Welcome to Sandy Paws Creative Grooming Shop. Let me introduce you to things you never thought could be done to a poodle. Exhibit A) Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle dog. Please review the site for further examples including a camel, a peacock and a dragon.
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Looking for the perfect ornament to truly express yourself this Christmas? You may still have time to grab one of these 54 seriously weird ornaments. You gotta love the sexy snowmen.
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What could be cuter? Penguins at Everland Park in South Korea aren’t used to snow, so their keepers outfitted them with suits to wear the first time they used their new snow run. Link (embedded video) -via Metafilter
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Jill Bell of Urbana, Maryland repaired a scratch on her car with a dab of nail polish, and liked the look so much that she painted her entire car with it!
Over the next 13 months, from September 2007 to this past October, she completely covered her car in a quilt-like pattern – as a quilter, she found the multi-pattern paint job fitting, she said.
Bell said she collected between 100 to 250 bottles of nail polish, but did not have an exact idea as she simply used bottles from anyone she could get it from.
“Lots of ladies in my church donated nail polish, and lots of ladies at Weight Watchers, too,” she said. She said it would be nearly impossible for her to estimate the dollar value of all the bottles, as each brand cost a different amount – anywhere from under a dollar to $5.
Link -Thanks, Geekazoid!
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This could very well be the most dangerous breakfast food you’ll ever want to try. Behold the Bacon Cheese Roll, made with a "weave" of
about a dozen bacon strips and cheese.
My arteries are clogging just looking at it!
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Watch a super-cute video of a gang of dogs decorating a Christmas tree. The site is in Hungarian, but don’t let that stop you from enjoying the fun! Link -Thanks, Johnny Cat!
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The Explainer is a neat feature of Slate Magazine, where its editors try to answer life’s most perplexing questions (like How do you become a Santa Claus for the holidays? Sign up with a Santa distributor).
But every year, there are questions people sent that stump even the most able Explainers. Here are the questions that stumped Slate’s Explainer in 2008:
Why don’t humans have a mating season?
Is it just me, or do all national anthems the world over, no matter how rich and exotic the culture, seem to sound like European marching-band music? Wouldn’t one expect China’s national anthem be more "plinky"? Shouldn’t Iraq’s national anthem sound a little more "Arab-y"?
Why do cockroaches flip over on their backsides when they die? I sprayed RAID into a hole in my wall the other day, and by the next morning I found six cockroaches laid out on my floor, all flipped over and all very dead!
Why do the women gymnasts walk around between events with that goofy arm-swing gait?
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Rob Spence of Eyeborg blog is a filmmaker that lost an eye, so naturally he decided to get an eye-cam!
Priya Ganapati of Wired Blog has the story:
Rob Spence looks you straight in the eye when he talks. So it’s a little unnerving to imagine that soon one of his hazel-green eyes will have a tiny wireless video camera in it that records your every move.
The eye he’s considering replacing is not a working one — it’s a prosthetic eye he’s worn for several years. Spence, a 36-year-old Canadian filmmaker, is not content with having one blind eye. He wants a wireless video camera inside his prosthetic, giving him the ability to make movies wherever he is, all the time, just by looking around.
"If you lose your eye and have a hole in your head, then why not stick a camera in there?" he asks.
Spence, who calls himself the "eyeborg guy," will not be restoring his vision. The camera won’t connect to his brain. What it will do is allow him to be a bionic man where technology fuses with
the human body to become inseparable. In effect, he will become a "little brother," someone who’s watching and recording every move of those in his field of vision.
Link | More on Rob’s blog: Eyeborg | Not squeamish? Check out the surgery video: Link [Dailymotion] – via ligress
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To counter Stacy’s Christmas Special posts, here’s a (funny) little Christmas downer for you, from Tarquin Britten and the City Boyz. Have a Merry Credit Crunch Christmas, everyone!
Hit play or go to Link [YouTube], spotted at the Neatorama Forum, original post by mci209.
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A deadly fire that killed nearly 100 cats at an animal shelter in Toronto, Canada, was caused by …. mice!
The fire at the humane society shelter in Oshawa also killed three dogs and some rats that were up for adoption.
An initial report from the fire marshal says mice or rats chewing through electrical wires in the ceiling are likely to have sparked the blaze.
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There’s a spot in a Lowes movie theater parking lot in New Brunswick, New Jersey, where you’ll never forget where you parked your car: the grave of Mary Ellis. Yes, a cemetery right smack in the middle of a parking lot!
Not only is the grave of Mary Ellis embedded in a parking lot, it’s also the focus of a terrific legend. Mary, who came to New Brunswick in the 1790s to live with her sister, fell in love with a sea captain who promised to marry her once he returned from his next voyage. The captain then left Mary his horse and sailed off down the Raritan River.
Every day, Mary rode her lover’s steed down to the river, hoping to meet him at the water’s edge. For years, she gazed at the river, waiting for his return. In 1813, she purchased a plot of land overlooking the river, where she maintained her vigil until her death in 1826. And there she was buried, forever waiting for her captain.
Meanwhile, commercialism swept through, establishing a series of retail businesses, including a popular flea market, all sharing space with Mary. Today, Mary’s grave is entrenched in the parking lot of a Lowes movie theater.
Wesley Treat’s Roadside Resort has more on Paved Paradise: Cemeteries in Parking Lots – via
Previously on Neatorama: 10 Most Fascinating Tombs in the World
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Neatorama reader SparkS put together a great post in the Forum: a fun list of humorous military truisms. It includes such gems as:
"If the enemy is in range, so are you." Infantry Journal
"Aim towards the enemy." Instructions printed on U.S. Rocket Launcher
"When the pin is pulled, Mr. Grenade is not our friend." U.S. Marine Corps
"Cluster bombing from B-52s is very, very accurate. The bombs are guaranteed always to hit the ground." USAF Ammo Troop
"Try to look unimportant; they may be low on ammo." Infantry Journal
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Lego Santa CrabBot by Andrew Colunga. His Flickr gallery is full of terrific Lego creations.
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I had no idea that June Carter Cash and Johnny Cash did Christmas Specials every year! I got way too entrenched in watching clips from various years, but I liked this one the best.
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The following is reprinted from The Best of The Best of Uncle John's Bathroom Reader. From Hollywood's earliest days, directors have sought to leave their individual marks on their films. Some have devised small "signatures" that identify a film as their work. Can you spot them? MAKING THEIR MARK The French have a word for it: auteur (author). It's the name for a theory of filmmaking - the idea that a film director is like a book's author and is responsible for the film's vision, form, and content. Many director's films are easily recognizable as theirs, based on the themes and style that recur in their movies. But some directors also add small signature touches or in-jokes that - if you recognize them - add to the audience's enjoyment. FRANK CAPRA In the Christmas classic, It's a Wonderful Life (1946), Jimmy the raven sits on Uncle Billy's desk in the Bailey Building and Loan.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK Psycho: About four minutes into the film, Marion (Janet Leigh) returns to her office. You can glimpse Hitchcock, wearing a cowboy hat, through the window. Don't blink or you'll miss him - he's only on-screen for a few seconds. Rear Window: About 30 minutes into the film, Hitchcock is winding a clock in the songwriter's apartment. Dial M for Murder: This one is of Sir Alfred's trickier cameos. Roughly 13 minutes into the film, a class reunion photo is shown. That's him on the left of the picture. Strangers on a Train: Right at the start of the movie, Hitchcock can be seen boarding the train, carrying a double bass. Lifeboat: Hitchcock appears briefly as the "before" and "after" pictures in a newspaper ad for weight-loss program. Around the time of this movie's filming, Hitchcock had crash dieted and dropped 100 pounds. QUENTIN TARANTINO Each also has an ad for Red Apple cigarettes (a fictional brand.) Tarantino almost always has one or more of his characters barefoot - it's Uma Thurman in Pulp Fiction and the Kill Bill movies. MARTIN SCORSESE Cape Fear: Scorsese's mother plays a customer at the fruit stand. The Color of Money: Scorsese is walking a dog in the casino scene. The dog was actually his own dog, and received a credit as Dog Walkby. Goodfellas: Scorsese's mother plays Tommy's mother. The director let her ad-lib her entire scene. His father plays the prisoner who put too many onions in the "gravy" (tomato sauce). Raging Bull: Scorsese can be seen asking Jack to go onstage. Also in Raging Bull, Scorsese's father is part of a mob at the Copa Nightclub. Taxi Driver: Scorsese is sitting in the background of the campaign headquarters as Cybill Sphepherd walks in. |
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The article above is reprinted with permission from The Best of the Best of Uncle John's Bathroom Reader. The Bathroom Reader Institute handpicked the most eye-opening, rib-tickling, and mind-boggling articles from everything they have written over the last ten years and carefully crammed them into 576 pages of the book. Since 1988, the Bathroom Reader Institute has published a series of popular books containing irresistible bits of trivia and obscure yet fascinating facts. Check out their website here: Bathroom Reader Institute.
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Remember the guy that tried to pay off his bills with a picture of a spider? Well, he’s at it again. This time it’s all about getting himself invited/disinvited to Matthew’s housewarming party.
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A Chinese man found out the hard way why his Pomeranian dog was impossible to train: it’s actually a fox!
… he found the dog hard to tame, it would often bite him and had several unusual traits, he told the Wuhan Evening Post.
"It can’t bark but instead makes little ‘em em’ noises, and its tail has been growing longer and longer," he said.
"The most annoying thing is that starting this summer, the dog became very smelly. Even when we gave it a daily shampoo bath, the smell was still strong."
Zhang took his ‘dog’ to a local zoo for answers, and it turned out the dog is actually an Arctic fox, a protected rare species.
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Blanca Figueroa, the mayor of South El Monte, California, is one hardworking woman. In fact, you can often find her working in her office till the wee hours. Figueroa said that a mayor’s work is never done, but her fellow council members think that she’s actually living in her office!
"The mayor has been living at City Hall for the last eight months," said City Councilman Hector Delgado, who added of her office, "Does it look like a professional office or does it look like somebody’s bedroom?"
Delgado has been leading an effort to limit the amount of time Figueroa can spend at the office. He says he has surveillance video that shows Figueroa there at night, kicking back, cooking dinner and watching Mexican soap operas.
Kate Linthicum of The Los Angeles Times has the story: Link – via Super Punch
Photo: Nancy Pastor / LA Times
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Just in case that car thing doesn’t work out, Honda has a plan B in its quest to dominate the world. Behold, the giant 49-foot tall ASIMO robot replica (masquerading as a float, but we’re not fooled!):
Honda has tested a 49-foot replica of their ASIMO humanoid robot, that’s 12 times the height of the original. The animated replica will be a guest of honor at the 120th Rose Parade as well as kick off Honda’s 50th anniversary of U.S. operations.
The creation called “Hats Off in Celebration” will be completed with natural materials like lettuce seed, rice, carnations and strawflower.
I, for one, welcome our new giant ASIMO robot overlord: Link
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After a thorough analysis of the emotional state of Wolverine in X-Men Origins: Wolverine, played by Hugh Jackman, AlwaysWatching blog came to this irrefutable conclusion: Hugh Jackman has many nuanced facial expressions. Take a look: Link
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Last Seen (2006) by William Betts
William Betts is like the modern day Seurat – In his "Surveillance" series, he makes paintings from digital photographs using his own specially-designed machine to apply dots of acrylics onto canvas. The result is a grainy image akin to the blurry still images of a surveillance CCTV: Link – via The Zeray Gazette
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Skip this one if you’re squeamish. Here’s a gruesome yet fascinating article from The List Universe: 10 people who were forced by dire circumstances to perform surgery … on themselves!
Take, for instance, the self-surgery of one Dr. Leonid Rogozov:
Surgical Procedure: Appendectomy
At the age of 27 Soviet Doctor Leonid Rogozovwas was stationed at the Novolazarevskaya base in the Antarctic. The doctor recognized his own acute appendicitis and worsening condition. Because of the absence of a support aircraft and inclement weather along with the danger of a burst appendix the doctor decided he would have to perform surgery on himself. With the team’s meteorologist holding the retractors, a driver to hold the mirror and other scientists passing surgical implements, he sat in a reclined position and cut out his own appendix under local anesthetic. During the operation he passed out, but was able to continue and complete the procedure in little less than two hours.
Interesting Fact: A detailed report was written by Dr Rogozov documenting the unusual event along with the photo shown above. The doctor made a full recovery and resumed all duties in two weeks.
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Congratulations to Denita TwoDragons, a long-time Neatoramanaut, and hubby, on the arrival of their very cute daughter, Tabitha Charis, a few days ago:
I Am Proud to Announce… my bouncy little squeak festival, Tabitha Charis, was born at 5:22 this morning! She’s a hefty 8 lbs. 9 oz. and a leggy 20 1/2 inches long. She came into the world screaming like a banshee and immediately crapped all over the OBGYN’s shoes. I’d say she got off to a good start!
Go over to Denita’s blog to see the cute pics, and to offer your congratulations, of course: Link – via Neatorama Forum
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Capra
had a pet raven named Jimmy, and he found a place for him in several of
his movies, starting with You Can't Take It With You (1938).
Probably
the best-known of all director signatures, Hitchcock famously placed himself
in many of his films - his unmistakable profile appears briefly in 37
out of 54 of them. To help you out, we've sniffed out Hitchcock sightings
in some of his most familiar films.
Tarantino
is best known for violent films with a healthy dose of black humor. And
there are several signatures to watch for: Each movie contain a "trunk
shot," during which the camera is set deep in the trunk of a car
so it can capture the actors as they lean in and over it. 
Taking
a leaf from Alfred Hitchcock's book, Scorsese appears in cameos in almost
all his films. Going Hitchcock one better, Scorsese also puts many members
of his family in small roles.
