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Drew Curtis makes Farking an art form, propelling quirky humor to national fame By Katie PerkowskiKyForward correspondent For Drew Curtis, founder and manager of one of the most successful news aggregator websites in the world, Fark.com, it all started in a ninth-grade science class at Jessie Clark Middle more than 20 years ago. Curtis, a 1991 graduate of Lafayette High School, said he first began finding weird news stories in the local paper to post on a bulletin board at school. “It goes a long ways back as it turns out. … I just had my 20th high school reunion, and friends of mine reminded me that back when I was 15, I was doing it,” he said, while enjoying a couple beers during an interview at Chase Tap Room. “There was a ninth-grade science class I had. There was a board where we could post stuff and I started finding weird news and sticking it up … .” Fark, the website states, is all the stuff that fills space when the media run out of news. However, the biggest problem Curtis sees “is that Silicon Valley has zero respect for Washington and they always have.”

Optical Illusions and Visual Phenomena Star Wars Out of Office Emails - Home Obviously, galactic matters can't always be dealt with straight away. So with that in mind, herein the auto-responses which ping around the galaxy when there's more urgent matters to attend to, like an Ewok christening or a Wookiee court appearance or something. Help us out... Tags: Star Wars