This Twaggie was illustrated from a Tweet from @jwalkonthemoon. Surely I'm not the only one to notice this looks strangely like a TARDIS, which would of course attract many people! Link

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The species Metasepia Pfefferi is commonly called the flamboyant cuttlefish. Not only is it colorful, it "walks" along the bottom of the sea between Malaysia and Australia. According to a rather dry scientific description at Wikipedia, the color changes are a complex form of camouflage, used either to blend in with the cuttlefish's background or to warn away predators. The cuttlefish's flesh is poisonous, making it only one of three known toxic cephalopods. -via the Presurfer

It was almost a year ago that we introduced you to the remixed movie concepts of Sean Hartter. Since then, he's expanded the collection to 120 movie posters! It was hard to decide which poster I like best, but I would stand in line to see either of these two films. Maybe you'd prefer Ving Rhames in Mad Max or maybe The Halloween Chainsaw Massacre or Tim Curry as The Joker. Some posters are slightly NSFW. Link

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Juan-Diego was inspired by colors to write a song. The result is both cute and funny. Who knew a guy getting hit with a pie had so many colors? -Thanks, Juan!

We showed you the night lights that Jason Hull (jayfish) makes out of vintage cameras. He has since opened an Etsy store, although the inventory is a little thin so far. But you can make your own! Hull has also posted the process for converting old flash cameras into night lights at Instructables. Link

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Bryan Harley should be careful about arming backyard wildlife. Too bad he didn't have two little light sabers! -Thanks, Bryan!

Neatorama presents a guest post from actor, comedian, and voiceover artist Eddie Deezen. Visit Eddie at his website.

How straight-laced were the Pilgrims? They tried to be, but you know how it goes. A shoe gets unbuckled, a bonnet becomes unlaced, and suddenly your hormones go into overdrive. The next thing you know, your horn of plenty hath spilled forth with wicked abundance.

Pretty much everything we "know" about the Pilgrims is untrue. Our modern-day image of the stern, clean-living, God-fearing residents of Plymouth Colony is largely mythical. It's an illusion that took shape in the nineteenth century, as some overzealous American attempted to construct an official, more respectable history of our growing nation. Historians cannot even determine exactly how many of the approximately 100 passengers on the Mayflower were Puritans and how many were just leaving to find better lives away from the gripping poverty that plagued England at the time. It is generally believed there were more of the latter than the former. 

First off, they never referred to themselves or thought of themselves as "the Pilgrims." The term "pilgrim" was reserved for Muslims making the pilgrimage to Mecca. The Pilgrims referred to themselves as "the Saints" or "the Separatists." They also referred to themselves as "Old Planters" or "Old Comers." Draw your own conclusions from that. The name "the Pilgrims," as we call them today, caught on around the time of the American Revolution. Yes, they were notorious beer drinkers. They weren't even headed for Massachusetts; they aimed for Georgia or a place further south, because of the milder weather. One of the reasons they ended up in Massachusetts in the first place was the lack of beer. According to one of the diaries of a Mayflower passenger, "We could not take time for further search ...our victuals being much spent, especially our beer." 

One of the first structures built when they landed was a common brewery for the colonists. Many of the Pilgrims were brewers, this being done primarily in the home at the time. While we don't have the details about their private lives, we do know that by 1636, the colonists had a published set of rules that listed capital offenses. Among them were sodomy, rape, buggery, and some cases of adultery. So they were certainly concerned with sex, if not necessarily always having it.

However, court records from the colony indicate that sex-related crimes were common transgressions. Fornication, which was defined as sex outside of marriage, was a frequently committed crime, one that often resulted in a fine. Sometimes the evidence of a conviction was solely of the birth of a child in the early months of a marriage.

The only recorded execution for a sex crime occurred in 1642, when 17-year-old Thomas Granger was convicted of buggery. The young man had engaged in unfortunate, intimate relations with some local sheep, and he paid the ultimate price for it. Less severe penalties (relatively speaking), often consisted of whippings. And like Hester Prynne in The Scarlet Letter, adulterers were sometimes required to wear the capital letters "AD" on their clothing. No, the Pilgrims weren't exactly saints. But they definitely took their sins seriously!

I used to wait until after Thanksgiving to put up my Christmas decorations. What changed my habits was my children. I always told them we couldn't decorate until the house was clean, so they helped out -a lot. And since we have quite a few guests for Thanksgiving, the housecleaning and decorating now get done before the feast. And why not? I have neighbors that put up lights two weeks ago! So that's what I'll be doing this week -along with grocery shopping, cooking, and making sure you have plenty of good things to read on Neatorama! If you're using the weekend to catch up on Neatorama, here are some links to help you out.

Jill Harness helps you give a different and personal spin to your holiday with Great Food Ideas For A Fantasy and Sci-Fi Themed Thanksgiving.

Eddie Deezen wrote the story of Why Wyatt Earp is Buried in a Jewish Cemetery.

From Uncle John's Bathroom Reader, we learned about the legacies of Ancient Astronomers.

A Golden Mean in Your Mouth came to us from The Annals of Improbable Research.

Mental_floss magazine gave us 6 Freakishly Effective Ways to Court the Muse.

At NeatoBambino, there's an award-winning animation by Darren Bell called Imaginary Sam that explains without words what happens to imaginary friends when kids outgrow them.

In the What Is It? game this week, the mystery object is an inkwell. Congratulations to Anker, who had the correct answer right off. The funny answer award goes to Straight_Flush, who declared this to be a small hadron collider! Both win t-shirts from the NeatoShop. We had a lot of imaginative answers this week, some x-rated, so you should go read them all!

Over on the Neatorama Google+ page, we introduced caption contests this week. I believe this one is still open. If you don't have a great caption, you can vote on your favorite from the ones already there! And be sure to check out the Google+ page every day, because giveaways pop up over there with no advance notice.

When you're caught up on everything from this week, you can check out past feature articles at The Best of Neatorama. And have a wonderful Thanksgiving holiday!

(YouTube link) Biola University professor Matthew Weathers does it again! He p[resented entertaining lectures for Halloween and April Fool's Day that we've seen, and now Thanksgiving gets the treatment. -via reddit

T Zero made this arm sculpture from the movie Terminator 2: Judgement Day out of spare parts. Then he gives you the process so you can make your own. However, you should be aware that it's only two inches tall! Still, having on of these on your desk would be pretty cool. Link -via Everlasting Blort

A talking weasel on the Isle of Man was an international media sensation back in the 1930s. It was known as "the Dalby Spook" locally, but the weasel called itself Gef. The weasel -or possibly a mongoose- lived on the farm of James and Margaret Irving.

The strange events began in autumn 1931, when the Irvings noticed an unusual animal in their farmyard, being, as Price’s correspondent described: “similar in appearance to a weasel, with small body, long bushy tail, flat nose, and yellow in colour”.[3] Oddly, this animal did not appear to alarm the chickens. Later, it was seen inside the house, as James Irving described: “This eerie weasel, as I thought he might be, then began to keep us awake at night by blowing, spitting and growling behind the matchboard partition of the lower rooms…”[4]

The entity quickly progressed to something more sophisticated. Having learned to mimic various animal noises, it then began to repeat nursery rhymes, and within a short while – having built up a sufficiently wide vocabulary – it could converse with the family. Its voice is said to have been loud, clear, and one or two octaves higher than a human’s. Other witnesses describe it as a “very high, screechy sort”.[5]

Initial news reports spoke of the ‘man-weasel’ farm,[6] and indeed, the entity itself, when asked who or what he was, would frequently reply: “I am the ghost of a weasel, and I will haunt you with weird noises and clanking chains.”[7] It was only later on that he described himself as “just a little extra, extra clever mongoose”.[8]

Newspapers printed stories about Gef, although when reporters visited the farm, he tended to disappear. Some considered him a poltergeist or a shape-shifter. It was later thought that the Irving's teenage daughter, Voirrey, provided the voice of Gef, but she never admitted to a hoax. Link

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I thought this was neat -someone edited the film The Matrix to the tune of "Mambo #5" by Lou Bega. But the video is not edited at all. This gunfight scene just syncs up very well! -via Buzzfeed

Plunge waterfalls are those that fall so forcefully they completely lose contact with the cliff face. Not something you'd want to get too close to! Environmental Graffiti found 15 of these falls, and will take you on a tour of them through a photo gallery.  Shown here is Waireinga Falls in New Zealand. Link

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We told you the story of Joseph Pujol, who made a good living by farting onstage in Paris over a hundred years ago. Now that story is a off-Broadaway musical! The Fartiste opened last week at Sofia’s Downstairs dinner theater.

It might be lowbrow humor at its lowest, but it gets laughs. Why? Unfortunately the cast and crew can't say. You just have to have an open mind ... and open nostrils.

"I love fart jokes and I think that everyone should," said Charlie Schulman, who wrote the show's book. "It's one of those things in life that makes people laugh, but I don't know why."

More flatulent sound effects fill the air of the Manhattan dinner theater where the show opened last week than at a Whoopee cushion factory.

"You could be at a funeral, and if somebody farts, people will laugh," said Steven Scott, a standup comedian who produces every gassy sound in "The Fartiste" with his mouth. "There's just something funny about it."

So far, the show has received good reviews. Link

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The most detailed moon map yet has been constructed from images by NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO). Technicians from Arizona State University compiled the map which shows elevation changes as small as 100 meters.

The near-global topographic map was constructed from 69,000 WAC stereo models and covers the latitude range 79°S to 79°N, 98.2% of the entire lunar surface. Due to persistent shadows near the poles it is not possible to create a complete stereo based map at the highest latitudes. However, another instrument onboard LRO called LOLA excels at mapping topography at the poles. Since LOLA ranges to the surface with its own lasers, and the LRO orbits converge at the poles, a very high resolution topographic model is possible, and can be used to fill in the WAC “hole at the pole.” The WAC topography was produced by LROC team members at the German Aerospace Center.

Read more about the map at NASA. Link -via Laughing Squid