Quote: Alfred J Kipper @ November 1 2009, 10:08 AM BSTThe Hons system is HEAVILY politicised and sometimes a complete farce, as in that Scotch bike rider who got one -eh???!!!
Yeah, anyone can ride a bike. Whereas only Brucie has managed to forge a 50 year career from having no discernible talent for anything other than hosting parlour games, standing next to fruity young women and crafting witless "call and response" catchphrases.
Brucie may very well have declined a knighthood.
I want to be a KG. 
I want to be a KFCG.
The staff have to call you sir, they must always hold one tub of gravy in reserve and you are permitted to ask for what ever bits of chicken you want.
Apparently Tony Blair was turned down and contemplated bombin Brixton in response.
I've always believed that they should be given out posthumously as well as a mark of respect to those and their families who unfairly missed out. Bobby Moore, Brian Clough, Peter Sellers and Benny Hill would be first on my list, as well as George Best - I deplore the way knighthoods are reserved for people only with 'respectable' private lives, this is grossly unfair and often leads to bland people getting them. It should be about how much joy they gave the public. Few gave more than those five. So come on Liz, cough up the medals.
I can see the reasoning behind giving out military decorations posthumously, of course. But knighthoods etc? They are accolades for the living, however badly chosen they may be. You might as well start giving out Jim'll Fix It badges posthumously.
A bit unfair though if the person croaks the day before their knighthood was to be announced, as may well happen with Brucie.
Me and Mrs Blenks often remark on this very thing and have come to the conclusion that perhaps he was asked but said "No ta yer Maj"
Mind if he did so it seems kinda at odds with how you would expect him to react had he been asked.
Hope I've cleared that up for you all.
Quote: Alfred J Kipper @ November 1 2009, 10:08 AM BSTI admire more the people who refuse to have knighthoods, so desperate, charity obsessed brown nosers like Brucey would do well to take a leaf out of the books of folk like Albert Finney, David Bowie and all those others who have quietly said 'No thanks, fine as I am.'
The Hons system is HEAVILY politicised and sometimes a complete farce, as in that Scotch bike rider who got one -eh???!!!
Agreed. I'd say no, and just enjoy the moment.
Or I'd say yes and be rude to the queen, or look as if I wasn't bovvered, and see what happened.
Quote: Moonstone @ November 1 2009, 3:20 PM BSTAgreed. I'd say no, and just enjoy the moment.
Or I'd say yes and be rude to the queen, or look as if I wasn't bovvered, and see what happened.
Your life would have to be pretty sweet already to turn down an honour. For all those who've turned them down, all I have to do is look at the list of those who've accepted an MBE, OBE, Knighthood, Etc.
They're the same showbiz and political people who were calling for the smashing of the state and the abolition of the monarchy a few decades earlier.
Oh irony, you are so, like, ironic.
He was offered a lower level honour a few years ago but they withdrew it when he replied "higher, higher!"
In the end they only gave him a twirl.
(I'm on all night)
Quote: Griff @ November 1 2009, 3:34 PM BSTAnd aren't people allowed to have different views at 60 rather than 20? Or is there some age at which we have to decide our views on everything and then stick to it regardless of any future life experience?
If your anti-establishment views are the very thing that made you famous in the first place, then it does seem very hypocritical to suddenly suck the Queen's cock - oh you know what I mean.
Quote: Griff @ November 1 2009, 3:39 PM BSTI think we need names here. It would for example be quite hypocritical for Gerry Adams to accept his OBE.
Not a Thunderbirds fan then?
I heard he went mad on coke and kicked one of the queens corgis into the air.
Screaming.
"Higher higher, good maim, good maim."
Quote: Griff @ November 1 2009, 3:34 PM BSTWell apart from singing and dancing in West End musicals which he did as a younger bloke, but I'm sure any of us here could do that, right?
I did that when I was 14 in the national tour of Oliver!, love. 
Quote: Griff @ November 1 2009, 5:47 PM BSTSee, I said anyone could do it.
To be fair to Brucie, he did show genuinely good comic timing when he used to banter with the contestants on The Generation Game. But he's always been very much a "Jack of all traders, master of none" type of entertainer.