Have you ever played Monopoly and had to deal with someone who wanted to cheat their way to a win? Have you ever done that? Hasbro conducted a study that found about half of players will attempt to cheat at Mono...
https://www.neatorama.com/2018/01/30/Monopoly-for-Cheaters/You've seen that bird that constantly drinks, maybe only at Grandma's house, or at a local restaurant. It's pitched as a perpetual motion machine, but you know there's no such thing. How does it work? Bill Hammack, the E...
https://www.neatorama.com/2018/01/30/How-the-Drinking-Bird-Works/Artists who create artwork using only paper run in to one major problem with the medium- the flatness.Without ink or paint to create the illusion of depth, shading and shadows those cut up pieces of paper end up looking...
https://www.neatorama.com/2018/01/30/Artist-Creates-Geeky-And-Colorful-Worlds-Out-Of-Paper/You'd think that a skull-and-crossbones symbol would strike fear into people no matter where they are, making it a good warning symbol for danger in all languages. But over time, the Jolly Roger came to be associated wit...
https://www.neatorama.com/2018/01/30/Why-Danger-Symbols-Cant-Last-Forever/Not the Face by BrinkerhoffThere's an unspoken rule that applies to all sports, physical activities involving two people and most non-professional and non-lethal fights, and that rule is- not the face! This rule was p...
https://www.neatorama.com/2018/01/30/Not-The-Face-Some-Rules-Arent-Made-To-Be-Broken/You'll want to set your alarm clock pretty early on Wednesday, or stay up really late on the West Coast, because January 31st will give us a super blue blood moon. No, it's not "blueblood," a term meaning royalty, but a...
https://www.neatorama.com/2018/01/30/Super-Blue-Blood-Moon-Early-Wednesday-Morning/Thanks to James Corden it paid to be a loser at the 2018 Grammy Awards, because the three "losers" in the Best Comedy Album category received something way better than a Grammy- they got a consolation puppy. This may be...
https://www.neatorama.com/2018/01/30/James-Corden-Handed-Out-Consolation-Puppies-To-Grammy-Losers/One of the perks of living in a Florida retirement community is the "early bird special," where restaurants offer discounted meals at off-peak hours. It arose to spread out business through the day, and elderly people on...
https://www.neatorama.com/2018/01/30/The-Extinction-of-the-Early-Bird/Have you ever felt like those arcade machines that give out prizes seem like nothing but a money munchin' scam?You drop quarters and shove dollars in the slot yet the claws refuse to pick up those plush toys, the razor r...
https://www.neatorama.com/2018/01/30/Inventor-Creates-Device-To-Beat-Arcade-Machine-And-Discovers-Its-Totally-Rigged/There are those who throw footballs, and there are those who throw pottery. Which one is more useful in the grand scheme of things? A double pun from Raynato Castro and Alex Culang at Buttersafe reminds us that the Super...
https://www.neatorama.com/2018/01/30/Nice-Throw/Adulting: Failing by Tobe FonsecaPeople who sport funny shirts are a special breed of human, one who knows the value of a smile and a laugh and actually enjoys spreading warmth and happiness to their fellow humans instea...
https://www.neatorama.com/2018/01/30/Keep-The-Good-Times-Rolling-With-These-Ridiculously-Funny-NeatoShop-T-Shirts/Blue lights flashing in your rearview mirror will always make you nervous, even if you've done nothing wrong. This young lady had to roll her eyes, because it's probably happened to her before. Will she get a ticket this...
https://www.neatorama.com/2018/01/30/Cops-Will-Pull-You-Over-for-Literally-Any-Reason/Social media has allowed us all to put our thoughts, feelings and favorite memes out there for the entire online world to see which, as we all know, is both a good and bad thing.For the average person this social freedom...
https://www.neatorama.com/2018/01/30/Famous-People-Who-Are-Pure-Madness-On-Social-Media/Artist PJ McQuade makes new geeky greeting cards for every occasion, every year, and his 2018 Valentines are now available at his Etsy store CastleMcQuade. They feature your favorite pop culture icons, many of whom would...
https://www.neatorama.com/2018/01/30/PJ-McQuades-Geeky-Valentines-for-2018/People with way too much money who don't know the meaning of the words "savings" and "frugality" like to drop a bundle on expensive bottles of booze at nightclubs so they can look really cool to their fellow clubgoers.Bu...
https://www.neatorama.com/2018/01/30/Watch-A-Guy-Drop-A-30000-Bottle-Of-Champagne-In-A-Nightclub/NO PIZZA! by Alexander MedvedevMany humans think of pizza as the greatest food product on the planet, and to them the thought of giant pizzas raining down from the sky sounds like a delicious gift from the heavens. Bu...
https://www.neatorama.com/2018/01/30/NO-PIZZA-Dinosaurs-Versus-The-Pizza-Geddon/If we were to tell you cats were playing Monopoly or Scrabble, you wouldn't believe it was real. But the game Hungry Hungry Hippos has just the thing to enthrall the whole clowder: marbles!(YouTube link)Watch a group of...
https://www.neatorama.com/2018/01/30/Cats-Play-Hungry-Hungry-Hippos/The following is an article from The Annals of Improbable Research, now in all-pdf form. Get a subscription now for only $25 a year!Improbable theories, experiments, and conclusionscompiled by Dirk...
https://www.neatorama.com/2018/01/30/Research-About-Hot-Dogs-French-Fries-and-Other-Nonsense/
