KamikazeJohnson
05/08/02 01:53 PM
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This subject popped up on a thread in the general section...seemed to draw a lot of interest.
Anyone care to share their favourite Darwin Award story? any links/suggestred reading?
I'm not sure if this was ever a Darwin Award, or if I just heard it in the same context, but...
A temporary fad in Thailand, IIRC, was to use a bicycle pump to inflate your lower intestine (don't ask why, because I don't know and don't want to know!) Anyway...some yahoo decided he could get better results with the air compressor at his local gas station.................ka-BOOM!!!
Peace is that glorious moment in history when everyone stands around reloading.
--Thomas Jefferson
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KamikazeJohnson
05/08/02 01:54 PM
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Feel free to go off on any tangent you want 
Peace is that glorious moment in history when everyone stands around reloading.
--Thomas Jefferson
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SoyBigHead
05/12/02 02:39 AM
68.57.149.79
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the JATO story is just a urban legend; its been modified sooo many times that its pointless to discuss it...i mean they even used it on that one k-mart commercial with that race car guy...darrell waltrip i think? im not a big NASCAR fan (more the Indy/CART/Formula 1 or Rally Car type)
"There are three types of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics."
-Mark Twain
Edited by SoyBigHead (05/12/02 02:41 AM)
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SoyBigHead
05/12/02 02:42 AM
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'nother thing is that some of those darwin awards stories are so embellished that you can tell they arent true
"There are three types of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics."
-Mark Twain
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SoyBigHead
05/13/02 09:58 PM
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that would best be better addressed by someone other than me (mostly b/c i dont know what the UN handbook on pythons is)
"There are three types of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics."
-Mark Twain
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Spartan
05/14/02 10:51 PM
172.173.6.10
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"There are some problems to that though:
1) they swallow your head first, not feet
2) they crush their prey before swallowing it."
and 3) if you had a knife you should have been stabbing the gosh darn thing before he decided you might taste good.
Spartan
We demand rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty.
(I refer you to what Nightward said)
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Cheapbuzz
05/17/02 04:41 AM
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LOL..........
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