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Old 12-31-2008, 04:40 AM   #1
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I am very pleased to see that Terry Pratchett has been honoured with a Knighthood in the Queen's New Year's Honours List. Nobody is more deserving. Well done, Sir Terry!
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Old 12-31-2008, 04:41 AM   #2
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Old 12-31-2008, 07:09 AM   #4
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harry, did you not notice there is already a thread about this ?

https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=35118

i agree he deserves it.
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Old 12-31-2008, 07:25 AM   #5
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Only spotted it after I'd posted here, but this, IMHO, is News-with-a-capital-N and deserves to be discussed here . Very, very few British authors achieve the distinction of a knighthood.
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in that case, perhaps in order to avoid dispersing the topic, you could merge your thread with the original one and move it to the news forum, or simply provide a link to redirect there. in general we try to avoid multiple threads on the same topic, i think.
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I am very pleased to see that Terry Pratchett has been honoured with a Knighthood in the Queen's New Year's Honours List. Nobody is more deserving. Well done, Sir Terry!
Hooray!! You are right about that. I am so happy for him.
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Old 12-31-2008, 10:56 AM   #9
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I am very pleased to see that Terry Pratchett has been honoured with a Knighthood in the Queen's New Year's Honours List. Nobody is more deserving. Well done, Sir Terry!
Cool. But what does this mean? Does he now have to swear to protect Excalibur? Is he provided a suit of armor, or must he buy his own at the local outfitters?

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Old 12-31-2008, 11:32 AM   #10
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I think he probably will keep wearing whatever they buried him in. Too bad that they didn't do this a year ago.

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Ummm... Terry's not dead, yet.
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Cool. But what does this mean? Does he now have to swear to protect Excalibur? Is he provided a suit of armor, or must he buy his own at the local outfitters?

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Really? Are you sure?
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He has alzheimers, but he's very definitely alive.

Link to story about him getting knighted, in which he's quoted as being flabberghasted: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/12...hett_knighted/
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Really? Are you sure?
Neither Wikipedia nor Fantastic Fiction report him as dead.

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