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nod · Joined: 24 Dec 2006 Posts: 3558

How come Prince Nazim has his MBE removed (I'm not saying that is the wrong move) BUT Lord Archer is still a Lord ?

Mindda · Joined: 10 Dec 2006 Posts: 37

Very good question .......

Barkingbiker · Joined: 11 Dec 2006 Posts: 2313 Location: Lincolnshire

Well presented, don't know the answer though Exclamation

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Behind Geddon's Wall · Posted: Mon Jan 01, 2007 7:50 pm Post subject:

The difference between alleged ordinary and so-called 'white collar' crime?
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admin · Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 487

Nassem was meant to be fighting again, though I thought it was last year.... I couldn't help wondering if it was a sumo fight he was meant to doing.

Heloise · Joined: 08 Dec 2006 Posts: 237

and how come Lester Piggot lost his OBE (?)can't exactly remember what it was.Yet Ken Dodd kept his.
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mark occomore · Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 9955 Location: UK

One law for some, and another for others. I think it could become racist.

admin · Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 487

Mark,

Why did you have to bring race into it????????

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mark occomore · Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 9955 Location: UK

admin · Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 487

Mark,

We do have a major problem in this country regarding racism, but I don't believe it is a one way thing in the slightest.

In my opinion this country is one of the most welcoming countries in the world. As with every place there are going to be people who do not like 'Muslims' 'Jews' etc, but they are the racist minority.

Prince Naseem ruined a mans whole life with his reckless arrogance, so it is not his race that was the distinguishing factor. So why should his race even be brought up?

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Number Six · Joined: 14 Dec 2006 Posts: 438 Location: In the village

As I understand it an honour, such as an MBE, is a gift in recognition of good acheivments and can be taken back under certain circumstances. Being enobled isn't a gift as such ( I know, I know) it means you are part of Parliament and are supposed to work for Parliament (and do it for free incidentally apart from an daily attendance allowance). Having been made a member of the Upper House you can't be unmade a member. It's for life. That's what Life Peer means. There's no legislation that would enable someone to be un-enobled. It has been mentioned before but to go through the whole process of creating law would just use up parliamentary time that the Government would rather use for its own legislation and since there have only been two instances in recent times it's probably not worth it
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quickssandra · Joined: 10 Dec 2006 Posts: 158 Location: Scotland

Heloise,

Ken Dodd was acquitted of the tax charges against him, so that's why he kept his.

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nod · Joined: 24 Dec 2006 Posts: 3558

23 things you didn't know about Ken Dodd

1) He insured his famous teeth for an almighty £4 million.
2) Ken was born on the 8th November 1927 in a village called Knotty Ash.
3) On a good night he can average six gags a minute.
4) His shows last an average of five and a quarter hours.
5) Ken has been performing for half a century.
6) He appeared in court in 1989 accused of tax evasion but was later cleared. £336,000 in cash was found stashed in a suitcase.
7) He started his career as a ventriloquist when, at the age of seven, he replied to a feature in a comic book advertising ventriloquism lessons.
8 ) Ken’s first ventriloquist’s dummy was called Charlie Brown.
9) In 1989 he appeared in a Doctor Who adventure: Delta and the Bannerman.
10) He appeared as Yorrick in Kenneth Brannagh's 1996 film of Hamlet.
11) He's had 19 top 40 hits.
12) Ken was once sent a dead rat through the post by a female stalker.
13) The same stalker, Ruth Tagg, also spent hundreds of hours making a tapestry depicting the comedian. She was found guilty of harassment and arson at Nottingham Crown Court.
14) His single 'Tears' sold two million copies.
15) Ken's middle name is Arthur.
16) Fellow Liverpudlian comedian Johnny Vegas once queued for an hour outside a theatre to shake Ken's hand.
17) Ken keeps a 'giggle map' of Britain showing which jokes people prefer in different parts of the country.
18 ) He entered the Guinness Book of Records for the world’s longest joke-telling session ever: 1,500 jokes in 3.5 hours.
19) Ken's dad was a coal merchant and when Ken was 14 he joined his old man in the business.
20) In his early twenties, Ken branched out on his own and began selling pots, pans and brushes.
21) In 1965 Ken had the longest ever run at the London Palladium for 42 weeks.
22) Ken still lives in the 260-year-old house where he was born.
23) Ken never answers his phone - it always goes to answer machine.

taken from...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/nottingham/content/articles/2005/01/14/entertainment_theatre_and_dance_features_amazing_facts_about_ken_dodd_feature.shtml

quickssandra · Joined: 10 Dec 2006 Posts: 158 Location: Scotland

Will he really be 80 this year?

He once did a spot at a hotel I worked at, a very, very nice man.

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Heloise · Joined: 08 Dec 2006 Posts: 237

lol!!
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