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Title: Al Gore Wins the Nobel Peace Prize....Weird Tingly Feeling?
Post by: Scheherazade on October 17, 2007, 08:39:33 AM: I don't think Al Gore deserves the Prize and here's why:

He made a movie about Global Warming. Yippee. The movie was pointless: it didn't educate anyone or make a difference. People who know or are concerned about global warming were already concerned/knowledgeable about it before the movie came out. For everyone else, the movie was the beginning to a plethora of punchlines. He hasn't greatly spread awareness, and you know what? He hasn't FIXED it! So what's the point? The Prize should go to the person who actually fixes the gorram hole in the Ozone...or to the pharmaceutical companies, whose products keep the American public docile little zombies. THAT is a peace movement.

(In case you missed the sarcasm, let it be known that I think the Nobel Peace Prize is a complete sham to begin with...this Al Gore event is just the clincher)

Besides...we all know that he deserves to be recognized with the Prize for his REAL contribution to society: the internet.
Title: Re: Al Gore Wins the Nobel Peace Prize....Weird Tingly Feeling?
Post by: BizB on October 17, 2007, 09:03:34 AM: I think it would be funny if the SCOTUS took it away from him and gave it to Rush Limbaugh.
Title: Re: Al Gore Wins the Nobel Peace Prize....Weird Tingly Feeling?
Post by: TheJudge on October 17, 2007, 09:48:11 AM: Quote from: ihatecliches on October 17, 2007, 08:39:33 AM
I think the Nobel Peace Prize is a complete sham to begin with

An award that provides international prestige and $$$ a sham?? Noooooooooooooooooo!!! :roll:
Title: Re: Al Gore Wins the Nobel Peace Prize....Weird Tingly Feeling?
Post by: pbsaurus on October 17, 2007, 04:39:40 PM: Who is this Al Gore character anyway? Wasn't he some Senator or something. I vaguely remember him chastising Frank Zappa at the PMRC hearings.
Title: Re: Al Gore Wins the Nobel Peace Prize....Weird Tingly Feeling?
Post by: Paladin on October 18, 2007, 02:14:22 AM: I'm not so up to date with US politics, but didn't he invented the intertubes?
Title: Re: Al Gore Wins the Nobel Peace Prize....Weird Tingly Feeling?
Post by: Dark Shade on October 18, 2007, 02:01:36 PM: Quote from: Paladin on October 18, 2007, 02:14:22 AM
I'm not so up to date with US politics, but didn't he invented the intertubes?

Apparently not (http://www.snopes.com/quotes/internet.asp).

However Ted Stevens and his 'series of tubes' is hilarious.
Title: Re: Al Gore Wins the Nobel Peace Prize....Weird Tingly Feeling?
Post by: Agent_Tachyon on October 18, 2007, 04:08:55 PM: Hilarious at first, then horrifying when the realization that he actually holds a measure of power sets in...
Title: Re: Al Gore Wins the Nobel Peace Prize....Weird Tingly Feeling?
Post by: Dark Shade on October 18, 2007, 09:02:54 PM: Quote from: Agent_Tachyon on October 18, 2007, 04:08:55 PM
Hilarious at first, then horrifying when the realization that he actually holds a measure of power sets in...

Aye, true that.
Title: Re: Al Gore Wins the Nobel Peace Prize....Weird Tingly Feeling?
Post by: Paladin on October 19, 2007, 06:38:13 AM: Here (http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2006/06/senator_stevens.html?entry_id=1513010) is an explanation about why Ted Stevens's internet took five days to arrive :-D
Title: Re: Al Gore Wins the Nobel Peace Prize....Weird Tingly Feeling?
Post by: xolik on October 19, 2007, 01:13:03 PM: I guess my pal Al was very happy about getting that award.
Title: Re: Al Gore Wins the Nobel Peace Prize....Weird Tingly Feeling?
Post by: TeraHammer on October 31, 2007, 11:08:22 PM: Peace price is a bad name. Change it to "Good for humanity - price"
Title: Re: Al Gore Wins the Nobel Peace Prize....Weird Tingly Feeling?
Post by: 12AX7 on November 01, 2007, 09:26:21 AM: Price?
Title: Re: Al Gore Wins the Nobel Peace Prize....Weird Tingly Feeling?
Post by: xolik on November 01, 2007, 05:09:59 PM: is wrong, bitch.
Title: Re: Al Gore Wins the Nobel Peace Prize....Weird Tingly Feeling?
Post by: TeraHammer on November 02, 2007, 01:53:52 AM: Hahaha :-D

Paying the peace price got him the peace prize.