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Like all great fantasy role-playing adventures, our tale begins with a pizza delivery. Pizza does not make for great trail rations, but it's a good idea to have a final full meal before launching out on a great expedition against mystical forces and dark powers. A quality pizza gives you a temporary +1 Constitution bonus.
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Fame sure is fickle. One day you're a star on the big screen, the next you're selling bananas on the streets of Beijing.
Users of Weibo, a Chinese microblogging site, shared this photo of two adorable Minions selling bananas and getting hassled by urban management officers.
But don't feel sorry for the lovable guys, Shanghaiist explains how all is just a ploy to get you to watch the release of the latest Despicable Me movie in China.
Ben Carpenter, an engineering student and avid cosplayer, uses a wheelchair because of spinal muscular atrophy. But Ben didn't let his wheelchair prevent him from creating the most epic "Mad Max" cosplay ever: in fact, he used the wheelchair as part of the costume!
Check out Ben's costume from Dragoncon and Tampa Bay Comic Con:
View more of Ben's awesome Mad Max Fury Road cosplay over at his Instagram.
Redditor ThangCZ says that a nightclub in the Czech Republic has a chest-high toilet made specifically for vomiting. The steel supports helpfully provide steadiness for the generously inebriated. I suppose that if you own a bar where people regularly barf, then this is a practical innovation. Note to the very drunk: puking only.
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We're gonna need a bigger pencil!
Polish illustrator Bartosz Kosowski of Blackbird Illustration spent almost a year creating this phenomenal poster of the 1975 Jaws movie by Steven Spielberg. Kosowski used 202 simple lines to recreate the iconic image of the shark's dorsal fin poking out of the surface of the water.
Betcha start humming the movie's theme song when you saw this! Dun dun dun dun dun dun ...
Dave Trott is an advertising executive with 4 decades of experience in the industry. He's interacted with famous and powerful people, sometimes just for his amusement. In his book Creative Mischief, he shared his recollection of a prank that he played on another ad executive who disapproved of the novel The Exorcist.
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Will text for nonfat venti soy chai latte with half shot of espresso no foam! Our pal Dan Piraro of Bizarro Comic envisioned the modern panhandler rattling his artisanal fair trade ceramic coffee mug whilst waiting for a kind soul's help to get the morning's coffee.
Have you seen the prices at your favorite coffee shop lately? The only way to afford a cuppa is to beg for one!
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You've heard of cabin in the woods, but how about the other way around? In Norway, there are woods in your cabin!
Flickr user Europe Trotter took this photo of an abandoned cabin near Hemsedal, Norway, that gives a new meaning to the word "treehouse."
The Netherlands sees your ho-hum flower parade and raises you this: a Van Gogh-inspired flower parade as this year's Corso Zundert (previously on Neatorama).
Every year, the town of Zundert in southern Netherlands holds an over-the-top flower parade, with floats after floats covered in millions of dahlias. This year's theme celebrates the town's most famous son, Vincent van Gogh, who was born there in 1853.
Take a look at the fantastic and surreal floats of Corso Zundert, via the festival's official Instagram and website:
Redditor randall_p_mcMurphy found this necklace and earring set for sale in a gas station in Morehead, Kentucky. Another redditor says that the text translates as "Chinese towers." In Hazzard County and Bikini Bottom, these are the epitome of style.
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Every year, in the Niigata Prefecture of Japan, people build enormous, often frightening creatures made of straw. It's part of the Wara Art Festival. Brian Ashcraft of Kotaku has a roundup of some of the best and most ferocious straw monsters now menacing Japan. They include a giant crab, dinosaurs, a cobra, and a praying mantis. In short: choose another vacation spot.
When Hal Taylor's third child was born, he was left with a dilemma: he didn't have enough lap space to read books to all of his kids at once. Since he was a woodworker who made rocking chairs, he designed the StoryTime Rocking Chair as a solution. Now he sells them, too. He makes each one by hand. They're priced at $7,000-7,500.
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Look at this kitchen. The stove is wrecked. The oven is wrecked. The stove hood is wrecked. Now look up- the lid is embedded in the ceiling! And there are bits of food all over, which they’ll probably be finding for years to come. This is what happens when all the safety features of a pressure cooker fail at once. Redditor MaggleCole posted this as evidence.
Natalie Nakles, a medical student, uses her in-depth knowledge of human anatomy to create terrifyingly realistic body art. She appears to dissect her own left hand with markers and pen. When placed against a black background, her drawings look 3-dimensional. You can find more of Nakles's work on her Instagram page.
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