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 » Parents sue city of Brooklyn after a botched autopsy implicated them in their child's death [Followup]

Saturday 4 March 23:32:43 UTC 2017

Followup [link] [66 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » "I never thought leopards would be born in captivity by artificial insemination," sobs woman who voted for the Leopards Born By Artificial Insemination Party [Sappy]

Saturday 4 March 22:38:36 UTC 2017

Sappy [link] [27 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Photoshop what this woman is doing [Photoshop]

Saturday 4 March 21:00:01 UTC 2017

Photoshop [link] [26 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Facebook user receives 200k "amens" to pic of her holding her dying cancer patient brother. There's just one slight problem [Fake]

Saturday 4 March 20:26:50 UTC 2017

Fake [link] [119 comments] [Link]

Mental Floss » Why B.B. King's Guitar is Called Lucille

Saturday 4 March 18:56:44 UTC 2017

Blues musician B.B. King famously deemed his guitar "Lucille," even when he replaced it or got a slightly different model. Here's why. [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Are you arranging the food in your refrigerator correctly? [Unlikely]

Saturday 4 March 17:13:20 UTC 2017

Unlikely [link] [132 comments] [Link]

Mental Floss » Get This Weekend's Best Amazon Bargains Now

Saturday 4 March 16:55:54 UTC 2017

From the Smart Shopping Team… [Link]

Fark.com RSS » What exactly is "usable marijuana," and should a 65-year-old man with a prescription be rolled into the joint if there isn't an exact definition? [Stupid]

Saturday 4 March 16:48:49 UTC 2017

Stupid [link] [96 comments] [Link]

Weird Universe » DDT Wallpaper

Saturday 4 March 16:01:27 UTC 2017

Trimz debuted their children's room DDT-impregnated wallpaper in 1946. It was available in two patterns: "Jack and Jill" or "Disney Favorites."

It was certified to be absolutely safe "because the DDT is fixed to the paper. It can't rub off!" But since you're not going to find any similar product sold nowadays, I'm guessing that it actually did rub off. … [Link]

Fark.com RSS » There is a pop-up restaurant in London that only serves meals created out of discarded food from different local restaurants. Because what tastes better than unwanted bangers and mash mixed with boiled lamb's tongue? [Sick]

Saturday 4 March 15:31:07 UTC 2017

Sick [link] [50 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Come on, who steals two crocodiles? [Strange]

Saturday 4 March 15:20:37 UTC 2017

Strange [link] [43 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » In a continuing series of wagers you should NEVER take – Betting that you can chug an entire bottle of tequila [Stupid]

Saturday 4 March 15:16:34 UTC 2017

Stupid [link] [141 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Remember kids always do your homework, or else you could be crucified in the street by your parents like this poor lad [Asinine]

Saturday 4 March 15:01:42 UTC 2017

Asinine [link] [50 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Seeking advice, I ask of thee / Trying to find (in my naivete) / Poetic verse to set me free / In the Book Club of Saturday [Interesting]

Saturday 4 March 15:00:00 UTC 2017

Interesting [link] [48 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Want to know if you are uncool? Check out the lingo that "all the cool kids" are using today, and see if you recognize any of it [Interesting]

Saturday 4 March 14:32:17 UTC 2017

Interesting [link] [157 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Don't mind the perfect black cube hovering over USA's top-secret military research complex today, it's really nothing. Move along now [Weird]

Saturday 4 March 14:18:59 UTC 2017

Weird [link] [130 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » You may want to rethink the wedding if your bride-to-be tells you she wants to wear a dress made out of Taco Bell burrito wrappers [Strange]

Saturday 4 March 14:08:52 UTC 2017

Strange [link] [42 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Photoshop these colorful chairs [Photoshop]

Saturday 4 March 14:00:01 UTC 2017

Photoshop [link] [27 comments] [Link]

Weird Universe » Electric Hairdo

Saturday 4 March 13:44:09 UTC 2017

Original article here. [Link]

Fark.com RSS » If you ever said to yourself, "I wish my TSA agents wouldn't be shy about really getting intimate when they feel me up" then today is your lucky day [Strange]

Saturday 4 March 13:36:16 UTC 2017

Strange [link] [85 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Indjánafjöður from Reykjavik rescued by Þorvarðardóttir, just in time for kötturdag [Caturday]

Saturday 4 March 13:00:00 UTC 2017

Caturday [link] [704 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Only you can prevent forest fires. And by 'you' we mean the people responsible for 80 percent of the world's wildfires [Asinine]

Saturday 4 March 12:23:03 UTC 2017

Asinine [link] [37 comments] [Link]

Futility Closet » The Music Animation Machine

Saturday 4 March 12:18:28 UTC 2017

Berkeley software engineer Stephen Malinowski creates animated graphical scores of musical works. “The vertical positions of the bars on the screen represent the relative pitches, while the color can represent instruments or voices, thematic material or tonality,” explains Crétien van Campen in The Hidden Sense. “When they are synchronized, the sound and image are easily linked in our perception. Musical … [Link]

Mental Floss » The Most Popular Disney Channel Original Movie in Each State

Saturday 4 March 12:00:00 UTC 2017

Everyone loves 'The Ultimate Christmas Present.' [Link]

Mental Floss » Why Does Your Cat's Tongue Feel Like Sandpaper?

Saturday 4 March 10:00:00 UTC 2017

Finally, an educational cat video! [Link]

GraphJam » The News I Learn

Saturday 4 March 9:59:00 UTC 2017

cnn jon stewart Media news stephen colbert television The News I Learn Graph by: waffle569 Tagged: cnn , jon stewart , Media , news , stephen colbert , television Share on Facebook [Link]

Mental Floss » Grave Sightings: Bob Ross

Saturday 4 March 8:00:00 UTC 2017

If there's such a thing as a "happy little grave site," we've found it. [Link]

Fark.com RSS » This is the coolest Viking funeral that you will see for two goldfish all day long [Cool]

Saturday 4 March 7:49:26 UTC 2017

Cool [link] [38 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Spend your twilight years wasting away in a Margaritaville-themed retirement home [Florida]

Saturday 4 March 6:44:30 UTC 2017

Florida [link] [68 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » What is it with the iconic Quebec maple syrup can? No one remembers who designed it, for one thing: "a mystery for the ages – like trying to ascertain who gets the credit/blame for inventing poutine" [Sappy]

Saturday 4 March 5:53:00 UTC 2017

Sappy [link] [93 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » In time for St. Patrick's Day: Mass leprechaun grave found at former Irish orphanage [Sick]

Saturday 4 March 5:36:16 UTC 2017

Sick [link] [59 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » California man evades high speed police chase while driving rented U-haul truck. Your move Florida man [Weird]

Saturday 4 March 4:05:21 UTC 2017

Weird [link] [39 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Meet Picasso, the rescue dog that looks like it was designed by Deep Mind [Spiffy]

Saturday 4 March 3:50:05 UTC 2017

Spiffy [link] [50 comments] [Link]

Mental Floss » You Can Thank Dolly Parton for 'Buffy The Vampire Slayer'

Saturday 4 March 3:00:00 UTC 2017

When Dolly Met Buffy… [Link]

Fark.com RSS » This is what happens when you grant bail to motorized grocery cart thieves [Florida]

Saturday 4 March 2:50:05 UTC 2017

Florida [link] [21 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Finally, a paper towel mascot for MEN to lust after [Cool]

Saturday 4 March 2:23:33 UTC 2017

Cool [link] [105 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » A gal who was painfully shy / Was given to walks through the rye / When asked what she learned / She scoffed and she spurned / "My wisdom's engrained by and by" [Interesting]

Saturday 4 March 1:50:05 UTC 2017

Interesting [link] [19 comments] [Link]

Futility Closet » For the Record

Saturday 4 March 1:37:23 UTC 2017

At one point in Samuel Beckett’s 1951 novel Molloy, the title character finds himself at the seaside and “lays in a store of sucking stones”: They were pebbles but I call them stones. Yes, on this occasion I laid in a considerable store. I distributed them equally between my four pockets, and sucked them turn and turn about. This raised … [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Two best friends get identical haircuts to try and confuse their teachers. Fark: One is white and one is black [Amusing]

Saturday 4 March 1:35:15 UTC 2017

Amusing [link] [73 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Photoshop this bird balancing act [Photoshop]

Saturday 4 March 1:00:01 UTC 2017

Photoshop [link] [26 comments] [Link]

Mental Floss » Here's How the Midori Sour Was Invented

Saturday 4 March 1:00:00 UTC 2017

Chaim Dauermann, Head Bartender at New York City's The Up & Up, explains the wild circumstances of this cocktail's birth and offers some expert advice on how to make your own. We'll drink to that. [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Florida Man has had a busy week [Florida]

Saturday 4 March 0:50:05 UTC 2017

Florida [link] [15 comments] [Link]

Mental Floss » 25 Trailblazing Female Firsts

Saturday 4 March 0:16:47 UTC 2017

Boldly going where no woman had gone before. [Link]

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