Posted on 02/27/2010 5:40:35 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
NASHVILLE -- Former Vice President and Nobel Peace Prize winner Al Gore will join entertainer Dolly Parton and former senator Howard H. Baker Jr. as the only recipients of honorary degrees awarded by the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.
UT Board of Trustees voted to award Gore an Honorary Doctor of Laws and Humane Letters in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology.
"Vice President Gore's career has been marked by visionary leadership, and his work has quite literally changed our planet for the better," UTK Chancellor Jimmy G. Cheek said.
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Changed the planet for the better? What the hell has this charlatan done besides write a book and make a movie, both demonstrably full of BS, and make millions selling carbon-credit indulgences? Whatever respect I've had for UTK is now gone!
GWMcClintock
Pairing these awards does cheapen the value of the degrees. Dr. Parton must be disappointed. If these people had any brains they would have delayed the announcement until a really hot day in the summer. Maybe they did it now so that Al would come out of hiding.
Al Gore is a big boob. But Dolly has done a lot for Tennessee. She is a very nice person and has brought so much industry to Tennessee. She turned Gatlinburg and Pigeon Forge into booming tourist towns and brought billions of tourist dollars to Tennessee. She is way more than a couple of big boobs.
hands down “three of the biggest boobs” is the instant reaction of FReeperdom to the headline.
Not according to her bio at IMDB. She has never denied getting implants and she has even joked about it. Here are a couple of quotes from her on the topic:
(On the topic of her bust size) "People always ask me if they're mine. Yes, they are...all bought and paid for."
(Alluding to her famous bust) "If I build another park, it will probably be in Silicon Valley."
Maybe she's just joking to keep everyone guessing, but I doubt it.
I dunno, I always thought they were real.
There's only one way to find out....
Isn’t it funny how double entendres can so easily be employed here... “boobs-a-million”, “the big boob”, “boobs for brains”, ... to receive honorary degrees...
LOL! You go first and let me know. My wife would kick my butt!
LOL...I'm sure Dolly would kick mine too!
From Dollymania.net
In 2002, she admitted for the first time during interviews in Europe that she has, in fact, had implants. In one interview in the Irish Independent, she said she had gotten breast enhancements at a cost of about $3,000 (which would date them to around the mid-to-late-1980s). Then in the London Mirror, she explained that she decided to get implants after her dramatic weight loss around 1986. As any woman who has lost a great deal of weight knows, usually the first area to decrease in size is the chest. She said she got implants for the first time then because she had surgery to remove excess tissue left behind after the weight loss, and that made her breasts much smaller than they had been in the past when she was heavier. And if you look at photos from the late 1980s, they did appear larger at that time than they did when she first became skinny.
Dolly Parton
I love the way these entertainers work the public.
Dolly will sing, Praise The Lord, Amassing Grace etc., and the next day go on a talk show and boast the number of time she bedded down with Burt Reynolds.
That makes 3 boobs.
You do realize that you have crushed everthing I have lived for, don't you?
{;^)
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