This is brilliant! Etsy seller Laurie Marin makes geeky gourds, especially ones with anime themes. She found a gourd that looks just like the body of Totoro--especially after she scrubbed, finished, burned, and dyed it....
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/05/02/My-Neighbor-Totoro-Gourd-Clock/(Photo: Forbes)The town of Waco, Texas gave birth to the great soft drink Dr Pepper. But that is not the end of Waco's beverage innovations. In a rusty shed beneath a bridge overpass, you can find Chip Tate, the owner an...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/04/25/The-Finest-New-Whisky-in-the-World-Is-Made-in-a-Shed-under-a-Bridge-in-Waco-Texas/It's a wonder Andrew Jackson was able to defeat the British during the War of 1812. And found the modern Democratic Party. And become President of the United States. After all, Jackson should've died many, many times...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/02/28/Andrew-Jackson-The-Indestructible-President/The following is a Whodunit by Hy Conrad featuring Jonah Bixby, a twelve-year-old crime solver and son of a police detective. Can you solve the crime?(Image credit: Flickr user AtavicArt)Detective Carol Bixby did her bes...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/01/27/Whodunit-Death-at-the-Door/(Image credit: Thomas Allen)Before Betty Friedan could escape her marriage, she had to start a revolution. Betty Friedan was always cold. Cooped up in a rented stone house, the onetime newspaper reporter wore gloves at h...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/01/10/The-Feminine-Mystique-2/The following is an article from Uncle John's Fully Loaded Bathroom Reader.During the California Gold Rush of the mid-1800s, thousands of men headed west with gold dust in their eyes. But what about women? For many of th...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/11/05/Gold-Rush-Girls/(Photo: Associated Press)Dave Barry writes that, "... ...oup created on Facebook, who task themselves with scrubbing
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/08/30/In-Japan-Cleaning-Public-Toilets-for-Free-Is-a-Hobby/Before Steven Spielberg became Hollywood royalty, he was just another young director with a giant shark problem.It was July 1974, and 27-year-old Steven Spielberg was sure his career was over. He’d been on locatio...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/08/09/Steven-Spielbergs-Jaws/No, it's not a get-rich-quick scam. It's quite rea... ...chief or a worker who racked up gobs of overtime scrubbing grime from filthy train seats. It was so...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/06/10/How-to-Earn-333000-Without-Working-a-Day/Jean Schapowal, a baker on Long Island, made this... ...made this cake that looks like the mascot of the Scrubbing Bubbles brand of household cleaners. Will it clea...
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