New years Honours List

Posted by: garyi on 31 December 2003

Well I was a little concerned to find barrel scrapings of Eric Clapton and Craig David on this years list.

Obviously where music is concerned, Queeny could do with a hand.

What would your list look like? As there dosn't appear to be any reasoning behind the official list anything goes, as long as they are alive and British!
Posted on: 31 December 2003 by Rasher
I guess we are talking music business here.

Peter Green
Paul Rodgers
Jimmy Page
Rory Gallagher (valid?)
Posted on: 31 December 2003 by Rasher
Watched Hi Fidelity last night on the telly. I loved the book. Lists are a bloke thing, arn't they.
Posted on: 31 December 2003 by Fisbey
OK what about a list of blokes things Razz
Posted on: 31 December 2003 by matthewr
Like A Levels (known to be impossibly difficult up until 1985 and easy as pie thereafter) honours seem to be suffering from a sort of populist deflation.

It started with Ferguson getting one for winning Big Cup (despite the unknighted Bob Paisley winning it a gazillion times more) and has culminated in the entire Rugby squad getting a gong which is just a farce. Logically if England win Euro 2004 the entire squad would now have to be knighted leading to the unpleasant concept of Sir Gary Neville. If they won the World Cup then we'd have Lord Rooney of Bootle and the like.

I also note that Daily (Hate) Mail cartoonist "Mac" has been gonged. Lets take a moment to reflect on an example of his work -- here's a cartoon illustrating a story about the NHS seeking to employ more doctors from Africa:



Sir Matthew, Lord of Highbury.
Posted on: 31 December 2003 by Fisbey
I think maybe that cartoon would upset some...

Still I suppose it's what one might expect from the Daily Mail...

Still could be worse, there could be a Sir Douglas Ellis...

UTV
Posted on: 31 December 2003 by Jon Moxon
"Still could be worse, there could be a Sir Douglas Ellis..."

My blood ran cold just reading that.

Jon Moxon
Distant Villa fan
Posted on: 02 January 2004 by Fisbey
Greetings distant Villa fan!
Posted on: 04 January 2004 by Jon Moxon
quote:
Originally posted by FISBEY:
Greetings distant Villa fan!


And greetings to you from here too. Do they allow Villa fans in 'Midlesex'? Wink

Jon
Posted on: 05 January 2004 by Fisbey
I think I might be the only one - having said that I've seen a couple of Blues car stickers...

Must change my location to Middlesex at some point!....

PS shame about yesterday.....
Posted on: 05 January 2004 by Andy B
Hello Sir Matthew,

Whilst you're on the subject of our beloved neighbours in Manchester, I've just had the pleasure of listening to an unbiased Manu fan ring up the Sky sports chatline.
His question was "So do you thing Van Nistelroy is the greatest player in the history of the premiership??" Sour grapes, surely not!!
But best of all, when Cottee said No, it would have to be Shearer and that he preferred Henry anyway, the Manu fan quickly changed tact and asked "Do you think Liverpool can get out of their slump?".

Quite pathetic.

Andy.
Posted on: 07 January 2004 by Jon Moxon
quote:
Originally posted by FISBEY:
I think I might be the only one - having said that I've seen a couple of Blues car stickers...

PS shame about yesterday.....


Brave people to show those anywhere if you ask me. And yes it was a sad result, and quite a pain just to keep up with the latest score. After turning on SkyJapan to find a different match on, then downloading realplayer to listen to Radio5 only to find they didn't have the rights to the webcast, a friend in York offered to put his microphone next to the speaker and send it through MSMessenger, only to realise that the mic cable was too short and wouldn't reach. Eventually I got second commentary from him, but the result was a shame. Still the only real surprise is that we didn't let in more.

Never mind, eh...

Jon
Posted on: 07 January 2004 by Fisbey
Wait 'til you see Vassels's 'goal' from last night - it's a corker!