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 » Companies that want to sell fidget spinners are now forced to bring "bags of cash" to factories in China just to make sure their orders are confirmed. Apparently you now have to grease their palms as well as their ball bearings [Asinine]

Monday 19 June 23:58:38 UTC 2017

Asinine [link] [90 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » The end is in sight, we're up to the letter "R". Tonight Paul's Memory Bank brings you two hours of songs beginning with R, and there's another two hours coming up next week. TuneIn at 8PM EDT [Live]

Monday 19 June 23:52:17 UTC 2017

Live [link] [29 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Scene: The Terrorist Afterlife. "So, in your final mission, you were given a Kalashnikov rifle, handguns, gas cylinders and a car. How many infidels did you kill?" "Well, I dented a police van" [Fail]

Monday 19 June 23:24:21 UTC 2017

Fail [link] [53 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Caturdays been going on for over 9,000 years [Caturday]

Monday 19 June 22:50:04 UTC 2017

Caturday [link] [72 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » The military releases some more details about the crash involving the Fitz, including a small detail about what the ACX Crystal did [Followup]

Monday 19 June 22:20:05 UTC 2017

Followup [link] [154 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Several inmates escape from Bali jail through 15m-long tunnel. no word if they showed up inside warden's TV set [Interesting]

Monday 19 June 22:14:04 UTC 2017

Interesting [link] [30 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Caption this umpire/mascot interaction [Caption]

Monday 19 June 22:00:00 UTC 2017

Caption [link] [24 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Bad: car drowns in a flash flood. Worse: car catches on fire. Fark: both at the same time [Fail]

Monday 19 June 21:44:05 UTC 2017

Fail [link] [35 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Supreme Court strikes down sex offender social media ban. In other news… Hey guys, it's been a while but I'm back. Who wants a hug? [Spiffy]

Monday 19 June 21:20:05 UTC 2017

Spiffy [link] [110 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Who is to blame for selfie sticks? Teens? Nope. Millennials? Try again. Ancient Greeks? Bingo [Interesting]

Monday 19 June 21:10:04 UTC 2017

Interesting [link] [40 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Warmbier to meet cold bier [Followup]

Monday 19 June 20:52:31 UTC 2017

Followup [link] [200 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Christian bigots arrive at Knox Pride Fest to protest and tell everyone they're going to Hell. However, they didn't count on the Gay Men's Chorus of Washington, DC to be in the area on tour. Hilarity ensues [Spiffy]

Monday 19 June 20:40:07 UTC 2017

Spiffy [link] [277 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » It's so hot in Phoenix that the water parks are catching fire [Scary]

Monday 19 June 20:10:04 UTC 2017

Scary [link] [54 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Photoshop this slightly creepy montage [Photoshop]

Monday 19 June 20:00:01 UTC 2017

Photoshop [link] [14 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Wind blows car door shut on 1-year-old. Mom calls cops for help, police arrive, free child, ticket mom with misdemeanor, for The Infallible Gods of Municipal Revenue must be appeased [Asinine]

Monday 19 June 19:12:44 UTC 2017

Asinine [link] [351 comments] [Link]

Futility Closet » Wanted

Monday 19 June 17:03:32 UTC 2017

In 1899 Winston Churchill was covering the Boer War as a correspondent when he was captured and put in a Pretoria prison. He climbed a wall and set out to flee 300 miles to neutral Portuguese East Africa while the Afrikaners raised the alarm and circulated a rather unflattering description: Escaped prisoner-of-war Winston Spencer Churchill Englishman 25 years old about … [Link]

Fark.com RSS » New creationist book features gladiator match between Noah and a tyrannosaurus rex [Asinine]

Monday 19 June 16:50:04 UTC 2017

Asinine [link] [266 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Fark NotNewsletter: Farking in the hospital [FarkBlog]

Monday 19 June 16:27:03 UTC 2017

FarkBlog [link] [63 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » I'l take Blatantly Obvious for 200, Alex. Answer: An unsecured Amazon server. Where should you not store personal and analytical data for 198 million Americans? [Asinine]

Monday 19 June 15:58:04 UTC 2017

Asinine [link] [101 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » River near Madison covered in toxic foam. Just tell the residents it's beer and they'll solve the problem in short order [Sick]

Monday 19 June 15:50:04 UTC 2017

Sick [link] [54 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Man who drove into pedestrians outside of Mosque was shielded from the angry crowd by some of the very Muslims he tried to kill [Followup]

Monday 19 June 15:43:18 UTC 2017

Followup [link] [118 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Russia threatens to have their planes shot down, too [Followup]

Monday 19 June 15:43:17 UTC 2017

Followup [link] [185 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Is the sobbing woman in this photo El Chapo's daughter? And would she be called La Chapa? [Followup]

Monday 19 June 15:20:04 UTC 2017

Followup [link] [37 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Brits ignore warnings to "stay indoors" as the mercury rises to hit the dangerous unbelievable temperature of 32C [Stupid]

Monday 19 June 14:50:06 UTC 2017

Stupid [link] [351 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Argument between neighbors ends in fatal shooting in Commodore. No word on who was the Dixie chicken and who was the Tennessee lamb [Stupid]

Monday 19 June 14:30:01 UTC 2017

Stupid [link] [64 comments] [Link]

Overheard In The Office » So I’m Pretty Sure the Boss Is Pregnant

Monday 19 June 13:43:18 UTC 2017

Peon: Rice belly would jiggle. Beer belly would, like, wobble hard. King Street East
Toronto
Canadia Overheard by: Thank you, sensei [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Photoshop this dunkin' fool [Photoshop]

Monday 19 June 13:30:01 UTC 2017

Photoshop [link] [11 comments] [Link]

Weird Universe » Caffeinism

Monday 19 June 13:02:27 UTC 2017

March 1985: Sgt. Joseph Mitlof of the NYPD realized that the 30 cups of coffee a day he was drinking might have been contributing to his anxiety problems. In fact, he was suffering from "caffeinism."

Tallahassee Democrat – Mar 20, 1985

I had never heard of such a thing as "caffeinism," but it turns out the term is over 100 years … [Link]

Weird Universe » Art Pays Off!

Monday 19 June 13:02:26 UTC 2017



Original story here.

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Fark.com RSS » Machete-wielding homeowner fends off 5 would-be robbers in what barely qualifies as news in Florida [Florida]

Monday 19 June 13:00:35 UTC 2017

Florida [link] [67 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Wildfires in Portugal kill dozens, trapped in their cars trying to flee [Scary]

Monday 19 June 11:50:06 UTC 2017

Scary [link] [46 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » 17-year-old Muslim girl chased and beaten with a baseball bat on Ramadan. In Virginia. Police don't know if this is a hate crime [Murica]

Monday 19 June 11:45:31 UTC 2017

Murica [link] [291 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Carrot vodka, for the wascally wabbit in us all [Strange]

Monday 19 June 11:23:31 UTC 2017

Strange [link] [37 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » You known you've trained your dog well if she knows how to ride public transit all by herself and has memorized where the stop for the local dog park is [Amusing]

Monday 19 June 9:31:31 UTC 2017

Amusing [link] [45 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Why it's a bad idea to have trail running events in bear country [Sad]

Monday 19 June 9:27:07 UTC 2017

Sad [link] [98 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Mmmmm. Protein [Facepalm]

Monday 19 June 7:23:57 UTC 2017

Facepalm [link] [38 comments] [Link]

Futility Closet » Podcast Episode 158: The Mistress of Murder Farm

Monday 19 June 7:00:19 UTC 2017


Belle Gunness was one of America’s most prolific female serial killers, luring lonely men to her Indiana farm with promises of marriage, only to rob and kill them. In this week’s episode of the Futility Closet podcast we’ll tell the story of The LaPorte Black Widow and learn about some of her unfortunate victims. We’ll also break back into Buckingham … [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Fark: Drunk farmer starts fight with a pig. TotalFark: Farmer loses and dies. WTFark: After pig bit off three of his fingers and his nads [Scary]

Monday 19 June 5:44:55 UTC 2017

Scary [link] [92 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Best first-time dad EVER gives up his home gym for his daughter and turns it into an adorable nursery [Spiffy]

Monday 19 June 5:01:32 UTC 2017

Spiffy [link] [64 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » So how long until Trump insults London again on Twitter? [News]

Monday 19 June 4:13:17 UTC 2017

News [link] [252 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » US Navy FA-18E Super Hornet shoots down Syrian Air Force fighter in first air-to-air kill since 1999 [Scary]

Monday 19 June 4:03:27 UTC 2017

Scary [link] [160 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Alex Jones cuts a Father's Day video and sends it to Sandy Hook parents [Stupid]

Monday 19 June 3:54:24 UTC 2017

Stupid [link] [82 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » The clang of his brass balls rang across the city to celebrate this 97 year old's birthday [Cool]

Monday 19 June 2:59:31 UTC 2017

Cool [link] [14 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Photoshop this precious snowflake [Photoshop]

Monday 19 June 0:30:01 UTC 2017

Photoshop [link] [19 comments] [Link]

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