Dolly Parton maintains that she never wants to be cloned
runs a fun series called “The Reader Interview,” where their readers submit questions in advance for the famous people who eventually grace’s pages. Granted, it’s not an idea that is wholly unique to them, but it often does generate some very fun responses from its guests, like last week, whenThis was in response to a question about Dolly, the sheep who became the 20th century’s most famous ungulate in 1997 when the public found out that she was born a clone.
That’s what they call them … glands … the boobs. They said: ‘Oh, we have this sheep, Dolly …’” Parton recalls. “Everybody always played up to these , so that’s why we had Dolly the sheep.” A slightly crude, but not too uncommon, joke.But then Parton sounds slightly more serious: “I was sorry when she died, though I don’t want be cloned myself. I want to get on out of here when I can.” She explains, “We already get a lot of Dolly lookalikes, a lot of Dolly drag queens.
Of course, Parton is kidding. Regardless, Dolly the sheep was born from the same cells, but did not share a consciousness with the sheep she spawned from. Today, Dolly the sheep is taxidermized and stationary at the National Museum of Scotland; we can hardly fault Parton for wanting to avoid the same fate.
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