Redditor ejara80 writes that this costume worn by his friend's dog won third place at a Petco Star Wars contest. It's fantastic! I'm curious about what costumes could have beaten a dog who naturally looks like a Wookiee.
Perhaps, like Chewbacca with the Rebel Alliance, Petco has a rule: no pants, no medal. That's dangerous for the company because Wookiees are known to pull people's arms out of their sockets when they lose.
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The Fairmont Hot Springs Resort in British Columbia is in bear country. Recently four bears hung out at a putting green. A cub among them played with the flagstick, trying to climb it, then pull it down. A man with a camera recorded the scene and added his commentary.
Eventually, baby bear wandered off with "Pascal's ball"--the golf ball then being used by Pascal van Dijk, CEO of the resort. Then, at the end of the video, you can see how dangerously close these onlookers were. Those are wild bears! What were you thinking?
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Regular readers know that I am awed by the skills of good excavator drivers. In the past, we've seen one load a digger into a truck without a ramp, serve as the engine of a truck, row a boat, and light a cigarette.
In this video, the excavator is at the bottom of a deep ditch. That worries the driver not a bit. He moves his digger out so cleverly and smoothly that you'd swear that he had planned it that way from the beginning. And I suspect that he did.
Troqman, the "Cartoonbomber," is an illustrator and art director in Paris. He's traveled across the world, drawing cartoons and putting them in funny places to add stories to them. You can see them all on his Instagram page.
Greg Krueger of St. James, Minnesota loves cats so much that over the past 15 years, he's built catwalks into his house. He's built so many that all together, they're about 100 yards long.
Cats are his passion and Krueger has the carpentry skills to turn his home into a wonderland for them. Inside his home are cozy hiding spots with cat-shaped entrances, padded beds, and interior lighting.
Krueger was recently diagnosed Asperger's syndrome. He attributes his interest and dedication to his cats to that affliction. CBS Minnesota quotes him:
“Obviously, my house would not be like this if I didn’t have Asperger’s,” he said. “If it takes a long time, I don’t care because if I like what I’m doing, I almost don’t want to finish what I’m doing.”
He’s doing it for those who’ve always seemed to understand him, from the time he was a boy.
“It’s been said that all cats have Asperger Syndrome,” he said. “So I think that might be one reason why I really love cats is that I kind of think that I can understand their personality really well.”
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Redditor LurkerMcLurkerton says that his daughter's first grade classroom has desks that have bicycle pedals. I love this idea! It would be a great way to help kids who are a bit too energetic to calm down.
Other redditors point out that all of this energy is wasted. The school administrators clearly haven't seen the movie Conan the Barbarian, or else they wouldn't have let this educational opportunity pass by.
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After the terrorist attacks in the United States 13 years ago, all television programming went to news coverage and commentary 24 hours a day.
But it couldn't remain that way forever. Eventually, we all had to go back to our daily lives and resume our work.
For comedians and talk show hosts, that work was making us laugh. But how do you make people laugh after what happened? Should you make people laugh? These are questions that comedy providers had to answer thoughtfully and tastefully, sensitive to the raw feelings of their audiences.
Carol Hartsell of the Huffington Post rounded up the immediate responses of America's comedians after they went back to work. Her list includes videos from Jon Stewart and David Letterman and links to articles that appeared in The Onion.
I was especially impressed with Conan O'Brien's address to his audience. I've never met him, but O'Brien has long struck me as a decent and well-grounded person. This video demonstrates his ability and willingness to be both caring and professional.
There Will Be Syrup #MakeAMovieCanadian
— John Fitzpatrick (@j_c_fitz) September 11, 2014Twitter is abuzz with Canadian jokes thanks to the hashtag #MakeAMovieCanadian. It's filled with movie titles slightly twisted to make them distinctively and stereotypically Canadian.
We've got some funny commenters at Neatorama. Which titles can you suggest?
-via Aaron Starmer
10 Things I Respectfully Disagree with Aboot You #MakeAMovieCanadian
— Alex Talaske (@MrTalaske) September 11, 2014The Full Mounty. #MakeAMovieCanadian
— MSL (@MatthewSLeitch) September 11, 2014Tim Hortons Hears a Who @midnight #MakeAMovieCanadian pic.twitter.com/3EipV4Dbzs
— Diane N. Sevenay (@Diane_7A) September 11, 2014Dude Where's My Snowmobile #makeamoviecanadian
— Ian Gooding (@Ian_Gooding) September 11, 2014Fully Insulated Metal Jacket #makeamoviecanadian
— Smitey (@mysickbones) September 11, 2014Prince Edward Scissorhands #MakeAMovieCanadian
— Michael McGough (@MichaelMcGough3) September 11, 2014
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Creating a profile on Tinder, searching for matches on OK Cupid, and weeping quietly in your cubicle may not always be enough to find love. Sometimes, you've got to be bold and original. Dan Perino, a 51-year old artist in New York City, found a new way to meet women.
He printed thousands of flyers with his picture and contact information on tear-off tags. He's blunt: he's looking for a girlfriend. If you're interested, give him a call.
On the first day, Perino got 130 calls. On the second day, he got 200. Most of them were pranks or people just trying to figure out what he's doing. But in 10 days, he went on 36 dates with women who responded to his flyers. There's one that he really likes. Perino told MTV News: "She's really smart. She edits books."
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Schenectady student petitions to have this photo in the yearbook http://t.co/C1naGEl3yF What do you think? pic.twitter.com/Wuv84wVVZi
— CBS 6 Albany - WRGB (@CBS6Albany) September 10, 2014It has lasers. It has a cat. It has the shadowy image of that cat hovering ethereally over him.
This is Draven Rodriguez and his cat, Mr. Bigglesworth. He's a senior at Schenectady High School in Schenectady, New York. Vincent Giordano took this amazing photo of him and his cat. Draven would like to use it as his yearbook senior photo (warning: auto-play video). School officials will permit the photo in the yearbook, but not as his official photo.
So Draven has launched an online petition to gather support for an appeal of that decision. It's important to him because he wants people to look at that photo and say, "Yeah, only Draven would do that."
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On August 20, a baby elephant was born at the Reid Park Zoo in Tucson, Arizona. We got to watch her take her first steps. The little tyke, under mama elephant's careful tutelage, is learning more about the world. Here she is drinking water. And, of course, playing too. With kids, everything is a chance to have fun.
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This phenomenal athlete is Maibam Itomba Meitei of Imphal, India. For 14 years, he's trained for this task: doing more pinkie finger pull-ups than anyone else in the world. He weighs only 120 pounds, but that's muscle--especially in two of his fingers.
To earn his record, he had to start from a hanging position on the bar, then lift his chin over the bar, then fully extend his arms again. In 27 seconds, he did this 16 times!
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How can you prevent your kid from spending too much time playing video games? Back in 1989, parents could physically lock down a gaming console with a combination lock built for that purpose. Tom Lowe, the president of Safe Care Products, invented it when the 14-year old son of one of his friends stayed up all night playing games. The company sold at least 25,000 of them.
(Photo via Nerd Farm)
But perhaps physically locking a gaming console isn't the right approach. If you want to raise your children to have a healthy attitude to work, play, and you, then consider this advice by redditor GumdropGoober.
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We've seen hamburgers with black buns before. But this new burger offered by Burger King outlets in Japan goes even further. This is the Kuro Burger, which has buns and a cheese made with bamboo charcoal. The garlic and onion sauce has black squid ink and the patties have black pepper. You can see more pictures at Kotaku.
What other black foods could we add? Maybe caviar, Oreo cookies, and black beans.
These hilarious commercials for SolarWinds show what it would be like if people acted face-to-face like they do through email. The emojis demonstration is pitch-perfect and is just about what I think when I read them on my screen.
One thing I'd love to see in a sequel: the guy who insists on hitting Reply instead of Reply All during a group conversation.
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