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Darwin Awards 2006

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the natural-selection-in-action dept.

ms1234 writes "The year is coming to and end so it is time to see how our genepool is doing. Darwin Awards 2006 includes everything from whacking RPGs with hammers to recreating experiments by Franklin."

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  1. RPG? by Wormbrain · · Score: 5, Funny

    "whacking RPGs with hammers.."

    Here I am thinking one of my favorite MMOs got nerfed. I need to get out more.

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    1. Re:RPG? by amper · · Score: 3, Funny

      And here I am, trying to figure out how one could possibly get killed by whacking a D&D set with a hammer...

      OK, maybe if you gave a d8 a hard enough glancing blow, it might shoot off at a bizarre angle, blast right through your eye, and lodge in your brain?

    2. Re:RPG? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      No, it's just that people who play RPG's don't ever breed, therefore taking themselves out of the gene pool

  2. Whacking RPG by stesch · · Score: 3, Funny

    On my AS/400 job I wanted to whack RPG with a hammer, too.

  3. Your name is "badzilla?" by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    How can you call yourself badzilla and NOT think the stories are funny ;-)

  4. The Slashdot reader Darwin award. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    So, anyways, New Years Eve, there's this guy, right, and, well... let's call him Charles just for the hell of it. Anyway, "Charles", stayed at home on New Years Eve reading Slashdot. He found it so enjoyable that "Charles" continued reading Slashdot every day. After his discovery, Charles never went to any parties, never got drunk, never got laid, never socialized. Charles has been removed from the gene pool. Thanks Slashdot for another Darwin winner!

  5. Re:Not so well... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    u r so rite man !! i tel meh teecha it alla time

  6. Re:Fool me twice... by CommunistHamster · · Score: 3, Funny

    No, just a fatwa. Don't worry.

  7. Re:Faithful Flotation by rtra · · Score: 2, Funny

    I've met a elder villager who tried to walk on water. He strapped some small floaters to his feet. And he floated allright, but upside down, with his head submerse. He was rescued by his spectators. He was from village "Palorca", Trás-os-Montes, Portugal.

  8. Re:Faithful Flotation by phantomfive · · Score: 3, Funny

    It was in an estuary, which is where a river meets the ocean. He apperently started walking into the water, and kept on going until the water got over his head, and never came back. Can't say for sure what he was thinking, but I know people who would hold onto such faith until death, thinking, "if I give up now it shows I don't have faith."

    I give him props for strongly believing whatever it was he preached, though if he's in heaven now, Jesus is probably bitch-slapping him sayin, "you don't know nothing about faith!"

    Great story in any case.

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    Qxe4