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 » Holland Tunnel needs $364 million overhaul to repair damage from Sandy. Yeah, Sandy was in 2012 — if it took them six years to figure that out, you probably want to never drive in it again [Interesting]

Thursday 15 February 23:35:03 UTC 2018

Interesting [link] [35 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » We're sorry but we have to cancel the Pancake Day Race because the ground is wet and muddy and you might fall and hurt yourself [Facepalm]

Thursday 15 February 22:05:03 UTC 2018

Facepalm [link] [26 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Fark Food Thread: Iron Chef edition – Chocolate. Whether you like to use dark, semisweet, white, powders.. Show us your best stuff and sate our chocolate cravings with style [Interesting]

Thursday 15 February 22:00:00 UTC 2018

Interesting [link] [82 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Hey, free sex doll [Awkward]

Thursday 15 February 21:35:03 UTC 2018

Awkward [link] [103 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Church of England encourages parishioners to give up plastic toothbrushes and floss for Lent. Parishioners: "Give up what, now?" [Interesting]

Thursday 15 February 21:05:03 UTC 2018

Interesting [link] [51 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Photoshop this sweet silver spoon [Photoshop]

Thursday 15 February 21:00:01 UTC 2018

Photoshop [link] [29 comments] [Link]

The Oatmeal – Comics, Quizzes, & Stories » You've Got Crabs

Thursday 15 February 20:54:51 UTC 2018

You've Got CrabsA new game from the creators of Exploding Kittens.View [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Caption this interrupted meal [Caption]

Thursday 15 February 20:00:01 UTC 2018

Caption [link] [56 comments] [Link]

Futility Closet » Hybrids

Thursday 15 February 19:50:17 UTC 2018

A tromboon, above, is a trombone played with the reed and bocal of a bassoon. A saxobone, below, is a trombone played with the mouthpiece of a saxophone. If you could play a bassoon with a saxophone mouthpiece I suppose it would be called a saxoboon, but I don’t think that’s even technically possible. [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Four hundred C-130 aircraft maintenance crew people leaving Utah for Georgia; IQ's in both states expected to rise as a result [Interesting]

Thursday 15 February 19:20:05 UTC 2018

Interesting [link] [93 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Mastermind murderer texts detective instead of girlfriend about wife's murder. Guess which state. Go on, you'll never guess [Florida]

Thursday 15 February 18:35:03 UTC 2018

Florida [link] [56 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Again, AOL.com asks the important questions: Are we all doomed? [Scary]

Thursday 15 February 18:20:04 UTC 2018

Scary [link] [75 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » So because of one lady who said "you shall not pass," there was only one mass shooting yesterday [Hero]

Thursday 15 February 17:56:36 UTC 2018

Hero [link] [239 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Property for sale in Arizona. Bonus: it comes with its own gold mine [Cool]

Thursday 15 February 17:50:04 UTC 2018

Cool [link] [40 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Alzheimer's can be completely reversed in mice by removing just one enzyme. So now mice suffering from Alzheimer's will totally remember where that cheese is, and all about that cat [Spiffy]

Thursday 15 February 17:35:03 UTC 2018

Spiffy [link] [62 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Ahhh tax season. Preparer busted for things like over stating charitable donations, unreimbursed meals and transportation charges…basically what 3 out of 5 of us do every year [Obvious]

Thursday 15 February 17:20:04 UTC 2018

Obvious [link] [73 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Another lawn chair has fallen over in New Hampshire [News]

Thursday 15 February 17:01:09 UTC 2018

News [link] [58 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Man freed after spending three days in the sewer looking for Donatello [Followup]

Thursday 15 February 16:05:03 UTC 2018

Followup [link] [30 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Mysterious pizza stalker bombards lawyer with 100 pies, also some sushi. And he's complaining [Unlikely]

Thursday 15 February 15:50:04 UTC 2018

Unlikely [link] [59 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Showing up hammered at your DUI hearing will elicit no sympathy from the bench. (With helpful picture of Thirsty McDrunkerstein.) [Dumbass]

Thursday 15 February 15:35:03 UTC 2018

Dumbass [link] [61 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » New Jersey cop who was fired after videos featuring her as a dominatrix surfaced says she wants her job back because she was "just acting" [Followup]

Thursday 15 February 15:20:05 UTC 2018

Followup [link] [115 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » I'm not saying this boring old cesspit found at Area 51 is an alien spacecraft, but this boring old cesspit is an alien spacecraft [Strange]

Thursday 15 February 15:05:03 UTC 2018

Strange [link] [80 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Time traveller claims photo proves he went to 2118 on top-secret CIA mission [Obvious]

Thursday 15 February 14:48:01 UTC 2018

Obvious [link] [100 comments] [Link]

Weird Universe » Small Addendum to the Case of Cardinal Sin

Thursday 15 February 14:43:22 UTC 2018

More at Wikipedia. [Link]

Weird Universe » Cardinal Sin

Thursday 15 February 14:43:21 UTC 2018

In April 1976, Pope Paul VI named Monsignor Jaime L. Sin, Archbishop of Manila, as a new cardinal, thereby making him Cardinal Sin. From wikipedia:

His title and surname as Cardinal Sin (another term for a deadly sin) were a point of humour in the Philippines and for Filipino Catholics. Examples included "The greatest sin of all: Cardinal Sin," and … [Link]

Weird Universe » Mystery Illustration 68

Thursday 15 February 14:43:20 UTC 2018

Who is the ultra-famous (deceased) actress in the middle?

Answer is here.

Or after the jump. [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Photoshop this support group [Photoshop]

Thursday 15 February 14:00:01 UTC 2018

Photoshop [link] [12 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Meet the 2018 US grocery bagging champion. He'll never put a gallon of milk on top of your bread [Cool]

Thursday 15 February 13:50:04 UTC 2018

Cool [link] [108 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Pastor of mega-church is forced to fly commercial after Customs seizes his 15MM private jet and $350K in cash [Spiffy]

Thursday 15 February 13:35:03 UTC 2018

Spiffy [link] [81 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Man admits to giving border patrol car impromptu wash with his "honey wagon" [Amusing]

Thursday 15 February 13:05:03 UTC 2018

Amusing [link] [37 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Yo Wikileaks, we heard you liked leaks so we leaked your founder's direct messages. Now everybody and his dawg gets to decide whether Julian Assange was an agent of a hostile foreign power or merely a useful idiot [Ironic]

Thursday 15 February 12:14:12 UTC 2018

Ironic [link] [315 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Huawei? Stay away [Interesting]

Thursday 15 February 11:57:11 UTC 2018

Interesting [link] [69 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Theme of Farktography Contest No. 667: "Shades of Gray 3". Details and rules in first post. LGT next week's theme [Farktography]

Thursday 15 February 11:48:07 UTC 2018

Farktography [link] [66 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Twitter tries to keep their business model operational by deleting 200K Russian troll tweets, and demanding others delete them too. NBC does not comply, makes Russian troll database [Cool]

Thursday 15 February 11:06:11 UTC 2018

Cool [link] [53 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Playtime is over as kangaroo breaks the jaw of would be hunter [Fail]

Thursday 15 February 10:54:11 UTC 2018

Fail [link] [50 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Behold Alex Jones' tweet while the school shooting was going on yesterday [Sick]

Thursday 15 February 10:04:38 UTC 2018

Sick [link] [186 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » The pixels check out [Fail]

Thursday 15 February 9:23:39 UTC 2018

Fail [link] [30 comments] [Link]

Futility Closet » A Cloak

Thursday 15 February 9:09:36 UTC 2018

In Foucault’s Pendulum, Umberto Eco suggests a technique for making one language look like another: Abu, do another thing now: Belbo orders Abu to change all words, make each ‘a’ become ‘akka’ and each ‘o’ become ‘ulla,’ for a paragraph to look almost Finnish. Akkabu, dulla akkanullather thing nullaw: Belbulla ullarders Akkabu tulla chakkange akkall wullards, makkake eakkach ‘akka’ becullame … [Link]

GraphJam » Made Before Going to Work

Thursday 15 February 8:54:36 UTC 2018

fun life venn diagram work - 6516541184 Graph by: (via I Love Charts) Tagged: fun , life , venn diagram , work Share on Facebook [Link]

GraphJam » This is Defiantly a Title

Thursday 15 February 8:54:34 UTC 2018

definitely misspellings defiantly graphs funny - 7456057856 Graph by: Unknown Tagged: definitely , misspellings , defiantly , graphs , funny Share on Facebook [Link]

GraphJam » Rappers Gonna Rap

Thursday 15 February 8:54:32 UTC 2018

celeb infographic Music name rap stage name - 3893690880 Graph by: Unknown Tagged: celeb , infographic , Music , name , rap , stage name Share on Facebook [Link]

GraphJam » But I Got so Far

Thursday 15 February 8:54:31 UTC 2018

in the end linkin park Music song venn diagram - 6215693056 Graph by: spawnsolo Tagged: in the end , linkin park , Music , song , venn diagram Share on Facebook [Link]

GraphJam » Scariness of Spiders vs. Their Position

Thursday 15 February 8:54:23 UTC 2018

bottom ceiling close floor heart attack on position scary spiders Terrifying wall - 2271765248 Graph by: robbitthehobbit Tagged: bottom , ceiling , close , floor , heart attack , on , position , scary , spiders , Terrifying , wall Share on Facebook [Link]

GraphJam » Jack Skellington vs. Beetlejuice

Thursday 15 February 8:54:20 UTC 2018

jack skellington beetlejuice tim burton ghost halloween movies - 6699217664 Graph by: (via Bite) Tagged: jack skellington , beetlejuice , tim burton , ghost , halloween , movies Share on Facebook [Link]

GraphJam » The Power of the Peanut Gallery

Thursday 15 February 8:54:17 UTC 2018

comments Line Graph humanity peanut gallery - 7740382720 Submitted by: (via SMBC) Tagged: comments , Line Graph , humanity , peanut gallery Share on Facebook [Link]

GraphJam » Peanut Butter Jelly Time

Thursday 15 February 8:54:14 UTC 2018

and a baseball bat banana jelly Memes peanut butter time venn diagram - 4135535104 Graph by: thermos14 Tagged: and a baseball bat , banana , jelly , Memes , peanut butter , time , venn diagram Share on Facebook [Link]

GraphJam » Great, I Have to Do All the Work… Again

Thursday 15 February 8:54:13 UTC 2018

best of week group projects leadership school - 6309459968 Graph by: Unknown Tagged: best of week , group projects , leadership , school Share on Facebook [Link]

GraphJam » Who Needs Vocab when You Have Swag?

Thursday 15 February 8:54:12 UTC 2018

intelligence Pie Chart swga yolo - 6564017408 Graph by: Regrubezeehc Tagged: intelligence , Pie Chart , swga , yolo Share on Facebook [Link]

GraphJam » How Much Gas Do I Actually Have?

Thursday 15 February 8:54:05 UTC 2018

best of week car driving gas - 5741347328 Graph by: WiNGSPANTT Tagged: best of week , car , driving , gas Share on Facebook [Link]

GraphJam » FTW

Thursday 15 February 8:54:02 UTC 2018

board games FTW i hate history Pie Chart tiles topics trivial pursuit - 4432889344 Graph by: spongebobble Tagged: board games , FTW , i hate history , Pie Chart , tiles , topics , trivial pursuit Share on Facebook [Link]

GraphJam » Band-Aids

Thursday 15 February 8:54:01 UTC 2018

bandages band aids Bar Graph cut dangling loose remove small sticky super glue tender wound - 2511278848 Graph by: Toffee99 Tagged: bandages , band aids , Bar Graph , cut , dangling , loose , remove , small , sticky , super glue , tender , wound Share on Facebook [Link]

GraphJam » I Don't Find That so Reassuring

Thursday 15 February 8:53:57 UTC 2018

major eningeering reassure college Pie Chart - 6923357184 Graph by: Unknown Tagged: major , eningeering , reassure , college , Pie Chart Share on Facebook [Link]

GraphJam » I Regret Nothing!

Thursday 15 February 8:53:55 UTC 2018

internets Pie Chart socializing texting weekends - 6504069376 Graph by: Unknown Tagged: internets , Pie Chart , socializing , texting , weekends Share on Facebook [Link]

GraphJam » But Mom!

Thursday 15 February 8:53:54 UTC 2018

Bar Graph mom Pokémon video game - 6045263616 Graph by: dmbostonboy Tagged: Bar Graph , mom , Pokémon , video game Share on Facebook [Link]

GraphJam » Sex, Y U So Gross?

Thursday 15 February 8:53:50 UTC 2018

cleanliness infographic sex sexy times - 4798199808 Graph by: Unknown Tagged: cleanliness , infographic , sex , sexy times Share on Facebook [Link]

GraphJam » The Law of Diminishing Brownies

Thursday 15 February 8:53:49 UTC 2018

Chart brownies food - 8009169152 Submitted by: (via sketchplanations) Tagged: Chart , brownies , food Share on Facebook [Link]

Fark.com RSS » An article about dead cows, with helpful photo of what a cow might look like [Silly]

Thursday 15 February 8:44:13 UTC 2018

Silly [link] [38 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » "Three of the five worst mass shootings in US history have occurred during the Trump era" [Awkward]

Thursday 15 February 7:48:30 UTC 2018

Awkward [link] [281 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Police investigating mysterious, unexplained injuries to patients in Meriter Hospital's Newborn Intensive Care Unit, which doesn't sound like someone just getting sloppy pinning diapers on [Scary]

Thursday 15 February 7:45:14 UTC 2018

Scary [link] [31 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » As GOP members offer their "Thoughts & Prayers" to the Florida shooting victims on Twitter, Bess Kalb, writer for Jimmy Kimmel, responds with their received NRA donations in real time [Hero]

Thursday 15 February 7:21:53 UTC 2018

Hero [link] [163 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Burglar tries to throw a brick through a glass door and fails. So does the second burglar, but the first burglar intercepts the brick with his head [Fail]

Thursday 15 February 6:33:43 UTC 2018

Fail [link] [21 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Sarah Sanders wants a big strong man to step up and tell lies for her [Awkward]

Thursday 15 February 4:17:10 UTC 2018

Awkward [link] [95 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Apparently "butt bouquets" are now a Valentine's Day thing (NSFW) [Weird]

Thursday 15 February 3:35:03 UTC 2018

Weird [link] [74 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » A YouTuber who claimed being vegan cured her cancer has died from cancer [News]

Thursday 15 February 2:34:04 UTC 2018

News [link] [170 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Meanwhile, in South Africa [News]

Thursday 15 February 2:24:07 UTC 2018

News [link] [50 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » 18 wheeler big rig gets tired of waiting for drivers to let him into traffic, takes matters into his own hands and entire tractor/trailor fall from overpass [Scary]

Thursday 15 February 2:17:02 UTC 2018

Scary [link] [40 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Post cancer op Julia Louis-Dreyfus is still 10x more gorgeous than you ever were. Fark cancer, indeed [Hero]

Thursday 15 February 2:04:09 UTC 2018

Hero [link] [68 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » In a bid to demonstrate just how progressive they can be, Alabama legislature working to make nitrogen hypoxia an alternative for death penalty proponents [Facepalm]

Thursday 15 February 1:37:05 UTC 2018

Facepalm [link] [81 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » You're the President. Do something about it [News]

Thursday 15 February 1:35:10 UTC 2018

News [link] [419 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Virgin plane that's never been with another plane seeks mile-high romance by drawing a love heart over the UK skies for Valentine's Day (possible nsfw content on page) [Sappy]

Thursday 15 February 1:35:03 UTC 2018

Sappy [link] [11 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » $3,303,355.00 [Hero]

Thursday 15 February 1:08:06 UTC 2018

Hero [link] [315 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Photoshop this small space in space [Photoshop]

Thursday 15 February 1:00:01 UTC 2018

Photoshop [link] [29 comments] [Link]

Fark.com RSS » "Mayor offers bumps for humps" [Florida]

Thursday 15 February 0:57:18 UTC 2018

Florida [link] [22 comments] [Link]

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