What happens when a formerly peaceful household is invaded by a cute kitten? Dorothy is a sharp-tongued little old lady who lives with her grandson Adam and a cat named Trigger. I believe they must have named him Trigger...
https://www.neatorama.com/2026/05/05/Grandmas-Hobby-is-Badmouthing-the-Cat/WKRP in Cincinnati was a hit sitcom about a radio station that ran from 1978 to 1982. It inspired me to seek a career in radio, which I kept up for 24 years. WKRP was a fictional station, with call letters...
https://www.neatorama.com/2026/05/05/Life-Finally-Imitates-Art-or-Actually-TV-in-Cincinnati/Anything new and different naturally scares some people. Not all people, but enough people so that Something Had to Be Done. That was usually a ban. Chill Dude Explains brings us ten goofy stories about things we take fo...
https://www.neatorama.com/2026/05/04/Ten-Things-That-Were-Strangely-Illegal-at-One-Time/Oklahoma State Court of Appeals judge Kenneth D. Bacon loved to fly in his open-cockpit Starduster II. On a summer day in 1976, he flew to Kansas alone, and was caught in a bank of black clouds that suddenly appeared, al...
https://www.neatorama.com/2026/05/04/A-Strange-Landing-at-a-Haunted-Airport/Someone put audio from CASINO over Looney Tunes and its perfect 🔥😂 pic.twitter.com/mBE6AbdxDc— Todd Spence (@Todd_Spence) May 1, 2026 Content warning: very foul language.Toni Nunes of the...
https://www.neatorama.com/2026/05/04/Bugs-Bunny-and-Daffy-Duck-Recreate-Casino/Tortellini the tortoise is fully equipped for a day at school. His human has made a scaled-down JanSport backpack, complete with the iconic label and a functional zipper. He keeps his lunch (grapes and berries) in it, wh...
https://www.neatorama.com/2026/05/04/Tiny-Tortoise-with-a-Tiny-Backpack/When Reyn Guyer invented the game Twister (originally called Pretzel), he wasn't thinking of the unspoken taboo on touching other people's bodies. He was concentrating on the novelty of a board game where the players bec...
https://www.neatorama.com/2026/05/03/The-Night-the-Game-Twister-Went-Mainstream/The urge to make a baby laugh, and the joy we get from it, is no accident. It's a adaptation that makes us rear children in a way that helps them develop the skills they need. At only a few months old, babies laugh when...
https://www.neatorama.com/2026/05/03/The-Game-Peekaboo-is-More-Important-Than-You-Know/Embed from Getty ImagesOnce thought to be impossible, two runners finished the London Marathon in under two hours on April 26th. Sabastian Sawe of Kenya clocked in at 1:59:30, while Yomif Kejelcha of Ethiopia followed...
https://www.neatorama.com/2026/05/03/How-to-Train-an-Elite-Ethiopian-Marathon-Runner/This trail cam footage shows a mother cougar with three half-grown cubs visiting a stash of deer meat. And purring and squeaking. They look healthy and well-fed. But the surprise is where this happened. It was near Voyag...
https://www.neatorama.com/2026/05/02/Family-Caught-on-Camera-Shows-Hope-for-Wild-Cougars/(Image source: Tokitsukazes) Look at this adorable Australian brushtail possum! No, they don't all look like this. This little girl has a melanin deficit, but apparently not a carotene deficit. Can you guess what th...
https://www.neatorama.com/2026/05/02/Funny-and-Delightful-Animal-Photos-From-Around-the-World/The award-winning animated short film Ducks starts out cute with a baby observing a normal day in the park, and gets cuter- for a little while. And then nightmare fuel starts creeping in. Don't let that sto...
https://www.neatorama.com/2026/05/02/You-Will-Never-Forget-the-Ducks-in-iDucksi/Rob Williams is a comedian, acrobat, and general stage entertainer in Austin, Texas. Years ago, while working as a regular in an improv show, he needed to quickly come up with a stunt. Making use of his remarkable dexter...
https://www.neatorama.com/2026/05/02/Guinness-World-Record-for-Making-a-Sandwich-with-Feet/New Yorker cartoonist and professional illustrator Brooke Bourgeois imagines a more modern Beauty and the Beast story. She comments about her love of the Libby ebook app, especially its collection of au...
https://www.neatorama.com/2026/05/02/Beauty-and-the-Beast-Goes-Digital/Bird's nest fungus sounds like a type of fungus that grows on bird's nests- maybe the kind of thing you'd recognize in the taste of bird's nest soup. But that's not what it is at all. It's a fungus that looks li...
https://www.neatorama.com/2026/05/01/Keep-an-Eye-Out-for-Birds-Nest-Fungi/Somewhere along the lines, a long time ago, ruling families got the idea that their blood was better than everyone else's, so they wanted keep reproduction in the family, so to speak. This was also a convenient way to ke...
https://www.neatorama.com/2026/05/01/The-Dangers-of-Inbreeding-Among-Royal-Families/Karahan Tepe is an archaeological site near Göbekli Tepe in Turkey, and has been dated back to between 10,000 and 9500 BCE. That would make it the oldest known village on earth. Of course, "known" is doing a lot of...
https://www.neatorama.com/2026/05/01/What-People-Ate-in-the-Worlds-Oldest-Village/Jonas Lauwiner isn't just some nut like Emperor Norton of the United States. To borrow a phrase attributed to Napoleon, King Jonas found the crown of Switzerland lying in a gutter.The Swiss Confederation is a republic in...
https://www.neatorama.com/2026/05/01/The-Self-Proclaimed-King-of-Switzerland/Forensic linguistics deals with the study of language used in legal cases. Not lawyer talk, but things like figuring out who wrote something when they aren't identified. I've been delving into that type of puzzle just to...
https://www.neatorama.com/2026/04/30/The-Strange-and-Fascinating-World-of-Forensic-Linguistics/One of the earlier breakthroughs in fertility treatment was the development of the drug Pergonal in the 1940s, which contained hormones that stimulate ovulation. Most women produce their own follicle-stimulating hormone...
https://www.neatorama.com/2026/04/30/How-Thousands-of-Nuns-Helped-Infertile-Women-Become-Pregnant/Master mixer Bill McClintock (previously at Neatorama) is back with his latest project, which he calls "Psycho-Push-it" by Salt-Knot. It basically uses the instrumental track of Slipknot's 2008 song "Psychosocial" with t...
https://www.neatorama.com/2026/04/30/An-Unlikely-Mix-of-Slipknot-and-Salt-N-Pepa/Horsewoman Kate Janicki of Woodland, California is proud of her sister, Hannah, getting a job at a local Dutch Bros coffee shop. She decided to visit Hannah at work. So she saddled up Penny, one of her horses, and t...
https://www.neatorama.com/2026/04/30/Taking-a-Horse-to-the-Drive-Through-Window/Since its launch by inventior Ruth Handler in 1959, the Barbie doll (and her fictional universe) was a pop culture behemoth that spawned inumerable accessories and merchandise.In 1961, Mattel released a 45 RPM record in...
https://www.neatorama.com/2026/04/30/The-1961-Barbie-Musical-Album/Embed from Getty ImagesWhen Shigeru Miyamoto designed a new game for Nintendo in 1981, he was hoping to use Popeye and his friends as characters, but couldn't get permission. So he concocted a cast of new characters, o...
https://www.neatorama.com/2026/04/29/A-Short-Biography-of-the-Worlds-Best-Video-Game-Character/I've never felt good calling myself a language nerd, since I only speak one language. But I can't call myself an English nerd because I'm not English. And I've been making a serious effort to not be a pedant bec...
https://www.neatorama.com/2026/04/29/Dumb-Grammar-Rules-That-No-Longer-Make-Sense/Plenty of modern-day meteorologists cite The Wizard of Oz as the childhood inspiration for their careers, as they were transfixed by the cyclone that blew away Dorothy's house in the 1939 movie. They learne...
https://www.neatorama.com/2026/04/29/It-Wasnt-a-Cyclone-That-Carried-Dorothys-House-Away/うちのぐるぐるレイアウトもスリップリング経由でレールに給電してます！#鉄道模型 #Nゲージ #Bトレ #ジオラマ https://t.co/Tnngs9844O pic.twitter.com/Btdp3odQYI— B作 (@Bt...
https://www.neatorama.com/2026/04/29/Tiny-Train-Circles-Hyper-Realistic-Hill/A Brazilian funeral company is now selling Mario-themed coffinsYou can choose from Mario, Luigi, Toad, Princess Peach, or even Yoshi pic.twitter.com/bEeNrXcKQ6— Dexerto (@Dexerto) April 28, 2026 Eventually, you...
https://www.neatorama.com/2026/04/29/Super-Mario-Bros-Themed-Coffins/Most slang words are coined to represent an age group or some kind of community for which outsiders don't know the slang word. As soon as those words go mainstream, they are out of fashion. It happens so fast that you ca...
https://www.neatorama.com/2026/04/28/One-Slang-Word-is-the-Champion-of-Ubiquity-and-Longevity/The Soviet Union was not known for being a powerhouse of popular culture export products (Tetris being the only exception). But the dictatorship nonetheless tried to make popular entertainment for domestic and foreign ma...
https://www.neatorama.com/2026/04/28/The-Soviet-Version-of-Mary-Poppins/
