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• His Favorite <i>Star Wars</i> Movie
• The All-Female Senate
• Hungry Like The Wolf - She's On The Hunt She's After You
• 6 <i>Star Wars</i> Characters Meet Their New Equivalents
• A Real Dumb Thing
• How to Make Self-Tying Shoelaces
• How to Win at Monopoly and Lose All Your Friends
• Incredibly Detailed Wood Models of Science Fiction Ships
• The Present
• The Long, Incredibly Tortuous, and Fascinating Process of Creating a Chinese Font
• Apollo 1: The Fire That Shocked NASA
• New Business: Have Gas Delivered to Your Parked Car
• Lightsaber Violin Cover of <i>Star Wars</i> Music
• Sparky - Dog Of The Dead
• The Teen Who Trekked 1,800 Miles Through Canadian Wilderness Disguised as a Man
• Motel Camouflage
• 30 More Life Hacks Debunked (Part Four)
• The Perfect Cake for the Occasion
• Quentin Tarantino Confirms His Movies All Exist In The Same Universe
• The 10 Best Superhero Performances in Movies
• No One Knows Why Lost Phones Are Leading To This House
• 1972 Time Capsule Penthouse
• Two Tough Lizards Take Their Scrap To The Street
• The Answers
• Horror Night Out - Who Thought It Was A Good Idea To Give Jason A Bike?!
• 14 Things You Might Not Know About <i>Ghost</i>
• Marilyn Monroe and Her Pets

His Favorite <i>Star Wars</i> Movie Posted: 28 Jan 2016 04:00 AM PST A few days ago, Dogma mentioned that her granddaughter had only seen The Force Awakens and none of the other Star Wars movies. That just seems so cockeyed to we older fans, but it makes perfect sense for someone who is too young to have been around for the prequels, much less the original trilogy. Nevertheless, a real Star Wars fan would’ve felt a disturbance in the Force, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced, at the very minute this happened. This is the latest from Chris Hallbeck at Maximumble.

The All-Female Senate Posted: 28 Jan 2016 03:00 AM PST On Tuesday morning of this week, the U.S. Senate convened in Washington. But this session was different. Many were absent due to icy road conditions, and those that showed up for work were all women. Sen. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska presided, mainly to delay business until the workforce got back to normal.   “As we convene this morning, you look around the chamber, the presiding officer is female. All of our parliamentarians are female. Our floor managers are female. All of our pages are female.” Murkowski noted that she and Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine), who was wielding the Senate gavel, hadn’t planned the all-women session. It was, she said, just a coincidence. Coincidence? Maybe it had something to do with the difficulty of actually getting to work that day. You can see a video of Murkowski’s comments at The Washington Post. If this snowstorm had happened a couple of decades ago, the Capitol Building might have been completely empty.  -via Daily of the Day (Screenshot via C-SPAN)

Hungry Like The Wolf - She's On The Hunt She's After You Posted: 28 Jan 2016 02:00 AM PST Hungry Like The Wolf by Rocky Davies She used to be a normal human child but now she smells like she sounds and would no longer get lost in a crowd, but most of all her time in the wilds has shown her what it's like to be hungry like the wolf. Gone are the days of seeing humanity as her home, as San has blossomed into the wild princess of legend sworn to protect her lupine brethren. But there's still one duran of human heart left inside San, one throbbing beat that can't be ignored, and sometimes, by the light of the full moon, she's compelled to dance like there's no tomorrow... Wear your love of the original wild child on your chest with this Hungry Like The Wolf t-shirt by Rocky Davies, it's sure to make your fellow Mononoke fans howl with delight! Visit Rocky Davies's Facebook fan page, official website, Instagram and Tumblr, then head on over to his NeatoShop for more designs that epitomize old school cool: Welcome To The Jungle Deal With It Bad To The Bone It Ain't Personal View more designs by Rocky Davies | More Anime 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!

6 <i>Star Wars</i> Characters Meet Their New Equivalents Posted: 28 Jan 2016 02:00 AM PST If you found The Force Awakens to be a bit familiar, you’re not the only one. There are a lot of elements that harken back to the original trilogy, and the various character types have many things in common with all adventure movies. Here they are, meeting each other, in this video that may contain spoilers for those who haven’t seen The Force Awakens. If you haven’t seen the original trilogy, this will spoil nothing.  (YouTube link) Although the “equivalent” characters are superficially similar, they aren’t all that impressed with each other. -via Geeks Are Sexy

A Real Dumb Thing Posted: 28 Jan 2016 01:00 AM PST What happened here? It doesn’t look good. In fact, it looks like a nightmare of oven cleaning ahead. At least they got a photograph before the whole thing ignited. If you can’t figure out exactly what happened, you’re not alone. People had plenty of strange explanations before they found out. What happened is this: Show Answer They used a plastic cutting board instead of a pizza pan. You would never make that mistake, now, would you? -via reddit

How to Make Self-Tying Shoelaces Posted: 28 Jan 2016 12:00 AM PST (Video Link) Have you ever seen someone show you self-tying shoelaces? It's not a great invention, but a clever bit of prestidigitation. Dave Hax shows you how this illusion is done so that you can fool other people. You'll need a bit of string, an extra shoelace, and a willingness to wear pants. Hax is one of the best treasures of YouTube. He's filled with great household tricks and tips like this one, including how to burn a candle underwater, set up a pretty flower arrangement, and steal pizza without getting caught. Hax does not disappoint in his latest offering. -via 22 Words

How to Win at Monopoly and Lose All Your Friends Posted: 27 Jan 2016 11:00 PM PST Someone who goes by the name of elpher explained that he doesn’t like Monopoly. Yet he always wins. The point of winning is to prove to his friends that Monopoly is not fun, and they should play something else. Then he gives us his exact strategy so you, too, can win the game. First off, read and understand the rules, because no one else does. He lays out the best monopolies for you to collect. Never upgrade your houses to hotels, because you want to create a housing shortage. He is ruthless.    At this point, you more or less have the game sewn up. If losing a normal game of monopoly is frustrating, losing to this strategy is excruciating, as a losing opponent essentially has no path to victory, even with lucky rolls. Your goal is to play conservatively, lock up more resources, and let the other players lose by attrition. If you want to see these people again, I recommend not gloating, but simply state that you're playing to win, and that it wasn't your idea to play Monopoly in the first place. My normal strategy is to avoid the game in the first place, but if you want to learn to win, make sure you load all the images at imgur. -via the A.V. Club

Incredibly Detailed Wood Models of Science Fiction Ships Posted: 27 Jan 2016 10:00 PM PST Martin Creaney made his enormous and enormously detailed model of the Millennium Falcon from Star Wars out of 3,000 pieces of wood and using more different types of wood than he can now remember. And that's just the beginning of what he can do . . . . This is a YF-19 Veritech fighter from Robotech (or Macross at this point in the series). That's a mecha that transforms into 3 different modes. This model won't do that, but Creaney did give it articulated joints. And here's a an elegant X-wing fighter from Star Wars. You can see more photos of Creaney's work at his Facebook page and this YouTube video. -via Geek Tyrant

The Present Posted: 27 Jan 2016 09:00 PM PST Animation student Jacob Frey presents his thesis work from the Institute of Animation in Ludwigsburg, Germany. It's a tale of a video game-obsessed boy and the present his mother gives him, hoping to get him off the couch and maybe even outside for a change. You might recognize the story right off. (vimeo link) Don’t look if you want to see the video first, but the animation is based on this 2012 comic by Fabio Coala at Mentirinhas. Read it in English here. -via Tastefully Offensive

The Long, Incredibly Tortuous, and Fascinating Process of Creating a Chinese Font Posted: 27 Jan 2016 08:00 PM PST (Photo: Smile Always) There are 26 characters in the English alphabet. But Chinese has a radically different writing system. If you want to be able to read a newspaper, you need to know about 2,000 characters. If you want be able to read a novel successfully, you'll need another 1,000 or so. And some comprehensive dictionaries have over 85,000 characters. One practical result of this writing system is that creating a new font is an extraordinary feat of labor. A typographer can't whip up the next Helvetica in a week. Nikhil Sonnad describes this character building process in Quartz: “It all starts with research,” says Winston Su, co-founder of Justfont, a Taiwanese startup that focuses on delivering fonts through the web. In most cases, the research phase lasts an entire year. The goal of this year-long process is to take a fuzzy idea for a hypothetical new typeface, and develop it into a set of a few hundred “representative characters.” These set the tone for the thousands of characters to follow. Latin typefaces are designed in a similar way, but the scale is entirely different. In an interview with Fast Company, venerable designer Steve Matteson said he always starts a new Latin typeface with just a handful of glyphs—capital H, O, and V, and lowercase n, o, and d. The research phase is part design, part calligraphy, part grammatology, part market research. Everything may begin with some vague notion of the feel a typeface should have. In his interview, Matteson adds that a typeface generally starts with an adjective, like “approachable, friendly, feminine, masculine. All of these adjectives play into the detailing that we would do to the letter forms to help emphasize those attributes.” Similarly for Chinese; “modern but not boring” is how Su described the idea behind JinXuan, Justfont’s first font designed in-house, still in development. The difference is that, because of the vast amount of work involved, a Chinese typeface cannot be created by a single designer with a singular vision, as is often the case for Latin scripts. Instead a collaborative team has to start with this fuzzy notion and then settle on a uniform design. That’s what the research stage is all about. -via Nag on the Lake

Apollo 1: The Fire That Shocked NASA Posted: 27 Jan 2016 07:00 PM PST It was 49 years ago today, January 27, 1967, that a launch rehearsal for the Apollo 1 mission turned into a tragedy. The launch was scheduled for February 21. The rehearsal was a simulation of the countdown and launch. The spaceship cabin was filled with 100% oxygen. Just after 6:31 that evening, the routine test took a turn. Engineers in mission control saw an increase in oxygen flow and pressure inside the cabin. The telemetry was accompanied by a garbled transmission that sounded like “fire.” The official record reflects the communications problem. The transmission was unclear, but the panic was obvious as an astronaut yelled something like “they’re fighting a bad fire — let’s get out. Open ‘er up” or “we’ve got a bad fire — let’s get out. We’re burning up.” The static made it impossible to hear the exact words or even distinguish who was speaking. Efforts to open up the capsule were useless, because the doors opened to the inside, and the pressure in the capsule was too high. The highly flammable oxygen blazed out of control. Astronauts Gus Grissom, Ed White, and Roger Chaffee died that day, the first casualties of the U.S. space program. It took a year of meticulous investigation to determine exactly what happened, and what would be changed to keep it from happening again. You can read the whole story of the Apollo 1 disaster at Scientific American. -via Digg    (Image credit: NASA)

New Business: Have Gas Delivered to Your Parked Car Posted: 27 Jan 2016 06:00 PM PST (Image: The Verge) Do you need to fill up your car but don't have time to stop by a gas station? There's an app for that. WeFuel is a new startup in Palo Alto and Menlo Park, two towns in the Silicon Valley area of California. Install the WeFuel app on your phone. Then, with a few clicks, the company will send a fuel truck driven by a hazmat-certified driver to your car and fill it up. The process takes about 30 minutes and costs $7.49 plus the cost of fuel. You can also get a monthly subscription that costs $19.99 plus gas per car.  That's just the beginning. WeFuel hopes to roll out a service that will sense when your fuel tank is low and automatically dispatch a truck and driver to refill it. You can read more about the company at The Verge. -via Marginal Revolution

Lightsaber Violin Cover of <i>Star Wars</i> Music Posted: 27 Jan 2016 05:00 PM PST (Video Link) Violinst Jeffrey Ding He built 4 lighsabers (Jedi are supposed to build their own, you know), and used them to play the Force theme from Episode IV. It's beautifully sad, majestic, and moving. The violin is a more elegant instrument for a more civilized age and He is its master. I definitely want him playing at my next colonoscopy. -via Laughing Squid

Sparky - Dog Of The Dead Posted: 27 Jan 2016 04:00 PM PST Sparky by PsychoDelicia We like to keep our pets close to our hearts, whether they're alive or dead or both, but we can't exactly shrink them down and carry them around in our front pocket, now can we? Well, maybe with a little Frankenstein inspired ingenuity we can create a holding device on our shirts that actually expands to hold an animal of any size, from the largest mastiff to the smallest weenie dog. But then we'd have to build a metal Franken-brace for our backs, and before you know it we'd become a bunch of tin suit wearing freaks clomping around town scaring kids for the sake of keeping our dogs close....wait, that sounds kinda cool! Spark some animated conversations with this Sparky t-shirt by PsychoDelicia, it's the most adorable way to take your love of Tim Burton with you wherever you go! Visit PsychoDelicia's NeatoShop for more electrifying designs: Mega Gengar Luffy We Bare Rats Tonari no Totoro View more designs by PsychoDelicia | 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!

The Teen Who Trekked 1,800 Miles Through Canadian Wilderness Disguised as a Man Posted: 27 Jan 2016 04:00 PM PST Western Canada during the 19th-century was a harsh place for Europeans. The Hudson's Bay Company sent workers out west to support the fur trade, but women were forbidden. Yet 15-year-old Isobel Gunn left her home in the Scottish Orkney Islands in 1806 dressed as male, and made her way across Canada, working as hard as any man. Why would she set out on such a backbreaking, dangerous life? For the usual reasons that women in history have lived as men: freedom, self-determination, respect, adventure, and money.       Others note that early 19th-century Orkney really only only gave three options to men: risk life and limb fishing in the dangerous North Sea for a pittance, sign up to fight against Napoleon’s army for a pittance, or join Hudson’s Bay Company, head to Canada, and earn a whopping £8 a year–far more than any of the men could earn at home. As a woman, Isobel would never be able to earn as much as even the poorest male worker in Orkney. And she’d likely need that money–one side of her face was marred by smallpox scars, which would have ruined her marriage prospects. So why not dress as a man and try to earn some money for herself? Gunn earned the respect of the men she traveled and worked with, but she was eventually found out. Read the story of Isobel Gunn at Atlas Obscura.

Motel Camouflage Posted: 27 Jan 2016 03:00 PM PST Lauren Clark went out of town to attend a music festival. She and her group stopped at a Super 8 motel for the night. They’d never been to the motel, but her sister noticed that Lauren disappeared as they walked down the hallway. That’s what you get for buying your clothes off the Super 8 rack at the department store! Read the whole story, and see a couple of other surprise hotel camouflages at Buzzfeed.

30 More Life Hacks Debunked (Part Four) Posted: 27 Jan 2016 02:00 PM PST (YouTube link) Will putting your onion in the freezer keep you from crying as you cut it? Maybe, but if you leave it in there too long, you’ll have trouble cutting it at all, and you better know exactly how many onions you’ll need. On this week’s mental_floss List Show, John Green tests more tips from the internet that may or may not be of any use. The best part is seeing Green turn red as he tries to tear an apple in two with his bare hands. I have to object to his whipped cream asessment. This will work, but ten quick shakes are not sufficient to do the job. This is the fourth of a series. You’ll find more “life hacks” (or tips) debunked in part one, part two, and part three.

The Perfect Cake for the Occasion Posted: 27 Jan 2016 01:00 PM PST What kind of cake do you get for a divorce party? The fact that at least one participant considers it a reason for celebration means you should have something light-hearted, complete with a pun. This is one Star Wars pun I hadn’t heard before. It may become popular in the future. AskJoshy snapped a picture of the cake served at his friend’s divorce party. The guest of honor’s new girlfriend brought it, prompting others to say, “It’s a trap!” -via reddit

Quentin Tarantino Confirms His Movies All Exist In The Same Universe Posted: 27 Jan 2016 12:00 PM PST The characters in Quentin Tarantino's movies feel like part of the same universe, and whether the storyline takes place in the past or present certain key elements seem eerily similar in all of his films. Tarantino also likes to include unifying elements that are obviously meant to be, like the Big Kahuna Burger or having a Vega brother in both Pulp Fiction and Reservoir Dogs, all leading to the unified Tarantino universe fan theory. Quentin finally revealed the fan theory to be true during a recent interview on The Project, confirming that his movies all take place in the same cinematic universe, well, two universes to be precise. (YouTube Link) There's the "realer than real" universe, which is where all the characters live, and then there's the "movie" universe within the "realer" universe that serves as entertainment for the characters. Which is why Uma Thurman's "realer" character in Pulp Fiction describes the plot to Kill Bill to Vincent Vega when talking about her favorite TV show Fox Force Five...is your brain smoking yet? -Via Polygon

The 10 Best Superhero Performances in Movies Posted: 27 Jan 2016 11:00 AM PST Here’s something that fans can argue about for days. Who portrayed Batman the best? I am partial to Michael Keaton, but that may just be an artifact of my age (and the fact that I still haven’t seen The Dark Knight). You may prefer Christian Bale or even Adam West or Val Kilmer. What if none of them made this list of the ten best superhero performances in movies? There are also plenty of actors who’ve played Superman, not to mention the Avengers, X-men, Spider-Man, and so many other superheroes on film. The list isn’t ranked, but if your favorite made it on there at all, you can pat yourself on the back for your good taste. The picture here? Well, I have taste, too.

No One Knows Why Lost Phones Are Leading To This House Posted: 27 Jan 2016 10:00 AM PST Last February, the very month that Atlanta couple Michael Saba and Christina Lee moved in together, they received a visit from a disturbing group of visitors. A furious family of people arrived at their house and demanded the couple return their lost smart phone. Since then, a dozen more people have showed up to Lee and Saba's suburban home looking for their lost phones, despite the fact that the couple cannot -- nor can anyone else -- explain the multiple signals from smartphone tracking apps leading them to that particular location. Adding to the mystery, the phones have been of all different makes and carriers. The angry visitors have shown up at all hours of the day and night, and sometimes with the police. Said a concerned Sada, “My biggest fear is that someone dangerous or violent is going to visit our house because of this.” (Such as this man, in a separate incident.) “If or when that happens, I doubt our polite explanations are gonna go very far.” See additional photos and read more about this tech mystery here. Via Esquire

1972 Time Capsule Penthouse Posted: 27 Jan 2016 09:00 AM PST A penthouse in Chicago is listed for sale. It was built in 1972. The original owners lovingly decorated it in the style of the time, and never used it. What is left is a time capsule of the hippest 1972 decor. Groovy! Even the bathroom products are vintage. It can be yours for just $158,000, plus monthly building fees. It’s possible that you can sell a lot of the furniture and accessories to pay for the property; after all, they were never used and are in mint condition. Or you might want to keep it as is, but only if your favorite color is bright green. Take a virtual tour of the entire penthouse at Zillow. -via Metafilter (Image credit: Berkshire Hathaway Real Estate)

Two Tough Lizards Take Their Scrap To The Street Posted: 27 Jan 2016 08:00 AM PST Lizard gangs like to take their rumbles right to the middle of the street, so all the wimpy humans watching the fight will see how tough they are and leave them alone. But only one lizard gang lord can rule the block, and as this video shows it can take quite a while for the king lizard to come out on top! (YouTube Link) Sadly, this epic battle was ignored by virtually every human who passed by, but the guy who decided to capture the whole thing on video is now under the protection of the South Side Saurians. -Via Daily Mail

The Answers Posted: 27 Jan 2016 07:00 AM PST The other day we posted The White Room, in which a guy died and immediately got the opportunity to ask questions about the unknowns in his life. That was a comedy, while this is anything but. The protagonist here was the victim of a traffic accident. Contains NSFW language.   (YouTube link) The lesson here is somewhat ambiguous. Yeah, he knows now what he should have done differently, but he didn’t have the answers until it was too late to change anything. And would he have listened if he did? Or maybe it all comes back to the old adage, “Live each day as if it’s your last.” The Answers is an award-winning short film by Michael Goode and Daniel Lissing. -via Digg

Horror Night Out - Who Thought It Was A Good Idea To Give Jason A Bike?! Posted: 27 Jan 2016 06:00 AM PST Horror Night Off by DinoMike Life can't be all scares, screams and slashing, sometimes you've gotta just get together with some ghoul friends and hit the road on your bike! Jason was the first to embrace the fun loving bicyclists lifestyle, biking his worries away between kills, and when Chucky saw him riding around Crystal Lake he felt left out of the fun so he hitched a ride. Freddy had always dreamed of racing in the Tour De France before he was burned alive, but he couldn't get his claws on a bike so he just hopped on and rode along with Jason and Chuck. But how did Ghostface get involved in this joyride? He's the only real human in the bunch so he was afraid to say no to the big guy, Good Guy doll and the guy with the melted face lest they cancel the rest of his sequels... Add some geeky fun to your wardrobe with this Horror Night Off t-shirt by DinoMike, it's so horrifyingly cool your fellow fans might laugh their heads off...literally! Visit DinoMike's official website and Twitter, then head on over to his NeatoShop for more delightfully geeky designs: Space Oddity Super Mature My Memory Is Terrible Ultra Badass Snake In Skull View more designs by DinoMike | 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!

14 Things You Might Not Know About <i>Ghost</i> Posted: 27 Jan 2016 06:00 AM PST Demi Moore and Patrick Swayze in Ghost | Image: Paramount Pictures Ghost, a Paramount Pictures release in July of 1990, starred the late Patrick Swayze as Sam, a banker married to Demi Moore as Molly, his loving wife with whom he moves into a New York apartment. After Sam is murdered, Molly is tortured by what she thinks is Sam's ghost inhabiting their home. Whoopi Goldberg plays campy, claiming to be psychic Oda Mae Brown. The film was a box office success, grossing over $500 million and made on a budget of $22 million.  In the article linked below, mental_floss features fourteen bits of trivia of which fans of the film may not be aware. Two of them follow; read all fourteen facts here. 14. PATRICK SWAYZE’S SPECTER INFLUENCED HIP-HOP MUSIC. Because Patrick Swayze’s surname rhymes with “crazy,” there was an influx of rappers rhyming the two words together. Marley Marl’s “The Symphony Part II” features the line, “Reach for the pistol and you’re crazy / Try to blast and I’ll be spinnin’ that ass like Patrick Swayze.” Eventually the word “Swayze” became associated with his Ghost character and became slang for “gone” or “leaving”. On 2Pac’s “Runnin’ (Dying to Live)”, Notorious B.I.G. raps: “That’s why I bust back, it don’t faze me / When he drop, take his glock, and I’m Swayze,” and in 2005’s SNL Digital Short “Lazy Sunday,” Andy Samberg and Chris Parnell sing, “Throw the snacks into the bag and I’m a ghost like Swayze.” 4. DIRECTOR JERRY ZUCKER SAID HE’D CAST PATRICK SWAYZE “OVER MY DEAD BODY.” In a video that appears on the Ghost DVD, screenwriter Bruce Joel Rubin—who won an Oscar for his script—talks about how Zucker was at first against casting Swayze as Sam. 'Jerry wanted to see him on film, so went out and saw the movie Roadhouse, and we walked out of that movie and Jerry said to me, "Over my dead body,” recalls Rubin. Swayze really wanted the role, and because Zucker appreciated Swayze’s gusto, he let Swayze audition. After Swayze read the end of the script aloud, Zucker changed his mind. “We all had tears in our eyes, right there in the office—and we knew how it ends,' Zucker told People in 1990. 'I saw a side of Patrick that I never knew existed.'"

Marilyn Monroe and Her Pets Posted: 27 Jan 2016 05:00 AM PST Neatorama presents a guest post from actor, comedian, and voiceover artist Eddie Deezen. Visit Eddie at his website or at Facebook. By all accounts, Marilyn Monroe was an animal lover. During her first marriage, her husband recalled her trying to bring a cow into their house to get it out of the rain. She was photographed throughout her career as a model and actress, and in her real life, with various animals- dogs, horses, elephants, sheep, and even once with a bear. One can easily see her affinity for animals by the expressions of joy on her face. One of Marilyn's co-stars on her 1952 movie Monkey Business was a chimpanzee. Arthur Miller (Marilyn's third husband) reportedly based Marilyn's character “Roslyn" in her final completed film The Misfits (1960) on Marilyn's real-life personality. In the film, Roslyn is violently opposed to animal cruelty (the killing of horses). The climactic scene in The Misfits, showing Marilyn's violent opposition to the cruelty to the horses, is incredibly realistic and is almost chilling to watch. In her final movie, the never-finished-or-released Something's Got to Give, Marilyn had to do a scene with a dog. Interestingly, it wasn't Marilyn who forgot her part in the scene, the dog flubbed the scene- all he could do was stare! Here is a list of nine pets Marilyn Monroe owned during her lifetime (1926-1962). 1) Tippy Tippy was a black and white dog given to little Norma Jeane Mortenson (later Marilyn) by her foster father, Albert Wayne Bolender. Every day, Tippy would go to school with Norma Jeane. He would wait and play with her at recess. Circa 1932, when Norma Jeane was five or six, Tippy was shot by a neighbor, who claimed the dog was rolling around in his garden. Marilyn was to later claim in her autobiography that the neighbor "cut Tippy in half with a hoe.” 2) Ruffles Either an English or Brittany spaniel, Ruffles lived with Norma Jeane when she lived with the Godard family. Norma Jeane and her "sister" Beebe shared the spaniel as their pet, around 1940. 3) Muggsie Muggsie was collie given to Norma Jeane by her first husband, James Dougherty, in the late 1940's. Norma Jeane loved taking care of and playing with Muggsie and the two became best pals. However, after Norma Jeane began her career as a model/actress and changed her named to "Marilyn Monroe,” she didn't have any time to devote to Muggsie. According to Dougherty, Muggsie died of "a broken heart". 4) Josepha Josepha was a Chihuahua Marilyn owned at the time she was signed to a movie contract by Columbia pictures in 1948. 5) Mitsou Marilyn was especially fond of dogs and only owned one cat in her life. Mitsou was a white Persian cat Marilyn owned in New York in the mid-1950's. 6) Hugo Hugo was a Basset hound who lived with Marilyn and her third husband, Arthur Miller, at their East 57th street apartment in New York in the late '50's. Once, Marilyn and her friend Norman Rosten spoon-fed Hugo straight scotch to cheer him up. When Marilyn and Arthur split up, Arthur retained custody of Hugo. 7) Butch Butch was a parakeet owned by Marilyn and Arthur. He resided with them in their East 57th Street apartment. 8) Ebony Ebony was a riding horse the Millers purchased from Frank and Nan Taylor for their Connecticut farm. Marilyn only rode Ebony a few times. 9) Maf Frank Sinatra gave Marilyn a little white poodle as a gift. Frank had purchased the dog from Natalie Wood's mother. Marilyn named the dog Maf, as a humorous reference to Sinatra's alleged connection with the mafia. Maf sleep on the expensive white beaver coat he had given her as a gift. When Marilyn moved back to Hollywood after she and Miller divorced, she had Maf flown out to Hollywood to be with her. After her death, Maf was inherited by Frank Sinatra's secretary, Gloria Lovell.

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