When this 3-year-old girl was asked what she was going to do if a monster came after her, the girl's answer was far more intelligible than the recent Miss South Carolina hubbub.
Here's what she's going to do: Hit play or go to Link [YouTube] - Thanks Travis W!
It's an alcoholic weapon of mass destruction: a Vodka bottle shaped like a Kalashnikov!
Vodka Kalashnikov is based on a select recipe approved by Mikhail T. Kalashnikov, designer of the AK-47 Rifle. It was the first vodka ever to be created by combining salt, sugar, vanillin and glycerin.
Link (Yes, this has been around since 2003) - via Scaryideas - Thanks Justin!
A goat with six horn stands in the herd of goats at a farm in Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region August 28, 2007. The owner said the goat began to grow six horns shortly after its birth.
There was a confusion about who exactly was the Miss South Carolina in the clip that went 'round the Net a couple of days ago.
Apparently, there were two Laurens - both are very pretty, but that's where the similarity ends. There's Lauren Caitlin Upton, the Miss South Carolina/Internet sensation who came up with the less-than-brilliant answer at the Miss Teen USA Pageant. And then there's Lauren Elizabeth Lytle, who is the Miss South Carolina Outstanding Teen and by all measures, a very smart and able girl as well.
Neatorama reader JOwens, Lauren Lytle's aunt, told us that her niece is getting a lot of bad publicity because people mistakenly thought she was the one:
She’s getting a lot of negative feedback regarding the “other” Miss SC Teen USA which is not affiliated with the Miss America Organization - there is a BIG difference. You should grab her on-stage interview question where she recently competed in the Miss America Outstanding Teen and aced her question.
The Teen USA pageant is based more on beauty (leave it to Donald Trump) where America Teen is based on academics, COMMUNITY SERVICE, public speaking, mentoring etc. It is horrible that these Miss America Teens work so hard for their states and now all pageants and all title holders are seeing one clip from this Miss Teen USA pageant.
My niece had the highest GPA (4.6) of all contestants and received a scholarship at the Miss America Outstanding Teen pageant a few weeks ago. America Organization gives scholarships to teenagers and it isn’t about the grand prizes awarded. Please help my niece, Lauren Lytle - Miss South Carolina Outstanding Teen clear her name and let people know that she’s not the same person as Miss South Carolina USA Teen!
Consider it done, JOwens! (And if you want to know the difference between Miss America, Miss USA, Miss Universe, Miss Teen USA, and Miss America Teen pageants, Sid Morrison has the answer for you - scroll down to #29)
Then they "totally had a breakdown" and eventually began to use humour to help them get through the ordeal.
"I told my brother 'your wife is going to have to marry someone else'", Meng Xianyou told the newspaper.
His brother replied: "I laughed too. I said my wife could find a rich man in Shenyang.
"But then I thought, I have two children and my wife is ugly, so it would be hard for her to remarry."
After seeing The Butt Biting Bug clip that is all the rage in Japan, Neatorama reader Travis told us about the current rage in Germany: the Gummy Bear Song.
I apologize in advance: Hit play or go to Link [YouTube] - Thanks Travis!
We've had some pretty neat "light drawings" on Neatorama before, but Eric Staller's are in a class of their own!
Link: Gallery at Centripetal Notion | Eric's website - Thanks Mikolka!
Previously on Neatorama: Eric Staller's Conference Bike
Image: Neato Coolville [Flickr]
That's a roadside sculpture of a caveman skeleton walking a dinosaur skeleton in Murdo, South Dakota!
Roadside America has more info: Link - Thanks Rich (who is on day 46 of a 100 day road trip around the US. I'm so jealous! He's documenting the entire trip on his Flickr photoset.)
In Neatorama's recent post The Sweepstakes Winner, there is a little gem of an anonymous tip about Nasubi.
Wikipedia explains what happened to poor ol' Nasubi [wiki]:
Nasubi (born August 3, 1975) is a Japanese comedian who was locked up in an apartment for "Susunu! Denpa Shonen" (January 1998—March 2002), a Japanese reality television show on Nippon Television after winning a lottery for a "show business related job". He was forced to enter mail-in sweepstakes until he won ¥1 million (about $10,000 USD). During this time, he was made to wear no clothes, was cut off from outside communication and broadcasting, and had nothing to keep him company except magazines.
Nasubi lived in front of the camera, with only the possessions he won via the sweepstakes, and the stacks of postcards for entering the sweepstakes. Due to his nudity, an eggplant cartoon graphic was strategically utilized when Nasubi was standing on camera. Nasu is the Japanese word for eggplant. He was called as such due to his bony face which slanted like an eggplant.
Upon reaching his goal, he was clothed and blindfolded to be taken to a surprise location. Nasubi happily went along believing he was going to get a special treat for his hard work. After they unblindfolded him, he found himself in Korea where he was shown around the town and taken to an apartment. They once again stripped of his clothes and forced to do the same thing again there to win enough money to get back home. His entire ordeal lasted some 15 months, during which time his diaries on his experience of being locked away from the outside world became a best seller in Japan.
You can read the long version here (quite funny): Link - Thanks anon, whoever you are!
The story goes that in ‘78, Mark Gubin was having lunch with his assistant, who remarked upon all the low-flying planes - saying how nice it would be to make a sign welcoming everyone to Milwaukee. Apparently Gubin simply said, “You know what would be even better...?â€
"When we are up there in the clouds I talk to him and he calls back and circles around me, it is an awesome and exhilarating experience.
"Flying with birds puts you right into their world, we have formed a very close bond."
Japanese company AirPress opened a cafe catering to pet lovers: it offers a luxurious pet therapy, where you can put your dog in a large clear chamber and give it an oxygen treatment!
That's not the only funny thing about the cafe: its name is the abbreviation of Oxygen, Water, Nutrition and Dogs or OWND.
Link [in Japanese] - via Akihabara News
James Dylan of a New Zealand indie rock band Inverse Order sent me a link to his band's YouTube music video, where they sing to an audience of ... mannequins!
They set up the whole bit themselves (with help of a production company) - and days after they shot the video, the theater burned down, which is kind of ironic given the ending of the clip (you'll just have to see it ..)
Hit play or go to Link [YouTube] | Gallery of the video shoot - Thanks James!
Here's a particularly clever ad from Malteser ambulance service, reminding people not to drink and drive by spelling out "Skull Fracture" using bits and pieces from the names of alcoholic drinks.
Found at I believe in Advertising
A life-long smoker, Winnie Langley just celebrated her 100th birthday by smoking her 170,000th cigarette!
Winnie Langley started smoking only days after the First World War broke out in June 1914 when she was just seven-years-old - and has got through five a day ever since.
She has no intention of quitting, even after the nationwide ban forced tobacco-lovers outside.
Speaking at her 100th birthday party Winnie said: "I have smoked ever since infant school and I have never thought about quitting.
How shall I describe Tessa Farmer's artwork? Well, for one, she uses insects as a central part of her minuscule sculptures:
Tessa Farmer’s miniscule sculptures reinvigorate a belief in fairies: not the sweet Tinkerbell image in popular conscience, but a biological, entomological, macabre species translating pastoral fable into nightmarish lore. Constructed from bits of organic material, such as roots, leaves, and dead insects, each of Farmer’s figures stand barely 1 cm tall, their painstakingly intricate detail visible only through a magnifying glass.
Meet Jay Sokolow, a man whose hobby is entering - and winning - radio and online contests and sweepstakes!
He leaves the radio on at work, holding a phone to each ear during breaks, speed-dialing stations during giveaways. He won so many times on one show that its producers instituted a once-a-month win limit: They call it the "Jay Sokolow law."
Other husbands might spend their free time golfing or gambling. To his wife's aggravation, Sokolow enters contests. Grocery store drawings, sweepstakes, trivia games, raffles, he enters them every day, except on the Sabbath -- Friday night through Saturday.
It is not so much the value of the prizes that entices him, but the probability of winning. There is a strange satisfaction, he says, in beating the odds, outsmarting the other players, and sometimes outsmarting the contest promoters.
If you think your commute is bad, check out the way people get in and out of this village in Colombia: by sliding down a rusty old cable 1,200 feet above the ground!
Hit play or go to Link [YouTube] Updated Link [VidMax]- Thanks Chris!
You’ve seen stories about restaurants that create outlandishly expensive dishes; it’s mainly for the publicity. But what if you were to plan your day around such food items? This menu starts off with a thousand-dollar caviar breakfast and escalated from there. 
Japanese artist Yuta Watanabe's created a dozen of clever and humorous artwork using pencils. The one to the left is a pencil shaped like a miniature sweeper. Of course, the bottom bit is an eraser!
