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The Darwin Awards commemorate those who improve our gene pool by removing themselves from it, showing us just how uncommon common sense can be! Meet the absentminded terrorist who opens a mail bomb returned to him for insufficient postage. Marvel at the thief who steals electrical wires before shutting off the current. Gape at the would-be pilot who flies his lawn chair suspended from helium balloons into air-traffic lanes. These tales of trial...
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This sixth installment features all-new stories of the human race’s lowest rung on the evolutionary ladder, and is the latest addition to this successful brand. Aside from the bestselling book and audio book collection that has sold over 1.5 million copies, the Darwin Awards brand includes a website that gets over 1 million hits per month and has over 100,000 newsletter subscribers, 2 miniature book editions, a movie starring Winona Ryder and Joseph...
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Dutton
Pub. Date
c2001
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English
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In the spirit of Charles Darwin, the father of evolution, The Darwin Awards II : Unnatural Selection brings together a fresh collection of magnificent misadventures, honoring those who continue to improve our gene pool by removing themselves from it in a sublimely idiotic fashion.
6) Idiocracy
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20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
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2007, ©2006
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English
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Joe Bowers is an average Joe. He is not the sharpest tool in the shed. He becomes part of a government experiment to go into hibernation. The experiment goes awry and Bowers awakens in the year 2505 to find a society so dumbed-down by mass commercialism and mindless TV programming that he's become the smartest guy on the planet. Now it's up to this average Joe to get human evolution back on the right track.