The World's Pinkest Person

(Image credit: Kitty Kay Sera)

The Pink Ladies were a gang in the musical Grease, and a Pink Lady is a drink, but Kitten Kay Sera is THE Pink Lady. The Pink Lady of Hollywood has lived a pink life for 40 years. Everything in her home is pink, her hair is pink, she dresses in pink, and her dog Miss Kisses is pink, too, a result of beet juice dye. Sera was recently given the title of "World's Pinkest Person" by Ripley's Believe It Or Not.  

‘I consider myself proudly to be a pink flamingo in a world of pigeons,’ she says, adding: ”I am the world’s pinkest person and my life is devoted to that color. Some people think I am weird but frankly, I am fierce and fabulous.’



Read about Kitty Kay Sera and see more pictures at Do You Remember. She's also got plenty of pink pictures at Instagram. -via Fark


Fulfilling His Dream

Will always wanted to be an air dancer, one of these "tube men" that dances by blown air power to catch your attention. And he got his wish! Not only is he a tube man, but a professional tube man!

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The kicker is that this is a real ad, a local commercial for a car dealer. It matters little that you see any of the actual products for sale. If you live in the local area, you'll remember the ad, and the name of the dealer. -via Tastefully Offensive


RPG Bosses You Always Fight On Your Quest

Story is the main focus of all RPGs, and the characters who star in the story make each RPG different and interesting in their own way, but for some reason video game designers use the same old bosses over and over again.

They still feel the need to include a Pathetically Early Boss who's somehow supposed to help us defeat the next boss who is often a Weirdly Hard Boss That You Aren't Prepared For, so you get spanked and feel low.

Later you end up facing a Filler Repeat Boss who looks strangely like the Weirdly Hard Boss, so your confidence is boosted before you dare to tackle the Unbelievably Hard Optional Boss, who usually sends me looking for a new game to play...looks like it's time for an RPG revolution! (Comic by Andy Kluthe and Tristan Cooper)

-Via Dorkly


Anglerfish Mating Pair Caught on Video

Anglerfish don't just mate- they bond for life, literally. The tiny male bites into a female, and never lets go. He eventually becomes fused with her body. She provides nutrients to keep him alive, and he provides sperm for her eggs. The scary-looking anglerfish lives so deep in the ocean that they very rarely survive being brought to the surface. What we know about them is mainly from studying dead specimens. But in 2016, a mating pair was captured on video for the first time.  

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The video was captured at a depth of 800 meters by deep-sea explorers Kirsten and Joachim Jakobsen in a submersible. The husband and wife team was nearing the end of a grueling 5-hour dive along a steep deep-sea wall on the south side of São Jorge Island, when “something with a funny form” caught their eye, Kirsten Jakobsen says. Aborting their plan to surface, the filmmakers followed the strange creature around for 25 minutes, capturing its movements through the submersible’s 1.4-meter-wide window. It was exciting, but also challenging to maneuver the craft to get the best images because the female was only about 16 centimeters long, she says.

After surfacing, the duo sent the video to Pietsch, who identified the species as Caulophryne jordani, known as the fanfin angler. He was entranced by the species’s “gracefulness,” especially the way those whiskerlike structures—called filaments and fin rays—enveloped the animal. “Any prey item touching one of those would cause the angler to turn and gobble up that particular animal,” he says. “They can’t afford to let a meal go by because there’s so little to eat down there.” The video was captured in August 2016, but this is the first time it’s been released to the public.

Read more about anglerfish and how this video was taken at Science. -via Damn Interesting


What Darth Vader Eats

How does Darth Vader eat? The question had been circulating among Star Wars fans, who overthink everything, for years. The answer is here, although is isn't in English, and you can't feed graphics into a text translator. I know enough French to get the gist of this, but people who know say it's even funnier in French.

1. Milk exists in the Star Wars universe. Luke drinks bantha milk.

2. Moisture exists, so therefore mold can exist to create cheese.

3. Darth Vader can't eat most things, because he needs his mask to breathe.

4. That's why his mask has a cheese grater in the front.

If you read French and can offer any further insights, please leave a comment. -via Gizmodo 


Infinity Train

If you met the King of all Corgis would you do his bidding?

Of course you would, because he'd use his royal cuteness to convince you to become his loyal servant, and when you find out your mission is to save the dogs of Corgiana you'd be raring to go!

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Infinity Train is a mysterious and captivating animated short that will soon be turned into a series on Cartoon Network, so get in on the mystery before the show debuts in 2019!


Life Paths - Which Way Will You Go To Catch 'Em All?


Life Paths by IdeasConPatatas

Life presents us with many paths to follow and many choices to make, but how can we decide which path to follow and where to go? Some go where the hunt takes them, searching for the type of adventure that speaks to their soul, while others simply go down the path with the most activity so they're sure to catch all the fun. So where will life take you? Grab a pokeball and a map and find out!

Celebrate life's fictional biodiversity by wearing this Life Paths t-shirt by IdeasConPatatas, it's a fun shirt to wear while you're out adventuring or sitting at home playing your favorite video game.

Visit IdeasConPatatas's Facebook fan page, official website, Instagram and Twitter, then head on over to his NeatoShop for more geek-tastic designs:

Interdimensional Cheese 100% Gamer Legen-Dary Homer is ready for summer

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Are you a professional illustrator or T-shirt designer? Let's chat! Sell your designs on the NeatoShop and get featured in front of tons of potential new fans on Neatorama!


The Surprising History of the Wolf Whistle

The wolf whistle has gone from crude to complimentary to crude again, depending on one's point of view. It can be sexy when Bogart whistles to Bacall, funny in a cartoon, and menacing on the street. The practice of wolf whistling is dying out even among catcallers these days. But where did it come from in the first place? There's a clue in the name itself.

“My theory I got from talking to an old shepherd,” says John Lucas, author of A Brief History of Whistling. “He was this very knowledgeable guy, trained sheepdogs, and he ran through a whole bunch of calls with me and did one that sounded exactly like a wolf whistle. I said, ‘Christ, that’s a bit politically incorrect!’ and he said, ‘No, it’s kosher, it’s from Albania’.”

The shepherd explained that in mountainous parts of Southern Europe, shepherds have for centuries used the whistle to warn each other, and their dogs, when wolves appeared. They’d put two or three fingers in their mouths, then blow those notes. “It’s an incredible carrying whistle, unbelievably noisy,” Lucas says, “You’d hear it for miles.” Both the technique and the tune seem to have been called wolf whistling.

What really popularized the wolf whistle as a signal to women were the cartoons of Tex Avery. Read about Avery's cartoons and the entire history of the wolf whistle at BBC Culture.


Bill Burr Rant Dubbed Over Invisalign Commercial Equals Comedy Gold

When comedian Bill Burr has an opinion about something he doesn't hold back, and Bill has spent decades perfecting his gift of gab to the point where audiences can't help but soak in everything he has to say- whether they like it or not.

Bill's comedy is brash, abrasive and totally not PC, and that's what I love about him- he doesn't give a s#%t what you think about him, and isn't trying to convince you to believe what he believes, he's simply stating his own opinion in a way that makes me laugh.

So why would Invisalign use one of his rants to sell their product? They wouldn't, this video mashup was put together by Tanner James, a guy who knows how to sell products using the power of cynicism. (NSFW language)

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-Via Boing Boing


Gojirosaurus

The fun of seeing Godzilla and other movies featuring giant monsters is imagining what we'd do in those situations. But it is not to be. As we've seen before, giant monsters don't scale that way according to the laws of physics and biology. Putting a movie monster into the real world would only have the creature run into the limits of his own body. The solution? Suspension of disbelief. Even biologists who know better can indulge in fantasy when they want to enjoy a monster movie. And a physicist can thrill over a well-done lightsaber battle. At least I hope so. This is the latest comic from Zach Weinersmith at Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal.


People From Around The World Sing Their Country's National Anthem

For some a national anthem is nothing but a stirring song, for others it's the song that stirs their patriotic souls and represents their country and its people, and yet nations are rarely familiar with each other's national anthems.

This lack of exposure seems like a shame unless you're an isolationist, so this episode of Condé Nast Traveler focuses on educating the world by having 70 people from 70 different nations sing their national anthem so we can learn the patriotic songs of their people.

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-Via Laughing Squid


The Long History of a Lame Joke

Nancy Astor was the first woman member of the British Parliament, in 1919. She served until 1945. Winston Churchill served as Prime Minister from 1940 to 1945. You've probably heard of this famous exchange between the two political rivals.

Lady Astor: ‘If I were your wife I would put poison in your coffee.’

Churchill: ‘Nancy, if I were your husband I would drink it.’

That was a shorthand way to illustrate their relationship, but it never happened, at least between those two. The first time it was attributed to Astor and Churchill was in 1952, several years after they were both out of office. So where did the joke come from?

All this has been established by an excellent page which has tracked this exchange back to 1899 and the US press. I’m intrigued above all, by the way that the joke evolved afterwards in Britain. I’ve spent a lot of time in the last few years following urban legends, but this is the first time I’ve tracked a simple apocryphal exchange. The first thing to say is that the story crosses the Atlantic in the by early 1900; and the first references notes its American origin.

The joke has been all over the place, and has evolved slightly in its telling. Read the long history of a simple joke that never went away at Beachcombing's Bizarre History Blog. -via Strange Company


This Short Film Was Not Created Using CGI

Digital artists are doing some amazing stuff with CGI these days, creating characters and scenes that look so realistic you'd be hard pressed to tell the difference between their creations and real video footage.

And because their CGI creations look so real they make for great guessing games, prompting viewers to decide which one is real and which one is digital, but this isn't a guessing game- and believe it or not this video isn't CGI.

Club Palace (Real or CGI?) - NOWNESS from NOWNESS on Vimeo.

This amazing video by Camille Boyer and cinematographer Nik Mirus was created for the Montreal-based agency Caravane using miniatures and practical effects, now that's what I call tricking the audience!

-Via Sploid


How to Sell a Mirror

You are much more likely to sell something on the internet if you show it in a photograph. How do you take a picture of a mirror you're trying to sell? We've seen the photos of mirrors that show someone naked in the background, because those always go viral.

Yeah, the first thing I thought of is to take a picture of the mirror at an angle. Few people think of that, but many go the extra mile to get the picture without showing themselves. The results can be ridiculous.



Or the picture ends up showing the seller, but not in the way they would want to be seen. After all, the picture is of the mirror! Bored Panda has compiled a list of 63 pictures of mirrors for sale, ranked for their comedic value.  


70 People Imitate What Cats and Dogs Sound Like in 70 Countries

While Condé Nast Traveler had 70 people from 70 countries together, they asked them all kinds of things. We showed you how they imitate Americans and revealed their own nation's stereotypes. Now they all show us how to imitate a dog and then a cat in their own language.

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The sounds that a cat and a dog make aren't all that different around the world. That's okay, because the real comedy here is in listening to all these folks barking and meowing in rapid-fire succession. -via Tastefully Offensive


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