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Environmentalist and actor Ricardo Torres marries tree
The Strait Times ^
 | 5/11/2016
 | staff
Posted on 05/24/2016 2:11:13 PM PDT by bkopto
For the eighth time, Peruvian actor and environmental activist Ricardo Torres has symbolically married a tree as part of an ecological awareness campaign to urge others to care for the environment. 
The wedding took place at a landmark location, the town of Santa Maria del Tule, which is home to an ancient 2000-year-old cypress tree. The tree's estimated weight is more than 544.3 million kilograms. 
Torres left the house of his godmother, accompanied by a committee of village elders, friends and family, and walked down the Sabino street towards a cluster of Cypress tree leaves to start with the ritual procession. 
SNIP 
Torres placed a ring on one of the tree's branches and kissed it as guests threw rice at the "newly wed" couple. 
SNIP 
At the end of the ceremony, he threw a bouquet at the wedding attendees.
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TOPICS: Gardening; Humor; Society
KEYWORDS: environmentalist; envirowhackos; homosexualagenda; pansexuals; tree
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posted on 
05/24/2016 2:11:13 PM PDT
by 
bkopto
 
To: bkopto
    The happy couple is registered at Lumber Barn.
 
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posted on 
05/24/2016 2:13:22 PM PDT
by 
Hillarys Gate  Cult
(Liberals make unrealistic demands on reality and reality doesn't oblige them.)
 
To: bkopto
    Has he divorced the previous seven trees? Or is guilty of polygatree?
 
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posted on 
05/24/2016 2:15:25 PM PDT
by 
Hieronymus
(  (It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged. --G. K. Chesterton))
 
To: bkopto
    This is the 8th tree he’s married. I hope they all have good lawyers, charge him with bigamy and make him pay child support for all their saplings for the next 100 years.
 
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posted on 
05/24/2016 2:16:22 PM PDT
by 
euram
 
To: bkopto
    “I think that I shall never see....”
 
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posted on 
05/24/2016 2:16:25 PM PDT
by 
dfwgator
 
To: bkopto
    Did he get a woodie on the honeymoon?
 
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posted on 
05/24/2016 2:22:25 PM PDT
by 
Drango
(A liberal's compassion is limited only by the size of someone else's wallet.)
 
To: Drango
    Yes, he had a woodie for some ash.
 
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posted on 
05/24/2016 2:23:54 PM PDT
by 
TexasRepublic
(Socialism is the gospel of envy and the religion of thieves. Socialism is governmental theft!)
 
To: bkopto
    Come on folks, this is kinda sappy . . . .
 
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posted on 
05/24/2016 2:24:21 PM PDT
by 
snooter55
(People may doubt what you say, but they will always believe what you do)
 
To: snooter55
    “In my family tree, I’m the sap.” - Rodney Dangerfield
 
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posted on 
05/24/2016 2:26:04 PM PDT
by 
dfwgator
 
To: bkopto
    What's wrong with him tying the knot with a tree? We all wanna put down roots, am I right? 
 
Whew, gives new meaning to the family tree though, doesn't it? 
 
This guy's gotten married 8 times? How does he know? Does he count the rings?
 
Somebody stop me!
 
No, really, stop me.
To: bkopto
    Now we learn what knotholes are for?
 
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posted on 
05/24/2016 2:26:24 PM PDT
by 
faithhopecharity
("Politicians are not born. They're excreted."  Marcus Tullius Cicero)
 
To: bkopto
    Does New York have a gender for his wife to identify as? Or do they need to add a 32nd gender?
 
To: bkopto
    The tree-hugger groom is likely to find his tree bride’s knot hole, is wholly unsatisfying.
Splinter’s aside...
 
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posted on 
05/24/2016 2:27:42 PM PDT
by 
MarchonDC09122009
(When is our next march on DC? When have we had enough?)
 
To: bkopto
    I don’t think this wedding was consensual. The bride seemed rather wooden at the ceremony.
 
To: Hieronymus
    Had the tree given its consent?
And what gender was the tree?
Inquiring minds want to know.
 
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posted on 
05/24/2016 2:28:51 PM PDT
by 
alloysteel
(The Triumph of Trump - finally, does the hegemony of the Republican elites get broken?)
 
To: bkopto
    So throughout the day, the tree gets wood?
 
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posted on 
05/24/2016 2:35:32 PM PDT
by 
A_Former_Democrat
(#BoycottTarget    #BoycottRoss    Women & children hurt the most)
 
To: Hieronymus
    Just call him a cockeyed octamist.
 
 
 
I figured if Sr. Dendrosexual married a tree, at least he wouldn't be crossing the border any time soon, but it sounds like he's the "love 'em and leave 'em" type.
 
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posted on 
05/24/2016 2:36:18 PM PDT
by 
x
 
To: bkopto
    Did the tree give knowing consent to this union?
I sense that the Ents are about to rise up at this outrage.
 
To: bkopto
    I knew this thread would be funny. Thanks for posting. I married a Buckeye.
 
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posted on 
05/24/2016 2:42:02 PM PDT
by 
neefer
(Because you can't starve us out and you can't make us run.)
 
To: bkopto
    Did the tree say “yes”?????????????
 
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posted on 
05/24/2016 2:42:21 PM PDT
by 
Innovative
("Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing."  -- Vince Lombardi)
 
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