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RavenStar · Posted: Wed Dec 31, 2008 8:02 pm Post subject: New Years Honours

This is fantastic news....... Terry Pratchett has been given a Knighthood

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7804693.stm

Riktor48 · Admin Joined: 11 Aug 2007 Posts: 1286 Location: Essex, UK

Yep.............great news! And somebody who deserves it too!
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RavenStar · Posted: Wed Dec 31, 2008 8:25 pm Post subject:

Definately

Riktor48 · Admin Joined: 11 Aug 2007 Posts: 1286 Location: Essex, UK

I have a general problem with the honours tho' - the way they're doled out like sweets to sports stars who are only doing their job, and usually for personal ambition. I mean, a knighthood for Chris Hoy is taking things too far in my view!
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Learn from the birds what food the thickets yield; Learn from the beasts the physic of the field; The arts of building from the bee receive; Learn of the mole to plough, the worm to weave. (Alexander Pope - Essay on Man)

RavenStar · Posted: Wed Dec 31, 2008 8:35 pm Post subject:

Yep...... I have to agree with you there Rik...... they should go to people far more worthy and for doing more worthy causes