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    Patrick Stewart does the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge the right way

    Patrick Stewart does the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge the right way

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    When the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge first started, the rules were simple: donate money toward fighting ALS or dump a bucket of ice on your head. It was meant as an incentive to be charitable — not, as it later evolved, to be both charitable and cold.

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    Cheers to you, Sir Patrick Stewart, although I worry that raise of his glass was a non-verbal challenge to everyone watching to do it. Stay classy.

    The Verge's Nilay Patel accepted his ALS Ice Bucket Challenge in Times Square