In 1988, ABC launched a sitcom designed around the standup routine of comedian Roseanne Barr. It was totally different from everything else on TV: shows full of wealthy people who looked like movie stars. It was an immed...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/08/31/15-Things-You-Might-Not-Know-About-Roseanne/I've never seen a railroad crossing like this one. Allegedly, this video shows two rail lines crossing in Bundaberg, Australia--a region noted for a large amount of sugar cane production. When the light cane train needs...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/08/31/A-Drawbridge-Crossing-for-2-Trains/Kigurumi is big time in Japan, with everything from mascots to cosplayers considered part of kigurumi, but there's one form of kigurumi cosplayer who is a bit creepier than the rest- the Dollers.Some Dollers dress up to...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/08/31/Portrait-Series-Featuring-Creepy-Cosplay-Characters-Known-As-Dollers/Bekah Miles has depression. She’s trying to come to grips with the illness. As an expression of her efforts, she got this tattoo which beautifully illustrates how depression is experienced. When other people look a...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/08/31/Clever-Touching-Tattoo-Flips-Your-Perspective-on-Depression/Two robots are mining a distant planet. It’s a lonely job, until they run into each other. No, it’s nothing like Wall-E, even though these robots are cute, too. [https://vimeo.com/1375312...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/08/31/Wire-Cutters/(Photo: Michael Appleton/New York Times)In the decades following the American Civil War, the South found demand for a new cash crop: virgin longleaf pine. In the era before steel girders became useful for constr...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/08/31/Salvaging-Antique-Wood-A-Booming-Business-in-New-York-City/[https://youtu.be/nHc288IPFzk] (YouTube link)Wonder what these things sound like…. AAGH! Run away! Run Away! Highlighting the main charm of Vine, a video like this makes it clear that six seconds are all that&rsqu...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/08/31/Pelican-Army/(Image: Marvel Studios)Hulk smash? Yes. But beyond that, Hulk save. The Hulk is male, but the original, real-life Hulk was a woman. Jack Kirby, the comic book artist who conceived of the Hulk, explained in *stro...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/08/31/The-Original-Inspiration-for-the-Hulk-Was-a-Mother-Lifting-a-Car-off-Her-Baby/Shadow Of A Foe by Boggs NicolasBeing the god of thunder, bearing that great responsibility, comes with a dark price- there will always be an opposing force trying to snuff out your spark. Thor lives with this shadow of...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/08/31/Shadow-Of-A-Foe-Thunder-Struck/Unless you're looking at an officially licensed Disney tutorial you'd better put your pencils and your eyeballs away and stop looking at the screen, now!Just kidding, it's nothing more than an innocent comic drawn by a n...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/08/31/How-To-Draw-Mickey-Mouse/[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qxUQ7E6hOo](Video Link)At 432 yards long, the newly-launched MSC Zoe is the Death Star of the transoceanic shipping business. It's no moon, but a fully operational station capab...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/08/31/The-Worlds-Largest-Container-Ship-Plays-the-Star-Wars-Theme-on-Its-Horn/In the town of Burjassot, Spain, a historic underground excavation was recently opened to the public for the first time in 100 years. The 47 underground grain silos were used for food storage for several hundred years, t...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/08/31/The-Silos-of-Burjassot/[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rad-sWnAiwI](Video Link)Isaiah Chute is 2 and 1/2. Kamoli the gorilla is about 1 and a 1/2. They're perfect playmates, as you can see in this video shot at the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium i...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/08/31/Human-Toddler-and-Gorilla-Toddler-Play-Together/Only a stone-hearted supervillain would deny a child's wish to dress up and play the role of their favorite superhero, and if you're the father of that future cosplayer you really can't say no.But if you're a crafty fath...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/08/31/Father-Forged-Replica-Of-Thors-Hammer-For-His-Four-Year-Old-Son/They showed a clip from the documentary Air Jaws: Walking with Great Whites, which premiered on Discovery last night in the US. Karl Stefanovic and Lisa Wilkinson of the Australian morning show Today ar...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/08/31/Up-Close-and-Personal-with-Sharks/We've previously posted the adorable works of Etsy seller iheartneedlework (see her celebratory hats and Frankenstein costume), but these great Darth and Leia hats are too cute to ignore. On the other hand, if you p...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/08/31/Now-Your-Pet-Can-Join-The-Rebellion-or-the-Empire/I dunno about this. It doesn’t look quite safe to me. But it must have turned out all right, because the entire video descriptions says,Witness the awesome pulling power of Dodge trucks. [https://youtu.be/qb_464W6...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/08/31/Truck-vs-Tree/It's back to school time once again, and that means school is on everyone's mind whether they graduated in 1960 or they'll be starting school in 2016.Whether you're still heading down the road towards a college degree or...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/08/31/Go-Back-To-School-In-Style-With-These-30-Nerdy-T-Shirts/The following is a Whodunit by Hy Conrad. These mysteries are from The Little Giant® Book of Whodunits by Hy Conrad and Matt LaFleur. Can you solve the mystery before you read the solution? Tw...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/08/31/The-Pretenders-Ball-III/The Timey Wimey Machine by Twenty27 DesignsThe Doctor has lived many lifetimes so his adventures have happened over and over again, which tends to mess with all that timey wimey stuff floating around out there keeping th...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/08/31/The-Timey-Wimey-Machine-Allons-Y-To-The-Movies/[https://youtu.be/4zUqdWgX8DA]YouTube LinkCarelessness. Greed leading to betrayal, overspending and criminal activity. Fraud. Lying to the wrong people. These lottery winners once had it made, but eventu...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/08/31/Top-Ten-Dumbest-Lottery-Winners/(Mark Pain/Pain Train)When you first joined MySpace, you were anxious and awkward. You didn't know anyone. You didn't know if it would be safe space.Immediately, Tom Anderson appeared. He was not only th...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/08/31/Your-First-Friend-Your-Forgotten-Friend/Some dads are champions for reasons that can't easily be expressed with words, but dads who are lucky enough to have their awesomeness caught on camera can prove their super dad powers to the world!(YouTube Link)Catching...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/08/31/A-Video-Compilation-Of-Great-Dad-Moments/The following is an article from the book Uncle John's Canoramic Bathroom Reader.The longest high-five chain in the world, and a few other interesting “longest” things. (Note: This is a pretty lo...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/08/31/Its-So-Long/The Dumbo Octopus (Grimpoteuthis) is unavoidably cute! He can dance and stick out his tongue, so he's a natural performer. But that's only once he's ready. When caught unawares, the Dumbo gets shy. The oceanogra...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/08/31/Shy-Octopus-Hides-under-His-Tentacles/A photo posted by Jon Burgerman (@jonburgerman) on Jul 21, 2015 at 5:34pm PDT Artist Jon Burgerman has been featured at Neatorama multiple times over the years for his witty work that often explores how art ca...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/08/31/Jon-Burgermans-Famous-Friends/Caroline from Japan makes little sweets that look like cats. Sometimes they nap in pancakes. Other times, they curl up around eclairs. But they're always cute and delicious. For this project, they're struggling to *stron...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/08/31/Candy-Cats-Trying-to-Catch-Candy-Goldfish/When your world revolves around school, the real bad guy of the drama is the bully. And so it was with ‘80s teen movies, and there were a lot of ‘80s teen movies. Not all bullies fit the exact formula, but th...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/08/31/The-Perfect-80s-Movie-Bully/Gemma Correll zeroes in on some of the less come-hither glows of summer with her latest comic. Not every tan is a good tan, nor is it necessarily a natural happenstance. While out people watching during summer, one is of...
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