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Darwin Awards

We salute the improvement of the human genome
by honoring those who remove themselves from it.
Of necessity, this honor is generally bestowed posthumously.

February 2006

"Evolution's Revenge"

Happy Birthday
Charles Darwin!
February 12th

2005 Darwin Award 
Winners

Death by Lava Lamp
Surprise Attack Surprise
Why even trained professionals don't play with bayonets.
Chimney Cleaning Grenade
"He happened to have the perfect object. It was heavy yet compact, and best of all, it was made of metal, so he could weld it to the chain..."
Plug Me In! "Because it was old and rusty, Nguyen said it couldn't explode. Nyugen was wrong..."

2004 Honorable
Mentions 

White Russians
25 servicemen began dusting the handy white powder on their sweaty feet, adding it to their tobacco, and even snorting it..
Kills Bugs Dead
Alfred had trouble with termites. He figured that natural gas would be a good, low-cost way to fumigate...
Overheated Engine
In the icy winter, a roaring fire was clearly the solution to his problem...

Fanmail

"Thanks a lot Darwin. In this age of growing nonsense and accelerating social regression, your work is more than welcome. I believe it is even useful. Let us (all who can anyway) stand on the side of intelligence. ;) Cheers from London."

Don Williams says, "I love your website. These stories support the second law of thermodynamics: order will always go to disorder. Here's a quote for you: 'Once we were designed intelligently, now we have digressed to random idiocrity.'"

Top 2005 Darwin Awards
Failed Frame-Up
Chimney-Cleaning Grenade
Freeway Dangler
"Plug Me In"
Surprise Attack Surprise
The Nuisance of Seatbelts
What I Can Still Do
Elephant Tail

Honorable Mentions
Nighttime Fun with Bullets
Oops, Did It Again

Personal Accounts
Medieval Flambe
Wild Wheelchair Ride
Captain Magneto

February Slush Pile

Changes!

The vote scale shows 10 on the RIGHT side now, thanks to Adam Hodson, of Taste Media Group in Australia. And "You Said a Mouthful" has been DISQUALIFIED. Human Fly has been DISQUALIFIED. And Catapult to Glory is looking like an Urban Legend. Christmas Tree is disqualified because the woman behaved bravely to protect others.

Suicide Gift Wrap

INTELLIGENT Design?

"Project Steve"

Origin of the Novel Species
Noodleous doubleous:
Evidence for Intelligent Design


Darwin Awards in Blogs:
The GridLockSmith
The Great Satan: Mouse Fire
ChrisHansen: Mouse Trap

Literary References

Frank Zappa observed, "It's not getting any smarter out there. You have to come to terms with stupidity, and make it work for you."

"If you're really stupid, I would call that a disease," says James Watson, elucidator of the helical structure of DNA. He hopes stupidity will one day be be corrected by gene therapy. "I'd like to get rid of (stupidity)."
New Scientist, 2-28-03

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