Fark NotNewsletter: Support fellow Farkers in the Farketplace, plus read about Drew's stupid thing

This is a multi-part message in MIME format... ------------=_1635970401-87434-54170 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: [ 88001](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. Last wee= k I teased an extra dumb announcement on TotalFark. It's really dumb.= Wanna know how dumb? Well, the post is now live as of this Not= Newsletter being sent. [Sign up for TotalFark](3D=) to read i= t - and if you think that it's not actually all that dumb, email me and I'l= l issue a refund. I think it will deliver on dumbness, however. [Here's the dumb thread](3D"). At 4 p.m. ET Thursday, the [Fark News Livestream](3D") with me, Christine, and Trevor.&= nbsp; This week's weird trend is long-form articles that start out normal b= ut then there's a sharp turn. Plus we've got suggestive Pizza Hut con= diments, a Halloween monkey attack involving a stripper, the long strange s= aga of JFK Jr's no-show in Dallas on Tuesday, and LA Jet Pack Man makes ano= ther appearance - sort of. ________________________ We now re= turn you to your usual Fark NotNewsletter. ________________________= Announcements:= Farketplace!= n> The Farketplace went live yesterday, and there's already a lot of= super cool stuff. What's Farketplace, you ask? Well, this is why you shoul= d've read last week's NotNewsletter (and every week's NotNewsletter). Farke= tplace is a thread where Farkers are invited to share information about the= ir online shops and small businesses. There's a much better explanation in = [the Farketplace thread](3D"), so go check = it out, and see all the awesome stuff your fellow Farkers are selling. And = if you happen to make and sell, for example, custom platypus bills and tail= s to attach to car bumpers, or you have a business installing Styrofoa= m nuns, go tell everyone in the [Farketpl= ace](=3D"-Post-link=) thread about how to give you money in exchange for goods and servic= es. Be sure to read the posts from Moderator at the top of= the page, and don't go threadjacking in there or you will be kicked to the= curb with my car's giant webbed platypus feet. ______________= __________ Top Comments= > Some of the top-voted smartest and funniest comments from t= he past week Funny: Cafe Threads made&= nbsp;[a smart aleck comment about a meteor = sighting](3D") kbronsito knew [how to stop using real guns in movies](3D" Picklehead= [threw the topics of a couple of= recent sex articles onto a meme](3D".=) Mr. Coffee Nerves = [didn't think it was the proper moment t= o "think of the sex workers"](3D") Driedsponge discussed= [some of the advantages of having you= r younger child vaccinated against COVID-19](3D") MusicMakeMyHeadP= ound [made Petey4335= ong>'s head pound](3D"=) Gyrfalcon gave [an update on a woman who went missing 16 years ago](3D")= khitsicker defended the apparent [careless treatment of guns and ammunition on the set of "= Rust"](3D") Psychopusher had [an unsatisfying package](3D" GardenWeasel f= igured out [who made music that Wil Wheaton loved as a teenager, but then turned out to be "a re= prehensible bigot"](3D".=) Smart: FightDirector = rong> explained [why banning the use o= f real guns in movies isn't really a workable idea](3D"https:/=) Driedspon= ge discussed [what it means = to buy an NFT](3D"=) Benevolent Misanthrope told us about= [a previous dorm hall designed b= y an amateur architect billionaire who's donating money to UC Santa Ba= rbara as long as they use his dorm design](3D") thisispete = g> argued that [Frank Burns was one of= the most unlikable TV characters](3D"https://=) markie_farkie ha= d seen evidence that [many things that= seem too stupid to be real often are, in fact, real](3D"ht=) Mattyth= eMouse discussed [how NFTs a= re a way to expand capitalism](=3D" Don't Troll Me Bro! = had personal experience with the kind= of person who might kill someone for pulling into their driveway ImpendingCynic also experienced [the rural American welcome wagon](3D" [Fark's 18th annual spooky story thread](3D")Smart: RolandTGunner got [a helpful push from a lost friend](3D") Funny: a particular individual [wanted to recover some lost booty](3D" CSB Sunday Morning:= [Stories of trick-or-treating](3D") Smart & Funny: Ad= olf Oliver Nipples came up with [a plan to stop kids who kept egging the house](3D" Funny (h= onorable mention since [the same story won= last year](3D"https=)): Recoil Therapy [spent Halloween surprising people who came to the door](3D")= CSB [Cool Story, Bro] Sunday Morning is a thread for Farkers to sha= re 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 Farkb= ack](3D" ahead of time, or just [submit it](3D" on Saturday afternoon/ev= ening. Please note: While submitted CSB Sunday Morning threads have a high = likelihood of being greenlit, there is no guarantee they will be. Politics Funny: Im_Gumby considered the fa= ct that [one of the kids in the Pfizer= vaccine trial for 5- to 12-year-olds swallowed a penny](3D"=) Enzo= TheCoder advised a Farker who was at [a bar when people at another table started chanting "let's go b= randon"](3D" Pocket Ninja's [satirical comment ended up partly being kind of true, so Pocket Ninja has become Fark's The Onion](3D" Cake Hun= ter explained [one child's "= adverse event" as part of the Pfizer vaccine trial for 5- to 12-year-olds= a> WordsnCollision summed up](3D=)[Oregon's struggle against drug cartels illegally growing canna= bis and marijuana in Southern Oregon](3D" Politics Smart: tudorgurl shared [w= hat many LGBTQ+ kids are going through at school](3D" kbronsito wasn't impressed by lawyers = feigning naivete when caught coming up with pathways for presidents to brea= k laws keiverarrow explained [why so many political rant videos are recorded in the fron= t seat of a car](3D") Dusk-You-n-Me looked at [one of the ways in which Elon Musk benefited fr= om taxes while complaining about taxing billionaires](3D") EvilEgg= had an idea for how Democrats can get the support of [people who like to say "let's go Brandon"](3D") Top Contest Entries= Some of the top-voted contest entries from last week, listed from h= ighest number of votes down Photoshops: Trolling= ForColumbine looked at [what'= s under the hood of Facebook's algorhythm](3D" bugdozer = [had some special spectacles](3D") kabloink just wanted to= see one thing at Facebook bugdozer [had a vendetta against Facebook](3D") WordsnCol= lision came up with a bette= r rebranding than "Meta" kabloink's [window was broken](3D") Austinoftx = > [made a crappy change to the Facebook lo= go](3D") RedZoneTuba gave [a warning to gun-shy Farkers](3D" bugdozer [came up with a fowl plan](3D") Terrap= in Bound [gave this girl a shiny = new twin](3D"https://w=) This week's Fartist Friday theme, brought to y= ou by E-brake: Show & Tell = Volume 13: Orange You Glad I Didn't Say Banana. Show us your favorite artwo= rk you've created featuring the color ORANGE and Tell us about it. All arti= stic mediums allowed including photos, paintings, jewelry, poetry, Photosho= p, drawings, etc. Difficulty: Art you haven't entered into our contests bef= ore. Be sure to TELL us about your art. Farktography: [Spooky Season](3D") Lovesandwich won with a snap from Kings P= ark Psychiatric Center on Long Island Fark Headlines of the Week A selection of s= ome of the top headlines from last week [Coup coup Khartoum, Mrs. Robinson](3D") [Iran out of gas. Should've= stopped to refuel earlier](3D") [♫ Scooby Dooby Doo, where are you? We got some work t= o do now ♫ Scooby Dooby Doo, you're a kangaroo ♫ And stolen fro= m the zoo now ♫](3D") Rams and Broncos swap 2024 draft picks. That's a lot [Orlando signs Mulder to two-way contract, desp= ite agent Scully's skepticism about Magic](3D") [Video game company's workaround of Sony's restrictive sexual content = policy results in a version either far more innocuous or far more pervy, de= pending on your perspective](3D") [DeJoy says the Postal Service will add 45 more = facilities for the holidays, likely will route all mail through all 45 befo= re delivering](3D") [Mike Lindell has lost = Steve Bannon, and when you've lost Steve Bannon... clearly you're out of bo= oze](3D"htt=) [Nea= rly half of American companies say that they don't offer enough compensatio= n and benefits to attract and keep skilled workers](3D"=) [Oh the pain](3D") [Red blood cells deser= ve more credit than we've been giving tehm. Please forgive the type-O](=3D") Fark Weird News Quiz= n> (brought to you by ox45tallboy) Another fun= time on the Quiz this week, but with no one in the 1000 club, we'll just s= tick the candy corn ice cream back in the freezer for next time. = For our top five, TheMothership came out on top with 993, = followed by UnrepentantApostate in second with 943 an= d Oak in third with 941, Denjiro mad= e fourth with 936, and Captain Orr made it into the t= op five with 927. The hardest question on last week's Hard Quiz was = about Global Bionergies, a company founded to combat pollution. Only 36% of= quiztaker knew that their new brand "Last" launched this year was a line o= f cosmetics utilizing the hydrocarbon isododecane made from a renewable sou= rce. I don't think many of us realize that much of our shampoos, cleaning p= roducts, and makeup are made from the same dead dinosaur goo that powers ou= r cars and airplanes, so it's a Good Thing for an industry made for easy ad= aptability to innovate this way. Maybe one day we'll be duct taping idiots = to their seats in airplanes powered by renewable energy. The e= asiest question on last week's Hard Quiz was about which STI that Australia= n koalas were getting vaccinated for. Farkers continue to buck the ste= reotype as 84% of quiztakers knew their STIs well enough to name Chlamydia = as the one currently plaguing the poor drop bears. No word on any push= for abstinence only education and making contraceptives difficult to obtai= n, since it seems the Australian government actually wants to solve the pro= blem. The hardest question on last week's Easy Quiz was also a= bout Australia and where the STI-infected koalas generally don't eat. Only = 32% of quiztakers knew that Hungry Jack's was the Australian alter ego of A= merica's Burger King. - complete with the flame-broiled Whopper they call a= "Big Jack." Fortunately for the Aussies, what they don't have are the= creepy The King commercials. I think they use The King for koala abst= inence-only education or something. The easiest question on la= st week's Easy Quiz was about "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" and ho= w the story behind the influential novel was first presented to the public.= 78% of quiztakers knew that Douglas Adams originally wrote it as a BBC rad= io program before the novelization. Fun side note: in the mid 1980s, it was= set to become a Hollywood movie starring Dan Akroyd as Arthur Dent and Bil= l Murray as Zaphod Beeblebrox. When the deal fell through, Dan Akroyd just = so happened to have a script he'd been working on with his buddy Harold Ram= is that was close to the sci-fi theme the studio was looking for, and the r= est is history. If you missed out on last week's Quiz, [y= ou can catch up on the Fark Weird News Quiz](3D" now that you know a few of = the answers. Congratulations to the winners, and we'll be doing it all agai= n 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 1291, Versailles KY 40383 = ------------=_1635970401-87434-54170--