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Post by Ace on Jun 8, 2004 8:24:27 GMT -5
Actually his OBE was honorary because he wasn't a UK citizen, not because he didn't meet the qualifications of earning one just as UK citizen did who's OBE wasn't honorary. As for being born to anything, well to me that's always been worthless... whoopee you were born, have some titles and prizes. As for honorary degrees, eh, I don't much care, it's never bothered me. Call it an award, call it an honorary degree, they're both the same and it's just semantics because unless they can take it and go ans teach with it or practice law or head NASA it's still not a real degree and doesn't take anything away from anyone who has earned one. As for whether any of these people need the honorary degree, not really. By the time a university or college is willing to bestow one the party has usually accomplished more with their life than anything the degreee could possibly confer. Just this weekend President Clinton was given an honorary degree by a NY University and I'm pretty sure it was a much bigger deal for the university than it was for Clinton. As for colleges providing convenient round trip tickets, even if the University of the Ozarks (just made it up if it exists and you're a proud alumnus I apologize) did would any non desperate or non overly solicitious celebrity accept? Ace
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Post by Yuliya on Jun 8, 2004 9:05:41 GMT -5
****! Too many connections thing and my reply went thataway! The SMA didn't like it! (Who holds the title this year?) Anyway, I'm going to repeat. Harrison Ford actually turned down an honorary doctorate from the college from which he'd dropped out years earlier, saying he had no right to it or something like that - he wasn't a good student. It doesn't bother me, it's just a little weird. But they used to have "sand medals" in Russia - medals issued to commemorate annirversaries of the victory and given at those dates. (sand because, unlike the usually white real things, they were made of some yellow metal.) They were probably issued because Brezhnev, who was in a way like a child in his tastes, liked medals, but also because there were other people who didn't have a chance to take part in the war but wanted medals, too (Brezhnev at least had medals he earned.) A lot of veterans felt offended when they saw medals on younger men who obviously had no right to wear them. That's earned vs. bestowed. I don't know, maybe those who were born knights also feel offended when somebody else is knighted, but it's their problem; I'll stick with mine.
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Post by Ace on Jun 8, 2004 9:35:27 GMT -5
****! Too many connections thing and my reply went thataway! The SMA didn't like it! (Who holds the title this year?) Anyway, I'm going to repeat. I don't know, but evidently someone who didn't earn it since there is only one true SMA. Ace
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