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The Darwin Awards Countdown to Extinction [Paperback]

Wendy Northcutt
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Oct 25 2011

The newest installment of the human race's most "devastatingly" popular humor series.

The Darwin Awards are more than just a brand. They're a pop culture phenomenon. With six books and a website that draws in more than a million unique visitors every month, the Darwin Awards rivals The Onion and The Simpsons as one of the biggest humor franchises in the world.

Fully illustrated and featuring all-new tales of the marvelously macabre, The Darwin Awards Countdown to Extinction chronicles the astonishing acts of individuals who have taken a swan dive into the shallow end of the gene pool. From attaching a five-horsepower engine to a barstool, to hammering a metal hook into an explosive device, to using a taser to treat a snake bite, these gloriously gruesome incidents prove that the countdown (to human extinction) is well under way. And we won't exit this mortal coil without one last laugh.


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A graduate of UC Berkeley with a degree in molecular biology, Wendy Northcutt began collecting the stories that make up the Darwin Awards in 1993. Her award-winning Web site www.DarwinAwards.com is one of the most popular humor pages on the Web. The Darwin Awards have been profiled in USA Today, The Wall Street Journal, Entertainment Weekly, and on NPR’s All Things Considered. Wendy is the author of the international bestsellers The Darwin Awards: Evolution in Action, The Darwin Awards 2: Unnatural Selection, and The Darwin Awards 3: Survival of the Fittest.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Darwin Awards Book Jan 28 2013
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This book is well done and enjoyable to read. Really shows just how stupid some people can be! Two more words required.
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By D. Paine TOP 1000 REVIEWER
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You might end up with a sore jaw from laughing so much while reading this book.

Amusing book about the stupid ways people kill themselves by accident. By reading this book and the other books in this series hopefully you will learn not to do what these people did that got themselves killed by accident.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Laughed My A** Off ! Dec 26 2010
By Kenny Root - Published on Amazon.com
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Very funny read! These stories are when human stupidity surfaces to disastrous effects. A lesson here, yes, think about what your doing. My father once told me "Look before you leap". This book could save lives! Very much enjoyed this, Ms. Northcutt's humor is unparalleled.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Darwin Awards Jan 5 2011
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Purchased as gift for my son, who has 3 or 4 of the other Darwin books, and he loved it! It fits his sense of humor perfectly!
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4.0 out of 5 stars More examples of people removing themselves from the pool Dec 20 2010
By James D. Crabtree - Published on Amazon.com
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This latest installment in the series does not disappoint... lots of VERY bad decisions and ideas in motion. Never fly a plane before? That's OK, with enough alcohol in your system and a friend who knows how to break into the local airport you too can be the Red Baron (just don'r ask too many questions about what actually happened to the hun). People making a fuss about that downed powerline in your neighborhood? A chain saw and some saran-wrap booties will fix that! Want to save on light bulbs? Unscrew your headlight bulbs until you just get a dim glow... they'll last forever (or at least as long as the car lasts). An easy read and well-illustrated.
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