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      QUEEN OF THE MIST
With a cat or a turtle or a friend; with nothing, or in a pickle barrel, clad in kevlar or sans life preserver....CRAZY people are the ones who attempt to go over 'the falls'. The leader of this elite daredevil club was Annie Edson Taylor. A school teacher and a dance instructor with a lifestyle more then her means made her attempt to a retirement of fame and fortune with her fall. Her modified pickle barrel was padded with a mattress and pressurized with a bicycle pump. The 63 year old was wise enough to send her cat Iagara on the test run. Sealed with a cork Annie went next and in 1901 went down in history as the first person to go over Niagara falls in a barrel. She survived but received very little fortune.
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Queen of the Mist was voted MORE AWESOME than:
 Unibrow  Octo-Stache  The Stig  Peekaru  Deja Vu  Gong  Keith Loutit's Little Sydney  Reliant Robin  Stinky Cheese  Chindogu  Tiesto  Indy's Whip Queen of the Mist was voted LESS AWESOME than:  Teddy Roosevelt  Choose Your Own Adventure Books  Library of Congress  Rasputin  Che Guevara  Death Star  Rockin' Steady
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   PEEKARU
The newest member of the marsupial family is the Peekaru. This crazy new animal has a super soft fleece fur that has actually been enhanced by the consumption of plastic bottles. This new creature seems quite tame and has been know to frequent weekend youth soccer games. The Peekaru has been spotted in a variety of colors: black, gray, green, lavender and blue. The location of the pouch seems to vary from the front to the back, and taking the marsupial gene pool to the next level, the male Peekaru comes equipped with a pouch so that he too can care for his young. If you would like to check out a Peekaru in person visit TogetherBe for a list of locations.
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Tiesto Peekaru was voted LESS AWESOME than: Octo-Stache The Stig Queen of the Mist Gong  The Viking Helmet  Johnny Cash Keith Loutit's Little Sydney  Soccer* Hooligans Reliant Robin Stinky Cheese Teddy Roosevelt Chindogu  Notorious B.I.G. Doll Rasputin  James Earl Jones Counts to 10  The Disintegrator: Rubber Band Minigun Death Star  Mermaids  Male Emperor Penguins Rockin' Steady
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i dont see how this could beat anything this month... except maybe tiesto... or if the boyfriend Pillow comes back ...
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I would really like to see a peekaru vs. snuggie vs. boyfriend pillow vs. SkyRest pillow vs. couch dress death match.
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and them all against mock apple pie.
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Quaaaaaaaid, start the reaaaaactoorrrrrrr.
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If Peekaru had been billed as your very own Quatto costume, would that have earned it some awesome points?
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Man, I got six kids to feed. I don't have time to worry about that.
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I thought you said it was 5 kids....?
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He's been busy.
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The Day you put yourself in a Pickle Barrel and Get tossed over the Niagara Falls is the day you get to vote against The Queen of The Mist
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I'm not questioning the stones it took to do this amazing feat - I'm just wondering whether it's Awesome courageousness or pointless and kinda lame.
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Alright, I'm gonna go ahead and [try to] make the argument for the Peekaru. (A) I promotes bonding between parent and child. (B) It allows the child to be warmed by the parent's body heat. (C) It's got a cooler name than a "Baby Bjorn". (D) It contains the little ankle-biters so they can't run over and bother me. (E) It's like baby a transportation unit AND a straight-jacket in one.
Alright, that's about the best I can do...sorry Peekaru inventors...
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I thought argument D was compelling, but then I realized the peekaru only contains the kids' movement, not the sound. If it had some kind of soundproof bubble (that lets air through), I'd be all for it.
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APPLE PIE NEBODY?
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WORD! Going Over Niagara Falls is No JOKE
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Mock....Apple.....Pie
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Over Chindogu? I don't think so.
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Isn't it possible to have TWO MAPs this month?
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Sooner or later they will battle in an epic UnAwesomeOff competition. The winner will maintain its dignity, while the other will wallow in shame, eating Spam and Mock Apple Pie for all eternity.
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Peekaru is far less awesome than Chindogu. Chindogu is about the spirit of inovation, which is awesome, combined with an inability to separate the wheat from the chaff.
Peekaru combines creepy with crappy. Plus it involves children, and children are inherently not awesome.
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I'm forced to agree with Olav on this one.
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Lol, alright, i see it. Peekaru kinda reminds me of a birth, but somehow everything got flipped around in there and popped out of her chest.
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Seriously... how is Peekaru at 2%?
Someone voted for Peekaru over a planet-destroying laser?
RUJK? ZOMG! HTML? WTF?
THIS MAKES NO SENSE!
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OK, this is like that scene in Alien where the baby alien bursts out through the guy's chest except this is far more disturbing because it's an actual real life human baby.
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It's like a baby Snuggie.
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