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Book Review of The Darwin Awards : Evolution in Action

The Darwin Awards : Evolution in Action
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I have to admit it - I LOVE the Darwin awards. I feel bad about loving them, I do. A decent person shouldn't laugh at this stuff. Really. (but it's really, really funny)

I realized how badly I feel about loving them so much, when I read of one guy in here, who won the award when he asked his best buddy to come over to help him get rid of the hornets nest under the eave of his garage. And he had just the thing to do the job, too... He had some dynomite in his garage!

These genuises stuck a quarter stick of dynamite under a hornets nest! But - they weren't stupid. No, not them. They knew they should go back inside before they detonated it.

OTOH, they really wanted to watch. I mean, this is gonna be COOL. So, they went inside - and stood in front of the plate glass window facing the garage.

As they were leaving their house for their car to go to the emergency room to seek help for their mulitple lacerations, they were attacked by a swarm of angry hornets. Now, who coulda seen that coming?

As I was reading that one, I could practically SEE my brother-in-law doing something like that. I'm thinking, G-d, I'm terrible, laughing at these people. I am, too. It's true. But it doesn't stop it from being funny as heck.

If you are horrible too, you are gonna want to order this book.