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          MALE EMPEROR PENGUINS
After laying her egg the female Emperor Penguin ditches the dad and heads to the seaside with her friends where she feasts. Left alone with the egg, dad protects it by balancing it on it's feet for 64 days. 120 mph bone chilling winds don't help the situation. Luckly all the fathers work together to keep their eggs warm and safe. If mom is late returning from gorging herself dad can cough up a morsel of protein and fat to keep his chick nourished. Apparently this is all he has left. He hasn't eaten in 115 days. Married life is hard work, the male will lose around half his body weight bringing his offspring into the world.
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Filename: emperorpenguin_walk.jpgSource: Martha de Jong-Lantink on flickr cc Url: http://www.flickr.com/photos/marthaenpiet/2094421829/ 
Filename: emperorpenguin_egg.jpgSource: ASOC Pictures on flickr cc Url: http://www.flickr.com/photos/asoc/391278828/ 
Filename: emperorpenguin_chick.jpgSource: Wiki Commons Url: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:EmperorPenguinFeedingChick.jpg 
Filename: emperorpenguin_colony.jpgSource: Eye 4 It on flickr cc Url: http://www.flickr.com/photos/12492827@N03/3206461591/ 
Filename: emperorpenguin_safe.jpgSource: ASOC Pictures on flickr cc Url: http://www.flickr.com/photos/asoc/354036767/ 
Filename: emperorpenguin_poster.jpgSource: 'March of the Penguins' -promotional poster (flickr cc) Url: http://www.flickr.com/photos/pixie_bebe/30335860/ 
Filename: emperorpenguin_twochicks.jpgSource: Martha de Jong-Lantink on flickr cc Url: http://www.flickr.com/photos/marthaenpiet/2091194236/
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Male Emperor Penguins was voted MORE AWESOME than:
 Octo-Stache  The Stig  Peekaru  Johnny Cash  Keith Loutit's Little Sydney  Stinky Cheese  Notorious B.I.G. Doll  The Disintegrator: Rubber Band Minigun  Rockin' Steady Male Emperor Penguins was voted LESS AWESOME than:  Ultra Slow Motion  Troy Hurtubise's Inventions  The Viking Helmet  Teddy Roosevelt  Choose Your Own Adventure Books  Library of Congress  Rasputin  Che Guevara  Death Star  Mermaids  Indy's Whip
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     CHOOSE YOUR OWN ADVENTURE BOOKS
These books were popular in the 80's and early 90's, selling over 250 million copies between 1979-1998. Every book is packed with action and the reader is the star. Every couple of pages the reader needs to decide what he/she should do next.
Depending on the reader's choices a CYOA book can have a happy ending or one of many others. There is even a CYOA book that has an ending that can only be reached by cheating. Choose your own Adventure.
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Choose Your Own Adventure Books was voted MORE AWESOME than:
 Unibrow Octo-Stache  Queen of the Mist  Deja Vu  Gong The Viking Helmet  Reliant Robin  Chindogu  Tiesto Notorious B.I.G. Doll The Disintegrator: Rubber Band Minigun Death Star Mermaids Male Emperor Penguins Rockin' Steady Indy's Whip Choose Your Own Adventure Books was voted LESS AWESOME than: Ultra Slow Motion Troy Hurtubise's Inventions Johnny Cash Library of Congress Rasputin  James Earl Jones Counts to 10
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Back before The Brick Testament launched my career to the heights of minor internet celebrity, my first brush with infamy was in 1997 as the creator of BRAD: the game, the internet's most perverted text-based Choose Your Own Adventure, loosely based on the exploits of my uncle Brad. http://www.bradthegame.com
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I see Brad bringing you a second championship ring.
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i like to pretend that you are not actually a person.
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but some sort of super intelligent robot or program
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If only.
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Oh hells, you should relase BRAD: the game as an iPhone app. That shizz would KILL!
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Books that would have been better if they had been "Choose Your Own Adventure":
1) The Motorcycle Diaries 2) James Joyce's Ulysses 3) To Kill a Mockingbird 4) The Grapes of Wrath 5) Gravity's Rainbow 6) Anne Frank's Diary reply
3.) You stand at Boo Radley's house. To go in, turn to page #23. To leave, turn to page #43. To leave a burning bag of dog poo, turn to page #99.
4.) To stay in Oklahoma, turn to page #59. To go to California, turn to page #102. To battle the Zombie Invasion in Tulsa, go to page, #408.
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I turn to page #99!
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I would totally turn to page #408.
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6.) The Nazi's are down stairs. To wish them a happy Hanukkah turn to page 29. To hide in the attic turn to page 107. To call in airstrike using telepathy turn to page 91.
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You need to write this!!!!!
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Anne Frank's Choose Your Own Diary, in a Borders near you summer 2010 :)
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I smell a Disney Presents "Anne Franke's CYOD" On Ice!!!
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I think you had to be a kid in the early 80's to appreciate Choose Your Own Adventure. They were video games before video games. The whole concept of a book was taken to a whole different place, where you were the hero making the choices. There were different worlds to be explored, based on the choices you made. I bought every new one as soon as it hit the shelves.
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+1! That's exactly how I described CYOA books when I nominated them! Totally revolutionary, when you think that back then the term "interactive" didn't apply to absolutely everything. I think they helped foster my love of books - kinda like training wheels in a way - because they sorta helped spark your imagination with simply the words on the pages.
Not to mention that, back then, I'd imagine they were also rather tricky to write. Plus, the supposed origin of the genre was a man who wrote his own bedtime story to read to his kids - and made it so they could decide what happened next. Super awesome to me, but I do understand how it could be lost on people who never read them
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I'm very happy to give my 500th vote to CYOA books, and hopefully this will add that intangible but very real element of "good luck" as they march on to the annals of Awesomeness!
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Oooh, the first candidate I've ever nominated - do I need to recuse myself from voting?
Naah, CYOA books are just way too awesome!
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