If you're the Sultan of Brunei, you can have anything you want, including a specially made Ferrari station wagon:

Call it a station wagon, an estate car or a shooting brake, this is a rare Ferrari 456 "Venice," a limited edition series designed and built by Pininfarina (who penned the 456 GT) in 1995 at the request of the royal family of the Sultanate of Brunei. The station wagon featured a 20 cm longer wheelbase and four doors.

Link (from Chris' Unusual Car Page, via Fosfor Wheels)

From the website:

In the year 2139 few vehicles are left on earth, one of them driven by Judge Dredd, a cartoon caracter from the 2000AD Comic. The only safe way to travel in that violent world is in armored taxis- built by Landrover.

So for the Hollywood movie "Judge Dredd", starring Sylvester Stallone, several 101's were equipped with a futuristic fiberglass body. Design work was done by Gordon Sked and David Woodhouse, the vehicles were built by Land Rover. After the movie was finished almost all vehicles were bought by Philipp Bashall and are for sale. The vehicles are not road legal as they are but can be easily made to. All the 101's mechanical parts are retained. This is a hot, noisy vehicle- but what a headturner!

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Helen Golay, 75, and Olga Rutterschmidt, 72, were captured by police for a weird crime à laArsenic and Old Lace:

Two little old ladies have been accused of giving homeless men a place to stay, only to collect millions upon their deaths from insurance companies.

Helen Golay, 75, and Olga Rutterschmidt, 72, had a system. They would befriend homeless men and offer them apartments. Once they gained their trust, they would get them to open several insurance policies naming the women as beneficiaries.

After letting the men live off of their "kindness" for a couple of years, the killer grannies would cash in. They would gun down their victims with their cars and speed away.

http://www.sploid.com/news/2006/05/grannies_offer.php

Another Da Vinci Code parody: Alfred Thomas Catalfo's The Norman Rockwell Code. From the website:

A famous museum... a shocking murder... a distinguished symbologist... an alluring cryptologist... secrets written in code.

No, it's not that "other" story.

Movie Shot When the curator of The Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, is murdered, the police desperately need help with the investigation. Langford Fife, Professor of Symbology at Stockbridge Community College and the son of a certain Deputy Sheriff from Mayberry, North Carolina, is called to the scene. He may have received his degree in symbology through a correspondence course but he's "just as competent as those high-falutin' professors from Harvard with their fancy sheepskins from accredited schools."

With cryptologist Sopha Poisson of the Quebec Secret Service, Langford sets out to uncover the clues hidden in the paintings of Norman Rockwell... clues which will lead them to a secret society, a legendary bloodline and a battle with sinister forces.

Hit play, go to YouTube Link, or visit the Norman Rockwell Code website (via NeedCoffee)

Remember the dressed up cats previously on Neatorama? Now, it's the dogs' turn: dressed up Sweetie the chihuahua. Link

Putty-nosed monkey has code words to warn others of predators:

If you're a putty-nosed monkey and you hear a friend whoop out a loud "pyow" call, you know there's a leopard sneaking around and it's time to boogie.

Similarly, if you hear a "hack," it means you should watch out for a hungry eagle.

If the male let's out a "pyow," the monkeys scramble away from the lower levels of the trees. If they hear a "hack," they climb away from the canopy to avoid getting picked off by an eagle.

But, if the monkey mixes the call into "pyow-hack", it means something entirely different:

"They might make a 'pyow-hack' in response to a predator, but the strange thing is they also do it early in the morning while foraging," said study co-author Klaus Zuberbuhler. "If the male wants to move on, he produces that sequence, which is followed by the group moving."

http://www.livescience.com/animalworld/060517_monkey_codewords.html

Archaeologists discovered this tattoo-ed mummy with semi-precious gemstone and gold jewelry from the pre-Columbian Moche civilization in Peru.

Accompanied by unusual burial items, such as weapons of war and the skeleton of a child with a noose around its neck, the mummy, a woman approximately 30 years old when she died, was discovered last year by a group of Peruvian and U.S. archaeologists at the ancient site of El Brujo (The Wizard) on the coast of northern Peru, near Trujillo.

Her body was wrapped in hundreds of meters (yards) of cotton cloth, and near where it was found lay the skeleton of a youth offered in sacrifice with a rope still around its neck.

Jewelry made of semi-precious gemstones and fine gold was also found at the site, as were other objects like gold sewing needles and raw cotton.

The archaeologists were surprised to find buried with the mummy two ceremonial war clubs and 23 spear throwing implements, normally found only in the graves of Moche men.

"Perhaps she was a female warrior, or maybe the war clubs and spear throwers were symbols of power that were funeral gifts from men," said John Verano, a physical anthropologist from Tulane University in the United States.

Link (via Random Citations)

The obvious pun is: Will Farto go out of business if they sell Beano? Found at Dvorak Uncensored, via Feral Gifter.

This went 'round the Net a while ago: In the 1980s, dressing up cats in detailed costumes, called Unlickable Nameneko (or the slang Namennayo or "Don't Lick Me") was all the rage, and it all started with a young man named Satoru Tsuda:

Spring, 1980. A young Japanese man by the name of Satoru Tsuda finds an abandoned kitten at the dry cleaners next door to his home in Nagoya and takes it in, even though he doesn't like cats. He names it "Matakichi", after the dry cleaners. One day, as the kitten is playing with some doll's clothes in the house, Tsuda notices that they are the same size ...

The next year, a poster of Matakichi appears, dressed up like a "Tsuppari", or Japanese delinquent, in an unbuttoned school uniform with rolled-up sleeves, white t-shirt and belt. His motorcycle antenna banner doesn't display the Rising Sun but a Rising Cat, with the phrase "All Japan Fast Feline Federation -- You Won't Lick Us !" The craze takes off instantly.

Starting from Kyoto, the mecca of cool in Japan, posters and cards of the cats spread to just about every home and office in the country. The "Kitten Without A Cause" image captures the imagination of the Japanese people, who live in a somewhat polite and perhaps repressed society. About 500 different items are produced, including books, watches and panties (I want some ! And yes, I would wear them ...), and over 8 million posters and 12 million drivers license cards are sold, much to the chagrin of the police who asked that the "deceptive contents" be changed. Pundits and professors analyzed the fad, while the Prime Minister's Office adopted a cat character mascot. Speculation about how they got the cats to stand upright drew debate and protests from animal rights groups. Then, not even six months later, the fad died out as quickly as it started, but not before making Tsuda a wealthy man.

http://members.shaw.ca/pelorian/index2.html

Found at The Best Year of Your Life | http://www.intimsport.de/index.htm

QJ.NET has this unusual article: How to Pirate a Vinyl Record:

Step 1. Using the wooden strips, make a box around the glass plate. Seal off the edges using the window cement. Make sure everything is air tight.

Step 2. Place your record inside the box making sure that the portion to be copied is facing upward. Squeeze in some window cement to mark where the hole in the record is.

Step 3. Mix the silicone (Smooth On OOMOO 30 or OOMOO 25) for about 3 minutes before pouring in to the mold.

Read more: http://gadgets.qj.net/How-to-Pirate-a-Vinyl-Record/pg/49/aid/39381 (via DIY Happy)

Found at Misscellania, who wrote these about marriage:

Many girls like to marry a military man - he can cook, sew, and make beds, and is in good health, and he's already used to taking orders.

A foolish husband says to his wife, "Honey, you stick to the washin' ironin', cookin', and scrubbin'. No wife of mine is gonna work."

Marriages are made in heaven. But then again, so are thunder and lightning.

Thought for today: Marriage is grand -- and divorce is at least 100 grand.

No hate mail, ok? Miss C. and I were just trying to be funny.

From the website:

Icebergs come in different colors (but not different flavors). According to Ian Dunlop, they come in white, light blue, or an aqua-green type. White is the standard color and is a result of the ice and snow covering the iceberg. Blue is also from the ice which has compressed all the gas inside so much that the apparent color is blue from light scattering, much like a blue sky. The aqua green is from algae growing in the ice and is only seen when icebergs roll over exposing the previously underwater sections to view.

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A comedy spoof 3,000 years in the making.

Hit play or go to YouTube Link (via Bank Locater)

François is a French ex-coal miner, whose passion is building boats. One day, he decided to make a fully functional one-eight model of the Royal Carribbean's cruise ship Majesty of the Seas. It took about 11 years to make this boat!

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