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• 11 Most Painfully Obvious Newspaper Articles Ever
• Peeping Tom Photographs Himself
• Shaving a Fly’s Penis with a Laser
• What Happened?
• What is it? Game 122

11 Most Painfully Obvious Newspaper Articles Ever Posted: 08 Jan 2010 02:37 AM PST Maybe writers aren’t aware how their copy inspires a “Duh!” reaction. Or maybe they are trying to entertain us to make up for a boring story. Either way, these headlines and newspaper clips are funny enough to ensure a long life on the internet. Link

Peeping Tom Photographs Himself Posted: 08 Jan 2010 02:31 AM PST Police in Cheshire, England are investigating the case of a man who installed a camera in a fitting room at the Asda department store. Finding him should be easy as he left crucial evidence behind. A police spokesman said, “The device was placed in a light fitting and was in place for 30 minutes before being discovered by staff. “Unfortunately for the man he did not turn off the camera while placing it in situ and forensic examination of the data card shows an image of him while doing this.” Link -via Arbroath

Shaving a Fly’s Penis with a Laser Posted: 08 Jan 2010 02:28 AM PST Male flies have penises covered with spines and hooks. To figure out what the purpose of those spines are, researchers Michal Polak and Arash Rashed removed the spines to see what would happen. Their spines are too small to cut off by hand. So the duo used a laser instead, wielding the light with such surgical precision that they could cut off a third of each millimetre-long spine, or the entire structure. They found that a partial shave did nothing, but the full treatment significantly reduced the odds of the males mating with females. The conclusion is that the fly’s penis hairs act as Velcro, to grasp the female long enough to inject sperm. Now you know. Link -via Treehugger Previously at Neatorama: 30 Strangest Animal Mating Habits. Photo manipulated at Speechable.

What Happened? Posted: 07 Jan 2010 08:51 PM PST You might have noticed that Neatorama went away for a while today and came back minus a few posts. The site suffered a system crash, at the worst possible time -when Alex is out of town and has no computer access. Luckily, our talented staff of tech wizards were able to restore the site using a slightly older saved version, which did not include most of today’s posts. We will try to get those reposted as soon as possible. Let your friends and neighbors know that Neatorama is back online!

What is it? Game 122 Posted: 07 Jan 2010 05:43 AM PST Woot! It’s our first What is it? game in the New Year, so let’s make this one good! The always awesome What is it? Blog brings us this gruesome looking contraption – can you guess what it is for? Let’s have more prizes: the first correct guess and the top 3 funniest but wrong guesses will win T-shirts from the Neatorama Shop. Contest rules are simple: place your guess in the coment section below. One guess per comment, please, though you can enter as many as you’d like. Post no URL or weblinks – doing so will forfeit your entry. Entries are valid until the correct answer is posted at the What is it? Blog. More clues at the What is it? Blog. Good luck!

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