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de Wendy Northcutt (Author) "Most of us know instinctively that the phrase "trust me, light this fuse" is a recipe for disaster ..." En savoir plus
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Warning: The Darwin Awards are not for the tenderhearted. The vastly popular Web site, now a book, recognizes "individuals who ensure the long-term survival of our species by removing themselves from the gene pool in a sublimely idiotic fashion." Who wins a Darwin Award? Terrorists who set their bombs on daylight saving time and delivered them on standard time, blowing themselves up. Folks who put garlands around a Bengal tiger's neck. Guys in Cambodia who took turns stomping on a land mine they'd brought into a bar. The six Egyptians who drowned trying to rescue a chicken that fell into a well. (The chicken alone survived.) The Buenos Aires husband who threw his wife out an eighth-floor window during a spat, noticed she'd gotten caught in power lines, and jumped after her, "angrily trying to finish the job, or remorsefully hoping to rescue her." He went splat; she escaped unscathed. There are some urban legends, like the sergeant said to have attached a Jet-Assisted Take-Off unit to his Chevy and hit a cliff 125 feet up (not true, says author Wendy Northcutt), and all-too-true honorable mentions, like the man who put weather balloons on his lawn chair, soared to 16,000 feet, crashed into power lines, blacked out Long Beach, California, and told police, "A man can't just sit around." My favorite winner: the man who was bitten nine times by the same king brown snake because he put it in a bag on his car seat and kept sticking his hand back into the bag. Why did he pick up the snake with his left hand? "Because I was holding a beer in my right one." And where did this take place? In Darwin, Australia. If you think somebody up there doesn't have a wicked sense of humor, The Darwin Awards may change your mind. --Tim Appelo --Ce texte provient d'une édition qui n'est plus publiée ou qui est non diponible.


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Anyone who has e-mail has probably already been entertained by the Darwin Awards, honors that stand out from the miasma of e-humor for several reasons: they are often genuinely hilarious and they are supposedly true. For those unfamiliar with these awards, they are given to people, mostly now deceased, whose actions reveal an astounding lack of common sense. The awards go only to those who have either died or rendered themselves unable to breed, confirming Darwin's belief in the survival of the fittest. Among the winners: terrorists who set their bombs on daylight saving time and delivered them on standard time, thus blowing themselves up; and a lawyer who crashed through a skyscraper window while demonstrating its safety. The audiobook also contains an honorable mention category for those who survive their idiotic behavior. This set provides hours of bizarre yet disturbing listening, mostly drawn from the author's popular Web site, DarwinAwards.com. Jason Harris does an excellent job of reading each reported incident; basically, they sound like standup comedy: yarn after yarn of such astounding stupidity that one cannot help but laugh. The lack of common sense exhibited here is undoubtedly comical, but Harris's reading accentuates the fact that beneath the laughter lurks a kind of pathetic sadness. Based on the Dutton hardcover. (Sept.)n

Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.

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2.0étoiles sur 5 People are stupid. I don't need a book to tell me, Jui 25 2004
Par David Somers - Voir tous mes commentaires
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OK, hearing about one of the Darwin Award winners can be funny.
But there's only so much stupidity I can take at once.
My biggest problem with the book was that the WRITING wasn't funny. Too "just the facts" oriented to be entertaining.
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2.0étoiles sur 5 dark humor but gives you stories to talk about at parties, Mars 17 2004
Par "homeschoolernj" (ringwood, nj United States) - Voir tous mes commentaires
At first I thought this book was going to be very funny. Or at least give me stories to share with my friends. The book even warns in the beginning not to read it like a regular book but rather to read a story here and there. So at first it was interesting to see how people do stupid things but after a while it got dark and depressing because everyone in the book must die of their stupidity to be eligiable for the book. The book was good in the way that it verified all stories so you know they are true. But this book is not for the faint at heart. This book would be great for that family member that we all have who has that dark cynical quirky sense of humor. Well I hope we all have one and I am not the only one who has one lol. It did give me some stories to tell at parties and social occasions.
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2.0étoiles sur 5 Mean-spirited, Fév 24 2004
Par R. Peterson (Sacramento, California) - Voir tous mes commentaires
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This review is from: Darwin Awards (Hardcover)
This book pours salt on the wounds of bereaved families.-That's all I want to say. But Amazon says I have to say what I want to say in several sentences rather than one sentence for this review to be posted. So: I don't think this book is a great book. I don't think there is kindness or humility in this book.-But you can decide on that yourself. What I want to say is that this book pours salt on the wounds of bereaved families.
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4.0étoiles sur 5 The Darwin Awards
The Darwin Awards Plume Books, 2000, 308 pp., $6.99
Wendy Northcutt ISBN: 0-452-28344-2
"Only two things in this world are infinite-the universe and human... Read more
Publié le Déc 17 2003

3.0étoiles sur 5 Some funny moments but I had hoped for better
This book takes a look at human stupidity which either results in the stupid one's demise or at least sterilises them so that they can not reproduce. Read more
Publié le Nov. 6 2003 par James N Simpson

3.0étoiles sur 5 Funny at times
Charles Darwin's theory of the "survival of the fittest" implies, by extension, that idiots will die, thus the premise of this humorous volume. Read more
Publié le Nov. 2 2003 par Debbie Lee Wesselmann

4.0étoiles sur 5 This is either hilarious or sickening.
For those that enjoy macabre humor and find strange-but-true stories interesting, this book is indispensible. Read more
Publié le Oct. 18 2003 par J. Stricker

5.0étoiles sur 5 Laugh Out Loud Funny
While this book is not a book that you read from cover to cover in a day, it is worth the time. To read it correctly, you should pick it up everyday and read a couple of pages... Read more
Publié le Sep 5 2003 par JMack

2.0étoiles sur 5 Distracting, but no more.
Virtually everyone has already seen these accounts on the internet and in email. Having them all together is really not worthwhile. Read more
Publié le Aoû 13 2003 par Arthem

2.0étoiles sur 5 Good bathroom reading, but not much else --
A housemate of mine used to keep this book in a convenient place for bathroom reading. This is really the only conceivable use that I can see for it--the content is too slight to... Read more
Publié le Aoû 8 2003 par Matt Cameron

4.0étoiles sur 5 Ha!
And some thought the MTV show Jack@$$ was beyond human explanation. Enter The Darwin Awards, compiler extraordinaire. Read more
Publié le Juil 21 2003 par KC

4.0étoiles sur 5 DEATH BY TERMINAL STUPIDITY
According to Ms. Northcutt, in addition to the survival of the fittest there is a second important component of evolution. This is the non-survival of the most unfit. Read more
Publié le Avril 25 2003 par Loren D. Morrison

1.0étoiles sur 5 Nothing to see here.
There's no way around it; this book presents the deaths of real people as entertainment. As other readers have noted, many of these stories just seem tragic, and the idea of... Read more
Publié le Janv. 28 2003 par lindyjulie

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