Month: February 2012

Recipe 4: Cereal and Milk

You will need: Cereal of your choosing Milk (a soya based milk substitute could be used) A bowl (another non-porous container could be used in the absence of a bowl, but for best results a bowl is recommended). A spoon Process: Pour required quantity of cereal into the bowl (be

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Hot Dog Them’s Some Cold Feet

Yes, just when you thought our headlines could not get any more special we come up with a corker like that.  Have you ever wondered how dogs are able to walk in the snow with no shoes?  Or how a dog’s body regulates heat?  If the answer to these questions

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Newsvamp’s Poetry Quiz

This week, knowing how cultured you all are I have come up with a poetry quiz.  Let’s see how you get on.         And congratulations to last week’s winner, Loops, who not only correctly told us that the next number in the sequence was 8 – but

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Nibblets

Britain’s Most Under the Thumb Man Revealed According to The Daily Mail twenty-five-year-old Mike Jeffries is Britain’s most henpecked man.  In the report it states that Mr. Jeffries is expected to use the toilet sitting down so as not to annoy his spouse when she uses it.  If he spends

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What Will Bee Will Bee

Dear Bee, I am writing because I understand you have a great deal of experience in affairs of the heart and I’m hoping that you can help me with my problem.  For some time now I have been conducting a flirtation with a shark.  I dismissed his disinterest as simply

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Caught Short Part 2: Taking The Cake

If you missed Caught Short Part 1 you can read it now by clicking here. There is an explosion and the door to the heroes top secret HQ is gone.  Enter The Chicken Tickler and Dragon Fly hovering on a board behind her.   The Chicken Tickler: Ha! At last

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Recipe 3: Toast

You will need: Bread A bread knife if your bread does not come pre sliced A butter knife or other spreading implement Butter A toaster (If you do not have a toaster you could use a grill) Other topping (optional)                 Steps: Slice

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You Will Be Assimilated!

For those of you who thought that ants are nothing like The Borg, think again.  Scientists have discovered that ants share a collective memory within a colony that allows any member of that colony to recognise an enemy from another ant’s experience. The scientists likened the sense to football fans

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Newsvamp’s Complete the Sequence Quiz

Well, last week was most disappointing in that no-one entered the quiz.  1nkling did give us a pity entry – but it was clear that he hadn’t actually read the quiz, and he did not attach a photograph.  In light of this epic failure I have decided to never attempt

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Nibblets

Snakebite Down Under A British man on a working holiday in Australia got more than he bargained for this week when a snake nibbled at his testicle.  The environmentally conscious tourist decided to squat in the bush rather than use the toilet as he didn’t want to waste water by

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