2023 Greenlights

(Fark)
2023-12-02
  [Discussion] Make a movie or book title sound less intense, e.g. Conan the Librarian, Paws
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(Some Guy)
2023-12-02
  [STEM] Is your house stuffy and dusty? Try scattering coal everywhere. Bamboo coal, that is. It has a magic trick called “passive filtering” that will freshen the house right up
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(YouTube)
2023-11-30
  [Main] It’s time for a most beloved holiday tradition: A complete and accurate transcript of Ralphie’s old man cursing out his furnace from “A Christmas Story”
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(Some Guy)
2023-11-30
  [Food] Barilla Pasta releases “Mixtape Spaghetti,” a Spotify playlist to enjoy while you cook noodles. “Mixtape Spaghetti” includes monster hits such as “Moody Day Linguine,” “Boom Bap Fusilli,” “Pleasant Melancholy Penne,” and of course “Boogie Loogie BPM”
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(YouTube)
2023-11-29
  [STEM] So let’s say you’re firing a high-caliber rifle or shotgun. What should the butt of the stock, the part that hits your shoulder, be made of: Sandpaper? Legos? A meat tenderizer? Thumbtacks? Or is this some sadistic mind control experiment?
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(YouTube)
2023-11-28
  [STEM] Not news: Forging a katana in your garage. News: From titanium
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(YouTube)
2023-11-28
  [Fandom] Willem Dafoe as Joker. WILLEM DAFOE AS JOKER. This needs to happen. THIS MUST HAPPEN
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(Fark)
2023-11-27
  [Discussion] I’ve watched two David Lynch movies now: Blue Velvet and Dune. Crom’s crunchy crotch croutons, but they SUCKED. Why does he have such a cult following? Dune was especially incoherent and the special effects gave me cancer. Even Sting didn’t help
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(Imgur)
2023-11-28
  [Main] Photoshop this feline king of the world
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(Some Guy)
2023-11-24
  [Sports] The first rule of Pillow Fight Championship is that Pillow Fight Championship is a real sport
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(YouTube)
2023-11-14
  [Entertainment] Pulp Fiction, the Musical, is AWESOME: ♫ I don’t remember asking you a got-damn thing ♫ What? ♫ Say what? ♫ What? Say what ONE MORE TIME ♫ I don’t remember asking you a got-damn thing ♫ Does. He. LOOK. Like. A BIATCH? ♫ (NSFW language. Duh)
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(The Daily Beast)
2023-11-10
  [Entertainment] Now that the SAG-AFTRA strike is over, Hollywood can get back to reporting the important news of the day: Meryl Streep wants Fran Drescher to run for president
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(Some Guy)
2023-11-09
  [Entertainment] Wait, am I the first person to notice the guitar/city/spaceship thingee on the Boston album covers have 4 spikes where the bridge would be, meaning it was a BASS guitar? Does this mean Tom Scholz is really Bootsy Collins? I’m SO confused
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(Fark)
2023-11-08
  [Discussion] I just realized The Doors didn’t have a bass player. It sounded like they had one in some songs like “Riders on the Storm,” though. Why do I feel so confusticated about this?
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(Some Guy)
2023-11-06
  [Entertainment] Captain Beefheart’s Ten Commandments of Guitar Playing: “Wait until the moon is out, then go outside, eat a multi-grained bread and play your guitar to a bush. If the bush doesn’t shake, eat another piece of bread”
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(YouTube)
2023-10-31
  [STEM] “What if you spent 5 seconds on Uranus?” Video says that would be deadly, but most TotalFarkers spend a good 10 hours a day on Ouranus and laugh at Youranus
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(YouTube)
2023-10-28
  [STEM] Q: What would happen if you spent 5 seconds on Venus? A: You wouldn’t. You’d spend about a second and a half
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(Daily Express)
2023-10-27
  [D’awww] British kayaker trying to raise support to help the UK’s loneliest sheep, which surprisingly is not a euphemism (possible nsfw content on page)
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(YouTube)
2023-10-26
  [STEM] “How lethal are antler bullets?” Don’t you mean, “What the hell are antler bullets?”
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(Mirror.co.uk)
2023-10-23
  [Main] Guy who wants to look like Satan has had metal fangs and horns added; he’s also removed both ears, three fingers, and all his common sense
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(Fark)
2023-10-21
  [Discussion] Let’s hear your favorite/most embarrassing Mondegreen (i.e., misunderstood lyrics). Here’s subby’s: In Long Cool Woman, when he sings “Sitting on a nest of bad men,” I thought he was singing “Sitting on a nasty Batman”
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(Fark)
2023-10-20
  [Discussion] Write your election slogan: Your Fark handle + 2024: + your latest text message
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(YouTube)
2023-10-19
  [STEM] So you’ve got a 100-year-old house made of Portland cement in one of the wettest parts of Scotland, and it’s dissolving in the rain. How do you keep it from falling apart? Simple: Cover it with 8 tons of chain mail
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(Some Guy)
2023-10-14
  [Main] You’ve seen Elf on a Shelf; now here’s __________ on a ______________
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(YouTube)
2023-10-08
  [Food] You’ve seen Elf on a Shelf; how about Beef Wellington in a Dorm Room? Okay; yeah; I couldn’t think of anything that rhymes with Beef Wellington
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(YouTube)
2023-10-01
  [STEM] Making an $18,000 Damascus Bowie knife with a mammoth ivory handle. By the way, it’s not called a mammoth ivory handle because it’s big. It is, but that’s not why the word “mammoth” is here
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(My Modern Metropolis)
2023-10-05
  [Main] Photoshop this d’awww
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(FB Photos)
2023-09-29
  [Discussion] Make up a Beatles-style Starbucks that sounds cool but makes no sense. LGT example
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(Fark)
2023-09-26
  [Food] Is it safe to can chicken stock and or chicken soup? Not sure if it’s acidic enough
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(YouTube)
2023-09-23
  [Main] When are you justified in doing 92mph in a 75mph zone: A. Your wife’s with you and she’s in labor, B. You’ve just been informed your house is on fire, or C. You’ve got a kilo of heroin and 160,000 fentanyl pills?
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(Daily Star)
2023-09-20
  [Main] “My ultimate dream is to become a sexless dragon – but I can’t pick my nose any more.” Gosh. That’s too bad (possible nsfw content on page)
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(Food Network)
2023-09-17
  [Discussion] When you make chicken stock, do you load it with onion and celery or other aromatics, or do you just make stock?
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(YouTube)
2023-09-16
  [STEM] Not to nitpick, but is “This is downtown Los Angeles and I’m gonna blow it up with a NUCLEAR BOMB” the best way to begin your video?
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(Fark)
2023-09-08
  [Discussion] A murder of crows; a clowder of cats; a _________ of TotalFarkers
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(Jerusalem Post)
2023-09-08
  [Main] An asteroid the size of 81 bulldogs narrowly missed Earth Wednesday. In related news, bulldogs are a much better unit of measurement than Rhode Islands
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(FB Photos)
2023-09-08
  [Discussion] Can you name all these bands? Subby’s only got half
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(FB Photos)
2023-09-12
  [Main] Photoshop this Bob Ross landscape
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(Wide Open Country)
2023-09-05
  [Main] Every year pumpkin spice worship gets stupider and weirder, so it’s time for Fark’s most beloved annual fall traditions: Photoshop stupid pumpkin spice ideas that will probably be available next year
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(People Magazine)
2023-09-03
  [Main] Photoshop this unusual choice for riding shotgun
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(YouTube)
2023-08-29
  [D’awww] What does “cute” mean? Well, it could be this cute baby, or this cute bunny, or this cute claw hammer, or this cute puppy, or–wait, back up one
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(Mirror.co.uk)
2023-08-24
  [Main] Two men arrested over “arson” after fire destroyed iconic Crooked House pub. Maybe they were “upset” because the “bartender” wouldn’t serve them any “beer” unless they left their “lay-zer” in their “car.” In related news, “air quotes”
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(NBC Miami)
2023-08-20
  [Main] Fark’s favorite state scores four spots on the top 100 places to live list. Florida Man nods approvingly
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(YouTube)
2023-08-15
  [STEM] Dude–what if we, like, take a gun and instead of bullets, we make it fire **pfffft** rockets?
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(YouTube)
2023-08-15
  [STEM] The punt gun: a shotgun so big you can load it with regular shotguns and shoot 23,000 pellets with a single trigger pull. It’s so big you’ll never have to worry about it being used for a mass shooting
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(YouTube)
2023-08-15
  [STEM] Who needs a nuclear bomb or CGI to film a nuclear explosion? We did it with some spray paint and a balloon
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(WRAL Sportsfan)
2023-08-15
Hero [Sports] EM at UNC goes from GOAT to COACH, is RTLP after DPC. Team should be fine with some TLC PDQ. CS;B
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(Some Guy)
2023-08-12
  [STEM] Latest things scientists have discovered on Mars: Tornados, a femur, a pyramid, an egg, and Bigfoot
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(Fark)
2023-08-04 [Discussion] Share your favorite fake swearing, either from a movie or TV, or something you or your dad used. E.g., “Rattle feet sturcklefrat” (Christmas Story) or “Monkey fighting snakes” (Snakes on a Plane)
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(+2)(YouTube)
2023-08-02 [STEM] You’ve always wondered what would happen if the Moon was a disco ball, haven’t you? Sure you have. We all–oh, you haven’t? Okay, well, this guy did and here’s what it would look like
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(YouTube)
2023-07-30 [STEM] So you’re on a submarine and you need to create some oxygen without surfacing. What do you do? Simple: You light a candle. No, really
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(Laughing Squid)
2023-07-28 [D’awww] While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping / It was a raven, malnourished and injured sore / So I protected him and fed him / Back to health I led him/ And I told him he could fly free once more / But quoth the Raven: “Nevermore”
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(Mirror.co.uk)
2023-07-28 [Main] “I chopped off my fingers to look like an alien – now I’m removing my skin as well.” Um… congratulations?
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(Mirror.co.uk)
2023-07-28 [Main] The wheels on the bus go round and round, round and round, round and round. The wheels on the bus go round and round, dragging your great-grandmother and running over her legs
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(YouTube)
2023-07-23 [Food] Gordon Ramsey demonstrates how to make perfect hamburgers. Surprisingly, doesn’t recommend yelling “YOU’RE AN IDIOT SANDWICH” as you put buns on them
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(YouTube)
2023-07-21 [STEM] You’ve always wondered how to make pizza on a submarine, haven’t you? Sure you have. So thi–what? No, I don’t mean making pizza on the HULL of a submarine, I–no, don’t tell me it should be IN a submarine, grammar Nazi. Just watch the farking video
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(YouTube)
2023-07-06 [Fandom] Remember that time Boston visited Space Ghost? That spaceship guitar can actually fly around in outer space? Who knew?
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(YouTube)
2023-07-04 [STEM] How powerful is this rifle? So powerful that on ultra-high speed video, when you pull the trigger your back will shout “GRYFFINDOR”
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(YouTube)
2023-07-04 [STEM] Testing extremely strange fireworks. Come for the Triple-Shot Crackling Balls; stay for the 500-gram cake firework pack that’s totally silent (jump to 30:00 for the good stuff)
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(Some Guy)
2023-06-29 [Food] “Hot Pocket: The hipster of the Beef Wellington family. Loves new tech. Often seen to be ‘mixing things up’ with cheese.” ♫ Hoooot pocket ♫
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(UPI)
2023-06-20 [Entertainment] ♬ Everybody’s doing a brand new dance now ♬ Come on baby, do the locomotion ♬ You gotta swing your hips now ♬ Come on baby, jump up, jump back ♬ Well, I think you got the knack, ohh ♬ Now that you can do it, let’s do it for 16 miles now ♬
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(Fark)
2023-06-18 [Discussion] Everything I need to know in life I learned from (Movie, TV series or book)
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(YouTube)
2023-06-17 [STEM] If you’re a batter facing a Major-League pitcher who can hit 95+ miles per hour, they say the ball looks like an aspirin. But if you’re a batter facing a 1,075 mph baseball and your bat is a gallon jar of mayonnaise? That’s very different
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(Law and Crime)
2023-06-05 [Main] You’d think a school bus would be a bad choice for an hour-long high-speed pursuit through people’s yards, farmland and across state lines, damaging multiple police vehicles and finally being stopped by spike strips and getting stuck in a cornfield
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(Some Guy)
2023-06-01 [D’awww] Hey there. Feeling insignificant? Wondering if your life matters? Not sure it’s worth getting out of bed in the morning? Sounds like you need a quick visit to Emergency Compliment. Dot com, no less
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(YouTube)
2023-06-01 [Entertainment] Old and busted: Watching “The Wizard of Oz” while listening to “Dark Side of the Moon.” New hotness: Listening to “Free Bird” while watching a bunch of fight scenes
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(Google)
2023-05-27 [Food] What’s your favorite infused/flavored salt? Grill Nation’s always mentioning rosemary salt but it doesn’t have a recipe and I can’t find it for sale anywhere
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(Google)
2023-05-27 [Discussion] What would happen if Google disappeared forever?
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(YouTube)
2023-05-09 [D’awww] Sneezing Tiger is my Duran Duran tribute band
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(Rolling Stone)
2023-05-08 [Entertainment] Top 50 worst decisions in music history. Hired Sid Vicious? ✓ The Monkees were all killed off at the beginning of their first movie? ✓ MC Hammer goes gangsta? ✓ Peter Frampton’s “Sgt. Pepper” movie? ✓✓✓✓✓✓✓
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(YouTube)
2023-05-08 [STEM] If you’re making hot glue bullets, here’s a common problem to watch out for: The hot glue bullets can stick to things
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(YouTube)
2023-04-24 [STEM] Could being fat save your life if you get shot? We’ve stuffed a hundred pounds of beef fat into a bag, so we can shoot at it with different firearms and see. Interesting and sfw, but kind of eww
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(YouTube)
2023-04-21 [STEM] “You don’t actually want X-ray vision.” Yes I do. “No, because these equations sa–” I want X-ray vision. “It would kill you, a–” I want X-ray vision. “You can’t because it’s a simplistic comic-book trope that–” SHUT UP AND GIVE ME MY X-RAY VISION
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(Wikipedia)
2023-04-20 [Discussion] Does anyone else think Brad Delp should be in the top 5 in a list of greatest rock singers? Or wonder why he never has been?
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(Some Guy)
2023-04-20 [Fandom] Wanna retrieve your mail from an AT-AT’s butt? Make your own goofy mailbox. Come for the full-size Bender mailbox; stay for the ’57 Chevy Bel Air
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(Some Guy)
2023-03-27 [Food] Impossible Burger Oatmeal Cookies: Big enough for a naughty Aerosmith song
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(Salon)
2023-03-20 [Food] “Abbott Laboratories has recalled certain baby formula products over faulty bottle caps.” No word on what they’e doing with uncertain baby formula
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(Fox News)
2023-03-16 [Main] Human remains discovered in woods behind Northern Kentucky University soccer stadium. Police reviewing red and yellow card history over the last several seasons
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(Imgur)
2023-03-24 [Main] Photoshop one of those silly CAPTCHA “Click all images” things. LGT inspiration
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(Law and Crime)
2023-03-16 [Main] Police: “We found no evidence of foul play in this black man’s death.” Family: “He was lynched and dismembered.” Police: “How can you be so sure?” Family: “His head was removed and other body parts were scattered around.” Police: “…and?”
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(Fark)
2023-03-13 [Discussion] Everything Everywhere All at Once swept the Oscars, but a lot of folks say the movie was way too long and didn’t make any sense. I loved it myself; YMMV. Discuss
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(YouTube)
2023-03-12 [Entertainment] A couple British guys react to seeing “Free Bird” live in the Oakland Coliseum in 1977: “I think a lot of us might see ourselves being conceived during this video”
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(Some Guy)
2023-03-13 [Main] Photoshop this rocky living room
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(Wikipedia)
2023-02-25 [Food] Settle an argument: Should a wok be seasoned like a cast-iron skillet?
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(YouTube)
2023-02-25 [STEM] Stock Ferrari: 850 horsepower. Same Ferrari with a few modifications: 18,500 horsepower
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(Fark)
2023-02-23 [Discussion] What’s the weirdest thing you’ve ever said under anesthesia?
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(YouTube)
2023-02-21 [Discussion] I miss Mitch Hedberg
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(FB Photos)
2023-02-18 [Discussion] A foot of snur? That’s ridiculous. I bet we get six inches of snur, tops
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(Some Tiny House Guy)
2023-02-13 [Discussion] There’s a show on right now called Tiny House Nation. It sure would be nice to spend less money on the mortgage with a 300 square foot house for only THREE HUNDRED AND FIFTY THOUSAND DOLLARS?
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(Fark)
2023-02-12 [Discussion] Might be a stoopid question, but who cares: If you’re, say, an athlete with a contract for $10 million a year, how do you get paid? It’s not like they’re gonna mail you a check for $193,000 every Friday, is it? Just curious
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(C|Net)
2023-02-11 [STEM] Y’know that sleep schedule where you take a 20-minute nap once every four hours? It boosts your productivity, if by “boosts your productivity” you mean hallucinations, fugue states, waking up in someone else’s house, aphasia, and violent mood swings
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(YouTube)
2023-02-09 [STEM] What happens if you try to catch a baseball fired from a supersonic baseball cannon? In other news, Supersonic Baseball Cannon is my Barenaked Ladies tribute cannon
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(NBC Montana)
2023-02-09 [Main] Pigout place prohibits pubescent people, provokes pique, pays poor publicity price
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(BBC-US)
2023-02-05 [Business] Civil service jobs are highly coveted in India. They’re picky, so you have to pass a test to be a candidate. A test that takes three years of studying for ten hours a day
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(Wikipedia)
2023-02-04 [Discussion] Older TFers: List things about the 1970s no one would know unless they lived through the 1970s
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(BBC-US)
2023-02-01 [STEM] Whirlpool in space captured on video. Scientists aren’t sure what it is, but since the video was taken at Mauna Kea Observatory, they’re certain it’s not a streetlight
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(YouTube)
2023-01-31 [Fandom] Okay, so he’s made guitars out of soda cans and newspapers. How about a wood guitar? Eh? Everyone makes guitars out of wood? How about a wood guitar that’s only 3/4 of an inch thick?
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(UPI)
2023-01-31 [Main] Australian snake swims clockwise goes UP a drain by mistake. Article says he’s a cute, friendly snake, but that’s easy to say if you’re not sitting on the toilet involved
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(YouTube)
2023-01-28 [STEM] I’ll see your wooden guitar and your concrete guitar and your glass guitar and raise you a thousand soda cans guitar
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(Imgur)
2023-01-27 [Main] What’s in these hot dogs?
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(YouTube)
2023-01-14 [STEM] And now we present: Bulletproof underwear. No, really. It’s level-3 body armor sewn into some tighty whities. Look, stop laughing–they really do have bulletproof underwear
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(Daily Mail)
2023-01-04 [Entertainment] DailyFail readers are shocked–SHOCKED–that Steve Martin and Diane Keaton look older today than they did in 1995
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(Some Guy)
2023-01-03 [Main] Now that Pope Benedict has died, will the church still follow the tradition of hitting dead popes on the head with a hammer? Hey, Dead Popes Hammer is my Insane Clown Posse tribute band
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