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The Darwin Awards Gift Shop
Hardback. 240 pages. Autographed.
$15
A fresh collection of magnificent misadventures! Lust, Vanity, Gluttony,
Greed, Sloth, Envy, and Wrath extract an evolutionary toll on the
wicked. Salute the owner of an equipment training school who demonstrates
the dangers of driving a forklift by failing to survive the filming of his
own safety video. Witness the man who becomes a victim of his own strange
passion for jumping into rivers. Heed the honest bricklayer who loses a
battle of wits with 300 pounds of tools.
This book includes more History of the Awards, Gordon's Law, and 10
discussions of evolution, including speciation and the role of verbal memes
in civilization.
Autographed by Author!
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Perilous Pose
(September 2000, Germany) The picturesque medieval city of Rothenburg was recently the scene of a dramatic artistic effort. A 53-year-old man from Baden-Wuetemberg was posing nude in front of his camera, balanced atop the stone wall, when he lost his balance and fell 16 feet to the ground below. Unlike its erstwhile owner, the camera was still safely settled on the tripod on the wall, and police plan to develop the film for clues to the man's death. Darwin anticipates that they will find none, and this story will stand as a testament to the self-pruning nature of the tree of life.
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