News on the BBC Website that Terry Pratchett has been recognised in the New Years Honours List.

He said: "There are times when phrases such as 'totally astonished' just don't do the job.

"I am of course delighted and honoured and, needless to say, flabbergasted."

Heard about this yesterday. Go Pterry!

heh, i was going here to post it, and then realised how silly of me it was to think that it would be news here a whole day after the fact :P

he truly deserves it.

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Well, I'll plead ignorance of the fact until I saw it posted here.

Congratulation Mr Pratchett.

I loved his response to being made a knight - he said he was off to purchase a horse and a sword :)

He is on record saying that he will get a suit of armour and do the whole vigil thing, but not in a chapel, obviously.

Yay! How wonderful, though I wonder if being a knight gives benefits...

I, also, was wondering about that.

Will the publishers send out little 'Sir' labels for us to affix to our already purchased titles?

And knowing the effect a title has in the US will sales in the US increase? And will the increased sales be in English or translated to the language spoken in the US by many of the inhabitants?

Anyway, any new output from the pen of Sir Pterry will be much appreciated.

All TP books now to be translated into medieval english and henceforth only to be read by small number of people with beards sitting in ivory towers in Cambridge.

If I post my beard to an ivory tower in Cambs, can I still read the books? As long as I can teach it to sit, that is.

Beard will be irrelevant, no matter how obedient, but Doctorate in Medieval English will be absolute must, and the later does rather tend to bring about the former.

Ivory towers currently in short supply but planning regs in Cambridge expected to be relaxed to allow for anticipated increase in demand.

Rumours that providing your own dragon/damsel in distress will qualify you for an Ivory Tower Grant have yet to be denied by Cambridgeshire County Council.

I've read the Cantebury tales (in the original Klingon), and done the St. John's First Aid course, so how hard can it be to become a medieval doctor?

I will have to see if Lance Percival is free and then take him to Duxford as they have a DH Dragon Rapide there.

It looks as if my reading is safe!

I have a dragon but I don't really want to put it in distress, because that would be cruel. I suppose I will have to go find a really big elephant and carve a tower into its tusk myself.

A British actor has been arrested by whilst attempting to steal a pre-war aircraft from the Imperial War Museum. The 75, who cannot be named for legal reasons, is believed to have shouted "I knew Ned Sherrin you know" as he was led away by Police.

A woman is recovering in Hospital after been trodden on by a bull elephant in Hamerton Zoo. A keeper at the Zoo said " I can't understand it, Speckles is normally so gentle". Nobody knows how or why the woman entered the secure enclosure but keepers found a ladder and a set of chisels nearby.

Anybody with any information on either of these bizarre incidents is urged to contact Cambridgeshire Police.

And when you have contacted the Cambridgeshire police, say: 'Sorry Wrong number.'


Sell it to whoever took over the crap show of Ester Rantzen and make a few bob out of it.

Late, but YAY!!!!

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