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This is a multi-part message in MIME format... ------------=_1678900181-67015-27824 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: [ 88128](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 = week was quite eventful. Originally I'd planned to head down to Savan= nah for a biking trip with some friends of mine from up north. They l= ive in a much colder region and were dying to ride outside somewhere warmer= . Savannah seemed to fit the bill. The Friday bef= ore the trip, Kentucky got hit by a land hurricane. That's not an off= icial term but we had 75 mph winds for three straight hours, which is prett= y much like being in a category 1 hurricane. We don't get winds like = that, the previous record high for a single wind gust was 65 mph. Cen= tral Kentucky in particular got hammered - half of Lexington lost power.&nb= sp; It seemed like every other road was closed due to debris. And the power went out. In previous windstorms it took several= days to restore power. I couldn't leave my family during all that.&n= bsp; However our general plan for power outages is to just get the hell out= of there. So we decided to have an early Spring Break trip. &nb= sp; While I enjoyed the trip to Savannah, the cycling environment i= s pretty bad. Main problem being there don't appear to be any side ro= ads within 50 miles of the place. That's no exaggeration, we actually= went out that far on rides. Add to that a ton of truck traffic headi= ng in and out of the port, and it makes for some super iffy riding. W= e asked a local bike shop where we might find some decent riding conditions= and they said literally nowhere. Anyhow the actual city was great, I= had no idea how well Savannah was doing these days. One gauge of how= well a city is doing is how many cranes there are, and there are cranes ev= erywhere. Thursday at 4 p.m. it's the [Fark News Livestream](3D") with pretty much the whole crew I = think. We're discussing Chuck Tingle and Nickelback, plus an update o= n Florida's seaweed blob attack. I'm still looking for our Santos of = the Week feature article, so if anyone's got one handy, if you could post i= t in the comments I'd be much obliged. ________________________ = End Drew transmission _____________= ___________ Top Comm= ents Some of the top-voted smartest and funniest comment= s from the past week Funny: Ivo Shandor = g> thought [a passenger on a Southwest= Airlines flight was being panicky over nothing](3D".=) bighairyguy = revealed [topics of episodes= of Jeremy Renner's upcoming show, "Rennervations"](3D"http=) Flab = rong> was [insulted and appalled by tsjonesosu](3D"=)'s suggestion for a solution to the clusterfark th= at streaming TV has become AstroJesus told us = ;[how to stay safe while ingesting the Ti= kTok-trending "borg" drink](3D") Farking Clown Shoes rea= cted to [potentially offensive content in R= .L. Stine's books being edited without the author's involvement](3D"=) BigMax helpfully suggested [possible names for a topless cannabis dispensary](3D" derpes_= simplex figured out why a g= roup of thieves stole six Dodge Challenger Hellcats from a Kentucky dealers= hip DRTFA decided to [start quoting Elon Musk](3D" foo monkey had a = better idea than [renting a billboar= d to claim to be "Wisconsin's #1 Eligible Bachelor"](3D"https:=) Nick Nos= tril recognized [a MiG-15 t= hat had its cockpit roof fly off during an air show](=3D" Smart: hardinparamedic discussed [why a Mexican drug cartel apologized and turned over their= members who killed two Americans](3D") Martian_Astronomer = g> had [an idea in case a streaming service= does something weird to something you like](3D") vilesithknight talked about [borrowing a bun= ch of cool stuff](3D"h=) mongbiohazard revealed [what it takes to love a homeowner association= a> Wenchmaster discussed](3D")[a WWII submarine that was lost at sea in 1944 being found last mon= th](3D" Circusdog320 took [a photo of Jupiter and Venus hanging out together](3D" = CSB Sunday Morning theme: [Beating the odds](3D") Smart: hubiestubert= ong>'s [heart kept trying to explode= a> Funny: Unobtanium's](3D"=)[brother obtainiumed some pig parts](3D") Poli= tics Funny: Devolving_Spud came up with [a song for Ron DeSantis' next campaign commerc= ial](3D") Needlessly Complicated remarked on [someone giving paper snowflakes that say "fascis= t" to Ron DeSantis and Kim Reynolds](3D") OldRod [imagined DeSantis as a fighter pilot](3D") North_Central_Positronics had a question for [a man who went to a school board meeting dressed as Ju= lius Caesar](3D") WickerNipple had [a colorful way of describing a white nationalist group's l= ogo](3D") Politics Smart: GardenWeasel = had an idea of [the people Rep. Alex M= ooney was saying are getting paid $100,000 a year to not work](3D"https://=) BizarreMan wanted the cau= se of inflation to be looked into hugram examined&= nbsp;[Donald Trump's claims about the origi= ns of COVID-19](3D") NewportBarGuy [analyzed Tucker Carlson and his motives](3D" yohohogr= eengiant discussed Mexican = drug cartel violence T= op Contest Entries Some of the top-voted contest entries= from last week Photoshops: Octafrye = knew [who brought the firefighters to = the museum](3D"=) Yammering_Splat_Vector created [an unholy masterpiece of meat](3D") = rnatalie found [a bug ridi= ng the bus](=3D" kabloink managed to [actually make this mystery meat look edible](3D") sl4psh0t [would've preferred= cockroaches served in a cannister](3D"https:=) Yammering_Splat_Vector= trong>'s [magic bus broke down](3D"=) = kabloink [figured Fluffy = would eat it](3D"h=) Snubnose [didn't let anyone go to waste](3D" kabloink [gave this royal stag a royal sidekick](3D") Stephen_Falken [modified a= pagoda](=3D" Farktography theme: [Closeups](3D") This one was a tie between Herb Ut= smelz's [antique pocket wat= ch](3D"https:=) and gregscott's [satanic hummingbird](3D" Fark Headlines of the Week A selection of some of = the top headlines from last week [California sheriff to residents: Please stop calling 911 on Jupiter an= d Venus. We can't even shoot that high](3D") [Two planes bump wings at Logan Airport. Before the pandemic they would ha= ve just shaken hands](3D") Instead of office chair, dog bed c= ontained bobcat. Would not order again [Russian state TV host claims Great Britain is forced to ea= t squirrels because of high Ukraine military aid costs. That is of course r= idiculous. They eat squirrels because of Brexit](3D") [Podcasters In Coffee Shops Getting Car= s](3D") [Better to= wear it this week than next](3D"=) [I'm from the government and I= 'm here to help figure out who vandalized the sign](3D") [Subby has heard of "someone living rent-free = in somebody's head", but he thought it's just a figure of speech](3D") [Hong Kong's C= athay posts $834 million loss. Ack](3D") [A= pparently the UK has a National Food Crime Unit, which must be the busiest = organization on the planet](3D") Fark Weird News Quiz (brought to you by ox45ta= llboy) Another fun time on this week's Quiz, where we lear= ned rain frogs don't have a tadpole stage, they just hatch into little frog= lets - yet are still considered "amphibians". On the Quiz itself, this week= 's winner with a perfect score of 1100 is unsurprisingly "Everything Everyw= here All at Once," which will be joined in the 1000 club afterparty by = ;Blackstone, who scored 1036, coscausticevil= ng> with a score of 1025, and Captain Orr who made 10= 15. Denjiro also gets a mention with 987, as does&nbs= p;Joelogon with a score of 933. The hardest = question on last week's Hard Quiz was about which organization was working = towards getting in on that sweet sports betting money. Only 43% of quiztake= rs knew that it was the WWE who thinks people will bet on actual fixed = ;fights, with accounting firm Ernst & Young certifying the secrecy of t= he script and the wrestlers not knowing the outcome until just before the m= atch. I mean, you can bet on the Academy Awards in NJ, IN, MI, and. beginni= ng this year. LA, so apparently there are people who will gamble on stuff t= hat's already decided. Regarding Major League Eating, NJ, CO, and NH a= ll allow betting on the Nathan's Famous Hot Dog Eating Contest as of last y= ear. The easiest question on last week's Hard Quiz was about = which candy is no longer "Swiss enough" to bear the image of The Matterhorn= , as they were moving some production to Bratislava (insert Eurotrip j= oke here). 90% of quiztakers knew Tobelerone was now considered about as Sw= iss as the cheese Americans put on their mushroom and Swiss burgers. They'v= e announced they'll be replacing the image with a "generic mountain", but I= think they're missing an excellent marketing opportunity - put different f= amous mountains from around the world on various wrappers, like a collectib= le series, and then snub The Matterhorn. The hardest question= on last week's Easy Quiz was about the best-selling 12" single of all time= . Only 51% of quiztakers knew that 1983's "Blue Monday" was a hit by 80's s= ynth-pop band New Order, the band formed by former members of Joy Division = following the death of lead singer Ian Curtis. The advantages of the wide d= ynamic range of 12" singles made them popular among DJs, and this was defin= itely a song you'd hear at any respectable dance club in any big city aroun= d the world. As consumers were in the process of switching to cassettes, th= ere was never again the perfect market conditions for this format to be the= success that this one was. One more bit of trivia - production costs were = so high for the die-cut "floppy disk" sleeve of "Blue Monday" that the reco= rd company actually lost money on the initial issue. The easi= est question on last week's Easy Quiz was about which song lyrics Dis= ney had finally got around to cutting from the Disneyland Magic Happens Par= ade. 88% of quiztakers knew that Disney finally decided that it was time fo= r "Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah" to go. They've understandably kept "Song of the South= " itself buried in a vault somewhere next to Walt's frozen head and swear i= t will never see the light of day (unlike Walt's frozen head) but they've k= ept this song from the movie around because its lyrics and subject matter a= ren't really objectionable - it's just what it was written for. And it's st= ill on Disney's official channel on Apple Music if you do want to hear it.&= nbsp; 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 t= he answers. Congratulations 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 = ------------=_1678900181-67015-27824--