Photo via One Large PrawnIs it Caption Monkey time already? Well, last week Neatorama reader MariV won a free Meet the Laugh-Out-Loud Cats book by Adam "Ape Lad" Koford. And this week, it could be YOU,...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/05/caption-monkey-19-standing-cat/When the Sound of Music was released in South Korea, it was so popular that one theater owner sought to maximize his profit by showing it more often. His solution was to shorten the movie by cutting out all of the songs!...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/05/trivia-the-truncated-sound-of-music-in-south-korea/Photo: fliegender [Flickr]Flickr photoset "24 fps" is a neat collection of screenshots of old movies where they still tell you that they've reached "The End" of the movie! Link (too bad many are not a...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/05/the-end-a-collection-of-screenshots/I learned something new about Christopher Walken: before he became an actor, he was trained as a dancer in musical theater.Here's a clip of him dancing to Weapon of Choice by Fatboy Slim. (This was in 2001, so he was 58...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/05/christopher-walken-dances/Dutch design company Studiomeiboom gives a new meaning to book light. Their white plexiglass "book" lamp, cleverly shaped like a heavy tome, is named The Enlightenment in honor of the intellectual movement of t...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/05/the-book-lamp/Theyyam is an ancient ritual worship that is still practiced in Malabar, the northern region of Kerala (southern part of India). This one above is Kandakarnan, a spirit who eats dead bodies. The dancer's costumes are mad...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/05/kandakarnan/Yes, that was a rabbit inside a refrigerator. In 1943, the maker of Coolerator Refrigerator decided to use a cute bunny locked inside the food compartment to tout the appliance's selling point:This "contented ra...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/05/the-contented-rabbit-1943-refrigerator-ad-used-live-bunny-locked-in-fridge/Dolphins, long considered the world's most intelligent, sensitive and sociable creatures, have a secret: they can also be wanton killers:The first was initially believed to show a dolphin fishing for salmon - until c...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/05/cute-dolphins-can-also-be-wanton-killers/Larger Picture at jonathan.beatonProto-Indo-European (PIE) is the common ancestor of hundreds of related languages and dialects spoken in Europe, northern Indian subcontinent, Iranian plateau and most of Central Asia. Th...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/05/the-language-tree/Ochre Jelly, who made the famous Stephen Hawking Lego, is at it again. This time with the cast of Futurama (I <3 Nibbler!). Hurry up and make the rest of the characters, Ochre Jelly! Link - via The Brothers Brick...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/05/futurama-characters-in-lego/"I don’t want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve immortality by not dying." - Woody Allen, film director and actor (b. 1935)...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/05/quote-woody-allen-on-immortality/We all know broccoli is terrible stuff so it comes as no surprise that war has broken out in the vegetable garden. You need to take command of the asparagus and destroy the bastardly broccoli. Collect the vitamins, a...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/05/attack-of-the-killer-broccoli/First, computers took real-life sports and made them virtual. Now you can reverse that and bring your videogame skills to 3D. The USB Boxer plugs into your computer and responds to your keystrokes! A counter keeps trac...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/04/usb-boxer/A one-year-old rare South China tiger at the Nanchang Zoo in Jiangxi province, China had been blind since birth, but can now see. The surgery was performed by Liu Fei, an eye surgeon with Nanchang University. Although Dr...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/04/blind-tiger-receives-cataract-surgery/(YouTube link) If you’ve ever wondered why the new cookies you just bought are all broken, this might be a clue. A full six minutes of supermarket goods knocked down at "an undisclosed location" over the Christmas h...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/04/supermarket-dominos/Here’s a diagram that may help you learn the difference between England, Great Britain, the British Isles, and the United Kingdom. The Republic of Ireland and the United Kingdom are the only two sovereign stat...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/04/the-great-british-venn-diagram/"Would you mustard my hole with a genie, baby?" Well, would you? This is another Bollywood musical number video where silly sound-alike lyrics in English appear on the screen as subtitles. There was one called "...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/04/would-you-mustard-my-hole-with-a-genie-baby/Yes, that's a real restaurant. The Thunderbird Restaurant is in East Zion, Utah. The founder, Jack Morrison, spelled home made as "ho-made" back before the word "ho" got its current meaning.Found at our pal Dan...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/04/pies-made-by-whaaaat/Vegetarians, avert your eyes: in our continuing series of thing sculpted out of meat (see the Meat House, Meat Ship), here's the Bacon Pig by Carl Huber of the WAREHOUSE. He said that it was "so dangerously good.&qu...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/04/the-bacon-pig/Yerim and her things (2005)Ethan and His Blue Things (2006)When Korean artist Jeongmee Yoon's daughter would only wear pink clothes and play with pink toys, she was inspired to turn this monochromatic phenomenon into art...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/04/jeongmee-yoons-pink-and-blue-project/A new Improv Everywhere performance art: over 200 people frozen in place in Grand Central Station in New York!On a cold Saturday in New York City, the world’s largest train station came to a sudden halt. Over 2...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/04/frozen-in-grand-central-an-improv-everywhere-prank/"Ella" is a giant sculpture made from about 24,000 peaches! It was created by BMF Sydney to advertise Ella Baché's (slogan: "Skin good enough to eat") skin care products. Link - Thanks Adam...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/04/giant-peach-sculpture-is-just-peachy/Artist Dylan Kehde Roelofs creates individually handblown incandescent lights that appear antique and thoroughly modern at the same time. Standard pieces are for sale, and he also makes custom lights. When they burn ou...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/04/incandescent-sculpture/(Break.com link) I was expecting someone to pull the truck over on top of himself, but no, no one gets hurt (I think). Still, the result is not what these guys expected! -via Grow-A-Brain...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/04/how-not-to-lift-a-vehicle/[http://youtu.be/j-zczJXSxnw] (YouTube link) We are all familiar with the first Tacoma Narrows Bridge a.k.a. "The galloping Gertie", a long suspension bridges in the U.S. state of Washington, which spans accross the...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/04/tacoma-narrows-bridge-collapse-in-color/I've seen one man bands before but this guy brings it to another level. Enjoy! Link: YoutubeFunny, One Man Band, Entertainment...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/04/professor-gizmo/The following is reprinted from Bathroom Reader Plunges Into the Presidency Forty-two men have occupied the office of U.S. president; if each one made only one mistake or misspoke just once during his time...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/04/all-the-presidents-gaffes/This is one of the funniest geeky jokes I've read in a long time. From Miss Cellania's Tech Jokes 1.0 post, here's a guy's letter to Tech Support about his women trouble: Dear Technical Support,...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/04/funny-tech-joke-dear-tech-support/Photo: hello naomi [Flickr] Flickr user Hello Naomi created this super awesome robot cupcakes. They're super awesome because they're interchangeable and they're made out of cupcakes (duh!). Via Super Punch...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/04/robot-cupcakes-interchangeable-and-yummy/Trace amounts of cocaine are found in 4 out of every 5 dollar bills in circulation.The average amount of cocaine found is 16 micrograms (0.000016 gram)...
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/04/trivia-theres-cocaine-in-almost-all-dollar-bills/
