirement by Ronald Reagan. If you mis= sed out on [last week's Quiz](3D".=), you can catch up on = it now. 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