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This video appears to be an early McDonald’s commercial. (The post on YouTube says that it’s the FIRST, but I find that hard to believe). That insane warlock Ronald McDonald appears in the commercial. How would you describe his accent? Working class New York? Longshoreman?
Note also that the commercial is a full minute long. Back in Ronald McDonald’s salad days I guess it was cheaper and more efficient to engage potential clown-haters with commercials lasting longer than 30 seconds.
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Like most of us artist Mike Leavitt finds pennies on the ground. Unlike most of us he then paints a tiny landscape of the place where he found it on the penny. This is a project he calls Penny Places and you can view the gallery of his work here.
What did you do when you were 19? Mary Shelley had written Frankenstein by that age.
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It’s Friday night, and I’m all about the bowling clips found on VideoSift – the best video sharing website there is! (I used to work in a bowling alley, y’know! There’s nothing like spraying odor-eater on rental bowling shoes … the horror!)
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When you’re hungry, go for Smack. The instant noodle, that is! Found at uglyfood, thanks Erkki!
Japanese artist Kenzo Minami‘s wallpaper exhibit, titled Chambre avec Vue, like any good wallpaper, can send you into an epileptic fit!
Check out the insanely detailed print by Kenzo and other artists at Maxalot Gallery: Exposif Wallpapers (Dont’ miss eBoy’s entry!) – Thanks Johnald Chaffinch!
Scientists at the National Space Centre and the University of Leicester have designed a new money for Travelex for use by inter-planetary travellers!
It is called the Quasi Universal Intergalactic Denomination, or Quid.
It is designed to withstand the stresses of space travel and has no sharp edges or chemicals that could hurt space tourists.
Because, you know, the demand is so there! Link – Thanks Moronic50!
Sibu the orangutan has a fetish … He preferred his female zookeepers, especially blondes!
Apenheul Primate Park hoped Sibu would become its breeding male when he arrived two years ago, but orang-utans aren’t his type.
"He chases them, or ignores them, but he doesn’t do what he should do," said a spokeswoman for the park.
Instead, Sibu fancies his female keepers, especially blondes. That, the spokeswoman said, was common for orang-utans but Sibu has a fetish for tattoos, harking back to a heavily tattooed keeper who reared him.
"Orang-utans have special interests in special subjects. Sibu happens to like tattoos," she said.
Link | Image from Itshears [Flickr] – Thanks casey!
Previously on Neatorama: 30 Strangest Animal Mating Habits
Employees at the Takashimaya department store in Osaka have created four reproductions of world-famous paintings using 320,000 old train tickets obtained from the nearby Nankai Namba station.
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This t-shirt put a smile on my face, particularly in light of the cold I have right now. You can vote for it by clicking on the link above, if you’re so inclined. And here’s more of my Threadless picks.
Belgian artist and designer Arne Quinze created this massive (131x82x39 ft or 40x25x12 m) tangle of wood on stilts as an art project in the heart of Brussels!
Link (tons of construction photos) – via designverb, thanks tango!
Image: Dorian Raymer, UCSD
Two physicists from University of California, San Diego unraveled the mystery behind how knots form in tangled telephone cords and electronic cables:
Smith and UCSD colleague Dorian Raymer ran a series of homespun experiments in which they dropped a string into a box and tumbled it for 10 seconds (one revolution per second). They repeated the string-dropping more than 3,000 times varying the length and stiffness of the string, box size and tumbling speed.
Digital photos and video of the tumbling strings revealed: Strings shorter than 1.5 feet (.46 meters) didn’t form knots; the likelihood of knotting sharply increased as string length went from 1.5 feet to 5 feet (.46 meters to 1.5 meters); and beyond this length, knotting probability leveled off.
What a knotty problem! Link – Thanks JP!
We’ve featured this strange Bollywood Thriller (technically, Telugu cinema) before, but this version is worth the re-post: it’s subtitled based on how the lyrics sound like in English!
Hit play or go to Link – Thanks Chris!
Here’s a bizarre story: a man bought a barbecue smoker from a storage facility auction and found an amputated leg inside of it!
John Wood’s leg was amputated near the knee after a 2004 airplane crash. He asked doctors to give it to him so he could be buried as a whole man when he died.
The limb, which Wood had kept in the smoker at a storage facility after he lost his home, was bought by Shannon Whisnant last Tuesday in an auction of items from units that were behind on rent.
Whisnant then made a show out of the amputated limb:
… Whisnant, who put a sign on the empty smoker charging adults $3 and children $1 for a look, wants it back.
"He’s making a freak show out of it," Wood, of Greenville, S.C., told The Charlotte Observer. "He wants to put money in his pocket with this thing."
After a little brouhaha, it seems that the leg is now on its way back to its (original? rightful?) owner.
Link – Thanks Tiffany!
Unusual Life has a feature on a strange restaurant called Martin’s Tio’s Tacos in Riverside, California. The owner, a folk artist named Martin Sanchez, spent 10 years building and decorating the structure out of discarded objects:
Relatively undiscovered, Mr. Sanchez has been working on his creation for almost 10 years. Patrons of the restaurant can walk underneath cooling streams of water flowing from a fountain garden made of broken pieces of clay and old pipes, discarded bicycles, dolls and other items.
Marlow Harris and JoDavid of Unusual Life did a good job documenting the place (lots of pics! Even our pal Hanan of grow-a-brain made an appearance): Link – Thanks Marlow and JoDavid!
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Neatorama reader Darren Barefoot noticed there are a lot of water bottles positioned on the sidewalk, flush to the wall in front of homes in Malta.
Apparently, they serve a peculiar purpose: to discourage wayward dogs from peeing on the spot!
Does anyone know whether this actually works? Link – Thanks Darren!
To celebrate the 30th anniversary of the first Star Wars movie, Polecat Aerospace built a 21 foot (6.4 m) long rocket shaped like an X-Wing Fighter! And they’re going to launch it in two days…
We decided to make the project to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the first Star Wars movie. Our club members are making several Star Wars based projects to fly at Plaster Blaster VI, or Plaster Wars.
We decided to make the project challenging in several ways. The first is just the massive size of the rocket. It is over 21′ long, with a wingspan of over 19′. We opted to use a cluster of four motors to emulate the "real" X-wing, and positioned the motors in the wing pods. The real challenge was to make the wings move in flight, from the "attack" position, or extended to the "landing" position, or folded. This proved to be quite a mechanical feat.
Link | More at Plaster Wars – Thanks Eugenio Martínez Sierra and Robert N.!
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Toronto’s street artist Dan Bergeron (aka fauxreel) created this billboard advertising cheap lobotomy with a local phone number where people could call and leave messages. Surprisingly, a lot of people actually called to request lobotomies!
Link (embedded YouTube video, warning: coarse language) – Thanks Photosapience!
Web Urbanist has a neat list of the 7 Underground Wonders of the World, featuring labyrinths, crypts, catacombs and other creepy underground places.
This one to the left is the catacombs below the chapel in West Norwood Cemetery in London, England.
Link – Thanks Craig Kohler!
Update 10/16/07: They’ve got 7 More Underground Wonders of the World.
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