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 » In honor of the AHCA, Navy launches the USS Accounts Receivable [Spiffy]

Saturday 1 July 22:45:26 UTC 2017

Spiffy [link] [35 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Canada: Hey, we can do high-speed pursuits too, and our police SUVs also disintegrate when they clip another vehicle [Scary]

Saturday 1 July 22:07:25 UTC 2017

Scary [link] [43 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Come for the the $3000 sweat lodge/sex parties, leave grifted and making Native Americans irked at the appropriation of their culture [Asinine]

Saturday 1 July 22:07:24 UTC 2017

Asinine [link] [137 comments] [Link]

Weird Universe » My Italian Fun

Saturday 1 July 21:53:00 UTC 2017

Despite my posts appearing daily for two weeks, I have really been away from the internet and in Italy. I am now catching up on all the glorious comments from WU-vies and the posts of Alex and Chuck (*sniffle*). If you would like, for some bizarre reason, to learn what I did in Rome and Pisa and elsewhere, I have … [Link]

Fark.com RSS » A prostitution deal gone bad involved a stabbing, two dollars in quarters, edible panties and a 70-year-old man [Giggity]

Saturday 1 July 21:21:25 UTC 2017

Giggity [link] [59 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Lincoln police are appealing to members of the public who may have seen this man around the time of the robb – hey! Stop laughing! [Fail]

Saturday 1 July 21:15:13 UTC 2017

Fail [link] [34 comments] [Link]

Futility Closet » To Whom It May Concern

Saturday 1 July 20:54:56 UTC 2017

When Westinghouse buried a time capsule at the 1939 World’s Fair, the planners hoped that it wouldn’t be opened until 6939. That created a problem: How could they leave writings for a future civilization when language itself was sure to change immeasurably in the ensuing 5,000 years? Westinghouse tried to solve the problem by enlisting Smithsonian ethnologist John P. Harrington, … [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Photoshop this frame up [Photoshop]

Saturday 1 July 20:00:01 UTC 2017

Photoshop [link] [22 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » 150 years ago, America got a hat [Spiffy]

Saturday 1 July 17:33:22 UTC 2017

Spiffy [link] [160 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Judge blocks the implementation of Cook County's new tax on pop, which was to have taken effect today. No word if the judge can implement a requirement to make it a fine for anyone who improperly refers to pop as "soda" [Followup]

Saturday 1 July 17:09:21 UTC 2017

Followup [link] [206 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » One would think a cop with over two decades of service would realize the hooker he's picking up was under police surveillance. Must have been thinking with the little head (or the Florida head) [Florida]

Saturday 1 July 16:44:49 UTC 2017

Florida [link] [41 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » At least 17 people shot at a concert in Little Rock [Sad]

Saturday 1 July 16:36:21 UTC 2017

Sad [link] [173 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Happy Birthday to Canada's Official Centennial Baby. Not so fast, Pamela Anderson [Cool]

Saturday 1 July 15:04:13 UTC 2017

Cool [link] [44 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Oregon Three Percenters and Oath Keepers militias (one of the largest radical anti-government groups in the U.S.) are now going to provide "security" for Oregon Republicans [Scary]

Saturday 1 July 14:55:14 UTC 2017

Scary [link] [372 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Merry Maids: Expert cleaners, reliable service, certified employees. Since you're reading this here, guess what their certifications are in? [Florida]

Saturday 1 July 14:29:56 UTC 2017

Florida [link] [69 comments] [Link]

Overheard In The Office » For Reasons They Refuse to Explain

Saturday 1 July 14:11:38 UTC 2017

X-ray tech: I just finished with Seaman. You know, his friends call him “cum.” Lakeville, Massachusetts [Link]

Fark.com RSS » This week in the Saturday Morning Book Club, what three books should be on everyone's book shelf? [Interesting]

Saturday 1 July 14:00:00 UTC 2017

Interesting [link] [133 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » The fast(7) and the furious(102) [Misc]

Saturday 1 July 13:57:13 UTC 2017

Misc [link] [41 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » It's the 150th Canada Day, so let's kick things off with Burton Cummings impersonating Gordon Lightfoot [Video]

Saturday 1 July 13:55:14 UTC 2017

Video [link] [73 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Tanker and cargo ship collide off coast of Britain. If only there were some book that could have prevented it [Awkward]

Saturday 1 July 13:20:22 UTC 2017

Awkward [link] [63 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Photoshop this circular movement [Photoshop]

Saturday 1 July 13:00:01 UTC 2017

Photoshop [link] [19 comments] [Link]

Weird Universe » Chinese Crosstalk Comedy

Saturday 1 July 12:39:01 UTC 2017

[Turn on CC in second video.]

Crosstalk, also known by its Chinese name xiangsheng… is a traditional Chinese comedic performing arts, and one of China's most popular cultural elements. It is typically in the form of a duo dialogue between two performers… The crosstalk language, rich in puns and allusions, is delivered in a rapid, bantering style… Canadian crosstalk comedian … [Link]

Fark.com RSS » The ASPCA's top foster dad in NYC is known only as Charlie. Over the past five years, he has helped raise 25 foster kittens, cuddling, grooming and getting them emotionally and physically ready for adoption, hopefully just in time for Caturday [C

Saturday 1 July 12:00:00 UTC 2017

Caturday [link] [718 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » To discern what fruit was ripe now for plucking? / Or if a fight wasn't worth getting stuck in? / Science has solved / That our color sense evolved / To tell if her blush meant she's ready for… something [Interesting]

Saturday 1 July 11:44:12 UTC 2017

Interesting [link] [30 comments] [Link]

Weird Universe » Nalcrest, Florida

Saturday 1 July 11:43:00 UTC 2017

Nalcrest is a retirement community in Florida, due east of Tampa. To live there you have to have been a letter carrier. The name itself is an acronym for "National Association of Letter Carriers Retirement, Education, Security and Training." The community opened in 1963. Its founder was William Doherty, former president of the letter carriers' union.

The rules of Nalcrest … [Link]

Fark.com RSS » British woman convicted of using a using a fake penis to have sex with her friend by convincing the victim she was a man but needed her to wear a blindfold when they were together. Huh? [Creepy]

Saturday 1 July 10:29:10 UTC 2017

Creepy [link] [125 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » New Jersey's closed. Toxic sludge monster out front should have told you [Interesting]

Saturday 1 July 9:20:11 UTC 2017

Interesting [link] [71 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Have you done well financially? Don't brag about it on social media [Sad]

Saturday 1 July 8:07:09 UTC 2017

Sad [link] [121 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Man blows penis off with premature discharge [Florida]

Saturday 1 July 5:11:14 UTC 2017

Florida [link] [83 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » News: 14 injured in single vehicle car accident. Krusty and Bozo remain in serious condition [Florida]

Saturday 1 July 4:56:11 UTC 2017

Florida [link] [33 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » 165,000 sq. ft. of reefer [Spiffy]

Saturday 1 July 3:56:22 UTC 2017

Spiffy [link] [58 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » What's the difference between your house and a BMW? Your house probably doesn't have that many cockroaches [Creepy]

Saturday 1 July 2:22:08 UTC 2017

Creepy [link] [62 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Humorless bureaucrats frustrate cemetery's attempts to bring goat yoga to DC [Stupid]

Saturday 1 July 2:20:08 UTC 2017

Stupid [link] [31 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Tired of the Louvre and the Colosseum and the Tower of London? Well, here's a guide to goofy stuff you can do throughout the world including hunting zombies in Vegas, learning how to be a Gladiator in Italy, or dining with an owl in Japan [Intere

Saturday 1 July 1:50:08 UTC 2017

Interesting [link] [25 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » "That's some fine police work there, Lou" [Facepalm]

Saturday 1 July 1:48:30 UTC 2017

Facepalm [link] [27 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Austria should not have taken Adolf Hitler's house due to fears of space invaders exploiting open borders. At least, that's what this protester seems to be saying [Strange]

Saturday 1 July 1:20:08 UTC 2017

Strange [link] [27 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Oldest hat store in the country is closing [Sad]

Saturday 1 July 1:07:19 UTC 2017

Sad [link] [84 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » 4th of July gets a head start on the 405 [Scary]

Saturday 1 July 0:50:08 UTC 2017

Scary [link] [78 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Keep it down out there, I'm trying to undergo meiosis [Weird]

Saturday 1 July 0:20:08 UTC 2017

Weird [link] [20 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Photoshop this idyllic park [Photoshop]

Saturday 1 July 0:00:01 UTC 2017

Photoshop [link] [17 comments] [Link]

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