Like MrPumpernickel, I too have always been able to raise one eyebrow and although I didn't know it until you posted it I can also raise my ring finger when holding down the middle one.
I love the weird and the neat. How about something on old churches, or old haunted churches.
Also, lose the cats and the political stuff. Politics loses 50 percent of your audience (depending on your affiliation.)
Finally, like amazon, it would be neat to have a section on each story that says "If you liked this post, try these" with links to some of your past bests.
Like some of the other posters, I too have had numerous problems with occasional ad-hijacking.
As a southerner (Mississippian) I think her SC accent was horrible. The typical "this is the southern accent Hollywood believes to be true" Maybe I'm prejudiced, buy I have NEVER heard anyone who wasn't from the south do a good southern impression.
"The amount of food he ate at each meal was equal to six people," Sounds like that pissed him off and what? he withheld food for the rest of the 6 months? Arrest that guy.
I checked out your link and if you eliminate the 3 dots in the center and just use the outside ones you can get a very neat pentagram shape with Ohio U dead center. Draw 2 triangles connecting every other dot for each one. Wow!!
Hi. I'm 44 and live in Pennsylvania. I can only say that I work for the government. I've been an occasional poster since I discovered the site about 8 months ago. I too used to go to Drudgereport first thing every morning. Now it's Neatorama. I love the posts on this blog and am constantly telling friends (or sending them links) about what I see here. Keep up the good work!!!
I was in senior year, last semester marketing class at college. There was this one student who'd been a cut up all semester long, telling outlandish stories and lies to make every one laugh, roll their eyes, groan, etc.
He came to class that day and told us the Challenger exploded. Needless to say, NO ONE believed him. The instructor showed up, held class, and when we were dismissed, I went back to my apartment and turned on the news. I remember how heart breaking it was to watch. I skipped the rest of my classes that day.
Talk about the ultimate "Boy who cried wolf" story.
Sid-kudos. Absolutely right-on. So many of todays kids are disrespectful little snots because their parents are either too afraid to discipline them or trying too hard to be their best friend (the cool parent) that to finally see a mother, (who loves her son IMO) take such a step is fabulous. I agree wholeheartedly with mom and kid needs to grow up, take responsibility and hopefully realize that mom may have just saved his life.
This was a whole lot of nothing. I didn't even catch what was so "offensive" the first time I saw the clip. Only after a newscaster stated what Rev Al Sharpton was so hot-under-the-collar about did I even know which anchor had made the "inappropriate" statement. It's nothing people. Get a life and stop being so sensitive to what amounts to nothing.
Also, lose the cats and the political stuff. Politics loses 50 percent of your audience (depending on your affiliation.)
Finally, like amazon, it would be neat to have a section on each story that says "If you liked this post, try these" with links to some of your past bests.
Like some of the other posters, I too have had numerous problems with occasional ad-hijacking.
I checked out your link and if you eliminate the 3 dots in the center and just use the outside ones you can get a very neat pentagram shape with Ohio U dead center. Draw 2 triangles connecting every other dot for each one. Wow!!
Now if they'll just come up with a way to teach people the difference between to and too. Another of my pet peeves.
He came to class that day and told us the Challenger exploded. Needless to say, NO ONE believed him. The instructor showed up, held class, and when we were dismissed, I went back to my apartment and turned on the news. I remember how heart breaking it was to watch. I skipped the rest of my classes that day.
Talk about the ultimate "Boy who cried wolf" story.