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That's annoying for Daenerys. But it gets even harder for a girl who has no name. The baristas always spell it wrong.
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A man in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada was having trouble finding a job because he had a brain injury. Lowe's, a hardware store chain, offered him a job--and then signed on his servce dog, too!
(Photos: Lowe's Canada)
His name is Blue. Like other Lowe's employees, he walks around in a uniform vest. Lowe's made a custom one for Blue.
I'm not surprised. Lowe's is a very dog-friendly company. My parents visit their local store often and usually bring their dog along. He gets excited and starts barking whenever they drive into the Lowe's parking lot.
-via Ace of Spades HQ
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As you get older, it can be nice to spend a quiet evening at home drinking wine with friends and family. But your friends and family members can't drink wine because they are cats.
Now there's a solution to this problem. Apollo Peak, a company in Colorado, has created a wine-like beverage for cats. It's non-alcoholic beet juice, so, like your relationships, it's not quite the real thing. But the product is close enough and comes in flavors that your cats will enjoy, including Pinot Meow and MosCATo.
-via @ClarkHat
Just because a song becomes “the most frequently played song in the world” doesn't mean anyone actually wants to hear the stupid song being played.
In fact, the most frequently played song in the world is such an earworm it will get stuck in your head for days with just the mention of two little words- Small World.
This Exists began searching for the most frequently played song in the world after hearing Natalie Imbruglia's hit song "Torn" has played 75 times a day on Australian radio for over a decade.
And now that song is stuck in your head...
-Via mental_floss
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Rocket News 24 tells us about Tempura Matsu, a restaurant in Kyoto that merges traditional Japanese style and cuisine with radical innovation. For example, it serves udon noodles in slabs of ice with bowl-like concavities. The hot noodles cool in the ice, which adds to the broth as the ice melts. I want to try it!
(Photo: Marie-Louise Klaus)
This is a baobab tree near Wyndham, Western Australia. Like most baobabs, it has an enormous trunk. What makes it unusual is that it has a hollow center. It's a little living cave.
This proved handy to police in the 1890s who needed to lock up prisoners while out in the bush. That's why they temporarily sealed arrested suspects inside while awaiting more permanent housing. It has about 100 square feet of interior space, which was sometimes used to hold up to 30 prisoners at a time. An iron gate sealed people inside. That's why it's called the Wyndham Prison Tree.
There is another baobab near Derby, Western Australia, which is also called a prison tree. But its use as a prison is probably apocryphal.
-via Amusing Planet
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NBC New York (auto-start) reports that trucks carrying deli meat and bread crashed together on a highway in New Jersey on Friday morning. There were no injuries, but there was a delicious mess as the two ingredients combined into plain but edible sandwiches. Highway workers cleaned up the mess by 7:30 AM, hopefully not getting too hungry in the process.
Now I'm off to try to arrange simultaneous crashes with trucks carrying corned beef, sauerkraut, Swiss cheese, and Thousand Island salad dressing.
-via Gawker
"Excuse me, sir. Can I interest you in some Lizard Scout cookies?"
Attanai Thaiyuanwong of Samutprakarn, Thailand was not interested, though he and his neighbors know this particular giant monitor lizard well. In fact, they've named it Selena after singer Selena Gomez.
Selena (the lizard, not the human) tried to get inside Thaiyuanwong's house through the front door, but was unable to do so. Giant monitor lizards are deadly predators that sometimes prey on humans, so Thaiyuanwong took immediate and decisive action against this threat: he recorded a video and posted it on Faceook.
He also tried to lasso Selena. You can see how well that went in this video.
(Photo: Boulder County Sheriff's Office)
Why do you have to go through the hassle of putting your belongings through an x-ray machine whenever you enter a courthouse? This is why. Someone might try to slip a dangerous iguana into the bowels of justice. So it's a good thing that the deputy sheriffs of Boulder County, Colorado were paying close attention. The Daily Camera quotes a police representative:
"At the Justice Center only service animals are allowed. No iguanas...even if it goes through the X-ray machine."
Boulder County sheriff's spokeswoman Carrie Haverfield said the person was turned away.
"Apparently he was there with some friends, so he waited outside with his iguana," Haverfield said.
-via Dave Barry
Hoverboards haven't existed for very long and yet the original models are already passé, because unless your hoverboard looks like a nimbus cloud from the Dragon Ball franchise it's old news!
Of course we're not talking about the kind of board Marty McFly took for a spin in Back To The Future Part II, because those actually are cool because they hover above the ground while our real life versions do not.
But that hoverboard sure does look like it's floating over ground when Yes Ranger rides it like a saiyan boss around Taipei, Taiwan.
Yes Ranger has naturally become a local celebrity since he started riding his nimbus cloud around town, but rather than hog all the fame he posted a video on how to make your own hover-cloud and become a hero in your town!
-Via io9
Few things feel more frustrating than watching a show and getting all wrapped up in a cliffhanger season finale only to discover the program is cancelled and you'll never know what happens next. Looper has recently rounded up some of the most irritating cliffhangers in television history, including Mork and Mindy traveling to the past, Sliders possibly never being able to slide again and a baby left on Lois' doorstep in Lois and Clark. The article only includes 10 examples, but I'm sure you Neatorama readers could add in plenty more. So let's go, what show left you hanging only to never return?
The internet is abuzz with the release of Finding Dory today, and while many humans couldn't be happier about the film, wild blue tangs should be shivering in fear. You see, despite Finding Nemo showing that wild fish belong in the wild and not in fish tanks, sales of clownfish skyrocketed after the film's release. Marine biologists are expecting the same to happen with blue tangs now that Dory is leading her own film, but unlike clownfish, blue tangs can't reproduce in captivity. That means every single blue tang in someone's fish tank came from the wild. Even worse, since the fish live in coral reefs and there are no regulations about the capture of fish for aquariums, countless reefs have been damaged in the capture of wild fish and that number will only go up as blue tangs increase in popularity.
So if you see Finding Dory and just have to own a Dory of your own, don't head to your local pet store, go to the local Disney Store instead and buy a toy version, which will be a lot more cuddly anyway.
Instagram member @konel_bread is a master baker with a flair for making surprise bread. That's a loaf of bread that has an image hidden inside. The picture appears with every slice.
It was the winter of 1812. The Canadians, long covetous of superior American lands, such as Texas and California, waited for Lake Ontario to freeze over. Then they sent their moose-back cavalry over the ice to invade America.
Naturally, we sent them packing in short order. President Madison celebrated by lighting a cigar and, in the process, accidentally starting a fire in the city of Washington. But after firefighters put it out, the Americans and Canadians made peace and have kept it, however tenuous, ever since.
Skirmishes still break out occasionally. Recently, photographer Lisa Bell saw a Bald Eagle slap around a Canada Goose in British Columbia.
In the natural order of things, children bury their parents. It is normal, but it is so very hard, too.
Bill Frankel and his siblings moved their elderly parents out of their house and into an assisted living facility. This was necessary because they couldn't take care of themselves anymore. 4 months later, Frankel's father died.
Then he found his father on Google Street View. He writes at Narrative.ly:
After he died, my parents’ house, which my siblings and I had been preparing for sale, was put on the market. When the listing came online, my brother called me, his voice shaking, and asked me to take a look at the listing. When I logged on, I understood why he sounded so shook up.
Google Street View, a Google Maps feature that allows visitors to see panoramic street-level views of a property, had captured Dad working in the yard – apparently oblivious that a Google car had just passed him. There he was in his white shirt, white shorts, white shoes with white socks.
There he was, totally in his element. How we wished he were still there.
At the time, I told the story to everyone, and posted on social media about his Google Street View encounter. And I frequently visited him online – logging on to introduce him to his grandchildren, but mainly just to make sure he was still there.
Later, Google Street View updated the phoot. For Frankel, it was like losing his father all over again:
That fact was more shocking than finding my father there in the first place, some three years earlier. I’m not an emotional person, but this revelation really overwhelmed me with sadness, especially as I broke the news to my wife and my siblings.
As my oldest sister said, being able to check in on Dad in the yard (even virtually) helped mitigate the guilt we felt for taking him out of his element in the first place. It was as if he spent the past few years “at home.”
Only now does his loss feel real, for all of us.
-via Laughing Squid
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