Fifteen years ago, Barry Chappell quit smoking and started chewing nicotine gum. But it was only six years ago that he made a fateful decision to start keeping his old gum. Now, 95,200 pieces later, Chappell possesses a 175-pound ball of used nicotine gum.

Remember Chappell’s example, and pursue greatness in your own way.

Link -via Oddity Central | Photo: Art and Coin

Thanksgiving Gumballs – $2.95

Thanksgiving Gumballs are back in stock at the NeatoShop. This fantastic seasonal item includes 22 delicious gumballs in the classic flavors of Thanksgiving:

• Turkey
• Cranberry
• and Pumpkin Pie

Get your yummy Thanksgiving Gumballs before they run out.

Be sure to check out the Neatoshop for more Thanksgiving fun and fantastic hostess gifts.

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Are you constantly aggravated by e-mails, tweets, and status updates?  You need a chewing gum that is intune with your inner most feelings. You need the CAPSLOCK Gum from the NeatoShop.  This novelty gum quietly says what your insides are screaming, “Please don’t make me go all CAPS Lock on your ass.”

Be sure to check out the NeatoShop for more hilarious Mints & Candies.

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Ben Wilson finds wads of chewing gum discarded into the streets and sidewalks of London and paints them:

Mr. Wilson, 47, one of Britain’s best-known outsider artists, has for the last six years or so immersed himself in a peculiar passion all his own: he paints tiny pictures on flattened blobs of discarded chewing gum on the sidewalks of London. So familiar is he here, painting in any kind of weather, that he has become something of a local celebrity and mascot.

Wilson has become especially popular with the people of Muswell Hill, where he lives and has done most of his work:

In Muswell Hill, where he lives and which has his largest collection of chewing gum art, his pictures have become a chronicle of the neighborhood, a representation of its residents’ whimsies, sorrows and passions. Among the pictures dotted outside the post office, for example, are an R.I.P. painting for a postman and a picture of a tiger in honor of a postal worker who is from Sri Lanka.

To mark the closing of a Woolworth’s store a couple of years ago, Mr. Wilson crowded every employee’s name onto a piece of gum, along with a good-luck message from the managers. He painted another in which the employees thanked their customers. The two pictures are still there, even though the store is gone.

Link -via Super Punch | Photo by Flickr user salimfadhley used under Creative Commons license

Roast Beef Bubble Gum – $3.45

Has the price of gas got you down?  Roast Beef Bubble Gum from the NeatoShop is there for you when you can’t afford an expensive meal to cheer yourself up.  Remember, slow roasted goodness is just a gumball away.

Be sure to check out all the deliciously funny Mints & Candies available at the NeatoShop!

The market for drugs to correct erectile dysfunction has passed $5 billion a year from sales to tens of millions of men. And it is increasingly being driven by novel applications to compete with the lower-priced generics on the horizon.

“ ‘Gimmick’ is a strong word, but all of this is designed to create new brand identities,” Dr. Joseph P. Alukal, an assistant professor and director of reproductive health at the New York University School of Medicine, said. “A newer product, less expensive, and a new form of taking it — all that might convince more people to try it.”

Link – via Newser

P.S. I challenge you to come up with a better title!

Spring is here and up next is bathing suit season.  Don’t worry the Supermodel Meal in a Box Gum from the NeatoShop is here to help!  It won’t make you thin, but it will give you a good laugh.

A good sense of humor is way sexier than a rocking bod.  That’s what I keep telling myself, anyway.

Be sure to check out the NeatoShop for more hilarious Mints and Candies!

Shakespearean Insult Gum – $2.45

Do you have trouble coming up with witty insults?  The NeatoShop is here to help.  With Shakespearean Insult gum you will never have to think of a good insult again. Just calmly pop open a box and let Shakespeare do the insulting for you. You there -

Thy wit’s as thick as a Tewkesbury mustard!

Be sure to check out the NeatoShop for more Shakespearean merriment.

Bubble Gum Hairballs – $6.45

Attention all cat lovers!  Do you want to get in touch with your inner feline ? Now you can show everyone  how much you love your furry friend by chewing Bubble Gum Hairballs from the NeatoShop. Yes, we actually have gum shaped to look like coughed up cat puke.

Be sure to visit the NeatoShop to see the ever growing selection of questionably delicious treats.

Iowa teenager Elizabeth Rasmuson and her boyfriend made a prom dress and vest largely out of gum wrappers:

The high school junior says she got the idea after hearing about someone making a dress out of duct tape.

She and her boyfriend began collecting gum wrappers last August. Rasmuson says she quit counting after 200.

Since the wrappers break easily, Rasmuson finished her dress with a vinyl top coat.

Link | Previously on Neatorama: Duct Tape Prom Outfits

Atari Joystick Gum - $3.95

Ah, remember Atari? Now you can ruminate the good ol' days of video games by chewing on this Atari Joystick Gum (comes with a collector tin shaped like the retro controller).

From the Neatorama Shop: Link | More Offbeat Mints & Candies

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Mario Question Block Candy	Mario Star Candy	NES Controller Mints	Mario Mushroom Sours

It’s something that most of us do on a regular basis, but don’t it much thought.  Not so for Shannon and Katie of Gum Alert blog. These two girls (who obviously have a lot of time on their hands) are on their way to review just about every type of chewing gum on the market, in an eloquent, almost OCD-like fashion. 

Take, for instance, their review of Orbit Maui Melon Mint:

Flavor: No. Just, no. Is this supposed to taste like watermelon? Or Mint? Or both? Because it doesn’t taste like either. It smells peculiarly like Choward’s Violets, and I bet that’s what I’m tasting, too. The taste is completely nondescript, vaguely sweet and somewhat bitter. It leaves a gross taste in the back of my mouth that I associate with “aftertaste,” but it happens DURING the chew, not after. I don’t want aftertaste in mid-chew. Big fail. In fact – once I remove the gum from my mouth, the actual aftertaste is, in fact, more pleasant than the duringtaste itself.

Texture: Like most Orbit, the texture is fine. Starts off soft, and firms up to be the perfect chewable consistency. If this review was based on texture alone, it’d get far more gumballs.

Overall: I cannot recommend Orbit Maui Melon Mint to any sane person. There are far better melony gums on the market, if that’s what you’re craving for. I’d even suggest resorting to a sugared watermelon-flavored gum – a Hubba Bubba or a BubbleYum – if you absolutely have to. But stay away from this one. Stay far away.

Rating: oo (two gumballs)

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