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Wacky, you'll never guess who was at my graduation yesterday (warning: anticlimax)

Fuddlemiff

Fuddlemiff

Is this real life?
There was this fat ginger guy who kept passing me and a friend and I thought "hmm, he seems REALLY familiar, but I'm sure I never saw him at uni". Then my friend figured it out. For some reason John the politician from BB:Celebrity Hijack was there. Later on during the bit where we went on stage to shake someone's hand, we saw John up on the balcony behind a big tv camera filming the ceremony.

Looks like he's gone into TV production.
 
I've never heard of him! Did you have somebody get an honorary degree? We had the son of the guy who invented the hovercraft (Christopher Cockerill). As we had a shared faculty with engineering, it was largely aimed at them (plus they were by far the larger section of the faculty, with us, Geographical Sciences). The bloke bored everyone to death in the audatorium (well over 500 people) with an acceptance speech that seemed to drag on for a life time. I though after a while all we didn't know was his father's waist & shoe size.
 
He ran for a seat at a local election in Scotland a few weeks ago and came fifth. I think the communists got more votes than him.

You should have pushed him off the balcony and shouted "that's for implying that Emilia and Victor had incestual sex!"
 
Hasn't he been through enough after all he was forced to say on the opening night? :)

The honorary degree went to Victor Lewis Smith. Fortunately he didn't say a word, but some woman read out some comedy sketches in the most deadpan voice I've ever heard. The parents and teachers all politely laughed, while all us students in the stalls politely stifled yawns. Wikipedia said he made once made Judy Finiggen upset on live telly.
 
It wasn't my graduation, but I was at a graduation where Sir Richard Attenbourgh was getting the honorary degree, and I totally walked past him in a corridor.
 
Fuddlemiff said:
Hasn't he been through enough after all he was forced to say on the opening night? :)

The honorary degree went to Victor Lewis Smith. Fortunately he didn't say a word, but some woman read out some comedy sketches in the most deadpan voice I've ever heard. The parents and teachers all politely laughed, while all us students in the stalls politely stifled yawns. Wikipedia said he made once made Judy Finiggen upset on live telly.
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Victor Lewis Smith is pretty cool. He writes a good column in The Private Eye, and has done some good comedy down the years.
 
Yeah, I've always enjoyed his TV reviews in the Evening Standard, but the woman read the examples in such a dry, monotone way that it was like someone reading a shopping list.
 
If he was actually there, why not get him to read them himself? Would surely have made slightly more sense.
 
I dunno. All he did was stand up while they spoke about him, then shook someone's hand and sat down again.

I don't understand honourary degrees anyway. Why do they give them to people who already have degrees from other unis (VLS went to Lincoln or something) or have no relationship or impact with the institution giving the award?
 
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