Every damn year their list of submissions gets longer and longer and longer...
*shakes head sadly*
I really mean it when I say this - I encounter someone _almost_ _every_ _day_ that is a serious potential Darwin Awards winner. There are a lot of times that I talk people out of really really stupid ideas.
Honestly I'm glad I can do so but it gets tiring after a while.
I have been in boy scouts for the last 15 or so years. I work at our local summer camp. one year, we had a seriously potential darwin winner. Our assistant staff cook was incredibly stupid sometimes. We saw him as he was trying to get some toast out of a toaster with a metal knife. A table full of Boy Scouts, we all stopped and just watched. more than half of us were CPR certified. two of us were lifeguards. And not one of us did anything, or said anything. I feel bad about it, but we were all stunned that we got to watch natural selection happening right in front of us.
The camp director saw what he was doing, and put a stop to it, giving him a verbal thrashing. one guy at our table yelled "Oh come on! how's he going to learn if you stop him before the lesson is over?"
"Don't kill him. If you kill him, he won't learn nothin'." -- Riddler to Two-Face, Batman Forever
Oh, and here's a SERIOUS bit of irony: Ben Stein, who should be smarter than this, has put together a movie about the poor, persecuted Intelligent Design crowd. There's a banner ad for it...on the Darwin Awards website.
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Date: 2007-12-31 03:07 am (UTC)*shakes head sadly*
I really mean it when I say this - I encounter someone _almost_ _every_ _day_ that is a serious potential Darwin Awards winner. There are a lot of times that I talk people out of really really stupid ideas.
Honestly I'm glad I can do so but it gets tiring after a while.
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Date: 2007-12-31 11:32 am (UTC)*blink groan*
and I work in tech support - I should be braced for things like that!
(BTW - speaking of said tech support - apparently there's been an end of year cleaning - I've got more stickers for the guitar case - interested?)
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Date: 2007-12-31 02:53 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-12-31 05:29 pm (UTC)bear with me a moment...
Date: 2008-01-03 02:15 pm (UTC)I work at our local summer camp. one year, we had a seriously potential darwin winner. Our assistant staff cook was incredibly stupid sometimes. We saw him as he was trying to get some toast out of a toaster with a metal knife. A table full of Boy Scouts, we all stopped and just watched. more than half of us were CPR certified. two of us were lifeguards. And not one of us did anything, or said anything. I feel bad about it, but we were all stunned that we got to watch natural selection happening right in front of us.
The camp director saw what he was doing, and put a stop to it, giving him a verbal thrashing. one guy at our table yelled "Oh come on! how's he going to learn if you stop him before the lesson is over?"
Re: bear with me a moment...
Date: 2008-01-03 06:44 pm (UTC)-- Riddler to Two-Face, Batman Forever
Oh, and here's a SERIOUS bit of irony:
Ben Stein, who should be smarter than this, has put together a movie about the poor, persecuted Intelligent Design crowd. There's a banner ad for it...on the Darwin Awards website.