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Terry Pratchett Knighted
ackthpt writes "Headlines have been popping up on Google News: 'Terry Pratchett declared himself "flabbergasted" to receive a knighthood as he led a group of writers, actors and performers honoured today.' The Discworld author and stalwart adversary of Alzheimers Disease has been a member of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) for Services to Literature since 1998. He will be entering the new year as Knight Commander. Well done and Oook, Sir Terry."
The man is one of the best authors ever to have graced the earth.
Ummmm... wow. I mean, I know his paperback genre fiction appeals to geeks and all -- I get a little tickle when I read Edgar Rice Burroughs, myself -- but seriously??
Breakfast served all day!
They'd all be speaking German if it weren't for us, and they actively screwed us when we needed them. That's why there is hate.
Yes, you did a great job of halting your supplies of oil and machinery to the Germans, once France was thoroughly overrun. That's a great trick for boosting sales, that - sell stuff to one side, let them invade their neighbours, and then attack them so you can grab it all back, plus a few other things too.
I know you get taught in school that America won the Second World War without any help from anyone else, but perhaps you could read some actual history books, with real factual history in them?
OK, maybe I'm missing something - how does writing funny books actively inspire and help others?
Shutting down free speech with violence isn't fighting fascism. It IS fascism!
> we honor and express our joy for a beloved writer
What a pompous tosser you are! This isn't a funeral and he isn't dead.
As for stuffy - no - it is the absurd system of "honours" that is stuffy.
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