Happy Birthday Charles Darwin

Posted by Mark on Feb 12, 2009 | 2 Comments

Miserable-looking bugger ain’t he? And to think: his birthday’s only gone and fallen on Darwin Day too! Would it kill him to evolve a smile?

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Feb12

Pwn Greenland

Poor bastard. Mind you, he’d have probably cracked a smile if he knew the Vatican would eventually accept his theory of natural selection. source

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Feb13

Mr AD Fanton

I wish Darwin was still alive.

I’d get him to sign the back of my ten pound note.

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