Cracking Auction Gromit!
Well, if you’ve been following our epic Gromit hunt over the summer then you may be interested to know what’s happened to those colourful canines since they have been removed from the streets of Bristol. Well, they were all auctioned off in aid of The Grand Appeal. And no, we couldn’t afford one. Starting at £20,000, the climax of the evening was Buzz Light Gromit, selling for a cracking £65,000! That could buy a lot of cheese! Anyway, if you missed the action and would like to see the auction you can by clicking here.
Sex: It’s a killer.
As you know, here at Newsnibbles we take any opportunity to cover a story that we can even tenuously relate to sex. We wouldn’t need to do this if you people weren’t quite so obsessed. You should see the top search terms that find us (thank you Slim Stat). So, a study published in PNAS has revealed that some marsupials, (the ones who live down under – it’ll get worse before it gets better) mate with such vigour that it quite literally kills them! Dubbed in the abstract (or foreplay, if you will) “Suicidal Reproduction”, the study also informs us that marsupials suffering from this affliction go at it for 14 hours before giving up the ghost. The climax to this massive sex marathon, the likes of which has only ever been seen in badly written erotica which we would never read is the creature’s untimely demise. Well, at least they went out with a bang, as it were…
Forget the Honey…
It’s Beet Soup all the way for Russian bears! A couple in Serbia were forced to hide out in their bath house and await the police when a bear, attracted by the smell of their cooling soup broke in and devoured it! The impression we get from the BBC Report is that the most disturbing thing about the whole encounter was that the bear choose to eat the soup whilst it was still hot, rather than waiting for it to cool, which would have been the civilised thing to do. You can’t really blame the bear, however. This is learnt behaviour based on the whole Goldielocks/porridge incident. That is all.
