Thursday 18 June 2015

The Blogville Darwin-lite Award Competition

Bouncing Bertie Boffin here. Blogville's Chief Scientific Advisor. It's been too long.


Now I expect many of you have heard of 'The Darwin Awards', which each year honour the human being who has brought about the greatest improvement to the gene pool by eliminating him or herself in the most unusual and unintelligent fashion. (It's usually a him, obviously).

Well us pups hardly need reminding that the evidence for the humans being the most highly evolved species is, well, specious at best. You'll know this, for sure, simply by observing the people with whom you live.

So I have decided to run my own competition, which I am naming the 'Blogville Darwin-lite Award'. It is 'lite' because I am most certainly not looking for stories involving an actual fatality. Rather, I would like  to hear about occasions when your human has acted in a way that can be taken as proof positive against the notion of 'intelligent design'.

Since Gail has decreed that I am banned from entering the contest, I won't bother telling you again about the time she decided to 'calm me down' by squirting Rescue Remedy up my nose on a crowded platform at Aberdeen railway station...

A very special prize will be awarded to the best entry, and the judgement will be made according to a set of rules too complex and abstruse for any human to understand.

To enter, please leave a comment on this post, either (1) describing the episode in sufficient detail for the incredible stupidity of the human involved to be plain for all to see, or (2) referencing an explanatory post on your own blog.

The deadline for entries will be 30th June, and the winner announced on 2nd July, together with an in depth scientific analysis of course...

PS If you write an entry on your own blog, please use the image at the top of this post to indicate your participation in the contest, and include the words 'Darwin-lite' somewhere in the title. You can post any time up to the deadline. Please also feel free to link to the 'blog hop' below. (And a big thank you to  Oz the Terrier for setting it up.)



25 comments:

  1. I gotta get to thinkin - dere are just too many incidents I's seen in 12+ years dat I gotta think befores I pick da best one.

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    1. Momma sed she is too highly evolved to commit any such acts dat would qualify her fur such an award... I sez I ain't too durn sure 'bout dat...

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  2. Bertie you were right...that's the pawfect contest for me and the inmates of my crib :o) I will write a postie and I bet it will be worth the darwin award hehehe
    easy rider

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  3. I finks it'll haf to be a post on my blog...trouble is there's so much to chose from!!!!
    Loves and licky kisses
    Princess Leah xxx

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  4. First of all, SHE always looks like that evolution poster every time SHE has to drive for two hours straight, trying to get out of the car.....

    We have several incidents which could be considered Darwin Award Material. We'll have to think which one is the more prizeworthy.

    Love your header (this is an honest comment and should not be construed as a bribe.)

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  5. Hmmmmm that's a tough one. So many examples. I guess our best example is when mom and dad put is in the car and try to contact ask sorts of barriers to keep us from escaping our seat belts which we always escape anyway
    Retro rover

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  6. Ps this is fry and Weasley Bob ping and tuvok are habit to stay in the seat belt harnesses. Fry and Weasley forget it but mom and dad just won't let us ride in the front

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  7. Can I use a story from an old blog post? I have a funny one, but have posted about it already. It involves my human mistaking a pair of boots for our cat, Rosie.

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    1. Yes, if it's a great story, of course we want to hear about it again!
      Toodle pip!
      Bertie.

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  8. Oh yes FINALLY I CAN GIVE PROOF POSITIVE THAT MOM DID NOT USE HER NOODLE ONCE MANY YEARS AGO. WE'LL POST IT ON OUR BLOG
    HUGS AND WE'LL BE BACK!!!

    WHAT A WONDERFUL IDEA!!! OH AND FYI MOM TRIED RESCUE REMEDY ON MY FOOD ONCE WHEN I WAS A KITTY....BUT IT DIDN'T WORK.
    HUGS MADI YOUR BFFF

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  9. Oh my gosh - where do we begin - this could be an epic tale of epic fails !

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  10. OMD OMD OMD THIS is like CHRISTMAS in JUNE... We will FINALLY be able to Show the WORLD that we live with.... Insidious Insanity... It will be INCREDIBLE...

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  11. Bertie, your graphic says it all!! We have to commiserate in order to pick THE BEST story. Humans...

    -Ruby and Otto

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  12. mom is trying to break me out of going nutty when I hear a loud motorcycle. Her new attempt is the water squirt bottle. Well the other day the squirted was pointed in the wrong direction. You got it! A big hard squirt right in her eye ball. We cracked up as I ran from room to room screaming at the motorcycle until she recovered
    Lily (& Edward)

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  13. We have to think about this one

    wags
    Addi and Oreo

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  14. Hari OM
    OMD this is gonna be fun... for once one can be exempted, 'cuz one doesn't dob oneself in.... ..... well, one does.... but not for competitive comparison!!!! Nice one Bertie lad... hugs and wags, YAM-aunty xxx

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  15. It's been ages since I laughed as hard as I did after reading your first paragraph! And, Bertie, your comment about the set of judging rules also made me laugh out loud!

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  16. Ooooh, what a grreat contest! I'll have to think long and hard about the pawfect entry!

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  17. Bertie, there are some books you would like at the new library. I'm sure that Andy and I can think of something.
    Sally Ann

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  18. Ooh, this was eeeaaasy! Mara did some really silly thing not too long ago and I was there to witness it!! Just hop on over to our blog and there is the story, as written by myself: Brom!

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  19. I'm almost ashamed to admit that in my first year of dog ownership with our first OES, she walked on the freshly painted front outside porch and ended up with red paws which she then walked through the house. At 20, I was clueless and ended up wiping her paws with paint remover which of course sent her into a frenzy as I had lightly burned the tender pads. An emergency trip to the vet was in order with me being very sheepish. I don't think the poor girl ever fully forgave me for that.

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    1. Gail says: Craig, I think most of us dog owners have similar 'live and learn' experiences in our past.

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  20. So many come to mind. We will think on it!

    Wyatt's Mom

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  21. We have decided to a do a post today if that is ok which better illustrates our momma's darwin lite issues

    retro rover

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  22. Such an ungrateful child you are Bertie! Our Mums love us, feed us good food, take us places, groom us so we look like swells, cry for us when we are hurt or ill,
    and give us toys by the bazillions. That's just a few of the things they do, and now you want to make them look like fools. Not me, Bertie, not me! Stella

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