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This went ’round the InterWeb a while ago, but as usual, I’m late to the party 
If you’ve always wondered what those rappers in freestyle rap battles are rapping about, here’s the plain English translation: Hit play or go to Link [YouTube]
I love this trompe-l’œil staircase inside the elevator ad for Becel margarine in Istanbul, Turkey!
Found at directdaily
That’s artist Marc Quinn polishing his latest creation: a golden statue of Kate Moss, who he called a "modern day Aphrodite," in a particularly limber pose.
It is the largest gold statue made by man since ancient Egyptian times, weighing 50kg, around the same as its subject.
Artist Marc Quinn, whose previous works include the sculpture of a pregnant woman with no arms or legs on the fourth plinth in Trafalgar Square, said Siren cost £1.5m to make, £1m of which was for the gold.
What does Kate Moss think about all of this?
"For Kate, she thinks it lifts her into a mythical level," he said. "I think she very much loved it because she understands the difference between her image and her self.
"The sculpture is really about whether we make images or they make us. It’s about trying to live up to impossible dreams and immortality."
If you think reading all of Neatorama is a big task (that quite a few of you have actually accomplished – yay, go you!) then take a look at this: Ammon Shea, 37, has just read the entire Oxford English Dictionary!
Ammon Shea, 37, who has been dissecting dictionaries since the age of 10, spent a year absorbing 59 million words, from A to Zyxt – the equivalent of reading a John Grisham novel every day.
Cooped up in the basement of his local library, the removal man from New York would devote up to 10 hours a day painstakingly making his way through all 20 volumes of the OED – helped by cup after cup of very strong coffee. [...]
By the time he reached the 400 pages devoted to words beginning with "un", he said he was "near catatonic, bored out of my mind, and so listless I can’t remember why I wanted to read any of this in the first place.
"At this point, telling myself, ‘You only have 351 pages of un-words to go’, does not seem helpful. I don’t quite feel as though I have lost my mind, but it often seems as though it is on vacation somewhere else, just east of sanity."
This happened a couple of months ago, but I just found out about it: a sting nabbed Daniel "World’s Greatest Dad" Everett trying to set up a sexual encounter with an underaged girl!
This afternoon, Everett was arrested in Novi where he is alleged to have appeared to meet the minor for sex. He was arrested wearing a T-shirt with the words, "Worlds Greatest Dad" on the front, a sad reminder that Internet predators come from all walks of life.
More criminals arrested in funny T-shirts at The Smoking Gun. I hope to God no one is ever arrested wearing a Neatorama T-shirt!
It started as what is probably the most embarrassing moment of their lives, but something good came out of it. When a flight attendant approached Jan Coupe and her husband, she thought that the stewardess was going to check on their seatbelt. Instead, she told them that they were too heavy for the plane to take off!
That spurred the couple to go on a diet – between them, they have since lost 172 lb (78 kg):
Following the plane ordeal, and also to help with her MS, Mrs Coupe joined a Slimming World club. She persuaded her husband to attend and in the first week Mrs Coupe lost 8lb and Mr Coupe lost 9lb.
Instead of takeaways at night, the couple had pasta, vegetable curries or steak salads.
Now Mrs Coupe has lost 6st 5lb and her 54-year-old husband 5st 13lb. Mrs Coupe, who has also dropped six dress sizes to a 14, said: ‘I don’t feel embarrassed about getting on a plane anymore – we all feel so great we could fly around the world now without a hitch.’
From a live performance of the Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain. Can you dig it? Run time: 3 minutes, 32 seconds. Via John Carney
