What a piece of junk! She may not look like much, but she's got it where it counts, kid. I hear the Millennium Falcon minivan, spotted in Redford, Michigan by imgur user Ericboo, can make the Walgreens run in less than twelve parsecs.
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One of these days, we're going to get help for our procrastination problem. This sign, spotted over at our pal Pleated-Jeans, said "Procrastination Meeting Held Every ..." (See what they did there?)
Perhaps Mark Twain said it best: "Never put off until tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow."
What kind of text did this girl get? My money's on "That's not burger." Oh, that face!
Love to play soccer? Don't just yell "wee!" in glee, go ahead and literally wee and play soccer at the same time! This clever ad for ESPN by Duda Propaganda in Sao Paulo, Brazil, shows that live-streaming this particular soccer match has a completely different meaning.
Whatever you do, don't flush your chance of playing urinal soccer!
Redditor mister_paul got rickrolled at his local bookstore. For those of you who are distracted by Jim Butcher's new The Dresden File novel, just know that he's never gonna give you up, never gonna let you down, never gonna run around and desert you.
See also: 10 Neat Facts Abour Rick Astley
Psychologist, author, and magician Richard Wiseman (previously on Neatorama) was just playing around with some red cards ... when THIS happened! Could you explain how a toy car automagically (heh) appeared in the clip above (before Wiseman revealed the secret?)
Obie, the tubby dachshund then - via Obie's official website
Obie, after losing 55 lb - via Facebook
Obie's elderly owners couldn't resist those big brown eyes, and overfed the Dachshund till he weighed 77 lb (35 kg) - more than twice the normal weight for the breed (Previously on Neatorama). He was rescued two years ago by veterinary technician Nora Vanatta, who started the obese dog on a strict diet and exercise regiment.
Vanatta chronicled Obie's weight loss journey on Facebook and a dedicated website, Obiethedog.com
Today, Vanatta was proud to show the leaner (but not meaner, he's just as cute) Obie the no longer tubby dog! Watch Obie's weight loss journey over at TODAY:
The pup from Portland, Oregon, had a difficult time adjusting to his new diet because he hated vegetables, but now he munches on carrots and lives a healthier life. "He was eating only people food before, so it took a little bit of a transition to get him on dog food,'' Vanatta told Carson Daly on TODAY. "Now [he has] two meals a day, a couple snacks and lots of exercise."
When Obie was at his biggest, he had to wear a special harness to avoid injuring his large stomach. Since dropping the weight, he had to have cosmetic surgery to remove 2 1/2 pounds of excess skin.
Words can't describe* the joy I feel when I ran across John Koenig's Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows website, which is dedicated to coining new words that define specific types of sadness. Like the pain of realizing that the plot of your life doesn't make sense to you anymore (nodus tollens), the frustration of knowing how easily you fit into a sterotype even if you never intended to (mimeomia), or an imaginary conversation with an old photo of yourself (daguerreologue).
*At least until Koenig starts another website, dedicated to coining new words describing specific types of joys.
The first question people would ask when they run across one of Koenig's words is whether they are made up. The answer is simple: Yes, these are made up words - but they're carefully made up words. Koenig (who "enjoys piano jazz, deep image poetry, wines of indeterminate types, canyons and nostalgia - just the sorts of stuff you'd expect from an expert wordsmith) crafts each words carefully with proper etymology - things like word roots, prefixes, suffixes and so on.
Koenig stated that each original definition aims to fill a hole in the language, to give a name to an emotion we all feel but dont' have a word for.
The second question is implicit in the first one: whether they should use Koenig's made up words in real life. The answer is equally simple: Yes, because aren't all words made up in the beginning? Koenig quoted lexicographer Erin McKean, founder of Wordnik and previous editor in chief of US Dictionaries for Oxford University Press and principal editor of the New Oxford American Dictionary (2nd ed.): "People say to me, ‘How do I know if a word is real?’ You know, anybody who’s read a children’s book knows that love makes things real. If you love a word, use it—that makes it real. Being in the dictionary is an arbitrary distinction; it doesn’t make a word any more real than any other way. If you love a word, it becomes real."
So, without further ado, here are 10 of the most beautiful completely made-up words that describe specific, obscure sorrows:
n. The realization that each random passerby is living a life as vivid and complex as your own.
n. The frustration of photographing something amazing when thousands of identical photos already exist—the same sunset, the same waterfall, the same curve of a hip, the same closeup of an eye—which can turn a unique subject into something hollow and pulpy and cheap, like a mass-produced piece of furniture you happen to have assembled yourself.
n. The strange wistfulness of used bookstores, which are somehow infused with the passage of time—filled with thousands of old books you’ll never have time to read, each of which is itself locked in its own era, bound and dated and papered over like an old room the author abandoned years ago, a hidden annex littered with thoughts left just as they were on the day they were captured.
Take a close look at the two pictures above: one is of a regular iPhone, and the other one is actually a stun gun. Can you tell which is which?
Matthew Sparkes of The Telegraph reports that the Royal Canadian Mounted Police in Hinton, Alberta, caught two potentially lethal stun guns disguised as iPhones. Stun guns are classified as weapons and is illegal to carry in Canada.
So. Which is which? First, take the poll below and then find out the answer. Did you get it right?
You'd be forgiven if you thought that these amazing photographs by Brendan Austin were rugged mountain landscapes. They are actually crumpled paper.
In his aptly titled photo series Paper Mountains, Austin wrote:
Inspired from the travels I took to the vastness of the United States west coast, the glaciers of Iceland and the mountains of New Zealand.
I constructed the images, building on existing photographs taken on these journeys, into a series of fabricated landscapes with the folds, shadows and texture of the paper building an alternate world.
Meticulously re-worked then re-photographed numerous times, the mountains slowly discard their original texture and surface.
Hello Neatoramanauts! We've revamped our LOLpic blog NeatoPicto with a sleek new and light-weight layout and lots more fun content. Check it out:
Love funny pics? View tons more at NeatoPicto!
"girlfriend pregnant, wife knows, must sell, lawyer wants money."
Can't say it better in 9 words or fewer! Brevity is the soul of wit and the essence of a great classified ad. We don't know whether the man has sold his Harley Davidson motorcycle, but if this ad couldn't do it, nothing will! Via Dumpaday
Redditor Elephantastronaut1 started working at NASA and posted a gallery of fantastic photos on imgur about her experience so far. This one above, of a serving of shrimp cocktail to eat in space, caught my eyes. She wrote "Actual astronaut food. The is a shrimp cocktail, said to be a delicacy in space due to it being spicy."
Why do astronauts crave spicy food? Blame the Charlie Brown effect, said Michele Perchonok of NASA's food science program. Perchonok explained to The Salt blog at NPR (blogged about on Neatorama a while ago):
Why this sudden interest in hot peppers? Part of the reason may be that after arriving in space, astronauts lose their sense of smell, which largely governs the pleasurable taste of food. An example of this is coffee. "If you hold your nose and sip your coffee, you're getting just a bitter liquid," says Hunter.
Why do astronauts lose their sense of smell, and what's this got to do with a preference for fiery food? No one is sure, but there are some plausible ideas.
Michele Perchonok leads NASA's food science program. She says one possibility is what happens to the fluids in your body in a weightless environment. On Earth, gravity tends to drag those fluids downward, toward your feet. In space they go everywhere, including to your head, so after arriving in space, you begin to look like a cartoon character.
"We call it the Charlie Brown phase, because their faces have gotten more round," says Perchonok. Round, because they are retaining fluid in their heads. "And as they retain fluid, they also feel like they have a cold or they're congested, and again they're not smelling as much."
Tumblr user hkirkh noted that his local municipal utilities decided to "improve the looks of their building." The princess may be in another castle, but the money's definitely in public utilities (you'd understand if you see my utilities bill!)
