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    <body><![CDATA[Quite entertaining.  Rembember, &quot;You do not need a parachute to skydive.  You only need a parachute to skydive twice&quot;!]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Fun stuff in small doses.  All at once, however, the Darwin Awards become mean spirited.   ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[A much needed laugh and reminder that Darwin was right. ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I need new bathroom reading.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Always a funny fast read.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Purely fun, and a good way to feel superior to every other stupid human.  To qualify for a Darwin award you only have to end up dead, in a uniquely stupid way, before you have reproduced. Sort of a bathroom book, it you get my drift. I like the website too. ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[A further collection of amusing tales of how people have removed or nearly removed themselves from the human gene pool.  One must start to wonder the depth of human stupidity if this series can go to a third volume.  Still very funny all the same]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Ahhhh the stupidity of humans, always refreshing. Ths book is the hilarious story of how people remove themselves from the gene pool. This book is great for everyone, with great stories of complete lack of judgement.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[The series continues; it seems there is no risk that we will run out of people willing to die doing stupid and dangerous things and thereby remove themselves from the breeding population.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Humorous tales of those foolish people whose innane acts removed them from the gene pool - for the author's presumed greater glory of the human race.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This one is ok, but I've read an earlier addition that I found funnier.  There are definitely a few stories that sit high above the others in hilarity.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is great! Although, I do see and understand the thought pattern from some of the award winners. That scares me a bit!]]></body>
    
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