Running with Penguins

T-minus 29 days and counting.
For everyone on the fence vis-á-vis donating, all me to persuade you:

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No portion of your donation will go to protecting penguin-eating polar bears (if for no other reason than that polar bears are separated from penguins by an equator, several oceans and most of humanity).

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Because someone must be on the front lines to assure that THIS never happens again.

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I am shameless. I will do pretty much anything while in Antarctica for a large enough donation. (See reason number 4.)

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Earth has only two poles. Pick a side. (South)

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Impress all of your black-clad, hipster, graphic design friends with your original penguin conservation poster signed by the artist.

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Penguins are undeniably the cutest birds on the planet. If they were common in temperate zones, they would thoroughly dominate icanhascheezburger.com. We wouldn’t even know kittens existed.

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If I achieve my fundraising goal, I promise to swim nekkid amongst the icebergs of the Southern Ocean (for better or worse in full view of several cell-phone cameras).

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If you’re just not that into penguins, your donation supporting research at the bottom of the globe will finally prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that the world is not flat. This has to count for something.

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Shaw, gregarious and talented rockhopper penguin from the Riverbanks Zoo, personally approves of this cause. He told me this one day while trying to eat my shoelaces.

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Don’t be beaten in a road race by a six-foot tall penguin ever again.


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- Dean