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:D Good job Gates.Some of us do not mind if you make lots of Money. :D
:P Like all the other Geeks! :P
People who are not UK citizens cannot be knighted, as I understand it.
Lets just hope it is about all the money he donated, not microsoft!!
but its on slashdotQuote:
Originally posted by J'Pol@25 January 2004 - 10:52
People who are not UK citizens cannot be knighted, as I understand it.
slashdot!!!
;) Yeah.This is BS.Quote:
Originally posted by J'Pol@25 January 2004 - 11:52
People who are not UK citizens cannot be knighted, as I understand it.
but its on slashdotQuote:
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People who are not UK citizens cannot be knighted, as I understand it.
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I think there may be some sort of alternative or Honorary thing.
Bob Geldof got one for his whole Band Aid / Live Aid thing.
I wonder if the queen nighted those paparazzis that went on trial in France for contributing to Diana's death, it's night like they sat around snorted coke for 35 years like Mic & Elton. :rolleyes:
Unlike Blair's Congressional Medal of Honor, Gates can't be properly knighted - That is reserved for those of British background (i.e. British natives).
But he can get an honorary knighthood. If I remember, someone else got one a few years back - It was on the news a lot that night. I think it might have been at the British Embassy in New York? :huh:
Nothing against Sirs Mick, Elton, Paul, et. al., but I think Keith Richard had a point about Mick.
If Mick is good for a Knighting, why not Keith?
Is it because of Mick's sterling character?
On the whole, if the Brits are going to go to the trouble of stipulating native-born status, I'd rather they just Knighted those genuinely deserving of it; Bill Gates be damned (nothing at all against Mr. Gates).
Again-the lads are tops, but Knighting?
Puhleeeeeze. <_<
Keith puts Mick to the sword over knighthoodQuote:
Originally posted by j2k4@25 January 2004 - 18:21
Nothing against Sirs Mick, Elton, Paul, et. al., but I think Keith Richard had a point about Mick.
If Mick is good for a Knighting, why not Keith?
Is it because of Mick's sterling character?
On the whole, if the Brits are going to go to the trouble of stipulating native-born status, I'd rather they just Knighted those genuinely deserving of it; Bill Gates be damned (nothing at all against Mr. Gates).
Again-the lads are tops, but Knighting?
Puhleeeeeze. <_<
REUTERS
6:18 a.m. December 4, 2003
LONDON – Keith Richards is not amused.
The legendary Rolling Stones' guitarist has flown into a rock and roll rage against Mick Jagger over the singer's decision to accept a knighthood, the ultimate nod from the British establishment.
"I don't want to step out onstage with someone wearing a coronet and sporting the old ermine," Richards told British music magazine "Uncut" in an expletive-rich interview.
"I told Mick it's a paltry honor... It's not what the Stones is about, is it?"
The Stones, still rocking after 40 years, made their names with crunching rock classics including "Satisfaction," "Street Fighting Man" and "Brown Sugar."
A 1967 Stones' album was entitled "Their Satanic Majesties Request."
Despite his near spotless rebel credentials, Jagger, 60, is scheduled to become "Sir Mick" at a Buckingham Palace ceremony on December 12.
He will join British musicians Paul McCartney and Elton John who have already been knighted by Queen Elizabeth with a touch of the sword.
Richards' own chances of arising Sir Keith, already thought slim after 59 years of hard living, will have receded even further.
Find this article at:
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/feature...ple-jagger.html
you don't have to be british to be knighted...he just can't call himself 'Sir. Gates' unless he's british ;)
Ted Turner just got knighted like a year ago
Well, then-Quote:
Originally posted by nsane@25 January 2004 - 23:37
Ted Turner just got knighted like a year ago
That just tears it.....
Had I been Knighted, I'd have given it off, then.
I wouldn't be a member of the club that would have ole' Ted.
Uh-uh. <_<
They can't unless they are from a Commonwealth Realm, as they have to swear fealty to the Royal House I believe...Quote:
Originally posted by J'Pol@25 January 2004 - 16:52
People who are not UK citizens cannot be knighted, as I understand it.
This would be a problem for a non-UK citizen, as it in effects denounces citizenship of the country they come from unless they are from a Commonwealth Realm..which is why we have Australian and Canadian Knights.
They can be made "Honourary" Knights though, as an indictation that they would have been Knighted if they were British...I'm still trying to figure that one out :blink:
RIGHT
It's a feckin KBE a Knight of the British Empire.
Ted Turner, Tina Turner or Metal Turner did not get feckin Knighted.
Gates is getting a deserved honorary award because of his services to industry, his sponsorship of education in the UK (the largest ever I think) and the work of his Trusts worldwide.
The man is a philanthropist and he deserves the stupid award.
If Bill Gates felt like it he could buy Great Britian and then decide for himself who could/couldn't be a Knight.
Pish.Quote:
Originally posted by clocker@27 January 2004 - 02:39
If Bill Gates felt like it he could buy Great Britian and then decide for himself who could/couldn't be a Knight.
Unless he suddenly finds himself a Trillionaire.
At best dubious as the last estimate of his personal wealth was £28billion.
He is not even in the same ball park.
Do you find people saying the word nob in your presence often.
Well he could certainly buy Scotland, and have a few bob left over. :lol:
Being knighted looks more like a dishonor than an honor these days, warning :helpsmile: senile Monarch. :helpsmile: