Bill Gates to Receive Honorary UK Knighthood

[Malicious Intent]

As ever, the UK goes the American route of supporting and praising monopolies. So while the EU is suing M$ and trying to stop the company from abusing it's power, Britain...

Bill Gates to Receive Honorary UK Knighthood

Microsoft co-founder and chairman Bill Gates will be awarded an honorary knighthood by Britain's Queen Elizabeth Wednesday for his outstanding contribution to enterprise.

He will become a Knight Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, an honor that dates back to 1917, although monarchs have been creating knights for hundreds of years.

Among the pomp and grandeur of the formal state rooms at the palace, Gates will kneel in front of the sovereign, who will gently tap him on the shoulder with a sword.

For the world's wealthiest man's safety, the Queen's PC will be removed from Buckingham palace a week beforehand.

Britons and citizens of the Commonwealth are entitled to add the title "Sir" in front of their names, but that honor does not extend to other nationalities.

Jack Straw says blah blah blah.

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[rainbowdemon]

who will gently tap him on the shoulder with a sword.

Maybe not so gently would be a good idea!!

:yup:

[Wolfie]

As if his head wasn't big enough. Announcing Sir Bill of Windowshire. :rolleyes:

[slum_goddess]

As ever, the UK goes the American route of supporting and praising monopolies.

*sigh* why a knighthood? (i never understood this)

[Redneck4sure]

It seems lately they are trying to find anybody to take a knighthood. The only qualification lately seems to be money....lots of it.

[MoonMan]

The whole British knighthood thing just seems to me like a giant joke that never ends.

[slum_goddess]

what did gates ever do for the UK that he should receive this? 'outstanding contribution of enterprise?' (big whoop)

[method77]

I should be knighted too. I was born to be a Sir

[slum_goddess]

get in line, method as well, i just noticed the rest of MI's headline, 'gates to patent ceremony'

[method77]

lol

[KiwiCoromandel]

It seems lately they are trying to find anybody to take a knighthood. The only qualification lately seems to be money....lots of it.

spot on mate...like everything else there is now a bottom line for the english honours list and that is money..i saw gates get that award on the news today and he looked very smug...she looked sour..as usual....it`s a sort of payoff for spending all that microsoft money in the uk......the queen of england is also the queen of new zealand and aussie as we are still both members of the british commmonwealth.. we`re outa there soon and on the way to becoming a republic..they (the royal family) are and always have been a shameful waste of taxpayers money and should be stripped of all their inbred, inherited, unearned wealth and estates and assets and told to fuck off and earn their own way in the world like the rest of us......the british royal family has, over centuries, laid the groundwork for a fair amount of the shit and hatred of the west that the world finds itself lumbered with today....... <_>