[Am-info] Bill Gates the Knight?

[Geoffrey]

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.
>>>>>
>>>>> 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.
>>
>> Don't know who put The Honours List together for the Queen's
>> Birthday this year, but they sure are bloody daft.
>>
>> 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"
> 
> Like Sir Bill Gates hopping around playing horsey while Ballmer 
> clip-clops coconuts (carried to Redmond by *European* swallows) ...
> 
> Or Sir Bill Gates hoppng on one leg saying "It's just a flesh wound ..."
> 
> Or Sir Bill Gates running around saying  "Ni ... Ni" with a shrubbery on 
> his head...
> 
> What fun it must be to be a knight!

Dare we revive this list! :)

I find it absolutely amazing that anyone continues to see Bill Gates as 
anything other than what he is.  A criminal, monopolist, who continues 
to stifle innovation.

-- 
Until later, Geoffrey