Bill Gates given honorary knighthood.

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benroethigbenroethig
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in General Discussion edited January 2014
It's supposed because of his charitable works or something. It looks like Sir Francis Drake's reign as the only Pirate to recieve the knighthood is over.

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    tednditedndi Posts: 1,921member
    That is because the Queen's PC running windows 98 crashed and that was the only way she could get tech support.



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    curiousuburbcuriousuburb Posts: 3,325member
    Sir BSoD!
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    splinemodelsplinemodel Posts: 7,311member
    I wasn't aware that they could knight people who weren't English. I guess I am wrong.
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    hassan i sabbahhassan i sabbah Posts: 3,987member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by Splinemodel

    I wasn't aware that they could knight people who weren't English. I guess I am wrong.



    It's an 'honorary' knighthood. He can't be a knight of the realm but he can be a sort of... back-up knight. He's like a CD copy of the original media.
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    :-):-) Posts: 110member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by Hassan i Sabbah

    It's an 'honorary' knighthood. He can't be a knight of the realm but he can be a sort of... back-up knight. He's like a CD copy of the original media.



    Also he's not to be addressed "sir" - that's reserved for british citizens...
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    benroethigbenroethig Posts: 2,782member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by Hassan i Sabbah

    It's an 'honorary' knighthood. He can't be a knight of the realm but he can be a sort of... back-up knight. He's like a CD copy of the original media.



    In other words he's a lot like Windows.
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    curiousuburbcuriousuburb Posts: 3,325member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by :-)

    Also he's not to be addressed "sir" - that's reserved for british citizens...



    For whom the correct reference is: "Daffy English Kinnnnigits"
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    ilawilaw Posts: 15member
    He is offically a 'Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire'. He can put 'KBE' after his name.

    He joins people such a Bob Geldof, Steven Spielberg and former New York Mayor Rudi Giuliani.
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    messiahmessiah Posts: 1,689member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by iLaw

    He is offically a 'Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire'. He can put 'KBE' after his name.



    I have to say that I'm not in to all that Imperial sh!t ? but that's one cooooll title and no mistake.
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