As the saying goes, hard work never killed anybody, but the French aren't taking any chances*. The country's left-leaning government is famous for instituting a controversial 35-hour workweek and a ban on stores from ope...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/10/21/The-Chinese-Dont-Understand-Why-the-French-Dont-Like-to-Work/[http://youtu.be/WKyyBsu2u8w] (YouTube link)Rick, Daryl, Glenn, Andrea, and many other characters from The Walking Dead sing that Halloween classic "The Monster Mash" without even knowing it, because it's an edi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/10/21/The-Walking-Dead-Monster-Mash/Star Wars Rebel Alliance BackpackAttention Star Wars fans. Show your allegiance to the Alliance to Restore the Republic with the Star Wars Rebel Alliance Backpack from the NeatoShop. This striking bag features 3 zi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/10/21/Star-Wars-Rebel-Alliance-Backpack/You've probably been told not to eat green potatoes because they are poison. Just how poisonous are they? The presence of chlorophyll in a potato's skin indicates an increased level of solanine, which at critical concent...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/10/21/Horrific-Tales-of-Potato-Poisoning/[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lAEs_N-67UA](Video Link)The Smithsonian’s Smart News blog headlines its post as “The Red Batfish Looks Like a Muppet, Is Actually a Clam, And Should Be Your Ne...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/10/21/This-Fish-Looks-Like-a-Muppet/Christopher Hunt of Ogilvy & Mather Dubai used Google autocomplete to bring attention to gender inequality in this print ad campaign for United Nations Women. Hunt noted that the advertisements, titled...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/10/21/Autocomplete-Truths-about-Gender-Inequality/Nick Berry of DataGenetics poses a puzzle of logic, strategy, and math. Since Halloween is coming up, it involves a monster. I think he's kind of cute, but that's not the point at all. He will eat you if he catches you!I...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/10/21/How-to-Escape-a-Monster-Using-Calculus/Snuggies may be comfortable, but they aren't exactly cool and fashionable...at least, until now. This TARDIS Snuggie could keep you warm while you enjoy a Doctor Who marathon at home or help you enjoy your role in the mo...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/10/21/Finally-A-Snuggie-With-Style/Always check for a toilet paper supply before you sit down.This mummy in the webcomic Berkeley Mews didn’t, but he seems to be content with his pricey solution.webcomic, Berkeley Mews, mummies, toi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/10/21/Versitile-Mummy/[http://youtu.be/NBUhV4seFHA] No, that's not the Tea Partiers throwing a temper tantrum. Kathy Sterner was getting fed up that her 6-year-old daughter was throwing a tantrum in her room. Thankfully, dad was...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/10/21/40-Year-Olds-Temper-Tantrum/Nalini Asha Biggs, who made and modeled the Medusa costume that was featured on our Halloween blog, is a pumpkin artist! Her latest creation is this Indiana Jones pumpkin sculpture, capturing Indy as a young archaeologis...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/10/21/Indiana-Jones-Pumpkin/The aunt of high school student Halsey Parkerson of Salem, Oregon visited him at school one day to have lunch together. While there, she saw him being bullied by another student. The bully told Halsey that “he does...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/10/21/Facebook-Used-to-Rally-100-People-to-Stand-with-Bullied-Teenager/[https://vimeo.com/75849442] (vimeo link)I read somewhere recently that in modern families, children grow up and then leave home and come back several times before they are really on their own. Leaving Home by D...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/10/21/Leaving-Home/Ninjaman SocksDo you long to join the secret society of cool sock wearers? Becoming a member of this elite group starts with but a single step. Simply open your heart and let your feet embrace the funky footwear. Do not...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/10/21/Ninjaman-Socks/Teach your child to be honest, preferably by example. Or by terrifying them with unnecessary fears. Pretty much anything that works, as Lunarbaboon illustrates.For an older generation: the real reason E....
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/10/21/Teach-Your-Child-Honesty/The following is a Whodunit by Hy Conrad featuring Sherman Oliver Holmes, a mysterious crime solver and great-great-grandson of Sherlock Holmes. Can you solve the crime?(Image credit: Flickr user Mark Som...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/10/21/Whodunit-The-Ring-stealing-Ring/Oh snap! That's right, it's an Oregon Trail costume. Now that's something I'd be into wearing, but I don't have the technical skills needed to build the wagon that's critical to the costume. No worries though, that'...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/10/21/8-Clever-Cosplays-that-Would-Make-Great-Halloween-Costumes/(Images: Omlet)We may not be able to resolve the age-old question of why, but we can address how. Drivers may not always see pet chickens crossing roads, so the company Omlet developed these shi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/10/21/High-Visibility-Vests-Help-Chickens-Cross-the-Road-without-Getting-Hit/This ad for a correspondence school appeared in a magazine in 1916. We don't know how accurate it is (after all, it's advertising), but it couldn't be too wildly off for its intended audience. According to the post at Pt...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/10/21/The-1-in-1916/[https://youtu.be/kbJcQYVtZMo](Video Link)“Best Coin Ever Spent” shows a tuxedo-wearing busker at the center of a Spanish town. The bass violin player patiently waits for someone to put a coin in his top hat....
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/10/21/Put-a-Coin-in-the-Buskers-Hat-and-an-Orchestra-Will-Appear/This restaurant in South Korea has an odd slogan painted on the window. The word "die" on a diner will make you pause and reconsider, until you learn what it really means. Redditor pinqNoiz provided the explanation (cens...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/10/21/Theres-A-Perfectly-Reasonable-Explanation/While we've been talking about pumpkin carving all month, it's finally getting close to the end of the month, which is when it's actually time to carve the pumpkin so it won't go rotten before Halloween night. If you're...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/10/21/19-Delicious-Pumpkin-Seed-Recipes/[http://youtu.be/y0YFV0-sHRE] (YouTube link)The Ohio State University marching band performed at the school's homecoming football game Saturday with a tribute to Michael Jackson's Bad album on its 25th anniversa...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/10/21/OSU-Marching-Band-Does-the-Moonwalk/Tottie the pug is more of a hip hop fan. But this year, her owner, McKenna, dressed her as the wrecking ball from Miley Cyrus’s controversial music video “Wrecking Ball.” Yes, Barbie is nude. But, then,...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/10/21/Pug-Wrecking-Ball-Costume/Batman vs The Joker Salt & Pepper ShakersHello, kiddies! A-meet the Batman vs The Joker Salt & Pepper Shakers from the NeatoShop. This wild set is made of glazed ceramic and held together by magnets. The Batman v...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/10/21/Batman-vs-The-Joker-Salt-Pepper-Shakers/The following article is republished from Uncle John's Ahh-Inspiring Bathroom Reader.Ever heard of William Higinbotham? He's the guy who invented the world's first video game. But he never made a cent off hi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/10/21/The-Worlds-First-Video-Game/(Video Link)I've always been in love with playpuses as they are pretty much the ultimate animal (combining ducks, beavers, and more all in one amazing, adorable package). But for whatever reason a lot of people...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/10/21/Who-Doesnt-Want-to-Play-With-A-Platypus/A cow and a bull made a daring escape on their way to the slaughterhouse in New Jersey on Tuesday. They busted out of a trailer and onto the streets of Montvale and caused multiple traffic accidents. Roads were closed as...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/10/21/The-Bovine-Bonnie-and-Clyde/(Image: Fred Studart)At Ask Reddit (my favorite subreddit) movienevermade asks:If you wanted to write the beginning of a book that hooked you from the very start, what would be the first line?There were...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/10/21/What-Would-Be-the-Opening-Line-of-a-Novel-That-Would-Hook-You-from-the-Start/Photo: Charles Marville/Musee Carnavalet/Roger-Viollet Well, in 1876 when the photo above was taken by photographer Charles Marville, Paris certainly was the most modern city in the world. In...
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