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 » Seattle has gone 38 straight days without rainfall. Tucson, AZ has seen rainfall 13 out of the last 15 days. Dog looking for cat to share 2-bedroom apartment [Strange]

Saturday 29 July 22:49:12 UTC 2017

Strange [link] [70 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Guy named Billy Badass marries bride where they met, Country Thunder Festival, in chapel of Bud Light cases, with 'Hot Dog Escapades' & custom vows; "you kept me afloat and accepted me for the trashiest [expletive] that I am" [Amu

Saturday 29 July 22:03:04 UTC 2017

Amusing [link] [92 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » "I have a boa constrictor stuck to my face. Send help soonish" [Scary]

Saturday 29 July 21:56:39 UTC 2017

Scary [link] [55 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Photoshop these green guys [Photoshop]

Saturday 29 July 20:00:01 UTC 2017

Photoshop [link] [17 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » World's best whiskey to the left, people arguing over the real best whiskey on the right [Obvious]

Saturday 29 July 19:50:23 UTC 2017

Obvious [link] [183 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Meh: Man breaks into pharmacy to steal cough syrup … What?: cough syrup that sells for $1k per bottle [Dumbass]

Saturday 29 July 19:10:15 UTC 2017

Dumbass [link] [92 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Switzerland opens world's longest NOPE to the public [Scary]

Saturday 29 July 18:31:25 UTC 2017

Scary [link] [59 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » After forging carear in law enforCement, dyslexic Police Oficer earns spel behnid bars [Fail]

Saturday 29 July 17:33:34 UTC 2017

Fail [link] [26 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » DC police freaking out after discovering a group of officers have been wearing white supremacist regalia to court appearances. Apparently they did not see this coming [Asinine]

Saturday 29 July 17:25:17 UTC 2017

Asinine [link] [248 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » At the end of a drug trial that you're a juror on, you're not allowed to take the evidence home as a parting gift [Obvious]

Saturday 29 July 17:12:08 UTC 2017

Obvious [link] [31 comments] [Link]

Futility Closet » The Battle of Surfaces

Saturday 29 July 16:48:05 UTC 2017

In 2007 Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal were ranked 1 and 2 among the world’s men’s singles tennis players. But they excelled on different surfaces: Federer had not lost a match in five years on grass courts, and Nadal had been undefeated on clay for three. And neither player had defeated the other on his favored surface. So they held … [Link]

Fark.com RSS » So what's more cost effective, paying to put drug addicts into prison or treating drug addiction as a healthcare issue? After 14 years of giving up the former and trying the latter, Portugal has answers for America's heroin epidemic [Obvious]

Saturday 29 July 16:12:21 UTC 2017

Obvious [link] [143 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » "Somebody on Craigslist has a cow for sale and accidentally typed my number as the contact. This has been the worst morning of my life." Don't have a cow, man (Not safe for work content in sidebar) [Amusing]

Saturday 29 July 15:51:46 UTC 2017

Amusing [link] [66 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » You ever notice how women grocery shop one way, and men grocery shop another? Well, grocery stores have–and they are treating men differently. Like idiots [PSA]

Saturday 29 July 15:45:50 UTC 2017

PSA [link] [257 comments] [Link]

Weird Universe » Bacon Costume

Saturday 29 July 15:00:04 UTC 2017

George J. Nicholls, author of the 1917 book Bacon and Hams, dressed as a slab of bacon.

More info about this rare and curious book at CookingIssues.com and Wikipedia. [Link]

Fark.com RSS » How do we stop people from smoking? I know – let's have tobacco companies reduce the amount of nicotine in their products because that will surely reduce sales [Stupid]

Saturday 29 July 14:57:47 UTC 2017

Stupid [link] [84 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » More and more people say they have blacked out after drinking alcohol in Mexico [Scary]

Saturday 29 July 14:33:35 UTC 2017

Scary [link] [97 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » This highway finally opened after 4 months of snow removal. In California [Interesting]

Saturday 29 July 14:16:47 UTC 2017

Interesting [link] [57 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » The Saturday Morning Book Club is turning things around this week: what's the plot of your yet to be written but sure to be bestselling novel? Bonus points for a clever book title [Interesting]

Saturday 29 July 14:00:00 UTC 2017

Interesting [link] [71 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » $15,000 could be yours if you can solve an ancient Chinese secret [Spiffy]

Saturday 29 July 13:36:30 UTC 2017

Spiffy [link] [61 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Photoshop theme: Cover bands [Photoshop]

Saturday 29 July 13:00:01 UTC 2017

Photoshop [link] [11 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » It's a 2-for-1 Chinese Special: Woman uses plastic surgery to avoid bills, and apparently in China the government adds a recording to deadbeats' incoming calls asking the caller to debt-shame them [Strange]

Saturday 29 July 12:46:31 UTC 2017

Strange [link] [26 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Dumbass who thought stabbing people for their cell phones would be appropriate won't be out of prison until the iPhone 20 is available [Dumbass]

Saturday 29 July 12:11:31 UTC 2017

Dumbass [link] [33 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » #1 – Feed me. #2 – Feed me. #3 – Feed me. #4 – Feed me. #5 – Feed me. #6 – Feed me. #7 – Feed me. #8 – Feed me. #9 – Feed me. #10 – Caturday [Caturday]

Saturday 29 July 12:00:00 UTC 2017

Caturday [link] [800 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » That North Korean missile that they just launched? Well, apparently it's an ICBM that could hit Los Angeles or even as far as Chicago. Sleep tight [Scary]

Saturday 29 July 10:59:00 UTC 2017

Scary [link] [231 comments] [Link]

Weird Universe » Egg Massage

Saturday 29 July 10:10:00 UTC 2017

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Fark.com RSS » NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA Bat Condo [Spiffy]

Saturday 29 July 5:09:50 UTC 2017

Spiffy [link] [26 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Dish Network's upcoming 'free weed with every installation' promotion thwarted by US Customs [Fail]

Saturday 29 July 5:05:44 UTC 2017

Fail [link] [23 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Meth addiction poster girl passed away at 55 from cancer [Sad]

Saturday 29 July 4:06:57 UTC 2017

Sad [link] [99 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » I'll see your missile fired into the ocean and raise you a missile fired into the ocean [Fail]

Saturday 29 July 3:24:18 UTC 2017

Fail [link] [60 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Body parts found in the Alps could be A) plane crash victims, B) delicious, C) all the above [Creepy]

Saturday 29 July 3:19:13 UTC 2017

Creepy [link] [30 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » National Orgasm Day arrives next week and it can't come soon enough [Giggity]

Saturday 29 July 3:09:57 UTC 2017

Giggity [link] [52 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » After sequencing complete genomes from two tardigrade species, scientists still don't know what the hell tardigrades are [Strange]

Saturday 29 July 2:50:10 UTC 2017

Strange [link] [51 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » It's been a year since the Dallas police strapped a bomb to a robot to kill a sniper, let's see what the ramifications for police procedure have been [Followup]

Saturday 29 July 2:46:16 UTC 2017

Followup [link] [104 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Signed presidential executive order sells for $30,000 [Followup]

Saturday 29 July 2:22:17 UTC 2017

Followup [link] [33 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Florida Man is at it again. This time he robs a bank, gets naked, and runs down the street throwing money [Florida]

Saturday 29 July 2:15:53 UTC 2017

Florida [link] [19 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Breaking: Nice Google reviews of jail might be sarcastic [Obvious]

Saturday 29 July 1:41:36 UTC 2017

Obvious [link] [18 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » It's not really nudity if your nipples are painted, right? (Not safe for work) [Boobies]

Saturday 29 July 1:07:19 UTC 2017

Boobies [link] [64 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Who stole the cookie from the cookie jar? Who, this puppy? Yes, her. Couldn't be. Then w…actually she still has her head in the jar, so it was her [Amusing]

Saturday 29 July 0:33:02 UTC 2017

Amusing [link] [27 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Step one: Clearly state on your dating app : 'If you send me dick pics I will send them to your mom'. Step two: Receive dick pic and forward it to his mother. Step three: Get accused of breaking the law by the original sender [Dumbass]

Saturday 29 July 0:14:01 UTC 2017

Dumbass [link] [136 comments] [Link]

Futility Closet » Unquote

Saturday 29 July 0:13:03 UTC 2017

“Superstition would seem to be simply cowardice in regard to the supernatural.” — Theophrastus [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Photoshop these buttons [Photoshop]

Saturday 29 July 0:00:01 UTC 2017

Photoshop [link] [15 comments] [Link]

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