Queen's Birthday Honours

[MrGongGong]

This (sadly) reminds me of the "good old days"
and our old chum Simon who had such strong and informed opinions about Stockhausen but had never listened to any of his music.

Usually when people enthuse about things (writers, composers, scientists, cake makers) they refer to the works produced ?

[Flosshilde]

crusty old moth-ridden books and wooden shelves ... ?

More likely to be death-watch beetles. You need to change your pest-control people.

[ahinton]

This (sadly) reminds me of the "good old days"
and our old chum Simon who had such strong and informed opinions about Stockhausen but had never listened to any of his music.

Usually when people enthuse about things (writers, composers, scientists, cake makers) they refer to the works produced ?

That's certainly far from uncommon in my experience. As to Simon, fortunately little more than a distant memory now, I daresay that he'd once trodden in some, though, wouldn't you think?

Anyway, back to the present. P.G. might perhaps care to have a look at http://www.roger-scruton.com/books.html for prompts on some two score volumes on at least some of which he might do some of us the favour of providing some elucidatory insights as to what he finds especially profound in which of them and why; no need to cover the lot, of course - just a handful of examples will suffice.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Usually when people enthuse about things (writers, composers, scientists, cake makers) they refer to the works produced ?

Only if they know them. I suspect that somebody who describes an epithet as an "adjective" isn't exactly the sort of advocate that Scruton would hope for.

[jean]

...somebody who describes an epithet as an "adjective"...

(Sharp intake of breath) Who? Where?

[P. G. Tipps]

Only if they know them. I suspect that somebody who describes an epithet as an "adjective" isn't exactly the sort of advocate that Scruton would hope for.

An epithet is an adjective (or phrase). Didn't you know?

As for asking how many books one has on one's shelves that is a bit like asking how many pieces of coal one uses to heat one's study.

Things have moved on a bit in recent times. Sir Roger's views on many matters are easily available online. Mr Barrett seemed to find them without too much trouble!

Maybe Mr GG would like to advise us how many party manifestos he has on his shelves before pontificating on the subject of politics?

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

An epithet is an adjective (or phrase).

Ahh - bless.

[ahinton]

As for asking how many books one has on one's shelves that is a bit like asking how many pieces of coal one uses to heat one's study.

I just knew you used coal! (hence my recent comment elsewhere).

Things have moved on a bit in recent times.

Not in Tippland, methinks...

Sir Roger's views on many matters are easily available online. Mr Barrett seemed to find them without too much trouble!

Maybe Mr GG would like to advise us how many party manifestos he has on his shelves before pontificating on the subject of politics?

Point neatly missed yet again; the concern here is not so much to know how many of Prof. Scruton's books you have, or may have had, on your shelves but (assuming that you've read such as you do have) which do you find the most profound and for what specific reasons. Are Michael and Howard your middle names, by chance?

[P. G. Tipps]

That's certainly far from uncommon in my experience. As to Simon, fortunately little more than a distant memory now, I daresay that he'd once trodden in some, though, wouldn't you think?

Anyway, back to the present. P.G. might perhaps care to have a look at http://www.roger-scruton.com/books.html for prompts on some two score volumes on at least some of which he might do some of us the favour of providing some elucidatory insights as to what he finds especially profound in which of them and why; no need to cover the lot, of course - just a handful of examples will suffice.

I'll give you just one, ahinton ... I suspect that will be enough of a struggle for the time being.

“The important thing is to acquire intellectual discipline, to learn how to distinguish genuine questions from spurious phantoms.”

How true, Sir Roger!

[P. G. Tipps]

Ahh - bless.

No problem, always willing to help!

[ahinton]

I'll give you just one, ahinton ... I suspect that will be enough of a struggle for the time being.

“The important thing is to acquire intellectual discipline, to learn how to distinguish genuine questions from spurious phantoms.”

You said nothing about answering the former, though; did he?

[jean]

An epithet is an adjective (or phrase).

Or (more accurately) an epithet is sometimes a single adjective, sometimes an adjectival phrase.

My question remains - who/what prompted the accusation?

Ahh - bless.

This is no answer.

[ahinton]

Might it be wise and welcome, especially if PG's answers are unlikely to extend beyond the partial one that he has given, to return to the broader aspect of the topic rather than concentrating on one particular knighthood?

[Nick Armstrong]

The following caught my eye...

Sir George Benjamin, Dame Sarah Connolly... and Sir Mark Elder and Sir Paul McCartney made Companions of Honour.

(And Dames Julie Walters, June Whitfield and Olivia de Havilland (100 years young ); and Sir Billy Connolly)

[teamsaint]

The following caught my eye...

Sir George Benjamin, Dame Sarah Connolly... and Sir Mark Elder and Sir Paul McCartney made Companions of Honour.

(And Dames Julie Walters, June Whitfield and Olivia de Havilland (100 years young ); and Sir Billy Connolly)

What, er, actually IS a companion of honour?

Anyway, I see that Steven " Davo" Davis, has himself a nice shiny gong.
Although I bet he'd have preferred a League Cup winners medal.