John Gordon Ross

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 » School shooter offers to plead guilty to avoid the death penalty and spare the community a trial that will bring up more horrifying details of his mass shooting. What a nice gesture [Interesting]

Monday 19 February 23:59:18 UTC 2018

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Fark.com RSS » Trump finally thanks Obama [Facepalm]

Monday 19 February 23:50:04 UTC 2018

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Fark.com RSS » The Ohio River is rising, threatening to wash away much of the stank in Cincinnati's historic neighborhoods [PSA]

Monday 19 February 21:50:04 UTC 2018

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Fark.com RSS » "'Sonic weapon attacks' on U.S. Embassy don't add up — for anyone" [Followup]

Monday 19 February 21:35:03 UTC 2018

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Fark.com RSS » Photoshop Theme: Create a propaganda poster for the country of Farkistan (LGT examples) [Photoshop]

Monday 19 February 21:00:01 UTC 2018

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Fark.com RSS » Just finish rehab? Then it's time to celebrate with a 12 pack in your car with your child [Florida]

Monday 19 February 20:05:03 UTC 2018

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Fark.com RSS » In place of scarecrow, farmer erects Rule 34 [Weird]

Monday 19 February 19:50:04 UTC 2018

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Fark.com RSS » "After he got tired of being Tased, he called 911" [Florida]

Monday 19 February 19:20:05 UTC 2018

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Futility Closet » In a Word

Monday 19 February 18:05:44 UTC 2018

allograph
n. something written for another person facrere
n. the art of “make-believe” dabster
n. a master of his business gelastic
n. something capable of exciting smiles or laughter Leroy Anderson’s 1950 composition “The Typewriter” uses a manual typewriter as an instrument. To keep the keys from jamming, the machine is modified so that only two keys work. All the … [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Lucky Charms is now Brony Charms [Amusing]

Monday 19 February 18:05:03 UTC 2018

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Fark.com RSS » The National Space Defense Center at Schriever Air Force Base in Colorado Springs is now in full operation [Interesting]

Monday 19 February 17:50:04 UTC 2018

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Fark.com RSS » Dog found tied to tree with goodbye note attached to collar gets adopted [Sappy]

Monday 19 February 17:35:03 UTC 2018

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Fark.com RSS » Fark: UK policeman who can't swim jumps in frigid river to save drowning man. TotalFark: Rescue is all caught on his body cam. UltraFark: his coworkers now call him "The Hoff" [Cool]

Monday 19 February 17:20:05 UTC 2018

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Fark.com RSS » Problem: You live in Moscow and the city refuses to plow the streets. Solution: spray paint opposition leader Alexei Nvalny's name on the snow. Result: city workers show up almost immediately to remove only the painted snow, leaving the rest ther

Monday 19 February 17:05:04 UTC 2018

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Fark.com RSS » Meet the lesbian pioneers who fooled Spain's Catholic Church. In unrelated news, Michael Cera's great-grandmother also played for her own team [Cool]

Monday 19 February 16:35:03 UTC 2018

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Fark.com RSS » Fist bumps replace time-honored handshake tradition in hockey as Olympic norovirus cases soar near 300 [Sad]

Monday 19 February 16:05:03 UTC 2018

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Fark.com RSS » How to break out of being a rookie carp angler and become a professional carp angler; use a floating Yorkshire pudding as bait [Spiffy]

Monday 19 February 15:35:03 UTC 2018

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Fark.com RSS » Middle school substitute teacher fired after video shows him body slamming a 12-year-old student. Student just glad sub didn't have an AR-15 [Asinine]

Monday 19 February 15:20:05 UTC 2018

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Fark.com RSS » Booze is now once again good for you. Drew now declared immortal (possible nsfw content on page) [Spiffy]

Monday 19 February 14:50:04 UTC 2018

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Fark.com RSS » The HPV vaccine can completely prevent one of the most common cancers in the world, but only 29 percent of teens are getting it because parents don't want to admit their snowflakes are interested in sex [Facepalm]

Monday 19 February 14:35:03 UTC 2018

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Fark.com RSS » This beaver is dam clever [Amusing]

Monday 19 February 14:05:03 UTC 2018

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Fark.com RSS » Photoshop this forlorn fishing boat [Photoshop]

Monday 19 February 14:00:01 UTC 2018

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Weird Universe » Follies of the Madmen #352

Monday 19 February 13:47:46 UTC 2018

Put the noisy little brats in the unsafe cargo area, why not?

Source of ad. [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Homeless people totally ruining a perfectly good gentrified Brooklyn neighborhood by being all homeless and stuff [Asinine]

Monday 19 February 13:35:03 UTC 2018

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Fark.com RSS » Responding to concerns for school safety, Trump agrees to share stage with Wayne LaPierre at CPAC. He's just messing with us, isn't he? [Murica]

Monday 19 February 13:14:12 UTC 2018

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Fark.com RSS » ICYMI over the weekend: : "Farty passenger forces flight to make emergency landing" [Repeat]

Monday 19 February 13:10:26 UTC 2018

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Weird Universe » Glove for Handshaking

Monday 19 February 12:36:59 UTC 2018

Invented by Anthony Monde in 1975, a steel-ribbed glove “for the protection of politicians and others who do a lot of handshaking.”

York Daily Record – July 16, 1975

The Shreveport Times – Oct 12, 1975 [Link]

Fark.com RSS » The kids are all right [Cool]

Monday 19 February 11:58:44 UTC 2018

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GraphJam » Please Leave Now

Monday 19 February 10:25:21 UTC 2018

Graph by: Damn_that_mash_looks_tasty Tagged: sexytimes , Movie , parents , Pie Chart Share on Facebook [Link]

GraphJam » Less Is More

Monday 19 February 10:25:19 UTC 2018

Graph by: Tagged: Bar Graph , cell phone , phone , plans , sms , text message , texting Share on Facebook [Link]

GraphJam » Zuckerburger

Monday 19 February 10:25:17 UTC 2018

Graph by: (via Urlesque) Tagged: facebook , food , hamburger , infographic , ketchup , Mark Zuckerberg , sandwiches , winklevoss Share on Facebook [Link]

GraphJam » I Think the Internet Just Educated Me

Monday 19 February 10:25:11 UTC 2018

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GraphJam » Or It Eats Its Feces

Monday 19 February 10:25:01 UTC 2018

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GraphJam » No News-Related News Is Good News

Monday 19 February 10:24:59 UTC 2018

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GraphJam » The Lunatics Are in the Hall (of the White House)

Monday 19 February 10:24:57 UTC 2018

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GraphJam » The US Makes No Sense, Sometimes

Monday 19 February 10:24:51 UTC 2018

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GraphJam » Sports Things Sporty New Englanders are Sporting Excited for in Winter

Monday 19 February 10:24:50 UTC 2018

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GraphJam » 5 Awesome Facts About the NES

Monday 19 February 10:24:46 UTC 2018

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GraphJam » How Good a Song is

Monday 19 February 10:24:43 UTC 2018

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GraphJam » What You See Is What You Get

Monday 19 February 10:24:38 UTC 2018

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GraphJam » All Knowledge In The Universe

Monday 19 February 10:24:36 UTC 2018

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GraphJam » The Best Time of Day

Monday 19 February 10:24:35 UTC 2018

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Fark.com RSS » Lol, no [Murica]

Monday 19 February 10:17:43 UTC 2018

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Fark.com RSS » Uber eats, shoots and leaves [Sad]

Monday 19 February 9:56:44 UTC 2018

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Fark.com RSS » The U.S. will never ban porn. PROMISE? [Followup]

Monday 19 February 8:39:43 UTC 2018

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Fark.com RSS » Imagine if George W. Bush saw the 9/11 attack primarily as a political embarrassment to be minimized [Interesting]

Monday 19 February 7:45:28 UTC 2018

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Futility Closet » Podcast Episode 189: The “Wild White Man”

Monday 19 February 7:00:56 UTC 2018

In 1835, settlers in Australia discovered a European man dressed in kangaroo skins, a convict who had escaped an earlier settlement and spent 32 years living among the natives of southern Victoria. In this week’s episode of the Futility Closet podcast we’ll review the extraordinary life of William Buckley, the so-called “wild white man” of colonial Australia. We’ll also try … [Link]

Fark.com RSS » Kim Dotcom weighs 360 pounds [Obvious]

Monday 19 February 2:41:25 UTC 2018

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Fark.com RSS » Museum of Candy opening in New York. Peeps to be rejected on general principle [Strange]

Monday 19 February 1:40:34 UTC 2018

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Fark.com RSS » Finally, Liddle' Adam Schiff, the leakin' monster of no control, is now telling Trump it's time toupee the piper [Followup]

Monday 19 February 1:39:37 UTC 2018

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Fark.com RSS » Play-by-play of the Washington Dotards vs. the Beijing Reds as an attempted forced fumble is stopped by an offensive tackle [Scary]

Monday 19 February 1:17:39 UTC 2018

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Fark.com RSS » Photoshop this lovely day [Photoshop]

Monday 19 February 1:00:01 UTC 2018

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Fark.com RSS » Is Trump subcontracting his tweeting? [Amusing]

Monday 19 February 0:34:26 UTC 2018

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