Bill Gates to Receive Honorary UK Knighthood

**savage** · 01-03-2005, 06:34 PM

Since news seems to be slowing down, I thought I would post a non-IT related bit of news that may get you chatting...
Just spotted this on Yahoo, it appears that Mr Gates may become a Knight Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire.

**Robert Kosek** · 01-03-2005, 06:46 PM

LOL! LMAO! ROFLMAO!! :lol:

And uh, why for? I derserve Knighthood more than HE does!

:lol:

**xGTx** · 01-03-2005, 07:13 PM

Yay, go billy! Money gets you places.

LP · 01-03-2005, 08:56 PM

He might get a promotion to Knight Commander, but he'll never be a Great Warrior as his ancestors were...

lol, j/k...

**Incubii** · 02-03-2005, 03:29 AM

now he can fulfill his Dungeon and Dragons wishes. Becoming a real Knight!

**Sly** · 02-03-2005, 07:22 AM

Why does the title "Knight Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire" remind me of "Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure"?

Why does Bill Gates even qualify for one of these? He's not a British Subject.

**cairnswm** · 02-03-2005, 07:59 AM

Note he is an Honary appointment so he cannot be addressed as Sir Billy Gates.

There is a nice explanantion here:
http://www.answers.com/topic/order-o...british-empire

**K4Z** · 02-03-2005, 09:05 AM

:evil: aaarrrgh, my stomach hurts. lol LAUGHING lol TOO lol HARD lol!!!

lmao too much to type what I want to say about this :? lol

**Incubii** · 04-03-2005, 01:47 AM

i for welcome our new Knight Commander overlord

**WILL** · 04-03-2005, 09:06 AM

Now, now. We all know that only by being a member of PGD can to obtain such rank and titles as a Word Lord or even the all mighty Yottabyte HighLord.

Everyone else will just have to handle being a 6-bit Knight