年度最具震撼奇聞異事

From dancing geckos to the ‘Thriller’ cat – 2011 has brought plenty of smiles to readers。

The house that looks like Hitler

The elderly owner of an end-of-terrace house in Swansea was left bewildered when hundreds of thousands of twitter users compared his house to Hitler’s face。

The joke became a hit on social networking site Twitter when it was pointed out that the features of the house matched the fringe, moustache and piercing eyes of the dictator。

Neighbour Lyn Thomas, 25, said: “I don’t know why it would be designed in such a way. It is uncanny。”

The ‘Thriller’ cat

A short clip of a cat rearing up its hind legs raised laughs for its resemblance to Michael Jackson's dance routine in his music video to hit 1980s pop song Thriller。

The dancing Geckos

Like a lizard version of Strictly Come Dancing, a group of geckos from Indonesia get us into the party season by ‘dancing’ for photographer Shikhei Goh。

The man who proposed as a dancing carrot

In an elaborate marriage proposal a lovestruck Chinese man and 48 of his friends dress in giant carrot costumes to get his girlfriend to say "yes"。

The cat who inherited 10 million euros

A black cat in Italy inherited 10 million euros (£8.5 million) from his adoptive owner, a widowed heiress who married a property tycoon。

The cat is now the proud owner of cash, shares and a property empire which includes flats and houses in Rome and Milan and land in Calabria。

The address of the cat’s new owners is being kept a secret out of fears that the newly-enriched moggy will be besieged by fortune hunters and con men。

The scooter-riding dog

A 20-month-old Briard named Norman became an internet sensation when his owners filmed him riding a scooter with his front paws on the handlebars and his hind leg pushing himself along。

The dancing granny

A grandmother from Beijing wowed viewers with her Michael Jackson-inspired dance routine on national television。

Mrs Bai, whose grandson is named Michael after the late pop star, has won plaudits for her self-taught dancing。從跳舞的壁虎到“顫慄”貓，2011年給讀者們帶來了許多歡笑。

長得像希特勒的房子

當數萬名Twitter用戶將斯旺西聯排屋盡頭的一座房子和希特勒的臉作比較時，房子的主人感到很困惑。

有推友指出這座房屋外貌酷似這位獨裁者的臉，“長着”希特勒的劉海、鬍子和銳利的眼睛，於是這個笑話就在Twitter上火了起來。

房主的鄰居、25歲的林•托馬斯說：“我不知道爲什麼會把房屋設計成這樣。看起來很怪異。”

“顫慄”貓

一段短視頻中，一隻貓擡起它的後腿，樣子酷似20世紀80年代邁克爾•傑克遜在熱門流行歌曲《顫慄》MV中的舞蹈動作，引人發笑。

跳舞的壁虎

就像是《舞動奇蹟》的壁虎版，來自印尼的一羣壁虎在攝影師史凱•戈的鏡頭前翩翩起舞，把我們帶到了舞會的季節。

“跳舞的胡蘿蔔”求婚

一名熱戀中的中國男子精心策劃了一個特別的求婚方式，和他的48位朋友穿上巨大的胡蘿蔔裝，向女友求婚。

繼承了1000萬歐元的貓

意大利一隻黑貓從收養它的主人那裏繼承了1000萬歐元(合850萬英鎊)。它的主人是一名地產大亨的寡婦，從先夫那裏繼承了鉅額遺產。

這隻貓現在擁有讓人豔羨的金錢、股份和一個地產王國，包括羅馬和米蘭的公寓和房屋，以及在卡拉布里亞的土地。

這隻貓的新主人的地址是保密的，因爲害怕這隻剛成爲富豪的貓會遭到財富追求者和騙子的圍攻。

騎踏板車的狗

一隻名叫諾曼的布里犬被主人拍到騎踏板車，它用前爪搭在車把手上，用後腿推着車行進。這隻20個月大的布里犬因這段視頻而在網絡上爆紅。

跳舞的老奶奶

一位來自北京的老奶奶在中央電視臺的節目上模仿邁克爾•傑克遜跳舞，震撼了觀衆。

白奶奶給孫子起名爲Michael(邁克爾)，和已故流行天王名字一樣。白奶奶因舞蹈自學成才贏得了衆人的喝彩。