Texas was once an independent nation. After the United States initially rejected our generous offer of admission into the union, we considered remaining independent permanently. Many of us considered expanding westward,...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/04/04/Map-Areas-within-a-Texas-Length-Distance-from-Texas/Liza Dye is a 25-year-old homeless standup comic in New York. In February 13th, she fainted in a train station and fell, and a train ran over her leg. Firefighters had to lift the train to get the wheel off her. Wh...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/04/04/What-It-Feels-Like-to-be-Hit-by-a-Train/Milo Yiannopoulos (left) is an entrepreneur and the author of the book The Sociopaths of Silicon Valley. For the past 3 years, he has lived what he calls a data-driven social life. Specifically, he maintains a d...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/04/04/Why-I-Rank-My-Friends-by-Income-IQ-and-Hotness/The little cat we know as Grumpy Cat (formerly Tardar Sauce) became an internet sensation suddenly on September 23, 2012. She was barely out of kittenhood at the time, but her facial expression made her appear to have an...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/04/04/Happy-Birthday-Grumpy-Cat/What do you think of first when you see those "Baby on Board" sign on the car in front of you? Mother-in-Law in Trunk? Or the Baby On Board song from The Simpsons? Well, perhaps this image will b...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/04/04/Baby-on-Board/[http://youtu.be/4i_GFrlaStQ] (YouTube link)A FedEx delivery driver was recorded on a home’s security camera as he experienced a little mishap. The dogs were delighted! They have a thing against delivery men, you k...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/04/04/Runaway-Truck/Marc Potter can turn anything into a stringed musical instrument. We’ve already seen his banjo made with a bedpan, which commenter barryNE amusingly suggested could be used to make “chamber music.” Pott...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/04/04/The-C-3PO-Electric-Guitar-and-Other-Surprising-Instruments-by-Marc-Potter/The Badass by ddjvigo Sweet chimichangas! NeatoShop artist ddjvigo has made you an offer you can't refuse. Isn't that cool? See, your common sense is tingling. Visit ddjvigo's Facebook page, then...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/04/04/The-Badass/Lacy T. passed her audition to become an Oakland Raiderette cheerleader a year ago. Professional cheerleaders have a lot of rules to maintain standards and uniformity. She was told what to wear and how to have her hair s...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/04/04/The-Cheerleader-Who-Sued/What do you get when you combine a horror movie with a travelogue? Today, Sony and Yekra is releasing Afflicted, an intriguing horror thriller shot in the "found footage" documentary s...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/04/04/Afflicted/Hi guys - just a friendly reminder that this is your last chance to enter our Win A Captain America Mystery Box & $100 Amazon Gift Card contest (in collaboration with our friend Today I Found Out) The...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/04/04/Win-a-Captain-America-Mystery-Box-and-100-Amazon-Gift-Card/[http://youtu.be/wWW6lYETVDQ] (YouTube link)Screen Junkies has a complete recap of season three of Game of Thrones so you can refresh your memory and be ready when season four begins Sunday night. A similar reca...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/04/04/The-Idiots-Guide-to-Game-of-Thrones-Season-3/It was only about ten years ago that I learned that hedgehogs and porcupines were different animals. After all, they are not native to America. Now thanks to YouTube, hedgehogs are a lot more familiar, but there’s...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/04/04/16-Fun-Facts-About-Hedgehogs/Sunday is the big day! Game of Thrones is returning to television. So uncork a bottle of wine, sit down in front of your screen and enjoy watching your favorite characters get suddenly and inexplicably killed.Wh...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/04/04/A-Wine-Map-for-Game-of-Thrones/Pauline and Bill Lowe of Corringham, England, donated two couches to the St Luke's Hospice charity shop in Grays, Essex. One of the couches had to be disassembled to get it through the door, and reassembled after it was...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/04/04/Cat-Rescued-from-Sofa-Five-Days-Later/(Video Link)April showers are refreshing, acid rain may turn your hair green, and hailstorms really hurt, but if the clouds opened up and started raining paint we’d all turn a muddy shade of gray.Paint Showers*...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/04/04/A-Colorful-Stop-Motion-Short-Featuring-Storms-Of-Paint/This parking sign was spotted in Portland, Maine, and posted by redditor middleclassjobs. Can you make any sense of it at all? You have to wonder how many times traffic gets backed up because someone had...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/04/04/Can-I-Park-Here-2/(Image: NASA)Assuming that faster-than-light travel is physically impossible, humanity's options for colonizing other star systems are limited. A multi-generation starship or one in which the settlers are traveling in so...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/04/04/How-Many-People-Would-It-Take-to-Colonize-Another-Star-System/When NeatoShop artist and animator Aniforce said he'll derp 'em all, he wasn't kidding! So far, he's Derp-ified 151 of your favorite video game characters. These are just a few of his Gotta Derp Em All designs, available...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/04/04/Gotta-Derp-Em-All/[http://youtu.be/990zRxm_oj4] (YouTube link)It’s Superdog! Able to leap tall buildings… I mean, the couch… I mean, sometimes. A majestic approach leading to a ignominious derailment does not slow this...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/04/04/The-Great-Leap-Upward/You should take Martin Kollar seriously as a photographer and artist, even though his photos tend to be anything but serious in tone.Martin’s unique photographic vision reveals the absurd side of human life, depict...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/04/04/The-Surreal-And-Absurd-Photography-Of-Martin-Kollar/The Irish Farmers Journal reports on a strange baby born on Paddy Murphy’s farm. New lambs were being born, but one looks like a goat. The goat-sheep cross, or “geep” is a week old and...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/04/04/A-New-Geep-in-Ireland/Neila Ray is a fitness expert who knows how to motivate geeks to get in shape. She has an ongoing series of workout routines that require no equipment but a serious connection to at least one fandom. Th...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/04/04/Pop-Culture-Workout-Routines/[http://youtu.be/8-V-CnKcF7Q] (YouTube link)How many times have you seen a video of a cat unrolling the toilet paper roll? Many. How many times have you seen a cat re-roll the toilet paper after he’s unrol...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/04/04/Willie-Is-Better-Than-Your-Cat/When I was a kid, I always longed for a racecar bed. I'm pretty much over that now, but after writing about the amazing beds you can get for your kids these days, I really want a viking ship bed now. Though I'd also...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/04/04/18-Kids-Beds-You-Wish-You-Could-Have-As-An-Adult/The name Gertrude sounds hard—and that’s intentional. It comes from the Germanic roots ger (“spear”) and þruþ (“strength”). No wonder ladies with the moniker are brutis...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/04/04/4-Gertrudes-Who-Changed-the-World/When I first saw this My Neighbor Totoro tattoo, I thought that it was a body painting. It's so vibrant! This is typical of the work of Nika Samarina, a tattoo artist in Russia. You can view more of her...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/04/04/Nika-Samarinas-Tattoos-Are-So-Colorful-That-They-Look-Like-Paintings/Clowns have been around since antiquity in one form or another, in cultures all over the world. Learn the history of the performers we know as clowns: the imp, the trickster, the fool, the jester, the harlequin, the clow...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/04/04/Why-Clowns-Will-Never-Die/In its simplest form, combat juggling involves two competitors. Each must juggle 3 pins without dropping any. They try to keep their pins in the air while knocking down the pins of their opponents.To expand this challeng...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/04/04/The-Sport-of-Combat-Juggling/Star Stuff Coffee by In Stank We Trust Somewhere, some incredible new shirt is waiting to be known. Or so the saying goes, I think. This design by NeatoShop artist In Stank We Trust is definitely made fr...
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