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Survey Says

Remember the Fast Money round on Family Feud? Answers come easily when you're sitting on your sofa …but imagine the pressure you'd feel on national television. You might even say something stupid.

Q: Name a fruit that is yellow.
Orange.

Q: Name something that floats in the bath.
Water.

Q: Name a famous cowboy.
Buck Rogers.

Q: A number you have to memorize.
Seven.

Q: Name a part of the body beginning with "N."
Knee.

Q: Something you do before going to bed.
Sleep.

Q: Name a bird with a long neck.
Naomi Campbell.

Q: Name something with a hole in it.
Window.

Q: Name a sign of the zodiac.
April.

Q: Name something you might accidentally leave on all night.
Your shoes.

Q: Name a holiday when the stores are always busy.
Monday.

Q: Name something some people do clothed that others do without clothes.
Ride a motorcycle.

Q: Name something you do in the bathroom.
Decorate.

Q: Name the first thing you take off after work
Underwear.

Q: Something that flies that doesn't have an engine.
A bicycle with wings.

Q: Name an occupation where you need a torch.
A burglar.

Q: Name an animal you might see in a zoo.
A dog.

Q: A job around the house that has to be done every fall.
Spring cleaning.

Q: Something you might be allergic to.
Skiing.

Q: Name a famous bridge.
The bridge over troubled waters.

Q: Name something a cat does.
Goes to the bathroom.

Q: Name a song with moon in the title.
Blue sueded moon.

Q: Name an item of clothing worn by the Three Musketeers.
A horse.

Q: Name a famous group of singers.
The Simpsons.

See also: Family Feud Fails

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The article above is reprinted with permission from Uncle John's Supremely Satisfying Bathroom Reader.

Since 1988, the Bathroom Reader Institute had published a series of popular books containing irresistible bits of trivia and obscure yet fascinating facts. If you like Neatorama, you'll love the Bathroom Reader Institute's books - go ahead and check 'em out!


Fun with Appliances

Swiss artist Peter Gut puts animals in delightfully absurd situations! See a collection of illustrations from Gut's book Tierisch Unter Strom at Animalarium. Besides these penguins emerging from their thrill ride in a washer, there's also a lion working on his mane with a blow dryer, a snake marrying a vacuum cleaner, an ostrich hiding her head in a hairdryer, and zebras popping out of a toaster (Zebras testen die Katapultkraft der Toastmaschine), among others. Link -via Everlasting Blort


Bowing Practice

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The robot bows, and the little girl knows that the only polite thing to do is bow as well. But the robot doesn't ever stop bowing! This was recorded in Korea. -via Tastefully Offensive


Wading Through a Sea of Puppies

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The golden retriever puppies love Alice's slippers! Of course they do; even I love her slippers. They kind of remind me of the monster feet slippers at the NeatShop. -via Daily PIcks and Flicks


Snow in Russia

Moscow got a snowstorm that left a ten-inch-thick blanket of snow. They have 12,000 snow removal trucks, but they couldn't keep up with the tons of snow in the big city. Meanwhile, Norilsk, the northernmost city in the world (of at least 100,000 people), is digging out from under ten feet of snow! Yes, there are more pictures. Link  -via Fark

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The Big Top's Top Ten

The following is an article from the book History's Lists from Uncle John's Bathroom Reader.

They came in all shapes and sizes, and we gawked and gasped, just like we were supposed to do. Ladies and gentlemen and children of all ages: our list of the top ten circus attractions ever to grace the sawdust stage of circus big tops and sideshows!

1. JUMBO



P.T. Barnum brought Jumbo the elephant to New York City on Easter Sunday 1882, just in time for the annual opening of "the Greatest Show on Earth" at Madison Square Garden. In the first six weeks, Jumbo helped the show gross $336,000. Twelve feet tall at the shoulders and weighing in at six and a half tons (in fact, the word "jumbo" as we use it comes from his name), he's considered the greatest circus attraction in American history. Jumbo traveled like royalty in a private railroad car called "Jumbo's palace car," a crimson-and-gold boxcar with huge double doors. Unfortunately, popularity and size were no match for a speeding freight train that took Jumbo's life on September 15, 1885, in St. Thomas, Ontario, as he was being loaded onto his palace.

2. EMMETT KELLY

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Emmett Kelly's best known routine was trying to sweep a spotlight onto a dustpan on the Ringling circus stage. From 1942 to 1956, he appeared as a classic tramp clown called "Weary Willie," his version of a Depression-era hobo. Kelly's style was different from his flashy peers: he wandered around the arena dressed in tattered clothing, using pantomime instead of words to connect with the crowd. He died, aged 80, of a heart attack in Sarasota, Florida- the longtime winter quarters of the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailer Circus.

3. GENERAL TOM THUMB



In 1842, Barnum hired four-year-old dwarf Charles Stratton, who soon became famous as General Tom Thumb. Only 25 inches tall, Stratton started touring the United States with Barnum's circus, impersonating characters like Cupid and Napoleon Bonaparte. He also sang, danced, and participated in skits. Barnum took him on a European tour, where he appeared twice before Queen Victoria and became an international celebrity. But it was his wedding (by which time he'd grown to his adult height of 2' 11") to 2' 8" Lavinia Warren, in 1863 that drew the greatest public attention. Barnum charged $75 a ticket and 2,000 people -including congressional representatives, millionaires, and generals- attended. During their honeymoon, the little couple were wined and dined by President and Mrs. Lincoln at the White House.

4. ZIP THE PINHEAD

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Big Dreams

Dress for the job you want, not for the job you have.

How many times have we heard this advice? And when we hear it, we all have a sort of fantasy that we never manage to share. This reminds me of the time I told my youngest child, who was four or so at the same, that she could be anything she wanted when she grew up. She declared, "I wanna be a fish!" From Extra Fabulous Comics. Link


The Magnificent Pangolin

A pangolin looks a bit like a pine cone, rolls up in a ball like an armadillo, and eats ants like, well, liked an anteater. There are eight species of these mammals in Africa and Asia, and they are both endangered and delicious. Read more about pangolins and see pictures of the different species plus products made from them at Dark Roasted Blend. Link

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Lily and the Treat

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Lily Noel the corgi puppy savors the "total food experience," as someone at Metafilter put it.  


A Lesson in Dying

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Martha Keochareon became a nurse in 1992. She enjoyed caring for patients, and she enjoyed teaching student nurses, which was unusual among her coworkers. When Keochareon was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in 2006, she was given only a year to live. She made it to 2012, and despite her weakness, the last part of her life was dedicated to teaching nurses. Keochareon called Holyoke Community College, where she learned nursing, and offered herself as a case study for students.  

Keochareon (pronounced CATCH-uron) believed she could help nursing students learn about hospice care, which helps terminally ill people die at home. She told the New York Times she also felt it would be a chance to find out "what a tumour feels like" - and what it's like to face a deadly illness - from the patient's perspective.

The school got in touch with Keochareon, and a few weeks later, two students arrived at her home. When Cindy Santiago, 26, and Michelle Elliot, 52, came into her room, Keochareon told them "sit on my bed and talk to me."

Keochareon passed away on December 29th. Link -via Not Exactly Rocket Science


You're Gonna be a Grandma!

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A couple announced their expectancy to the family by way of wrapped Christmas gifts -four of them, which were building blocks that spelled out "BABY," with instructions to open them all at the same time. Shirley grasped the meaning of it all immediately, and now she says she's "Over the moon." We expect she will be a wonderful grandma! -via Viral Viral Videos


Duke Street Hazard

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There's a slope in the pavement where a garage ramp crosses the sidewalk. On slick icy days, this will be hazardous, which is why the warning cones are there. But people have to walk by anyway! Watch eight mesmerizing minutes of people sliding, a few butts busting, and at least one chain reaction. -via Arbroath


This Week at Neatorama

If you have your Christmas decorations put away by now, consider yourself ahead of the game. There are plenty of people where I live that not only still have their trees up, but turn them on every night. And we are already up to the next holiday! Martin Luther King Jr. Day is Monday, and if you have a three-day weekend, we hope you can spend at least some of that time catching up on what you may have missed this past week at Neatorama.

Alex brought us a collection of pretty videos from the 2012 Nikon Small World in Motion Competition.

Eddie Deezen marked the boxer's birthday on Thursday with Ten Things You Probably Didn't Know About Muhammad Ali.

You Go, Girls: The Suffragettes came from Uncle John's Bathroom Reader.

The Annals of Improbable Research gave us What Are They Doing? My Visit to a Psychology Conference.

And 10 U.S. Vice Presidents: A Celebration of Almost-Great Men was from mental_floss magazine.

In the What Is It? game this week, the mystery item is indeed a millstone. The first commenter who got it right (and followed all rules) was Craig Clayton, who wins a t-shirt from the NeatoShop! The funniest answer was from Dug, who said it is a "Recently unearthed Pompeii Satellite Dish Network receiver. It was still tuned to the Discovery channel when found. Some alarmist rhetoric show about end of the world, cataclysm, apocalypse, yadda yadda yadda." That one deserves a t-shirt, too! There were lots of funny answers this week; you should read them all. Several people mentioned the currency of Yap, which you can read more about in the post Funny Money: Strange currencies of the world. The answers to all this week's mystery items are posted at the What Is It? blog. Congratulations to the winners, and thanks to everyone for playing along!

Another contest is still open, as we asked you to caption the picture of the adorable Panda Cat. The commenter who comes up with the funniest caption will win a t-shirt from the NeatoShop!

Besides the contests, the post with the most comments this week was Ten Things You Probably Didn't Know About Muhammad Ali (which was also the most popular post of the week), followed by New Look and Logo for American Airlines: Hot or Not? and 38 Weird Varieties of Poutine.

When you get caught up on what's here at Neatorama, go see what's happening at Facebook and Twitter, where we put extra stuff for those who care to follow. Tell your friends to follow us on Pinterest, also! And mobile users: Flipboard makes it easy to keep up with Neatorama. Oh yeah -look for Neatorama in Instagram, too!


You Say You're "Pregnant," Huh?

We featured the "blog" of "unnecessary" quotes before, but it's been quite some time. The site celebrates the disconnect between sign makers who think quote marks are for emphasis or decoration and the people who read the sign, who translate quoted words in their heads as being sarcastic or facetious (think air quotes). It's quite "remarkable" that after eight years, the blog continues to receive plenty of material. This sign is from a roundup of their best at Buzzfeed. Link


Chocolate Fruit Omelet

A chocolate omelet? Why, sure! There's nothing about eggs that says they have to be paired with bacon, ham, or cheese. And what's in your chocolate cake and cookies? Eggs and chocolate. But unlike a chocolate cake, this recipe is gluten free! It was designed as a sweet breakfast for people on gluten-free diets, but anyone can enjoy it. Make your own with the recipe from Living Gluten Free in San Diego. Link


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