they have announced winners for this years darwain awards
http://darwinawards.com/darwin/darwin2006-05.html .

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If it's just us, it seems like an awful waste of space.
Contact Carl Sagan

I had a more complete experience at this link: 2006 Darwin Awards

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2007 is starting of with a bang.

See honey? the safety is on.

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*grumpy sigh*

A gun is always loaded. There is always a forgotten round in the chamber. The safety is always off.

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Listen close to everybody's heart________And you believe there's good in everybody's heart
And hear that breaking sound_____________Keep it safe and sound
Hopes and dreams are shattering apart____With hope you can do your part
And crashing to the ground_______________To turn a life around

And the best way to prove that a gun is empty and safe is always to point it at oneself or someone else and demonstrate exactly how not loaded the gun is (instead of opening the chamber and visibly confirming).

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I'm like one of those idiot savants...well, except for the savant part.

"A long time ago, yet somehow in the future"

Even then, if the magazine is attached to the gun, you may have just chambered a round simply by checking to see if the chamber was empty.

My hunter-safety instructor couldn't emphasize this litany enough (and he was right):

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Listen close to everybody's heart________And you believe there's good in everybody's heart
And hear that breaking sound_____________Keep it safe and sound
Hopes and dreams are shattering apart____With hope you can do your part
And crashing to the ground_______________To turn a life around

First remove the magazine, then open the chamber and confirm it's empty, then close the chamber, then reinsert the magazine.

At this point you should again assume the gun is loaded.

Edited to add what this reminded me off.
Slight clarification to the reaction in the last frame is that Nick had until then only been shown as a typical computer geek/nerd.

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An emperor without enemies, a king without a kingdom, supported in life by the willing tribute of a free people.

As for spearfishing groupers (very tasty fish), instead of tethering onself to them, why not simply attach the rope on the spear to an underwater parachute?

Eight feet in diameter ought to tire out the grouper quite rapidly.

DUH!

Why hasn't anyone thought of that, yet???

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I am Mugs, of the Alien clan of Usa, Nordamerica, a Terran, of Sol.

Mine: "Perception isn't reality. It's merely an abstraction thereof, and quite often not a very good one at that."

Heinlein's: "Staying young requires the unceasing cultivation of the ability to unlearn old falsehoods." "Freedom begins when you tell Ms. Grundy to go fly a kite."

Today's candidate:
O.U. athlete dies in fall from Hilton Head balcony
Although; I bet it will belong in the oops, drunk again thread after the autopsy.

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Numbers are not case sensitive. (me)

It's not her fault, I go to O.U.; they don't teach "gravity" until you're senior level physics courses....

(j/k obviously, they have a pretty decent program) Sounds like she was trying to sneak to some guy's room past curfew, why else wouldn't you use the, what's it called? oh yeah HALLWAY.

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I'm like one of those idiot savants...well, except for the savant part.

"A long time ago, yet somehow in the future"

One from 2004 that made my knees numb...

http://darwinawards.com/darwin/darwin2004-27.html

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I'm not completely heartless, the doctor who removed it told me he'd never be able to get it all.

Sometimes a dog can be man's best fiend.

Meanwhile never chop your chickens before they're eyeballed.

I wonder about that non-repro statement though. Maybe not natural, artificial might still work.

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A person's name, or a mark representing it, as signed personally or by deputy, as in subscribing a letter or other document.

Make sure your chicken has two eyes, not one. Yeek!

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[Dr. Horrible]___________________________[Penny]
Listen close to everybody's heart________And you believe there's good in everybody's heart
And hear that breaking sound_____________Keep it safe and sound
Hopes and dreams are shattering apart____With hope you can do your part
And crashing to the ground_______________To turn a life around

Unfortunately he was 67 at the time of his, umm, misadventure, so he probably had reproduced years before. The damage has (probably) been done!

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Microsoft is over if you want it.

The bar has been lowered for the promotion of ATM ideas; the bar for the acceptance of ATM ideas must remain high.

Yeah, and the old man probably is numb too, he didn't felt anything when he chopped off his chicken.

I expect this is an urban legend style story based on the euphemism referred to here.

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An emperor without enemies, a king without a kingdom, supported in life by the willing tribute of a free people.

I especially liked the electrician (of all people!) flying a copper-wire kite.

Definitely good thing he is no longer around to wire my house.

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Fiction has to be plausible. Reality is under no such constraint.

I know a lady who had a bright idea to spear a hammerhead shark. During mating season, when hammerheads school in groups of hundreds.

The shark (obviously not the brightest bulb either) took off toward the school, trailing blood and dragging the "hunter" behind it. She managed to cut the line (did not let go of the speargun) before finding out what "feeding frenzy" really means. Thus proving she is only a Darwin candidate, not winner.

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Fiction has to be plausible. Reality is under no such constraint.

Hey now. My education comes from Ohio University. I'm a season-ticket holding, green bleeding Bobcat.

Am I allowed to ban people yet?

This above line was in jest - jeez, it looks like I killed the thread

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"I have this theory that the Apollo missions were faked when NASA found out that general relativity was wrong because the Earth was expanding due to the Sun's iron core being influenced by magnetic waves from the electric universe after being perturbed by Planet X and thereby causing global warming. Where should I start a thread about this?" ~ ToSeek

"Those are the people that wonder how a thermos knows whether to keep something hot or keep something cold." ~ NeoWatcher