2007 Darwin Awards
It’s again that time of year when we get to chuckle at the supreme idiocy of some of our fellow man and marvel at their backward ingenuity.
Named in honor of Charles Darwin, the father of evolution, the Darwin Awards commemorate those who improve human genome by accidentally removing themselves from it. Here’s a compilation of the winners for 2007 along with those dating back as far as 1995.
Always good for some laughs, these tales of voluntary gene pool pruning demonstrate that there may still be hope for civilization. I can’t help but wonder, though, if there isn’t some way to speed up the process.
Doug
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I get a charge out of reading the Darwins. I am glad to know that there is now one "source" for the "real" ones. There used to be so many it was hard to judge if any were "real".
Great! And I will look for the guys in the pool on next year's list!
My favorite is the Rutting Contest in 2004. The results were predictable but the ironic twist at the end was a gem.
I gather that this is the "official" site for the Darwin Awards and that they are all real and verified. But we think the old made-up ones that used to fly around the internet were funnier. Or maybe it just seems that way to us. Or maybe the writing has just become droll.
Maybe you should apply for a job as a writer there.