Archive for June 14th, 2008

The Most Beautiful Goat in the World

Meet the Damascene goat named Qahr, the winner of the "Most Beautiful Goat" award at the Mazayen al-Maaz competition in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.And yes, it does look a little like Popeye! Link - via A Welsh View(P...

https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/14/the-most-beautiful-goat-in-the-world/

Aphrodite Drawers by Tadao Hoshino

The Aphrodite Drawers by Tadao Hoshino look like a chest of drawers that is about to topple over ... but the piece actually has a bit of clever engineering in it:The Aphrodite is a highly original piece with...

https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/14/aphrodite-drawers-by-tadao-hoshino/

Woman Imprisoned 18 Years by Own Family for Baby Out of Wedlock

Remember the crazy story about the Austrian man who kept his daughter locked in an underground dungeon? Here's something alarmingly similar: a woman was locked in a filthy bedroom by her family and forced to live in squa...

https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/14/woman-imprisoned-18-years-by-own-family-for-baby-out-of-wedlock/

Dating Terms of Engagement ... for a Billionaire!

It's not easy being a billionaire, as Facebook founder and the world's youngest self-made billionaire Mark Zuckerberg found out: he and his girlfriend Priscilla Chan are holding a "series of negotiations" to ha...

https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/14/dating-terms-of-engagement-for-a-billionaire/

Nurse Pulled Cops Out of Burning Car, Got 10 Months in Jail For It

Rachelle Jackson, a trained nurse, pulled two policemen out of their burning squad car ... and rather than being thanked for her heroic effort, she was arrested on charges that she robbed, battered and disarmed a peace o...

https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/14/nurse-pulled-cops-out-of-burning-car-got-10-months-in-jail-for-it/

Next to Invade Australia: Supercats!

Having had bad lucks with cane toads and rabbits, scientists in Australia are worried about the next animal that could wreck the continent's ecosystem: supercats!The Federal Government has been under fire after it wa...

https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/14/next-to-invade-australia-supercats/

100 Thing Challenge: Living With Just 100 Items in Your Life

Dave Bruno looked around his San Diego home one summer and realized just how much of his family's belongings were cluttering their lives. So he decided to do something about it, in a project he called The 100 Thing Chall...

https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/14/100-thing-challenge-living-with-just-100-items-in-your-life/

Pain at the Pump: Won't Someone Think of the Gas Station Owners?

The next time you pump gas, try to feel the pain ... of the gas station owners! Here's a report by Elizabeth Douglass and Ronald D. White of the LA Times about how gas station owners are being squeezed by high oil and ga...

https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/14/pain-at-the-pump-wont-someone-think-of-the-gas-station-owners/

Say Hello to the Human Egg

That, my friend, is what you and I and everyone else in this world started out as: the human oocyte. Dr. Jacques Donnez at the Catholic University of Louvain in Brussels, Belgium, was carrying out a partial hysterectomy...

https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/14/say-hello-to-the-human-egg/

Star Trek Cartoon + Shatner's "Common People" = Kirk/Spock Slashup

Behold the best Star Trek mash up ever: the animated Star Trek + William Shatner's cover of Pulp's "Common People" = greatness!Done in the style of Kirk/Spock (or K/S) story:In the science fiction TV series...

https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/14/star-trek-cartoon-shatners-common-people-kirkspock-slashup/

Strawberry Shortcake's Extreme Makeover

Images: TCFCStrawberry Shortcake is getting stale - the "it" doll of the 1980s just wasn't connecting with modern girls, so her corporate owner American Greeting Properties, is having pulling an extreme makeove...

https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/14/strawberry-shortcakes-extreme-makeover/

Hulk Movie Review a Smashing Good Fun! Movie Not So Much.

The movie may be bad, but this review by Peter Bradshaw for the Guardian is pure gold:"Hulk. Smash!" Yes. Hulk. Smash. Yes. Smash. Big Hulk smash. Smash cars. Buildings. Army tanks. Hulk not just smash. Hul...

https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/14/hulk-movie-review-a-smashing-good-fun-movie-not-so-much/

Fired for Laughing

We posted about the waitress who was fired for cutting her hair for charity before, but this one is even better: Darra Kollios got fired because she was laughing!"I had a customer at the bar and the owner came u...

https://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/14/fired-for-laughing/




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