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	Darwin Awards - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A Darwin Award is a tongue-in-cheek honor given to people who improve the human gene pool by removing themselves from it in a spectacularly stupid manner.
		To take the premise of the Darwin Award seriously is to suppose that stupidity, of a kind that leads to one's own death, is wholly or partially determined by genetics.
		The Google Usenet archive shows two early mentions of the Darwin Awards, one dated 1985-08-07 Vending Machine Tipover, which was not mentioned on Usenet again until it was referenced in the 1990-12-07 version of the JATO Rocket Car.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Darwin_Awards (922 words)

	DARWIN AWARDS - Wendy Northcutt - Penguin Books
		Darwin Awards show what happens to people who are bewilderingly unable to cope with obvious dangers in the modern world.
		The prime tenet of the Darwin Awards is that we are celebrating the self-removal of incompetent genetic material from the human race.
		Darwin called his mechanism for evolution "natural selection," and described four requirements that must be satisfied in order for natural selection to occur.
	www.penguin.ca /nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,0_9780452283442,00.html (3087 words)

	Urban Legends Reference Pages: Horrors (2004 Darwin Awards)
		Years after the term "Darwin Award" was being used in connection with text descriptions of deaths by misadventure, a number of web sites sprung up to archive the variety of Darwin Award tales then in circulation.
		[...] The prime tenet of the Darwin Awards is that we are celebrating the self-removal of incompetent genetic material from the human race.
		All of the charges made by Diehl of cover-ups of the true causes of aircraft accidents were investigated by the Pentagon, with the Pentagon's inspector general announcing in 1997 that he had dismissed the allegations.
	www.snopes.com /horrors/freakish/darwin04.asp (1739 words)

	Darwin Awards (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		All four contend for Darwin Awards when their choices culminate in magnificent misadventures.
		Darwin Awards honor those who improve our gene pool by eliminating themselves from it in really stupid ways.
		Original Darwins were mostly urban legends, like the man who strapped a rocket on his Chevy, leaving only skid marks and a burnt crater behind.
	www.literature-awards.com /darwin_awards.htm (234 words)

	Urban Legends Reference Pages: Horrors (2005 Darwin Awards)
		Yes, it's that magical time of the year again when the Darwin Awards are bestowed, honoring the least evolved among us.
		Darwin Awards stories are tales that are presented as factual
		Contrary to common belief, there is no panel of distinguished judges weighing each potential Darwin Award entry then sagely reaching agreement as to which deserves an official accolade.
	www.snopes.com /horrors/freakish/darwin05.asp (1703 words)

	Darwin Awards
		The Darwin Awards are for those nominees who contribute to the gene pool by dying in spectacularly stupid ways before they breed (thankfully).
		For those sheltered few of you who are nof fully aware of the Darwin Awards; these awards are given annually(and posthumously) to those individuals who did the most for the human gene pool by removing themselves from it.
		As a commonplace road accident, this would not have qualified for a Darwin nomination, were it not for the fact that the driver's attention had been distracted by her Tamagotchi key ring, which had started urgently beeping for food as she drove along.
	www.flyaboveall.com /darwin.htm (4643 words)

	The Darwin Awards (2006) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		With a stellar A list cast and great ideas behind it I had expected The Darwin Awards to be a romping comedy but every scene left me feeling more confused.
		The Darwin Awards books and website has a very large collection of stories.
		The Darwin Awards might also offend audiences who will ask themselves why should they laugh at someone's death.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0428446 (609 words)

	Amazon.com: The Darwin Awards : Evolution in Action: Books: Wendy Northcutt (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		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.
		The Darwin Awards III: Survival of the Fittest by Wendy Northcutt
		The Darwin Awards is a collection of stories about real people who did something so stupid that they died or they almost died.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0452283442?v=glance (1949 words)

	Darwin Awards? - BreakTheChain.org
		For those not familiar with the Darwin Award, It's an annual honor given to the person who provided the Universal human gene pool the biggest service by getting killed in the most extraordinarily stupid way.
		Of all the candidates and award winners for 2001 Darwin Awards, it is reported, not one was a blonde.
		Named for the British naturalist who forwarded the theory of evolution by natural selection (survivial of the fittest), the Darwin Awards, a favorite Internet pastime for years, supposedly honors those who have furthered the evolution of the human species by removing themselves from the gene pool.
	www.breakthechain.org /exclusives/darwin.html (1100 words)

	ThePunchLine.com: Stupidity/Darwin Awards
		Darwin Awards - Evolution in Action - posthumously granted to those who go out in style.
		Darwin Awards from PSS Management Consultants - and the winners are....
		Darwin Awards from the Harris Creative Group - those who killed themselves in the most extraordinarily stupid ways.
	www.thepunchline.com /pages/Stupidity/Darwin_Awards (290 words)

	Film Info (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Darwin Awards are a real-life phenomenon presented to individuals who improve the human gene pool by removing themselves from it when they accidentally kill themselves in incredibly stupid ways.
		The stories in The Darwin Awards are integrated into a narrative about two characters grappling with their own destinies.
		When Siri's employer hires Burrows to create a profile for potential Darwin Award winners–who are costing the insurance company a fortune–the two begin a search for the answer to what makes these people tick.
	festival.sundance.org /filmguide/popup.aspx?film=8351 (338 words)

	Star Wars: Message Boards: Darwin Awards (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Date Posted: Apr 21, 2005 09:20 AM However, I told my wife that whether they die or live, they should both get a Darwin Award, as this is a perfect example of some brainchild doing something so incredibly stupid that he deserves a Darwin Award despite the fact that he lived to tell about it.
		The idea of the Darwin award is to award a person for doing the gene pool the greatest favor by removing him/herself from it.
		Anyway, the givers of the award deemed him worthy of it, despite the fact that he lived through it and did no reproductive damage.
	forums.starwars.com /thread.jspa?threadID=214898 (960 words)

	Seed: The Darwin Awards
		And then there's the award that dares to step away from our "culture of life," and celebrate the naturally deselected.
		Instead, since Marko's chimney was too tall for a broom to clean from below, he decided to weld a weight to a chain attached to his brush and drop the contraption from the roof through the chimney.
		The Darwin Awards, written by Maggie Wittlin, posted on January 4, 2006 06:32 PM, is in the category Entertainment & Media.
	www.seedmagazine.com /news/2006/01/the_darwin_awards.php (610 words)

	Darwin Awards (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Darwin Awards - These are nearly always granted posthumously.
		This citation is bestowed upon (the remains of) that individual, who through single-minded self -sacrifice, has done the most to remove the undesirable elements from the human gene pool.
		Peter Lauwers, managing partner of the firm Holden Day Wilson, told the Toronto Sun newspaper that Hoy was "one of the best and brightest" members of the 200 man association.
	ifaq.wap.org /society/darwinawards.html (341 words)

	Darwin Awards from The Joke File (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Darwin Awards are annually bestowed upon (the remains of) individuals who have given their all in an effort to improve our gene pool.
		The Darwin Awards applaud those who have made the ultimate sacrifice of killing themselves by the most extraordinarily stupid means.
		The Awards commemorate those who find innovatively moronic ways of killing themselves, thereby helping to eliminate undesirable weaknesses from the human gene pool.
	www.jokefile.co.uk /darwin_awards (2014 words)

	Net2Business, LLC - Darwin Awards
		You all know about the Darwin Awards - It's an annual honor given to the person who did the gene pool the biggest service by killing themselves in the most extraordinarily stupid way.
		The 1995 winner was the fellow who was killed by a Coke machine which toppled over on top of him as he was attempting to tip a free soda out of it.
		As he was led away in handcuffs, a reporter dispatched to cover the daring rescue asked why he had done it.
	www.net2business.com /humor/darwin.html (684 words)

	Salon People \| We're with stupid (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Awarded biannually to recipients now forever unable to collect statuettes in person, the Darwin Awards "commemorate individuals who protect our gene pool by making the ultimate sacrifice of their own lives" by "eliminat[ing] themselves in an extraordinarily idiotic manner, thereby improving our species' chance of long-term survival."
		Collected and verified by a Berkeley-educated molecular biologist (alias "Darwin") who went on to do research in neurobiology at Stanford (where she first heard the term "Darwin Awards"), the stories range from the sublimely ironic to the pathetically stupid.
		[This 1999 Darwin Award runner-up connected cables to the main power supply of his house, dropped the other end in the river, waited for a batch of electrocuted fish to float to the surface, and then waded into the water to retrieve his catch.]
	archive.salon.com /people/feature/2000/01/03/darwin (958 words)

	CNN.com - Books - 'Darwin Awards' author dedicated to documenting macabre mishaps - January 3, 2001 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Darwin Awards -- named after Charles Darwin, the dead guy who, when he was alive, gave us the theory of evolution and natural selection in the book "The Origin of Species" -- have been Northcutt's life for several years now.
		Her cousin Ian (not death) had told her about the Darwin Awards, which already existed in basic form on the Internet.
		The most popular Darwin Award story of all time, says Northcutt, involved the guy who strapped a JATO (jet-assisted takeoff) unit to his 1967 Chevy Impala.
	archives.cnn.com /2001/books/news/01/03/darwin.awards (1251 words)

	DARWIN AWARDS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		It is once again time to vote for the Darwin Award nominees for 1997.
		You may recall last year's Darwin Award winner: The man who found out moments before making a 300 MPH dent in an Arizona cliff that the JATO (jet assist take off) unit he'd strapped to his car could not be turned off once it was turned on.
		And 1995's winner was the fellow who was killed by a Coke machine which toppled on top of him as he was attempting to tip a free soda out of it.
	www.lovedungeon.net /humor/misc/darwin.html (1996 words)

	Salon.com Books \| "The Darwin Awards"
		Of course, Darwin Award proponents don't advocate warnings of any kind -- they want serious contenders to buy the farm in an innovative fashion, and as soon as possible.
		Darwin winners hail from all over the globe (though I did notice that Michigan, alcohol and below-average temperatures seem to be a particularly dangerous combination).
		One Darwin statuette was awarded to a German hunter who was shot dead by his own dog after he left the playful pooch alone in the car with a loaded gun -- pointed out the window.
	archive.salon.com /books/review/2000/11/10/northcutt (1138 words)

	'Darwin Awards' director has a blast filming stories about really stupid behavior (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		There really are Darwin awards, but Penn says he had not heard of them until he got the script for the film, which is Taylor's biggest-budget work to date.
		Joseph Fiennes also is in "The Darwin Awards," and copies of a new magazine with his face on the cover are circulated throughout the crew of approximately 50 people.
		Sony Classics already has cornered the international rights to "The Darwin Awards," though Taylor is holding out on the national rights until the film is complete.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2005/02/08/DDG0FB6ALQ1.DTL (1040 words)

	welcome to drkendavis.com
		When I was in high school, we'd referr to these incidents as "nominees for the Darwin Awards" (named, of course, for Charles Darwin, who pioneered and even became synonymous with the concept of evolution ("darwinism").
		You may recall hearing about one previous Darwin Award winner: The man who found out moments before making a 300 MPH dent in an Arizona cliff that the JATO (jet assist take off) unit he'd strapped to his car could not be turned off once it was turned on.
		And 1994's winner was the fellow who was killed by a Coke machine which toppled on top of him as he was attempting to tip a free soda out of it.
	www.drkendavis.com /darwin (3575 words)

	eclecticism: Darwin Awards
		I hadn't read this list before, but it prompted me to head over to the official Darwin Awards website and browse through some of the stories.
		It's just a movie, folks: One for the Darwin Awards -- the first item on this page is a story of a Japanese tourist who died in the middle of a snowy field outside of Fargo, North Dakota...while trying to dig up the stolen money left there in the movie Fargo.
		Halle Berry wins Razzie...and respect: Halle Berry staged an Oscar-worthy parody of her Academy Awards meltdown at last night's 25th annual Razzie awards in Los Angeles.
	www.michaelhanscom.com /eclecticism/2003/07/darwin_awards.html (300 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: The Darwin Awards: 180 Bizarre True Stories of How Dumb Humans Have Met Their Maker: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Practically everyone who is on the net has received a Darwin story in their e-mail at one time or another.
		To win the Darwin Award, you must (1) die or be unable to procreate, (2) show really bad judgment, (3) cause your own downfall, (4) have the ability to use sound judgment (are not permanently mentally impaired) and (5) have the incident verified by someone else.
		The verification in many cases is after the fact or is in a publication (which may have an incentive to improve the stories to make them better, and sell more issues), which probably adds to the tendency for stupidity bias in the interpretations.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0752844512 (1728 words)

	Darwin Awards 2004-2005 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Darwins are awarded every year to the person who died in the most stupid manner, thereby removing himself or herself from the gene pool.
		Awakening to the sound of a ringing telephone beside his bed, he reached for the phone but grabbed instead a Smith and Wesson 38 Special, which discharged when he drew it to his ear.
		Nominee No. 4: [UPI, Toronto]: Police said a lawyer demonstrating the safety of the plate glass windows in a downtown Toronto skyscraper crashed through a pane with his shoulder and plunged 24 floors to his death.
	seabrain.com /thegreathotel/goombay/darwin2004.htm (889 words)

	The 1999 Darwin Awards
		For those sheltered few of you who are not fully aware of the Darwin Awards; these awards are given annually (and posthumously) to those individuals who did the most for the human gene pool by removing themselves from it.
		A 22-year-old Reston, Va., man was found dead after he tried to use.'occy' straps (the stretchy little ropes with hooks on each end) to bungee jump off a 70-foot railroad trestle, police said.
		The friend (a future Darwin Awards candidate).was hospitalized.
	www.alpenmic.com /words_and_thoughts/darwin.htm (1368 words)

	Darwin Awards
		For those sheltered few of you who are not fully aware of the Ida-Darwin Awards; these awards are given annually (and posthumously) to those individuals who did the most for the human gene pool by removing themselves from it...
		A 22-year-old Reston man was found dead yesterday after he tried to use 'occy' straps (the stretchy little ropes with hooks on each end) to bungee jump off a 70-foot railroad trestle, police said.
		The friend (who has demonstrated a high potential as a future Darwin Awards candidate) was hospitalized.
	www.internet.ge.ms /aj/DarwinAwards.html (1200 words)

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