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This is a multi-part message in MIME format... ------------=_1680713983-69807-26741 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: [ 12196](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 = Thursday we ran a block ad blockers test. We had to drop it earlier t= han expected due to politics-related News Cycle stuff. The idea was t= o try to get a comparison with the previous Thursday, but that became impos= sible when we got hit with that traffic spike. However, looking at th= e six hours' worth of data, it doesn't look like blocking ad blockers moved= the needle at all. We did however get a bunch of new s= ubscriptions during the test. Which got me wondering, does anyone hav= e any idea for some subscription drive stunts we/I could do? I've bee= n considering a livestreamed evening of me drinking bourbon out of a wine g= lass culminating in me deleting the politics tab again like I did 10 years = ago. But surely there are other ideas? I'm game for whatever, p= ost your thoughts in the comments. The [Fark News Livestream](3D") will be a game-time decision this week. = Politics sucked all the air out of the news cycle this week, but if it ral= lies by noon tomorrow we'll do it. Also of note, Dill's house had a close c= all with a tornado just hours after last week's livestream. Family is= fine, house is fine, chickens are fine, but he's now the proud owner of a = pile of dead trees stacked higher than his house. Hopefully he'll dri= nk too much one evening and light that sucker on fire like a rural Indiana = burning man or something. Anyhow, keep an eye out, we'll know by noon= tomorrow. ________________________ End Drew = strong> transmission ________________________ Top Comments Some of t= he top-voted smartest and funniest comments from the past week = Funny: Louisiana_Sitar_Club recognized [someone who was strolling around Little Rock wi= th a big-ass tornado in the background](3D") NotCodger t= hought about [how a time traveler would use= a mobile phone in 1943](3D"=) steklo had one thought whe= n it came to [a middle schooler using = a PowerPoint presentation to threaten 10 other kids in class](3D"=) oldfarthenry figured [a 9th= -century Viking is still paying a price for a "bum-splitting" poop](3D" scottydoesntknow considered [the worst part about your 12-year-old neighbor killing you to steal= your guns then being caught because of a pizza receipt](3D" Bump= InTheNight pointed out [the = most depraved part of threatening classmates in an in-class PowerPoint pres= entation](3D" Wessoman made an observation about the name of a popular new Girl Scout cookie= Ivo Shandor [rewr= ote a headline about a charter school principal who sent a $100k check to a= scammer impersonating Elon Musk](3D" I Have A Bo Burnham GIF Fo= r That [proved Wireless J= oe wrong about the giant Viking poop](3D"=) The Pope of Ma= nwich Village commented about [the plan to return an orca to the ocean after nearly 50 years of captivi= ty](3D" Smart: BizarreMan ["accidentally" taught a coworker a lesson about pranki= ng](3D") Wessoman potentially [identified the model of mobile phone a time traveler was photog= raphed with in 1943](3D" NewportBarGuy discussed the types of animals that are in aquariums Robinfro explained [a woman's reaction when strangers put a bucket over her head for a = TikTok prank](3D" DoughyGuy [analyzed a Viking's dropping](3D" gilatrout des= cribed [some of the reasons it can be = so hard to evict squatters](3D"=) MrBallou cited [an early warning about building oceanfront ho= mes that people in Rodanthe, NC should've heeded](3D") Hey Nurse! = talked about [vacations not = going as expected](3D"=) CSB Sunday Morning theme: [Learning to drive](3D") = Smart: cherryl taggart [taught a speed demon how to drive](3D" Funny: WyDave [went to great lengths= to earn a nickname](3D"https:/=) Politics Funny: monsata= no explained [what happened = to the shirt of a man who's purported to be Trump fan Catturd](3D"=) grokca pointed out [why yo= u should never question Lauren Boebert](3D" North_Central_Positro= nics [assured Ron DeSantis that F= lorida would not have to help extradite Trump to New York](3D"=) bo= btheme discussed [the reacti= on on Fox News to Trump's indictment](=3D" Tell Me How My Blog Tas= tes described [how people re= acted to the number of charges against Trump](3D=) Politics Smart= : Lyger shared [a message for Transgender Day of Visibility](3D" snowjack = trong> found [the weapon that Russia b= ragged about having that could destroy the United States](3D"=) Big= Max noticed that [Republican= s have been using a certain word a lot lately](=3D" Grand_Moff_Jos= eph had a suggestion for [un= iversities that have low enrollment numbers because of the politics of the = state they're in](3D" discotaco thought that [Fox News accidentally came up with their new sl= ogan](3D") Top Contest Entri= es Some of the top-voted contest entries from last week Photoshops: GoodDoctorB [turned these pendant lights into something that could n= ever ever possibly destroy us](3D") Yammering_Splat_Vector = g> knew that [this chick is an awesome= skier](3D"=) RedZoneTuba showed us [an intimidating motorcycle racer](3D") RedZoneTub= a [relaxed in the music room](3D"=)Stephen_Falken [made S= hatner's flight into the Twilight Zone even worse](3D" Herb Utsme= lz knew [what to put in the= center square](3D"https=) Stephen_Falken made [an album cover](3D") rnatalie dis= covered that [ceiling cat has branched= out](3D"=) whatsupchuck demonstrated [what these long longs can do](3D") west.la.lawy= er found [the next Heisman T= rophy winner](3D"http=) Farktography theme: [Free For All 3](3D") orionid captu= red [a magical scene of a white wolf i= n a sunbeam](3D"=) Fark Headl= ines of the Week A selection of some of the top headline= s from last week [♫ Oompa Loompa doopity doo / We found another body f= or you / Oompa Loompa doopity dee / We thought there were two, but now ther= e are three ♫](3D"htt=) [The Dairy Queen laughed to = see such sport as the thieves ran away with their spoon](=3D") [Hey, Ron: ♫ M-I-C See...we screwed you. K-E-Y Why? Because you'r= e an idiot. M-O-U-S-E ♫](3D") [= What about the left ones?](3D" [Asstronomers say all that bleaching = you've been doing has worked](3D") [Epstein didn't fire himself](3D") [Co= ors launches its first-ever bourbon. Needless to say, you won't need to ord= er it with water](3D") Fark = Weird News Quiz (brought to you by ox45tallboy= ong>) Another fun time on the Quiz last week, although I'm still co= nfused about vacation destinations that market themselves by showing how ex= pensive they are on game shows. On the Quiz itself, Shotgun Justice= takes the top spot with 1007 and a ticket to the 1000 club, where= we're camping out in the alley in the back with a cheap charcoal grill and= a case of Coors Light, a $6,691 value. Resident modmin Two Do= gs Farking scored 976. followed by Denjiro i= n second with 965 and reachforthetop9 in third with 9= 43. mrs. badcrumble made fourth with 933, and bughunter rounds out the top five with 900. The hard= est question on the Hard Quiz was one of those terms you knew from Mr. Coll= ins' 11th grade English lit class but forgot as soon as the test was o= ver. Only 37% of quiztakers caught the Merriam-Webster Word of the Day last= Tuesday and knew that a "bildungsroman" is a novel about the moral and psy= chological growth of the main character. An object that serves no purpose o= ther than to move the story forward is a "McGuffin" (like the briefcase in = Pulp Fiction), and a naming convention in which a part stands for the whole= is a "synecdoche" ("hands" to refer to crew members). The ea= siest question on the Hard Quiz was about which actor was warning Ukrainian= s of incoming attacks. 84% of quiztakers knew that Mark Hamill was happy to= record lines for Ukraine's free Air Alert app that is connected to the cou= ntry's air defense systems and will tell residents when to proceed to the n= earest shelter.. Although his lines are in English, many Ukrainians prefer = his voice to the lines recorded in Ukrainian, I'm guessing because the Ukra= inian voice doesn't end the "All Clear" message with "May the Force be with= you." The hardest question on the Easy Quiz last week was about th= e new Netflix series based on the book by A.J, Quinnell. Only 50% knew that= Quinnell wrote "Man on Fire" about former CIA agent John Creasy who works = as a bodyguard. Believe it or not, "The Book of Eli" was an original screen= play by Gary Whitta and not a bad adaptation of a beloved sci-fi novel as i= t seemed at the time. I'm not sure I would ever try to adapt something alre= ady done by Tony Scott and Denzel Washington, but then again, I'm not Netfl= ix, and they just did "Wednesday". The easiest question on la= st week's Easy Quiz was about songwriter Bernie Taupin and his upcoming exh= ibition at London's Iconic Images Gallery. 89% recognized the name of one h= alf of one of the most prolific hit-making duos of all time, the other half= being Elton John. Taupin writes the lyrics, then Sir Elton comes up with t= he melody to match. It works for them - 25 platinum albums, a quarter of a = billion records - and the biggest selling single of all time in "Candle In = the Wind '97", which Taupin re-wrote for the occasion, having also wri= tten the original. If you missed out last week, it's a great time t= o [catch up on the Fark Weird News Quiz](3D") now that you kn= ow a few of the answers. 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