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This is a multi-part message in MIME format... ------------=_1680113214-64597-27056 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: [ 04652](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. Got a few things on deck this week. Thursday at noon ET= to Friday at noon ET we'll be having a no ad blocker day to assess the imp= act of ad blockers on Fark. BareFark and TotalFark subscribers will r= emain blissfully unaffected. If you get the "hey you're using an ad b= locker" popup, here's what you can do (choose one or more): Whiteli= st Fark in your ad blocker [Sign up for BareFark](=3D" which is= an ads-free Fark experience [Sign up for TotalFark](=3D" which= is ads-free and gives access to all kinds of cool insider information on u= pcoming features, etc. Additionally, If you have a financial hardsh= ip, [contact us via Farkback](3D") and we'll give you complimentary BareFar= k. Thursday at 4 p.m. Eastern it's the [Fark= News Livestream](3D") with me and the whole crew. For whatever reason,= this is the week for every authoritarian nation to claim they have new wea= pons. We'll run down the list, plus a literal Viking dump, Santos of = the Week, and more! Friday at 7 p.m. Eastern, I'll be doing a lives= tream with the good folks at MetaFilter. They're doing a video serie= s on old web luminaries and apparently I qualify. MetaFilter's doing = this as a fundraiser for their site, but tickets are a suggested donation.&= nbsp; I recommend donating, they're pretty awesome. As an added bonus= , I will be drinking the entire time. [Tickets available here](3D"). ____= ____________________ End Drew transmissi= on ________________________ Top Comments Some of the top-voted smart= est and funniest comments from the past week Funny: Martian_Astronomer agreed with ArkPanda = g> about [part of the struggle-o that = comes with being an ex-Juggalo](3D"=) edmo was impressed = with [the amount of research that went= into an article about paying off credit card debt](3D"=) Sliding C= arp had hopes for being rem= embered after death Barricaded Gunman explained&nb= sp;[why a woman's quest to retrieve her sto= len headphones made the news](3D") YouPeopleAreCrazy upd= ated us on [the current status of "Dea= r Abby"](3D".=) DrMaturin wasn't sure a Guitar World artic= le was describing [a new cutting-edge= NSG pedal](3D"https=) Nah'mean proved that [a woman's severed toes did not miraculously grow back b= ecause of the power of prayer](3D") NateAsbestos describ= ed [one of the features of living in a= home with a balcony that overlooks a soccer stadium](3D"=) Sub Hum= an had a question about [the= sale of the Fort Worth, Texas mansion of the former CEO of Radio Shack](3D" toraque pointed out [how good we have it at Fark.com](3D" Smart: Parallax had advice for someone who was considering [cashing out their 401(k) to pay off their $30,000= credit card debt](3D") emtwo learned [a different lesson from a story of found money than doomsdayaddams](3D") did Bootleg found&nbs= p;[the actual miracle in a story about a w= oman claiming her missing toes miraculously grew back](3D") genner= [shared the unpleasant trut= h about adulthood with Gen Z and millennials](3D".=) spongeboob= ong>'s [dad was fed up with those whin= y Waltons](3D"=) weddingsinger considered [the threat level of a type of fungus among us](3D") Znuh explained [why= the Toyota Camry is the top car with Generation Z](3D" kabloink = looked at [how clueless youn= ger people are about car maintenance](3D"htt=) Ringshadow as= sessed the situation after [a radioact= ive cylinder from a Thai power plant went missing and was later found](=3D" had [h= elpful advice for spending your billions of dollars](3D" CSB Sun= day Morning theme: [The most unusual way you've ended= up with an animal companion](3D=) Smart: vudukungfu= 's [cats keep adopting cats= a> Smart (honorable mention): educated took care of a broken kitty](3D"=), and had he= lp from Farkers Funny: Halfabee64 was bl= amed for [what a Marshmallow did on Ea= ster morning](3D"=) Politics Funny: fragMasterFlas= h tried to figure out [why b= arricades were being erected outside the Manhattan Criminal Courthouse](3D" thought of a way to [keep Donald Trump from "walking" on criminal charges](3D")= > thealgorerhythm considered [Chris Rock's joke that it would be stupid to arrest Trump](3D")Yakk had a quest= ion about opportunities for seniors to join the military Poc= ket Ninja explained why you= don't want a civil war against MAGA Politics Smart:cretinbob showed us [what a MAGA civil war might look like](3D" DoBeDoBeDo = > [hoped Trump would be spending time= at home in Florida](3D") JustSurfin shared [a story about an anti-abortion relative](3D") hubiestubert argued that [MAGA fighters would have to worry more about law enforcement than the m= ilitary](3D" skybird659 told the great story of [the first Gay Night at Disneyland, back in 1= 978](3D") Top Contest Entrie= s Some of the top-voted contest entries from last week Photoshops: Yammering_Splat_Vector [took a noodle bath](3D") RedZoneTuba= [knew all these people's names= a> rnatalie](3D".=)put an op= erator in with these programmers steklo made = [a test to separate the Farkers from the ro= bots](3D") Yammering_Splat_Vector chose [the quickest way to give this living room a makeover Stephen_Falken showed us](3D")[the first time Fark crashed](3D") RedZoneTuba = g> [wanted to get this measurement](3D") Driver [checked out two "k= issing" planets with some familiar friends](3D"http=) samsquatch = ng> [played tic-tac-toe](3D") Good= DoctorB showed us that [it's= time to get things started](3D" Farktography theme: I'm Beginning to= See a Pattern Here 3 kittyhas1000legs had [room for many bikes](3D") Fark Headlines of the Week = A selection of some of the top headlines from last week [If y= ou were wondering who started the zombie apocalypse, it was the archaeologi= st who looked at these "magical barrier" nails and said "this belongs in a = MUSEUM"](3D") [Sniper rifle falls off roof= to St. Patrick's parade crowd below. In its defense, it was loaded](3D"https://=) = [Ex-Juggalos explain their struggle-o. Sounds like someone n= eeds a hug-a-lo](3D") [Texas university cancels drag show, claiming it= 's similar to blackface. Which would make one wonder why Texans would see a= ny problem with it](3D"=) [Mouse tro= lls Meatball](=3D" [Entire Ma= vericks team forgets which basket it's defending, team owner goes into Cuba= n whistle crisis mode](3D"htt=) Second-worst Misfits singer = gives third-worst defense of most dumbest group [JP Morgan announces that they've adopted First = Republic into their Big Bank/Small Bank after school program](3D") [Block = shares going down like Hindenburg. Oh, the huge money tree](3D") Fark Weird News Quiz (broug= ht to you by ox45tallboy) Another fun time on= last week's Quiz, where we learned how to order a cheesesteak like a local= when visiting Philadelphia. On the Quiz itself, we have four people who ma= de it into the 1000 club, but unfortunately the deli was out of provolone, = so I hope no one minds Swiss. zerkalo came out on top= with an impressive 1046, followed by ac982000 in sec= ond with 1028 and bud jones in third with 1013. = raukos7 made fourth with 1010, and freakingmo= ron made it into the top five with 985. The hardest = question on last week's Hard Quiz was about what Americans eat the most of.= Only 28% of quiztakers caught the article about our diets and knew that li= ke most Western countries, we run on Dunkin'. Well, the main ingredient in = donuts anyway - wheat flour. We eat on average 1.8 lbs of wheat flour every= week - just under 100 lbs. every year, in everything from burger buns to p= izza crust to chicken breading to cookies and of course, cheesesteak rolls.= In comparison, we eat "only" 57.7 lbs of potatoes and roughly the same amo= unt of sugar (our sugar intake has actually gone down in recent years as su= gar substitutes have become more popular). The easiest questi= on on the Hard Quiz was about Relativity Space and what was unique about th= eir rocket launched last week that didn't quite make orbit. 85% of quiztake= rs knew that they had made a big deal about the ship being about 85% by mas= s 3D-printed parts. Hopefully they saved enough on labor to justify the cos= t of all those toner cartridges, because otherwise I don't think this busin= ess model is viable. The hardest question on last week's Easy Quiz = was about the world's most popular musician. Only 53% of quiztakers knew th= at Canadian artist Abel Tesfaye goes by "The Weeknd", aka that guy that got= lost during his halftime performance at Superb Owl LV back in 2021. T= he man with a firm limit of 3 for the number of e's he will have in a stage= name now has 100,000,000 listeners each month on Spotify and I guess I'm o= ld because I don't think I'd recognize his music if I were to hear it. = ; The easiest question on last week's Easy Quiz was about which act= ress was in the middle of defending herself in a lawsuit by a retired optom= etrist who claims she ran into him on a ski slope back in 2016. 95% of quiz= takers either caught the article or at least the outtakes from the trial an= d knew it was Gwyneth Paltrow. If you haven't seen the clip of her cross-ex= amination, it's definitely... something. The plaintiff's attorney begins by= complimenting her height, followed by Ms. Paltrow complimenting the attorn= ey's 4-inch heels. That is not one I had on my Bingo card. If you m= issed out last week, now's a great time to [catch up on t= he Fark Weird News Quiz](3D" now that you know a few of the answers. Congrat= ulations once again to the winners, and we'll do 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. 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 = ------------=_1680113214-64597-27056--