John Gordon Ross

A Man for All Reasons

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Whittle It a Little, It’ll Fit

Odds and sods I look at regularly, just because they amuse me. I hope they do the same for you. Incidentally, I found this page’s title on Greg Ross’s Futility Closet (it’s somewhere on this page) in a mini-article which also includes the delightful sentence in Icelandic: Barbara Ara bar Ara araba bara rabbabara. Ross points out that this, “besides being fun to say, is spelled with only three letters. It means “Barbara, daughter of Ari, brought only rhubarb to Ari the Arab.”

Fark.com RSS » Good: You are set to graduate from high school. Bad: Until you are involved in a car accident and placed in a medically-induced coma. Awesome: After you wake up your school recreates graduation so you can attend [Sappy]

Saturday 18 June 23:51:52 UTC 2016

Sappy [link] [34 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Man settles 22 year grudge with house [Florida]

Saturday 18 June 23:47:04 UTC 2016

Florida [link] [35 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Gateway to the underworld or world's biggest megaslump? Here come the geologists [Interesting]

Saturday 18 June 23:43:19 UTC 2016

Interesting [link] [40 comments] [Link]

Mental Floss » 12 Pieces of Disney Memorabilia You Can Own

Saturday 18 June 23:00:00 UTC 2016

More than 700 pieces of Disneyana are up for sale at Van Eaton Galleries. [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Ticketmaster's loss might be your gain. Check your account to see if you too got some freebies [PSA]

Saturday 18 June 22:37:39 UTC 2016

PSA [link] [89 comments] [Link]

Mental Floss » National Park Service Celebrates 100 Years With Citizenship Ceremonies

Saturday 18 June 21:00:00 UTC 2016

It's part of an ongoing partnership to usher in new United States citizens in some of the country's greatest locations. [Link]

Fark.com RSS » You can sleep easy tonight, citizens of New Jersey. The master thief who stole $0.95 from a mall water fountain has been captured [Silly]

Saturday 18 June 20:17:59 UTC 2016

Silly [link] [76 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Photoshop this creepy attic [Photoshop]

Saturday 18 June 20:00:01 UTC 2016

Photoshop [link] [34 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » The best advice on dealing with internet trolls was written in the 11th century [Interesting]

Saturday 18 June 19:58:37 UTC 2016

Interesting [link] [71 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Want a good job, affordable housing and a high quality of life? Well, you've only got three cities in the U.S. to choose from… and likely not the three you were thinking of [Interesting]

Saturday 18 June 19:12:36 UTC 2016

Interesting [link] [256 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Brits are going freaky for freakshakes: "The idea is that it's a really good quality milkshake that is then loaded with all sorts of terrible things that are really bad for you, like pretzels and Oreos and marshmallows" [Amusing]

Saturday 18 June 17:57:43 UTC 2016

Amusing [link] [74 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » does not always mean happy [Sappy]

Saturday 18 June 17:56:36 UTC 2016

Sappy [link] [44 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Nyquil — the nighttime sniffling sneezing aching coughing violate your probation so you can rest in jail medicine [Dumbass]

Saturday 18 June 17:06:47 UTC 2016

Dumbass [link] [56 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Meanwhile, in Canada, this is National Paddling Week [Giggity]

Saturday 18 June 16:57:46 UTC 2016

Giggity [link] [38 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » After scares from lead in the paint, radon in the air, and god knows what in the drinking water, schools move on to the real health threat: frozen PB&J sandwiches [Facepalm]

Saturday 18 June 16:40:11 UTC 2016

Facepalm [link] [53 comments] [Link]

Mental Floss » Today's Best Amazon Deals

Saturday 18 June 16:00:00 UTC 2016

As a recurring feature, our team combs the Web and shares some amazing Amazon deals we’ve turned up. Here’s what caught our eye today, June 18. [Link]

Mental Floss » Super-Chill Rapper Wins South Korean Space Out Competition

Saturday 18 June 15:30:00 UTC 2016

The contest, created by an artist, aims to put a dent in the nation’s stress crisis. [Link]

Fark.com RSS » If you found one of the three bags filled with money that fell out of the back door of an armored car in Rhode Island, authorities would really like to hear from you. Any time now. They're waiting. Hello? Why isn't anyone calling? [Interestin

Saturday 18 June 15:18:43 UTC 2016

Interesting [link] [78 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » You know what would really help with all these California wildfires? How about a scorching heat wave? With lots of high winds, too. That should do the ticket [Scary]

Saturday 18 June 14:51:51 UTC 2016

Scary [link] [86 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » And now for something completely different: Here are the biggest decor trends from the year you were born. Who still has a house that has wicker white features? [Interesting]

Saturday 18 June 14:39:41 UTC 2016

Interesting [link] [203 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Well, why wouldn't you want to sneak an iguana into a courtroom? [Weird]

Saturday 18 June 14:13:08 UTC 2016

Weird [link] [29 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Rio de Janeiro declares a financial state of emergency. That's good to know, since it's not as if they don't have a huge event planned beginning in a month and a half [Facepalm]

Saturday 18 June 14:12:59 UTC 2016

Facepalm [link] [100 comments] [Link]

Overheard In The Office » If I Don’t Give You the Visual, You’ll Never Learn

Saturday 18 June 14:10:50 UTC 2016

Cube guy #1: Wow, that girl with Tina* is hot. Who is she?
Cube guy #2: That’s her daughter.
Cube guy #1: Damn, man! Why isn’t she my daughter?
Cube guy #2: What does that mean?
Cube guy #1: I dunno. I meant–
Cube guy #2: –Dude, that means you’d have to sleep with–
Cube guy #1: –I know, I know, I’m sorry! Messed up… You didn’t … [Link]

Fark.com RSS » "Meisenburg celebrated her divorce by staging a scorched-earth, no-(cares)-given photo shoot that resembles a righteously vengeful Miranda Lambert song come to life, Catherine Marie Meisenburg is a hero" [Amusing]

Saturday 18 June 13:33:06 UTC 2016

Amusing [link] [110 comments] [Link]

Weird Universe » Trick Valise

Saturday 18 June 13:15:12 UTC 2016

March 1937: A tricked-out payroll satchel foiled would-be robbers. From Newsweek (Apr 3, 1937):

In Harrison, N.J., bandits last week held up a messenger and seized his satchel containing a $2,700 pay roll. They didn't notice their victim pull a wire in the bag's handle as he handed it over. Ten seconds later revolver blanks inside the satchel started exploding … [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Fark Store Daily Deal: iOS MFi-certified 100% stainless steel lightning cable. Much better than the ballpoint pen spring trick. How do you keep your lightning cables from fraying? (Sponsored Link) [Plug]

Saturday 18 June 13:15:08 UTC 2016

Plug [link] [21 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Photoshop these muddy men [Photoshop]

Saturday 18 June 13:00:01 UTC 2016

Photoshop [link] [21 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » The Saturday Morning Book Club is looking for the definitive answer to an age-old question: desert island, three books, which three would you want? [Interesting]

Saturday 18 June 13:00:00 UTC 2016

Interesting [link] [98 comments] [Link]

Mental Floss » Blast Your Living Room Into Space With This Rocket-Powered Table

Saturday 18 June 12:17:29 UTC 2016

Liftoff! [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Spartan, a kitten with a deformed paw, learns to walk into his new home just in time for Caturday [Caturday]

Saturday 18 June 12:00:00 UTC 2016

Caturday [link] [643 comments] [Link]

Weird Universe » Follies of the Madmen #286

Saturday 18 June 11:56:41 UTC 2016

Lots of goofy stuff here.

First commercial: who's the publisher for that special Mom propaganda book?

Second and third commercials: love that trippy 2001: A Space Odyssey sequence as we fly thru the aspirin particles.

Fourth commercial: once upon a time, hairy chests were okay.

Fifth commercial: this woman has ingested so much iron that her bare feet are comfortable … [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Drug tests? In high school? It's more likely than you think [Misc]

Saturday 18 June 11:52:04 UTC 2016

Misc [link] [86 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Nothing rallies a community together quite like trying to find out who in their neighborhood anonymously made more than 100 code violation reports to the city [Murica]

Saturday 18 June 11:29:35 UTC 2016

Murica [link] [103 comments] [Link]

Mental Floss » Kevin Bacon on 'Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon'

Saturday 18 June 8:30:00 UTC 2016

"I open up the refrigerator, and there's Paul Newman!" -Kevin Bacon [Link]

GraphJam » 

Saturday 18 June 8:20:33 UTC 2016

150 internet Memes memories Pie Chart Pokémon test - 4153927168 Graph by: darkraichu55 Tagged: 150 , internet , Memes , memories , Pie Chart , Pokémon , test Share on Facebook [Link]

Fark.com RSS » "That is the worst theology I've ever heard. And if you're a preacher or you're a pastor or you're a Christian, and you are going around today quoting scripture and telling people that that's the wrath of God, then shame on yo

Saturday 18 June 7:55:36 UTC 2016

Hero [link] [174 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Just when you thought the world had gone as crazy as it could, we now have naked ninjas [Dumbass]

Saturday 18 June 7:30:32 UTC 2016

Dumbass [link] [28 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Oakland fires its third police chief in 8 days. Even the Raiders don't fire coaches or quarterbacks that fast [Facepalm]

Saturday 18 June 6:41:35 UTC 2016

Facepalm [link] [48 comments] [Link]

Futility Closet » Wire Bonds

Saturday 18 June 6:30:34 UTC 2016

The San Diego Daily Union of April 25, 1876, records a wedding by telegraph. W.H. Storey was the U.S. Signal Service operator at Camp Grant, Ariz. He couldn’t get leave to travel to San Diego, where Clara Choate lived, and there was no minister within hundreds of miles of the camp, so it appeared that the wedding couldn’t take place. … [Link]

Mental Floss » Explore a Beautiful Victorian Album of Seaweeds

Saturday 18 June 6:30:00 UTC 2016

Victorians used the bright reds and greens and lacy shapes of seaweed to create pretty designs or semi-realistic compositions. [Link]

Fark.com RSS » The orange dots represent Detroit structures that are scheduled for demolition. The blue dots represent the hopes and dreams of Lions fans that have already been demolished [Obvious]

Saturday 18 June 5:24:43 UTC 2016

Obvious [link] [28 comments] [Link]

Mental Floss » NASA's Orion Spacecraft Lands at Houston Comic Convention

Saturday 18 June 4:30:00 UTC 2016

Houston residents spotted the capsule mockup traveling down the highway this week. [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Three whole months of workin' on my tan, crankin' tunes on my boombox, and bird-doggin' bored housewives – Uncle Joe [Satire]

Saturday 18 June 4:29:14 UTC 2016

Satire [link] [65 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Graph shows that there are more gun stores in the U.S. than grocery stores, McDonald's and Starbucks combined. Obvious tag says "fark this" and moves to Canada [Murica]

Saturday 18 June 2:41:59 UTC 2016

Murica [link] [325 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Firefox's new Containers could spare your work colleagues from seeing how many times a day you post about sports / video games / animated musicals. (Delete as applicable.) [Spiffy]

Saturday 18 June 2:28:15 UTC 2016

Spiffy [link] [27 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » He called me "vermin", but I had a plan. All I need is that guy's prosthetic leg and to trek 500km to spread rabies [Weird]

Saturday 18 June 2:25:15 UTC 2016

Weird [link] [21 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Miss New Jersey competition ends in three-way [Giggity]

Saturday 18 June 2:17:15 UTC 2016

Giggity [link] [25 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Disney apparently unaware of gator problem, Youtube [Followup]

Saturday 18 June 2:09:17 UTC 2016

Followup [link] [90 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Brawl at kosher supermarket in Brooklyn caused by teen girl riding a hoverboard like a bojo [Scary]

Saturday 18 June 2:01:40 UTC 2016

Scary [link] [36 comments] [Link]

FMyLife » bigbagofnope says FML

Saturday 18 June 1:52:13 UTC 2016

Today, I washed my boyfriend's work clothes, trying to make up for a fight we had earlier. After taking them out, I found his phone, wallet and keys at the bottom of the washer, completly waterlogged. This is not the peace offering I'd hoped for. FML [Link]

FMyLife » Elgrin says FML

Saturday 18 June 1:52:12 UTC 2016

Today, I woke up to something crawling on my leg. Thinking it might be a spider, I jumped out frantically to check. The good news: it's not a spider. The bad news: it's a bedbug. My apartment was just treated for them. FML [Link]

Fark.com RSS » What, what, an award for my butt? [Asinine]

Saturday 18 June 1:43:45 UTC 2016

Asinine [link] [75 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Fugitive arrested for resisting an officer, possession of cocaine and drug paraphernalia, and theft of Star Wars Lego sets from across the country [Strange]

Saturday 18 June 1:32:51 UTC 2016

Strange [link] [14 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Texas man arrested in serial rock-throwing case, because only parallel rock-throwing cases are licensed in Texas [Dumbass]

Saturday 18 June 0:43:14 UTC 2016

Dumbass [link] [46 comments] [Link]

Mental Floss » 7 Elegant Facts About Chartreux Cats

Saturday 18 June 0:30:00 UTC 2016

Don't mistake these gray French kitties for British Shorthairs. [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Photoshop this pelican [Photoshop]

Saturday 18 June 0:00:01 UTC 2016

Photoshop [link] [23 comments] [Link]

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