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 » Got ADHD? You might have the natural gift of being able to sell a ketchup popsicle to a woman in white gloves [Interesting]

Sunday 12 March 23:04:23 UTC 2017

Interesting [link] [49 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Fundraising drive and emergency champagne and caviar helicopter drops underway for hundreds of Big Sur residents cut off by broken bridge [Interesting]

Sunday 12 March 22:51:17 UTC 2017

Interesting [link] [36 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Fukushima did what Godzilla, Mothra, and Biollante never could: turn Japan off of nuclear power [Followup]

Sunday 12 March 21:52:12 UTC 2017

Followup [link] [80 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » By day, a conservative Hasidic couple. By night, a pair of kinky Jews [Giggity]

Sunday 12 March 21:00:14 UTC 2017

Giggity [link] [109 comments] [Link]

Mental Floss » Rare 'Super Bloom' Brightens Up Deserts in California

Sunday 12 March 21:00:00 UTC 2017

The Anza-Borrego Desert is the most vibrant it's been in years. [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Interested in experiencing the Real Florida? Try Cayo Costa State Park, a barrier island only accessible by boat, with miles of undeveloped beaches, mangrove estuaries, turquoise waters. Tent camping, cabins available [Florida]

Sunday 12 March 20:36:16 UTC 2017

Florida [link] [62 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Only God can judge me for ordering three orders of mozzarella sticks [Amusing]

Sunday 12 March 20:12:14 UTC 2017

Amusing [link] [97 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Photoshop this prosecutor showing the witness the murder weapon [Photoshop]

Sunday 12 March 20:00:01 UTC 2017

Photoshop [link] [27 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Apparently there's some kind of spat going on between Turkey and the Netherlands that could doom us all [Scary]

Sunday 12 March 19:56:34 UTC 2017

Scary [link] [73 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Idiocracy successfully predicts the future again as garbage avalanche kills at least 35. Mike Judge sought for comment about those boner and hair cures he promised [Scary]

Sunday 12 March 18:54:12 UTC 2017

Scary [link] [80 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » What is the purpose of owning a gun if you cannot use it to defend your right not to be ejected for the second time from the same bar in one night for being drunk? I thought this was America [Dumbass]

Sunday 12 March 18:24:35 UTC 2017

Dumbass [link] [175 comments] [Link]

Futility Closet » Person Curves

Sunday 12 March 18:12:22 UTC 2017

Wolfram Alpha has a collection of parametric curves that produce portraits of famous people — above are Albert Einstein, Abraham Lincoln, and PSY. Wolfram chief scientist Michael Trott explains how it’s done in three blog posts. (Thanks, Danesh.) [Link]

Mental Floss » Wyoming Only Has Two Escalators

Sunday 12 March 18:00:00 UTC 2017

If you come across an out-of-service elevator in Wyoming, you'd better be prepared to do some cardio. [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Hey Rocky: Watch me win this snowboard race. Nuthin' up my sleeve–PRESTO [Cool]

Sunday 12 March 17:55:54 UTC 2017

Cool [link] [44 comments] [Link]

Mental Floss » Watch a Neuroscientist Explain a Concept in 5 Levels of Difficulty

Sunday 12 March 17:00:00 UTC 2017

Learn what a "connectome" is, regardless of your age or level of education. [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Snack Food Sunday gets a poppin'. We're looking for the best way to pop popcorn, and what should (or should not) go on it. Channel your inner Orville and share your kernels of wisdom [Interesting]

Sunday 12 March 17:00:00 UTC 2017

Interesting [link] [155 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Yes, you still can be arrested even if you do work in law enforcement [Obvious]

Sunday 12 March 16:23:45 UTC 2017

Obvious [link] [54 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Did you know an alien was shot and killed at McGuire Air Force Base? Because IT TOTALLY HAPPENED [Fake]

Sunday 12 March 16:10:00 UTC 2017

Fake [link] [69 comments] [Link]

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

Sunday 12 March 16:00:00 UTC 2017

From the Smart Shopping Team… [Link]

Weird Universe » Double-Chin Eradicator

Sunday 12 March 14:16:57 UTC 2017

I wonder how long you'd have to roll this thing over your face before it made the slightest bit of difference.

The Canyon News – Aug 4, 1938 [Link]

Weird Universe » I’m Having Your Baby

Sunday 12 March 14:16:56 UTC 2017

"Having your baby is a way of saying I'm thinking of you."

No argument there!

[Link]

Overheard In The Office » The Voices Tell Me to Spike Your Coffee with Drano

Sunday 12 March 14:12:16 UTC 2017

Worker #1 (singing): Invoices are making me want to kill myself!
Worker #2: The voices make you want to kill yourself?
Worker #1: No! *In*voices!
Worker #2: Phew! Century City, California [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Photoshop this rocket launcher [Photoshop]

Sunday 12 March 14:00:01 UTC 2017

Photoshop [link] [27 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Florida man is at it again. This time burning down a Qwik-E-Mart that he thought was owned by Muslims because it didn't have orange grapefruit juice [Florida]

Sunday 12 March 13:10:13 UTC 2017

Florida [link] [145 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Yes this man is truly 'EVIL' [Dumbass]

Sunday 12 March 13:06:12 UTC 2017

Dumbass [link] [44 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » CSB Sunday Morning: Power's out [CSB]

Sunday 12 March 13:00:00 UTC 2017

CSB [link] [73 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Yeah "genius," you're just plain crazy if you think you're sooooooo smart [Interesting]

Sunday 12 March 12:47:13 UTC 2017

Interesting [link] [77 comments] [Link]

Mental Floss » French Curator Rediscovers 'Lost' Gustave Courbet Painting

Sunday 12 March 11:00:00 UTC 2017

For decades, experts believed the work was a forgery. [Link]

Fark.com RSS » White Evangelicals believe they are more persecuted than Muslims. Also believe the earth is 6000 years old and Donald Trump has a fine head of hair, so you know, take it as you will [Stupid]

Sunday 12 March 10:49:23 UTC 2017

Stupid [link] [243 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » ♫ I don't want a sickle / I just want to have the use of my pickle ♫ [Scary]

Sunday 12 March 9:26:40 UTC 2017

Scary [link] [22 comments] [Link]

Mental Floss » On This Day in 1933, FDR Gave His First Fireside Chat

Sunday 12 March 9:00:00 UTC 2017

"I want to talk for a few minutes with the people of the United States about banking." [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Scotland's best kept secrets. What they do with the sheep conspicuously absent [Obvious]

Sunday 12 March 8:35:55 UTC 2017

Obvious [link] [35 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » And now for something completely different, I present to you pic of dude humping Wall Street "fearless girl" statue [Dumbass]

Sunday 12 March 7:45:47 UTC 2017

Dumbass [link] [134 comments] [Link]

Mental Floss » Relive the Past With A Keyboard That Looks and Feels Like an Old Typewriter

Sunday 12 March 6:00:00 UTC 2017

Get clacking. [Link]

Fark.com RSS » CALIFORNIA IS ABOUT TO EXPLODE … with spectacular wildflowers. Time to get in the chopper and head to Death Valley [Cool]

Sunday 12 March 5:51:47 UTC 2017

Cool [link] [73 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Rhode Islander becomes drunk, forklift-wielding Florida man [Florida]

Sunday 12 March 2:00:52 UTC 2017

Florida [link] [48 comments] [Link]

Mental Floss » Can You Solve the 'Three Gods' Riddle?

Sunday 12 March 2:00:00 UTC 2017

It's been called the hardest logic puzzle ever made. We agree. [Link]

Fark.com RSS » So you did your time and you want to make a clean start? Not until you pay thousands to get old mug shots off the internet [Asinine]

Sunday 12 March 1:15:56 UTC 2017

Asinine [link] [111 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Photoshop this bike any 'Murican would kill to own [Photoshop]

Sunday 12 March 1:00:01 UTC 2017

Photoshop [link] [22 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » ♫ Florida man, every now and then I get a little bit high And you're always pulling me over Florida man, every now and then I get a little bit critical Of rating the weed that I just smoked ♫ [Florida]

Sunday 12 March 0:57:58 UTC 2017

Florida [link] [27 comments] [Link]

The Oatmeal – Comics, Quizzes, & Stories » I need 50,000 comments on a government website.

Sunday 12 March 0:19:35 UTC 2017

I need 50,000 comments on a government website.View [Link]

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