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This is a multi-part message in MIME format... ------------=_1662573043-95357-43133 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: [ 47854](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've got a couple updates for you from the past two weeks and an ite= m of new business. My daughter tested negative for Covi= d on Friday, and we did a second test to make sure the first wasn't a false= negative. Last week I joked that she'd end up liking the basement so= much she'd stay down there. Well it actually happened - after testin= g negative I told her she could come up and hang out with the rest of us an= d she said no thanks because she was busy doing side quests in Genshin Impa= ct. I didn't see her until the following day. I think she might= live down there now. I'm afraid to go look. Anyhow the good ne= ws is her birthday is this weekend and she won't miss that, at least for Co= vid reasons anyhow. I think we're going axe-throwing, she loves it.&n= bsp; Monday afternoon, Mike and I plus our r= espective crews went over to the collection we retrieved for the Internet A= rchive to rebox it. A friend of mine graciously donated a spare bedro= om for the items, however the recovered material smelled heavily of old car= dboard and was affecting the smell of the rest of her house. Addition= ally, the Internet Archive requires materials to be submitted to them in sp= ecific new boxes, so phase two of the rescue was for us to spend an afterno= on reboxing everything. It took a few hours and we ende= d up with 71 boxes of material. We took pictures of a bunch of the it= ems. There were some fairly unusual recordings in there, such as Moscow rad= io during Chernobyl, Iranian radio during the 1979-1980 hostage crisis, a r= ecording of the first episode of "The Lone Ranger," Babe Ruth's called home= run, and tons of BBC recordings. That last bit is of particular inte= rest because the BBC doesn't have a full archive of its own material - thes= e tapes might plug some gaps for them. In short, there are some amazi= ng unusual pieces in the collection. Can't wait to see what the Archi= ve finds on them. They're sending a truck at some point to come get t= hem, and that'll be the end of our involvement. On an unrelated not= e, we're testing a new ad unit starting probably tomorrow. It'll show= up when you scroll to the top or the bottom of the site or when you click = away. If we did our implementation right, you won't notice it's even = there. Normally I run these things by TotalFark before launch, but in= this case, TotalFarkers can't see the ads anyhow. In fact, if you'd = rather not see ads as well, definitely [sign up for TotalFark](3D" or even [BareFark](3D"=). Speaking of which, someone wrote in t= he other day and asked if having a BareFark account was more beneficial to = Fark than seeing ads - it actually is. So sign up today if you get a = minute, we'd love to have you. Thursday at 4 p.m. the Fark News Livestream returns! Lucky, Dill,= me, and maybe Christine will do a rundown of the strangest stuff from the = past couple of weeks. I've kept compiling stories even during the two= weeks we weren't doing the livestream, so I'm loaded with material. = Dinosaur puppeteers, the latest DALL-E nightmare fuel, and rise of The Iron= Weathercock among others. ________________________ End = ;Drew transmission ________________________ = Top Comments Some of the top-voted smartest and funniest comments from the past w= eek Funny: I Have A Bo Burnham GIF For That = trong> participated in [a thing that w= as happening on Twitter on Thursday](3D"=) jim32rr [had reason to believe another Farker wouldn't ha= ve had a successful marriage with Sarah Michelle Gellar](3D") blas= toh gave [this update after = an emergency alert was issued urging the immediate evacuation of the wester= n seaboard](3D"http=) bostonguy explained [why a man contacted a sex worker while on his honeymoon king of vegas shared](3D")[a fun fact about the history of the Potomac River](3D" K= irby Muxloe noticed two Far= k headlines that seemed to go together Marcos P wo= rried about [Lorde's affinity for swim= ming in the local waters of places where she does concerts](3D"=) H= ubris Boy thought about [why= a pilot flying over Mississippi chose a Walmart to threaten to fly into](3D" > giantmeteor knew [why a crude oil tanker ran aground in the Suez Canal](3D" phal= amir argued against compari= ng a threat to crash into a Mississippi Walmart to 9/11 Sma= rt: DoBeDoBeDo discussed [when innocent people are unwilling to talk to police](3D") Pugdaddyk [analyzed a= probably-NSFW medieval drawing](3D"h=) Somaticasual sugge= sted [renaming some forms of assholery=](3D"=) neapoi had [a better way of dealing with students spending too much class time in the= restroom](3D" BizarreMan took a guess at [why prices are starting to fall for some things](3D")= > GardenWeasel heard [the sound of Farkers quietly quitting](3D" Joe USer = > [insulted my breakfast](3D") C= SB Sunday Morning theme: Labor Day traditions Smart: Auntie= Cheesus set off [fireworks = with the appropriately-named Smoke and Boomer](=3D" Funny: The Pope of Manwich Village [craved some chili](3D" Politics Funny: Angry = Drunk Bureaucrat answered a question about [a labelled photo of people meeting with Donald Trump's law= yer Christina Bobb the night of January 5, 2021](3D") scottydoesnt= know shared [a personal poin= t of view of Sarah Paling losing the special election for Alaska's House se= at](3D"h=) Gubbo called attention to [Joe Biden's hypocrisy](3D") NateAsbestos = > explained [why any information Trump= had about French President Emmanuel Macron's sex life must be false](3D"=) Ragin' Asian figured out [how one person ended up working for OANN](3D" Politics S= mart: koder discussed the fact that [armed volunteers assembled to protect a drag brunc= h in Roanoke, Texas](3D") Maybe you should drive talked = about [the difficulty of paying off ev= en minimal student loans](3D".=) BigMax described [how serious problems with the Michigan Board = of State Canvassers have become](3D") Martian_Astronomer = noted [an apparent lack of self-aware= ness](3D"=) yohohogreengiant figured [the U.S. is heading into an alternative to a Civil War](3D")= > Bonus FarkStaff Pick: Someone Else's Alt = rong> shared [what it was like to be t= he the public works director for Key West](3D"=) in during the 2004 and 2005 h= urricane seasons (2005 being the year of Hurricane Katrina), including = ;[behind-the-scenes stories](3D"). Special = thanks to leviosaurus for bringing our attention to = these comments. Top Contes= t Entries Some of the top-voted contest entries from las= t week Photoshops: artifishy [drove La Jeep around La Field](3D") Yamme= ring_Splat_Vector [chose a bad pl= ace to park the ship](3D"=) artifishy found some [birds with an unusual migration method](3D") RedZoneTuba discovered [the lost episode where Fonzie jumps a whale](3D" Yammering_S= plat_Vector [sailed by a toothy= island](3D"https:=) Yammering_Splat_Vector recorded [the amphibian grunge record we didn't know we n= eeded](3D") Yammering_Splat_Vector [launched a space library](3D" RedZoneTuba went in for the krill hammet= tman found [a furry Bowie fa= n](3D"ht=) RedZoneTuba was [cranky about teh interwebs](3D" Farktography theme:= [Au Naturel](3D") DorisLess= ingCat gave us [a look int= o the woods](=3D" Fark Headl= ines of the Week A selection of some of the top headline= s from last week [Man doing yardwork gets stung by a) b) and c) 19,999 = of his friends](3D"htt=) [Artemissed](3D"h=) [Jackson, Miss has no water. Nasty=](3D") [They say springtime in= Moscow is lovely, but you have to visit in the autumn, too, to see the fal= ling oil tycoons](3D"=) [Poland demands $1.3= trillion in reparations from Germany. I guess that's their pierogitive](3D=)= [There was a news lady who swallowed= a fly. I don't know why she swallowed a fly - but it was live](3D"=) = [Many things are visible from space, but this fire is vi= sible from the Wild Duck Cluster](3D") [Cloudflare sends Kiwi Farms to a farm upstate= a>](3D")[Man who threatened to fly p= lane into Mississippi Walmart suffers from Middle-Name-is-Wayne Syndrome](3D".=)= > [Brett Favre could pitch in $70 million to help Jackson's= water problem](3D"=) [Baby swimming for cash misses out on loot](3D"h=) [Trump's master baiting ploy goes limp because DoJ's taint team finished= too quickly](3D") [How many races for national office can = Sarah Palin lose? All of them, Katie](3D"htt=) [Pig organs could save thousands of lives, which raises real and ve= ry exciting hopes for the possible benefits of pig harpsichords, pig pianos= , pig accordions, and pig synthesizers as well](3D") [SETI finds a signal of indisputable intelligent origin f= rom beyond our Solar System. Fark: For real](3D") [Magnesium deficiency may be causin= g fatigue. 0mg](3D") Fark We= ird News Quiz (brought to you by ox45tallboy= g>) Another fun time on this week's Quiz, with no less than seven q= uiztakers making it into the 1000 club, meaning I've got to get busy making= hors d'oeuvres. Evildog came out on top with 1031, f= ollowed by dionysusaur with 1023, JasonOfOril= lia with 1021, Gibsongrl and TheMoth= ership tied with 1012, Denjiro with 1007, and&nbs= p;runwiz with 1004. Effie, break out the good spoons, we g= ot a big loada company comin'! The hardest question on last week's = Hard Quiz was about which burger chain is moving to Tempe, AZ for the first= time in its storied history. Only 36% of quiztakers recognized Flippy 2 as= the corporate giant White Castle's answer to millennials whining abou= t long hours with no breaks and low pay - it's their trademark robotic burg= er flipper and fry cook. No word on its ability to hotbox a joint behind th= e dumpster while taking out the trash for the fifth time of the night. That= 's a Gen X skill set science has yet to duplicate. The easies= t question on last week's Hard Quiz was about the loss of Diana, Princess o= f Wales 25 years ago. 90% of quiztakers knew that the high-speed car crash = in which she died was in Paris, France. I never understood why she was the = Princess of Wales, especially considering her name had more vowels than con= sonants which isn't exactly a Welsh thing. The hardest question on = last week's Easy Quiz was about Krispy Kreme's new cheesecake cream-f= illed and cookies & cream-iced donut. Only 49% of quiztakers caught the= article about it being made to celebrate the launch of the Artemis mission= to the moon, with the cookie chunks in the icing meant to symbolize the lu= nar surface and the gooey cheesecake filling representing, I'm gonna say, t= he green cheese the moon is made of under all the surface rocks. No word ye= t if they'll bring it back again for the next scheduled launch window, but = hopefully they'll keep people aware of the space program through sweetened = confectionary, as this is the most scientifically proven way of making peop= le aware of things. The easiest question on last week's Easy Quiz w= as about the reunion of rock gods Roger Daltrey and Pete Townshend. 95% of = quiztakers recognized them as founding members of The Who, who will be play= ing all of your favorite "CSI" themes on their North American tour next yea= r, with local symphonies backing them. So it's like, cultural and stuff. Go= see some violins and oboes and all those weird instruments you haven't see= n since high school band. If you missed out last week, it's a= great time to [catch up on the Fark Weird News Quiz](3D"https://=) no= w that you know a few of the answers. Congratulations once again to the win= ners, and we'll be doing it all again on Friday. --------------------------------------------------------------- ([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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