It seems that some people go around with a little dark cloud hanging over them. These are the unlucky ones. Here are ten of the unluckiest people ever!
This poor man went from the lucky co-incidence of winning a $ 16.44 million lottery in Pennsylvania, to being $ 1 million under debt in just one year. His lucky turned incredibly sour as he was sued by his ex-girlfriend for a share of his lottery money, when his siblings pressured him to make joint business investments that brought no money back and also when his own brother hired a hit man to have him killed so that he could have his share of his brother’s win. His troubles, however, were still not over; after shooting at a bill collector he got himself entangled in another long legal process.
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Old Spice has recently released a series of Manmercials, nonsensically funny 30-second ads for its new body wash, with the following messages:
"We’re not saying this body wash will make your man smell into a romantic millionaire jet fighter pilot, but we are insinuating it."
"Don’t smell like sunsets and baby powder. Smell like jet fighters and punching."
"What’s better than seeing a hot girl on a beach? Nothing. Nothing is better. Maybe nachos. A hot girl lying on nachos. But that’s impossible. "
Now that’s advertisign! And by the way, I’m on a horse.
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I love these kinds of interactive generators, and this one’s pretty cool. For the above panel, fill in what you’d like each word balloon to say. Link via Buzzfeed (where there’s a bunch of funny examples).
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Pranksters Dan Podosek and Yuki Palermo like to pretend to hold a rope across walkways and roadways to see who will stop rather than break the invisible (and non-existent) rope. Here’s their Christmas video, shot at a snowy road and a shopping mall. There are more videos at the link.
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This list of hilarious answers to game show questions proves that American contestants aren’t the only ones who fall apart under pressure. Here is a sample:
BEG, BORROW OR STEAL (BBC2)
Jamie Theakston: Where do you think Cambridge University is?
Contestant: Geography isn’t my strong point.
Theakston: There’s a clue in the title.
Contestant: Leicester.
PHIL WOOD SHOW (BBC GMR)
Wood: What ‘K’ could be described as the Islamic Bible?
Contestant: Er. . .
Wood: It’s got two syllables . . . Kor . . .
Contestant: Blimey?
Wood: Ha ha ha ha, no. The past participle of run . . .
Contestant: (Silence.)
Wood: OK, try it another way. Today I run, yesterday I . . .
Contestant: Walked?
What’s doubly funny is how the hosts try their best to help out a clueless contestant. Link -via Bits and Pieces
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Our very own John Farrier of The Zeray Gazette has a neat round up of the various permutations of Abbot and Costello’s classic "Who’s on First?" comedy bit.
While I’m sure many of you would like the Jar-Jar Binks and Yoda version, I’m more tickled by the Shakespearean version. Awesome? Indubitably. Link
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The 2009 Ricky Gervais movie The Invention of Lying imagined a world in which everyone always told the truth and lying (for good or ill) had never existed. Jon Wolf of College Humor has created a series of graphics illustrating an Internet in which everyone always told the truth, including the hot girl on Facebook who you’ve never seen before, but wants to be your friend.
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The Westboro Baptist Church {wiki} held a demonstration in front of the Twitter office in San Francisco on Thursday. Even more people showed up for a counter protest, featuring the best protest signs I’ve ever seen. See more signs at Laughing Squid. Link
(image credit: Rubin Starset)
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This is just one of 5 Science Fair Projects for the Internet, brought to you by College Humor. Other subjects are Facebook, Google search, comment thread eruptions, and how to build a great website. Link -via Digg
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Charlie Brooker is a journalist and comedian. In this video, he pokes fun at the former profession by illustrating how television news is structured according to a standardized style that tries to impress the viewer without necessarily being informative. Content warning: some NSFW language.
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When most people feel cheated by their lover, they complain to friends or maybe trash some of the other person’s property left at their house. But YaVaughnie Wilkins is not most people.
After seeing that Oracle President Charles Phillips was going back to his wife, she bought $250,000 worth of billboards in Atlanta, San Francisco and New York that featured her and Charles together. The billboards also featured a link to her website, but it has since been taken down.
I think this is going a bit far, but I’ve never been in an eight year long affair with the president of a major company, so maybe I just don’t know what it’s like. What do you guys think?
Link Via San Francisco Family Law Blog Image Via Gawker
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This week’s Caption Monkey photo comes from the previously mentioned flickr pool, which you can join here. I’ll be sending Kevin a surprise since I’m using his photo.
You can win something too! Submit your caption in the comments below (enter as often as you’d like), and if you are the funniest (as judged by me), I’ll send you an original drawing of a monkey of your choice.
Good luck, I’ll post the winner in approximately 24 hours.
UPDATE
We have a winner! It’s Pitacoatl with “This summer blockbuster: ‘The Kids who stare at men, who stare at goats, who stare at grass.’”
I would totally see that movie. Thanks for playing everyone! See you next week!
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I’ve never actually tried to pet a toad, but I certainly didn’t think they would react to it like this.
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Scott Meets Family Circus is comedian Scott Gairdner’s skewering of Bill Keane’s sentimental comic Family Circus. Gairdner is not amused by the comic’s puns and childish musings. Content warning: some NSFW language.
Previously on Neatorama: The Nietzsche Family Circus
Link via Urlesque | Scott Gairdner’s Blog
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This video clip has been a true Internet meme here in Sweden. It’s in Swedish, but I’ve done my best to add English subtitles, so that you Neatorama fans also can enjoy it.
Link – Tvjournalistjavisst via Pusha
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Chris’ “permanent roommate” packs his lunch with notes that are kind of like a smile for an appetizer.
Anyway, when we have leftover dinner, the permanent roommate packs us both a lunch. Since they look identical, she started leaving a Post-It note so I would know which lunch was mine. At first they just said Chris but I guess she got bored with just writing my name. She started writing funny messages. I saved my favorites.
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You see here only a small portion of a much larger graphic showing a timeline, or maybe a family tree, of famous LOLcats we all know and love. Happycat, who was the first to ask for a cheeseburger, is at the top and lots of his progeny are at the bottom. Link -via Gorilla Mask
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This moment in WTF is brought to you by Johnny Cat’s blog The Litter Box.
Now, can someone tell me what in the world is the Megwin guy doing? What just happened there?
Link [embedded YouTube clip]
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If you love Futurama, then you’ll certainly appreciate these adorably gross brain slug cupcakes. Just hope they don’t take over your mind after you eat them.
Flickr Link Via Craftzine
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If you don’t know your memes, then you’ll have to check out the video of keyboard cat before you see watch this keyboard dog video. For those of you who are internet nerds (like me), who would you vote for, keyboard cat or keyboard dog?
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Man Eggs is a subversive humor type comic along the same lines as The Perry Bible Fellowship. Pop culture skewed for your daily humor serving.
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Do It in the Dirt, design by Chris
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A new addition to our growing line of cheeky Scientists Do It T-Shirts, here's one for all you archaeologists. I hear they'll date any old thing: Link
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It seems like everyone is getting in the farming mode these days. Forget Modern Warfare 2, let Tobuscus show you where the true gaming action is!
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Most animals don’t like being dressed up in human clothes, but we love to make them do it anyway –after all, it is absolutely adorable. Of course, some animals love it. My own dog seems to get a little strut in his step when he wears one of his cute little tee shirts –he isn’t a big fan of rain coats though.
Of the handful of critters that seem to enjoy playing dress up, an even smaller group has actually enjoyed a relative amount of success from their imitation of human clothing. In honor of National Dress Up Your Pet Day, we at Neatorama celebrate the few, the brave, the clothed.
While most pets who agree to wear costumes tend to be dogs, the animals that have become best known for their clothing antics are a variety of species. One of the best known costumed animals is Sugar Bush Squirrel, whose owner, Kelly Foxton, started making her tiny little outfits and photographing her in wonderfully elaborate settings.
Foxton soon started adding the images to a website, where Sugar Bush developed a huge cult following. Since then, the little critter was featured in a number of advertisements and has been the subject of a documentary. Sugar Bush even holds the unofficial title of World’s Most Photographed Squirrel –someone call Guinness quick!
Source Sugar Bush Squirrel Website, Sugar Bush Squirrel The Movie Image Via Sugar Bush website.
Of course, some animals are costumed out of necessity. If it weren’t for Keyboard Cat’s stylish garb, you would be able to see his owner’s hands manipulating him to play the piano. It’s just not the same getting “played off” by a Keyboard Cat who doesn’t appear to be doing the work himself. There are over 4,000 videos of Keyboard Cat playing someone off these days, but the original was done by Brad O’Farrell who actually got permission from the film’s original owners for both his clip and anyone who followed in his remashing footsteps.
It should be noted that this meme, which exploded last year was actually filmed back in 1984. Since then, “Fatso,” as he was known by his close family, has passed. Let’s pay our respects to this beloved kitty icon by enjoying Keyboard Cat play off a Glen Beck guest as he passes out. A moment of silence while you watch, please.
Source Wikipedia
Pankun is another star of internet videos you may recognize. He is the Japanese chimp often paired up with a bulldog named James and then asked to do simple human tasks. Best of all, Pankun is usually dressed in human clothing while he does sit ups, buys birthday cakes and rides Segways. In some ways, he’s the Japanese, reality-television version of the old Lancelot Link show.
He now lives in a Japanese zoo called Cuddly Dominion, where he and James put on live acts. His current show casts him as an astronaut that has landed on the planet Inusaru.
Here’s an old Pankun clip where the chimp gets a birthday cake, which is stolen by a hawk. Fortunately, he recovers the cake and brings it home in time for his party, where a good time is had by all.
Source Wikipedia, Cuddly Dominion
Speaking of Japanese animal celebrities, frequent Neatorama readers are also sure to remember Tama the Station Cat. Tama’s story started when the Wakayama Electric Railway decided to unman all of their stations and hire only one person at each stop to serve as the station master. At Kishi station, a neighborhood grocer named Toshiko Koyama was named as the station master. Koyama had adopted a number of stray cats, feeding them at the station.
In 2007, the company opted to name one of the strays, Tama, as the official station master. In lieu of pay, Tama has been rewarded with free cat food, and a cool hat. Tama’s success actually helped increased traffic to the area and brought 1.1 billion Yen to the local economy. As a result, the company promoted her to “super station manager,” and she is now the only female manager in the company. She now has two feline assistant station masters at her disposal.
As an extra honor, the governor of Wakayama has provided her with a medallion representing her honorary knighthood.
Source Wikipedia, Japan Probe Image Via Wikipedia user Takobou
I wrote about Mr. Winkle before in the famous shelter dogs article. He is a unique mix that looks somewhat teddy bearish. While he started out on the streets, his adopted owner, magazine photographer Lara Jo Regan, has given him everything a pup could ever dream of, including his own internet site and web television show. Mr. Winkle’s been featured on Sex and The City and a number of news programs. As for his costume work, there’s plenty of dress up photos available on his site. You can even buy books and calendars of his pin up works.
Source Mr. Winkle Website, Wikipedia Image Via Mr. Winkle’s site.
Oscar is the one animal on this list that is known for being totally naked. While she may look cute dancing and singing, her hard life makes her an inspirational tale of overcoming hardships.
In her early years, Oscar actually was rescued from a crack house by police officers. After suffering from both a beak and feather disease, she completely lost all of her feathers, even after she was nursed back to health by the Humane Society. At the time, vets gave her only six months to live –over 13 years ago.
Since then, Oscar was adopted by Cherie Wachter, who takes great care of her and has been known to post naked videos of the little bird all over the internet. Oscar’s feathers may never grow back, but her brave spirit has never dwindled.
Source DListed, Huffington Post Image by Barry Bland via The Sun.
Well readers, now it’s your turn. Any of you know any famous dressed up animals not mentioned here or care to share some of your favorite costumed pet pics?
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Moai Way or The Highway T-Shirt by Chris Murphy – $14.95
Here’s a T-shirt for your favorite stubborn person. Ever hear ‘em say "my way or the highway"? Well, tell ‘em to move to Easter Island!
Get a Mystery Bonus with every purchase of this Featured T-Shirt: Link | More Funny T-Shirts
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From the March 1922 issue of Physical Culture, as presented by the ever amazing Modern Mechanix blog, let me tell my fellow men three words that will change their lives forever. Ready?
Separate Sack Suspensory:
You can do the hardest work or play without strain, chafing or pinching if you wear a Separate Sack Suspensory. The S.S.S. has no irritating leg straps, no oppressive band on the sack, no scratching metal slides. It is made just as nature intended.
With the S.S.S. you always have a clean suspensory every morning. Each outfit has two sacks, you can clip one fast to the supporting straps while the other sack is cleaned.
That’s it. Tramp, er … carry on.
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The next time you’re in Japan, beware of massage chairs in saunas:
… and vans (later half of the clip):
Yes, they’re a bit (okay a lot) low brow, but very funny. Oh, Japan … thank you for playing pranks that will surely bring about multi-million dollar lawsuits if done in the United States!
Via Gizmodo
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At first you think: it’s “free” and “this machine accepts all credit cards”, that’s not right. And then you think “Oh…” This clever recycling idea was submitted to There, I Fixed It. Link -via reddit
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The ultimate mashup: the fabulous taste of bacon meets the irresistible texture of popcorn. Just in time for the Superbowl.
You know it was inevitable. Stacy predicted it in March on Neatorama, with a notable lack of enthusiasm.
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As one of millions of people who like the new Batman franchise, and can’t wait for Christopher Nolan to make part III, I must admit this song makes some valid criticisms regarding The Dark Knight. (via io9).
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