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 » WHY did Van Buren fail at re-election? WHAT is the capital of Djibouti? And WHERE does a guy, a regular Joe like me. find a little… Action? This is YOUR *this* week's Weekly Weird News Quiz [Silly]

Saturday 27 May 23:49:31 UTC 2017

Silly [link] [36 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » They see me rollin', they hatin' [Murica]

Saturday 27 May 23:46:19 UTC 2017

Murica [link] [86 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » You drove over the fresh concrete, you pay the $10,000 it costs to repair it [Obvious]

Saturday 27 May 22:03:39 UTC 2017

Obvious [link] [187 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » At the meeting she held up copies of a study that she said showed that playgrounds can increase crime [Ironic]

Saturday 27 May 20:34:47 UTC 2017

Ironic [link] [75 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Photoshop this Philippine Eagle [Photoshop]

Saturday 27 May 20:00:01 UTC 2017

Photoshop [link] [26 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Sure and begorrah, Ireland is about to get its first gay prime minister just 24 years after decriminalizing homosexuality [Spiffy]

Saturday 27 May 19:49:48 UTC 2017

Spiffy [link] [40 comments] [Link]

Futility Closet » Pictures of Motion

Saturday 27 May 18:37:08 UTC 2017

In 1883, in his studies of the human gait, French physiologist Étienne-Jules Marey asked a soldier to walk past a camera with an open shutter. Before the lens Marey had placed a rotating disk in which he’d cut slots at regular intervals. As the soldier walked, the slots permitted successive images to register on the same photographic plate, producing a … [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Don't know what to get that firearms nut? Bullets? Nah. Spotting Scope? Please. How about Gunsticles? Like Truck Nutz, but for your gun. SHUT UP AND TAKE MY MONEY [Amusing]

Saturday 27 May 18:28:45 UTC 2017

Amusing [link] [95 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » They ain't gettin' on no planes [News]

Saturday 27 May 18:16:56 UTC 2017

News [link] [115 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Definitive proof that Delta Airlines is evil [Asinine]

Saturday 27 May 16:08:31 UTC 2017

Asinine [link] [78 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Today's nightmare fuel: Lack of sleep causes your brain to eat itself [Creepy]

Saturday 27 May 15:47:34 UTC 2017

Creepy [link] [53 comments] [Link]

Weird Universe » Nose Billiards

Saturday 27 May 15:01:07 UTC 2017

Prof. Henry Lewis — a trick billiardist whose specialty was playing with his nose. He was also a champion at finger billiards. He spent his retirement years, when he was in his 70s and 80s, touring the country doing exhibition matches of nose billiards. As far as I can tell, he's the only person ever to have made a career … [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Cool: get awarded teacher of the year. Sad: Announce you are leaving state because of how bad the schools are [Sad]

Saturday 27 May 14:33:32 UTC 2017

Sad [link] [154 comments] [Link]

Overheard In The Office » 10AM Budgeting Meeting

Saturday 27 May 14:20:11 UTC 2017

Engineer: Let me guess, are you going to put on your “MBA Hat”?
Supervisor: How about I put my “Foot Hat” in your “Butt Hat”? 500 North Gulph Road
King of Prussia, Pennsylvania [Link]

Fark.com RSS » If you could hang out for a day with any author — past or present — who would it be? Yep, we're getting all "timey-wimey" this week in the Saturday Morning Book Club [Interesting]

Saturday 27 May 14:00:00 UTC 2017

Interesting [link] [245 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Photoshop this windfarm [Photoshop]

Saturday 27 May 13:00:01 UTC 2017

Photoshop [link] [22 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Black bear walks "nonchalantly" through suburban New Jersey backyards sending residents into a frenzy because they've never seen a 'huge' wild animal before [Scary]

Saturday 27 May 12:45:32 UTC 2017

Scary [link] [83 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Japan's most famous cat Maru celebrated a major birthday milestone this week. Here's to another ten years of running full-speed into cardboard boxes, just in time for Caturday [Caturday]

Saturday 27 May 12:00:00 UTC 2017

Caturday [link] [826 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Prison pizza [Interesting]

Saturday 27 May 11:55:36 UTC 2017

Interesting [link] [60 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Why the female cashier is being nice to you: A) she is uncontrollably sexually attracted to you, or B) because that's literally her farking job, you cretin [Amusing]

Saturday 27 May 11:34:36 UTC 2017

Amusing [link] [167 comments] [Link]

Weird Universe » The Gro-Clock

Saturday 27 May 11:24:59 UTC 2017

Thanks god I'm not a parent! Not only the headaches, but the expense! $54.99!

[Link]

Fark.com RSS » No, the Midwest is not the birthplace of the American beer [Stupid]

Saturday 27 May 10:44:36 UTC 2017

Stupid [link] [37 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Bystanders try to stop man from harassing two Muslim women on a train in Portland, get stabbed to death for their efforts [Sad]

Saturday 27 May 9:24:35 UTC 2017

Sad [link] [290 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » A day after a student went to the media with an "award" for "Most Likely to Become a Terrorist", another one comes forward with an "award" for "Most Likely to Blend in with White People" from the same teacher [Facepalm

Saturday 27 May 4:15:22 UTC 2017

Facepalm [link] [91 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Man tries to bite flight attendant then jumps off plane onto tarmac. The AAristocrats [Dumbass]

Saturday 27 May 3:37:27 UTC 2017

Dumbass [link] [18 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » You ever have that dream where you're naked at a storage facility, so you drive off in a truck, but it has a giant black and white statue of a swan in the back? That… that was just a dream, right? [Florida]

Saturday 27 May 2:50:05 UTC 2017

Florida [link] [21 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Indian riot police have to use water cannons to disperse crowds of angry demonstrators and make more than 150 arrests during protests in Kolkata over…wait for it…the breakdown of law and order in the city [Ironic]

Saturday 27 May 2:28:16 UTC 2017

Ironic [link] [34 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » The reporters at the Bozeman Chronicle are having a little fun with the police blotter today [Spiffy]

Saturday 27 May 2:06:52 UTC 2017

Spiffy [link] [32 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » "Doctor, my heel hurts." "I can fix that by sticking my fingers up your hoo-ha" [Sick]

Saturday 27 May 2:06:27 UTC 2017

Sick [link] [58 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Boeing satellite engineer and wannabe spy sells out his country to impress fake internet girlfriend [Dumbass]

Saturday 27 May 1:44:38 UTC 2017

Dumbass [link] [54 comments] [Link]

Futility Closet » Alternate Route

Saturday 27 May 1:31:02 UTC 2017

In 1989, a real estate developer applied to build 300 homes in Bolton, England, over the objections of the residents. The application was rejected twice, but then a government minister overturned the decision and told the firm to go ahead. The borough council’s deputy leader, Guy Harkin, told the Bolton News, “We were scratching around to prevent a big national … [Link]

Fark.com RSS » When the lie about having a Canadian girlfriend goes too far [Sick]

Saturday 27 May 1:22:49 UTC 2017

Sick [link] [32 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Matlock has been arrested. Don't let grandma know [Interesting]

Saturday 27 May 1:01:00 UTC 2017

Interesting [link] [17 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Theme park has first "Adult night", where fights break out by people who aren't good at adulting [Dumbass]

Saturday 27 May 0:39:11 UTC 2017

Dumbass [link] [40 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » In Japan, officials' only response to ongoing demographic time bomb is to sponsor speed-dating events and fatherhood classes. "It's great that [the government] is worried about it. But these things will not work" [Scary]

Saturday 27 May 0:17:22 UTC 2017

Scary [link] [95 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Photoshop this Asian-themed restaurant [Photoshop]

Saturday 27 May 0:10:33 UTC 2017

Photoshop [link] [22 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Police advise citizens not to jump on the hood of their car should someone try to steal it [Scary]

Saturday 27 May 0:10:32 UTC 2017

Scary [link] [31 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » "Ukip politician calls for death penalty for suicide bombers". Ummmm [Dumbass]

Saturday 27 May 0:10:31 UTC 2017

Dumbass [link] [45 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » A six year-old boy wanted to give blood to help victims of the Manchester bombing but was told he was too young. So, he went out and got a bunch of snacks for nurses [Hero]

Saturday 27 May 0:03:44 UTC 2017

Hero [link] [13 comments] [Link]

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