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A Huge Collection Of Clever Movie Easter Eggs

Movie easter eggs are fun to hunt with your eyeballs and often so deliciously geeky that you want to share them with friends.

Which is why sites keep posting articles revealing the locations of movie secrets and we keep eating it all up!

In this collection of 30 Clever Easter Eggs put together by gamesradar we learn the morse code message received in Peter Jackson's 2005 version of King Kong was not an arrest warrant for Carl Denham- it actually said “show me the monkey!”.

The list also shows us little details we may have missed, like the painting of Roland the Gunslinger Thomas Jane's character is painting in The Mist, or the fact that Freddy's glove is hanging in the tool shed in Evil Dead 2.

And lastly, did you think the name of the Mexican restaurant in Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy seemed a bit long?

That's because it was a big joke- Escupimos en su Alimento means "we spit in your food".

See The 30 Best Movie Easter Eggs here


Guy Uses Sign To Assure His Mom He's Okay While Traveling Around The World

When people start traveling around the world at a young age they discover one big thing about their lives- all that travelling makes their mothers worry.

She starts demanding phone calls, postcards and social media posts as assurance you're okay, and if you're a good son or daughter you comply...when you remember.

But Jonathan Quiñonez is both well traveled and a really good son, so he kept assuring his mom of his safety while traveling the world by posting pics of himself holding up a sign that said “Mom, I'm Fine”.

The sign appears to have worked as the ultimate icebreaker for Jonathan, although the former Belgian model probably doesn't need a sign or a gimmick to get attention.

See Guy Drops Everything To Travel The World But Doesn't Forget To Assure His Mom He's Fine here


Fan Hilariously Nitpicks Everything Wrong With Suicide Squad

Suicide Squad has been out for a few weeks now, so chances are fans who wanted to see it on the big screen already have while the rest of us who are waiting for the DVD no longer care about the hype.

Despite the critical reviews and haters the film managed to make some money at the box office, but after seeing the movie twice Jenny Nicholson was left with a hollow feeling and some nagging questions. (Video is full of Suicide Squad spoilers)

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Jenny's first mistake was feeding that monster watching the film twice, her second mistake- taking her logical mind with her to see the movie!

-Via Meme Base


Responsibilities

We all have to deal with our responsibilities on a daily basis, and even people who consider themselves irresponsible have a personal responsibility to maintain that irresponsibility.

Most of us work because we have mouths to feed, but as this comic from Oppressive Silence shows that idiom means drastically different things to different people...

-Via Geeks Are Sexy


How Different Majors React When Their Party Is Busted By The Cops

Officer, I've diagnosed you with over 20 different disorders from my Psych 101 textbook. Are you sure you want to arrest me, or are you just projecting because of your relationship with your father?

Partying and college go together like long lectures and napping, and it seems like no matter the age of the student, the campus or the major they're all partying through their degree.

And if you party long and hard enough you're bound to get a visit from the cops, or the campus cops as the case may be, which every student will deal with in a different manner.

Wow, breaking up a drinking party. How cliche. I bet you guys were eating donuts right before this, too, you hacks.

For example, a film student is likely to go all Tarantino on the cops at their door while a business major will try to cut a deal.

I'll give you twenty dollars if you don't charge me for throwing this party. I'll give you forty dollars if you don't charge me for trying to bribe you.

The psychology student will try to psychoanalyze the officers, which is likely to get that student arrested for being annoying, while the computer science prefers to freak out in code.

if (cop's running speed < 6mph){

run away

}

else{

play dead

}

See How Different Majors Respond To Getting Their Party Busted By The Cops here (Warning: contains a misspelled word- don't panic!)


Supervillain Origins: The Blob

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The Blob is one of the most bizarre supervillains in the Marvel Universe, because many of his mutant abilities are seemingly derived from his super-powered fat.

But the Blob is more than just a big bully with his own mono-directional gravity field- he's a complex character with an interesting origin story.

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This video by WatchMojo.com walks you through the Blob's origin story found in X-Men #3 and the updates from X-Force #52, but that's just the beginning of the Blob's story- read all about him here

-Via WatchMojo


Ex-Cons Remember Their Worst Jobs After Being Released From Prison

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People who wind up in prison often learn skills while they're locked up to help them get a job when they finish their sentence, but a felony on your record reduces your job options to virtually nil.

So ex-cons are often forced to take whichever job they can get, and all that training on the inside ironically ends up being worthless on the outside due to their criminal record.

Writer and ex-con Seth Ferranti spoke with other ex-cons about the worst jobs they've had since they got out, and their answers were bad but not quite as bad as you'd expect.

Seth thought being a sauté cook sucked, but after talking to a guy who worked eleven hours a day cleaning cow crap, a guy who picked up trash at the city dump and, worst of all, a telemarketer he discovered cooking ain't so bad after all!

Read Ex-Cons Remember Their Worst Jobs After Being Released From Prison here


Watch This Speed Crocheter Craft A Yarn Flower In 90 Seconds

It's go time. #jjcrochetinNYC #speedcrochet #lightscameraaction

A photo posted by Jayna Grassel (@jaynagrassel) on Mar 4, 2016 at 1:08pm PST

I'm constantly impressed by the talented artists who show off their skills online, and their videos are doubly impressive when the skill they're showing off takes years to master and the crafter is working at a blazing fast pace.

Here's a perfect example- a video filmed by Wired/Condé-Nast showing speed crocheter Jayna Grassel crafting a yarn flower in under 90 seconds.

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Jayna creates a ludicrously speedy 71 stitches per minute in the video, and says she can actually work faster when she's not uncomfortably positioned for the sake of the camera:

I went up, saw the studio, met a bunch of people and they told me to stand behind a table and crochet while they shot aerially. Um, I don’t crochet standing up. That’s crazy. So they got me a chair and I repositioned myself. But to be honest, it still wasn’t great. As any crocheter will attest, when you crochet your elbows rest almost at your hips, hands at about mid-stomach level. Normal. To get a shot, they had me stretch out my hands so they were centered over a table... It was strange and I’ll admit didn’t set me up to do my best. I was dropping stitches and wasn’t as fast as I’d been practicing.

-Via Laughing Squid


Bowser Calls Ganondorf For Advice On Dating Princess Peach

Bowser looks and talks like a big badass, and acts like he has a chip on his shoulder towards moustachioed plumbers, but the truth is he's just extremely lonely, jealous and desperate for a girlfriend.

So comic artist FigmentForm naturally figured Ganondorf could show Bowser the way to Princess Peach's heart when she created this guest piece for Manly Guys Doing Manly Things, and boy was she right!

-Via Geeks Are Sexy


This Dungeons & Dragons Tabletop Diorama Is A Gamer's Dream Come True

Some people don't really want or need anything on the hex mat when they're playing a tabletop roleplaying game, preferring to play solely using the power of imagination.

For the rest of us it's nice to have some visual elements to enhance our experience, including miniatures that actually fit our characters and some terrain pieces.

But miniatures master crafter Ryan Devoto wasn't content with using but a few measley scenic pieces for his Dungeons & Dragons campaign- he wanted a setting his miniatures could truly call home.

So Ryan, along with Michael Tiskus of Terranscapes, built an epic scale D&D diorama complete with a port full of ships, a village, a massive castle with full interior and more.

With a diorama so detailed and varied in terms of environment types the campaign practically writes itself!

See more detail shots from Ryan's amazing D&D diorama here

-Via Nerd Approved


Green Screened Moments From The 2016 Summer Olympics In Rio

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Green seemed to be a dominant color in the Olympic Games Rio 2016- the green Reals Brazil paid to host the games, the green courts and fields where the games were played, the green backdrops, the green water in the pool...

It's safe to say green is the color which best symbolizes the 2016 Olympics, so creating some “green screened” Olympic moments makes perfect sense!

The green backdrops found throughout the Games made it easy for digital manipulator and Imgur user factionman to place the tennis court in any environment- so he naturally chose outer space.

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And even the gymnasts discovered they weren't safe from the green screen treatment even though they performed their floor routines on a tan mat.

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-Via Mashable, CollegeHumor, PetaPixel


Dad Makes Edible Food Sculptures For His Daughter With Severe Allergies

There are too many gruff, cold and closeminded dads in the world as it is, what we need now are guys willing to be warm and loving fathers and boost their kids up instead of tearing them down.

Adam Perry is one of those kinder, gentler dads who discovered his daughter could only eat plain toast with sunflower oil for breakfast due to severe food allergies- so he found a way to make a bland breakfast fun.

He started using slices of toast to make food sculptures, and what started out as simple toasty shapes soon became a food sculpture smorgasbord.

Now his daughter isn't stuck eating plain old toast in the morning, she's eating tropical islands, bread crabs, bungalows, sail boats and boom boxes, or the most meta of them all- the toaster made out of toast.

See A Toast To This Dad Who Makes Edible Sculptures For His Daughter With Food Allergies here


How Creepy You Are Based On The Type Of Pets You Own

Our pets are seen as a reflection of ourselves, and people reckon they can glean information about our personality, lifestyle and temperament from the types of pets we own.

And while this isn't always true, especially when it comes to dog owners, there's always at least one person who lives up to the stereotype in each group of owners.

People who own snakes aren't always creepy, but there's always that one guy who thinks it's fine to make out with his salmonella-infested serpent when people are over.

And then there are the people who own a bunch of cats or ferrets and refuse to acknowledge that their house always smells like animal urine.

But at least they actually own their pets and don't smell like they're covered in their own urine, that's when you start getting into a whole new level of creepiness.

Of course, you don't have to be homeless to be a totally deranged pet owner, just ask the crazy cat lady who can't remember exactly how many kitties she has roaming around in her house.

And no matter what anybody tells you human ownership is not okay and never was, so when your Gimp tells you he's yours to do with what you will he's speaking figuratively.

Take it from comic artist extraordinaire Caldwell Tanner and let the Gimps roam free!

-Via CollegeHumor


Dogs Sticking Their Heads Through Fences To Say Hi

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Dogs sometimes refuse to take no for an answer when they're desperate to say hello, and no bush, wall or fence can keep them from shoving their head through to greet their neighbor face to face.

This almost manic drive to see who or what is living next door can result in wrecked fences, tunnels dug in the dirt under walls, and a sad little pooch with a stupid look on his face when he realizes he's stuck.

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Of course, not all dogs are saddened by the prospect of being stuck, because they're just happy to be out of the house!

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See 10+ Desperate Dogs Who Just Want To Say Hi here


A Curious And Creepy Owl Theremin

Delightfully mad sculptor David Cranmer makes functional art pieces that put the fun in funky, and his strange contraptions often make a pretty funky racket too.

We've featured his Musical Liquer-Dispensing Machine, his Duck Machine, his Stuffed Badger Theremin and his Furby Gurdy here on Neatorama before, so we obviously give a hoot about David's amazing musical sculptures.

But this owl theremin is my favorite of the bunch by far, because it would look right at home in the Great Northern Hotel, the Addams Family house or the Haunted Mansion...or my house!

Flipping the switch labeled "Activate Owl" causes the owl to arise while the theremin starts up, and as the player waves their hand to make sweet, spooky "music" the owl silently judges them from on high.

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-Via Dangerous Minds


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