Fairy tales, myths and legends, epic adventures, and Christmas romances are all based on standard formulas, and get dressed up with details and movie stars for blockbuster films. The most original and fresh plots are bas...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/08/24/20-Excellent-Movies-More-or-Less-Based-on-True-Crimes/The folks at It's a Southern Thing have a video in which discount stores compete on a cooking show. That sounds pretty random, but putting a personality on inanimate objects based on their reputation can be funny. It tur...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/08/24/Discount-Stores-Try-Their-Best-in-a-Cooking-Competition-Show/My mother used to say that life is like a roll of toilet paper- it goes faster the closer we get to the end. Anyone who has achieved some age can understand. It took forever for me to grow up, but it took much less time...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/08/24/Why-Does-Time-Move-Slow-When-We-Are-Young-and-Faster-as-We-Age/2024: People wanting to be a #Brat during #BratSummer1966: pic.twitter.com/ssYBWBR4tI— LBJ Library (@LBJLibrary) August 23, 2024 The Johnson Presidential Library is hip, cool, and relevant, as demonstrated by th...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/08/24/This-Presidential-Letter-Is-Totally-Brat/You know how it is to eat Grape-Nuts for breakfast. The first few bites are like eating rocks, then the cereal softens up a little bit in milk, and by the time you get the bottom of the bowl, it's just mush. But when you...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/08/24/In-Praise-of-Grape-Nuts-Ice-Cream/Think of the Tour de Donut of Troy, Ohio as a race that combines competitive eating and bike racing. It's the chessboxing of the bicycle world.Competitors race their bikes to a sequence of participating donut shops. Each...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/08/24/The-Tour-de-Donut-A-Donut-Bicycling-Race/If you grew up in the 90s and 00s--before smartphones were invented or at least became ubiquitous and we weren't online all of the time--there was a different vibe to life. I was an 80s kid, so I didn't have most of...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/08/24/Growing-Up-as-a-Millennial/The Holy Grail is a term referring to the cup that Jesus used at the Last Supper before his arrest, trial, and execution. The term is more familiar to most people now as a metaphor for anything important yet unobtainable...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/08/24/Where-Did-All-These-Holy-Grails-Come-From/In the US, we have a presidential election every four years, plus elections for senators every six years and congressional elections every two years. The time between is spent campaigning, and there's nothing we can do a...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/08/24/The-Huge-Difference-Between-British-and-American-Elections/
