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Thread #71947   Message #1235511
Posted By: JennyO
28-Jul-04 - 10:14 AM
Thread Name: BS: w000000000t jOhn_from_hull now OBE !!!!!
Subject: RE: BS: w000000000t jOhn_from_hull now OBE !!!!!
A few years earlier he had received a CBE (Commander of the British Empire), to which he replied:

I can't see the sense in it [his honorary CBE] really. It makes me a Commander of the British Empire. They might as well make me a Commander of Milton Keynes - at least that exists.