Dame Ellen...... ??

tcm

...
Joined
11 Jan 2002
Messages
23,958
Location
Caribbean at the moment
Visit site
There should really be no need for the question mark- The footie players and the manager wereknighted when they were world champions, and ellen is (hoefuly) the same AND maritime exploits are the foundation of the empire, unlike footie. Or did bobby moore get his K yonks later?
 

benjenbav

Well-known member
Joined
12 Aug 2004
Messages
15,465
Visit site
Re: Dame Ellen...... ??

I don't think Bobby Moore ever did get his k. In those days you had to do more than captain your country to its only world cup and be one of the best players ever to play! Alf Ramsey was knighted and years later Bobby Charlton and Geoff Hurst were too.

I agree that Ellen deserves it. But can you imagine the email account..."As I saw the sword descending I could only too readily see my head severed from my shoulders, pools of blood everywhere..."
 

alec

New member
Joined
16 Sep 2003
Messages
825
Location
East Coast
Visit site
>As I saw the sword descending I could only too readily see my head severed from my shoulders, pools of blood everywhere..." <

Loved It !

She's a brave and clever girl that loves sailing..... Just like us, err..... sailing anyway.

Sadly, Knighthoods have turned into a joke in this country. Particularly since his Royal Highness came on the scene and flogs em. Mick Jagger was one of his recent inspired choices if I remember. Probably because he is so free with his money.

Most of her success, apart from guts, is to be able to stay awake longer than most to keep making sail changes. In the true sense of the word, her seamanship is diabolical. Going too fast, tired all the time etc... In fact, just like the rest of us trying to earn a living. Believing that human happiness and material comfort are one and the same.

I think what we admire most is that she is doing something she loves to make a living rather than what we do.
 
Joined
16 May 2001
Messages
4,187
Visit site
On the quayside at Falmouth if there\'s any justice...........

She played around with a few showpiece races but now she's (almost) done the big one. There's something about midlands women: I know, I married one.

Steve Cronin
 

gjeffery

New member
Joined
14 Nov 2002
Messages
406
Location
UK Emsworth
Visit site
She does deserve it, especially when compared with recent appointments, but that does not diminish the achievements of Francius Chichester, Alec Rose, Knox Johnson, and the others who risked more, circumnavigating without sponsorship, or the security of new boats analytically optimized for the purpose, EPIRB, satnav, Inmarsat, radar, met forecasts, Goretex, fleece, carbon fibre, Kevlar....
 

ChrisE

Active member
Joined
13 Nov 2003
Messages
7,343
Location
Kington
www.simpleisgood.com
Re: Dame Ellen...... ??

At the risk of pissing on the party, I couldn't let this comment go.

My ol' mum said and still says, if you can't say good of someone say nothing. If you believe that the award of an honour is to celebrate achievement and to encourage everyone else then our Ellen wins on both counts.

Please explain what principles she has to evoke to turn it down otherwise it will have to be handbags across the Solent, sir
 

ShipsWoofy

New member
Joined
10 Sep 2004
Messages
10,431
Visit site
No it doesn't. I am also positive, if they could have had the support that she has they would not have turned it down either.

I am just wondering if B&Q is going to be too big to stick in the empty hole at Greenwich.
 
D

Deleted member 478

Guest
[ QUOTE ]
....if B&Q is going to be too big to stick in the empty hole at Greenwich.

[/ QUOTE ]Easy, stick her at an angle so that she is flying two hulls
 
Top