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 » Paraplegic mother of Charlottesville Nazi killer called 911 multiple times for his violence against her [Sick]

Monday 14 August 23:39:20 UTC 2017

Sick [link] [187 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Tonight at 8PM EDT Paul's Memory Bank brings you 2 hours of songs beginning with the letter "W", the library is so full of them we'll split it up for two shows. We'll have a quickie tribute to Glen Campbell sometime during the sho

Monday 14 August 23:30:04 UTC 2017

Live [link] [34 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » GoDaddy: GTFO, Nazis. DailyStormer: Fine; we just registered with Google anyway. Google: you mean the registration we just deleted? That one? [Hero]

Monday 14 August 23:25:37 UTC 2017

Hero [link] [176 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Charlottesville white supremacists more well armed than SEAL Team 6 [Murica]

Monday 14 August 23:05:41 UTC 2017

Murica [link] [163 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Study: Oral sex performed by men spreads cancer. Women: Okay, cancer, it's farking ON now, you son of a biatch [Scary]

Monday 14 August 22:53:00 UTC 2017

Scary [link] [77 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » White male arrested for plotting to blow up Oklahoma City building. This is not a repeat from April 19th, 1995 [NewsFlash]

Monday 14 August 22:50:45 UTC 2017

NewsFlash [link] [238 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » It turns out despite what FWD: FWD: FWD: would have you believe, millennials aren't majoring in underwater basket weaving [PSA]

Monday 14 August 21:20:06 UTC 2017

PSA [link] [124 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Molotov diaper [Scary]

Monday 14 August 20:50:05 UTC 2017

Scary [link] [36 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Big Ben's bongs to fall silent for four years. Says he'll go with edibles in the meantime [Interesting]

Monday 14 August 20:20:06 UTC 2017

Interesting [link] [65 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Photoshop challenge – Song titles of the '60s, '70s & '80s in picture form [Photoshop]

Monday 14 August 20:00:01 UTC 2017

Photoshop [link] [135 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Salt Lake City brothel for sale. Asking price: $2.5 million [Giggity]

Monday 14 August 19:50:05 UTC 2017

Giggity [link] [44 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Sorry Alaskans, but the DMV won't let you put KIDNPR, DZNUTS, H3NTAI, or 80085 on your license plate [Amusing]

Monday 14 August 19:20:13 UTC 2017

Amusing [link] [75 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Goat blood drinking Libertarian Florida attorney unwilling to let Virginia steal all the spotlight [Florida]

Monday 14 August 18:50:06 UTC 2017

Florida [link] [68 comments] [Link]

Futility Closet » Unquote

Monday 14 August 18:48:17 UTC 2017

In order that life should be a story or romance to us, it is necessary that a great part of it, at any rate, should be settled for us without our permission. … A man has control over many things in his life; he has control over enough things to be the hero of a novel. But if he had … [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Russian rocket engines seem to have found a way onto North Korea's latest ICBM design [Awkward]

Monday 14 August 18:20:06 UTC 2017

Awkward [link] [198 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » New research from the "No shiat, Sherlock" journal finds that you shouldn't use smiley face emojis in formal business emails because it makes you look incompetent 🙂 xxxxx [Obvious]

Monday 14 August 17:50:04 UTC 2017

Obvious [link] [85 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Drinkers share the most ridiculous vessels they've ever been served drinks from, including a laundry basket, lightbulb and a plastic bag. Unclear why they don't just drink from the bottle [Stupid]

Monday 14 August 16:50:05 UTC 2017

Stupid [link] [116 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Missouri high school deletes the senior yearbook quotes from two gay students to avoid offending anyone, promptly offends everyone at the same time [Fail]

Monday 14 August 16:20:06 UTC 2017

Fail [link] [177 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » North Korea holding a party to celebrate an upcoming attack on the Sea of Japan [Interesting]

Monday 14 August 15:50:04 UTC 2017

Interesting [link] [85 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » County administrator hearing EMS worker complaints tells them they can kill themselves if they're unhappy. Fark: The group had just lost a deputy to suicide [Asinine]

Monday 14 August 15:20:05 UTC 2017

Asinine [link] [87 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Armed police officer stops car traveling at 140mph, is surprised to discover duck wearing a tie, a dog and an old man inside. Unclear if the man's last name was Barbera [Weird]

Monday 14 August 14:20:05 UTC 2017

Weird [link] [46 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » So it turns out you should never use flavored water to iron your clothes…or Coke, yogurt, bleach, aftershave or breast milk. This is an actual list from the article [Obvious]

Monday 14 August 13:50:05 UTC 2017

Obvious [link] [60 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » "Officers were involved in a decidedly slow-speed early morning pursuit in New Orleans East when they chased down a man attempting to steal a steamroller" [Facepalm]

Monday 14 August 13:20:06 UTC 2017

Facepalm [link] [44 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Photoshop this shrimp [Photoshop]

Monday 14 August 13:00:01 UTC 2017

Photoshop [link] [26 comments] [Link]

Weird Universe » Self-Lighting Cigarettes

Monday 14 August 12:58:15 UTC 2017

Self-lighting cigarettes seem to be an idea that inventors keep dreaming up, not realizing that the idea has already been tried. The basic problem with them is identified in this thread on the Guardian. Either the head of the cigarette rips off as you try to light it, or it doesn't light and you're left with a smashed-up cigarette.

Also, … [Link]

Fark.com RSS » "He stated his name was 'Alice Wonderland and he was told to commit the offenses by a hookah-smoking caterpillar.' " as we begin Monday with a fork lift liquor store robbery as only Florida can do it [Florida]

Monday 14 August 12:17:18 UTC 2017

Florida [link] [36 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » If you're transporting a gas grill in your SUV, make sure the gas is turned off, and for fark's sake don't light up a cigarette inside. With "after" pic [Florida]

Monday 14 August 12:17:12 UTC 2017

Florida [link] [73 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Tiki Brand Torches 1, Trump 0 [Followup]

Monday 14 August 11:59:19 UTC 2017

Followup [link] [196 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Too much Red Bull can lead you to riding the white horse [Scary]

Monday 14 August 11:15:19 UTC 2017

Scary [link] [63 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Today's police brutality incident is brought to you from Euclid, Ohio [Scary]

Monday 14 August 10:59:18 UTC 2017

Scary [link] [114 comments] [Link]

Weird Universe » Follies of the Madmen #323

Monday 14 August 10:10:00 UTC 2017

Original ad here. [Link]

Fark.com RSS » GOOD [Hero]

Monday 14 August 10:00:19 UTC 2017

Hero [link] [130 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » People, please keep using your beer goggles during the upcoming solar eclipse. Do not buy these fake eclipse glasses unless you want to go blind [Followup]

Monday 14 August 9:51:20 UTC 2017

Followup [link] [69 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Is this the end of the tits and tequila culture? [Sad]

Monday 14 August 8:56:19 UTC 2017

Sad [link] [42 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Mike Godwin declares criticism of Charlottesville alt-right protesters exempt from Godwin's Law [Spiffy]

Monday 14 August 7:24:13 UTC 2017

Spiffy [link] [78 comments] [Link]

Futility Closet » Podcast Episode 165: A Case of Mistaken Identity

Monday 14 August 7:00:09 UTC 2017

In 1896, Adolf Beck found himself caught up in a senseless legal nightmare: Twelve women from around London insisted that he’d deceived them and stolen their cash and jewelry. In this week’s episode of the Futility Closet podcast we’ll follow Beck’s incredible ordeal, which ignited a scandal and inspired historic reforms in the English justice system. We’ll also covet some … [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Charlottesville white supremacist marcher gets ID'd on Twitter and loses job at hot dog restaurant [Dumbass]

Monday 14 August 6:33:14 UTC 2017

Dumbass [link] [514 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » I don't want to worry you or anything but just thought you should know. Fleas in Arizona have tested positive for plague [Scary]

Monday 14 August 5:21:16 UTC 2017

Scary [link] [67 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » America has been ignoring a crucial tie between Nazi Germany and the confederate south for decades [Scary]

Monday 14 August 3:21:47 UTC 2017

Scary [link] [199 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Virginia governor defends police inaction to Nazi violence by noting the Nazis were heavily armed [Followup]

Monday 14 August 2:22:14 UTC 2017

Followup [link] [231 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Photoshop this Dryandra [Photoshop]

Monday 14 August 0:00:01 UTC 2017

Photoshop [link] [17 comments] [Link]

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