Fark NotNewsletter: Abandoned places and the Dark Carnival

This is a multi-part message in MIME format... ------------=_1665611969-2418-41063 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: [ 00294](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 took a road trip last week with two of my kids, Storm and Sierra.&= nbsp; Since I was doing all the driving, we decided to do things differentl= y. The end goal was to get to Ocean City, Maryland to visit the good = folks at Ocean 98 - who have had me on air on Tuesdays most every week for = the past 20 years. OC is about 700 miles from Kentucky, and there's a= whole lot of West Virginia between here and there. So we decided to = take our time, google up weird destination options, and wander the back roa= ds. We saw tons of weird stuff. First stop was a = tour of the Trans Alleghany Lunatic Asylum, opened in 1864 and closed uncer= emoniously in 1994 when all the patients were just dumped on the surroundin= g streets. Then wonderful downtown Cumberland, Maryland, followed by = a Gettysburg battlefield tour. We made a quick stop at Harriet Tubman= 's birthplace, which we did not know was just off the route about an hour o= utside Ocean City. We had a great two days in Ocean City, which we sp= ent mostly visiting surrounding small towns within an hour of there finding= strange americana, things like otters and abandoned iron works.  = ; On the return we stopped in at the abandoned Lake Shawnee Amuseme= nt Park, closed since the mid 1960s because people just would not stop gett= ing killed by the rides. Later they discovered it was built on top of= an old Shawnee town, complete with an estimated 3,000 graves. I'm no= t one to believe in ghosts, but if you do, they've probably got them. = On Fridays and Saturdays in October they do something called the Dark Carn= ival, so we dropped in because you can't pass up something called the Dark = Carnival - with bonus zombie paintball. All in all it was a very succ= essful trip, racked up close to 2000 miles. This week I= 've done pretty much nothing, travel-wise. And I'm fine with that. Also back this week at 4 p.m. Thursday is the [Fark News Livestream](3D"): We should have Dill, Lucky, and Christine, and I= 've got two weeks' worth of material to work with. The continuing sag= a of how to cheat in chess tournaments, is Putin a hologram, was the Stone = of Destiny replaced with a fake in the 1960s and if Charles is coronated on= it does that mean he's not actually king? These questions and more, = to be solved this week by the four of us. ________________________= End Drew transmission _________= _______________ Hey y'all, we have a thread today that a= sks, "[What big news= did you find out through Fark?](3D")" Drop by and share your stories. T= ell 'em DisseminationMonkey sent you. Actually, don't. Tha= t would be kind of weird. XOXO, DisseminationMonkey= Top Comments= Some of the top-voted smartest and funniest comments from t= he past week Funny: Noticeably F.A.T. = explained [why one of ecmoRan= domNumbers' comments showed up in a different color](3D".=) Loonyman had [a theory abou= t Jesus](3D=) alechemist commented on [Chess.com releasing their report about cheating allegat= ions against one of their players](3D") Hey Nurse! 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Will also not= return to any of those places](3D") [= Daily Beast confirms Herschel Walker had at least one fewer children than p= reviously estimated](3D") [Fresh = from his success negotiating peace in Ukraine, Special Envoy to Mars has a = proposal for Taiwan](=3D") [ᗺ](=3D" [Twitter begins rolling out new feature to allow = users to edit tweets after they've been submitted, which raises the questio= ns when will Fark roll our similiar feature for eadlines](3D") [Alberta d= iscovers the secret to dealing with living in Alberta](3D") [Whitest paint ever to make the world coo= ler, probably by appropriating music and fashion from world's blackest pain= t](3D") [Cold Miner's Daughter](3D"=) Fark Weird News Quiz= an> (brought to you by ox45tallboy) Another f= un time on this week's Quiz, where I learned that the proper way to navigat= e in a place like London where everyone drives on the wrong side of the roa= d is to steal a cargo drone and ride it to my destination. On the Quiz itse= lf, no one made the 1000 Club, so I get to keep playing Watch Dogs: Legion = on the big screen all by my lonesome. Firststepsadoozie= g> came out on top with 970, followed by ProfessorTomoe= g> in second with 935 and bud jones in third with 931= . highpedestrian made fourth with 928, and runwiz rounds out the top five with 918. The hard= est question on last week's Hard Quiz was about where to find the world's l= argest music collection. Only 38% of quiztakers knew that Apple passed a ma= jor milestone on Monday of last week when they offered their 100,000,000th = song available for download. Considering at least 4.3 million are covers of= "Yesterday," though, I'm not so sure I would be quite as proud of this as = they seem to be. The easiest question on last week's Hard Qui= z was about where an American tourist decided to behave like an American to= urist and destroy a couple of ancient artifacts when he was denied what he = wanted. 80% of quiztakers caught the story about the 50-year-old guy in the= Galleria Chiaramonte corridor of the Vatican who became upset when he= was told that no, the Pope wasn't gonna make a personal appearance on the = tour, and proceeded to tear a couple of busts off the wall before being app= rehended by the Swiss guys in the silly uniforms and presumably taken to an= ancient Vatican cell where he'll say a lot of Hail Marys and have to read = Deuteronomy or something. (ed. they actually passed him on to Italian polic= e, for which he's no doubt grateful) The hardest question on = last week's Easy Quiz was about the late Loretta Lynn and her family. Only = 58% of quiztakers knew that she was the real-life sister of singer Crystal = Gayle, most famous for her 1977 #1 "Don't It Make My Brown Eyes Blue." Alth= ough they had a 19-year age difference and never shared the same home, they= were reportedly quite close in real life. The easiest questi= on on last week's Easy Quiz was about Native American activist Sacheen Litt= lefeather. 97% of quiztakers knew that it was Marlon Brando who asked her t= o decline his Oscar for "The Godfather" in protest of the treatment of Nati= ve Americans in Hollywood. While there's a lot to be said about Brando, it'= s even more impressive that she herself was willing to stand in front of a = group only a few years removed from the Communist blacklisting and tell the= m to their faces that what they were doing was wrong. Although her actions = angered many in the movie business, they certainly had an effect on Native = American portrayals on screen. If you missed out last week, now's a= great time to [catch up on the Fark Weird News Quiz](3D"https://=). C= ongratulations once again to the winners, and we'll do it all again on Frid= ay. --------------------------------------------------------------- ([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 = ------------=_1665611969-2418-41063--