Fark.com

Fark.com is a community website created by Drew Curtis allowing users to comment on a daily batch of news articles and other items from various websites. Most links are submitted by Fark readers, which are then approved for posting on the main page by admins. Fark is one of the most widely read community sites of its type on the internet.

Farkisms

Like many online communities, Fark.com has developed its own in-jokes known as "Farkisms" or "Fark.com clichés". For example, "Fb- is the father" is often added to any report involving birth or pregnancy or "Duke sucks" is added after a sports headline. One of these in-jokes also serves another purpose, a clever way of preventing "first post" messages: if a message contains the words "first post", its time stamp is changed twelve hours into the future (making it one of the later posts), and the words "First Post" are turned into "Boobies" or "Weeners". However, new users occasionally fall victim to this, and post a message that ends up saying something like: "This is my Boobies on Fark". The filter also censors out certain swear words and replaces them with more toned down versions.

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Fark.com clichés - First post

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Fark clichés also tend to be placed into the submitted news headlines. A few examples are: "find Sarah Connor" (from the Terminator movies) for technology news headlines (Example: "New robot will explore the surface of mars, find Sarah Connor"), "Duke sucks" (the basketball team) for sports news headlines, and "jailarity ensues" for headlines involving stupid people triggering intervention by authorities (Example: Woman makes joke about bomb in her suitcase to airport security screeners, jailarity ensues). "Glass parking lot" is the term given to an area of sand after a nuclear bomb is detonated over it. This term is usually used to advocate a nuclear-based solution to problems in countries in the Middle East. "Still no cure for cancer" is a cliche often used for scientific stories claiming a recent discovery or scientific conclusion which is usually already quite obvious to the average reader (in lieu of say, being productive and actually "curing cancer"). One of the newest, but still popular, clichés is "Pray for Omarion", a reference to the rap singer's request for fans to pray for his safe return from London after the 2005 bombings (which he was nowhere near). It is now used as a reference to any disaster to which the rapper has no connection, for example: "Nuclear Reactor in North Korea melts down: Pray for Omarion". Other examples include "It's a Trap," "Hot Cocoa Sampler Box," or the new questionable favorite automatic threadjack "I work for..." started in http://forums.fark.com/cgi/fark/comments.pl?IDLink=1688267.

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Nuclear bomb - Middle East - Cancer - Omarion

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Farkisms are ever evolving. Sometimes something becomes a farkism for a few months and then dies out, other Farkisms are currently no longer used such as "-Fb the father". There are some Farkisms which are specific to TotalFark, which are discussed in the Fark n00b guide. Other farkisms include adding "DIT" to the end of a submission which means "Details in Thread" or "LGN" which means "Link Goes Nowhere". If a submitter writes # at the end of a link, it means that the link goes nowhere and there are details in the thread.

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Farking

The term "farking" is also used as a verb; many smaller websites referenced by Fark headlines have been "farked", meaning they have received so much traffic that they have stopped responding completely. This is also known in some internet circles as the Slashdot effect.

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