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Darwin Awards celebrate
the theory of evolution by commemorating
the remains of those who improved our gene pool by removing
themselves from it in really stupid ways.
 What's your opinion?
Visit the Philosophy Forum and debate topics ranging from Avarice to Terrorism to the Zoroastrian religion. Help select the Darwin Awards winners. Refine your viewpoints and define yourself. Talk about it!
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Read 46 Favorite Darwins!
28 Top At-Risk Survivors
19 Top Personal Accounts
10 Top Urban Legends.
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"Stupid Quote"
Anonymous informant at DIRECTV sends this actual text from a corporate
email: "Employees must not attempt to remove
paper jams in copy machines with letter
openers, screwdrivers, or any other tools. Extensive
damages are being caused to copy machines."
Not to mention the wear and tear on employees!
Darwin's Pride and Joy
Back in 1999 C. Daniel Boling wrote a song based on the Darwin Awards he'd been seeing in his email. The result is a folk song that he recently shared with me. Enjoy listening to it from his website. I you like the music, support the artist by buying his CD!
Hear the music.
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Darwin T-Shirts,
Fish, and Hats
nothing fishy about this shirt
42 Darwin
Mottos
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Eleven New Stories!
Darwin Awards
Sheep Sleep
God Saves?
Guitars 'n' Guns
Lobster Vasectomy
Fifteen Minutes of Flame
At-Risk Survivors
Toilet Trap
Aircraft Airhead
Planning Ahead
Personal Accounts
Wasps
Power!
Real Science
XYZ
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Guitars 'n' Guns
January 23, 1978
 Legendary Chicago guitarist Terry Kath died a week before his 32nd birthday in front of his wife and friends in a one-man shootout. An avid collector of guns, he had brought several of his metal friends to a party along with his wife. After the party broke up, he began to play with his guns.
First he spun his .38 revolver on his finger, brought it to his temple, and pulled the trigger. Click! He knew the gun was not loaded. Then he picked up a 9-mm automatic pistol. The host of the party asked him to stop, and as Terry pulled the clip from the weapon, he reassured him, “Don’t worry, it’s not loaded.” Then Terry raised the pistol and put a bullet through his head.
This popular musician and long-time gun enthusiast forgot that an automatic automatically chambers a bullet, so removing the clip does not disarm the weapon. He death was classified an inadvertent suicide.
Vote on Terry's story!
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Tombstone Report
Shannon MacDonald captured this tombstone on camera: "On an Alaskan cruise last September the Gold Rush Cemetery in
Skagway had a billboard with stories of interest. I quote one verbatim, "Several unknown persons are buried in the cemetery, but this
man is the most famous. Sept. 15 1902 (he) walked into the
Canadian Bank... under his coat he carried several sticks of
dynomite and a pistol. In an attempt to...
threaten the teller, his gun discharged and caused the dynomite to explode.
Some stories indicate that (his) head was the only part recovered. We
still don't know his name as there was not much left to identify."
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Sedlec Ossuary
A hauntingly beautiful church decorated with skeletal remains. Visit the website for a different view of death.
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Literary Reference
The late James Watson, co-discoverer of the helical structure of DNA, thinks stupidity could one day be be corrected by gene therapy. "If you're really stupid, I would call that a disease," he said. "I'd like to get rid of (stupidity)."
From New Scientist, 2-28-03
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