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- Green Tea Chocolate-Covered Potato Chips Exist
- Dr. Mittens Lamar
- New Winter Sport: Boar Curling
- How to Be a Good Parent
- Seas within Whales Represent Buddhist Realms
- Why is Deadpool So Ugly?
- Reporter Confuses Giant Mushroom in His Hand for a Microphone
- And Don’t Call Me Shirley
- Chuky - Batteries And Blood Transfusions Not Included
- Antique Mousetrap in a Museum Catches a Mouse
- <i>ER</i> Cast Reunion with George Clooney and Jimmy Kimmel
- Baby Swordfish Fits on the Tip of a Finger
- The Super Bowl Baby Choir
- The Full Ranking of the Fastest-Talking States in US
- The World's Longest-Running Experiment
- Fluffy Omurice with Jun and Haku
- Cheetos
- Mazzy Star's "Fade Into You" As Sung By Cookie Monster
- Thirteen of the Most Memorable Movie Psychopaths
- The Great Monster - Let Sleeping Gods Lie
- The Origins Of Fifteen Strange Southern Dish Names
- 15 Facts about Coffee
- Policeman Answers Routine Call, Falls in Love With Puppy
- Zookeepers Apprehend Escaped Zebra in Annual Drill
- Two Men Catch on Video the Moment They Are Nearly Struck by Lightning
| Green Tea Chocolate-Covered Potato Chips Exist Posted: 04 Feb 2016 04:00 AM PST Casey Baseel of Rocket News 24 brings us excellent news: it’s no long necessary to mix your own green tea chocolate, then pour it in precisely measured lines over ruffled potato chips. It’s possible to buy whole bags of prepared green tea chocolate-covered ruffled potato chips, thus saving you from a good half hour of work every day. Baseel taste-tested the results and said that they smell not just like green tea, but specifically like the Uji matcha variety of green tea grown in Kyoto. That’s good because we’re not crude savages who give no thought to keeping up appearances in respectable society. Baseel continues:
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| Posted: 04 Feb 2016 03:00 AM PST Wouldn’t you love to go see Dr. Lamar, who heals boo-boos with nom-noms? This billboard in Milwaukee grabbed a lot of attention. The website on the billboard is actually for the company that rents out billboards. They just proved how effective nonsense advertising can be! -via reddit | ||||||||
| New Winter Sport: Boar Curling Posted: 04 Feb 2016 02:00 AM PST
Ice skaters on Båven, a lake south of Stockholm, Sweden, spotted wild boars on an island in the middle of the frozen lake. They were trapped there, unable to gain traction on the ice and probably running out of food on the little island. So the skaters gently pushed the boars across with poles, like they were sweeping curling stones across the ice. -via Huffington Post | ||||||||
| Posted: 04 Feb 2016 01:00 AM PST The secret to good parenting is all in the thumb! Just remember to point it up instead of down. That’s the latest advice from Lunarbaboon. | ||||||||
| Seas within Whales Represent Buddhist Realms Posted: 04 Feb 2016 12:00 AM PST
Isana Yamada is a graduate student in design at the Tokyo University for the Arts. For his graduation project, Rocket News 24 reports, he composed sculptures of 6 whales that float through space, containing within their bodies detailed dioramas of the ocean waters and floor. They're mesmerizingly beautiful. The six whales represent the six realms in Buddhist cosmology: the Heavenly Realm, the Asura, the Animal Realm, Hell, the Ghost Realm, and the Human Realm.
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| Posted: 03 Feb 2016 11:00 PM PST The Marvel movie Deadpool opens February 12. You might not know all that much about the character if you haven’t been reading comics. He’s not exactly a superhero as we understand the term, although he does have powers.
Oh, and apparently he doesn't lok all that good under his mask. An article at The Daily Dot explains that and the character’s comic book background, to get us all up to speed for the movie. | ||||||||
| Reporter Confuses Giant Mushroom in His Hand for a Microphone Posted: 03 Feb 2016 10:00 PM PST The Turkish reporter is interviewing the man on the left while holding a microphone. For reasons that are unclear, he's holding a giant mushroom in his other hand. During their conversation, he gets the two confused and begins speaking into the mushroom--until the subject of the interview points out his error. -via Laughing Squid | ||||||||
| Posted: 03 Feb 2016 09:00 PM PST The 1980 movie Airplane! was a parody of the disaster films so popular at that time. Written and directed by Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, and Jerry Zucker, it placed a whole slew of dramatic actors into a generic plot and had them deliver non-stop one liners, puns, and sight gags through the entire movie -all in deadpan seriousness. It became an infinitely-quotable classic. Vulture, delving deeper into their 100 jokes timeline, sat down with Abrahams and the two Zuckers to talk about how the movie came about, including the line, “Don’t call me Shirley.”
There’s a lot more that went into the making of Airplane!that you can read at Vulture. | ||||||||
| Chuky - Batteries And Blood Transfusions Not Included Posted: 03 Feb 2016 08:00 PM PST The Good Guy factory was closed down for a reason, and yet some mad toymaker felt the line should continue to be produced despite all that happened to that poor child when one of the CHUKY model dolls went psycho. The toymaker found a new home for his products in Sweden, where companies could produce defective goods without repercussion, and soon a whole new batch of CHUKY dolls started rolling out of the factory. Kids eagerly bought up the dolls despite their stigma, but when they went to play with them they noticed something was off about the CHUKY dolls, because they only wanted to play with sharp objects... Spread some knowledge of scare tactics with this Chuky t-shirt by Ed Harrington, it's the charming way to scare the wits out of your fellow horror movie fans! Visit Ed Harrington's Instagram, official website and Tumblr, then head on over to his NeatoShop for more ridiculously cool designs:
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! | ||||||||
| Antique Mousetrap in a Museum Catches a Mouse Posted: 03 Feb 2016 08:00 PM PST (Photo: University of Reading) The Museum of English Rural Life in Reading, UK has many artifacts from a much older, lost Britain. Among them is a 155-year old mousetrap. The appropriately-named Perpetual Mouse Trap by Colin Pullinger & Sons goes by the tagline “will last a lifetime.” In fact, it will last several lifetimes. The Assistant Curator recently found a dead mouse in the unbaited trap. That’s quality equipment! You can see more photos of the trap here. -via Atlas Obscura | ||||||||
| <i>ER</i> Cast Reunion with George Clooney and Jimmy Kimmel Posted: 03 Feb 2016 07:00 PM PST Jimmy Kimmel staged a reunion of he medical drama ER last night on his show. George Clooney was there, but could Kimmel get anyone else to show up? Yes, but it wasn’t who you’d expect. What’s remarkable about this skit is its total insanity. The script would have been funny of they’d stuck to it, but they didn’t, and that was even better. -via Tastefully Offensive | ||||||||
| Baby Swordfish Fits on the Tip of a Finger Posted: 03 Feb 2016 06:00 PM PST
He's perhaps only an inch long. But in a year, he could be over 3 feet long! Juan C. Levesque, a graduate student and fisheries professional, says that the broadbill swordfish (Xiphias gladius) is called the "gladiator of the sea." In a 2014 article for the magazine Florida Sportsman, Levesque describes the life cycle of this fighting fish prized by fishermen:
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| Posted: 03 Feb 2016 05:00 PM PST It seems that the city that wins the Super Bowl sees a spike in births exactly nine months later. Isn't that sweet. The NFL collected a whole bunch of those babies together to sing a song to promote the 50th Super Bowl. They are dressed in the colors of their winning team. They are singing about their own origins to the tune of the 1994 song “Kiss from a Rose” by Seal, who joins in to sing along. They do a really good job, except for the class of 2014, who are still a little too young to learn the lyrics. -via Viral Viral Videos | ||||||||
| The Full Ranking of the Fastest-Talking States in US Posted: 03 Feb 2016 04:00 PM PST
Can you talk as fast an auctioneer at work? Then perhaps you’re from Oregon. According to a study conducted by Marchex, a mobile advertising analytics firm, people from Oregon talk faster than anyone else. The Atlantic reports that the company examined phone calls and measured “rate of speech, density of speech, hold times, and silences” to rank all 50 states. Here are the top 10:
And here are the slowest talking states:
Do any of these surprise you? -via Althouse | ||||||||
| The World's Longest-Running Experiment Posted: 03 Feb 2016 03:00 PM PST We thought the Pitch Drop experiments took a long time, but a botany experiment at Michigan State University started in 1879, and is scheduled to continue until the year 2100! Dr. William James Beal wanted to find out how long weed seeds can lay dormant and still germinate. So he buried 20 bottles of seeds in a secret location. Each bottle contains 50 seeds each of 23 different plant species. The original idea was to dig up a bottle every five years and plant the seeds to see how many would germinate. But along the way, the time between each bottle was extended -twice- so now a bottle is dug up only every 20 years. Dr. Frank Telewski and Dr. Jan Zeevaart last dug one up in 2000.
Dr. Telewski was a graduate student when the 1980 bottle was retrieved. He is now looking forward to being there in 2020 for the next one. Read the story of the continuing seed experiment at Atlas Obscura. | ||||||||
| Fluffy Omurice with Jun and Haku Posted: 03 Feb 2016 02:00 PM PST After a trip to the grocery store, Jun (previously at Neatorama) cooks an omelet with chicken and rice while Haku watches respectfully from the top of the refrigerator. I wish my knives were that sharp, maybe I'd try that trick of rendering the chicken skin instead of using pre-skinned chicken as a shortcut. No way would my cats behave so well when chicken is on the menu. It was hard to decide whether this should go into the Neatolicious sub-blog or the Lifestyles of the Cute and Cuddly sub-blog. While I got into the video because of the cat, I ended up hungry, so it goes with the recipes. -via reddit | ||||||||
| Posted: 03 Feb 2016 01:00 PM PST Cheetos. Not even once. | ||||||||
| Mazzy Star's "Fade Into You" As Sung By Cookie Monster Posted: 03 Feb 2016 12:00 PM PST Mazzy Star's "Fade Into You" is one of those songs that tends to evoke a romantic or maudlin feeling in the listener, and the song was definitely crafted to evoke all those feels. But when somebody sings a song their way they should try to bring a whole new feeling to their rendition, like the way Catman Cohen's version of "Fade Into You" makes you feel like you're being serenaded by Cookie Monster. A wiseacre called hairwizz on the YouTubes edited together this compelling video evidence that Catman Cohen may actually be Cookie Monster disguised as a human. Somebody check his pockets for cookie crumbs! -Via Dangerous Minds | ||||||||
| Thirteen of the Most Memorable Movie Psychopaths Posted: 03 Feb 2016 11:00 AM PST Psychopaths just. Don’t. Care. They operate outside the entire moral and social structure we’ve built for civilization, while they understand that structure well enough to exploit it for their own ends. You never want to get involved with this type of person in real life, but in movies? There they can be a lot of fun, since you’re not personally affected. Except for the nightmares they bring. Or if they remind you of someone you know. But most of the time, we can enjoy watching someone so clever and amoral that they illustrate the ultimate villain, one that you can’t reason with or outmaneuver. Like Max Cady in Cape Fear.
DeNiro was terrifying in the role, but Robert Mitchum in the 1962 version deserves a shoutout because he induced chills with just a look. The character is one of 13 movie psychopaths ranked at TVOM (with videos). Just reading about them will remind you of how you felt when you first met them. | ||||||||
| The Great Monster - Let Sleeping Gods Lie Posted: 03 Feb 2016 10:00 AM PST The Great Old One known as Cthulhu is more than just a slumbering god who can bring about the end of life on Earth as we know it- he's also a classic monster. Frankenstein's creation wouldn't stand a chance against that squid faced menace, and even if Dracula and the Wolfman teamed up they'd have a hard time getting the Great Old One to bleed, but something tells me the King of the Monsters might actually give Cthulhu a run for his money! Of course human civilization as we know it would probably perish as a result of their rumble... Share your love of Lovecraft's nightmarish creation with the world by wearing this The Great Monster t-shirt by Buby87, it's a horrifyingly fun way to drive your fellow fans crazy with envy! Visit Buby87's NeatoShop for more dark and geeky designs:
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 Origins Of Fifteen Strange Southern Dish Names Posted: 03 Feb 2016 10:00 AM PST Southern food is known for being extremely filling, utterly delicious and often strangely named, with some of the names making a delicious dish actually sound disgusting. Take chit'lins for example- sounds gross, tastes great, but who would think to draw a connection between this dish and Medieval England? Chitterlings (deep fried pork intestines) date back to at least the 1400s, and while the dish comes from England it's rarely eaten there today. Livermush is a surprisingly good mélange made of pork liver, head meat and cornmeal that's fried up and served in a sandwich or with some eggs and potatoes. It sounds a bit like something you'd wipe off your shoe after a trip to the slaughter house, but in this case the transparency is like meatloaf- a description of what goes into the dish. And before you get too creeped out to read on please note- there are no puppies used in the making of hush puppies. See The Origins Of 15 Crazy Southern Food Names at mental_floss | ||||||||
| Posted: 03 Feb 2016 09:00 AM PST Coffee is the nectar of life. Or at least, the nectar of the morning. And it’s not too bad after dinner, either. You already drink it; now learn some facts about your coffee. Like how people used to eat the beans instead of drinking an infusion. Yuck. Nick Greene (see the extra “e,” no relation to John Green) guest hosts the mental_floss List Show. | ||||||||
| Policeman Answers Routine Call, Falls in Love With Puppy Posted: 03 Feb 2016 08:00 AM PST Marcus Montgomery is a police officer with the Fort Walton Beach, Florida police department. When a situation regarding a prior employee arose at the Panhandle Animal Welfare Society (PAWS), Montgomery went to the facility to make sure everything was in order. Montgomery told BuzzFeed, “We spoke for about 20 minutes and I was wrapping up my investigation. One of the supervisors left, and while I was still speaking to the director of PAWS, the supervisor came back in with this little puppy in her hands. You could tell he’d been sleeping because his eyes were heavy and he was yawning constantly.” Montgomery said he “immediately” asked to hold the puppy. He soon found out that the pup had just been plucked from a box on the other side of the building, and due to being all alone in the box, he had been crying. When Montgomery heard that information it was, as they say, "all she wrote." The cop decided right then and there to take the pup home that night where he lives with his girlfriend and a pitbull rescue named Vader, who was long desirous of canine companionship. Images: Marcus Montgomery | ||||||||
| Zookeepers Apprehend Escaped Zebra in Annual Drill Posted: 03 Feb 2016 07:00 AM PST
Zookeepers in many places hold drills to practice catching an escaped animal, but zoos in Japan have elevated such drills to public relations events, with a zookeeper wearing an animal costume playing the escapee. The Tama Zoo had a drill featuring a zebra in 2013, but the last time the Ueno Zoo in Tokyo held a drill using a zebra was in 2008, so it was time to do it again. In this year’s drill, one zookeeper had a "heart attack," while another was "injured" by the zebra.
See a lot more pictures of the drill at Buzzfeed and hit the continue button for a video. A good time was had by all. | ||||||||
| Two Men Catch on Video the Moment They Are Nearly Struck by Lightning Posted: 03 Feb 2016 06:00 AM PST Meanwhile in Australia, where people with charming accents are about to be killed by All of The Things, a storm is blowing in. In this NSFW-clip-due-to-profanities-shouted-by-two-nearly-lighting-struck dudes, Nick and Daniel are at Sydney's Oyster Bay. They've just spent the majority of ten minutes deciding not to take their boat out because they could "feel the static" of the impending electrical storm. Just then, they get confirmation of their decision by one Mother Nature. Learn more and see additional video at Yahoo 7 News Australia. |
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