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 » Punching Nazi scumbags is a time-honored American tradition [Hero]

Sunday 26 February 22:22:18 UTC 2017

Hero [link] [761 comments] [Link]

Mental Floss » A Ninja Museum Is Coming to Japan

Sunday 26 February 21:30:00 UTC 2017

The Japan Ninja Council announced a plan to drum up excitement around a fading culture. [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Photoshop this relaxed reader [Photoshop]

Sunday 26 February 21:00:01 UTC 2017

Photoshop [link] [26 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » 40 years ago, Big Sugar research supposedly proved that American's diet needed to cut out the Fat instead of the Sugar. This worked out really well for Big Sugar and Wilford Brimley. Everyone else? Not so well [Sick]

Sunday 26 February 20:35:01 UTC 2017

Sick [link] [132 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » There's no funny spin for this. Spicer confiscating phones of White House staff to find leakers; threatening them with "hell to pay" if information about said confiscation is leaked. Hero tag: Information leaked anyway [Murica]

Sunday 26 February 20:26:59 UTC 2017

Murica [link] [293 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » The People's Court rules Judge Wapner has died [News]

Sunday 26 February 20:11:36 UTC 2017

News [link] [101 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Ugly-ass blind baby Gibbon's sight restored by Kansas veterinarians [Spiffy]

Sunday 26 February 19:37:39 UTC 2017

Spiffy [link] [11 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Hundreds rally and march for transgender rights in Boystown [Followup]

Sunday 26 February 19:13:34 UTC 2017

Followup [link] [166 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » If you can't kill infidels, at least plant a few trees [Strange]

Sunday 26 February 19:03:33 UTC 2017

Strange [link] [27 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Help a certain farkette prevent her cat from being taken to the Humane Society. At Animal Control now and will be transferred to the Humane Society tomorrow and will be available for adoption [Hero]

Sunday 26 February 18:33:26 UTC 2017

Hero [link] [392 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » L.A. County Sheriff has no leads in theft of six light sabers. Robbery division still working case involving stolen plans for some 'Death Star' [Sad]

Sunday 26 February 18:33:15 UTC 2017

Sad [link] [15 comments] [Link]

Mental Floss » Nixon's Pigeon Problem

Sunday 26 February 18:30:00 UTC 2017

Richard Nixon was concerned that birds would make an unsightly mess on the parade route during his presidential inauguration, so he took steps to keep the birds away—but what ended up happening was way worse than some pigeon poop. [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Pretty much everyone loves trail mix. However, no one seems to agree what exactly should be in — or should not be in — the hikers favorite snack … a debate we're going to try and settle this week on Snack Food Sunday [Interesting]

Sunday 26 February 18:00:00 UTC 2017

Interesting [link] [99 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Australia demands the MH370 probe continue in order to give CNN something to focus on instead of Trump [Followup]

Sunday 26 February 17:43:59 UTC 2017

Followup [link] [14 comments] [Link]

Mental Floss » Watch a Vinyl Record That Produces a 'Star Wars' Hologram

Sunday 26 February 17:30:00 UTC 2017

Death Star schematics not included. [Link]

Fark.com RSS » William Owens says the Trump administration is wrong to say that anyone who questions the raid that killed his son Navy SEAL Ryan Owens does his son a disservice and he wants answers, believing the botched raid to be Trump's fault [Followup]

Sunday 26 February 17:26:34 UTC 2017

Followup [link] [122 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Mexico isn't sending their best. They're sending crap. They're sending turds. And some of it, I suppose, is good pee [Sick]

Sunday 26 February 16:56:00 UTC 2017

Sick [link] [23 comments] [Link]

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

Sunday 26 February 16:30:00 UTC 2017

From the Smart Shopping Team… [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Eight-year-old survives car crash only to be shot and killed by responsible gun owner who just started shooting for some reason [Sad]

Sunday 26 February 16:21:28 UTC 2017

Sad [link] [275 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Game over man. Game over [Sad]

Sunday 26 February 16:13:49 UTC 2017

Sad [link] [396 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Using marijuana to treat chronic pain might help cut down on opioid abuse, but what's the point because then you're a marijuana addict anyway [Silly]

Sunday 26 February 16:13:30 UTC 2017

Silly [link] [123 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Author of best-selling novel about WWII Japanese internment addresses student body of Texas high school known for graduating entitled racist frat bros. It goes about as well as you'd expect [Asinine]

Sunday 26 February 15:42:56 UTC 2017

Asinine [link] [60 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Okay bullets are coming out [Dumbass]

Sunday 26 February 15:06:13 UTC 2017

Dumbass [link] [31 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Sure the internet smells like a sewer, but YouTube is a particularly smelly conspiracy-filled sewer [Obvious]

Sunday 26 February 14:47:12 UTC 2017

Obvious [link] [48 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Cop mistakenly thinks he turned off his body cam before telling partner he's about to manufacture evidence. Tag is for the other cop backing up his buddy's lies [Scary]

Sunday 26 February 14:31:14 UTC 2017

Scary [link] [149 comments] [Link]

Weird Universe » Fish Bowl Fashion

Sunday 26 February 14:17:29 UTC 2017

Some examples of fish bowls (with live fish) incorporated into fashion:

In 1954, Kathleen Radel created fish bowl earrings containing live guppies.

The Pittsburgh Press – Apr 4, 1954

More recently, London fashion designer Cassandra Verity Green included a goldfish handbag in her "Neptune's Daughter" collection of knitwear.

And finally, there's the Japanese artist Eijiro Miyama who's known for riding around … [Link]

Weird Universe » President Naa Hoo Woo of the USA

Sunday 26 February 14:17:28 UTC 2017

What a blatant instance of cultural appropriation!

Original foto here.
[Link]

Fark.com RSS » CSB Sunday Morning: Oversleeping [CSB]

Sunday 26 February 14:01:49 UTC 2017

CSB [link] [42 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Photoshop this home with a view [Photoshop]

Sunday 26 February 14:00:01 UTC 2017

Photoshop [link] [19 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Some suggested reasons for limiting gun ownership: 1) Past, violent convictions 2) Documented proof of substance abuse 3) Neckbeard [Dumbass]

Sunday 26 February 13:39:13 UTC 2017

Dumbass [link] [37 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » All you Tinder whores are putting the pros out of business [Sad]

Sunday 26 February 13:15:13 UTC 2017

Sad [link] [53 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » 21 injured when suspected drunk driver plows into crowd at New Orleans Mardi Gras celebration [Sad]

Sunday 26 February 12:31:28 UTC 2017

Sad [link] [50 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Apparently even 12-year-old vegans are smug douchebags [Asinine]

Sunday 26 February 11:53:12 UTC 2017

Asinine [link] [105 comments] [Link]

Mental Floss » A Sparkling Subculture: The Japanese Art of 'Dekotora'

Sunday 26 February 11:30:00 UTC 2017

The decorated trucks often cost millions of yen to create, but their proud owners say it's worth it. [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Photos of iconic women for Black History Month- reenacted by a 5-year-old [Cool]

Sunday 26 February 10:20:37 UTC 2017

Cool [link] [11 comments] [Link]

Mental Floss » Happy Establishment Day, Grand Teton National Park!

Sunday 26 February 9:48:19 UTC 2017

It's just ten miles south of Yellowstone. [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Transgender wrestler Mack Beggs identifies as male. He just won the Texas state girls' title because Texas is stupid [Facepalm]

Sunday 26 February 8:24:12 UTC 2017

Facepalm [link] [212 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » "As a black woman, I'm scared of the police because I see people that look like me killed simply for being black. As a Muslim woman, I'm scared of being attacked and killed" [Sad]

Sunday 26 February 7:05:13 UTC 2017

Sad [link] [149 comments] [Link]

Futility Closet » Crab Computing

Sunday 26 February 6:44:15 UTC 2017

Image: Flickr In 1982, computer scientists Edward Fredkin and Tommaso Toffoli suggested that it might be possible to construct a computer out of bouncing billiard balls rather than electronic signals. Spherical balls bouncing frictionlessly between buffers and other balls could create circuits that execute logic, at least in principle. In 2011, Yukio-Pegio Gunji and his colleagues at Kobe University extended this … [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Ugly-ass newborn polar bear cub takes its first steps at Munich zoo [Sappy]

Sunday 26 February 5:21:20 UTC 2017

Sappy [link] [13 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Meet the woolly flying squirrel of Pakistan, nature's largest glider: "Thought extinct until 1996, its dried urine is said to have aphrodisiac qualities. The other unusual thing about the animal is its scream, likened to the sound of a yeti&#

Sunday 26 February 3:15:04 UTC 2017

Interesting [link] [65 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Drunken Trump fan attacks gay men in Key West. Slurred, "you live in Trump country now, f***s". Was driving a scooter. (snert) [Florida]

Sunday 26 February 2:18:26 UTC 2017

Florida [link] [253 comments] [Link]

Mental Floss » Relax With Slo-Mo Toy Videos

Sunday 26 February 2:00:00 UTC 2017

Watch what happens when you slow toys down. WAY down. [Link]

Fark.com RSS » You can mess with their heads, you can mess with their polls, but never, ever, mess with a statistician's data [Interesting]

Sunday 26 February 1:58:26 UTC 2017

Interesting [link] [22 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Farker soosh, host of the Livingston Stapler Company Presents radio show, continues to recover from his auto accident that occurred on February 5th and is undergoing rehab at Queen Anne Medical Center in Seattle. Updates within (LGT previous thread)

Sunday 26 February 1:56:44 UTC 2017

PSA [link] [103 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Among the injuried in January's Ft. Lauderdale airport shooting: an escaping woman that jumped into the back of a police van and was promptly mauled by a K-9 [Florida]

Sunday 26 February 1:18:25 UTC 2017

Florida [link] [59 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Photoshop this photographic moment [Photoshop]

Sunday 26 February 1:00:01 UTC 2017

Photoshop [link] [19 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Republican majority Montana House votes for something every Farker supports: Moar Beer [Spiffy]

Sunday 26 February 0:58:26 UTC 2017

Spiffy [link] [9 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » It's never disappointing when a headline begins "Local Juggalo" [Stupid]

Sunday 26 February 0:16:41 UTC 2017

Stupid [link] [89 comments] [Link]

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