Neatorama |
- Cat Jumps At Door Until Her Human Goes Out And Plays With Her
- Secrets of the Centenarians
- Aurora, Illinois Is Celebrating The 25th Anniversary Of <i>Wayne's World</i> In A Big Way
- 15 Things You Didn’t Know About <i>Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs</i>
- The Force is With These Tiny Star Wars Tattoos
- Justice Friends - No, They're Not A League...Why Does Everyone Keep Asking That?!
- Six Freeway Removals That Changed Their Cities Forever
- Watch Deadly Animals Attack In Slow Motion
- What Happened to Model Trains?
- Wolverine's Craziest Retcons
- Chicken Plays "America the Beautiful"
- Van Gogh's Self Portrait in Embroidery
- The Taste Test
- These Existentialist Memes Will Make You Question Your Entire Existence
Cat Jumps At Door Until Her Human Goes Out And Plays With Her Posted: 06 Feb 2017 05:11 AM PST Cats want humans to leave them alone until they really, really want humans to pay attention to them, at which point they pull out all stops to make sure all human eyes are on them. Some cats use the power of the meow to get attention, others knock stuff off shelves and counters to ensure they're not ignored, like furry little Nihilists. But Nala the Norwegian Forest cat (previously at Neatorama) has a cuter method of calling her humans- she jumps at the door and peeks at them through the window until they come out and play. How could anyone ignore the call of the wild Nala? -Via Laughing Squid | ||||||||
Posted: 06 Feb 2017 02:00 AM PST The following article is from the new book Uncle John’s Uncanny Bathroom Reader. If you make it to the ripe old age of 100, hardly a day will go by that someone won’t ask you what’s the secret of living to such a ripe old age. There’s only about a 1 in 1,000 chance that a 100-year-old person will become a “supercentenarian” —live to see their 110th birthday. So how did these folks make it that far? Here’s how these old-timers answered the question. (Image credit: Johnrabe) Gertrude Baines, Los Angeles, California (115) Dolly Saville, Wendover, England (100 years old) Pauline Spagnola, Plains Township, Pennsylvania (100)
The nine Melis siblings, age 78, 80, 81, 89, 91, 93, 97, 99, and 105, had a combined age of 818 years and 205 days in 2012, making them the world’s oldest living siblings. “We eat genuine food, meaning lots of minestrone soup and little meat, and we are always working,” said Adolfo Melis, who, at 89, was still tending bar in a local café. Elizabeth Sullivan, Fort Worth, Texas (105) Yisrael Kristal, Haifa, Israel (112)
Kristal, the world’s oldest living male in 2016, had no idea why he lived so long. “I believe that everything is determined from above, and we shall never know the reasons why,” he told Guinness World Records. Peter Reilly, Saltcoats, Scotland (100) Thomas Spittle, Ipswich, England (100) Misao Okawa, Osaka, Japan (117 years old)
She ate lots of her favorite foods (mackerel sushi, beef stew, and spaghetti) and got plenty of sleep. “Eat and sleep and you will live a long time,” she said in 2014. “You have to learn to relax.” Daisey Bailey, Detroit, Michigan (113) “Not smoking and not drinking,” and a diet of fried shrimp, miso soup, pickled vegetables, and bananas, washed down with plenty of milk. Benjamin Harrison Holcomb, Carnegie, Okla. (111) _______________________________ The article above is reprinted with permission from Uncle John's newest volume, Uncle John’s Uncanny Bathroom Reader. The 29th volume of the series is chock-full of fascinating stories, facts, and lists, and comes in both the Kindle version and paperback. Since 1988, the Bathroom Reader Institute had published a series of popular books containing irresistible bits of trivia and obscure yet fascinating facts. If you like Neatorama, you'll love the Bathroom Reader Institute's books - go ahead and check 'em out! | ||||||||
Aurora, Illinois Is Celebrating The 25th Anniversary Of <i>Wayne's World</i> In A Big Way Posted: 05 Feb 2017 11:59 PM PST 2017 marks the 25th anniversary of Wayne's World, the most excellent SNL movie adaptation of all time, and nobody is celebrating the anniversary like Wayne & Garth's home town of Aurora, Illinois. In fact, Aurora is celebrating Wayne's World for six months straight, starting in February and ending on the fourth of July with the largest mass headbanging session ever- to Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody", naturally. The event started off on February 3rd at First Fridays, "a monthly celebration of art, music, and culture" where guests were encouraged to wear their Wayniest and Garthiest attire for some righteous fun, including:
Read The Hilarious Way Aurora, Illinois Plans To Celebrate Wayne's World's 25th Anniversary here | ||||||||
15 Things You Didn’t Know About <i>Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs</i> Posted: 05 Feb 2017 09:59 PM PST In 1938, Walt Disney produced an audacious film that was several years in the making: a full-length feature film that was all cartoon! Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs set the stage for everything that would come after for Disney, both Walt and the company he founded. Everything about the production was an experiment. Lets have a little Snow White trivia.
There's lots more movie trivia about Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs at Flavorwire. | ||||||||
The Force is With These Tiny Star Wars Tattoos Posted: 05 Feb 2017 07:59 PM PST (Image via patricktat2) Big tattoos are great and all, but sometimes a small one is just as good. These Star Wars fans may not have big ink, but their love of the series is certainly unquestionable. (Image via dannifullyxo) The small designs are a subtle way to fully align yourself with your favorite characters without having to announce to the world that you support the Light or Dark Side. (Image via The Tattoo Gallery) You can see a whole gallery of delightfully small Star Wars tattoos over at Pop Sugar. | ||||||||
Justice Friends - No, They're Not A League...Why Does Everyone Keep Asking That?! Posted: 05 Feb 2017 05:59 PM PST That other superhero squad, or league or whatever, keeps getting all kinds of press these days, but where's the love for the group that saved the worlds' butts from that Commie fiend Comrade Red? I'm talking about the Justice...no, not league, we just went over that, this is the Justice Friends, you know- Major Glory, Val Hallen and the Infraggable Krunk? Yeah, those guys, they're not as flashy as the league, and they're having a hard time selling their movie rights, but the Justice Friends have been busy doing what they do best- justicing! So if something strange goes down in your town, and you keep looking to the sky for those other guys, stop wasting your time and call the Justice Friends on the phone, and they'll be there in like ten minutes. This Justice Friends t-shirt by AndreusD is hero tested and Dexter approved, and it's sure to make you feel heroic whether you're a mutant grown in a laboratory or you're just some guy or gal who loves cartoon shows! Visit AndreusD's Facebook fan page, Tumblr and Twitter, then head on over to his NeatoShop for more mighty geeky designs:
View more designs by AndreusD | 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! | ||||||||
Six Freeway Removals That Changed Their Cities Forever Posted: 05 Feb 2017 05:59 PM PST We've posted before about how modern cities are designed for automobiles, which is not necessarily a good thing. But what are you going to do about it? Believe it or not, there are cities who have taken the step of ripping out highways to reduce traffic and bring city life back to people. That doesn't mean those areas are free of streets, but without multi-lane highways, commuters take longer routes around where they once went straight through the neighborhoods. And the results are looking good. One of the most transformative freeway removal projects not only tore out a dirty highway from a city center, it actually daylighted a lost waterway. An elevated highway had been built through Seoul in 1976 as a way to boost economic prospects in a low-lying area which had become a slum. In 2003, the city’s mayor proposed to remove the freeway and and turn the site into green space, which also required naturalizing the creek that once ran there. Read about five other cities that removed urban highways, plus one in the planning stages, at Gizmodo. | ||||||||
Watch Deadly Animals Attack In Slow Motion Posted: 05 Feb 2017 03:59 PM PST Deadly animal attacks are best viewed on a screen from the safety of your own home, because when you run into a deadly animal in the wild you should give them a wide berth or suffer the painful consequences. That's not to say all animals deemed deadly will be looking to sink their fangs, bill, beak or bony ridge into you should you cross paths, but it's more pleasant to watch them strike when you're well out of range. Oh, and watching it in slow motion looks really cool! This video from BBC Earth Unplugged shows how an owl, croc, chameleon, praying mantis and more look while they strike, in super slow motion so you can study their style before your next dinner party. -Via Sploid | ||||||||
What Happened to Model Trains? Posted: 05 Feb 2017 01:59 PM PST In the 19th century, the railroad was the biggest thing going. Like the internet, it connected people across long distances, promoted exploration of new places, and captured the popular imagination. The fascination with trains gave birth to the craze for model trains and the worlds they traveled. Whether they came pre-assembled or you built your own, it was a hobby that reigned for around 100 years. But times have changed.
Read about the rise and fall of model trains at Collectors Weekly. | ||||||||
Posted: 05 Feb 2017 11:59 AM PST When a comic series goes on for a really long time, and characters go through a bunch of adventures that change their story as well as the limitations of their powers, writers bring in the retcons to tie up all the loose ends. Retcons are a cheap and easy way to explain away any discrepancies in a character's storyline, and few superheroes have had their story retconned as much as our feral pal Wolverine. Wolverine was initially referred to as Weapon X, then Weapon X became the name of the whole super-soldier program that laced his bones with adamantium and temporarily broke his brain. A few retcons later the "X" in Weapon X was ultimately revealed to be a Roman numeral, meaning Wolvie was project 10 and even Captain America is considered to be part of the "Weapon Plus" program. That's some mighty convenient retconning, but not as convenient as Wolverine's healing factor retcon, because at first he took a lot longer to recover from grievous injuries, leaving Logan laid up for weeks. By the 90s Wolvie's healing factor had gone mega, because according to writers it improved every time he used it, so he was able to recover from being fully incinerated in just a few hours. But to me the weirdest and most ridiculous retcon of them all is the bit about Sabertooth being Wolverine's father. Sabertooth became Wolvie's archenemy because they both have a very savage fighting style, but Chris Claremont tried to to serve up a fastball special by having Sabertooth reveal Logan was his son. In the next issue Nick Fury conducts a DNA test and proves Sabertooth isn't Logan's father, making the whole thing feel like a bad episode of the Maury show! Sabertooth, you are not the father! | ||||||||
Chicken Plays "America the Beautiful" Posted: 05 Feb 2017 09:59 AM PST Jokgu is a piano-playing chicken. We've seen chickens peck at toy pianos and produce sounds, but Jokgu has been clicker-trained and is equipped with a keyboard that lights up the notes in sequence. Still, it can't be easy to get a bird-brained hen to perform a song this well. Jokgu's owner, Shannon Myers, has a coop full of chickens who record music under the name The Flockstars. Their music is fairly haphazard, but Jokgu stands head and shoulders above the rest as the real talent of the flock. You can follow the musical chickens and their owners at Facebook. -via HuffPo | ||||||||
Van Gogh's Self Portrait in Embroidery Posted: 05 Feb 2017 07:59 AM PST It takes an artist to truly replicate the skills of another artist and illustrator Ezgi Pamir offers evidence of that fact with her fascinating embroidery. She only embroiders outside of work hours, but her needlework is still increidble. See more of her embroidery (and her illustrations) on her Behance page. | ||||||||
Posted: 05 Feb 2017 05:59 AM PST
I can believe that. But that Friday night turned out to be really memorable. It takes only one such experience to turn you into the kind of person who checks the date on the milk. Check out more of her comics at As Per Usual. | ||||||||
These Existentialist Memes Will Make You Question Your Entire Existence Posted: 05 Feb 2017 03:59 AM PST It doesn't take much to trigger an existential crisis for some people, just ask them the right question or say aloud their private thoughts of self doubt and watch the crisis unfold upon their face. If you feel like you're on the verge of having an existentialist meltdown then you should probably refrain from reading the "thought provoking" memes shared by the Instagram account textsfromyourexistentialist. This suggestion is for your own safety, because any one of these memes could trigger a crisis that will take you months, if not years, of therapy to defuse. See Question Your Own Existence and Trigger Your Next Existential Crisis With 'Texts From Your Existentialist' here (NSFW language) |
You are subscribed to email updates from Neatorama. To stop receiving these emails, you may unsubscribe now. | Email delivery powered by Google |
Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, United States |
No comments:
Post a Comment
Keep a civil tongue.