Now if this isn’t worth a thumbs up, I don’t know what is: an amateur Australian prospector who hadn’t had much luck searching for gold has struck it rich, unearthing a nugget heavier than a newborn baby and worth more than A$300,000 (£198,000).
Photograph: David Caird/Newspix/Rex Features
“Heavier than a newborn baby”
What a strange comparative. Also considered: “lighter than a bucket of pig rectums”, “more valuable than the Iranian stockpile of weapons-grade uranium”, “as newsworthy as an errant sheet of soiled toilet paper floating in the wind”.