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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."
How exactly can one be a "stalwart adversary of Alzheimers Disease"?
I mean, other than the classic "I will die young, thus depriving it of another victim."...
Sleep your way to a whiter smile...date a dentist!
Congratulations! I'm glad to see that you didn't settle for a new dartboard, even if Detritus does ruin them.
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You checked her vagina?!
Why not, we all know she's a dirty old woman anyway: http://bash.org/?111338
He's not American.
Or end up suing himself for copyright infringement.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
Really? That's knightable? Sir JK Rowling? Sir Alan Dean Foster?
Are you kidding? JK Rowling will get made Queen at least.
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Maybe we could instead have a Senate, and sell seats in it. Imagine the revenue it would bring in.
Bah. Speak for yourself, peon. I'm a direct descendant of William I, King of England in 1066. :-P
You do realise that being a direct descendant of the Normans makes you French... ;p
PS. Unlike one of the posts above I'm British, and therefore have earned the right to make fun of them.
Wars lasting more than a century with a nation grants that type of right.
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And a couple of hundred years before that, England had a revolution as well. Having put in a ruthless military dictator and El-Presidente-For-Life, they waited for him to die, put the monarchy back in, and dug Cromwell up from his grave so that they could execute him posthumously! (Well, points for effort, guys, but as the assignment was handed in late...)
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Changing of the guard is more ordered and civilized than just about any government function in the USA. If we take enough pictures, we might learn eventually.
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I fairness, most people's reaction to Jeremy Clarkson is to reach for a gun.