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mark occomore
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 Posted: Thu Dec 30, 2010 7:45 pm Post subject: Simon Cowell to be......Sir Simon! |
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| Heard today that Simon Cowell could become a 'Sir'. Apart from given a few talentless people 5 minutes, he's done a lot of charity. |
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ruddlescat
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| Posted: Thu Dec 30, 2010 7:48 pm Post subject: |
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If I ran a charity I'd be embarrased to be associated with a man who has totally ruined the music business
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Fog on the Tyne
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| Posted: Thu Dec 30, 2010 8:41 pm Post subject: |
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Its also rumoured that it could be sir "becks" too.
What was once a worthy title is now given away to anyone who is in the limelight of "celebrity". 
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ColinB
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| Posted: Thu Dec 30, 2010 10:57 pm Post subject: Re: Simon Cowell to be......Sir Simon! |
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| mark occomore wrote: | | Heard today that Simon Cowell could become a 'Sir'. |
"Could be" or "will be"?
I have total admiration for those people who refuse to accept a royal gong. The whole thing's a complete nonsense - another remnant of our imperialist past. |
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mark occomore
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| Posted: Fri Dec 31, 2010 9:04 am Post subject: |
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| Not in the latest new year honours list. |
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ColinB
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| Posted: Fri Dec 31, 2010 9:08 am Post subject: |
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| mark occomore wrote: | | Not in the latest new year honours list. |
So there was little point in creating this thread, Mark. Why post it? |
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Toggy
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| Posted: Fri Dec 31, 2010 10:06 am Post subject: |
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| Thank goodness he didn't, he's smug enough as it is. |
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undiscovered
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| Posted: Fri Dec 31, 2010 11:34 am Post subject: Re: Simon Cowell to be......Sir Simon! |
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| ColinB wrote: |
I have total admiration for those people who refuse to accept a royal gong. The whole thing's a complete nonsense - another remnant of our imperialist past. |
+1
Government of the day looking after their own.
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Toggy
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Albert Finney (actor) refused a knighthood in 2000 and and CBE in 1980 as he is said to find such awards 'snobby'
Good for him I say. |
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ColinB
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| Posted: Fri Dec 31, 2010 12:00 pm Post subject: |
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| Toggy wrote: | Albert Finney (actor) refused a knighthood in 2000 and and CBE in 1980 as he is said to find such awards 'snobby'
Good for him I say. |
It's rumoured that David Bowie turned down a regal gong a few years back, too. |
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undiscovered
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Honor Blackman, French & Saunders, Raold Dahl all refused
as well as the slightly more public Benjamin Zephaniah. I think he was an odd choice anyway, what were they expecting him to go against his principles which are quite clear in his writing
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aviddiva
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| Posted: Fri Dec 31, 2010 2:59 pm Post subject: Simon Cowell to be...Sir Simon? |
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Did Burt Kwouk get honoured for his services to Harry Hill on Channel 4 as well as to Peter Sellers in the Pink Panther films?
Cowell is the reason the Wakefield branch of HMV lied to me that Spock's Beard weren't a big selling band.
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