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This Is What Happens If You Sneeze Into a Trombone

Alex

When you gotta sneeze, well, you gotta sneeze. But what happens if you're in the middle of playing the trombone for an orchestra performance?

This is what happens when you sneeze into a trombone:

In this YouTube clip that has gone viral, conductor Julian Bright recounted his experience leading the Salvation Army's amateur London Central Band when a trombonist sneezed into his trombone.

Bright said to the BBC, "I actually thought something in the PA system had blown up." Musicians usually try to sneak in the sneeze into the loud segment of the music, but obviously that's not always possible. "If the band had been playing something loud and boisterous, it would have gone unnoticed ... [The trombonist] says that he knew that a sneeze was coming but he was so conscious [about] not playing his part that it all just happened too quickly and he couldn't get his trombone out of the way."

Bright added that a sneeze wouldn't have mattered much for a percussionist, but it's particularly bad for a trombonist. "When you then add a sneeze to the natural tendencies of the instrument, it's a lethal combination."


Caveman Rock Music

Alex


Photo: AFP

Yabba dabba DO-RE-MI!

Talk about caveman rock: Percussionists from the French National Orchestra will play a song specifically composed for a set of 24 stone chimes or lithophones dating from the New Stone Age (between 2500 and 8000 BC).

The stone chimes are solid, oblong stones that experts first believed to be pestles or grinders of grain. In 1994, archaeologist Erik Gonthier of the Natural History Museum in Paris happened to tap one with a mallet. Instead of a dull thud, he heard a musical note instead. "I thought back to my grandmother's piano and the small supports which made the strings resonate. I found some packaging foam in the trashcan of the museum, I made two rests that I placed under either end of the lithophone, and tapped it. It made a clear 'tinnnnggg'," Gonthier told the BBC, "My heart beat like crazy. I knew that I had found something great."

It took five years for Gonthier to convince other experts that the stones are actually pre-historic musical instruments. But even Gonthier admitted that there might be other purposes to the stones. "They may also have been used to signal danger, or even to call people to dinner," he said. "They could be heard from kilometers away in the desert or forest."

The French National Orchestra will play the musical piece dubbed "Paleomusique," written by classical composer Philippe Fenelon, only three times to avoid damaging or wearing the instruments down.

Read the rest of the story over at the BBC.


Toddler's First Traffic Ticket

Alex


Photo: First Coast News

Ah, the developmental milestones of a child's life. Smiling that first smile. Uttering the first word. Taking the first step. Now, add this one: getting that first traffic ticket.

Two-year-old Za'Dariyah Mishaw was cruising along the parking lot of her Florida condo complex, fulfilling her need for speed, when she saw that dreaded flashing blue lights coming up behind her.

According to First Coast News, patrol officer Christian Velasco, who gave the lil' speed demon a ticket, said that "she was going pretty fast. It took me a while to catch up to her, but we did, and she was cited."

Za'Dariyah's uncle Keyth Mishaw said, "Everyone always had bad things to say about the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office, well, I want to say BIG PROPS to these officers for making a memorable moment for my family." It was Za'Dariyah's first time in her new car, and now she kept telling her mom that she wanted to pay her $4 ticket.

The photo of the coppers giving the young kid her first taste of the law has gone viral on Facebook, racking nearly 40,000 shares.


We're All Stories In The End

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Stories by AmdyDesign

'Cause it was, you know, it was the best.

Now this is a T-shirt design worth going back in time. NeatoShop artist AmdyDesign takes one of our favorite sci-fi quotes and turns it into a masterpiece - a piece of clothing chameleon circuit, if you will - that'll turn its wearer into a charming hero.

Visit AmdyDesign's official Facebook page then head on over to his NeatoShop for more neat shirts!

Geronimo The Doctor's Tomb Zombies Have The Phone Box Remember

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Kneel Before Me

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Kneel Before Me by Firepower Tees

Kneel before ... wait, which one would you kneel before?

We may be confused as to which villain we'd genuflect to, but one thing is for sure: we'd kneel before Firepower Tees for creating this awesome T-shirt!

Visit Firepower Tees' official Facebook page, then check out his NeatoShop for more neat designs:

Game of Holmes The Grey The Bag and The Smaugly The Hoth Face Iron Throne

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Meth City

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Meth City by Punksthetic

... Some call it dark. Hard-boiled. Then there are those who call it home. Crooked cops. Sexy dames. Desperate vigilantes. Some are seeking revenge. Others lust after amazing T-shirt designs ...

NeatoShop artist Punksthetic made us a different kind of "yarn" - the cotton kind - with this mash up design called Meth City. Take a look at Punksthetic's Facebook page then visit his NeatoShop for more neat stuff:

Shikaka Chucky Charms Super 80's Good vs Evil The Sunnyside Redemption

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Pretty Cunning

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Pretty Cunning by perdita00

Can't get your mom to make you a cunning shirt? Don't worry! Neatoshop artist perdita00 has got you covered with this clever designs.

What? What did you say? "Boy, it sure would be nice if we had some grenades, don't you think?" Sorry, perdita00 can't help you there. She's got to keep things shiny for the law, so hopefully these geek T-shirts would suffice:

The Legend of Jayne Sister Time The Timey Wimey Zone Stay Shiny

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Don't forget to visit perdita00's official Facebook page!

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Came In Like A Thunderbolt

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Came In Like a Thunderbolt by JCMaziu

NeatoShop artist JCMaziu never hit so hard in design - he just closed his eyes and drew this awesome design. So forget wrecking balls. Hammer's where it's at!

Visit JCMaziu's blog and Facebook page, then check out his NeatoShop for more shockingly awesome shirts:

Gunslinger Creed Sons of Empire It's A Trap! Shark

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Let's Take A Ride

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Let's Take a Ride by ddjvigo

The Mark III is busted and in the shop? Suit up with this awesome T-shirt by NeatoShop artist ddjvigo instead!

Visit ddjvigo's Facebook page then check out his NeatoShop for more cool and geeky T-shirt designs.

Love and Fantasy Dark Lord Evolution Kaiju Ink Skull

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A Neighborly Samurai

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Totosamurai by Theduc

The way of the neighborly samurai is always to dress up nice. Thankfully, NeatoShop artist Theduc has made this easy with this neat Totosamurai design.

Visit Theduc's official website then head on over to his NeatoShop for more cutting edge T-shirt designs:

The Square Just Be Free Joker Ball Doctor Magritte

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The Cake is a Pizza Lie

Alex

On his birthday, Photojojo founder Amit Gupta's coworkers surprised him with the best cake ever: a trick cake with pizza inside! - via Pleated Jeans


You'd Never Guess What This 16-Year-Old Teenager Couldn't Buy At The Supermarket

Alex

The answer is: teaspoons. That's right, a pack of teaspoon.

Yvette Whelan was frustrated that his stepson Liam and his brother kept on losing her teaspoons, so she sent him to a local market to buy a pack of teaspoons.

But staff at Tesco in Haslingden refused to sell the pack of teaspoons to Liam because he was under the age of 18.

"Knives, forks I can understand but teaspoons? No," Yvette said to the BBC, "There's just no common sense." Liam had to go home empty handed and was "really embarrassed" by the incident, she added.

Tesco later apologized for the incident, saying "We do include a till prompt for proof of age on our self-service tills for some items. We ask our colleagues to use their judgment as to whether this should be applied. In this instance, this was not followed and we apologized to our customer for any inconvenience caused."

The BBC spoons up the full story - Via Arbroath (Photo: Yvette Whelan)


Toddler Learns About Stranger Danger The Cute Way

Alex

Stranger danger has never been so cute!

When a Korean mom tries to tell her toddler the important life lesson of not accepting cookies and ice cream from a stranger, this is what happens:

I dare you not to giggle. Whuh, whuh! Via Dramafever.


The International Sounds of Eating

Alex

Though the internet's own "Om nom nom nom" is inexplicably missing, this nifty comic of the International Sounds of Eating by James Chapman of Champmangamo (previously on Neatorama) is still pure blogging candy to me!

In this panel, Chapman explains that the sound of eating of "chomp" to English-speakers have various foreign language equivalents (cross-linguistic onomatopoeias, if you want to be technical), including "paku paku" in Japanese, "chrup chrup" in Polish, "nyam" in Korean, "miam" in French - and my favorite, "mampf" in German.

If your language is not in the comic, do tell us what eating sounds like in your native tongue.


Man Sings Let It Go in the Voices of 21 Disney and Pixar Characters

Alex

If you have a little kid, chances are you've had your fill of the song "Let It Go."

Well, before you rip your hair out in frustration at yet another Let It Go post, check out this rendition by Brian Hull who sings it in the voices of the following Disney and Pixar characters:

  • Captain Barbosa - Pirates of the Caribbean
  • Jack Sparrow - Priates of the Caribbean
  • Scar - The Lion King
  • Roz - Monsters Inc.
  • Mike Wazowski - Monsters Inc.
  • Lumiere - Beauty and the Beast
  • Cogsworth - Beauty and the Beast
  • Dug - Up
  • Alpha - Up
  • Kaa - The Jungle Book
  • Sebastian - The Little Mermaid
  • Pumbaa - The Lion King
  • Timon - The Lion King
  • Ray - The Princess and the Frog
  • Scuttle - The Little Mermaid
  • Pete
  • Winnie The Pooh
  • Tigger - Winnie The Pooh
  • Mickey Mouse
  • Minnie Mouse
  • Goofy

Color me impressed. That was most excellent, Brian!


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