Re: Darwin at work

2006-12-21 Thread Mary Jo Sminkey
>We were some stoopid kids. Or typical boys perhaps? The thing I find of particular interest when reading through the Darwin awards site is how many of the recipients are men (boys) rather than women. We just don't seem to have quite the knack for doing things that will dismember, destroy or ot

Re: Darwin at work

2006-12-20 Thread Mary Jo Sminkey
>it is tragic, but you'd think a high school student would have enough >intelligence to not light a match while peering into a fuel >tank.you'd think.but then you'd be wrong. Definitely sounds like one for the Darwin Awards: http://darwinawards.com/ --- Mary Jo

Re: Darwin at work

2006-12-19 Thread Scott_A . _Stewart
yeah, but ya had a lot of fun :) Scott A. Stewart REAC/PASS-IT (202)-475-8875 "Jerry Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 12/19/2006 03:19 PM Please respond to cf-community To: CF-Community cc: (bcc: Scott A. Stewart/REAC/HHQ/HUD) Subject: Re

Re: Darwin at work

2006-12-19 Thread Jerry Johnson
the fact that I made it to this age alive is proof there is a God, and proof that he is very forgiving. I made a list a few years ago of the times I _should_ have died, and it was over a page long. Breaking off big chunks of ice and floating on them down river. And then trying to get to shore as

Re: Darwin at work

2006-12-19 Thread Scott_A . _Stewart
CF-Community cc: (bcc: Scott A. Stewart/REAC/HHQ/HUD) Subject:Re: Darwin at work Dude.that would be freaking AWESOME! On 12/19/06, Jerry Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I was walking through the woods with a group of kids when one kid picked > up

Re: Darwin at work

2006-12-19 Thread G Money
Dude.that would be freaking AWESOME! On 12/19/06, Jerry Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I was walking through the woods with a group of kids when one kid picked > up > a "frisbee" and threw it. > > It hit a tree, and exploded, shearing off that tree, and about 10 trees in > a > semi cir

Re: Darwin at work

2006-12-19 Thread Paul Ihrig
omg! fook that... so it was not just me & my friends who had near death experiences often as a kid... very lucky... man. ~| Create robust enterprise, web RIAs. Upgrade & integrate Adobe Coldfusion MX7 with Flex 2 http://ad.double

Re: Darwin at work

2006-12-19 Thread Jerry Johnson
I was walking through the woods with a group of kids when one kid picked up a "frisbee" and threw it. It hit a tree, and exploded, shearing off that tree, and about 10 trees in a semi circle around it. Turns out it was an unexploded anti-personel mine, and we were standing in a dumping ground fro

Re: Darwin at work

2006-12-19 Thread Zaphod Beeblebrox
it is tragic, but you'd think a high school student would have enough intelligence to not light a match while peering into a fuel tank.you'd think.but then you'd be wrong. On 12/19/06, Paul Ihrig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > yeh, funny. > but does suck that a kid was killed. > i remember

Re: Darwin at work

2006-12-19 Thread Paul Ihrig
yeh, funny. but does suck that a kid was killed. i remember my younger bother tying large unexploded ordinance from air force target range to the back of his bike & riding a few miles home. sparking all the way.. mp's came to meet him. he was like 7. could have been very bad. ~~~

Darwin at work

2006-12-19 Thread Zaphod Beeblebrox
Oil tank fire started by youths still burning 10:12 AM CST on Tuesday, December 19, 2006 Associated Press SPRINGTOWN, Texas -- The burnoff continues today at an oil storage tank site near Springtown where an explosion left one teen dead and another hurt. EnCana spokeswoman Deborah West also say

Darwin at work??

2003-03-20 Thread Bill Wheatley
Mother and sons die in room sealed against chemical attack http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_761507.html?menu=news.latestheadlines Duh ya need to be able to breath lol. You know that is another of the big things with the gov'ts seal yourself in a room plan. If you don't get out in a few hour