After the Dalek gave birth to WALL-E, it made sense for her and Artoo to go ahead and get married. Jordon and Wendy combined three science fiction franchises for his save-the-date card.

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"Hey, help a fella out, please. Grab my legs and pull!" These sculptures by Mark Roberts, AKA Markrobla, could be improved only by adding speakers inside the trash cans. They're a merry prank that he's pulled on the people of Wrexham, UK. You can view more photos of them at the link.

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They're extraordinary in a way. The members of The League of Aspiring Gentlemen of Eau Clair Memorial High School in Madison, Wisconsin want to turn into gentlemen. Their activites are designed to develop gentlemanly qualities:

But Baca added they do much more than just dress up. For example, he said, club members have practiced a variety of sports and leisure activities, learned about culture and fashion and have organized school events.

But why are they called "aspiring gentlemen" instead of "gentlemen"?

The name of the club is important, Baca said, noting members are "aspiring" gentlemen. At no one point do members graduate to a level of gentlemen, but rather always remain aspiring. To declare oneself a gentlemen would be rather ungentlemanly, Baca said.

Link -via Althouse

(Photo: The League of Aspiring Gentlemen)

PROTIP: After claiming disability due to an injury on the job, it's best not to go on national television.

Here's what happened when a former postal worker, who was receiving worker's compensation payment after claiming she got injured on the job, got nailed after investigators spotted her on The Price is Right:

Cathy Wrench Cashwell's claim that she couldn't lift mail trays into a truck due to a 2004 on-the-job shoulder injury was called into question in September 2009 when she appeared on "The Price is Right" and spun the "big wheel" twice.

According to an indictment filed in September 2012, Cashwell "raised her left arm above her head and gripped the handle with her left hand." On a second spin,  she "raised both arms above her head and gripped the same handle with both hands."

Federal investigators managed to get more proof of the fraud, when they saw her lifting and carrying furniture and bags of groceries. Cashwell pled guilty in Federal court and is now awaiting sentencing: Link

Mother of Dragons by DarkChoocoolat

No one will dare take your dragons, once you wear this Mother of Dragons T-shirt by French designer DarkChoocoolat. Check out his official website and Facebook page, then visit his NeatoShop's page to buy: Link. Your purchase helps support indie artists as well as this blog!

Zombie Evolution	Time Is Running Out	Enjoy Skooma	Storm Neon Candy Trooper

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Any ol' millionaire can have a yacht. The ultrarich have something better: a submarine yacht!

James Bond villains, take heed: Here's a way to one-up all those other yacht owners in the bad-guys club — the Migaloo Private Submersible Yacht. This luxury design concept for a 377-foot submarine was created by design firm Motion Code: Blue, and could become a reality if some well-heeled buyer steps up.

Of course this vessel features all the usual super-luxury features that are so important for taking over the world on your yacht, such as a helipad for quick escapes, a two-story owner's suite with a private patio on the bow, eight VIP suites for all your henchmen, and plenty of room for those white cats you love to pet as you concoct your diabolical schemes.

And for all those lovely ladies that constantly surround you — because they like you, they really do — there's a huge beach club midship, complete with a pool, bar and plenty of deck space for them to bask in the sun.

How much does it cost? They didn't say, but Charlie White of Mashable noted that a comparable Virginia-class attack submarine by the U.S. Navy costs $2.3 billion to build.

Mashable has more: Link | Motion Code: Blue website

Photo: Marisol Amador/UF/IFAS

I, for one, welcome our new mosquito overlords. Meet the monster mosquito Psorophora ciliata or gallinippers, which weigh 20 times the size of a typical mosquito and seems even more aggressive.

According to the TV station, the quarter-sized insects were first spotted in Seminole County late last week. The aggressive blood suckers “can bite right through your clothing and give you a good pinch, more painful than an ordinary mosquito bite,” University of Florida natural resources agent Ken Gioeli told West Palm Beach-based WPTV back in March.

University of Florida entomologists warned in March that psorophora ciliata — or gallinippers as they’re sometimes called — might appear this summer, weighing in at up to 20 times the size of a typical mosquito and even more aggressive. The catalyst? Heavy rains from Tropical Storms Debbie and Andrea, which probably hatched the monster mosquito eggs that can lay dormant for years. As the university quipped in March: “If mosquitos were motorcycles, this species would be a Harley Davidson — big, bold, American-made and likely to be abundant in Florida this summer.”

It's time to escape Florida: Link

Beer Socks

Father's Day is Sunday, June 16th. Are you still brewing over what fun and functional gift to get your Dad? Forget the Father's day tie. This year get Dad the Beer Socks from the NeatoShop. This rich pair of socks is a wonderful way to cover the pungent and aromatic feet of all the amazing men in your life.

Be sure to check out the NeatoShop for more great Footwear. 

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We're out of our element (and we want our undies back)! NeatoShop artist Darin Shock has created a mixed media sculpture worthy of Walter Sobchak of The Big Lebowski. Check it out: Link - Thanks Darin!

No, it's not a get-rich-quick scam. It's quite real.

Apparently the secret to a lucrative payoff is to work as a public employee for the Bay Area Rapid Transit, the San Francisco bay area's rapid transit sytem:

With a gross salary of more than $333,000, BART's highest-paid employee last year wasn't its general manager, police chief or a worker who racked up gobs of overtime scrubbing grime from filthy train seats.

It was someone who did no work at all for BART in 2012: Dorothy Dugger, the agency's former general manager who resigned under pressure more than two years ago.

Under a lucrative retirement scheme, Dugger, 57, quietly stayed on the books, burning off nearly 80 weeks of unused vacation time, drawing paychecks and full benefits for more than 19 months after she agreed to quit in May 2011, according to an analysis by this newspaper. By remaining on BART's payroll, she accrued almost two extra months of vacation, while sitting at home drawing a six-figure salary for unused time off.

Thomas Peele and Daniel J. Willis of Bay Area News Group reports in this Mercury News article: Link (Photo: Karl Mondon/Bay Area News Group)

What's better than seeing a movie with your friends? Seeing a movie with your friends nearly naked, of course!

You can do that at the Hot Tub Cinema, a pop-up event in London and around the UK where you can rent an entire tub to share with friends, or buy individual tickets to get close and cozy with scantily clad strangers. Either way, it's an adventure! Link - via Cool Things

I wonder if you have to enter the Konami code to start the car ... Via Technabob

Space Ice by Yanmostees

No need to see your identification, but this is the T-shirt you're looking for. Yanmostees created the yummiest Stormtrooper ice cream ever! Check out this and other neat T-shirt designs over at Yanmostees' official website then head on over to his NeatoShop page for more: Link

Thanks for checking it out! Your purchase helps support indie artists as well as this blog!

Love Quiz	Not For Sale	Dark Shadow	Starlight

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I picked the wrong lane while driving and now I'm stuck behind a bus. It's so slow! Not nearly as fast as Catbus. Remo Lienhard's version is a nightmare for everyone involved.

Link -via Lustik | Artist's Website

The city of Surprise, Arizona, has an unwelcome surprise for 64-year-old retired firefighter Jessie Thornton: its police officers can tell whether a person is drunk simply by looking in his eyes, breathalyzer test be damned!

Christopher Sign of ABC15 has the scoop:

"He (the officer) walked up and he said 'I can tell you're driving DUI by looking in your eyes,'" said Thornton. [...]

According to documents provided to ABC15 from the City of Surprise, Thornton was taken to police headquarters where he took a breathalyzer test.

The test, according to the police documents came back with a blood alcohol level of 0.000.

"Yes, I do the breathalyzer and it comes back zero, zero, zero," said Thornton.

While in custody, a "DRE" or drug recognition expert is called to test Thornton.

"After he did all the tests, he says, 'I would never have arrested you, you show no signs of impairment,'" said Thornton.

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Unless you're living under a surveillance-proof rock, I'm sure you've heard by now that Big Brother is always with us. But how do you tell your kids about it? With children's book, of course!

Twitter user @darth asked followers to create #NSAKidsBooks for your enjoyment, as seen in this gallery over at The Guardian: Link - via Boing Boing

I have seven letters:
The first two stand for a boy.
The first three stand for a girl.
The first four are a brave boy.
The first six are addictive.
But all of my letters together stand for a brave girl.
What am I?

Continue reading to see the answer.

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This brainteaser is reprinted from Uncle John's Curiously Compelling Bathroom Reader, a fantastic book by the Bathroom Readers' Institute. The 19th book in this fan-favorite series contain such gems like The Greatest Plane that Never Was, Forgotten Robot Milestones, Ancient Beauty Secrets, and more.

Since 1988, the Bathroom Reader Institute had published a series of popular books containing irresistible bits of trivia and obscure yet fascinating facts. If you like Neatorama, you'll love the Bathroom Reader Institute's books - go ahead and check 'em out!

The following is an article from Uncle John's 24-Karat Gold Bathroom Reader.

Here, ladies and gentlemen, are the stories behind some well-known products (and one character) who prefer to be addressed as "Mister."

MR. COFFEE

In 1968, Vincent Marotta and Sam Glazer, high school friends who became partners in a small construction company, decided to start a coffee delivery service. Obsessed with finding a way for people to make better coffee at home, an idea came to Marotta while he was recuperating from brain surgery in 1970. His great idea: A self-contained unit that would heat the water to 200ºF and drip through the coffee grounds once, not over and over again, as was the standard "percolator" method at the time. He and Glazer then hired two ex-Westinghouse engineers to design the product, which he named Mr. Coffee. The product was a hit almost instantly, but Marotta wanted to go national. His other great idea: He hired his boyhood hero, Joe DiMaggio, as the company spokesman. It worked. Within three years, the company dominated the coffeemaker market, producing nearly 40,000 Mr. Coffees a day, with annual sales approaching $150 million. In 1987 Glazer and Marotta, who once referred to himself as "the Michelangelo of coffee," decided to sell the company, but the product -and Marotta's big idea- still dominate.

MR. CLEAN

"Mr. Clean will clean your whole house / And everything that's in it / Mr. Clean, Mr. Clean, Mr. Clean…" Within six months of its introduction in 1958 by Proctor & Gamble (including that earworm TV jingle), Mr. Clean became America's best selling household cleaner. The Mr. Clean character was designed by a Chicago ad agency in 1957, but Proctor & Gamble -perhaps to ward off lawsuits from Yul Brynner, who affected a very similar look as the king of Siam in a popular musical of the time, The King and I- insisted that the character was modeled after a Navy sailor from Pensacola. Internationally, his name is usually translated into the local language- Maestro Lindo in Italy, Don Limpio in Spain, Meister Proper in Germany, and Monsieur Net in Quebec.

MR. BEAN

Rowan Atkinson, who created the 1990s British TV character, described Mr. Bean as "a boy trapped in a man's body." (Watch him try to go shopping and you'll see why.) Mr. Bean, who rarely speaks, was modeled after silent film stars as well as "Monsieur Hulot," a bumbling character created by French director Jacques Tati in the 1950s. Atkinson debuted Mr. Bean at a French-only comedy festival in Montreal, Quebec, in 1987. Why? He wanted to see if non-English speakers would laugh at him. They did. The character didn't even have a name when the show went into production, but Atkinson just knew it had to be some kind of vegetable, and came close to calling him Mr. Cauliflower.

Mr. PiBB

The Dr. Pepper Company didn't have its own bottling or distribution facilities, so it typically bid out the jobs to other soft drink companies, giving them a share of the company and profits in exchange. In some regions, Coca-Cola won the bid; in others, Pepsi or 7-Up did. Coke didn't have distribution of Dr. Pepper in the South where it was most popular, so in the early '80s Coke created a taste-alike brand and tested it in a few markets, most notably Waco, Texas, Dr. Pepper's hometown. This didn't make the Pepper people happy, and the company sued when it discovered that Coke was calling its new drink "Peppo." So Coke changed the name to "Dr. Pibb." Still too close. (From a distance, the two lowercase b's resembled p's.) Finally, Coke revoked Pibb's medical license and capitalized the two B's, creating "Mr. PiBB," which was just barely different enough.

MR. MISTER

The 1980s American rock group's name started as a private joke. Inspired by a Weather Report song, "Mr. Gone," the band members began referring to each other as "Mr. ____," filling in the blank with something to address the current situation (e.g. "Here comes Mr. Late and Mr. Even Later…"). After a while, they wanted the band's name to follow the same form, but group members couldn't agree on what word to use to fill in the blank. Finally, drummer Pat Mastelotto broke the impasse when he suggested "Mr. Mister."

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The article above was reprinted with permission from Uncle John's 24-Karat Gold Bathroom Reader.

Since 1988, the Bathroom Reader Institute had published a series of popular books containing irresistible bits of trivia and obscure yet fascinating facts. If you like Neatorama, you'll love the Bathroom Reader Institute's books - go ahead and check 'em out!

Black and White Polka Dot Hello Kitty Backpack with Ears (front and back shown)

Attention Hello Kitty fans. Are you looking for the purr-fect bag to take on your summer adventure? Behold the Black and White Polka Dot Hello Kitty Backpack with Ears from the NeatoShop. This fun and functional bag features a 3-dimensional plush red bow. The Black and White Polka Dot Hello Kitty Backpack with Ears is really the cats meow! 

Be sure to check out the NeatoShop for more great Bags & Backpacks. 

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To make these cute snacks from Kouzino Mageieremata, core apples and slice them thinly. Boil the apple slices to make them soft. Then place layers of puff pastry in the bottoms of muffin cups and arrange the soft apple slices on the pastry dough like rose petals. After you add sugar and spices and bake them, you'll have an eye-catching and mouth-watering treat.

Link -via Tasteologie

Have you ever wondered what your favorite characters do on their day off? According to artist Kiersten Essenpreis, even the most violent and evil characters still live pretty mundane lives when they aren't trying to fight the forces of good.

In Kiersten Essenpreis' past work, she's also showed us what Skeletor and He-Man do on their days off.

Link Via Buzzfeed 

Up in Time by Wirdou

Good afternoon. Are you in need of any assistance today, Doctor? You could help the Doctor cross space and time with this awesome Up in Time T-shirt by Wirdou.

Check out Wirdou's fantastic website and Facebook page (be a doll and give 'im a Like, wontcha?), then head on over to his NeatoShop page for more neat T-shirts: Link. Your purchase helps support indie artists as well as this blog.

Heavy Metals	The Clone Wars II	Night's Watch The Wall	Krypton Man

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You already know what your morning eggs say about you, but what about your choice of donut?  As a jelly-filled donut fan, I find the description pretty accurate because I am a big softie, especially when it comes to kitten videos. Do these descriptions fit you?

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Vincent and The Doctor is a fan-favorite Doctor Who episode and one of the best historical stories featuring Amy Pond. When Craftster users organized a Doctor Who crafts swap, I think jfer007 got the biggest score when Greys Princess sent her a package including this amazing take on Vincent's modified Starry Night.

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Aren't sure if you want to play Mario or GTA? Well, with any luck, the furture we will be able to play GTM as imagined by Malaysian artist Amirul Hafiz. He's even created a whole collection of art for the game, including real-world versions of Bowser and Sonic. Put me on the pre-order list!

Link Via Rampaged Reality