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Ricky
SFN Die Hard

USA
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Posted - 08/28/2004 :  11:47:55  Show Profile  Send Ricky an AOL message Send Ricky a Private Message
There was a Mad TV sketch where they would advertise different products. For example, one was a cape that would only let you fly if you jumped off a building that was more than 5 stories high. And the end of each, they said "Natural Selection. It's only natural." Well, I got one more to add:

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A Tanzanian who went to a witch doctor in search of the power to resist bullets and knife attacks died when ritual cuts made on his body proved fatal.


http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=573&ncid=757&e=2&u=/nm/20040824/od_nm/witchcraft_dc

Why continue? Because we must. Because we have the call. Because it is nobler to fight for rationality without winning than to give up in the face of continued defeats. Because whatever true progress humanity makes is through the rationality of the occasional individual and because any one individual we may win for the cause may do more for humanity than a hundred thousand who hug their superstitions to their breast.
- Isaac Asimov

Dr. Mabuse
Septic Fiend

Sweden
9687 Posts

Posted - 08/28/2004 :  15:08:31   [Permalink]  Show Profile  Send Dr. Mabuse an ICQ Message Send Dr. Mabuse a Private Message
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Originally posted by Ricky
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A Tanzanian who went to a witch doctor in search of the power to resist bullets and knife attacks died when ritual cuts made on his body proved fatal.


http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=573&ncid=757&e=2&u=/nm/20040824/od_nm/witchcraft_dc

Ah! A Darwin Award candidate.

Dr. Mabuse - "When the going gets tough, the tough get Duct-tape..."
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"Equivocation is not just a job, for a creationist it's a way of life..." Dr. Mabuse

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Valiant Dancer
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USA
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Posted - 08/30/2004 :  06:30:23   [Permalink]  Show Profile  Visit Valiant Dancer's Homepage Send Valiant Dancer a Private Message
quote:
Originally posted by Ricky

There was a Mad TV sketch where they would advertise different products. For example, one was a cape that would only let you fly if you jumped off a building that was more than 5 stories high. And the end of each, they said "Natural Selection. It's only natural." Well, I got one more to add:

quote:
A Tanzanian who went to a witch doctor in search of the power to resist bullets and knife attacks died when ritual cuts made on his body proved fatal.


http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=573&ncid=757&e=2&u=/nm/20040824/od_nm/witchcraft_dc



Aravis Walker, 23, was killed when his car exploded during a session in which he would light fireworks and toss them out the window at passersby; one of the fireworks didn't clear the window but ricocheted to the back seat, where it ignited the rest of Walker's fireworks. [WKMG-TV, 6-29-04]



He removed the “stupid” genes from the gene pool.




Cthulhu/Asmodeus when you're tired of voting for the lesser of two evils

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Dave W.
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Posted - 08/30/2004 :  08:11:34   [Permalink]  Show Profile  Visit Dave W.'s Homepage Send Dave W. a Private Message
There are usually one or two stories like this in each week's News of the Weird.

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