[Am-info] Bill Gates the Knight?

[Erick Andrews]

On Wed, 02 Mar 2005 18:02:56 -0500, John J. Urbaniak wrote:

>Erick Andrews wrote:
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>>On Wed, 02 Mar 2005 08:24:59 -0800, Mark Hinds wrote:
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>>>Geoffrey wrote:
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>>>>John J. Urbaniak wrote:
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>>>>>I don't know if this list is still operational, but I have to make 
>>>>>some kind of comment on Bill Gates' pending Knighthood.
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>>>>>God, those Brits will knight anybody, won't they?  What a joke they are!
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>>>>Are you serious?  Have a link?
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>>>What a maroon!
>>>http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/3428673.stm
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>>Thanks for the link.
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>>Don't know who put The Honours List together for the Queen's
>>Birthday this year, but they sure are bloody daft.
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>>BG to get a KBE?  Gimme a break.  He should be given a KBM
>>(Kicked By Mule).  What a twerp and a wally.
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>So many images come to my mind, mainly from "Monty Python and the Holy 
>Grail"
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>Like Sir Bill Gates hopping around playing horsey while Ballmer 
>clip-clops coconuts (carried to Redmond by *European* swallows) ...
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>Or Sir Bill Gates hoppng on one leg saying "It's just a flesh wound ..."
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>Or Sir Bill Gates running around saying  "Ni ... Ni" with a shrubbery on 
>his head...
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>What fun it must be to be a knight!
>
>John

Indeed!  I was thinking similarly, yet Monty Python was fun entertainment.
I think John Cleese, Eric Idle, et al, still earn their keep despite some goofy
adverts for BA.

In BG's world, royalty aside, he can't put the "Sir" in front of his name.  He is
NOT "Sir Bill".  Just "William 'Trey' Gates" or something, with a KBE on his
biz card.  And SPAM, SPAM and more SPAM. <g>

Paul McCartney is a "Sir", even though I think he shuns it a bit.  Paul's Liverpudlian
fans like to call him "Sir Paul".  Haha.  At least he's done some good songs over 
the years and I've never felt ripped off for buying one of his albums, or ever did
I think he was full of hubris when Charlie Rose interviewed him a year or so
ago.

Rose interviewed Gates around then, too, but...well, never mind.  We'll just
have to wait for Bill's new record.

Oh -- and Ballmer -- is he still around?  Still doing his "monkey dance"?

In a previous posting on this thread, Hans Reiser is right:  Power v. merit.

Erick