Fark NotNewsletter: Aurora Borealis? At this time of day, in this part of the country, localized entirely within your kitchen?

This is a multi-part message in MIME format... ------------=_1689194243-36128-22853 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: [http= s://fark.com/12922940](3D" Unsubscribe links are at the bottom of this message. =20 =20 So, uh... I accidentally deleted all my progre= ss halfway through writing the NotNewsletter. Thankfully, I'd been doing= some of my work in an external tool I made, so most of my links were saved= ! Most of them. Sadly, none of the Top Interactions made it. Oh well, ma= ybe next week. All I know is, I should always make a backup after c= ompleting a section. In other news: We're gonna see the [Aurora Borealis](3D") pretty soon, and you won't have to be at the poles t= o see it. XOXO, NotNewsletterMonkey ________________________ A message from Drew = trong>Curtis: ________________________ Hey everyone hope your week's been well.= I've been spending the week collecti= ng the things I need for [RAGBRAI](3D"htt=) 50. It's an annual b= ike ride across Iowa, taking 7 days and usually it's about 500 miles or so.= This year it starts in Sioux City and ends in Davenport. You p= ark at the finish line and catch a bus to the other side of the state, then= start riding back the following day. I don't do it every year but I = am this year because it's the 50th anniversary. There's a record crow= d coming, apparently. Musical guests in the evenings include Pork Tor= nados, Hairball, and Lynyrd Skynyrd somehow - I've heard of that last one.&= nbsp; Looking forward to being at a concert where I can legitimately shout = "play Free Bird." Fun fact - none of the original members are still i= n the band. Or alive. If any o= f you happen to be riding part or all of RAGBRAI, or happen to live somewhe= re along the way, let me know in the comments and I'll try to meet up. = ; It's immensely difficult with 25,000 - 50,000 riders on the road however.= One year I traveled up to RAGBRAI from KY with a guy who I never saw= even once on the road the following week. Western Iowa doesn't have = enough cell towers to support that many people showing up out of the blue. Here's hoping for good weather= because we're camping all week and nothing is guaranteed. I've got w= aterproof everything though, so as long as there's no killer heat wave that= week I should be fine. Good thing there are no surprise heat waves a= nywhere in the US this year. I= 'll be posting pics of the weirdest things I see on the ride over on my Ins= tagram - there will be dozens if not hundreds if prior years are any indica= tion. 4pm Thursday it's the [Fark News Livestream](3D")! Lots of astronomical = phenomena to talk about this week, as well as an update on the discovery of= yet another Portal to Hell and a roundup of the best fireworks accidents f= rom last week. ________________________ End = ;Drew transmission ________________________ Top Comments Some of t= he top-voted smartest and funniest comments from the past week. (The [Smartest](3D") and [Funniest](3D") for the pas= t month are found elsewhere.) Funny: - Congrats= to Martian_Astronomer for earning near double the votes o= f the next-Funniest post with [a Subway joke about the other kind of sub. - toddalmighty](=3D" how similar someone = looked to a cartoon character.](3D" - foo monkey= [committed a Reddit Moment™.](3D") (Context: [This earlier post.](3D" Smart: - Warthog [noticed Subway= 's relevance skyrocket.](3D") - leeksfromchichis = [knows you never bring a gun to a... *checks notes* minor crime?](3D") = - Megathuma sees the issue with calling a 7-year-ol= d a "young man." - emtwo [laments how peop= le bloat video length so they can show more ads.](3D") - S= quid_for_Brains [hated 6 "Not a drag queen" stories occurring in on= e day.](3D"htt=) - kudayta [shared their discovery th= at Mother Teresa was far from perfect.](3D" - DaveTheGrea= t [found irony in the paywall. What I want to know is, where'd the= y get the pickaxe?](3D".=) [Politics](3D" Politics Funny: = - Private_Citizen [found a meme where TFG bragged a= bout having a smooth brain.](3D" - toraque [came = up with some great false accusations.](3D") - NuclearPengu= ins [is clearly an Atheist. Or they were faking it for the joke.](3D"=)= > Politics Smart: - mrshowrules= > [shared their article reading technique.](3D") - NateAsbe= stos [is confused by the reason MTG was expelled.](3D"=) - = OdradekRex[: "Nobody ever said Texans were smart. "](3D"h=) = - fjnorton [dislikes how proud some Republicans are= of being horrible people.](3D" - Unobtainium [fo= und a quote that implies some people think only one gender can transition. Monkey's Pick I felt these post= s were exceptionally funny or smart, even though they didn't get many votes= . Warning: Unsorted, may contain politics. Funny: = - neapoi](3D")[shared that this "new" trend isn't entirely= new.](=3D" - OhioUGrad [found an... interesting p= rotein powder.](3D" Smart: - Walker= rong> [spotted a sneaky groper.](3D") Good catch! [CSB](3D" Morning theme= - "[the strangest thing t= hat ever happened at work.](3D"=)" Lotta good ones this week. Check out the= [thread](3D")! It'll always be linke= d in this section's headline. Tagline? Header? What the heck do we call it = anyways? [Smart](3D"=): - Mbooda= trong> [couldn't decide on just one Incident™.](3D") - senor peacock [saw a manager reach the end of their rope.](3D"htt=) = - Ker_Thwap [was locked into the bathroom.](3D" = - robodog had Narcoleptic Santa as a coworker.= > [Funny](3D"=): - thanksagainandag= ain breached into the Top Voted Comments [with a post about dog bal= ls.](3D" - strapp3r did too, when they [had to ri= ng up an... interesting purchase.](3D") - Uranus [and his section committed crocodile bathtub. While sober.](3D"=) = Top Contest Entries= Some of the top-voted [con= test](3D"ht=) entries from last week. I may be a few months late, bu= t today I discovered that Yammering_Splat_Vector [created an entir= e dropbox of images of the Fark photoshoppers](3D") over a 20 year period.= m> - NotNewsletterMonkey. User spotlight:= i-dig killed it this week after returning to the Photo= shopping contests about 2 weeks ago. i-dig: -= [knows surgeons have to have fun too.](3D") - [served noodles= -in-a-suit.](3D") - [showcased a medieval French rollercoaster.](3D=)= - [fought global warming.](3D"=) - [let a big cat loose i= n a pet store.](3D" - [found this panda's second love.](=3D" -&= nbsp; [spotted a cryptid.](3D") - [found a bird frisbee.](3D" [Photoshops](3D"):= em> - Herb Utsmelz [found the delicacies in spid= er eyes.](3D" - Thrakkorzog [committed a classi= c Western murder.](3D") - samsquatch [made a bootl= eg Transporter.](3D") - Driver [showed off their= coin-operated Ted Cruz.](3D") - Vortex Dweller a= bstracted a wedding. - Stephen_Falken [theor= ycrafted a healthy cereal.](3D") - Yammering_Splat_Vector [made a counting game out of it.](3D"=) - RedZoneTu= ba [witnessed an overzealous strikebreaker.](3D"=) - Snubnose [took out the Clearwater Virgin Mary building.](3D"https://=) ([Cont= ext](3D")) - retrophil [played "Jump" at a soccer= game.](3D" [Farktography theme](3D"http=): "[Hot Fun in the Summertim= e](3D")" This week, Farkers were challenged to show us photos that capture= the summer season. - MorningBreath [caught= a beautiful sunrise](3D") - Lovesandwich [saw the= Aurora Borealis early.](3D") - spidermann [found = a surfer](3D") - Elsinore [sat back and watched t= he fireworks.](3D" - Nuclear Monk [made a splash.= Scratch that, several splashes.](3D") [Upcoming Fark Par= ties](3D" Friday, August 4th (or 5th): [Romeo and Juliet at Shakespeare in = the Park, Buffalo, NY.](3D" Fark Headlines of the Week A selection of some of the top he= adlines from last week. [Man with several DUI convictions decides to take the bus](=3D") [Tru= ck full of bananas crashes on Pennsylvania highway and this is not a repeat= from 1965](3D") [Fault](3D"https=) [Is it a boy or girl? Wro= ng. It's a forest fire](3D") Oprah loose in Murrieta Fark Weird News Quiz (brought = to you by ox45tallboy) Another fun time on last we= ek's Quiz, where we learned Temu has become an overly possessive S.O. that = will not relent until you buy more cheap plastic crap. On the Quiz its= elf, ubermensch came out on top with 1036, followed by&nbs= p;bibliophile42 in second with 1009 and HighwayBil= l in third with 1004. skippy.fluff made fourth wi= th 1001, and Autoerotic Defenestration made it into the to= p five with 982. The hardest question on last week's Hard Quiz was = about the American Silver Eagle Coin, one of the weirdest pieces of money i= n existence. The idea behind the coin was to reduce the amount of silv= er in the Defense National Stockpile, which is a huge reserve of precious m= etals that the United States holds onto in case they are ever needed for wa= r production - but without flooding the market and reducing its price. Stri= king it as a coin made it appealing to collectors rather than industrial us= ers. Only 29% of quiztakers knew that although the coin is sold for $2 abov= e the spot price of silver (today that would be $24.39 + $2), the coin= 's face value is only $1 in order to deter it from being circulated - altho= ugh it is by law legal tender. The easiest question on last week's = Hard Quiz was about which operation really went way beyond "too soon" with = their signage promotion. 92% of quiztakers caught the article about a Subwa= y restaurant in Rincon, GA who decided "Our subs don't implode" was a great= way to attract business. I'm gonna guess someone was deep-sixed over that = one. Cast adrift, even. Thrown overboard. The hardest questio= n on last week's Easy Quiz was about collectable card game Magic: The Gathe= ring's latest promotion. Only 53% of quiztakers knew that the game was curr= ently issuing cards in a cross-promotion with The Lord of The Rings, and th= e absolutely unique (as in, only one with ever be made) "The One Ring" card= has been found. Although the owner wishes to remain anonymous, the grading= company where it was assayed posted an image of the card online. Some peop= le have already offered up to $2 million for the card, so we'll wait to see= if it surfaces in a tournament somewhere. The easiest questi= on on last week's Easy Quiz was about which historic structure a British to= urist thought would be a great place to memorialize his visit by carving hi= s and his girlfriend's initials into the rock. 94% of quiztakers knew that = the Colosseum was in Rome, while the other option, the Parthenon, is in Ath= ens, Greece. And they probably don't want you carving your initials into th= at, either. If you missed out last week, it's a great time to= [catch up on the Fark= Weird News Quiz](3D") now that you know a few of the answers. Congratulation= s once again to the winners, and we'll be doing it all again on Friday. = p> --------------------------------------------------------------- ([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") f= rom newsletter emails, even if your Fark login isn't '{NAME}'. [Click here to unsubscribe from ALL Fark emails](3D"). Fark, Inc. PO Box 1291, Versailles KY 40383 = ------------=_1689194243-36128-22853--