Humour

BBC News: Lonely farmers advertise on milk. A group of lonely heart farmers have put their photographs on milk bottles in an attempt to find love.  Five single dairy farmers are advertising on Calon Wen milk with the slogan Fancy a Farmer to mark St Dwynwen's Day, the

BBC News: Where there's a will there's a whim. He could have left it all to a charity, any charity - perhaps one that cares for cats as Jonathan Jackson of Columbus, Ohio, envisaged when he drew up his own will in the late 19th Century?

Bog snorkelling in Llanwrtyd Wells, Wales Competitors have to complete two lengths of a 60 yard trench cut through the peat bog in the quickest time possible, wearing snorkels and flippers (wet suits optional but advisable) but without using any conventional swimming strokes.  In 2005 it was a cold, wet

Cheese rolling in Gloucestershire, UK Cheese rolling's origins are hazy to say the least. A common presumption is that the masochistic frolic began as a pagan festival hundreds of years ago - a celebration of the onset of summer. Other theories have it relating to age-old fertility rights,

September 19th is Talk Like A Pirate Day!   Shiver me timbers!   Normally I wouldn't talk like this, but there's a nifty WordPress plugin that is doin' all th' hard work fer me, avast.  The Swedish Chef option on th' plugin may turn up

BBC News: Experts make robotic welly wanger. The eccentric British sport of hurling wellington boots has been given a mechanical makeover by scientists at Aberystwyth University.  More commonly known as welly wanging, experts have built a machine capable of propelling a welly up to 262ft (80m).  A team has taken