2008 Woodie Awards
Reason for being: ceasing to exist
Sara McIntosh
Issue date: 2/13/07 Section: Arts & Entertainment
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Last semester, the book regarding men's nocturnal habits after coitus was brought to you as a means of gaining enlightenment to all those burning, itching questions you always wanted to ask but never had the guts to do so.
Now that everyone knows the logistics of creation and idiosyncrasies that arise from coitus, how about awarding people for bettering the human race by killing themselves or removing their genes from the pool permanently? For those of you wanting to know more, there are a series of books edited by Wendy Northcutt called Darwin Awards.
Basically, the premise for each of these books is to demonstrate the illogical ways of thinking by criminals, cops, musicians, teachers, men, women, and mentally unstable characters that live and breathe and copulate throughout the world. After being documented and checked for validity, Northcutt awards these unfortunately dead people with the homage of being a Darwin Award winner, which means that the human race is far greater now that they are no longer a member of it.
For all those times your mom warned you about not jumping off the eight-story apartment building holding a beach towel for a cape in order to replicate your favorite superhero, these people did not have that voice of reason to guide them out of a disastrously hilarious demise. The benefits to these books are that you'll learn how not to plan a brilliant robbery attempt, that flying to the moon on a lawn chair with weather balloons strapped to the side along with a cooler of beer is not a good idea, and that placing an highly explosive firework into the bell of the trombone and then lighting it should be avoided at all costs.
Want to laugh at your fellow man? Then these books are for you. With such fitting titles as "Darwin Awards: Evolution in Action," "Darwin Awards II: Unnatural Selection," and "Darwin Awards III: Survival of the Fittest," a reader can expect to see some funny yet tragic experiences of when the mental process of the highly evolved man (and woman) seem to go astray. When death or the loss of reproductive capabilities is not the immediate outcome to the not-quite-so-brilliant deed, Northcutt gives honorable mentions in order to demonstrate the sheer nature stupidity has over the ability to think and, therefore, exist.
Have you read any good books lately? Are you not happy with the books being reviewed? Then why not do your fellow students and college brethren a favor and write a review.
If you are brave enough to have your opinion, review or commentary put in print, then submit your writing to pacer_features@utm.edu. Show off your book indulgence or repertoire and it could be in next week's edition.
Now that everyone knows the logistics of creation and idiosyncrasies that arise from coitus, how about awarding people for bettering the human race by killing themselves or removing their genes from the pool permanently? For those of you wanting to know more, there are a series of books edited by Wendy Northcutt called Darwin Awards.
Basically, the premise for each of these books is to demonstrate the illogical ways of thinking by criminals, cops, musicians, teachers, men, women, and mentally unstable characters that live and breathe and copulate throughout the world. After being documented and checked for validity, Northcutt awards these unfortunately dead people with the homage of being a Darwin Award winner, which means that the human race is far greater now that they are no longer a member of it.
For all those times your mom warned you about not jumping off the eight-story apartment building holding a beach towel for a cape in order to replicate your favorite superhero, these people did not have that voice of reason to guide them out of a disastrously hilarious demise. The benefits to these books are that you'll learn how not to plan a brilliant robbery attempt, that flying to the moon on a lawn chair with weather balloons strapped to the side along with a cooler of beer is not a good idea, and that placing an highly explosive firework into the bell of the trombone and then lighting it should be avoided at all costs.
Want to laugh at your fellow man? Then these books are for you. With such fitting titles as "Darwin Awards: Evolution in Action," "Darwin Awards II: Unnatural Selection," and "Darwin Awards III: Survival of the Fittest," a reader can expect to see some funny yet tragic experiences of when the mental process of the highly evolved man (and woman) seem to go astray. When death or the loss of reproductive capabilities is not the immediate outcome to the not-quite-so-brilliant deed, Northcutt gives honorable mentions in order to demonstrate the sheer nature stupidity has over the ability to think and, therefore, exist.
Have you read any good books lately? Are you not happy with the books being reviewed? Then why not do your fellow students and college brethren a favor and write a review.
If you are brave enough to have your opinion, review or commentary put in print, then submit your writing to pacer_features@utm.edu. Show off your book indulgence or repertoire and it could be in next week's edition.
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