Skip to content Try Ads-Free Fark It's Not News, It's Fark How To FarkLog In | Sign Up » Forgot password? Turn on javascript (or enable it for Fark) for a better user experience. If you can read this, either the style sheet didn't load or you have an older browser that doesn't support style sheets. Try clearing your browser cache and refreshing the page. Discussion Entertainment Geography, drink promotions, allergies, and online security are all on the Fark Weird News Quiz, June 27-July 3 Fourth of July Weekend Edition (fark.com) More: Weird, OLED, Television, Quiz, Anno Domini, Box, Death, Living room, Knowledge 115 clicks;posted toMain »and Discussion »on 04 Jul 2025 at 11:24 PM(52 minutes ago) | Favorite | Watch | share: Copy Link 7 Comments Enable JavaScript for Fark in order to vote for entries. Log in (at the top of the page) to enable voting. View Voting Results:SmartestandFunniest (0) Funniest 55 minutes ago Welcome to the Fark Weird News Quiz! If this is your first time here, you can start the Quiz by clicking on the logo next to the headline above, or here: https://www.fark.com/quiz/2014 Once your score is tallied, you can click on any of the correct answers to be taken to the Fark thread about that story. If you don't have a Fark account, you can still take the Easy Quiz here: https://www.fark.com/quiz/2016 ox45tallboy (0) Funniest 38 minutes ago Guys like to work with stuff with real power, and guys like to cook stuff. Several contractors have YouTube videos showing how they use industrial construction equipment to cook insane stuff like a 6' pizza using a steamroller and a forklift. Cooking A Pizza On The Jobsite George Stephen was a guy like that. George worked at a metalworks in Chicago making big heavy metal things for various industries, an endeavor in which he held an ownership stake. One of the clients that needed big heavy metal things was the Coast Guard, who had ordered a large number of metal buoys for marking channels and the like. The buoys were the same ones you've probably seen in the ocean (or at least in movies) many times, as the design really hasn't changed much since they started building them. They're hemispherical on the bottom, and taper upwards to a point that can be painted or have a reflector mounted to add visibility. The round bottom helps them to float better. At the time George was making these, they were cast in two parts and then welded together, meaning there were a lot of those hemispheres in one pile and pointy ends in another. But we'll get to George in a minute. First we have to go back about 30 years. Back in 1919, Henry Ford decided to vertically integrate production of the wood for his Model T automobiles. In those days, the dash, the steering wheel, and even the floorboards were made of wood, and he felt he was paying too much for it. So he called up his cousin Minnie's husband Edward, who he had become friends with over many hunting and fishing trips, and asked him for some help in sourcing wood. Edward was a timber man by trade, so he was able to find Ford some timberland in upstate Michigan with a clearing for a sawmill that was close enough to ship to his factory in Detroit, and this led their friendship into becoming a pretty lucrative business relationship. Henry Ford hated waste. He saw every scrap tossed out of his factory as money going out of his pocket. So when he read about this chemist at the University of Oregon named Orin Stafford who had developed a method of compressing wood waste and combining it with starch into these pillow-shaped briquettes, he saw dollar signs. Ford was a pretty busy guy, so he got in touch with Edward because the wood waste was his fault anyway for finding lumber that was too long and he told him what he wanted to do. The two called up Thomas Edison because he had invented the phone so was one of the few people who had one in 1921, and Tommy came to Michigan and helped design a new factory to process all this wood waste using Stafford's method. Ford Charcoal, the first successful commercial charcoal brand available nationwide in the United States, went on sale at Ford dealerships across the country in the early 1920s. For the next 30 years, cooking out with charcoal was kind of a thing, but the most common kind of grill was the square one you still see at campgrounds today. It gets the job done as long as it's not raining or too windy, but you don't get much smoke flavor. On top of that, they were expensive, so most communities bought one or two to put in the public park for everyone to use. No one cooked out at home. This is where George and his buoys come in to the story. George took one of those hemispheres and put it on a stand and added a grilling rack and a lid to go on top, which would trap the smoke in for a far superior flavor. As part owner of the metalworks shop, he created a new division in the business to focus on this new grill, and began demonstrating it in hardware store parking lots all over the country (one of the reasons grilling became such a "guy" thing). However, George was a pretty humble guy and so instead of naming it for himself, he named it for the business - the Weber Brothers Metal Works. Edward the charcoal man was pretty humble, too, which is why we had Ford Charcoal until 1951, when the company sold off the division to a set of investors that were either equally humble or they couldn't decide which one of them to name the new company for. Eventually they settled on naming it for the guy who had started it all - Edward G. Kingston. Those two brands revolutionized cookouts in the 1950s, making them easy and tasty and creating the version of the backyard barbecue we still enjoy today, except now I think Gen Z has added phone apps for some reason. So when you're grilling hot dogs and steaks, or if you're like me, baby back ribs, remember Henry Ford staring at piles of wood scraps from Model T dashboards and trying to figure out how to make a buck from them, and George Stephen, staring at a Coast Guard buoy and dreaming of better things. Anyway, take the Quiz and come back and tell us how your barbecue went, or what you're planning to barbecue this weekend. Good luck, and let me know if you have any issues, ox45tallboy (0) Funniest 33 minutes ago Seriously, what is this for? It's way too flimsy for holding a suitcase, and less than 2' high means you're going to have to bend over to reach anything on it. And it has four legs. And it has four legs. ox45tallboy (0) Funniest 32 minutes ago Pinnacle Point (0) Funniest 32 minutes ago I only got 3 of 11 right, worst quiz ever. Still made the top ten for everyone to be able to point and laugh. Top 10 scores for this quiz: bingethinker815 jerrysloan21751 coscausticevil751 NM Volunteer706 Glockenspiel Hero654 atomic-age529 think_balance504 carkiller444 Red Shirt Blues444 Pinnacle Point260 NM Volunteer (0) Funniest 35 minutes ago I'll have to wait on taking quizzes until my weekly trips to the local library. The cellular service here randomly craps out, which is awkward when waiting to advance to the next question. Also, one of the question-answer combos is quite concerning, since I don't have internet at home. I wish I had noticed that thread when it was first greened. farkitallletitend (0) Funniest less than a minute ago ox45tallboy: Guys like to work with stuff with real power, and guys like to cook stuff. Several contractors have YouTube videos showing how they use industrial construction equipment to cook insane stuff like a 6' pizza using a steamroller and a forklift. [Youtube-video https://www.youtube.com/embed/AUznHKlekm8] George Stephen was a guy like that. George worked at a metalworks in Chicago making big heavy metal things for various industries, an endeavor in which he held an ownership stake. One of the clients that needed big heavy metal things was the Coast Guard, who had ordered a large number of metal buoys for marking channels and the like. The buoys were the same ones you've probably seen in the ocean (or at least in movies) many times, as the design really hasn't changed much since they started building them. They're hemispherical on the bottom, and taper upwards to a point that can be painted or have a reflector mounted to add visibility. The round bottom helps them to float better. At the time George was making these, they were cast in two parts and then welded together, meaning there were a lot of those hemispheres in one pile and pointy ends in another. But we'll get to George in a minute. First we have to go back about 30 years. Back in 1919, Henry Ford decided to vertically integrate production of the wood for his Model T automobiles. In those days, the dash, the steering wheel, and even the floorboards were made of wood, and he felt he was paying too much for it. So he called up his cousin Minnie's husband Edward, who he had become friends with over many hunting and fishing trips, and asked him for some help in sourcing wood. Edward was a timber man by trade, so he was able to find Ford some timberland in upstate Michigan with a clearing for a sawmill that was close enough to ship to his factory in Detroit, and this led their friendship into becoming a pretty lucrative business relationship. Henry Ford hated waste. 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