2014 Darwin Award Candidate?

I want to meet her. She might make the perfect wife. The current one doesn't follow my instructions at all.

 

I vote for this brain surgeon...
Man gets stuck in pipe at NJ water treatment plant:

 

Don't you have to die to qualify for a Darwin award?

 

Grumpy really wanted us to see this LINK:

Is a mini ice age on the way? Scientists warn the Sun has 'gone to sleep' and say it could cause temperatures to plunge | Mail Online

 

Aw c'mon wjtracy, if grumpy had wanted that he would have said so. He's a straightforward guy.

If someone feels that the dailymail has told us something useful and new about solar cycles, let's reconvene in the usual place and discuss it.

This is a Darwin thread. Hyo, death is not a requirement. Sterilization will suffice. The DA website suggests that some degree of elegance or novelty should also be involved. I suppose that neither of the examples already cited do qualify.

 

"The Darwin Awards salute the improvement of
the human genome by honoring those who
accidentally remove themselves from it..."


I copied the above from the Darwin Awards website. I interpret it to mean that death is one of the entrance requirements, not one of the awards.

 

If you sterilize yourself, you are out of the gene pool (absent any earlier offspring). I apologize on behalf of Wendy Northcutt, who, as a Berkeley-trained biologist, should not have said 'genome'.

These days, DNA amplification and sequencing blurs the ability of death to remove one from a specie's genome. Wooly Mammoths are all dead, and they have a genome.

 

While death is the most common entrance path, it is not a true requirement. Some guys get in by means of, um, 'misadventure' resulting in avulsion of the testes.

 

Have you tried signal lights?

 

Yup!

 

Kind of reminds me of the old Python skit "Upper class twit of the year contest" where the winner was the first who successfully kill himself via self inflicted gunshot wound.

 

By all means it is a Fred thread to discuss DA candidates. However there are a lot of poseurs in the internet. 'Here's your dumb sign' has a lower price of admission.

Grumpy I saw the BBC article as well - similar but does not mention that 2011 had more sunspots than 2013. Still I think that our usual way would be to take that up in 'Environmental'. I haven't started a thread because I don't see anything 'new' in the news.

 

I read it and thought it very interesting. Thank you Grumpy.

 

I just jumped in because as the term has become more popular on this side of the pond over the past couple decades, it has also become misunderstood and seriously watered down.