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.”

Mental Floss » Secret Red Dwarf Theme Tune Lyrics Discovered After 27 Years

Sunday 23 October 22:25:03 UTC 2016

by James Hunt, Mental Floss UK Sci-fi sitcom Red Dwarf is one of the UK's most well-loved TV shows, with a cult fanbase that has kept it alive in some form or another for no fewer than 28 years. The show's 11th season has just aired with a 12th due in 2017 – so it's with some surprise that we … [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Old and busted: Drunk ignores flashing lights and hits squad car at accident scene. New hotness: Drunk hits helicopter at accident scene [Fail]

Sunday 23 October 22:11:05 UTC 2016

Fail [link] [56 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » You know what else your caffeine addiction is good for? Growing a tree to help save the planet [Spiffy]

Sunday 23 October 21:08:16 UTC 2016

Spiffy [link] [36 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Photoshop this proud record holder [Photoshop]

Sunday 23 October 20:30:01 UTC 2016

Photoshop [link] [23 comments] [Link]

Mental Floss » Watch an Artist Prepare Tiny Versions of Airline Meals

Sunday 23 October 20:30:00 UTC 2016

Singapore Airlines is hopping on the tiny food video trend. [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Worst hotel in Australia up for sale. This "festering flophouse" comes with drug dealers, murders and shirtless guests yelling abuse at passers-by while throwing buckets of water at them: "You'd be better off sleeping on a tram" [

Sunday 23 October 20:04:05 UTC 2016

Amusing [link] [58 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Hacker calls himself "The Jester"; takes down Russian Foreign Affairs website. The FBI, apparently having never seen Batman, calls him "the Batman of the internet" [Fail]

Sunday 23 October 18:57:00 UTC 2016

Fail [link] [66 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Store owner displays 'No Clowns Allowed' sign. Naturally, some clowns have a problem with this [Silly]

Sunday 23 October 17:46:25 UTC 2016

Silly [link] [108 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » How burglar-proof is your place? Why not hire a reformed burglar to test it out? "It took him just three minutes to break into my house" [Amusing]

Sunday 23 October 17:07:23 UTC 2016

Amusing [link] [144 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Police break into hot car in Suffolk to rescue child inside, surprising owner of car most of all: "I get a call from the police, and I don't have a baby so I'm like, 'Where'd the child come from? Who put the child in my car?'&

Sunday 23 October 16:46:16 UTC 2016

Facepalm [link] [274 comments] [Link]

Mental Floss » Watch This Groovy 1960s Tupperware Documentary/Infomercial

Sunday 23 October 16:30:00 UTC 2016

One word: PLASTICS. [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Pull up a stool and let's have a drink or three at the best Irish bar in the world …which just happens to be in NYC [Spiffy]

Sunday 23 October 15:49:29 UTC 2016

Spiffy [link] [69 comments] [Link]

Weird Universe » Mrs. Living Corpse

Sunday 23 October 15:43:00 UTC 2016

June 9, 1966: After being buried alive for a week outside of a drive-in theater in Denison, Texas, Lottie Howard married "Country" Bill White. Both of them were "buried alive" practitioners. After she was disinterred, the two left on their honeymoon.

Long Beach Independent Press-Telegram – June 19, 1966
Update: Looks like the marriage didn't last long. Two years later Country … [Link]

Mental Floss » This Week's Best Amazon Deals You Can Still Get

Sunday 23 October 15:30:00 UTC 2016

As a recurring feature, we share some amazing Amazon deals we’ve turned up. These items were the ones that were the most popular with our readers this week, and they’re still available. [Link]

Fark.com RSS » In Japan children ride the subway alone. In Spain children don't have set bedtimes. In Scandinavia children are allowed to sleep outside in the cold. Meanwhile in America, you won't let your child play out front without a whistle around his n

Sunday 23 October 15:28:28 UTC 2016

Interesting [link] [135 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » If you insist on dressing your pet up in a costume this year, make sure you don't use commercial hair dye, don't put rubber bands around his ears, and don't tie ribbons around his neck. Or, you know, you could let your dog be a dog for Ha

Sunday 23 October 15:22:27 UTC 2016

Asinine [link] [34 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Fark Store Daily Deal: Programming e-learning bundle. C, Java Object-Oriented, Structures and Algorithms, SQL, Python, C++, Raspberry Pi. Instructors from Google and Flipkart. (Sponsored Link) [Plug]

Sunday 23 October 15:08:47 UTC 2016

Plug [link] [11 comments] [Link]

Overheard In The Office » Condi Rice Finally Loses It

Sunday 23 October 14:57:49 UTC 2016

Loud office lady: I don’t need to learn no more. You know money, you know dick, you know pussy — you don’t need to know no more. Government office, 400 Maryland Avenue SW
Washington, DC [Link]

Fark.com RSS » "The mysterious death of a British man at a Spanish airport took a bizarre turn today after it emerged he was found half-naked with a slice of ham on each buttock and his genitals in an open tuna can" [Weird]

Sunday 23 October 14:47:15 UTC 2016

Weird [link] [122 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » On the bright side, if he gets time off for good behavior, this man may be released from prison as early as the year 3293 AD [Sick]

Sunday 23 October 14:25:24 UTC 2016

Sick [link] [94 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Today's mass hysteria over a drug that's legal in 46 states is brought to you by U-47700 or 'Pink' as they call it out on the streets. "If you touch it, you could go into cardiac arrest" [Scary]

Sunday 23 October 13:48:23 UTC 2016

Scary [link] [96 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » You may have a meth problem if you live in Nebraska and after not sleeping in three days find yourself yelling at a hotel receptionist in Florida about not getting any food because you think she's a counselor and the hotel is a rehab center [Flor

Sunday 23 October 13:21:25 UTC 2016

Florida [link] [23 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Photoshop this lonely tree [Photoshop]

Sunday 23 October 13:00:01 UTC 2016

Photoshop [link] [25 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » CSB Sunday Morning: Memories of grandparents [CSB]

Sunday 23 October 13:00:00 UTC 2016

CSB [link] [121 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Not news: Screams at a haunted house. Fark: Screams at a haunted house after serious injuries [Scary]

Sunday 23 October 12:42:35 UTC 2016

Scary [link] [14 comments] [Link]

Mental Floss » The Science of Spit

Sunday 23 October 12:30:00 UTC 2016

Your spit can tell you much more about your health than whether you should be flossing. [Link]

Weird Universe » Plasticville, USA

Sunday 23 October 11:50:00 UTC 2016

Original ad here.

With no trace of modern irony, Plasticville USA was once deemed a grand name for an imaginary town. Somehow I can hear a beatnik of the era saying, "Plasticville, man, that's for squares!"

Wikipedia entry here.

More info and some great pictures on this page.

More images via Google. [Link]

Fark.com RSS » For whatever it's worth, the owner of U-Haul is against recreational marijuana in Arizona [Interesting]

Sunday 23 October 11:33:43 UTC 2016

Interesting [link] [97 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » It's National Drug Take Back day, so go ahead and take all of your drugs back to back. Hrmm, I may have that wrong, but let's go with it [Interesting]

Sunday 23 October 11:07:02 UTC 2016

Interesting [link] [26 comments] [Link]

Mental Floss » Artist's Hand-Hewn Ceramic Mugs Resemble Cardboard

Sunday 23 October 10:30:00 UTC 2016

"Pathetic, absurd, antiquated, banal or even garbage are words that best describe the objects I am drawn to," artist Tim Kowalczyk says. [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Turkey looks at the coming clusterfark in Mosul and says to themselves, "we want a piece of that" [Interesting]

Sunday 23 October 10:00:42 UTC 2016

Interesting [link] [23 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » 174 escape from the hell that is a Haitian prison only to realize that they still are in the hell that is Haiti [Scary]

Sunday 23 October 8:41:42 UTC 2016

Scary [link] [15 comments] [Link]

Mental Floss » Relax With a Video Visit to Kew Gardens (in 1942)

Sunday 23 October 8:30:00 UTC 2016

From the future cinematographer of "2001: A Space Odyssey." [Link]

GraphJam » At Least It's Original

Sunday 23 October 7:26:59 UTC 2016

Graph by: dracula4 Tagged: college , english , Pie Chart , plagiarism , professor , truancy story Share on Facebook [Link]

Futility Closet » Asked and Answered

Sunday 23 October 6:39:46 UTC 2016

Image: Wikimedia Commons During World War II, Alan Turing enrolled in the infantry section of the Home Guard so that he could learn to shoot a rifle. After completing this section of his training he stopped attending parades, as he had no further use for the service. Summoned to account for this, he explained that he was now an excellent shot … [Link]

FMyLife » Anonymous says FML

Sunday 23 October 6:00:45 UTC 2016

Today, my boyfriend of nearly six months broke up with me. Over text. In a group chat. With the new girl he wanted to date. FML [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Former archbishop admits he probably deserves criticism for that time he covered up child sex abuse. If only there were a lake of fire burning eternally somewhere to show him what he really deserves [Creepy]

Sunday 23 October 5:51:13 UTC 2016

Creepy [link] [52 comments] [Link]

Mental Floss » Watch the Relaxing Process of Creating Traditional Japanese Dolls

Sunday 23 October 4:30:00 UTC 2016

Watch dolls emerge from pools of thick, red paint. [Link]

Mental Floss » 10 Quacking Facts About Ducks

Sunday 23 October 3:42:44 UTC 2016

“From troubles of the world I turn to ducks, Beautiful comical things” [Link]

Fark.com RSS » ♫ Anything will happen that can. But the last time the Cubs won the National League pennant is no longer the year we dropped the bomb on Japan. ♫ [NewsFlash]

Sunday 23 October 2:47:52 UTC 2016

NewsFlash [link] [303 comments] [Link]

Mental Floss » How Do Blind People Find Braille Signs?

Sunday 23 October 0:30:00 UTC 2016

It's actually pretty simple. [Link]

Fark.com RSS » In Mono County, California you'll find beautiful, mountainous wildland. And sometimes those mountains drop really big boulders onto the road. For the local road workers, those are the best days on the job – because they get to blow that shiat up

Sunday 23 October 0:10:41 UTC 2016

Cool [link] [50 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Photoshop this suspicious Schnauzer [Photoshop]

Sunday 23 October 0:00:01 UTC 2016

Photoshop [link] [22 comments] [Link]

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