Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2018/06/28/bee-gees-barry-gibb-was-knig.html
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Hmm…they’re calling him Sir Barry but is he or is he not Australian? And does that count since he is part of the commonwealth? This may be the biggest scandal since Meghan crossing her legs.
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He’s Manx.
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I cannot believe that neither bb, nor the original article thought to use the obvious headline.
Knight Fever.
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"According to our friends at the Palace: "Foreign citizens occasionally receive honorary knighthoods; they are not dubbed, and they do not use the style ‘Sir’. … The FCO stated that Gates “has been awarded an honorary Knighthood by Her Majesty the Queen.Jan 29, 2004”
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The Gibbs moved to Australia in their childhood, but they’re from Britain and Barry has retained his British citizenship.
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Guess it helps to outlive the other claimants to the title.
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Sir Barry, Staying Alive!
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I’m all for outliving.
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I did use it in the tags…
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Clumsily, with a meat cleaver?
Has he been granted Cucumber Castle as his fiefdom?
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Next you’ll be trying to convince me that boingboing is some sort of website, and not just a storage space for all the content that shows up when you hit “show full post”.
The Queen is More Than A Woman
If they loved him so much they wouldn’t have immediately sent him out to slay that dragon.
Now that’s just Jive Talkin’!
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It’s a Tragedy
You mean they docked his tail? The bastards!
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