Archive for November, 2007
Emma je t’aime
A real Paul (millionnary) looking for Emma? The beginning of a advertising campaign?
Anyway the phenomenon “Emma Je t’aime” is everywhere.
On TV, on the web, blogs and website, on radio, on Paris’ s streets…
This “Paul” has obviously a lot of means!
But who is he?
Have a look at one of his video
Emma je t’aime TV
Envoyé par Paul222 dans Street sur wat.tv
more information on the “blog”: www.emmajetaime.com
Latest news: it seems a buzz from the Lagardere group:
http://tf1.lci.fr/infos/high-tech/0,,3634900,00-emma-est-demasqueey-.html
Darwin Awards for stupid deaths
I was in the train reading my newspaper, when a strange discussion drew my attention.
A girl was speaking about special prices to reward the most stupid deaths. I made a research and discovered the existence of the Darwin Awards. The Darwin Awards were created in 1993 by Wendy Northcutt when she was student at the university of Standford. A Darwin Award is delivered to someone who has killed or sterilized himself accidentally by a really stupid behavior. This people are rewarded to thank them for having removing themselves from the Gene pool by losing the ability to reproduce. That is considered as a great gift to Humanity.
These rewards are named Darwin Awards in reference to Darwin’s theory of evolution by natural selection.
There are five requirements for a Darwin Award:
- Inability to reproduce : Nominee must be dead or rendered sterile.
- “Excellence” : Astoundingly stupid judgment.
- Self-selection”: Cause of one’s own demise.
- “Maturity” : Capable of sound judgment.
- “Veracity” : The event must be verified.
Here are examples of winners :
- juggling active hand grenades (Croatia, 2001)
- jumping out of a plane to film skydivers without wearing a parachute (U.S., 1987)
- attempting to play Russian roulette with a semi-automatic pistol that automatically reloads the next round into the chamber
- crashing through a window and falling to your death in trying to demonstrate that the window is unbreakable
There are also special mention for people who are not dead or sterilized but who were not so far like this amazing old man, Larry. He was very old and wanted to fly before his death, so he attached a lot of balloons filled with helium to his lawn chair and managed to gain height. He « flew» quite far before being spotted by American radars. He finally lost height and slowly landed in California without being hurt.





