Stupid Rehab

Thank you for sharing this expression with me, Leslie!  At lunch one day, we were talking celebrity gossip (it’s better than gossip about people we know, right??) and all the celebs heading to and heading back to their various rehabs:  drug, alcohol, sex, gambling, shopping, eating, etc . . .  By no means am I bashing rehab.  But, Leslie and her co-workers think there needs to be a new kind of rehab called "Stupid Rehab" for all those people that do obviously (to most of us anyway) stupid things.  You know them: sleeping around with 23 different woman while married to a former model with two cute kids?  Stupid Rehab!  Storm the stage at the VMA awards and dis the winner in front of millions of viewers?  Stupid Rehab!  Tell people you are hiking the Appalachian Trail and head to South America to visit your mistress - when you are married, have 4 kids, and are serving in a public office?  Stupid Rehab!


The ultimate candidates for Stupid Rehab are the winners of the Darwin Awards.  What are the Darwin Awards?  You must visit www.darwinawards.com or buy/download the books.  They make great gifts for people who like to laugh.  From the website:  "The Darwin Awards salute the improvement of the human genome by honoring those who accidentally remove themselves from it...These individuals carry out disastrous plans that any average pre-teen knows are the result of a really bad idea. The single-minded purpose and self-sacrifice of the winners, and the spectacular means by which they snuff themselves, make them candidates for the honor of winning a Darwin Award."

The winners would make great candidates for Stupid Rehab, but because the main requisite of winning the Darwin Award is that the nominee died in the process, these Darwin Award winners are exempt from Stupid Rehab, by reason of . . .  stupidity.

Who do you think needs to go to Stupid Rehab?  I'd love to hear your stories.