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- 10 Amazing Stories Of People Who Woke Up From Comas
- This 4-Year Old Is the Next Bruce Lee
- Nine Houses Which Were Built Out Of Spite
- 22 Real Places That Inspired Disney Animated Movies
- 10 Signs You're a Crazy Cat Person
- Farmers Say Goodbye to the Bull Who Sired 500,000 Offspring
- Padded - How Em-Bear-Assing!
- Moving, Powerful Photos of the Human Race
- Happy Feast of the Ass!
- How Morgan Freeman Got the Voice of God
- Extremely Close-Up Footage of Lava Pouring into Water
- Illustrator Draws Jail Scenes While Serving Time
- Unlicensed <i>Frozen</i> Games Let You Perform a C-Section on Anna and Brain Surgery on Elsa
- Cop Arrests Teenager, Teenager Then Saves Cop’s Life
- 30 Stories from Behind the Scenes of Blockbusters
- Feed Your Inner Schwartz These Ten Fun Facts About <i>Spaceballs</i>
- Skellie, the Skeleton with her Own Instagram Account
- The Incredible Hogan - He's Wrestling With His Anger
- Bob Ross Sans 'Fro: A Revelation
- Boy Gets a Clone Trooper Prosthetic Arm
- 2015 Resolutions, as Drawn by Linzie Hunter
- Ray Bradbury’s Home Demolished
- For Traction, Mountain Climbers Sand and Superglue Their Fingers
- Shocker: 1946 Yearbook Captions are Misogynistic, Offensive
Posted: 15 Jan 2015 04:00 AM PST This is the Rainbow Maiden, a beautiful RC aircraft by David Lewis. It's designed to look like Rainbow Dash, a daredevil pegasus on My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic. While he doesn't provide any technical specs, we can be confident that Lewis's design at least 20% cooler than an ordinary RC airplane. Here it is the Rainbow Maiden in flight. Watch it soar! Perhaps with a bit more engine power, it could do a sonic rainboom. | ||||||||
10 Amazing Stories Of People Who Woke Up From Comas Posted: 15 Jan 2015 03:00 AM PST People survive and recover from comas fairly often, but the odds of recovery depend on a person’s illness or injuries and the length of time they are incapacitated. The longer the coma, the lower the odds of recovery. The ten (actually twelve) people in this list are all very different: their comas lasted from a few days to decades long, and their recoveries varied greatly. Some recovered very gradually. One was in a locked-in state for years while no one knew. And three presented strange language deficiencies when they came to. One was Ben McMahon.
Some of the stories of coma patients contain disturbing circumstances of violence, injury, and abuse. Read them all at ListVerse. -via mental_floss | ||||||||
This 4-Year Old Is the Next Bruce Lee Posted: 15 Jan 2015 02:00 AM PST With his back to the screen, this kid perfectly mimics the moves of Bruce Lee. Watch him whip around a set of nunchucks with masterful precision. Go ahead. Just try to give him at timeout. I dare you. -via Kotaku | ||||||||
Nine Houses Which Were Built Out Of Spite Posted: 15 Jan 2015 01:00 AM PST People build houses and buildings for all sorts of good reasons, and a few bad ones, but building a house just for spite? Now that’s a new one! Jerry Seinfeld once tried to return a jacket out of spite for the salesman who sold it to him, and that didn’t work out very well for him, but spite will make you do crazy things as you’ll see in 9 Houses Built Just For Spite, vintage mental_floss circa 2013. It is there that you will discover how one man dealt with noisy people using the alley next to his house, and how a doctor guy from Maryland kept the city from building a road through his property, and how this other dude in Nevada dealt with living next door to his enemy. Spoiler alert- every story involves a house being built, and some spite! (Insert obligatory spite as building material joke here) | ||||||||
22 Real Places That Inspired Disney Animated Movies Posted: 15 Jan 2015 12:00 AM PST This is Prince Eric's castle from The Little Mermaid.
This is Chillon Castle, a real building in Switzerland. The resemblance is striking, isn't it? Chillon Castle sits on the shore of Lake Geneva. It's existed in some form since at least 1150 and was most likely built to control what was a major road in medieval times. Chillon Castle has been a fortress, a prison, and an arsenal. It entered the popular imagination after famous writers, including Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Percy Shelley, and Lord Byron wrote about it. In "The Prisoner of Chillon," Byron describes the castle through the voice of someone trapped there:
And so it was an appropriate choice for the animators of The Little Mermaid. This is only 1 of 22 real life places that inspired the background artists of Disney animated movies. You can view the rest at When on Earth. | ||||||||
10 Signs You're a Crazy Cat Person Posted: 14 Jan 2015 11:00 PM PST Chris Poole and his cats Cole and Marmalade (previously at Neatorama) demonstrate the signs of a crazy cat person. None of them are surprising, but the cats sure are cute acting their parts in the list. My family has four cats, and my husband and I spend an inordinate amount of time during the day catering to their needs and desires. But my oldest daughter is the one who wears cat clothing, hangs artwork of our cats, and sleeps surrounded by them. She’s a textbook case. -via Tastefully Offensive | ||||||||
Farmers Say Goodbye to the Bull Who Sired 500,000 Offspring Posted: 14 Jan 2015 10:00 PM PST (Photo: Genex) This is Toystory, a bull who died on Thanksgiving Day of last year. Mourners recently laid his body to rest on a hill in Shawano, Wisconsin. From an evolutionary point of view, he was extraordinarily successful, having sired approximately half a million offspring. During the 13 years of his life, Toystory's job was to produce the finest bovine semen on earth. His genetic material was highly prized and he was a prolific producer of it. In fact, as a member of the "millionaries' club" among bulls, Toystory produced approximately 2.4 million units of semen for artificial insemination. The Wall Street Journal describes Toystory's rise to fame:
-via Dave Barry P.S. Now it's storytime. After I married my wife, I traveled with her to her hometown. While there, I met one of her uncles. In conversation, I asked "What do you do for a living?" He replied, "I'm in the semen business." This gave me a moment's pause, but only a moment. After all, we were in south Texas, which is cattle country. So there would probably be a market for the artificial insemination of cattle. Later, my wife explained that I had misunderstood her uncle. What he had said was, "I'm in the cement business." | ||||||||
Posted: 14 Jan 2015 09:00 PM PST Paddington's story had finally made it to the big screen so he should have been excited for the future, but he couldn't help but worry about what the future held for him, and which of his deep, dark secrets would see the light of day. There was one secret in particular that Paddington didn't want getting out to the public, one that literally involved his dirty laundry... Show a hilariously different side of our ursine guest from England with this Padded t-shirt by Hillary White, it's the funniest way to show your love for that slicker and booties sporting bear! Visit Hillary White's Facebook fan page, official website and Tumblr, then head on over to her NeatoShop for more ridiculously cool designs:
View more designs by Hillary White | More Funny T-shirts | New T-Shirts Are you a professional illustrator or T-shirt designer? Let's chat! Sell your designs on the NeatoShop and get featured in front of tons of potential new fans on Neatorama! | ||||||||
Moving, Powerful Photos of the Human Race Posted: 14 Jan 2015 09:00 PM PST Egyptian woman kisses policeman who refrained from firing at protesters | Image: tolaire.com | ||||||||
Posted: 14 Jan 2015 08:00 PM PST
Today, January 14, is the Feast of the Ass (In Latin: Festum Asinorum), a Roman Catholic feast day that commemorates the flight of baby Jesus into Egypt to escape King Herod the Great's slaughter of Judean babies. According to tradition, Jesus and Mary rode on the back of an ass during their journey. Although it has fallen out of practice, there was a time in Medieval Europe when the Feast of the Ass was quite big. During the liturgy, the congregation would respond to the presiding priest by braying like donkeys. From The Catholic Encyclopedia:
"Hinham" is the Latin expression for the sound that a donkey makes. | ||||||||
How Morgan Freeman Got the Voice of God Posted: 14 Jan 2015 07:00 PM PST ... and I say Morgan Freeman got the best gift of them all! Wes of The Gentleman's Armchair explains to us how the famous actor got to play God (or at least his voice) in the movies. But seriously - do you want to know the secret to Morgan Freeman's amazing voice? Freeman himself gave the surprising answer in this interview with The Showbiz 411: | ||||||||
Extremely Close-Up Footage of Lava Pouring into Water Posted: 14 Jan 2015 06:00 PM PST Last year, Kawika Singson used a GoPro to capture amazing footage of lava spilling into the ocean. Twisted Sifter notes that the camera was "hopefully on a very long pole." This is only one of many incredible lava videos in his YouTube channel. Watch more and flinch repeatedly. Singson shot the videos at Hawaii Volcanoes National Park on the Big Island. It's very dangeorus work:
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Illustrator Draws Jail Scenes While Serving Time Posted: 14 Jan 2015 05:00 PM PST
See more glimpses of Elana Pritchard's days in jail here. (Some are NSFW-ish due to profanity.) "At CRDF they did what was called "linen exchange" once a week. You got two pairs of clothes, two pairs of socks a few sports bras and about four pairs of underwear. Used underwear." | ||||||||
Unlicensed <i>Frozen</i> Games Let You Perform a C-Section on Anna and Brain Surgery on Elsa Posted: 14 Jan 2015 04:00 PM PST At the end of Frozen, it is implied that Anna and Kristoff are a couple. An odd app game called “Anna Giving Birth” by Oleg Vinogorodov takes the relationship further. They get married and Anna gets pregnant. When it’s time for Anna to give birth, she has a cesarean section. In the game, your job is to perform the operation. In the scene screenshotted above, it’s time to make the incision. You can see more images from the game at BuzzFeed. But there’s more! Carolyn Cox of The Mary Sue informs us of a dress-up browser game unlike any other.* In “Elsa Frozen Brain Surgery,” you must perform neurosurgery on Elsa. The fact that she’s smiling as you shave her head is awkward, but that’s probably normal during this procedure. *If I am wrong, please let me remain ignorant. | ||||||||
Cop Arrests Teenager, Teenager Then Saves Cop’s Life Posted: 14 Jan 2015 03:00 PM PST (Photo: Fort Lauderdale Police Department) On September 10 of last year, police in Fort Lauderdale, Florida arrested 17-year old Jamal Rutledge for allegedly violating probation and committing burglary. While Officer Franklin Foulks processed him at the police station, he collapsed and fell unconscious. No one was in a position to see this except Jamal, who immediately kicked on a door until he got the attention of other officers. Those officers performed CPR and used a defibrillator on Foulks, who is alive and recovering. You can see the incident in this security camera footage: The police department is grateful to Jamal. The city is presenting him with a commendation. ABC News (warning: auto-play) quotes Det. DeAnna Greenlaw:
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30 Stories from Behind the Scenes of Blockbusters Posted: 14 Jan 2015 02:00 PM PST John Green has some surprising things to tell us about raiders of the Lost Ark, The Empire Strikes Back, Apocalypse Now, The Godfather, Star Trek, The Wizard of Oz, The Matrix, Casablanca, Jurassic Park, and other blockbuster films, plus a few stories from movies that would never be described as blockbusters. Those stories are still interesting, in this mental_floss List Show video. -via mental_floss | ||||||||
Feed Your Inner Schwartz These Ten Fun Facts About <i>Spaceballs</i> Posted: 14 Jan 2015 01:00 PM PST Does the image of John Candy in that cat alien costume come to mind every time you hear the word Barf? Does the word Vespa make you think of a princess from the planet Druidia instead of a motor scooter? Do you imagine Pizza the Hutt is on the other end of the line when you call in an order to Pizza Hut? Then you have great taste in sci-fi spoofs, and Spaceballs on the brain (which you should probably get checked out). You may have seen Spaceballs a million times, with the Barf t-shirt and Lone Starr mug to prove it, but there's bound to be some new factoid to discover about your favorite sci-fi spoof on GeekTyrant's 10 Fun Facts About Spaceballs. For example- everyone knows Michael Winslow did his own voice effects in the film, but did you know the vocal work he did for this hilarious scene saved the production a thousand bucks? Now that's putting your money where your mouth is, Michael Winslow! | ||||||||
Skellie, the Skeleton with her Own Instagram Account Posted: 14 Jan 2015 12:00 PM PST Many Instagram accounts resemble never-ending fashion shoots, and people love them. Dana Herlihey and some co-workers opened an Instagram account and used a plastic Halloween skeleton as their model as a joke. But “Skellie” turned out to be very popular, and the parade of typical Instagram poses continues. Skellie describes her page thusly:
The pictures are hilarious! For being so dead she can’t even, Skellie sure has a lot of fun. -via Laughing Squid | ||||||||
The Incredible Hogan - He's Wrestling With His Anger Posted: 14 Jan 2015 11:00 AM PST The Incredible Hogan by Stationjack Terry's wrestle mania had reached the ultimate level, and he felt like he could no longer contain the ripping and flexing energy welling up inside him, so he decided to let it out. Andre and the Undertaker pushed him too far that day, and all the little Hulkamaniacs in the world expected Hogan to become their hero, so he let his anger run free and turned into something more monster than man. His skin turned from orange to green, but thankfully his moustache stayed nice and golden yellow, and he was so tall that he towered over those other little brothers from the federation like a real hulk! Bring some slammin' good style to your geeky wardrobe with this The Incredible Hogan t-shirt by Stationjack, it's sure to start a mania among your fellow wrestling fans! Visit Stationjack's Facebook fan page, official website, Instagram, Tumblr and Twitter, then head on over to his NeatoShop for more mighty fun designs:
View more designs by Stationjack | More Video Games | New T-Shirts Are you a professional illustrator or T-shirt designer? Let's chat! Sell your designs on the NeatoShop and get featured in front of tons of potential new fans on Neatorama! | ||||||||
Bob Ross Sans 'Fro: A Revelation Posted: 14 Jan 2015 11:00 AM PST Ross, with trademark 'do "the guy who makes you scrub the latrine, the guy who makes you make your bed, the guy who screams at you for being late to work" He swore to himself he'd never scream at people again after he left the service. Ross, sans perm | ||||||||
Boy Gets a Clone Trooper Prosthetic Arm Posted: 14 Jan 2015 10:00 AM PST Seven-year-old Liam Porter of Augusta, Georgia, is growing up fast. So fast that he keeps outgrowing his prosthetic arm, and insurance coverage limits the number of new arms he can get. Meanwhile, John Peterson of Augusta got a 3D printer and volunteered with the organization E-nable, which coordinates a network of people all over the world to make prosthetics limbs. Peterson made a prosthetic for Liam that resembled a robot and called it a Clone Trooper arm. Liam got his arm during a surprise party after he and his friend Jacob watched a movie at a local theater. The Georgia Garrison of the 501st Legion was on hand to make it extra special.
Read more about Peterson and how he made Liam’s new arm at the Augusta Chronicle. -via Geeks Are Sexy | ||||||||
2015 Resolutions, as Drawn by Linzie Hunter Posted: 14 Jan 2015 09:00 AM PST
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Ray Bradbury’s Home Demolished Posted: 14 Jan 2015 08:00 AM PST The house where author Ray Bradbury lived for over 50 years went on sale last year. You can get a good look at it in the real estate listing photos. Renowned architect Thom Mayne and his wife purchased the house for $1.67 million. And Friday they had it torn down. (Image source: Redfin) POLL: What do you think?
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For Traction, Mountain Climbers Sand and Superglue Their Fingers Posted: 14 Jan 2015 07:00 AM PST (Photo: Corey Rich/Bigup Productions) Tommy Caldwell and Kevin Jorgeson are elite mountain climbers. They're currently trying to climb up El Capitan, a rock formation in Yosemite National Park. That's a nearly sheer rock wall--a vertical climb. Caldwell and Jorgenson are free climbers, which means that they use only their hands and feet. That's right. They're trying to climb this:
. . . while holding on with nothing more than their hands and feet. As a result, the condition of the skin on their fingertips is of paramount importance. It can be the difference between life and death. Fingertip skin care has become a refined and sophisticated art among climbers. In National Geographic, Andrew Bisharat describes it:
If they are successful, Caldwell and Jorgeson will be the first people to ever free climb up El Capitan. | ||||||||
Shocker: 1946 Yearbook Captions are Misogynistic, Offensive Posted: 14 Jan 2015 06:00 AM PST
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