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       MAJOR LEAGUE GAMING
February 2009 Champion MLG was started in 2002 by Mike Sepso and Sundance DiGiovanni and took on a lofty goal: to form a league, and enough buzz to actually turn video game addicts into professional athletes. Fast forward 7 years and its clearly mission accomplished. They have a television show on ESPN, prizes as large as $100K, tournaments all over the country, and have enabled hundreds of gamers to go professional. In 2008 they signed a deal with Dr. Pepper to put pictures of professional Halo players on 175 million bottles. Think about that for a second, that's not Michael Jordan on a soda bottle, its Tsquared, a guy who plays Halo for a living. Did anyone notice? PRESIDENT OBAMA WAS PHOTOGRAPHED WITH AN MLG BOTTLE ON INAGURATION DAY. Vote for MLG because you know you had promise when you were 16, your parents didn't see it, but you damn well knew you were the greatest Double Dragon player on the planet. There just wasn't a future in doing that for a living... back then.
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Major League Gaming was voted MORE AWESOME than:
 Afros  The Krull Glaive  Ghost Riding da Whip  Mock Apple Pie  Don King  Velcro Shoes  Enclose by Bea Camacho  The Hamburger Bed  Wingsuit Base Jumping  Mr. Snuffleupagus  ANTS  Batmobile Batmobile  Blue Whale  Underoos!  Bob Ross  Big Wheel Racing  Saber Toothed Deer  Aurora Borealis Aurora Borealis  Corndog Pizza  Easy Cheese  Julie Moss at the 1982 Ironman  Leeroy Jenkins!  Flying Spaghetti Monster  Dramatic Chipmunk  Badass Mountain Men Badass Mountain Men  Journey's Arnel Pineda  Plight of the Snowman Major League Gaming was voted LESS AWESOME than:  Shrunken Heads  Toodle Shooting Grandma
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   MOCK APPLE PIE
Special Selection February 09 Fer realz! You can bake an apple pie, substituting the apples for ritz crackers. This pie was invented 1852, during the migration west—when young women did not have those crisp New England apples available—being homesick they invented this pie. I'm not sure if this recipe has survived because of corporate cracker marketing or perhaps it has something to do with not outdoing your mother in-law. PS.. if you like cookin with the ritz....try Faux Girl Scout Thin Mint Cookies.
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Mock Apple Pie was voted MORE AWESOME than:
 The Couch Dress  Meat Suitcase  General Lee 01  Dwight K. Schrute Mock Apple Pie was voted LESS AWESOME than: Afros  Chewbacca  Shaved Ball Cap  Giant Nintendo Controller  Jesus Christ The Krull Glaive  Little Superstar  Venus Fly Traps  Nikola Tesla Ghost Riding da Whip  Crop Circles  El Chupacabra  Robocop on a Unicorn  Freerunning  Mister Rogers doing The Wave  Miracle On Ice Don King  President Obama Velcro Shoes Enclose by Bea Camacho The Hamburger Bed The Hamburger Bed Wingsuit Base Jumping Mr. Snuffleupagus ANTS Batmobile Underoos! Bob Ross Bob Ross Big Wheel Racing Saber Toothed Deer Aurora Borealis Aurora Borealis Corndog Pizza Shrunken Heads Easy Cheese Leeroy Jenkins! Flying Spaghetti Monster Flying Spaghetti Monster Dramatic Chipmunk Badass Mountain Men Journey's Arnel Pineda Plight of the Snowman  Major League Gaming  Hedgehogs  WAKE n' BACON  Rollerman  Paul Bunyan  Space Invader Invasion  The Brick Testament  Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton  Captain James T. Kirk  The Man with No Name  Banksy  Teddy Roosevelt  James Earl Jones Counts to 10  Chuck Norris vs. Bruce Lee  Gene Wilder's Willy Wonka  Hunter S. Thompson  MST3K  Extent of the Universe  Mark Twain  Emperor Norton  Jesus Riding A Dinosaur  Walking on the Moon  Les Claypool
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Thoughts on baking and eating Mock Apple Pie:
"Don't you want a little taste of the glory? See what it taste like?" - Nacho Libre
Mock Apple Pie is easy to make. Besides Ritz Crackers, its main ingredient is a lemony simple syrup. Surround both in pie shell, sprinkle some cinnamon in there too, and you've got Mock Apple Pie. It has more of a citrus-like, lemony flavor, but I can see it being a decent stand-in in a time and place where apples were hard to come by or too extravagant an expense. But my take on it is it stands on its own. It doesn't need to pass as an apple pie imitation; its good in its own right.
The world hosts many castaways. There's the kid who doesn't get picked for the games. There's the girl who doesn't get asked to the dances. There's the Cubs fan, cheering year after year and always coming up short. And there's Mock Apple Pie, a symbol of losing here in the Awesomeoff community. But doesn't every castaway have a little awesome? The kid who doesn't get picked for the games creates a billion-dollar software company. The girl who doesn't get asked to the dance find the person who knows she's beautiful. The Cubs fan . . . well, isn't there some awesome in their undefeated hope? And Mock Apple Pie, wasn't it awesome to the western settlers, dreaming of the apple pies they had back east?
As I had my first bite of MAP I thought, "Sweet, tasty, pretty good and . . . (Dare I say? Yes, I shall) . . . awesome.
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I had trouble uploading the pic of me eating MAP (I think I maxed out my photo content with too many pictures of the Most Interesting Man). Anyway, if you're curious, it's here: http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=2370704&l=6f863b70a1&id=505254157
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Thanks for the great post. Never shall I mock Mock Apple Pie again, and humbly beg forgiveness for those incidents of unrighteous pie mockery in my past. DorkPower, I salute you!
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Just when I was about to declare this one of the most incredible things to ever happen on AwesomeOff, it occurred to me... when they Cubs finally get their long awaited World Series championship ring, their fans will not devour them!?! You ate the champion! Mock Apple pie is awesome because of its ability to dance and sing, not because it was tasty!!??! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!
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I think we're still along way from calling MAP a champion. It's simple earned the right not to be the benchmark for un-Awesomeness. From now on, the un-Awesome will be referred to as Couch Dress. I'd say Meat Suitcase (I too am turned off by the turd in the suitcase), but it still has 5,000 more votes and one less match than the Couch Dress.
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When Meat Suitcase gets a win, I'll eat it, too (except the turd, though).
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I'm crushed. ==+Bob Ross HAS DEFEATED Mock Apple Pie by a final score of: 1254 to 1248==
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The battle is not over. I think MAP should win over Couch Dress, Meat Suitcase, and Moustache Balaclava.
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I switched my vote on this one at the last minute, and it was my vote that ended it.
I realized that Bob Ross was way more awesome than MAP. I realized that I couldn't bring myself to vote on the basis of a desire for MAP to get a win, when MAP didn't deserve my vote. Bob Ross did. reply
"OMG You killed MAPpy! You B@$T@RD!"
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For some reason I really want to see Mock Apple Pie get a win this time. So here's my promise: if it wins a match I will bake one and make my profile picture for the rest of the month be of me eating it.
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Awesome!
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I don't know if I can vote against a real life mad genius. I didn't see him die and if comic books have taught me anything it's, if you did actually witness the death it most likely didn't happen. So I have no choice but to believe he is alive and has created an even more efficient way of harnessing electricity to smite his foes. So my vote is going to stay with Tesla.
Also, that pie sounds dreadful.
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how would the other selection even come close we are getting people on dr. pepper bottles umm yea that says enough
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MLG FTW
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MLG FTW
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Well lets give Roy and the plant a BR each. Let them fight it out.
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nah man give wlashy 2 maulers carbon was on fire
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As well as he was playing at Dallas I'd give him two green guns, and he'd still end up on top. Granted he's fighting a plant, but still.
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I LOVE MLG!!!!!!!!
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Is your caps lock broken?
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lol .. why is this here?
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MLG is gonna poop on this pie
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Now is the time to take the awesome up a notch and have the most awesome upset in history.. Mock Apple Pie over MLG!!!
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go MAP! I'm going to rally my retro cooking pioneer group.
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Too late, the smoke signals never got there
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MLG top 1
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MLG NUMBER fkn 1
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MLG RAYPES FACES!
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And that is why Arnel Pineda is more awesome...
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Let's see...some FC singing BK music or ML- motherf***ing G....and btw broskie MLG is winning so that makes you a nub and me awesome. MLG top 1 imo.
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Your a Big Bag of Crazy... but i Concur ..........i think
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