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lucky bastard awards

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Anyone can apply for a student loan, go to University for 8 years, devote decades of their lives to something and then come up with something great, but it takes true talent for a lazy, unskilled person to stumble into the same success.

People would be awarded for:

*Creating cures for diseases while atempting to make Macaroni

*Napping your way to the top of a corperation

*Finding the largest amount of money

*and so forth

bobofthefuture, Mar 07 2003

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[thumbwax, Oct 04 2004, last modified Oct 05 2004]

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       It would become dull if these awards all went to lottery winners (e.g. that man who just won $128m in New York). I'd like to see the annual award for "Most outrageously unlikely escape from certain death" though.
hippo, Mar 07 2003
  

       // highly creatively apt manner in which they then accidentally and suddenly met their demise //   

       Sounds like a job for the Darwin Awards team to me.
8th of 7, Mar 07 2003
  

       Yeah, I'd have a problem giving an award to someone who just won one (i.e. a lottery). Seeing karma come full circle, however....
phoenix, Mar 07 2003
  

       I think I could perhaps win one of these awards.   

       But just now I find myself developing a new fear of meteorites.
beauxeault, Mar 07 2003
  

       Plastic... vulcanizing... nylon...
RayfordSteele, Mar 07 2003
  

       That's using the old noodle
thumbwax, Mar 08 2003
  

       You might have tortelloni nventor would be destined to fail, but I think the occasional one succeeds - and then gets srewed by patent laws.
hippo, Mar 08 2003
  

       Obligatory lumaconi nventor post
thumbwax, Mar 08 2003
  

       Speaking of karma the guy who gave me a bad haircut a few months ago came into the bar where I work a few days later, cut himself on some glass and has since had 3 blood transfusions. Thats karma and a warning to any hairdressers out there.
Gulherme, Mar 10 2003
  

       "Serendipity is the effect by which one accidentally discovers something fortunate, especially while looking for something else entirely."   

       Fuck serendipity.
4whom, Nov 13 2007
  

       //Most outrageously unlikely escape from certain death//   

       Yeah, that would be awesome. Although, that award should be saved for last. I have a feeling the Lucky Bastard awards will recive many, many attacks and threats. Including a few bombs. Oh, and [4whom], that would be painful. Trying to copulate with some random occurance that you had no previous knowledge of sounds stupid. Would you pull down your pants, hop to the left and hope you don't fall off a cliff or run into me? I know you were probably talking about something utterly different, but I had to add that.
Shadow Phoenix, Nov 13 2007
  
      
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